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Hood River News, Saturday, July 11, 2015
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David Russo helms
HR School Board
Staff previews
process for facility
planning update
By KIRBY NEUMANN-REA
News editor
In its lone meeting for
July, Hood River County
School Board on Wednesday
welcomed two new members
and assigned a new chair
and vice-chair.
Dr. David Russo accepted
the gavel from former chair
Jan Veldhuisen Virk, who
said, “I just love this part.”
Next item of business was to
elect a vice-chair, and that
honor went to Kateri Os-
borne Lohr.
Tom Scully and Chris
Reitz, both elected in May
2015, joined the board offi-
cially on Wednesday, and Su-
perintendent Dan Goldman
administered the oath of of-
fice. Reitz and Scully succeed
Liz Whitmore and Bob
Danko, who opted not to run
for re-election.
Goldman told the board
that for the next biennium,
the final State School Fund-
ing figure from the Depart-
ment of Education is $7.4 bil-
lion statewide, higher than
the $7.25 billion discussed
earlier in the Legislative ses-
sion but lower than the $7.5
billion needed to hold pro-
grams and services at cur-
rent levels for most districts.
Hood River School District
had to cut $1.4 million for
2015-16.
“The work we did made a
big difference,” Goldman
said of lobbying efforts in
Salem in recent months. “It
was a step in the right direc-
tion at the end (of the ses-
sion),” he said. “We have to
be super-careful about our
funds.” He said in August he
will present the board with
specifics on state funding
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younger, I was like, ‘No, I
don’t want to work as much,’
but now, I’m like, ‘You need
me to work? OK, I’ll go in.’”
The Heights Ice Cream is
open seasonally, from March
until the first week of Sep-
tember, from noon until clos-
ing. “Closing” depends on
how busy it is at the Taque-
ria, and could be anywhere
from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m.
Actually, her parents
opened the shop to compli-
ment the Taqueria and bring
an ice cream parlor to the
Heights.
“We only had Mike’s (Ice
Cream) up until we started,
so my dad wanted to put in
something for the locals, be-
cause Mike’s is downtown
and we’re on the Heights,”
she said, noting that there
are many neighborhoods
nearby.
Quezada works five to six
days a week in four hour
shifts. If she’s opening the
shop, she begins by unlock-
ing the doors, preparing the
ice cream (taking the caps off
the tubs), placing outside
chairs and cleaning, and
then cleaning the inside.
“Sometimes, not a lot,
some people will be waiting
at the door when I get there,
and I’ll have to go right into
Photos by Kirby Neumann-Rea
BOARD CHAIR David Russo and vice chair Kateri Osborne Lohr,
below, listen during Wednesday’s meeting in Parkdale; in the chair’s
absence, the vice-chair presides. Newly-elected board members
Chris Reitz and Tom Scully settle in after taking the oath of office.
At right is long-time board member Jan Veldhuisen Virk.
and its impact on Hood River
schools.
The board also heard an
update on facilities planning
by architect Eric Holzer and
facilities manager Danny
Garcia, who with staff are
going through every school
in the district analyzing and
photographing structural
conditions in each room of
every building. By the end of
July, every space will have
been visited and the data will
be collated and ready to be
used to determine priorities
for future repairs and up-
grades. A committee of staff
and citizens will be appoint-
ed to work with district this
fall to formulate recommend-
it,” she said.
Then she serves customers
and cleans until her shift
ends. She currently manages
two other employees, al-
though a third should be
coming onboard soon.
The stores most popular
flavor: Tillamook Mudslide.
It’s also Quezada’s favorite.
One awkward aspect of
being a high school-aged
manager: “I’m supposed to
be the boss of someone I see
every day in school,” she
said. “Like, sometimes I can
say hi, but I can’t really be
their friend and their boss.”
The best thing about her
job — besides the 20 flavors
of ice cream it carries from
Tillamook, Cascade Glacier,
Columbia Valley Farms and
Blue Bunny — is the money
she’s been able to earn and
save.
“I was able to buy my own
car because I saved up. I paid
the down payment of my car
because the past two years, I
worked and I was saving,”
she said. “The money is good
for stuff like that, for neces-
sities and for college.”
While Heights Ice Cream
doesn’t do many events, they
did sell ice cream at Jackson
Park after the Fourth of July
parade — around 800 cones
worth — and will be at the
Lavender DAZE festival July
18-19 at Hood River Lavender
in Odell.
“It’s crazy because you
don’t have everything on
ed priorities that will go into
funding decisions for facili-
ties. That process will in-
clude public forums and in-
terviewing community mem-
bers and personnel who
work at each site.
“We’ve seen nothing sig-
nificant” in terms of defi-
ciencies, according to Holzer,
“but we are looking at what
maintenance has been de-
ferred and what needs to be
taken care of to ensure the
best lear ning environ-
ments.”
In terms of current re-
pairs, Goldman also told the
board that brickwork repair
at Hood River Middle School
and asbestos abatement in
the entryway of May Street
school will be paid for this
summer by the last of the
capital expenditure bond
funds approved by voters in
2011.
The board also approved a
$75,000 special procurement
to replace the broken boiler
at Hood River Middle School
and ensure the heating sys-
tem is up and running by the
time school starts in the fall.
hand, so if something goes
wrong, you’re going to have
to improvise,” she said. “And
it gets busier at events than
it does here.”
The high school junior
doesn’t plan on going into
business after college — she
would rather pursue litera-
ture — but she does find
there are advantages to the
experience she’s gained from
her position.
“If I want to get a job (in
college) … my experience
will help me get one quickly,”
she said.
And experience with cus-
tomers made for an easier
transition from Mid-Colum-
bia Adventist Christian
School to Hood River Valley
High School last year.
“It’s helped my people
skills because I have to talk
to random people every day.
When I first started going to
the high school, I didn’t find
it hard to talk to (other stu-
dents), so that’s how I made
friends.”
While she hasn’t settled on
a college yet, she does have a
career plan.
“I don’t want to be an ice
cream scooper forever,” she
said. “I like reading a lot, and
I want to write a book … be-
cause I like that feeling that I
get, when I’m reading a book
and I’m like, ‘Oh, my good-
ness!,’ the feelings they make
come out of you just by
words.”
Photo by Patrick Mulvihill
ATTACK FROM ABOVE: helicopter dumps a load of water from the Hood River. All of the Gorge is in
extreme fire danger status and a burn ban is in effect.
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ation site.
In the meantime, engines
roared down a gravel path
that runs along the Middle
Fork, heading for the fire.
Ground crews sealed off a
perimeter in order to defend
four nearby homes (on the
way to Lost Lake) and a piece
of Kiyokawa orchard land.
An Oregon Department of
Forestry helicopter hovered
over the scene and dropped
river water onto the blaze.
By about 3 p.m., the fire was
“controlled” but not com-
pletely “contained,” said
Parkdale Fire Chief Mike
McCafferty.
According to McCafferty,
fire crews were 40 strong at
the peak of the fire. Equip-
ment included 12 engines, a
bulldozer (to clear a path
through weeds to the fire),
and an ODF helicopter. Park-
dale Fire was the first de-
partment on scene because
Dee lies in their service area.
Police reopened all roads
by Tuesday evening, and
most fire crews cleared out
by 6 p.m.
ODF crews remained on
scene through the night and
spent the next several days
“mopping up,” said Greg
Borton, Wy’East Fire Dis-
trict Chief. They were also
“gridding,” which means
combing the scene inch by
inch for new hot spots.
As of Thursday, a cause of
the fire was not determined.
McCafferty said the fire
was the biggest of the sum-
mer so far in Hood River
County. However, he said the
Fourth of July weekend was
surprisingly calm despite
“extreme fire danger.”
“I would say, fireworks-
wise, people were very sup-
portive on the extreme fire
danger and no fireworks,
(and) activities that cause
havoc,” said McCafferty.
While the County fire de-
partments typically get 15 to
20 firework related calls be-
fore Fourth of July, they got
only one this year.
“We had one small fire
caused by fireworks,” said
Trammel.
McCafferty indicated that
the countywide drought re-
sponse, in which locals have
strived to save water, is a
mixed blessing. For fire
crews, danger lies in dry
fuels.
“The problem that’s going
on is the drought,” said Mc-
Cafferty. “So these folks are
being conservative with
water which makes fire dan-
ger more extreme because
the grasses are dry, which
makes us be on a little more
of an alert to things ... it
saves water in the long run
but that’s why there’s dry
ground.”
Hood River County de-
clared a drought emergency
to Oregon Governor Brown
in late June. Since then, local
homeowners and irrigation
districts have attempted to
cut back on water use.
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