SIX The Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, November I, 17
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Contraction on new county school continues
The two new schools in Morrow County in Boardman and
Irrigon art- about 60 percent completed with the opening for
the schools planned lor sometime in March around Spring
Vacation, according to Matt Doherty, school superintendant.
Columbia Junior High is being built in Irrigon for seventh
and eighth graders while the Sam Boardman Elementary
School is being built in Boardman for kindergarten children
through sixth graders.
The Morrow County school board chose the names for the
schools from a list of between 20-30 that were submitted.
Columbia Jr. High is being built to hold 300 students.
Most of the teachers for the school have already been hired
and are working in the overcrowded old school building next
to the A C. Houghton Grade School.
Doherty said the Boardman school has space for at least
450 grade school students.
He said some of the staff at A C. Houghton will move
to the new Columbia Jr. High.
Up to six new teachers, four at the grade school, may
have to be hired next year for the two schools.
A C. Houghton presently is the only grade school in both
cities and it has about 600 students.
The Sam Boardman Elementary School is costing the tax
payers $1,94(5.303 while Columbia Junior High is costing
$1,974, 406. The two buildings have almost the same square
footage. The Jr. High has 43,000 square feet and the grade
school has 42,000. Both facilities are costing $41 a square foot.
Doherty said the reason the Jr. High is more expensive,
even though it will have fewer students, is because the
gymnasium is expensive.
When the schools open in March, Doherty said about 170
students will go to the junior high in Irrigon and 300 students
will go to the elementary school in Boardman. When school
opens next September, 350 students will be at the elementary
school and 200 at the junior high.
The Jr. High will have 11 classrooms and 12 teachers and
the elementary school will have 20 classrooms with 21
leaching stations.
Both of the schools will have a principal but no
vice-principal.
Vic Marcheck. a teacher at Riverside Jr. High, will be
the principal at the new junior high in Irrigon and Susan
Black, a sixth grade teacher at A.C. Houghton, will be the
new principal at the Sam Boardman Elementary School.
The Boardman Timber Co. from Hermislon and the
It. A. Chambers and Sons Co. from Eugene are doing the
construction on the two schools.
Doherty said a study is currently being made to
determine what grounds improvements will be made at the
schools.
"There will be some grounds improvements depending
on what the budget will allow," Doherty said. "Hopefully the
lawn and playground will be finished this year."
He added that the leveling of the land and seeding should
begin soon.
Doherty said the school board will set up a committee of
citizens to decide what to do wilh the old school building next
to the A.C. Houghton grade school in Irrigon once the
students are moved to the new junior high.
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