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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1981)
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According to Pat Wright, county health nurse, many counties' applications were Planners OK R V park extension Owners of a recreational vehicle park in Heppner Rot what they wanted, and a little extra. Monday night at a public hearing before the city planning commission. John and Ann Skow of Heppner, owners of the North western Motel and a new RV park across the street, had asked the planning commis sion to raise the maximum lime any one camper may stay in their park, continuous ly, from 20 days to 120. The Skows contended Ihe 20-day limit was too short and problems anticipated by the planning commission when a conditional use permit stipula ting a 20-day limit was issued had not developed. The planning commission agreed that the park had not turned into a "lalnir camp" as feared and said it would raise the stay limit to 120 davs. In addition, the planning commission voted to allow longer stays (if the Skows apply to the city) an extra provision the owners had not sought . "The longer stay limit is justified because no one knew Morrow County's 24 THURSDAY, JUNE (backround) ond town of Heppff (foreground) hown during near Heppner The model wait built of cement with the dam across Willow Creek and the creek channel going through the citv of Heppner. showing Irees. homes, etc. Superintendents then filled Ihe dam. and showed the Dept. grant approved turned down this year because of the states tight money situation, but Morrow County was granted theirs because so much is accomplished. In other business. Morrow County Court heard a present ation of the Juvenile Services Commission Plan from Nancy Moore, chairman. The Juvenile Services Com mission plan was developed to curb juvenile delinquency and to solve excessive unsupervis ed leisure time of county what kind of park the Skows were going to run," said the Skows' attorney, Joe Mc Naught of Pendleton. "No one knew there was going to be demonstrated need for con struction workers and others for a place to stay longer than 20 days," he added. The issue of the 20 day limit came to a head several weeks ago when out-of-town workers building a new sawmill ad dition al Kinzua were forced to leave the park where they were staying after 20 days, even though work at the mill was not completed. "The way the park has been kept up is very good and it has been an asset to the commun ity," said Heppner Mayor Cliff Green, who, along with sever al other townspeople, testified at the Monday hearing in favor of the increased stay limit at the park. The planning commission said, however, that if com plaints were received about conditions at the park, the city would not grant the Skows permission for successive 120 day stays at the park. Home-Owned II. I SSI 10 PAGES group Ihe damage of a storm Ihe likes of the early 1920 s. The group heard reports on how the dam will be construc ted and estimated completion time. Those en joving a sack lunch on the lour were Mr. and Mrs. O W. Culsforth. Barton Clark. youth. Judge Don McElligott recently stated. The plan includes the contin uation of the Latch Key pro gram in the Boardman area where mothers work shifts in the food processing plants, the continuation of the recreation program in the Heppner area and the expansion of the program in lone and the north end Debbie Sheirbon has been named as recreation director for South Morrow County and Jepsen reappointed to rural health care council Suzanne Jepsen, Heppner, has been reappointed by Governor Vic Atiyeh to the State Rural Health Coordinat ing Council, a spokesperson from the governor's office announced Monday. Jepsen began serving on the 14-member council when it was first established in 1974 on appointment by Governor Atiyeh. She fills one of five consumer positions on the council. Her term begins July 1 and runs to June 30. 1983. Duties of the council include acting in an advisory capacity for the office of rural health in the State Health Planning and Development Agency, assist ing rural communities in development of their heallh care systems and coordinat ing state-wide efforts affect ing health care in rural areas, according to the governor's spokesperson. Twelve of the council mem bers have been appointed by associations and agencies specified by legislation. Jepsen was nutrition pro gram supervisor for the Area Agency on Aging for Morrow. JI iiJLYU Weekly Newspaper 2 CKXTS Bonneville flood condihom Mr. and Mrs. Karl Papineati. Rena Marnuardl. Virginia Peck. Marie Sleagall. Venice Hendrickson. pelpha Jones. Marshall I-nveren. Dennis Papineati. Berl Slillman. Mr. and Mrs Dick Wilkinson and bus driver. IWl HalvorsM Barbara Weatherall for North Morrow County, stated Nancv Moore. Jim Ackley resigned his post as director for South Morrow, effective June 30. The Juvenile Services plan was approved by the Court. Business continued with Floyd Wilks being appointed to the Juvenile Services Commission, effective im mediately. This appointment fills the spot left vacant by Paul Sumner's resignation as of Mav 27. Wheeler. Gilliam. Grant and Umatilla counties in 190. She was also homemaker super visor for Oregon Project Independence for Morrow. Wheeler and Gilliam counties 1977 80. A 1946 graduate of Pendle ton High School, she studied at Oregon State University 194648. She has also taken part in continuing education workships at Blue Mountain Community College. Pendle ton, at Portland Community College and through the East Central Oregon Association of Counties. Fair Book to accompany June 18 G-T The Morrow County Fair Premium Book will accom pany next week's Gazette Times as a special insert. The book will be in a newspaper tabloid form this vear. HF.PPNER. OREGON School board shelves cut back on district teachers - The Morrow County School Board shelved a plan last Wednesday which would have cut back the number of teachers in the district by five, and combined several grades into single classrooms. Under the plan, which is part of district policy so far not enforced, when enrollment in the district drops below a certain level, teaching posi tions should be eliminated to reflect the change. "We are overstaffed now based on projected enrollment for next year." Superintend ent Matt Doherlv told Ihe board of directors al the special meeting. He said enrollment projec tions for 1981-82 show 1.726 students to be enrolled in all the district's schools. This would be a drop of over 100 students over this year.' he pointed out. 'We have to show our taxpayers that when we lose enrollment we do something about it." Doherlv said He laid out a plan to the board that would eliminate four teacher positions. no teachers would have been fired but emptv positions would be left unfilled and combine classes in several schools. A C. Houghton would have on class eliminated and a second and third grade com bined: Sam Boardman would hav one class dropped and a fifth and sixth grade combin ed: lone would have one class eliminated through enmhining a third and fourth grade: and Heppner would have one class closed through combination of fifth and sixth grades.' Doherlv said the moves would save the district $105,000 next year. The school board decided not to follow through on its own policy of teacher staffing relative to enrollment, how ever, mainly because of op position to the policy voiced at the meeting. "Most of us think there are other places to cut the budget, and to keep Ihe teachers we have." said George Koffler of Heppner. "If I wanted my kids to go to a school with 29 kids in a class I would move to Hermiston. Pendleton or Port land. I want my kids to go to a class with 15 to 20 kids. I want the numbers low. and I'm willing to pay for them." he told the board. Sawmill tour Fri., June 19 A businessman's tour of a small log sawmill recently installed at Kinzua Corp. in Heppner will be held Friday. June 19. The tour, which will begin at 1:30 p.m.. is open to all businessmen in Morrow County who wish to view the new addition to Kinzua's woods products manufactur ing plant. A story in last week's Gazette-Times incorrectly listed the date of the tour. Tup. ..June 2 Wed.. June 3 Ttiurs. . .Inn 4 Fri ..lime 5 Sat. June 6 Sun., June 7 Man.. June 8 Hv JKHK t V IMSI'X "Wp would prefer to see balancing of the budget anv way besides cutting staff." said Chuck Starr, principal at lone. He said a baseball coach and baseball trips have bpen cut from the budget at lone next year to save monev. "We would rather see cuts in extra-curricular activities than in basic education." said Donna Felsch of lone. Around 10 people came to the meeting to protest the proposed staff cuts. After the board decided not to follow Ihe staffing guide lines set up and passpd hv thp hoard itself in 1977. Dohertv was asked what he planned to do. "I am going to tell the principals to bo ahead and hire Ihe teachers ifor next vr;iri." he said In other business at the Balloons, Bible verses uplift Pentecost Sunday foi m . , : . aw .-,. mm., ,1,.,. ' 1 . IF ....... .....Mrw.-i.w!- :' '.-" .. . U ilil r High Low Precip 72 50 none 74 54 trace 7n 52 trace 82 52 41 63 .56 sn .45 fit; ' M plan to meeting the board decided to take $121,979 in excess school district revenue from this year, and include it in next year's budget as "rih carry over. " Doherty said Ihe money, which came in because of belter than expected collec tions on prior year's faxes, could he used in this years budget, or used in cash carry-over next year as a tax offset. He recommended the mon ey to be carried over. "I-el's treat this as lax payer money and use it as such, giving it back by not levying as much taxes next year." He urgpd the board not to use Ihe money to make up for an expected shortfall of $130,000 in stale school support this year. "In my opinion that would bp robbing Peter to pay Paul." he said. o w iw) v. e 1 i 4, r Even Sunday morning rain couldn't dampen the uplift created by the release of 99 helium balloons by the Sunday school classes of the United Methodist Church in Heppner on June 7. Twenty-five children in preschool through sixth grade classes at the church memorized a Bible verse for each balloon released in celebration of Pentecost Sunday, the birthday of the church. Each balloon held a piece of paper containing Ihe verse memorized, the child's name, and the church name and address. Preschool children memorized the Lord's Prayer; kindergarten through third grade classes memorized a set of verses; and fourth through sixth grade classes memorized another set. Two children in the K-3 group each memorized 10 verses and one child in the 4-6 group memorized around 30, said a Sunday school teacher. Beware of over-the-phone gales says county DA . Morrow County District At torney Ann Spicer cautions citizens to beware of over-the-phone aluminum siding sales people who have been catling phone numbers in the Heppner area. Spicer said one caller, a woman, says she represents United Slates Aluminum, that the company has already completed jobs in the area, and that the company is listed with the Better Business Bureau. Ihe State Corpora lions Commission and the Chamber of Commerce. Upon checking. Spicer said that none of these organizations had heard of that siding company. Spicer. suspecting a scam, says that workmen in a dishonest operation may de mand prepayment, do a shod . dy job or none at all and then leave town. A- Ik r t r s ' & i .P vi f
