School board takes no action on
playground equipment request
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New events promise to make lone’s two
day 4th of July celebration best ever
By Anne Morter
Two days of festivities promise
to make this year’s Fourth of Ju
ly celebration in lone one of the
best ever. Following the Oregon
Trail motif, the theme is “ The
Trail From Independence to
lone...For the Independence I
Own” . Betty Rietmann and her
family will serve as grand mar
shals of the annual parade held
this year on Sunday at 11 a.m.
Activities begin Saturday after
noon at 4 p.m. with a new event,
a junior three-on-three basketball .
tournament. The tourney is open
to boys and girls who have com
pleted grades six, seven and
eight. There is no entry fee and
interested teams should contact
Dick Allen 422-7563 or Jim
Swanson 422-7162.
Following the tournament the
Ken Snider Memorial Auction
will take over the gym, featuring
a wide assortment of items in
cluding dinners, guided hunting
and fishing trips, food items and
much more. Proceeds from the
auction and the Ken Snider
Memorial Tennis Tournament, to
be played following the auction,
will go to the Ken Snider
Memorial Scholarship Fund. The
competitive adult three-on-three
basketball tournament starts at
6:30 p.m. Contact Gregg Riet
mann for entry information. The
evening will conclude with a
youth dance at the Legion Hall.
Dustin Padberg will be the DJ
and there is no charge.
Another new event is first on
the agenda Sunday. At 7:30 a.m.
the gun will sound for the
“ Dawn’s Early Light Fun Run
and Walk” . Registration begins
at 6:30 a.m. for the 5K run and
3K walk. The run and walk will
begin at the flag pole at the foot
ball field. Contact Jim or
Michelle Raible 422-7037 for
information.
A continental breakfast of rolls,
coffee and juice will be served in
the city park at 9:30 a.m. Prizes
and awards for the run and walk
will be presented at that time. The
parade, which is always a
highlight, starts at 11 a.m. at the
MCGG elevator. Featured will be
the Morrow County Court, a col
lection of antique roadsters,
floats, equestrian groups and
much more.
After the parade, it’s lunch
time. All sorts of delicious eats
will be available in the park and
surrounding area. Activities for
kids will abound, like chalk draw
ing, a fish pond, straw money
pile, face painting, and frog jum
ping. The afternoon will also
feature many other contests in
cluding horseshoes, baseball
throw, hoop shoot, volleyball
tournament, cow chip toss and the
bed race. Ruth McCabe, a local
history buff, will lead two guid
ed historical tours of the town.
Other features include children’s
races at the school, an Oregon
Trail presentation by Jean Nelson
and a tour of the Well Springs
site.
At 6 p.m. a mouth-watering
chicken dinner will be served by
the Cardinal Club. Kessler’s will
barbecue the chicken and the Car
dinal Club will fill out the dinner
with salads, baked beans, bread
and drinks. The cost is $6 for
adults and $3 for children under
12. Hot dogs will be available for
$ 1 .
Fireworks are slated for dusk.
This year the fireworks are
dedicated to the late Bob Riet
mann, who had 45 continuous
years of involvement with the
fireworks before his death from
a heart attack this past spring.
Following the fireworks, 14NI
(formerly the Jim Ackley Band)
will play at the Legion Hall. The
popular group played last year
with rave reviews from young to
old.
The Morrow County School
Board, at its regular meeting
Monday, June 21, took no action
on a $ 2,845 request made by
Heppner Elementary principal
Bryan Traylor and Parents Club
president Virginia ‘G eorge’
N aim s
for funding
for
playground equipment at Hepp
ner Elementary School. The
board commended the group for
their fund raising efforts, but said
that the 1993-94 budget was
already in place and requests for
funds must be made through the
budget process.
The Parents Club raised over
$9,500 for new handicap accessi
ble playground equipm ent
through fund raisers and dona
tions. Kinzua donated $3,671;
Finley Buttes landfill tippage fees
$2,500; the Odd Fellows $500;
private donations $325; and First
Interstate $10 in addition to
$2,500 raised by the club.
According to Traylor, the old
playground equipment must be
replaced to make the equipment
handicap accessible and for safety
and insurance reasons. Board
president Marcia Kemp said that
the board had not heard of the
status of the playground equip
ment prior to the meeting. “ I
think we should have been
notified earlier than this,” said
Kemp. “ If you know we have un
safe structures we should know
about it.”
If the group was not able to get
funding for the entire playground
package, Naims said that they
may order part of the equipment,
although the club would save
money if the order is prepaid and
if the equipment is shipped as a
whole.
Traylor said that the two most
unsafe pieces of equipment, the
slides and the jungle gym have
already been removed. The pre
sent equipment was installed in
1954 when the school was built.
The new equipment will include
a multi-level platform with a
spiral slide, a wave slide with a
tunnel, a climbing pole, a cor
kscrew climber, a steering wheel
and a Tic Tac Toe game. Nairns
earlier said that the Lions Club
will also be donating half of their
proceeds from Fourth of July
firework sales. Other gifts include
a donation of bark chips from
Kinzua and donations of labor
from David Allstott, Jerry Gen
try. Jim Lankford and Ken
Eckman.
In other business the board:
-raised the prices for school
breakfasts from 50 cents to 60
cents for students and from 50
cents to 75 cents for adults.
Business manager Shirley Lan-
dauer said that the increases,
along with reimbursements from
Final plans underway for sum m er project
Final plans are being completed
for the Neighborhood Center
Summer Project for children.
The project, which will get
underway with a town treasure
hunt Tuesday, July 6, will also in
clude activities, crafts, field trips
and lunch. The project will be
held weekdays from 9 a.m. to 1
p.m. beginning July 6 ending July
30.
In the first week of the project,
a Native American encampment
at the city park will feature bead-
work, singing, story telling, ex
hibits of various kinds, such as
regalia for horses and young men
and women and possibly drum
ming. The encampment will be
reserved for youth during the
mornings but will be open to the
community the afternoons.
Art classes throughout the pro
je ct will include origam i
(Japanese paper folding), making
of a diorama, clay sculpting and
movement (tumbling). The kids
will also visit the bowling alley
three times this summer.
The Forest Service will spon
sor four days of the project,
teaching environmental science,
the archaeology of the region and
ecosystems.
The law offices of Kuhn and
Spicer will again hold a mock
trial for the children, with the kids
acting as defendants, the plaintiff,
judge and jury.
Three field trips will be held
during the month-long project.
Children will travel to the Oregon
Trail Interpretive Center at Baker
City, The Dalles Dam and
Wonderworks and the Pendleton
Underground. The last day of the
project will feature a parade down
Main Street July 30.
Project coordinator, Grace
Drake, says that around 80
children have registered for the
project, compared to around 70
last year. Around 45 children at
tended regularly last year and
Drake anticipates around 60 at
tending regularly this year.
There is no charge for atten
dance, but donations will be ac
cepted, said Drake. The basic
grant for the summer children’s
project has been provided by the
Morrow County Children’s and
Youth Services Commission
through tax dollars, she said.
Monies for food and the Indian
encampment are being provided
by the Meyer Memorial Trust.
Other grants and donations
were received from the Mission
O utreach C om m ission, the
United Methodist Church Oregon
Idaho Annual Conference, the
Blazers, Soroptimist International
of Heppner and other organiza-
tions and individuals, including
parents of children attending the
project.
Last year the whole project cost
around $4,800 said Drake. This
year costs will be around $9,800
because of increased enrollment,
additional professional services
and the Indian encampment. Fun
ding is separate from the
Neighborhood Center, she said.
Drake said that community
cooperation for the project has
been excellent with two thirds of
the volunteer slots filled, but
some volunteers are still needed,
especially
Tuesdays
and
Thursdays for the second and
third weeks. Volunteers may
work whole days or part time.
Volunteers are also needed before
and after class. Contact Drake
676-9439 or Rosalie Scharen
676-9209 to volunteer.
The project headquarters will
be at the All Saints Episcopal
Church Parish Hall. Some classes
will be held at the parish hall and
some at the Heppner Elementary
School. Lunches will be provid
ed at the Heppner Junior High
cafeteria during “ in town” days
and will be prepared by school
district cooks. Bobbie Angell and
Cherie Clark.
A bus will transport children
from the lone school at 8:15 a.m.
on regular days and at 6:45 a.m,
on field trip days. The bus will
pick up Lexington area children
at the school district office around
8:30 a.m . and 7 a.m .
respectively.
The childrens summer project
was formulated by Drake last
year as a means to fill a void
created with the closure of the
Heppner pool.
Weather Report
by City ol Heppner
June 15 - 21 , 1993
High Low Prec
Tues.
70
47 09
Weds. 76
51 .0
Thurs. 81
54 .0
Fri.
90
54 .0
Sat.
86
49 .0
Sun.
87
56 .06
Mon.
65
41 .02
the state, should cover the cost of
the meals, including labor costs;
-adopted the 1993-94 school
district budget of $14,549,402.
Property taxes will be levied in
the amount of $9,004,348;
-awarded the bids for two
school buses to Western Bus
Sales of Clackamas;
-approved the follow ing
transfers/reassignm enis and
reductions:
A.C. Houghton Elementary -
Beth
C reason,
halftim e
kindergarten teacher to Sam
Boardman kindergarten; Anne
Orcutt, assistant cook to River
side High School;
Columbia Junior High-Ruth
Sullivan, assistant cook to A.C.
Houghton; one vacant assistant
cook position at Columbia Junior
High;
Heppner Elementary-Cherry
Webber, kindergarten to first
grade; Kitty Bredemeier, music
Heppner elementary, middle and
junior high will also teach one
period of choir at Heppner High
School;
Heppner High School-Gwyn
Franklin counselor to counselor
at Columbia Junior High; Bar
bara H a y e s , lib rarian to
counselor; Ginger Bowman in
structional assistant to library
technician; Martha Munkers, five
hours instructional asst., three
hours assistant cook, three hours
assistant cook eliminated; Bobbi
Angell six hours assistant cook
reduced to four hours;
lone Schools-Bobbi Childers,
three hours assistant cook and 1.5
hours as instructional assistant
eliminated; Geneva Mathews,
band and choir will also include
band at Heppner Middle School;
Sue
W arren,
halftim e
kindergarten to Heppner Elemen
tary fulltime kindergarten;
R iverside High School-
Margaret Ramirez, four hours in
structional assistant to six hours
at the English Skills Center, bas
ed at Riverside, but federally
funded; Marchell Downey, four
hours as instructional assistant
eliminated; Pat Quarisa, two
hours instructional assistant to
Sam Boardman;
Sam Boardman Elementary-
C heryl
C ostello/M archell
Downey, four hours instructional
assistant to Riverside High
School; Ron Prindle, grade two
to grade four; Pam Files, half
time kindergarten to second
grade;
A pproved the follow ing
employment: Bill Baker, Hepp
ner Elementary custodian; Sharon
Erk, Sam Boardman reading
specialist; Norma Gaffney, A.C.
Houghton teacher; Gary Hunt,
Columbia Junior High, science
teacher; John Thomas, Riverside
social studies, language arts
teacher; Judy Buck, Sam Board-
man special education assistant;
Jewell Delong, A.C. Houghton
special education assistant
Richard
Burke' O ’Brien,
transportation manager; Lisa
Beyeler, Riverside PE instruc
tional assistant; Barbara Har
rison, A.C. Houghton third
grade;
-approved the board meeting
calendar, the Umatilla ESD
Migrant Program Transportation
request; the Boardman Pioneer
Days transportation request and
site-based council requests for
Heppner Elementary, Middle and
High and lone;
-adopted a district-wide art and
social studies curriculum;
-heard principals’ reports on
the close of the school year;
-heard a report on the Saxon
Mah Project by Dr. Don Holes.
Dr. Holes, principal at Columbia
Junior High provided data that
showed an increase in math
scores since the Saxon method
was adopted;
-denied the Morrow County
Education Association grievance
for extended contract days and a
personal grievance for extended
contract days for the vo-ag
department at Riverside High
School and allowed the incoming
superintendent. Chuck Starr, to
proceed with negotiations concer
ning the grievances.
Drake, LaRue receive Soroptimist
‘Women of Distinction9 award
LoRayne Bowman (I) and Shelly Britt (r) present Grace Drake
and Linda LaRue with ‘Women of Distinction’ awards.
The Rev. Grace Drake and
mayor of lone and also served as
Linda LaRue were honored as
mayor from 1975 to 1982. She is
“ Women of Distinction" by
a member of the lone United
Soroptimist International of Church of Christ and for several
Heppner in a ceremony June 17 years has been the cashier for the
at the Heppner Elks Club.
church’s annual auction and
Drake,, a retired minister who barbecue. She has also been a
still fills in as guest pastor as the Sunday School teacher at IUCC.
H eppner U nited M ethodist
LaRue is a member and
Church and other churches, was treasurer of the Pioneer Memorial
honored for her work in creating
Hospital Foundation. She has
the Neighborhood Center Sum been the volunteer scorekeeper
mer Project for area youth. When
for the lone varsity basketball
it became apparent that the Hepp games for the past 19 years. She
ner swimming pool would close has also volunteered her time to
because of structural and finan deliver prescriptions from Mur
cial problems, Drake created a ray Drugs to elderly people in
summer program for the kids.
lone.
She
organized
funding,
LaRue has been employed at
volunteers, teachers, field trips,
the Bank of Eastern Oregon for
projects and lunches for up to 70
19 years. She was named cashier
children a day. Drake is current in 1990 and this year was ap
ly organizing a summer program pointed vice president.
for this year.
LaRue and her husband Del,
Drake has four grown children.
have three children and five
Linda LaRue is currently the grandchildren.
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