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U BF.SSIE CF ORE newspaper EUGENE VOL. 112 OR NO. 29 Over $8 thousand committed to pool * ET2ELL l1 IJ 97403 6 Pages Wednesday, July 21, 1993 Morrow County Heppner, Oregon Cory Breeding was the top fund raiser at the May bowl-a- thon to raise the money for a swimming pool in Heppner. The event, sponsored by People for the Pool and held at the Heppner Bowling Alley raised $238. Cory was awarded a “ Support our Pool T-shirt” and his name on a laser printed brick to be plac ed at the swimming pool site. Participants who earned T-shirts were Brandi Brantley, Jeannette Brantley and Gene Ray Ball. Those earning lapel pins were Chris Dilley, Jennifer Dilley and Beth Baker. Fund raising efforts by People for the Pool, a local group incor porated to helping build a swim ming pool in Heppner, have resulted in individuals and groups taking active part in many ways. Fund raisers, donations and com mitments for donations now amount to over $8,000. Chances on 100 ounces of silver bars are being sold for $1 each at Bud’s Pub. The silver was donated by Bill and Pat Gentry and the draw ing will be December 31. T-shirts and lapel buttons with the ‘Support Our Pool’ logo may be purchased at Murray Drugs. Childrens T- shirts sell for $6 and $8 for adults, buttons sell for $2. A sample brick which will be installed at the pool is being displayed at Heppner TV Inc. The veneer bricks will be im printed and be placed on a wall of a building at the swimming Heppner Elementary principal resigns Tony Becket The Morrow County School Board accepted the resignation of Heppner Elementary School prin cipal Bryan Traylor at its July 19 meeting. Traylor, who has been principal at HES the last two years, has accepted a position as principal in the Milton-Freewater school district. A committee was formed to screen candidates for the position and will interview candidates Aug. 3 and 4. The committee will then make a recommendation to the school board on August 5. If a principal is not selected, superintendent Chuck Starr recommended that an interim principal be employed. The board also discussed a bond issue for capital im provements, which will include funding for construction of addi tional rooms for crowded schools in Boardman and Irrigon. v Thirty to *35 thousand has been budgeted for architectural plans for construction of the additional ilassrooms. The board indicated that it was aiming for a March 1994 bond election to finance the capital improvements. In other business, the board: -learned that the district will have an ending fund balance of betw een $2,200,0 0 0 and $2,400,000; -elected Marcia Kemp, board chairman, and Scott Bauska, vice chairman. Kemp has served as chairman since Alan* Holmes resigned from the board in the midst of the district-teacher con tract negotiations; -approved a bid of $13,052 from Quality Hardwood Con struction to repair, sand and refinish the hardwood floors at the Heppner High School gym; -declared the following con fidential employees: Chuck Starr, superintendent; Roger Helmer, assistant superintendent; Shirley Landauer. business manager; Julie Ashbeck, head district secretary; Rhonda Lorenz, payroll; Mary Kay Bellamy, ac counts payable/purchasing; Jo Burt, district secretary; Everett Moore and Burke O ’Brien, transportation managers; Mick T olar, Don H oles, Dave Youngbluth, Dick Allen, Susan Tolar and Steve Dickenson, prin cipals; and Kevin Fry, Riverside High School dean of students; -designated Chuck Starr, clerk, budget officer and custodian of funds; Shirley Landauer. deputy clerk and custodian of funds; and Ann Spicer and Nancy Hunger- ford district legal counsel. Selected: the Heppner Gazette- Times and the East Oregonian the newspapers of record; Bob Kahl of Van Marter& Kahl Insurance, Inc. the district insurance agent of record; First Interstate Bank, the State Investment Pool, the Bank of Eastern Oregon and In land Empire Bank, depositories for district funds; and Morrison & Fife, auditors for 1993-94; -delegated Starr and Helmer authority to sign for state and federal programs; -authorized facsimile signatures on checks for Landauer and Starr; -established a borrowing limit of $2 million; -accepted resignations of Sal ly Walker as assistant volleyball coach for Heppner Middle School and Shelley Powell as Chapter I teacher for Columbia Junior High School; -approved employment of Dora Wallace as special education assistant at Sam Boardman Elementary; -approved extra duty contracts for A1 Beck, HMS athletic director; Dave Gunderson, HMS head football and head basketball coach; Pam Dowdy, HMS head volleyball and head girls’ basket ball coach; Geri Grieb, HMS assistant basketball coach; Susie Hisler, HMS head track coach; Vicki Broden, HMS assistant track coach; Linda Shaw, HMS Talented and Gifted program coordinator; Kitty Bredemeier, HMS chorus instructor; Geneva Mathews, HMS band instructor; Mary Holmes, RHS drama ad visor; and Rick Danielson, RHS FFA advisor. -approved extended contracts for librarians, counselors, vo-ag advisors, music, band, shop and art teachers. -D iscussed plans for establishing one-way traffic on the street in front o f A.C. Houghton School; -approved a request from Dyann and David McCarty, Echo, to continue sending their son to Heppner Elementary for the 1993-94 school year and ap proved a request for the superintendent to sign off on renewal requests in the future. New loan officer hired at BEO R ichard W ood Richard Wood is the new loan officer at the Bank of Eastern Oregon. According to Chief Executive Officer George Koffler, Wood’s responsibility will include general lending with an emphasis on agricultural lending at both the Heppner and lone branches. He will also be responsible for the bank’s new Farmer Mac II longterm Farm Real Estate Len ding Program. Wood comes to the bank with over 20 years of banking ex perience including the last seven years working for Farm Credit Services in Redmond. He also served two successful stints at community banks. Wood has college degrees in both business administration and animal science from Brigham Young University. Wood and his wife, Carolyn, a registered nurse, have six children. The youngest boys, a senior and a fifth grader, are at home. selected for Shakespeare Festival Tony Becket, Heppner, has been selected to attend the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Summer Seminar for high school juniors. Becket is one of 65 students selected out of more than TOO applicants from all over the country to participate in the program. The summer seminar for high school juniors is an intensive two- week study of all aspects of theatre for a select group of highly motivated, hard-working theatre students. These students are in residence from August 2-14 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, one of the oldest and largest regional theatre companies in the United States. To qualify for the program, students complete an application requiring serious thought about themselves and theatre. In addi tion, they must have recommen dations from several adults who know them well and can assess such traits as self discipline and the ability to work in an ensemble. A typical day for seminar par ticipants begins at 8 a.m. with a dorm breakfast, followed by a session of physical or vocal warm-ups and ends around mid night. In between students see plays, work together on projects and take part in activities led by theatre professionals, including workshops in stage management. Renaissance dance, stage combat, set and costume design, fund rais ing, auditioning, administration and acting. In their project work, students must address issues facing the American theatre and the impact of these issues on theatres in their communities and high schools, cultural diversity, non-traditional casting, private and federal fun ding for the arts, managing a budget, organizing publicity and marketing. pool. Bricks range in price from $30 to $45 each depending on how many letters. Some bricks have already been purchased by families and individuals showing their support for the pool. One brick was recently purchased in the memory of James Wilhelm. Forms are available at Heppner TV Inc. Other ongoing fund raisers are the donation jars set out at Cen tral Market and Miller’s Mini Mart and Chevron Station. The Red Apple Central Market pro gram of donating one percent of grocery receipts turned in is still in progress. Receipts may be turned in to the Heppner City Hall, Green Feed and Seed or the Bowling Alley. In addition to the bowl-a-thon a sandwich sale at the Willow Creek Country Club golf tourna ment on July 11 raised $114. The Thursday Club, a local women’s group, donated $25. Barbara An- sotegui raised $69 for the pool through the Family Center. Pinochle parties at the Heppner Elks Club resulted in a $46 dona tion. A lamb barbecue and pool tournament and silent auction in April earned $430. Two local clubs have also com mitted funds towards the Hepp ner swimming pool project. The Soroptimist sold $125 worth of chances on a Mother’s Day basket filled with treats. Birdine Tullis of lone won the basket. The ticket was purchased by her daughter-in-law Becky Tullis. The Heppner Garden Club set aside $500 in an interest-bearing account for the swimming pool. “ With these two commitments, there is now $8,490 committed towards a Heppner swimming pool,’’ said a spokesperson for the group. Upcoming fund raisers include manning the Morrow County Fair gates as they did last sum mer. Volunteers are needed. C ontact G eorge N airns 676-9252. People for the Pool will also have a Bingo table for 25 cents per card during the fair. The Heppner Elks Lodge is loan ing their equipment for this. The next meeting of People for the Pool is July 22 at 7:30 p.m. at Kate’s Pizza. Everyone is welcome to attend. Cycle Oregon T-shirts available By A nne M orter T-shirts featuring “ YIKES! BIKES!” design are available for sale at Wheatland Insurance in lone. The colorful shirts are designed to celebrate the Cycle O regon stop in lone on September 14. Adult sizes large and extra large are in stock and are priced at $10. Special orders for youth sizes (S,M,L) are available for $ 10 and adult XXL, XXXL, and XXXXL are available for $11. . Hats are also on sale for $5.50. Special orders must be placed by August 13 and purchasers are asked to pay at the time of the order. Contact Nancy Brownfield or N ancy Brownfield m odels C y Jannie Allen for more cle O regon T-shirt for sale information. Health workshop scheduled at Elks A workshop/lecture presented by the clinical laboratory staff from Pioneer Memorial Hospital will be held Thursday, July 29 at the Heppner Elks starting at 7 p.m. The topics that will be covered are hepatitis, AIDS, cholesterol screening and thyroid function tests. In addition to a question and answer period, information on services offered and reducing hospital bills will be presented. The public is invited to attend and bring any questions you may have. Questions unable to be answered by the staff will be taken down and researched. Light snacks will be provided. Lisa Currin hired as accountant Lisa Currin Lisa Currin was hired as Mor row County accountant effective June 1. Currin, 27, is a graduate of Butte High School at Butte, MT. She graduated from Montana State University in 1989 with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and passed her certified public ac counting exam in the fall of 1989. Currin was employed as a CPA at Bailey and Brinkman at Bozeman, MT. for the past four years. In May of this year, she mar ried Steve Currin of Heppner. The two met while they were both on the rodeo team at Montana State University, she said. Coin set donated to Cecil celebration Dairy referendum ballots available at ASCS office By A nn e M orter The Bank of Eastern Oregon has donated an Oregon Trail coin set to the Sesquincentennial Wagon Train Committee. The committee plans to raffle the three coin set to partially defray the costs of putting on the celebration to be held in Cecil August 18 and 19. Raffle tickets are priced at $1 each or six for $5 and are available at Wheatland Insurance in lone and the Cecil Store. Tickets will also be on sale dur ing the wagon train celebration U SD A ’s A gricultural August 18 and 19. Marketing Service (AMS) will The commemorative coin set is conduct a mail referendum on display at the Bank of Eastern A ugust 5-16 to determ ine Oregon in Heppner and lone and whether dairy producers favor at the Cecil Store. continuing the national dairy pro The drawing will be held on motion and research order. August 19 during the lamb Ballots for the referendum will be barbecue at Cecil. Advance made available by the Agriculture tickets for that event are on sale Stabilization and Conservation at Wheatland Insurance and the Service. Chamber of Commerce in Hepp For the program to continue. ner. Cost of the barbecue is $10 • USDA officials say a simple ma for adults, $5 for children under jority of those voting must favor six and $30 for a family. it. *»•'» All dairy producers wAo were engaged in the production of milk for commercial use during April 1993 will be eligible to vote in the August referendum. Only one vote is permitted for each dairy farm business unit, and cooperative associations may vote on behalf o f its producer members. A producer who op poses the cooperative’s vote may cast an individudf ballot with the member’s differing vote. “ Dairy producers may request ballots and other referendum materials from our office during regular business hours," ASCS official Ronald H. Matthews said. He said producers who have questions should call the toll free number shown on the reverse side of the official ballot, 800 858-7501. USDA received petitions with over 16,000 signatures requesting a referendum on the continuation of the national dairy promotion program.
