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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.
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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.