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EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 25, 1995
School board zone changes explained
By C huck Starr, superintendent
of M orrow C o unty Schools
elected from zone 5 in March,
and begin service July 1.
Zone 6 everything south of
Zone 2 and east of Zone 3. Bill
Doherty currently serves this
zone.
Zone 7 the southern part of
Boardman. Scott Bauska cur
rently serves this zone.
The positions representing
these zones are up for election
March 28. The deadline for fil
ing is January 26.
Keep the questions coming.
required under the 21st Cen
tury Schools Act (HB3565); pro
vide new class rooms for our
growing student population;
provide funds for maintenance;
and repair and remodeling of
existing school buildings; pro
vide funds to comply with new
state and federal mandates;
and provide funds to ensure
that our students have an equal
chance at jobs and higher
education in the future.
For making these very dif
ficult decisions, these volunteer
representatives of all of you in
the district receive the follow
ing: no pay; countless hours of
stressful meetings; late night
phone calls from irate citizens
who dislike their decisions, or
some other school decision or
action; written complaints, or
worse yet, general complaining
around town that eventually
reaches them third or fourth
hand.
On the positive side, they do
know that they have done the
best job they can making these
decisions with the information
available. These dedicated peo
ple need a big pat on the back
from all of us. Please join me in
su p p o rt of G overnor Kit-
zhaber's proclamation of the
week of January 22-28, 1995 as
"School Board Recognition
Week". Let the following board
members know you appreciate
them: Marcia Kemp, Scott
Bauska, Bill Doherty, Molly
Rill, G ary Frederickson,
Dwayne Carroll and John
Rietmann.
As we near the January 26
deadline for prospective can
didates to file for school board
positions, the following ques
tion is an important one:
Why did the district change
the school board's geographical
zones, and what are those new
zones?
State law requires the district
to re-examine geographical
board zones after every official
census. The 1990 cesus show
Why should we thank the
ed that our board zones were
no longer representing equal members of our school board?
The Morrow County School
population number in the
District
is in the middle of one
district. Therefore, the board
of
the
most difficult time
had two choices: 1-change the
periods
in
its history. The state
/ones to areas of equal popula
of
Oregon
has taken control of
tion representation; or, 2-ask
school
funding
and that change
the voter to approve seven at
has
resulted
in
our district
large positions instead of hav
needing
to
cut
our
general
fund
ing representative zones. The
budget
(money
to
operate
our
board decided to change the
zones to make them each schools) in 1995-% to a total
representative areas of equal amount that is over $1,000,000
population. Thus, the follow less than the district had to
operate in 1992-93 (three years
ing zones were adopted:
Zone 1 Northeast Boardman ago). Our school board must
through the western edge of Ir- make the very difficult deci
rigon. Gary Frederickson was sions about what cuts in staff
recently re-elected to this and programs to make to
balance our budget with less
position.
Zone 2 the town of Lexington resources for the third straight
and area north to southern year. Any decision they make
edge of Boardman; area south is going to be unpopular with
of Highway 730 to Umatilla someone, yet they make those
Depot; and area south of 1-84 decisions in what they believe
to the Umatilla county line on is in the best interest of all of
the east and extension of Finley the Morrow County students.
In the midst of funding pro
Buttes Road on south. Dwayne
Carroll and Marcia Kemp blems, our board members
curently live in this zone. As of must also support the changes
|ulv 1, 1995, Dwayne will be
the sole representative for zone
2.
Zone 3 the western third of
of the county from north to
south. This area includes the
Although some folks seem bent on self-destruction, the average
town of ione and the western
person isn't as ignorant as many manufacturing companies seem
part of Boardman. John Riet- to perceive. (That excludes youngsters with invincible attitudes
mann and Molly Rill currently such as long ago when a son attempted to parachute off a barn
live in this zone. The position using an umbrella). However it's easy to be coerced into follow
is open for election in March.
ing directions under threat of penalty by law or consequences.
That means that at least one of
But how many people read labels with dire warnings on aspirin-
the current board members liv type products when seeking relief from pain in the middle of
ing in zone 3 will be off the the night? Note that a popular mouthwash that I've used for years
board July 1, 1995.
says on the label "if ingested consult a physician or a poison con
Zone 4 the town of Heppner. trol center". In spite of mouthwash traces that have trickled down
This is a new zone. No current the pipe, I guess I'm lucky to have beaten the odds.
board member lives in this
I'll admit there have been times when reading directions could
zone. T herefore, a new have prevented flustration when trying to assemble a product
member of the board will be or set a digital clock. But sometimes it's better to pretend that
elected from zone 4 in March, you know what you're doing instead of following confusing direc
and begin to serve July 1.
tions that often lead to abandoning an engineering feat.
Zone 5 the northeast corner
People can become robot-like by living with programed direc
of the county, including most tives or unwritten rules, such as when to get up or go to work.
of the town of Irrigon. This is During our so-called retirement years, it would be a sin to sleep
also a new zone, with no cur in past 5 a m. to comply with hubby's chore-bound morning
rent member of the board liv routine. Minus a crew to feed or kids to get off to school, it would
ing in it. Once again, a new be hard to sleep in when the whole house begins to gyrate.
member of the board will be
We're so hide bound by instructions that when not following
precise directions that say "tw o teaspoon fulls" I expect a red
flag to pop out of a bottle like a genie. It's difficult to imagine
P harm acy &
anyone inventing something when rules thwart the imagination.
Y our H e a lth
Just having to think up new regulations for use of a product could
be a downer. Probably no one stood around telling Ben Franklin
Boardman Pharmacy
that electricity could be hazardous.
User beware, an axe doesn't come with a warning that misuse
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202 1st. N. W.
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could result in a too close manicure of a digit. Young people are
Boardman, Oregon 97818
quick to pick up on the use of electronical gadgets. Yet adults
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don't trust them with power tool useage, thinking they might
Vaccines for Children attempt to use a hedge trimmer for a haircut. However some of
the male students' haircuts nowadays look more like their hair
Program
had been trimmed to resemble a hedge.
Perhaps you're one of the guilty ones who has removed pillow
Last year the U.S. Department
tags
that say "under penalty by law, do not remove label". Maybe
of Health and Human Services an
you've
also machine washed a garment that was labeled "hand
nounced the Vaccines for Children
wash".
Yet there are no guarantees after carefully following direc
Program. According to a report in
tions and that garment ends up looking like the dog has taken
Journal o f American Medical As
sociation, the program, which will
it for a drag around the block.
be introduced in January (1995),
People are busy analyzing and labeling everything including
will provide free vaccines to chil
over 3,000 grocery store items. As long as they're so free with
dren at participating private and
advice, they should at least state that food overindulgence has
public health centers. Health offi
been known to increase body weight.
cials are concerned about the low
Advertising is another effort at mind control that seems to work
immunization rates of children.
as noted by increased sales. However if those products must have
According to the Center for Dis
eases Control, the current vaccina
labels with detailed instructions, then why not use larger print
tion rate of 2-year-old children is
so one doesn't have to use a magnifying glass?
only 55 to 88 percent. A goal of one
When it comes to all these directives that govern our lives
federal program for 1996 is to in
sometimes it gives one a pain that is just a little bit lower than
crease immunizations for polio,
a thorn in the side.
measles, mumps, rubella, diphthe
First Interstate hosts agri-business
First In terstate Bank of
Oregon took advantage of the
mid-winter lull in agricultural
activity to sponsor an "A gri
business Appreciation Day"
and open house at its branch in
Heppner on Wednesday, Jan.
18.
The open house was design
ed to recognize the importance
of agriculture to the Oregon
economy and to First Interstate
Bank.
Marilyn Garcia, H eppner
Branch Manager, said "This
event lets our customers and
other local residents have a
chance to talk informally with
bank officers, representatives
from agricultural associations
and other farmers and ran
chers, that they normally might
not have. It is also our chance
to say thank you to our
customers for their patronage
and support.”
The Morrow County Wheat
Growers League attended and
displayed information about
their products. Representatives
from Oregon State University's
College of Agricultural Sciences
also attended.
First Interstate Bank was
represented by officers from
Portland, Hermiston and Bend,
including those from the com
mercial lending center and the
agribusiness commercial bank
ing center.
Specialized personal financial
representatives who can offer
information about the bank's
investment and insurance pro
ducts were present to discuss
their services and products.
R ep resen tativ es from the
bank's personal trust and
agribusiness services offices
were also present.
A number of local business-
es, including Les Schwab Tires
and Wright Motors of Fossil
were invited to attend.
The bank also provided door
prizes, including a Pendleton
blanket and an Oregon book.
The Oregon Wheat Cake bak
ed by bank staff members from
the Heppner, Condon and
Fossil branches was served
with complimentary coffee and
other beverages.
The open house also coin
cides with the branch's 61st an
niversary. The branch opened
on January 5, 1934.
W ith
170
branches
throughout Oregon, First In
terstate Bank has been meqfing
the personal and business
banking needs of Oregonians
since being established in
Portland on July 4, 1865.
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Human Services Guide.
The guide is used as a
reference tool by professionals
in the field. It is also available
to consumers through their
local libraries or human sevices
offices.
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to: Blue Mountain Community
College, c/o Patricia Tempinski,
P.O. Box 100, Pendleton 97801.
For more inform ation call
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