Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 8, 1995
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Health District reviews
recreation district impact
Heppner teacher and coach
Greg Grant appeared before
the Morrow County Health
District Board Monday, Feb. 6,
to discuss the proposed county
wide co-curricular plan. The
plan w ould fund extra
curricular activities now fund
ed by the school district and
would impact the budgets of
taxing entities in the county.
The school district is con
sidering eliminating funding
for co-curricular activities, such
as sports, FFA, drama and
other clubs, because of budget
constraints. The district faces
cuts of at least $1 million next
year as a result of Ballot
Measure 5 and the state school
funding formula.
Grant told the board that the
first year of the co-curricular
serial levy would be $375,000,
the second, $390,000 and the
third, $405,600. He said that the
levy would only be three years
because educators anticipate
that the 1995-96 school year
would be the worst in terms of
school funding and the school
funding situation would im
prove after that.
Grant said that the Morrow
County assessor has projected
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Bulletin Board
There were 130 people present for the senior meal February
1. Four meals were home delivered. Members of the Catholic
church served. Mrs. Eubanks won the meal ticket. The mealsite
committee met following the dinner. Darrell Vinson was at the
dinner and looking well. He must still use oxygen, but is able
to be out and about. He and Sue were also among the card players
Friday afternoon.
The menu for Wednesday, Feb. 15 will be roast beef, hash
browns, mixed vegetables, roll and applesauce. Members of the
Baptist Church will serve.
Ray and Marge Dickenson are the new tenants at the senior
apartments. They also do maintenance chores around the
building. The other tenants welcome them to the St. Patrick's
"fa m ily".
Velma Wight, Doll Campbell, Barb Struthers and Iva Booker
sold tickets on the senior center quilt at the First Interstate Bank
Friday. Tickets on the quilt, made by Quilters and Co., are
available at the senior center. The drawing will be March 19 dur
ing the St. Patrick's celebration.
The quilters also donated three pieced quilts to the
Neighborhood Center, to be given to people in emergencies such
as burn outs.
There were two tables of cards in play Friday afternoon at the
center. Ten seniors watched the movie "Sleepless in Seattle"
Sunday evening. That movie and "Father of the Bride" which
will be shown next Sunday, were loaned by Tami Rietmann.
All the Morrow County RSVP volunteers will be honored at
a tea at the senior center Tues., Feb. 14 from 3-5 p.m. The center
office will be closed during that time so that the all volunteer
staff may attend.
Other dates to remember: Tues., and Thurs., exercise, 10 a.m.;
Wednesday, senior meal noon; Feb. 15 blood pressures taken
before the meal, quilting 1 p.m.; Friday cards, 2 p.m.; Sunday
movie 7 p.m.
$619 in 1996 and $637 in 1997.
Morrow County government is
expected to lose $21,893 the
first year, $12,247 the second
and $12,608 the third. The city
of Heppner would lose $4,586
the first year, $4,854 the second
and $4,891 in the third; the ci
ty of lone, $886, $982 and
$1,005, respectively; the city of
Irrigon, $1,948, $2,131, and
$2,172; the city of Boardman,
will lose $4,856 to the co-
curricular program the first
year, but nothing the subse
quent years, because of the tax
benefits gleaned from the
Coyote Springs co-gen plant.
Those taxes will also reduce the
asking from Morrow County
Health District, and the Oregon
Trail Library District. The cities
in the newly proposed district
must opt in the district or they
will be excluded. The lone city
council previously tied on the
issue, but were to meet Tues
It was bound to happen. Growing consumer demand and
day. The Boardman council
limited mill capacity has caused the price of paper products to
was also to vote on the issue
skyrocket. It's no wonder with printers and copy machines crank
Tuesday.
ing out paper like 90 bushel wheat pouring into a combine
hopper.
Copy paper has seen seven price increases since last April fuel
ed by a shortage of pulp and increased worldwide demand.
Analysts predict that the newsprint could cost as much as $700
per ton by the end of 1995, a whopping 27 percent increase.
N ow I'm not suggesting that we go back to using chalk and
The next meeting of the
slates. One advantage of a small town is that news gets around
Heppner Coordinating Council
faster by word of mouth than it takes time to print it.
will be on Tuesday, February
Septic tanks or sewage plants might not be receptive to the
14, at 7:30 a.m. in the GEODC
use of recycled catalogs that seem to be an unending source in
office.
everyone's mailbox. Hankies could be used more for blow than
The agenda will include a
show to limit the use of paper tissues I guess. Although having
final review of the council's self
been felled by a head cold I seem to rely on those strategically
assessment, planning for
placed boxes.
presentation of the Heppner
Many paper manufacturers closed mills-in the late 1980's and
Strategic plan to community
'90's due to a slump in purchases fueled by a recession. As
groups, and discussion of sup
worldwide economics became more robust the demand started
port for the swimming pool
to catch up with the supply and inventories at paper mills begin
bond and levy issues.
to evaporate.
The public is welcome to at
It seems counter productive to not allow the harvest of dead
tend the meetings of the Hepp
trees or thinning of forests which contributes to healthier stands
ner Coordinating Council.
when pulp needs are at an all time high. Cottonwood trees are
now being grown just to supply needed pulp.
However, American ingenuity usually comes to the rescue. I
still have a cook book published during W W II that was a war
time supplement on how to cope with shortages. During those
times, I remember that sugar and coffee as well as gasoline were
some of the most precious commodities that were rationed.
People then were encouraged to cut back on eating meat, save
empty tin cans, use honey or syrup to replace sugar and to save
waste fat. When a pound of used fat was collected it could be
taken to butcher, I don't think they used it to grease bullets, it
was supposed to help provide gylcerine needed for making ex
plosives. However, my mother was a prudent saver of fat for
the making of lye soap.
Thankfully that lye soap was used mostly for washing clothes.
Those pungent bars were melted on the back of the stove before
being added to a tub of clothes. Had facial scrubs been popular
in those days, that lye soap could take the skin off an aligator.
Interestingly this cook book advises against trying to stretch
coffee. It says that there is just so much flavor in a pound of cof
fee and that extra boiling can ruin the taste. I'm sure that
sheepherders and elk hunters must take those directions with
tongue in cheek.
Like back then I continued to wash and flatten tin cans, con
scious effort to save space and to recycle. Yet some large tin con
tainers find other uses including replacing a spitoon. Empty tin
cans also make non lethal missies that often silence a barking
dog or they become earthworm receptables for a fishing trip.
As to ways to alleviate a paper shortage, we could wrap up
the whole world if all the waste paper that is incinerated each
day were recycled, starting with the contents of numerous waste
baskets that are emptied here daily.
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a 48 cent per thousand assess
ed valuation to fund the co-
curricular program. At this rate,
a taxpayer with a $50,000 home
would pay $24 a year; one with
a $200,000 business would pay
$96; and one with a $1 million
farm would pay $480.
Because the co-curricular le w
would compete for dollars with
all county taxing districts, the
Morrow County Health District
is expected to lose $1,093 to the
co-curricular program in 1995,
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