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EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 21, 1995 Big catfish snagged Mary Setness Nine year-old Mary Setness caught a 13-inch, I-V 2 pound catfish at Willow Creek Lake Sunday, June 11. Setness said she used worms to catch the fish. School district approves budget By April Sykes The Morrow County School District adopted a $29,668,119 total budget for the 1995-% year at its regular board meeting on June 12. This in cludes a general fund budget of $12,534,905 and a capital pro jects fund of $13,690,000. The general fund is comprised of transportation, maintenance, district operation and the in dividual schools' budgets The district anticipates $6,872,404 in state school sup port, up from $5,688,080 for 1994-95, $3,863,335 for 1993-94 and $2,632,750 for 1992-93. The transportation budget is down, with $588,089 budgeted for the 1995-% year, down from $636,657 in 1995-95, $639,860 in 1993-94 and 663,540 in 1992-93. The board earlier voted to pur sue the contracting of busing services from a private company. Maintenance is up over last year, from $1,452,654 to $1,656,847. The maintenance budget was $313,865 in 1993-94 and $387,310 in 1992-93. The district operation fund is up from $1,932,326 in 1994-95 to $1,979,274 in 1995-%. Individual schools' budgets are as follows: A.C. Houghton Elementary-from $1,212,999 in 1994-95 to $1,064,889 in 1995- % ; Heppner Elementary $807, 433 to $936,594; lone Elemen tary $377,877 to 379,662; Sam Boardman Elementary $1,055, 575 to $1,089,963; Heppner Junior High $598,097 to zero (junior high students have been moved to Heppner High School); lone Junior High $145,105 tp $137,407; Columbia Junior High $778,195 to $962, 237; Heppner Junior/Senior High School $934,436 to $1,089,810; lone Senior High School $399,496 to $363,243; Riverside Senior High School $1,614,343 to $1,386,890. In other business at the June 12 meeting, the board: -honored outgoing board members Molly Rill, who was on the board for five years and Marcia Kemp, who was a board member for eight years. When school districts were redrawn, Kemp and Dwayne Carrol re sided in the same district as did Rill and John Rietmann. Car rol's and Rietmann's terms ex pired at a later date, so they re tained the positions. -approved resignations of: Judy Meyer, Sam Boardman Elementary teacher; Becky Kington, Riverside High School and Columbia Junior High art teacher; Marti Baker, north end schools music teacher; Lisa Nelson, CJH teacher; Tom Graham, RHS technology ed ucation teacher; Dan Marshall, maintenance I; Marilyn Ste wart, A.C. Houghton Elemen tary food service education assistant; Pam Dowdy, Hepp ner Junior High head volleyball coach; Susie Hisler, HJH head track coach; Tori Meyers, RHS Title VII coordinator. -approved transfers for: Bob Davidson, from RHS to Colum bia Middle School; Helen Sy- mionow, RHS to CMS; Martha Lee Wallace, ACH to CMS; Doug Howell, ACH to CMS; Karen Talaski, ACH to CMS; Kitty Bredemeier, Heppner Middle School to CMS; A1 Beck, HMS to Heppner High School; Barb Peterson, HES/ HMS to HES and HHS; Greg Grant, HMS/HHS to HHS; Terri Gentry, HMS/HHS to HHS; Karen Beck, HMS to HHS; Sally Walker, HMS to RHS; Guy Post, HHS to RHS; Sarah Carlson, HMS to lone; Michelle Miller, Chapter I to regular teaching assignment at CMS; Judy Marston, food ser vice CMS to ACH; Ruth Sul livan food service from ACH to CMS; Marilyn Winters, library technician, SBE to ACH. -approved employment for: Vicky Broden, half time at HMS to full time at HHS; Rose Sebastian, probationary con tract for 1995-% to teach at SBE, replacing Judy Meyer; Regina Mills, probationary contract for 1995-% to teach half time at SBE, new position; Nancy McElhany, library teachnician, HES, replacing licensed media specialist; Kay Ceton, library technician, RHS, replacing licensed media specialist; Ron Dean district maintenance, re placing Dan Marshall; Eugene Lewis, assistant custodian, HES, replacing Bill Baker; Eileen Wheeler, library techni cian SBE, replacing licensed media specialist; Vicki Wagen- blast, temporary educational assistant for 1995-96, replacing Pam Minster, who is on a one- year educational leave. -learned of problems with the lone Pool. The pool is in need of major repairs and opening of the pool will be delayed. -ratified the classified em ployees' contract. The contract calls for a two percent increase for the top step of the salary schedule only for the 1995-96 school year. The remainder of the classified salary schedule will be frozen for that year. All classified em ployees will receive a two percent increase in each of the two remaining years of the three-year contract. -ratified and signed the cer tified contract. The 1995-% con tract includes step increases and a 1.25 percent increase for the tope step of the last two col umns in the schedule. In each of the next two years, teachers will get step increases in addi tion to a 2.5 percent increase on the whole salary schedule. -called for bids on the sale of the Lexington ball field proper ty, which is owned by the dis trict. -accepted a roofing bid from Palmer Roofing at $40,190 for the lone gvm and locker room. -accepted a bid for asbestos removal and reinsulation from W.L. Thomas, Inc. at $9,832 each for lone High School and Heppner Junior High. -rejected bids for roofing the district office gym from two bidders, Allstott-Gentry Con struction and Brown Roofing. Both bids were over budget. it. Patrick’s Senior Center Bulletin Board found in contempt of court for absconding a court-ordered probation. He was ordered to serve 30 days in the county jail and have his probation extend ed for two years until June 1997. Cameron Allyn Ruff, 19, Portland, was convicted of Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle, stemming from an in cident which occured when the defendant allegedly stole a car from Sco tt's Auto Sales, Portland, and transported the vehicle to Heppner in order to visit friends. Ruff was sentenc ed to 180 days in jail, two years probation, 100 hours of com munity service, pay attorney's fees, costs and fines totaling $635 and send a letter of apology to the victim. The Court suspended the 180 day jail sentence provided the defendant complied with those conditions. Shawn Bruce Linton, 24, Portland, was convicted of Possession of a Controlled Substance, methamphetamine and illegal possession of a weapon stemming from an in cident which occured on April 29, when the defendant was passing through Morrow County en route to Washing-' ton. Linton was ordered to serve 19 days in jail, pay fines, and assessments totaling $665 and undergo drug and alcohol evaluation and treatment. Daniel J Hum, 19, Irrigon, was convicted of Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle stemm ing from an incident which oc curred in the Irrigon area January 15. Hum and Larry A. Perrin, along with a juvenile took a Honda Odyssey from a residence in Irrigon. Hum was placed on 18 months probation and ordered to pay $750 restitu tion, complete 75 hours of com munity service and not commit any additional crimes. Cindy Irene Hart, 21, Irrigon, was found in contempt of court for failure to abide by a juvenile court order dated May 18, wherein she had been ordered to undergo inpatient drug treat ment. Hart was arrested June 8 and was ordered to remain in custody until June 21 when she was to be transported to the ARC drug treatment program in Ontario. pa -« wggri The District Attorney's office at the courthouse in Heppner reports handling the following business during the past weeks: June 1: Craig A. Hulse, Ir- rigon, was found guilty of allowing livestock to roam at large. He was placed on proba tion for one year, ordered to pay $135 in fines and assess ments and ordered to repair his livestock fences so that his livestock will not be permitted to roam. June 6: Jeffrey Michael Zim merman, Heppner, was con victed of Assault IV, Menacing and two counts of Harrassment which stem from an incident that occurred October 26 and 29,1994. Zimmerman was cut ting wood illegally in the Uma tilla National Forest, and was confronted by Forest Service employees and ordered to stop the illegal cutting. Thereafter Zimmerman assaulted, menac ed and harrassed the forest ser vice employees which lead to his arrest. He was ordered to serve 185 days in jail, 175 suspended, pay $622 fine, and ordered to undergo evaluation and treatm ent for anger m anagement. June 15: Bobby Gene Bur gess, 29, Hermiston, was found in Contempt of Court for violating his probation for a series of unauthorized uses of a motor vehicle committed in January 1993. He was sentenc ed to six months in the Depart ment of Corrections to run con currently with other crimes he committed in Umatilla County. This probation revocation pro ceeding related to an incident where the defendent and Shawn Adlard committed multiple thefts of vehicles in a spree which extended across Morrow County. James Howard Stark, 26, Ir- rigon, was found in contempt of court for failure to complete satisfactory probation. Stark was ordered to serve 30 days in the county jail and had proba tion extended for two years in order to pay court-ordered financial obligations which he previously failed to pay. Proba tion stems from an incident where the defendent smashed in the front windows of Sun Ridge Mobile Homes and stole a mobile home, which was abandoned in Grant County. Christopher W. Lyons, 23, Baker City, convicted of bur The Creative Arts and Crafts gary in December 1991, was group will meet Wednesday, June 28, at Kate's Pizza at 1 p.m. Arts and crafts group to meet TV Pharm acy & Your H ealth There were 90 people present for the senior dinner, June 14. Three meals were home delivered. Barton Clark won the meal ticket. Members of the Catholic Church served. The Senior Center Board met following the meal. The menu for Wednesday, June 28, will be oven-fried chicken, pork and beans, potato salad, pickles, chips, gelatin with fruit land rolls. Members of the Baptist Church will serve. There was one table of cards in play Friday afternoon, June 16. Eight seniors watched the movie, "The Capture of Grizzly Adams" Sunday evening. The Red Cross blood drawing will be held Thursday, June 22, from 2-6 p.m. in the Senior Center dining room. The senior bus departs for the Condon meal site at 10 a.m., Thursday, June 22. The Monument reunion potluck dinner will be July 2 , with the bus leaving Heppner at 8 a.m. Those atten ding are asked to bring folding chairs. The trip to the Milton- Freewater meal site will be leaving at 9 a.m., July 14. Anyone wishing to go on the bus to the fireworks at lone, Ju ly 4, is asked to let Eleanor Gonty know. Other dates to remember: Tuesday and Thursday exercise, 10 a.m.; Wednesday blood pressures 11 a.m., senior dinner noon; Friday cards 2 p.m.; Sunday movie 7 p.m. Shirley Haugan has volunteered to be a substitute office volunteer. The seniors appreciate having her as so many of the volunteers have been ill or away. The center could still use a cou ple more volunteers. Roger Britt Septic Service Serving Morrow-Gilliam County Boardman Pharmacy & Hardware 202 1st. N.W. P.O. Box 170 Boardman, Oregon 97818 481-9474 481-7351 Effect of Cigarette Smoke on Medicines Cigarette smoke has been linked with a number o f health problems including cancer and heart disease. 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