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FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday. August 2, 1995 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Heppner G A Z E T T E -T IM E S U S P S. 240-420 Morrow County's Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper Published weekly and entered as second-class matter at the Post Of fice at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879. Second class postage paid at Heppner, Oregon. Office at 147 West Willow Street. Telephone (503) 676-9228. Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P O. Box 337. Heppner. Oregon 97836. Subscriptions: $18 in Morrow, Wheeler, Gilliam and Grant Coun ties: $ 26 elsewhere. Joyce H u g h es....................................... Office Manager, Typesetting April H ilton-Sykes..............................................................News Editor Stephanie J e n s e n ................................................................. Typesetting Monique Devin..................................Advertising layout & Graphics Susan Hansen........................................................................ Distribution Penni K eersem aker...................................................................... Printer David and April Hilton-Sykes, Publishers No winners with no school sports and chat, root on their team, or just to have a piece of good pie at the concession stand. At the other end of the spec trum, by giving kids something to do after school really helps keep the kids in school and out of trouble. In our small com munities, we cannot offer a wide variety of entertainment for kids that would have a lot of leisure time on their hands. Personally, I know that sports kept me and my teammates out of a lot of trouble and also kept our grades higher. The benefits of these pro grams greatly outweigh the price it will cost to fund them. I am asking you, the voters, to seriously consider the conse quences of the absence of school sports programs. There will be no winners with no school sports. Sincerely, (s) Ryan Halvorsen Young people need rec district f * f • I . To the Editor: I would like to take this op portunity to encourage the voters of Morrow County to support the Recreation District of Morrow County. By creating this district our education system will continue to func tion as it has in the past. Our young people need this Ê ^ support so they are able to learn and grow with the same opportunities that we as parents, grandparents and community members enjoyed. The cocurricular activities that this district will provide are very important to the growth of our youth. Please support this levy. Thank you. Sincerely, (s) Bill Rietmann lone Repair Announces Come join us August 12, 1995 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. for free hot dogs and soda pop. Also featuring a whole new stock of Cat products. 460 W. Main, lone, Oregon Jim and Gayle Eynetlch, owners COAST TO COAST Housewares ■ ■.t-j . ■; * *»• t 'J V ■ ■ ' *■ Tt extensive selection of Rubbermaid GoasttoGoast Hrppnrt WF ( A V HH f UH To the Editor: In the history of Morrow County School District, it is dif ficult, if not impossible, to find the time when students in our schools did not participate in extra-curricular activities. On the contrary, the history of our schools and communities are filled with references about the pride we all felt with the ex periences and successes of our students as they participated. To say that these activities are not an essential part of educa tion is foolish. For most of us, some of our most worthwhile learning experiences came from To the Editor: It seems that each time a new law is passed in our state, we lose a little more of our free dom. There was a time, before Measure 5, that if a communi ty wanted to raise money for a school program they could hold a local election and levy enough money to provide for their needs. Since the passage of Measure 5, we no longer have those rights. We pretty much have to stick to the dictates of people living hundreds of miles away and their opinion of what is best for us. Coming in September, how ever, is a chance for us to gain back a little of the rights we have lost. We have the right to levy money for a new taxing district which was formed last winter by by vote of the Mor row County Court. This new taxing distict is called the Mor row County Unified Recreation District. The money that will be levied will go to fund all co- curricular activities for Morrow County school district as well as funds for community ac tivities. Co-curricular activities include FFA, drama, sports, band trips, Outdoor School, field trips and any other activi ty that takes place outside of school hours. The reason that this district was formed was to help find a way to bring these activities back to our students after they were cut from the school budget. A group of hard working individuals from our local communities of lone, Heppner, Lexington, Board- man and Irrigon have put many hours into researching this issue. The county court agreed that the district should To the Editor: I volunteer for the Boardman Fire Dept., as do 19 other de dicated people, who work full time jobs, have families, and still find time to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week to fight fires, go on rescue calls, and assist anybody anyway that we can. I learned, the hard way, on the night of July 4th, that no matter how hard a person tries, people are only going to recognize the worst in you. After the fireworks display, on the 4th, myself, a few other firefighters, and our families were getting ready to spend some time lighting our children's fireworks. We had been too busy doing Fire dept, stuff to spend any time earlier in the day with our families. As we were getting ready to start, our pagers alerted us of a "brush fire" at Desert Springs Estates. Once again, we drop ped what we were doing to go put out a pile of brush that was on fire. I'll be the first to admit that we didn't get there in record time, but we still got there. Yes, there was a comedy of errors, at first, but we were still there. These things that were done wrong were not major things, just little errors made by peo ple that, for the last week, had been fighting fires, going on ambulance runs, doing search and rescue, getting the fireworks display set up, and making the fire trucks look nice for the parade (so that everyone could enjoy them) until wee hours of the mornings. But was it enough errors to justify being called names, be ing laughed at, fireworks being thrown towards us...and being ridiculed by people who are | A Customer Appreciation Pay f I ♦ I A Get back lost rights; vote for rec district participation. For some stud ents, learning to live, to suc ceed, to fail, to try again, or just to get along in life can be trac ed directly to what they learn ed in these programs. I have spent many years educating the children of Mor row County. I can tell you that your support of the Morrow County Unified Recreation Dis trict and the three year serial levy will he money well spent. I urge all patrons to support this levy. Sincerely, (s) Dante L. (Dan) Daltoso Boardman Errors don't justify ridicule of firemen Letter to the Editor To the Editor: I am writing to encourage everyone in Morrow County to vote for the Morrow County Unified Recreation District. As most people know, the district will fund all co-curricular ac tivities, including sports. As a graduate of lone High School, I have seen first hand the importance of sports to the small communities of Morrow County. High school football, volleyball, basketball, baseball, softball and track have provid ed a greater sense of school pride for both the students and the people of the community with the continuing success of the programs. Not only do sports programs provide something to do for kids after school, but they also provide the community with something to do on a Friday or Saturday night. They give the community a chance to gather Extra curricular activities essential' sleeping when we are being woken up to go on runs, peo ple standing around gawking and getting in our way? These same people will be saying to themselves, when they have a problem, "G ee, I hope those guys don't remember that it was me that was doing all of those things." We'll remem ber. But, we will still be there to do our job, the best we can, no matter who you are or what time of day it is. The things that we will remember will be our training on how to do the things we volunteer to do. As far as the mistakes made that night, they were mistakes made by some extremely tired individuals, who stayed until the danger of the fire spreading to residents was gone. Now, these are the only people, I know, that would do that under those circumstances, for nothing. I will stand by, follow, lead, and put my life in their hands, any day. They are "damn good" firefighters, and I am proud to be a part of their team. This letter isn't saying that everyone out there is doing these things, it's just a few and they know who they are. If anybody thinks that they can show us how to do our job better, you can have ypur chance any typnday night at 7 p.m. Maybe you could teach us something or maybe you might even learn something. You might even like it and stay. Volunteers are always needed. There is one question that everyone should ask before they go and start bad mouthing Boardman's volunteers, no matter what they volunteer to do, "W hat if volunteers didn't volunteer?" Thank you, (s) Bill Ellis, Lieutenant Boardman Volunteer F.D. be formed and voted in favor it its formation in January. The next step is for the funding. The ballots should be arriving in your mail sometime around September 1. I realize that many people may open their ballots and think "not another tax" and decide to vote no. Before you make your final decision, I ask you to think about a couple of things. First, it is on»» of the ways we, as a community, can regain some of the control lost to us by the passage of Measure 5. Se cond, I ask you to think back to when you were in high school. Think of the activities you were involved in and what sort of mischief you might have gotten into if you hadn't had school activities to keep you busy. Then think of some of the types of alternate activities and types of behavior our kids are expos ed to today that we never had to face as kids, activities such as gangs, drugs, criminal ac tivities. To me, I think of this levy almost as a cost prevention measure. I would rather pay a few cents per thousand now and watch our youth in ac tivities we can share and enjoy than for the incarceration of one of them later on. Each young person is important to our communities and deserves a chance to be the best they can be. I feel that in the passage of this levy, we are at least giving them that chance. Please vote yes on your ballot. If you aren't registered to vote, this is a perfect reason to get registered. Remember, we are talking a- bout our kids and their future. Sincerely, (s) Robin Huxoll Irrigon max ^Wixfiaxt & í Z ^ a t / a '[Patte.xxon u jo u td CiAe to in v ite aCC fxiencL. a n d fa m i[y to jo in in tile ce Ceßxat io n o f tdeix m a rx ia n e a t 5 fi.m. c d fu g u it I2t(i a t c /fn ± o n (dVxig(it dPaxA. 9 o o ( / , <cfdefxei.iiment±. “Live Band ù Entertainment 99 HEY KIDS! 4 yr. - 6th Gr. V Summer End Extravaganza August 21 - 25th 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Restore lost opportunity Meeting at 560 N. Minor (Seventh Day Adventist Bldg.) To the Editor: I am urging you to join me in voting for the Unified Recrea tion District for the benefit of our school children. It is impor tant to me that my grand children have the same oppor tunity to participate in all phases of school and communi ty activities that young people have enjoyed in the past. Passage of the extra curricular levy restores funding for activities to the 1993 levels. This is the level before cuts were made. By passing this levy we can restore opportuni ty that has been lost for our young people. This can be the most cost ef fective money that can be spent on children. They can be kept in the classroom where grades, student behavior, community pride, family entertainment, school pride, and the teaching of discipline. By passing this levy we can do something about what the state has forced us to do, to support both education in the classroom and learning outside of normal "school" hours. This will be a vote in support of in valuable opportunities for the people of Morrow County and their children. Sincerely, Norma French Sponsored by the Willow Crook Baptist Church ¡CREATIVE CARE PRESCHOOL/ lOpen House Thurs. 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