FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday. August 2, 1995
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City of Heppner and the
County of Morrow
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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