TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 15, 1997
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For four-day week
To the Editor
I am a seventh grader at
Heppner Junior High School I
go to a four day school week
and I am very happy with it. I
would not like a five day
school week For some reason
I don't understand why people
are saying that the kids' grades
are dropping because we aren't
going enough hours a week
My grades have stayed the
same and I have been on the
honor roll every time since
fourth grade Also, people are
saying that the kids going five
days a week are getting more
learning time than us but we
are going the same amount o f
hours o f a kid going five days
a week
A lot o f people,
including me, are playing
school sports and would have
to be taken out o f school on
Fridays and that would include
taking my younger sibling out
o f school on Fridays also I
am not struggling in school
and never have because o f the
four day school week so
therefore I state that I think
there should be a four day
school week
Jodie Carlson
Heppner
Arts and Crafts group to meet
The Morrow County Creative
Arts and Crafts Club will meet for
lunch on Wednesday, January 22,
at 1 p m. in the coffee room at
Yaw's in Heppner The meeting
will follow at 1:30 p.m.
Plans for classes to be held this
year and for the fair booth will be
discussed. Anyone with ideas is
invited to come to the meeting and
share them
Several prominent artists have
been contacted concerning holding
local classes in oils, watercolors
and pastels
Beginners are
welcome to attend.
The fair annex building will also
be open from 9 a m. to 4 p.m. on
January 22 for any one who would
like to join in old or new artistry or
crafts projects or sharing time and
ideas with others.
Members, guests and any
interested persons are invited to
attend
County flood damage adding up
Morrow County continues to add
up damage estimates from the re
cent flooding. People with damage
to farmland or residential property
in Morrow County should call 676-
5161. This number is for reporting
uninsured damages only.
Callers will need to know the
name of the owner, the location of
the property, a description of the
damage and an estimate of the dol
lar value of the loss. County com
missioners need this information to
request state and federal assistance.
Estimate of flood damages is at
$250,000. This includes farmland
that has been washed away, dam
age to roads and bridges and dam
age to other private property. The
amount does not include damage
that private utilities received in the
flooding. Repair estimates are ris
ing as more damage reports come
in, said a news release from the
Morrow County Emergency Man
agement office.
County awarded emergency funds
Morrow County has been
awarded federal funds under the
Emergency
Food and Shelter
National Board Program The
county was chosen to receive
$2,234 to supplement emergency
food and shelter programs in the
area
The local board will be made up
of
the
Morrow
County
Commissioners and will be
distributed among emergency food
and shelter programs run by local
service organizations The local
board
in
responsible
for
recommending agencies to receive
these funds
Applications may be made to
Louis Carlson, Morrow County
Judge, P.O. Box 788, Heppner,
Oregon, no later than January 22.
E .O .S .C . lists fall honor roll
Eastern Oregon State College’s
1996 fall quarter dean’s list includes
the names of 281 students who
achieved a grade point average of
3.5 or better. To qualify for the
dean’s list, students must have a
minimum o f 12 graded credit
hours.
Local students who qualified are
Heidi Orem, lone, and Becky
Wagenblast, Lexington.
N O T IC E T O A L L E L K M EM B ER S:
The Dining Room will be closed until Fri., Jan. 31
Our cooks, Karl and Alice, were called back to the
Midwest due to illness in the family. Thank you for
your patronage and patience.
Ja n u a ry 29:
Scholarship interviews for $2,500 in
scholarships.
Ladies’ Night. Dining at 6 p.m.
Feb ruary 14-15-16
100th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Music both upstairs and downstairs.
Heppner Elks 358
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The Morrow County School
Board, at its regular meeting
Monday,
January
13,
in
Lexington, approved the first
reading of a staffing proposal
which would add teachers,
educational assistants and extra
duty computer trainers for the
1997-98 school vear at a cost of
$376,825.
The proposal would fund a
licensed art teacher to reinstate the
art program in Heppner and
provide an art program in lone and
would add a quarter time music
teacher
at
both
Heppner
Elementary School and Heppner
High School'
Morrow County School
Superintendent Chuck Starr said
that the proposal is dependent on
funds becoming available, but
added that an increase in students,
and a subsequent increase in
monies received by the district, is
expected to offset the additional
expenditures.
The proposal would add the
following employees:
Heppner Elementary School
(HES)-one full time teacher for
fifth-sixth
grades
multi-age
grouping; 4 time art teacher; .25
time music teacher; one extra duty
computer trainer
Heppner High School (HHS)-
4 time art teacher; .25 music
teacher; half time office assistant;
one extra duty computer trainer
lone Schools (K-l2)-.2 time
art teacher; one 3-1/2 hour
educational assistant for third-
fourth grades multi-age grouping
(would expand part time existing
aide to full time); one extra duty'
computer trainer
Sam Boardman Elementary
(SBE)-half time counselor; two 3-
l/2 hour English as a Second
Language (ESL) educational
assistants; .6 time assistant
custodian;
one extra duty
computer trainer.
A.C. Houghton Elementary
(ACH),
Irrigon-half
time
counselor;
one 3-1/2 hour
educational assistant
for
kindergarten-first grade; one extra
duty computer trainer;
Columbia Middle School
(CMS), Irrigon-one full time
remediation educational assistant;
two 3-1/2 hour ESL educational
assistants;
one extra duty
computer trainer;
Riverside High School
(RHS), Boardman-one full time
advanced math science teacher,
one full time language arts/social
studies teacher; one extra duty
computer trainer
District-one full time
alternative education teacher in
north Morrow County schools; one
full time alternative educational
assistant.
Totals-6 5 teachers/counselors
x $ 4 1,000=$266,500; one half
time
office
assistant
x
$18,000=$9,000; two full time
educational assistants=$33,000;
six
3-1/2
hour
ed
assistants=$37,200; one .25 media
assistant=$4,125; .6 time assistant
custodian=$ 16.500; seven extra
duty
computer
trainers
x
$1,500=$ 10,500
In other business, the board:
-approved resignations of
Gregg Rietmann, extra duty head
football coach for lone High
School (IHS); John Thomas, extra
duty position as head girls' software for the entire state of
basketball coach for RHS at the Oregon. This will be distributed to
end of the season, Anne Orcutt, the Educational Service District
special education assistant, ACH; and then to other schools in the
Jim Raible, extra duty contract, state, which is expected to recoup
head tennis coach, IHS, effective the district’s costs by the end o f the
..year Arbogast added that PLATO
immediately
-approved termination of software has been installed in
Anastacio Garza from 3-1/2 hour alternative classrooms at Heppner
and Riverside and said that he is in
assistant custodian position, SBE
the process of setting up a Web
-approved transfer for Ray
Godin, from ACH special ed server so that the district and
assistant to SBE assistant schools in the district can create
custodian position,
Marjorie their own home pages He
Shelly , transfer from SBE to ACH ; indicated that there is a possibility
to continue as one-on-one special of providing dial-in lines for
remote access.
ed assistant.
, Training sessions on Internet
-approved employment for
access
have been scheduled at
Ron Neighom, temporary contract
schools
in February
to teach music and Spanish at
-heard
a bond projects update
Heppner and lone schools for the
by
Bob
Baker
balance o f
the school year;
-heard a report on a burglary of
Heather Hacking, temporary
a
computer
at ACH.
contract, Heppner and lone
-heard
a report on state
schools for balance o f school y ear,
standards
compliance
"In every
1/2 extra duty contract as
instance (the district) met or
cheerleader advisor, HHS; Dave
Horn, promotion from assistant to exceeded state standards," said
Starr. "We do exceed state
head custodian, SBE; Paul Van
standards
in instructional time "
Cleave, 3-1/2 hour assistant
-approved
a bid for wheel chair
custodian, SBE; Mary Ann
lifts
at
the
district
office from
Anthony, one-on-one special
Klau-Med,
Inc.,
Beaverton,
for
educational assistant at HES,
$22,706.55
working with special needs
-heard announcements o f the
student; Jane Ginther, 3-1/2 hour
following
upcoming events: Jan.
one-on-one special ed assistant
16-last
day
of first semester; Jan
working with special needs
20-Martin
Luther King. Jr.,
student, ACH
holiday,
no
school;
Jan 21 -27-
-approved resignation o f Janice
Huddleston from position #1 of special education due process
the Heppner-Lexington Advisory hearing; Feb 7-budgcts from
administrators and supervisors
Committee.
-accepted a donation o f $150 due.
The board is expected to
from
Mid-Columbia
Bus
consider
the four-day week at the
Company for funding drug-alcohol
regular
meeting
scheduled for
free senior activities at Heppner,
Monday
,
February
10, at SBE at
lone and Riverside high schools.
7:30 p.m
-approved a Heppner High
School senior trip request to
Disneyland
-heard a performance by
Heppner Elementary School fifth
and sixth-grade band students
under the directrion of Ralph
Werner
-heard a technology' update by
Nate Arbogast Arbogast said that
The Morrow County Gun Club
the initial computer system will be open Sundays at noon on a
installation was completed and E- weekly basis for trapshooting.
mail installed at Morrow County
Members and interested persons
Schools by the end of November
are invited to attend.
He said that parents may now
contact teachers by voice mail at
all schools at any time of the day
Teachers may elect not to have the
phone ring during class time, but
The annual Elks Hoop Shoot for
parents can leave a message for
the teacher without disturbing the Heppner and lone boys and girls
class. Arbogast said that Internet ages eight to 13 will be held
capabilities were around 50 Saturday, January 18, at the
percent completed throughout the Heppner High School gym
district,
including
browsing beginning at 9 a m Signup begins
capabilities with the World Wide at 8:30 p.m This is the 25th
Net and T-l access lines, which anniversary o f the national Elks
would
cut
access
times Free Throw Contest, says local
substantially, have been installed organizer Dave Gunderson.
The competition will be divided
at all schools except CJH, HES
into
three age groups: eight to
and HHS. Installation of T-l
nine;
10-11 and 12-13. Age is
access lines in Heppner are
dependent on fiber optics being determined by the child's age on
installed between Lexington and April 1, 1997.
Those planning to attend should
Heppner
bring
clean tennis shoes
Arbogast said that the Morrow
Local
winners will go to the
County School District was the
district
contest
in Hcrmiston
largest school district in the state
January
25
The
date
o f the state
to
have
such
computer
capabilities "Even the Portland competition will be announced
school district is not at that point later.
yet," he said
Arbogast said that the Morrow
County School District has i
acquired ownership of OTIS $
M C G u n C lu b
sets trapshoot
Elks Hoop Shoot
set for Jan. 25
r
teachers
from page one
already ," laughed Broden She has
commuted back and forth from
Pendleton and also stayed at the
homes of fellow teachers in
Heppner Broden says she hopes
to continue teaching here after the
baby is bom
Broden loves to read and travel
and has been to Europe and all
over South America She hasn't
been to Mexico and would like to
travel there, but any trips will have
to wait for a while until after she is
done "nesting". Her parents and
sisters, Elena Chigas, New York,
and Margarita Quevedo, Ecuador,
will all be on hand for the baby's
birth, which is scheduled for Jan
16 at Walla Walla
Obituaries
Harold C. “Doc” Sherer
Harold C. “Doc” Sherer, 87, of
lone, died Saturday, January 11,
1997, at Good Shepherd Commu
nity Hospital in Hermiston.
The funeral was Tuesday, Janu
ary 14, 1997, at the United Church
of Christ in lone. Concluding ser
vice and burial was at the Lexing
ton Cemetery.
Mr. Sherer was bom January 31,
1909, at Moscow, Idaho, to Guy
and Cora Gilman Sherer. The fam
ily moved to Top, in 1912, and later '
to Lexington, where he attended
school and graduated from high
school. He attended Benke Walker
Business College in Portland.
On September 14, 1934, he
m arried Beulah Pettyjohn at
Yakima, Washington. They lived on
a dairy farm before he went to
work for Pacific Power and Light
Company.
In 1937, he began working for
the Morrow County Road Dept, as
a truck driver and rock crusher.
The family lived in Heppner until
1945 when they moved to their
present home, four miles from
lone.
Mr. Sherer continued to work for
the road dept, in Heppner while
operating the farm. He retired as
Morrow County Roadmaster in
1979, when he was 70 years old.
In the 42 years he was with the
road dept., many changes oc
curred. He worked with six differ
ent Morrow County judges and
assisted in developing the Bomb
ing Range Road which connects
north and south Morrow County.
He enjoyed his family, spending
time with his grandchildren and
teaching each of them how to drive.
Survivors include his wife,
Beulah, at the home; son, Dick of
lone; daughters, Kay Barnhart of
Redmond and Judy Ripka of Dal
las; brothers, Riley Munkers of
Heppner, Dale Sherer, Russell
Sherer and Bob Sherer, all of
Hillsboro, Illinois; and sister, Joan
Boas, also of Hillsboro, Illinois;
eight grandchildren and eight great
grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be
made to the lone United Church of
Christ Memorial Fund, P.O. Box
346, lone, OR. 97843.
Sweeney Mortuary of Heppner
was in charge of arrangements.
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