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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, September 3.1997 New teachers Anderson-Perry & Assoc, adds to staff continued from page 1 Elguezabal, believes in the total immersion theory of learning a foreign language. Elguezabal says he will give a few instructions in English on the first day of school, but after that it's all Spanish. "They're going to think that this doesn't work," said Elguezabal, who was bom in Musquiz, Mexico, south of Del Rio, Texas, "but it does come." Elguezabal, 45., knows a little about teaching, having spent 19 years as an educator in Nyssa, which is near the Oregon-Idaho border. At Nyssa, Elguezabal taught global studies, Spanish and U.S. history and coached three sports a year for 18 years. At Heppner he will teach introductory Spanish (seventh and eighth grade Spanish), all the way up to Spanish IV. He also plans to coach junior high football and perhaps freshman basketball. "I’ve coached since day one," said Elguezabal. "I always coached three sports- football, basketball and baseball. I never got tired of doing that." Elguezabal says he had known HHS principal Ron Anthony prior to coming to Heppner since Anthony taught 10 years in Nyssa. The two also worked together during the summer months. Anthony worked for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in the summer and Elguezabal worked with the BLM. He owns buses and had a business bussing fire fighters on forest fires. Elguezabal, who comes from a family of 10 children, also has a large family himself. He and his wife, Mary Ann, who teaches third grade at St. Peter's Elementary in Ontario, have six children. The older three, Petra, 17, a senior, Bias, 16, a junior, and Juanita, 14, a freshman, all accompanied their dad and are enrolled in classes and sports at HHS. The younger three, Jesus, 11, a sixth grader, Ignacio, seven, a second grader, and Tomas, five, a kindergartner, are still with their mom, who remained in Nyssa for the time being to stay near her elderly, widowed mother. Elguezabal said that he came to Heppner because he felt he needed a change and the older kids wanted a change too. He said he first became impressed with the Heppner High School work ethic during the Heppner-Nyssa football playoff game in 1995. Nyssa, "man for man, talent-wise" should have beaten Heppner fairly easy, said Elguezabal. "But Heppner just stayed with us and almost beat us." "The kids here are very nice. They seem very polite," he added. "They have just been super to me and my kids." Elguezabal grew up in Nyssa and graduated from Nyssa High School. He received a bachelor of science degree in social science from Eastern Oregon State University at LaGrande. Karen Smith-Griffith Karen Smith-Griffith is no newcomer to Heppner, but she has moved from her position as special ed teacher at Heppner High School and lone schools to fifth and sixth grade social studies and spelling teacher at Heppner Elementary School. "I like kids, and wanted to get more into the teaching aspect of education," says Smith Griffith, who has been special ed teacher at Heppner and lone for the past 10 years. Before coming to Heppner she taught third and fourth grade combined at Spray. Smith Griffith, 40, is originally from Hood River, where she was raised and where her father had a sporting goods store. She graduated from Hood River Valley High School and then enrolled at Western Oregon State College at Monmouth, where she received a bachelor of science degree in elementary education in 1979. She returned to college in 1986 and received her special education endorsement and a master's degree from the University of Oregon. Smith-Griffith and her husband, John, have a son, Aaron, who is a sixth-grader at HES. Her husband, who comes from a ranching family, is a self- employed log truck driver. She has a sister who is employed as a registered nurse in Hood River. Melissa Cvarak Dale Johnson, who retired this year after 33 years of teaching, decided this fall that he just wasn't quite ready to retire and accepted a position as Heppner High School math teacher. "I enjoy mathematics," said Johnson. "I like to see my students come back and say, 'I remembered that stuff like crazy when I went to college. I didn't realize how much I learned.'" Not entirely unfamiliar with the Heppner area, Johnson accepted a teaching position in Fossil in 1962, after graduation from Eastern Washington University at Cheney, WA, where he received a bachelor of science degree. After Fossil, Johnson taught at Warden, WA, and then did a stint as owner of a drive-in restaurant in Seattle before returning to teaching. He then got a job at Tonasket, WA, where he has taught the last 27 years. Ironically, while in Tonasket, Johnson taught several years with Les Payne, who is a long-time teacher and coach at Heppner High School. Another teacher at Tonasket at the same time was Rick Jaggers, who is now a teacher at Weston-Athena. "I like a small school," says Johnson of his.move to Heppner. The town of Tonasket, which is around 120 miles from Wenatchee, is smaller than Heppner, but the school is a little bigger. The region is apple country and many students come into school from the farms in the outlying areas. During the summers for six or seven years Johnson also worked as a carpenter for the school district. Johnson and his wife, Ann, who recently retired after 25 years in the banking business, have three grown children, one in Walla Walla, one in Tonasket and one in Stockholm, Sweden, and five grandchildren, one in Sweden. Johnson enjoys fishing and carpentry and says that he and his wife "might travel a bit". He will teach calculus, pre calculus and integrated math I, II and III. Melissa Cvarak, 31, is a long way from her home town. Originally from Maryland, she attended high school at Damascus High School there and graduated from St. Mary's College at Orchard Lake, Maryland, with a bachelor of arts degree in human development. Her husband, whom she met while he was in the miliary, was originally from Portland, so the couple moved back to Oregon seven years ago. Cvarak then returned to college at Portland State University, where she earned a master's degree in education. About a year ago her husband got a job with the Geographic Information Systems, doing computerized mapping for Morrow County, a new position, and the family moved to Heppner. Prior to her move to Heppner, Cvarak was a substitute teacher in the Portland schools and since coming to Morrow County, she subbed in Heppner and lone. "It's small," said Cvarak of the Jones celebrate Heppner community," but I like it a lot. It's a safe place for kids." 60th Cvarak and her husband have two children, a son, Drake, eight, * anniversary and a daughter, Rose, three. Cvarak's father is a retired Charlene, Kenneth and Connie police officer. Her mother, a Jones were hosts to a family pot- homemaker while she was luck dinner recently to celebrate growing up, now is a child care Cecil and Delpha Jones’ 60th giver. Cvarak has one brother. wedding anniversary. Those present were a sister, Jo Irving, and husband George, of Irrigon; W ater color Jim and Vicky Bowen and Kate from Goldendale, WA; Stuart and class planned Valda Smith of Hermiston; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Groshens and Anyone interested in attending family from Pendleton; Mike and a watercolor class by Tina Tharp Chris Jones; Jill Barber; Royce is asked to contact Sharon Fulleton and friends from Hepp Harrison, 676-9164, or Trish ner; and Charlene’s granddaugh ter, Becky Whitney, from Aloha. Sweeney, 676-9426. Cecil and Delpha Jones were The class is sponsored by Mor row County Creative Arts and married August 12, 1937 in La Grande. Crafts. FILM DEVELOPING ■ I COUPON I I Prints I ¡ $ 2 .6 9 ,2 Exposure Roll for I • 15 Exp. $ 3.19 • 24 Exp. $ 4.69 • 36 Exp. $ 7 .9 9 • I I C-41 135 film Only o so zoo «00 mo . , ooo . iooo , tM tosopw A oi I | COUPON MUST ACCOMPANY ORDER I I ONw Cc^on Hm HO Cm/* Vatu» I J Ummm 3x5 JL Mawwj^DhJ^ Dale Johnson ^Country " M t Anderson-Perry & Associates, Inc., a consulting civil engineering firm with offices located in La Grande, Walla Walla, and Baker City, recently added an engineer and a surveyor to its La Grande staff. Troy Baker is a University of Idaho graduate with an ME degree in civil engineering. He previously worked for Gray and Osborne, Consulting Engineers in Yakima, Washington. As a staff engineer with the firm, Baker's primary responsibilities will include writing water and waste water system plans as well as assisting in the design of waste water and water facility improvement projects. Baker, his wife, Michelle, and daughter, Shelby, moved to the area in April. Mike Posada holds an associates degree in surveying technology from the University of Alaska in Anchorage. He is a licensed professional land surveyor (in Alaska) with 12 years of surveying experience for various employers. As a land surveyor with the firm, Posada's primary responsibilities will include various office and field surveying assignments on projects designed by the firm, including site mapping, construction layout and surveying, and legal surveys. Posada and his wife, Valorie, moved to the area in July. Anderson-Perry & Associates, Inc. is now in its 24th year of providing engineering, surveying, and testing services in the region. The firm provides a broad range of general civil engineering services to cities, counties, port districts, state and federal agencies, and other public and private clients throughout the Eastern Oregon and Southeastern Washington region. Projects of local interest include a water system planning study being completed for the city of lone, a waste water planning study for the city of Boardman, and the engineering of a waste water improvement project for the city of Condon. The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Hapnaer GAZETTE-TIMES U.S P S. 240-420 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper Published weekly and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner. Oregon under the Act of March 3. 1879. Periodical postage paid at Heppner, Oregon Office at 147 West Willow Street Telephone (541)676-9228 Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P C). Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836 Subscriptions: »18 in Morrow, Wheeler, Gilliam and Grant Coun ties; »25 elsewhere. April Hilton-Sykes ................................................................................News E‘“‘°r Stephanie Jensen.............................. TypesettMg Monique Devin......................................................Advertising Layout & Graphics Bonnie Bennett ........................................................................................Distribution Penni Keersemaker ..........................................................................................Printer David Sykes, Publisher Letters to the Editor Editor's note: Letters to the editor must be signed. The Gazette-Times will not publish unsigned letters. Please include gour address and phone number on all letters for use by the G-T office. The G-T reserves the right to edit. Play today, pay tomorrow? providing the country with a lot To the Editor: of non-thinking voters. The August 31st Sunday Ore Parents and students need to be gonian front page article on made aware of the drastic changes schools in Oregon should be re coming to our schools. If our quired reading for every parent or school board does not head up an student in Morrow County. It con effort towards awareness, con cerns what will be expected of all cerned parents should do so. Only Oregon students for them to se knowledgeable young people in cure future living wage jobs. Morrow County can change the It is blatantly impossible that future for their children, and for we can accomplish what the situ themselves, too. ation calls for with the four day Increasing numbers of grand “business as usual” approach ad parents are raising their grand vocated by Superintendent Starr children because of a failure, for and promoted by some school one reason or another, of the par board members and teachers. ents tQ do so. How many really To not meet this challenge is want to play today and pay tomor courting failure to provide living row? wages for a large percentage of (s) Meg Murray our students’ future families, plus lone B M C C beginning golf class slated Blue Mountain Community The class in intended for College will once again offer a people with little or no prior golf beginning golf class at Willow ing experience, or those wishing review the fundamentals of the Creek Country Club (WCCC), in to game. School-aged students in Heppner, beginning Thursday, grade five and up may enroll in Sept. 11. Interested students are the class with the instructor’s per urged to preregister now by con mission on a space Farm Credit available ba tacting Anne Morter, Morrow sis and if an adult takes the class County coordinator, at 422-7040. with them. Services elects The six week class will be held Tuition for the course is $20 on Thursdays, from 5-6:30 p.m. director person. A temporary member John Edmundson is the instruc per ship fee of $20 must be paid to Bryan Wolfe of Hermiston has tor. The class is limited to 12 stu WCCC by all non-members. been re-elected by local dents. stockholders to serve on the Farm Credit Services local board of directors. He will represent stockholders who do business at the Farm Credit Services office in Pendleton. Wolfe has been a local director 101 Front Street, Boardman since 1994. He and his wife, LouAnn, own and operate an irrigated farm and backgrounding feedlot in the Hermiston area. • Engine Overhauls They raise sweet com and grain com, potatoes and other row • Transmission Work crops. According to branch manager • Rear Ends - Front Ends Andy VanderPlaat, stockholders also elected the following • Computer Diagnostics nominating committee members; Tim Hawkins, Pendleton; • Air Conditioning Shannon Rust, Echo; Tim Weinke, Pendleton; Tony • Truck Engines Raymond, Helix; and Kelly Tubbs, Athena; and alternates ASE Certified Technicians Nancy Ward, Ukiah, and Marsha Discounted towing rate if we do repair Anderson, Heppner. The committee will nominate WATCH FOR OUR GRAND OPENING candidates for next year's local FLYER IN YOUR MAIL! director elections. Farm Credit Services provides we Are The Professionals $2.7 billion in loans to you can Trust < « ACe°mear e approximately 19,500 farmers, ranchers, aquatic harvesters, 1 - 800 - 569-4944 We Inalali Quality NAPA Parta timber producers and rural home owners in Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Alaska, said VanderPlaat. 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