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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, November 12 , 1997
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Tit*1 Official Newspaper of the
Cats of Heppner and the
County of Morrow
Heppner
G A Z E T T E - T IM E S
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Morrow County's Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper
Published weekly ami entered as [tertodnal m atter at the Fust Office at llepim er.
O regon under the Act of March 3, 1879 Periodical postage paid at Heppner,
Oregon. Office at 147 W o t Willow Street Telephone (541) 676-9228 Postmaster
semi address changes to the H eppner Gazette-Tim es, P.O Hov 337, Heppner.
Oregon 97836. Subscriptions: $18 in Morrow. W heeler. Gilliam and Grant Coun
ties; $25 elsewhere.
April Ililton-Sykes
News Editor
Stephanie Jensen
Typesetting
Mnnit|iie D evin. .
Advertising lay o u t 6c Graphics
Honuie 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 your address and phone number on all letters for use
by the G T office The G T reserves the right to edit
Delighted with result
To the Editor:
I have been as curious,
questioning, and impatient as
anyone through this summer of
street-building. The illusions and
disillusions of space adjustment
have puzzled me. Now as the
project nears completion 1 can
see that it offers more than new
asphalt and cement. In fact, 1
have
remembered
driving,
several years ago, in a similarly
designed area. When I visually
comrehended
how
the
reorganized
space
would
facilitate parking and driving.
Twin Falls, Idaho, came to mind.
I have actually driven, parked,
shopped, walked while thinking -
what a neat change this is. It
had been done after 1981, the
year I moved from the area. I
was surprised by the change and
more delighted with the ease of
* negotiating cross streets and
parking.
I returned an hour ago from
walking to town (four blocks). I
breathed in a sense of relief that
our project is coming to
completion. Not only that, 1
experienced delight to realize
how Main Street has changed
through the years; now it exhibits
a pride the business people and
residents have in "their place".
Main Street is tidy and pleasant
from one end to the other even
though there has been constant
change and often catastrophe
(fire, flood, storm) to deal with.
We are arriving at the season of
thanksgiving - for work, health,
safety and ease in negotiating
traffic, day in and day out. Since
my return to the community in
1986, 1 have marveled at the
courtesy offered to pedestrians,
in cross-walk areas and between.
The new Mam Street design adds
to
the
already
existing
friendliness to residents of every
age. It is, as well, a visual
welcome to visitor and traveler
who passes through alike. I need
to express my delight in the
result and my gratitude to the
planners.
(s) Reverend Grace Drake
Heppner
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Thursday, November 13, at 1
p.m. at Yaw's restaurant.
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examples of art to hang in the
county office at the Gilliam-
Bisbee Building that day.
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lone lists first
quarter
honor roll
lone high and middle schools
have released their first quarter
honor roll. To be included on the
honor roll “A” students must earn
a grade point average of 3.5-4. To
be named to the honorable men
tion “B" list, students must earn
a GPA of 3-3.49. Following are
the students who qualify:
lone Middle School
Grade six “A”-Natalie McElli-
gott and Paul Neiffer, both 4.,
Billy Gates, Jeff Hunt, Meghan
McCabe; “B’’-Fmily Key.
Grade seven “A”-Caitlin Orem
4., Tracy G riffith, Diana
McElligott; “B”-Jaysi Bennetto,
Cameron Krebs, Mike Radie,
Koby Rea, Til Tullis.
Grade eight “A”-Adam Mc
Cabe, Colin M cElligott and
Adam N eiffer, all 4., Sal 1 i
McElligott, Kristina Powell; “B"-
Amellia Peck, Rhonda Wilhelm.
Freshman “A’’-Shelby Krebs,
Jeremy Rietmann and Jennifer
Thompson, all 4., Chanssa Gates,
Allison Halvorsen, Amber Lynch,
Jeremiah McElligott, Adrienne
Swanson; “ B”-K atie Bacon,
Molly Barrow, Cory Bennetto,
Dustin Haguewood, Korey Mor
gan, Nonnee Walters, Samantha
Wilhelm.
Sophomore “A”-Mark McElli-
gott, Miranda McElligott and
Andy Vosberg, all 4., Camie
Burright, Erin Crowell, Sybil
Krebs, Nikki McElligott, Jacob
Neiffer, Joey Powell; "B”-Eliza-
beth Allen, Brandi Brantley,
Steve Crum, Allan Gnbskov, Dan
Scott.
Junior “A”-Jessica Krebs and
Katie Tworek, both 4., Tori
Odinet, Nova Rietmann, Niki
Sullivan; “B"-Rosanne Baker,
Ryan Bennetto, Lela Gnbskov.
Senior “A”-Tiffani Jones, Jake
M cElligott. Kara Miller and
Jenny Sullivan, all 4., Brenda
Burright, Katie Garrett, Marc
Orem, Nathan Rietmann; “B”-
Len Rietmann.
Sugar 'N Spice
(ICM.
cancelled
The Christmas bazaar hosted
annually by Sugar ’N Spice, a
group of local craftswomen, has
been canceled due to busy sched
ules and other obligations.
Instead, the group will be of
fering their craftwork at the
Artifactory, slated for Saturday,
Nov. 22 at the Morrow County
Fairgrounds. This year’s selection
of home and gift ideas includes
tole painting, shelves, Santa and
angel ornaments, ceramics and
dried flower arrangements.
The items feature the work of
Phyllis Piper, Kathy Britt, Sherree
Mahoney, Kelly Boyer, Trish
Sweeney, Georgia Naims and
Sonja McCabe.
Sugar ’N Spice plans to return
next year with its own Christmas
bazaar.
Starr, Karw acki announce 1999 retirem ent
The Morrow County School
Board, at their regular meeting
Monday night, approved a
retirem ent
plan
for
Superintendent Chuck Starr and
Heppner Elementary School
Principal Bill Karwacki.
The plan, detailing retirement
for Starr, 57, and Karwacki, 65,
in June of 1999, is a good idea
financially not only for the two
administrators, but for the district
as well.
In effect, PERS made a deal
the two could not refuse. The
PERS one-time only retirement
plan offered an additional 21
percent toward retirement funds.
For example, if a person had
$200,000 in his PERS retirement
account, this deal would allow an
additional $42,000 in retirement
benefits to be spread out for
monthly payments for the
remainder of his life.
Starr and Karwacki will take
early retirement at the end of
February 1998. Between March 2
and December 31, 1998, they
will be employed with the school
district under a new contract,
limiting them to be paid for only
1,040 hours. Starr will be paid
$47,510 and Karwacki, $42,386.
Effective March 2, the district
will no longer pick up their 9.3
percent PERS payment. Then,
from January 1, 1999, to June 30,
1999, Starr and Karwacki will
work an additional 1,040 hours,
Starr for $40,146 and Karwacki
for $29,232.
Savings for the school district
will
amount to $43,000,
according to Starr.
Starr and Karwacki both said
that
they
will
volunteer
additional hours past the 1,040 to
"get the job done".
Starr, who has had 37 years
experience in education, began
work as superintendent
in
Morrow County in July of 1993.
From 1972-1989 Starr was also
employed by the district, as a
mathematics teacher at Heppner
High School for four years, as
principal at lone High School for
nine years and as assistant
superintendent for four years.
Starr, who underwent surgery in
April to remove a cancerous
rectal tumor, announced at the
Nov. 10 meeting that he will
undergo his final chemotherapy
treatment on November 21. Starr
and his wife Diana live in lone.
Karwacki has had 40 years
experience in education. He was
a teacher for four years, a school
psychologist for seven years and
an administrator for 29 years. He
was hired as principal at Heppner
Elementary School in August
1993. Karwacki and his wife,
Pennie, live in Heppner.
In other business the board:
-heard an update on the bond
projects from Bob Baker. Baker
said that the foundation and mam
retaining wall for the addition at
Heppner Elementary has been
poured. Baker said that after
backfilling, the wood work will
begin. He added that similar
work for the addition at Heppner
High School is about a week
behind that of HES.
-heard a report that one-time-
only funds resulting from the
passage of Ballot Measure 52,
providing lottery monies for
education, are expected to
amount to around $645,000 for
the Morrow County School
District. Starr outlined a plan,
stressing that it was his idea and
not yet
the district's, for
construction of two new schools
in the district. Starr proposed that
the district earmark $200,000-
$300,000 of those lottery funds
to secure sites for that
construction.
His proposal
included putting a $20 million
bond issue before the voters in
2001 to fund the construction of
middle schools in Boardman and
Irrigon for grades five through
eight by 2002 and using the
current middle school in Irrigon,
Columbia Middle School, to
house a high school in Irrigon.
High School students from both
Irrigon and Boardman currently
attend high school at Riverside
High School in Boardman. Starr
said that the rapid growth of
business and subsequent increase
in population in area of north
Morrow County and Umatilla
County will soon necessitate new
facilities. He said that growth in
north Morrow County has gotten
to the point where "adding on is
not an option".
-heard
a
report
on
"overpressurization" at A.C.
Houghton Elementary School in
Irrigon. Overpressurization is the
method by which the school has
been modified to prevent
chemical contamination in the
even of problems during the
incineration of chemical weapons
at the Umatilla Army Depot.
Principal John Sebastian reported
on drills held at the school. Starr
discussed a potential problem in
the event of a disaster that
parents might come to the school
to retrieve their children. But
once the overpressurization has
begun, the doors cannot be
opened because of chemical
contamination. Children could
not be released, nor parents or
others admitted into the school
until the danger is past.
-heard a report from Heppner
High School teacher Greg Grant,
director of the work experience
program at HHS, and several
students participating in the
program.
-approved resignations from:
John Thomas, Riverside High
School extra duty head football
coach; Bob Davidson, RHS extra
duty assistant football coach;
John Larson, RHS extra duty
assistant girls' basketball coach;
Lana Orr, Heppner Junior High
extra duty assistant girls’
basketball coach; Jamie Baker,
1HS from an anonymous donor;
$2,000 toward new sound system
at HES from an anonymous
donor; $200 toward new sound
system at HES from Heppner
Elementary
Parent-Teachers
Club; $200 toward new HES
sound system from HES
teachers.
-approved a request for an art
class, taught by Kaya McLaren,
to travel to Portland to see the
work of a glass artist.
-heard announcements of early
dismissal on Wednesday, Nov.
26, and no school on Thursday
and Friday, Nov. 27 and 28, for
Thanksgiving holiday.
The next regular meeting will
be held on December 8 at
Columbia Middle School at 7:30
p.m.
Heppner Elementary School
three-hour special education
assistant; Donna Barton, RHS
extra duty head volleyball coach.
-approved a medical leave of
absence for Jody Marston
through January 3.
-approved transfers/promotions
for: Maria Mendoza, from 3.5
hour English as a Second
Language ed assistant position to
full-time ed assistant at Sam
Boardman Elementary; Lupe
Colin, from 3.5 ESI. ed assistant
at Columbia Middle School to
same position at SBE; Wendell
Kreder, from extra duty assistant
boys' basketball coach to
assistant girls' basketball coach at
RHS; Mary Kay Bellamy, add
inventory clerk assignment and
increase hours from 30 to 37-1/2
per week.
-approved employment (extra
duty contracts) for: John
Thomas, RHS head girls'
basketball coach; Paul Hibbard,
RHS assistant boys' basketball
coach; Chad Ottemess, RHS
head wrestling coach and CMS
assistant track coach; John
McCabe, Heppner Junior High
School head boys' basketball
coach; Tony Pupo, HJH assistant
boys' basketball coach; Scott
Burright, lone High School
assistant hoys' basketball coach.
-approved termination of
Magdelena Mejia from A.C.
Houghton Elementary ESL ed
assistant position.
-accepted donations of:
weight room equipment valued at
$10,852 and gym wall padding
valued at $2.846 to RHS from
RHS Booster Club; copy
machine valued at $800 to lone
Elementary School and football
blocking chute valued at $550 to
lone elects homecoming royalty
Introducing
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That’s right! From now until December 19th,
you can get a loan of up to $1,000 in interest-
free CHRISTMAS CASHm to use for Christmas
shopping in the local area. You have until
January 31 st of next year to spend it. And
you have 10 full months to pay it back-with
no interest and no fees, period!
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lone High School homecoming royalty (left to right): Princess Jessica
Krebs, Queen Brenda Burright, Princess Elizabeth Allen and Princess
Adrienne Swanson.
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