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EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 22,1998 Chuck Starr receives educational honor IEB Community Day, April 28 branch will be staffed to answer phone calls, and all ATMs will continue to provide customers with uninterrupted service. Inland Empire Bank employees be open as usual on the afternoon will be manning hammers, hoes of April 28. In addition, each sweetheart. County as superintendent. and hedge clippers instead of Starr began his teaching career Starr says that of all his teller windows on the afternoon at his alma mater, West Linn accomplishments, he is proudest of Tuesday, April 28. High School, where he taught of his family, his wife and two The first annual IEB math, health and PE and coached sons, both of whom became \ Community Day is a bank-wide football, wrestling and track. teachers. His son Terry teaches community service project on Starr laughs that his first teaching fourth grade and coaches football behalf of citizens in the contract, for 1963-64, was for in Pendleton He and his wife, Boardman, Hermiston, Umatilla, $4,866 a year~$4,500 for the Debbi, have two boys. His son Stanfield and Pendleton areas. teaching position and 366 for Denny teaches math and science Inland Empire Bank branch coaching three sports. for grades seven through 12 and lobbies will close at 11 a.m. on In 1966, he won a fellowship to is head football and track coach Tuesday, April 28, so that return to the U of O to work on and athletic director at Spray. employees may participate. All his doctorate, which was the Denny and his wife, Darlene, dnve-up windows and ATMs study of physical education and have four sons. will remain open and ready to C om e S h are With U s A t the total education program of Professionally, Starr says that serve customers as usual on that elementary school students in he feels good about his teaching afternoon. Willow Creel? Baptist Ch urch Oregon. career. "I've helped a lot of "'Committed to People and Starr received his master's students learn," he said, "and Community' has been the Worship Service on Sundays at 11 a.m. degree in 1967 and in 1969 was they helped me learn, too." He philosophy by which we've run Meeting in the 7th-day Adventist Church hired as a professor at Pacific added that he has enjoyed his our business since the founding 560 North Minor, Heppner University at Forest Grove, administrative experiences with of our bank 50 years ago," said where he taught teachers, the exception of the 1989 Jess Foster, president and CEO And a big WELCOME to our aspiring teachers and graduate Morrow County teachers' strike. of Inland Empire Bank. In new pastor and his wife students. He was also head track He says that the district has March, Inland Empire Bank Brent and Jennifer Waldrep coach and assistant football done a good job of preparing its observed its 50th anniversary of coach. At the end of his third students for life after high operation. year at Pacific, he was named school. "I'm extremely proud of "We wanted to show our chairman of the education the educational program we have appreciation to and pride in being division over any department in Morrow County. I think the a part of our communities by which prepared students to graduates are prepared to seek rolling up our sleeves and become teachers. the careers they are interested in assisting our friends and However, since Pacific was' and have the ability to go on to neighbors through an annual primarily funded through tuition further education. I see many of bank-sponsored community payments, the school experienced them as successful members of service event," Foster noted. a budget crunch and this community and society in Nearly 500 man hours will be consequently froze salaries for general. We are preparing kids donated by bank employees two of the three years Stan- for the future." during the afternoon activities. Classic taught there. Instead, he decided While deciding to launch the Starr retired from his position to move to Heppner where he in March, but will continue on as community service day was an B la c k P e a k received $1,600 more as a high interim superintendent until June easy decision, selecting the school teacher than he did as a of 1999. * community service projects was college professor. He taught He says that he and his wife more difficult. "While there are math at Heppner High School have no special plans after he hundreds of worthy organizations 95 and was head football and track retires, but they do not plan to that could benefit from our coach and was JV basketball leave the area. "This is our employees' efforts, we wanted to coach for one year. choose an organization that had a retirement home," he said. In 1976, Starr was hired as Starr is an avid fisherman and presence in each of the principal at lone High School hunter. Besides professional communities where we have ^ E nter D ra w in g to W in and from 1985 to 1989 was the organizations, he is a member of branch locations. The senior I FREE PROM TUXEDO Morrow County School District the Chamber of Commerce in citizen centers fit our criteria and R en tal of y o u r choice I assistant superintendent. N a m e ___________________ Heppner, Irrigon and Boardman, were very helpful in identifying I A d d re ss_________________ In 1989 he was hired as and is a charter member of projects and people who could C ity superintendent at Central Linn, ICABO in lone. I use our help," Foster explained. Phone # . which is south of West Linn. In To ensure customers are not ^Drawing to be held April 23,1998 j 1993 he returned to Morrow unnecessarily inconvenienced during the bank-wide community Nurse practitioner joins MCBH staff service event, all drive-ups will FARM E Q U IP M E N T O N THE W EB w w w .m cgg.net Chuck Starr Morrow County School District Superintendent Chuck Starr has been awarded the Educational Excellence Award, sponsored by the University of Oregon College of Education Alumni Society. Starr was presented the award at the MCSD meeting April 13 by Boyd Swent of the Educational Service District. Swent, in his presentation, said that Starr "has distinguished himself as an advocate for children above all else." He credited Starr for "excellent leadership to a district that covers more than 2,000 square miles. .." Swent also cited Starr's leadership in the development of the district's comprehensive evaluation program; development of programs for academically gifted students as well as for those at risk of dropping out of school; and for using a systematic approach to assess and develop a plan to meet the district's needs through a multimillion dollar bond levy. Swent said that Starr is not only "sensitive to the feelings of his employees but also demands excellence and high performance from each of them." Starr, 57, was bom in Oakland, CA, and spend most of his younger years in southern Idaho. He moved to Oregon in 1956 and graduated from West Linn High School in 1959. After graduation, he went to the University of Oregon on a full-ride football* scholarship. His football coach at the U of O was Lynn Casanova. Assistant coach was John Robinson, long-time head coach at the University of Southern California and for the LA Rams. In his sophomore year, Starr transferred to Lewis and Clark College in Portland, attending on both football and academic scholarships. He graduated with honors from Lewis and Clark in 1963, receiving a bachelor of science degree, majoring in math, health and physical education. Before graduation, in 1961, he married Deena, his high school The no-risk tractor Buying or le asin g a GENESIS™ tracto r from New H olland is virtually ri s k**fr66 • GUARANTEED trade-in with no-risk leases • The-best warranty ~ 3 years, 3,000 hours, no deductible • The best performance ~ the best lugging ability, the best fuel economy, the smoothest power- shift and more! Stop in soon. ^1^ We have a no-risk Btifi LAGRANDE FORD NEW HOLLAND & 1-84 Exit 265 LaGrande, OR Cell Rich Osmio - 1-9004714773 mobile 541-377-0188 home 541-534-8023 Credit Company PROM S P E C IA L TUXEDO $39 Tim Holt Tim Holt, a psychiatric nurse practitioner, has joined the staff of the Morrow County Behavioral Health office. Holt, 35, lived in Chicago, Florida, Wyoming and Montana before moving to Portland, where he lived for five years, and then LaGrande, where he has lived the past two years. Holt will work for MCBH every other Friday, spending mornings at the Boardman office and afternoons at the Heppner office. In addition to his work in Morrow County, Holt also contracts with other agencies, working a day in Baker and two and a half days at the prison in Pendleton. He also is an instructor in the school of nursing at Eastern Oregon University at LaGrande, teaching the mental health component of the undergraduate nursing program as a part of the Oregon Health Sciences University satellite program at EOU. Holt received a bachelor of science degree in nursing in 1987. He worked for 10 years before returning to school at the OHSU School of Nursing in Portland where he received a master's degree. He completed additional hours beyond his master's degree to become certified as a nurse practitioner in 1996. Holt is licensed to perform psychotherapy, using various types of treatment, including prescribing medications, and works independently of physicians and psychiatrists. Holt and his wife, Ginny, who is a nursing student, have a 10- year-old daughter, Rebecca. Holt enjoys fly fishing. Copy Paper Ream • Carton Gazette-Tim es imminiTTimmmi fi You’re invited to attend a Public Forum on the Salmon Recovery Issue Saturday, April 25,1998 at Riverside High School in Boardman, Oregon from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. PANEL SPEAKERS: Senator David Nelson Moderator House Speaker Lynn Lundqulst Representative Bob Jenson Retired State Representative • Col. Chuck Norris Water For Life Columbia River Alliance Army Corps of Engineers Idaho Department of Fish and Game Eastern Oregon Irrigators F or m ore information, contact P a tty W ehrli - Forum Coordinator at 4 22-7342 *»» «matta« (M PM flu ì I n Mr •( U ttan Ortfm Irrtemtari copies m ' New Copy Machine! Heppner-Cazette M en’s W ear (9 4 1 ) ( 7 4 M 1 I 193 M. Main St Tan Henmans Plain Speaking #5> The SYSTEM vs. OUR KIDS As a former teacher and current school board member in Monument, I have a pretty good handle on what many say is the number one problem facing us, the education of our kids. But the solution is not what we hear from every politician in every election ...“Our kids are our future, we need to spend more on education"! Well, Oregonians are already doing a great job funding education ... more than half of every income tax dollar goes to education and that doesn't include property taxes! It's not time to spend more, it's time to get a clue: the principle cause of the decline in school performance are teachers' unions and liberal social mandates on the classroom! * First things first: we've got a system which is essentially a government monopoly, not subject to competition, and controlled by collective bargaining, a recipe for inefficiency. Teacher unions were instituted not to improve education standards, but to lobby, strike and use political muscle to increase the pay, perks and pensions of their membership! Now don’t get me wrong ... I'm not knocking the thousands of public school teachers who only want the very best for our kids, but their collective bargaining contracts force school districts to pay teachers on the basis of seniority, rather than merit. Our best teachers have little incentive to excel, the bad teachers have no incentive to improve! We are lacking legislators willing to defy the politically powerful union bosses. I am determined to fight to institute rules of "pay-for-performance" in public schools. Next week I'll talk about education's other serious problem: the abandonment of proven basics and legislatively-mandated, "outcome-based" experiments on our kids. If you have questions about my campaign, call me at home, (541) 934-2275. 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