TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 14, 2000
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School board
performance rating and 48
percent rated the district
negatively.
Sixty-eight percent of
respondents gave the condition of
Morrow County school buildings
a positive rating and 19 percent
rated the buildings negatively.
Forty-two percent believed
the schools were overcrowded,
while 41 percent said they were
not.
Forty-six percent supported a
four-day school week, while 45
percent would rather change to a
five-day week.
The board also heard a report
from
Mike
Patano,
a
representative of the consulting
firm,
the
Matrix
Group,
concerning
the proposed
construction bond issue. Patano
urged the board to put the bond
issue before the voters this
November, citing an increase in
costs if construction is delayed.
Because of lack of support of
the superintendent and board,
and public opinion about
construction, the board, however,
decided that they are not yet
ready to put the issue before the
voters in November. They plan to
appoint an advisory committee to
pare the measure down and
possibly submit it to the voters in
May. They also indicated that
they hope to repair the break in
public trust.
According to the survey, 52
percent opposed a $27.3 million
bond measure for construction,
which included an expansive
"wish list" for every community.
Thirty-three percent favored the
$27.3 million measure.
When asked about a $25.6
million measure, those polled
responded similarly, with 52
percent opposing and 31 percent
favoring a measure. The response
was also similar with a $20.2
million bond measure with 53
percent opposing and 28 percent
favoring. The larger percentage
of respondents opposing the
bond measures most often
indicated that they felt that more
teachers were needed before
buildings and that education
should be put before everything
else.
Respondents responses on
contruction changed to a
favorable percentage when other
aspects were taken into account-
such as if construction would
provide a more balanced student-
teacher ratio and expandable
elementary schools in Inrigon and
Boardman
Forty-four percent of
respondents favored converting
Columbia Middle School in
Irrigon into a grade seven-12
facility, while 32 percent
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opposed the idea. A contingent of
Irrigon residents in favor of a
high school in Irrigon was
present at the meeting
In other business the board
-hired Mike Stewart as
principal of lone Schools.
Anderson said that Stewart has
had 17 years of experience and
most recently served as an
administrator with an ESD in
Washington. Two qualified
candidates were considered,
Anderson said.
-approved the first reading of
graduation requirements and the
2000-2001 board calendar.
-approved bond counsel and a
financial advisor.
-heard a presentation of a
booster group's plan to raise
funds for resurfacing of the track
at Riverside High School.
-learned from the district
computer coordinator, Nate
Arbogast, that Columbia Basin
Electric has declined to become
involved
in the district's
telecommunications proposal. He
said the electric co-op indicated
personnel issues.
-abandoned an intern plan
which
provided
financial
incentives for candidates to
return to school to become
administrators. The controversial
plan was deemed unnecessary
after changes w'ere made in staff
development plans.
-accepted resignations from:
Joy Krem. Heppner Elementary
second grade teacher; Tom
Schultz,
Columbia
Middle
School Spanish teacher; Kathleen
Danielson.
Riverside
High
School business
education
teacher; Barbara Harrison, Sam
Boardman Elementary teacher;
Lea Calvert, HES teacher; Keelie
Keown, Heppner High School
math teacher; Barb Stefani.
Heppner Elementary and lone
Schools counselor; Kim Finley,
RHS assistant volleyball coach;
Robin Huxoll. RHS rally advisor;
Benn Houk. CMS athletic
director, computer trainer and
assistant track coach.
-approved retirements for:
Chris Kennedy, SBE Title I
assistant; and Jack Baney, A.C.
Houghton Elementary head
custodian.
-approved employment for:
Kevin McClanahan, SBE third
grade; Lindsay Harle, HES
special ed teacher; Betsy Shane,
SBE fourth-grade teacher; Nancy
Tincher, SBE first grade teacher;
Natalie Kerfoot, ACH teacher.
-approved transfers/promotions
for: Robin Jones, additional 2-1/4
hours for HES vacant food
service clerical position; Bart
Prouty. ACH assistant custodian
to head custodian; Mary Ann
Elguezabal.
HES half-time
reading teacher.
H O M E F O R SA LE
O n e -O f-A -K i n J P r o p e rty in H e p p n e r, O reg o n
2,800 sq. ft. of living space on two levels with two-car
garage on 12 acres. Home has four bedrooms, two baths,
with living room and two family rooms, two fireplaces
and propane stove. Property is on city water and septic
system with small water right from Willow Creek (part is
in the city limits and part is out). Eight acres are under
cultivation and four acres are in hillside pasture.
Also has a large barn with two horse stalls and corrals.
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appointment to view.
Verlie Derrick
This month's Pioneer
Memorial
Nursing
Home
resident of the month is Verlie
Derrick.
Verlie was bom March 4, 1916,
in Clay Co., KY, near the Laurel
and Clay county lines. The
nearest
Post Office
was
Marydell, KY. The daughter of
George W. and Louisa Benge.
Verlie was the youngest child of
a large family which included
"his, hers, and their children."
Verlie's father had a rural farm
with a fruit orchard and theirown
water springs. Verlie grew up in
Southeastern Kentucky and
attended school in a one-room
rural school house. The mode of
transportation at the time was
either walking or riding horses
or mules.
Obituaries
Ida May Hartman
Ida May Hartman, 78, o f
Springfield, a Heppner native, died
Wednesday, June 7, 2000, at
Springfield.
Memorial serv ices were held
Sunday. June 11. 2000 at Hope
Lutheran Church in Heppner
Burial was at the Heppner Ma
sonic Cemetery, followed by a
gathering for family and friends
at the church.
Mrs. Hartman, and her twin
sister. Ina Fay, were bom Decem
ber 25,1921. at Heppner, to Henry
and Natalie “Tillie” Rauch.
She grew up at Heppner and
in 1943. married John Hartman at
Heppner. They lived in Los An
geles for a time before returning
to Heppner. They had also been
residents of Toledo for a time.
Mr. Hartman died in 1974, and
Mrs. Hartman lived at Halfmoon
Bay, California for a time, then
moved to Springfield.
Mrs. Hartman was a home
maker and had also worked at
several jobs in Heppner over the
years. She and her family were
active in Hope Lutheran Church,
where she was a Sunday school
teacher and also acted as Sunday
school superintendent.
She loved to dance, sing and
spend times with all her family and
friends.
Survivors include daughter,
Chen Sunsen of Halfmoon Bay,
California; son, Tony Hartman of
Springfield; four grandchildren;
twin sister, Ina Fay of Albany;
brother, Henry Rauch o f
Pendleton; and many other rela
tives.
She was preceded in death by
her husband. John Hartman; her
parents. Henry and Tillie Rauch;
and a sister Edna Fetsch.
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Verlie learned to do chores at an
early age when she was tall
enough to reach the stove top and
reach the sewing machine pedal.
Verlie and her small son Troy,
moved to Eastern Oregon in the
fall of 1940, settling in Fossil.
Verlie married in December of
1940 and settled into ranch life
as a ranch cook and homemaker.
In 1946 the family finally moved
to town and bought a home in
Fossil. Her husband Calvin did
ranch work in the Wheeler
County area and was a lumber
mill employee for several years
m Kinzua.
In the summer of 1958, she and
husband Calvin and their
daughter moved to Pendleton.
While in Pendleton, she worked
at the Domestic Laundry and at
St. Anthony Hospital in the
dietary dept. Her husband died in
1965
Due to medical retirement.
Verlie moved to Heppner to be
near her children and family ini
1976. Her children are Troy E-
Day and Joylene Struthers, both
of Heppner.
She has three
g ra n d c h ild re n ,
g r e a t
grandchildren and step great
grandchildren.
Verlie's past hobbies included
making and baking light bread
and pastries, sewing clothes,
making quilts, vegetable and
flower
gardening,
reading,
walking and just enjoying being
outdoors.
Verlie has been a resident of
the Pioneer Memorial Hospital
and Nursing Home for the past
seven months.
She enjoys visiting the staff
and family members, going to
dances and all music and outings.
"We enjoy having Verlie as part
of our family here at Pioneer
Memorial Hospital Nursing
Home," said PMNH staff.
Commission
plans meeting
The monthly meeting of the
Morrow County Commission on
Children and Families will be
held on Tuesday, June 20. at the
port of Morrow, Riverfront
Center in Boardman. from 7-9
p.m.
The main topics of discussion
will the search for a new director.
Community
Development
Proposal
approval.
State
Department
of
Education
training, site reviews.
The public is invited to attend
and participate in the discussions.
For further information or if
special accommodations are
needed, call 676-9675.
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Serving Heppner. Lexington A lone
The 1970's ushered in what might be called the age of
conscience. Environmentalism was one of the most powerful of
these movements; another was compassion for hunger in the third
world. Not that Americans were ever callous; institutions such as
CARE, other Christian relief agencies and the Peace Corps had
long been in existence. But the 1970's brought about a concern so
deep that it became fashionable to criticize the traditional
American diet.
Specifically, the consumption of meat and dairy products was
said to be "wrong", because grain is fed to livestock . .. and it was
reasoned that this took grain away from starving people. Bolstered
by the tragic images of starvation in East Africa, it was not until
the 1990's that we learned the truth about this starvation. Indeed,
compassion for these starving peoples was so great, that it brought
about the death of Americans as well. Only the Americans did not
die for lack of food . . . but from gunshot wounds in Mogadishu.
This should have brought us to the realization that in the modem
world starvation does not occur because of lack of food. The
reality is that starv ation occurs as an instrument of genocide. There
is no shortage of food in the world.
Quite the opposite; the world is awash in grain. To a large part
due to the productivity of American farmers and agricultural
scientists, there is so much grain; that adequate storage is not
available. From Michigan to Kansas, millions of tons of com are
stored on the ground outside of elevators. There is so much grain,
that for the last 10 years USDA has paid farmers to idle 20 percent
of their land.
Another myth is that starvation occurs because of poverty. Again
thanks to the productivity of modem farming; food is incredibly
cheap. When delivered to third world countries, com lays in for
about $2.80-$3.50/bu. (about 5 to 6 1/2 cents/lb ).
When the American housewife buys processed food items,
however, they are not so cheap. But what she pays for is labor,
packaging, advertising and liability insurance . . . not food. For
example, a $ .79 loaf of bread contains about 1 1/2 lbs. of wheat; is
worth about 8-11 cents; plus about 2-4 cents of leavening and other
ingredients. A box of breakfast cereal at $2.50; will contain about
9-15 cents worth of com. wheat, sugar and other ingredients. The
box actually costs more than the contents. The third world cannot
afford boxed cereal with pictures of Michael Jordan, or magic
decoder rings; but the basic commodities are certainly within
reach. Two thousand calories worth of com or wheat can be bought
for about 14-19 cents. Even with labor at 25 cents/hour, there is no
reason for anyone to go hungry. Certainly that is not an adequate
diet, as some milk, meat, fruit and vegetables are necessary for
long term good health. But those of us with the wherewithal to
purchase balanced diets, should not feel guilty for doing so.
We must realize that starvation occurs only when governments
want it to occur. In the case of Somalia, warlords were using
hunger as a weapon of mass destruction. The United States,
Canada, Japan, the United nations as well as scores of privately
funded humanitarian organizations all had inventories of food
shipped to Somalia; but were prevented from distributing it. More
recently, Serbia blocked food deliveries to Cassava; and prior to
that used hunger as a weapon in Bosnia. Much earlier. Stalin
successfully starved to death eight million Russians.
Most Americans cannot comprehend such cruelty. We can only
think of such tragedy as a random and natural disaster. But it is not
. . . and we should not feel any guilt whatsoever for eating
nutritious diets. Quite the contrary, we should be proud our
technology in agriculture has outpaced wbrld population growth.
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Boardman seeks July 4th entries
The Boardman Chamber of
Commerce now has entry forms
for people who wish to enter the
town's Fourth of July parade.
The parade will kick off that
morning at 11 a.m. It will begin
on Boardman Avenue, next to
Riverside High School. The route
will turn north on north Main
Street, then go west down
Columbia Avenue to west
Second Street and head back east
on Boardman Avenue. The
parade will end behind the C &
D Drive In.
The parade route has been
extended to west Second, which
adds residences and the city park
as places from which people can
view the parade.
This extension may make the
parade too long a walk for small
children, cautions a chamber
news release. Parents are asked
to keep that in mind when
deciding what type of an exhibit
to prepare. No candy or other
objects may be thrown from
moving
vehicles.
Instead,
participants are asked to have
walkers hand out candy and
favors to viewers along the route.
People in the parade are asked
to assemble at Riverside High
starting at 10 a.m. and be in place
by 10:30 a.m. for entry judging.
Entry forms include the name
and description of the entry,
sponsor and phone number and
address of the person in charge.
Entries include floats, horse
groups, vehicles, drill teams,
bands and more.
The Boardman Chamber of
Commerce will accept entries as
late as Monday, July 3. The
parade chair, Ed Glenn, will
work in anyone who arrives the
morning of the parade and
wishes to take part.
Call the Boardman Chamber of
Commerce at 541-481-3014 or
FAX 541-481-2733 to request an
entry form. Entry forms may be
returned to the Boardman
Chamber of Commerce by FAX
or mail them to P.O. Box 1,
Boardman, OR 97818.
For further information, contact
Glenn at 481-3151.
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