TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, September 13, 2000
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School Board continued from page 1
Linda Harrington speaks with Heppner residents Tom Sly and Doris
Brosnan at the Morrow County School Board meeting Monday.
assistant; Melanie Beltane, ACH
fifth grade teacher; JoAnn
Coronado.
ACH
ESL ed
assistant; and Shanna Evans.
SBE special ed assistant.
-approved employment for:
Paula Post, CMS Title 1 ed
assistant;
Carrie DaVault.
Riverside High School PE ed
assistant/laundry;
Elizabeth
Melendez.
RHS
ESL ed
assistant; Karen Brace, SBE Title
1 ed assistant; Rosa Ortiz. ESL ed
assistant. Patty Simms, SBE one-
on-one jspecial ed assistant; Teri_
Smith. SBE ESL ed assistant.
Melissa Metz, lone special ed
assistant: Janice Huddleston,
Heppner High School assistant
cook/special
ed assistant;
Michelle Duncan-Luna. ACH
special cd assistant; Chris
Gardner,
ACH assistant
custodian: Linda Neumann. ACH
part-time ed assistant; Nancy
Rodriguez.
ACH ESL ed
assistant,
replacing
JoAnn
Coronado.
-approved promotion for:
Kevin Mossman. from computer
tech 1 to computer tech II.
probationary confidential.
-approved extra duty contracts
for: Marv House, CMS athletic
director: Troy Phillips. CMS
assistant football coach; Poul
Murtha. CMS head boys’
basketball coach and CMS
assistant girls’ basketball coach;
Micki Fabian, CMS DART
coordinator; Tami Sneddon, HHS
cheerleader advisor; Darlene
Marquardt,
lone
computer
trainer; Jay Rogers, RHS
assistant, soccer coach, ana G.
Ann Thomas, RHS annual
advisor ana Talented and Gifted
coordinator.
-approved attendance variances
for three students to attend
school in the Morrow' County
District and a Russian exchange
student to attend rlermiston High
School.
-declared as surplus 130 pieces
of aluminum from the Imgon
Learning
C enter
building
because it was damaged.
-approved a resolution to
authorize investment of funds by
county treasurer.
Orwicks to celebrate 50th
Gene and Dona O rw ick. 1450
Gene and Dona Orwick of
Lexington will celebrate 50 years
of marriage, Saturday, Sept. 23,
with a reception from 1-4 p.m. at
the Heppner Elks Lodge
The couple, both natives of
Oregon, were married September
23, 1950. They have lived in
Lexington and Heppner for the
past 50 years.
Gene is a veteran. He has
served as the mayor of Lexington
and as a member of the city
council. He is a member of the
Elks and Shriners
Dona is an artist and a member
of Morrow County Arts and
Crafts. She’s a lifetime member
I
of Eastern Star.
The couple owned and
operated several businesses in
Lexington,
including
the
Lexington Chevron station, the
Pendleton-Hcppner Freight Line,
Lexington Lumber and the
I exmgton Polaris dealership.
The reception will be hosted by
the couple's children, Mike
Orwick and Lynda Firth and their
families The couple requests that
no gifts be given.
SCRATCH PADS • #1 Ik.
Gazette-Times • 676-9228
Is it right to ask for money for
expensive, dysfunctional system?
To the Editor:
It looks like the OCA is at it
again. Instead of offering up a
ballot
measure
lumping
homosexuality together with
pedophilia and bestiality, this
time they're aiming to "protect"
students
from
positive
"instruction of behaviors relating
to
homosexuality
and
bisexuality." Besides mistakenly
equating one's sexual orientation
with sex acts, what the heck
could they be after?
Oregonians should not have to
vote on (another) Ballot Measure
9, this one entitled. "The Student
Protection Act".
Protecting
young people is the last thing
such an initiative would do.
Youths who come to the
realization that they are gay,
lesbian, or bisexual do so at great
lengths and pains to themselves.
The last thing they need is
another mean-spirited ballot
measure to make them feel more
isolated from and rejected by the
general population than they
already do.
The reason that I can say this is
because I know. As a teenager,
coming to the realization that I
was not heterosexual was
extremely difficult. Even as
student body president in a
school of 2000 young people, I
felt like I was the only one
attracted to the same gender. Had
I been able to talk to my
counselor, I might well not have
suffered in such severe isolation
and self hatred. Had I had
support, I wouldn't have needed
To the Editor:
school four days to learn to speak
lo the Morrow County School English and then go home to
Board:
speak Spanish three days are
Quite a few years back, when educationally challenged, also.
we built the Heppner High
These challenges are above
School, not enough people and beyond what they should
to put myself through endless (myself included) recognized the have. And that says nothing of
prayer and spiritual self-abuse to future. Currently, we have 58 the extensive facilities that lie
be right with God. Perhaps I students in Heppner's middle idle almost 50 percent of the
would not have hidden so deeply school of grades seven and eight. time. I do not buy the statement
in the local library reading the In lone, we have 40 students in that the teachers consistently use
few books I could find on the grades five, six, seven and eight. the facilities on the fifth day. One
Combined, this only totals 98 only has to drive by the
subject.
elementary school to see that
Fortunately, I came out to students.
A full-page ad in the they are not there. The four-day
myself when the American
Psychiatric and Psychological September 13 issue of the week is not working as
Associations were declaring Heppner Gazette Times gives the Superintendent Anderson claims.
homosexuality neither a mental class schedules of all three It only works for the teachers and
disorder
nor
an
illness. Morrow County high schools. administrators.
Our county farmers and
Fortunately. 1 chose to focus my Heppner's and lone's do not give
students
a sufficient ranchers
are
hard-pressed
energy on school and work the
instead of on suicidal thoughts education for their needs in the financially. Can it possibly be
right to ask them to support an
and drugs to numb what 1 was 21st century.
excessively
expensive
and
feeling. Fortunately, I had a
We are in need of classrooms
strong, caring family at home, in the north end of the county. dysfunctional school system?
(s) Meg Murray
although I didn't come out to my But, unless the administrator lets
lone
parents until 1 was 30. And. most the school board ask the difficult
positively, I've been able to questions, we will not come up P.S.: Chairman Gary Fedenckson
create a fine life with a great guy, with the right answers and the refused to read the foregoing
my partner of 10 years and my bond will fail. We. also, deserve letter at the Sept. 11 meeting of
best friend.
the right to vote on the issue of a the Morrow County School
Chances are pretty good that combined school to be called Board, remarking that they had
many of you have somebody in "South Morrow High,” and we discussed the matter at the
your immediate or extended deserve the right to vote on a budget meeting and survey. I fail
to see how stonewalling public
family who has struggled or is tive-dav school week.
now struggling with growing up
The primary students who live discussion furthers the passing of
other than heterosexual. Would 35 and 40 miles out and get up bond measures. The board is
you really want to put them before dawn to board a bus are elected to protect the students'
through the kind of hell that the physically
interests-not
the
and,
therefore, best
OCA is attempting to create? As educationally challenged. The administrator's agenda.
a rural Oregonian. I've seen how
Hispanic students who go to
the OCA played the divide and
conquer game in small towns and
rural counties in the past. Don't
let them do it again. Fair-minded,
PEN DICTON ROUND-UP EVENT
independent,
intelligent
Oregonians can see beyond this 9
Westward N» Parade Party
nonsense and will simply vote
Friday, September IS, 2000
No on 9 once again this fall.
9 :0 0 ta 10:00 a.m.
(s) Scott Thiemann
Gold Beach
2 1 5 SE Derisa, Pendleton, OR
Inviting BMCC alumni & Menés to a
County fair really all about Heppner
To the Editor:
of this section, I noticed a group
The Heppner Fair has come of teens looking at the canned
and gone. It is listed as Morrow goods. They were asking one
County Fair, but..., that is a joke. another why one jar took a
If you question it. go and observe ribbon whfcn The jar beside it
the judging. First of all, are there looked better; more appetizing.
not any judges from the north * Nermihdifig'rny own business. 1
end of the county? Are there any moved over to the teens and
department heads or chairpersons joined them. I begin to get them
from the north end of the county? to notice the better canning
So where is the equality? I don't piocedures used in the process of
feel they want any at the Heppner canning, the neatness of the food
Fair. In all fairness, it was good placed in the jars and the outside
to see Jane Dean in the office on appearance. They, like myself,
could not understand the judging,
check in day.
I walked about the open class but we did notice all the special
displays on Friday of the fair. I awards were not given to anyone
will start with the booths. Hmm. at the north end of the county,
the organizational booth that won even though there was some very
first place had some pictures nice looking jars of food.
Shaking my head, I went on to
placed around the walls and
sewing.
A
beautiful
some brochures on the floor of the
the booth, first place ribbon, reversible vest was hanging on
address Heppner. Second place. the end of a stand. It had written
Greenfield Grange at Boardman. on the tag, "Lining too heavy."
had old farming and household Now, since when does a
antiques, the Bible, canned fruits, reversible vest have a lining? Oh,
well, it was not a Heppner
meats and vegetables, miniature
farming equipment, brochure* address on it. Lots of beautiful
pillowcases. One pair had some
and fresh veggies and fruits.
very
intricate
detailed
One of the qualifications for
embroidery work on it. No
judging was to show what the
ribbon. Oh, well, it was done in
organization stands for and to
the north end of the county. All
show Echoes of the Past. I asked
winners were from the south end
some others standing there
of the county, regardless of
observing with me. why the
workmanship.
judges made the decisions they
In sharing some of my findings
did. They couldn’t tell me either,
with some local ladies. I was told
but they were happy with it
many will not enter their stuff
because they lived in Heppner.
because they feel the judges w'ant
On to the Garden Club booths.
all their friends and relatives to
Here again, I stood in dismay at
win. Forget the workmanship or
the judging The Garden Club
the theme being met, it is where
deals with blooms, birds, bees,
you live. One lady said next year
bats and the environment. I saw
she would go to Heppner, rent a
these things represented in the
Post Office box before the Fair
Boardman Garden Club booth,
and then enter her stuff. Then she
but no birds, bees or bats were
said she could win.
represented in the Heppner
Don't get me wrong, there is
Garden Club, yet they had a first
some
beautiful work from people
place ribbon. Is it the judges do
in
the
Heppner area, but it is also
not know what the clubs are to
from
the
north end of the county.
represent? Or is it still a Heppner
My only wish is that the judging
Fair?
was fair. It is only a Heppner
Well on to the canned goods.
Fair. It is miscalled.
My, where did they give the
(s) Mary Garrett
judging
training
for this
Boardman
department? As I stood in front
Heppner Police plan buckle-up blitz
The Heppner Police plan to
participate in the "Three Flags
Blitz" with British Columbia and
Washington. Heppner Police
will be looking for unbuckled
drivers and passengers, in
addition to improper use of the
seatbelt and child restraint The
blitz will be held Sept. 15-24.
During the last blitz in June
2000. Heppner had 98 percent
compliance. It was the highest
compliance of all the cities and
counties that participated
The Heppner Police appreciate
the citizens of Heppner for their
participation in making the
seatbelt blitz a success. "Good
luck with this next blitz." said
Heppner Police. "Do not get
caught without your seatbelt on."
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