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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 13, 2001 - FIVE Heppner Elementary holds academic awards assembly By Debbie H arper Heppner Elementary School held their Academic Awards Assembly June 5. The evening assembly was to recognize students who demonstrated high levels of academic excellence. Jannie Allen was mistress of ceremonies. The first presenter was Cara Osmin for the R&W reading awards Students read during the months of November through March. Each teacher comes up with the specifies for her classroom. As each achievement is met. the student is given a certificate redeemable for a treat at the R&W Dnve-In. The R&W has generously sponsored this program for many years. A total of 242 certificates were given out this year. At the kindergarten level students read a total of 99 hours; first grade read 230 hours; second grade read 180 hours; third grade read 162 hours; fourth grade read 121 books; and the fifth and sixth grades read 15,200 pages. At the assembly, certificates were given to the following students: Austin Gutierrez, Seth Palmer, Brett Harrison, Bryan Holland, Andre' Rauch, Taylor Kempas, Kyle Vanderwalker and Garrett Robinson had four certificates each. Kyle Harrison. Calli Britt, Cassi Day. and Zach Yocom had five certificates. The Galaxy of Star Readers is a new program started by Nancy McElhany this year. It started January 16 and continued through March 31. Students read Accelerated Reader books and then use the computer to take tests on their book. One hundred, ninety-three students read books and tested on a total of 1,S82 books. O f those tests, 626 were passed with 100 percent and an additional 156 were passed with 90-95 percent. Over 19 billion words were read. Dillon Lutcher, Brian Rhode and Whitney Smith were recognized with Hard Worker awards. Joe Pranger received a Shooting Star award. Shining Star awards were given to Seth Palmer, Jessica Hughes, Alana Wilson and Donald Matthews. Super Nova awards were given to Baillie Keithley, Kelsey Wolff, Nacho Elguezabal, Logan Anthony, Katie Kilkenny, Jessica Heliker, Bo Foster, Seth Morgan, Maggie Armato, Matt Harshman Andre' Rauch, Regi Seitz, Jenna Bowman and Colton Hanson. Double Novas were Sean Murray, Kate Kendrick, Sherilyn Peck and Eddie Ramirez. Spencer Palmer received a Quad Nova award. rhe next awards were given for social studies. Three students were recognized for their keen interest in social studies. They read the paper, watched the news and kept up on current events. They were Andre' Rauch for fifth grade and Brendan McElligott and Casey O'Neal for sixth grade. ITie Geography Bee is sponsored by the National Geographic Society, and given each year in January. Participants are students from fourth through sixth grades. Students took a difficult qualifying test. Then the finalists took a verbal test, "spelling bee" style. Finalists were Casey O'Neal, Kyle O'Brien, Nacho Elguezabal, Brendan McElligott, Baillie Keithley, Zach Alford, Nathan Bennett, Seth Morgan, Spencer Palmer, Shenlyn Peck and Kelsey Wolff. Casey O'Neal was the first place winner and Kyle O'Brien was second place winner. The Science Awards were presented by Karen Smith-Gri ffith. Barb Orwick and Jannie Allen. These were students who in their every day class work showed a real love for science. Fifth graders were Whitney Matthews, Jessica Heliker, and Kyle O'Brien. Sixth graders were Tiffany Cook, Aaron Allstott, Drew Pnndle, Brendan McElligott, Mahaley Huddleston, Colton Hanson, Tony Haguewood and Regi Seitz. Barb Orwick recognized two students, Ashley Dima and Lyndi Patton, for their hard work in math. Math Contest teams are made up of seven students and two alternates in fourth, fifth and sixth grades. The students study hard, voluntarily giving up their lunch hours for two weeks to prepare for the contest. The math contest was held April 5 at HES. The fourth grade team was Seth Morgan, Shenlyn Peck, Spencer Palmer, Luke Young, Rachel Alford, Maggie Armato, Matt Harshman, Jordan Shepherd and Joe Pranger. The fifth grade team was Kyle O'Brien, Whitney Matthews, Kendra Rayburn, Andre' Rauch, Kelsey Wolff, Cyde Coil, Nacho Elguezabal, Sean Murray, and Jason Wainwright. The sixth grade team was Aaron Allstott, Regi Seitz, Quinn Peck, Jonathan Harshman. Kylie Tasker. Drew Karen's Korner By Karen Masshoff Items of Health - Tobacco Prevention With much pleasure and great pride for the City of lone, the Tobacco Education and Prevention Program for Morrow County announces that lone has chosen to go tobacco free from July 9-14. By giving this small event a lot of attention, we are hoping to create more interest in tobacco-free environments here in Morrow County. Therefore, we are asking for your support. Betty Gray, lone's mayor, has issued a proclamation to lend authenticity, encouragement and to broaden efforts to promote this event. We are in the initial planning state and so are open to suggestions in regards to specific events. One certainty, however, is that the restaurant, Beecher's, will be tobacco-free during this time, possibly adding a special menu item or two along with some entertainment - specifics to be announced. Our most immediate task is to "get the word out" to as many folks as possible inviting them to participate in any way that works for them. People can contact us accordingly: Mayor Betty Gray or city clerk Cindy Doherfy-phone 422-7414, fax 422-7179, E-mail cityofionefaicenturytel.net, or Karen M A R y I K A V /Customized sivm care Masshoff, M.C. Health Dept.-phone 676-5421, fax 676-5652, E-mail karen masshoff@class.oregonvos. net-os.net or metbeo @co.morrow. or.us. For those of you not familiar with this part of Oregon: lone, along with Lexington and Heppner, is in the Willow Creek Valley. lone is about 35 miles south of 1-84, about four hours east of Portland, 1.5 hours southwest of Pendleton, and 17 miles northwest of Heppner. The valley has a population of about 1800 people who are involved w ith farming, ranching, logging, education, and county government. \Ve want to hear from you Best of all, we would love to have you visit. Bank o f Pnndle, Colton Hanson, Justin Delveaux and Brendan McElligott The placing for the Morrow County Math Contest was: fourth grade-Spencer Palmer first place. Sherilyn Peck third place, Joe Pranger sixth place, Jordan Shepherd eighth place and Maggie Armato ninth place; fifth grade-Nacho Elguezabal and Sean Murray tied for third place, Kelsey Wolff 5th place, Whitney Matthews, sixth place, Cyde Coil seventh place; sixth grade-Brendan McElligott first place, Colton Hanson, third place, Jonathan Harshman 5th place. Aaron Allstott and Quinn Peck tied for seventh place and Justin Delveaux ninth place. In January, fifth and sixth graders took part in the Basketball reading program. To receive an award, each student had to read at least 2,000 minutes in the month of January. Sixty-one students in the fifth and sixth grades read a total of 98,446 minutes in the month of January. Basketball reader awards went to Justin Delveaux, Scott Maker, Kylie Tasker, Ben McCarl, Casey O'Neal, Megan Orr, Colton Hanson, Eddie Ramirez, Cyde Coil. Logan Anthony, Whitney Matthews, Kelsie Fox, Baillie Keithley, Regi Seitz, Sarah Hickerson and Mahaley Huddleston. Also in January was the "Time Out For Reading" over-mghter supervised by Karen Smith-Gnffith and Jannie Allen in which about 55 students took part. The "8 Is Great" program works on conventions, preparing students to meet their benchmarks. They work on such things as misuse of capital letters, punctuation, sentence structure. The students have to turn in four perfect sentences each week. Two points are given for each sentence. Achievement awards were given to Aubree Just, Cyde Coil, Justin Delveaux, Kendra Rayburn. Luke Basile. Katie Kilkenny, Andre' Rauch. Baillie Keithley. Kate Kendrick, Whitney Matthews. Kendra Hendricks, Taylor Kempas, Sarah Hickerson, Megan Orr, Kelsey Wolff, Kelsie Fox, Drew Prindle, Mahaley Huddleston and Jenna Bowman. The Morrow County Spelling Contest was held May 17 at Columbia Middle School. Division 1 participants from 1 ITS grades three through five were Kate Kendrick, Maggie Armato. Seth Morgan and alternates Ashley Wolff and Jessica Heliker. In Division 1, Kate Kendrick placed first and Seth Morgan was second. Each year a writing festival is held at Portland State University. This year the two students that participated from HES were Regi Seitz and Andre' Rauch. Karen Smith-Gnffith, Jannie Allen and Barb Orwick recognized several students with special achievement awards for their love and understanding of the w ritten word. They were Drew Prindle. Jessica Heliker. Jonathan Harshman. Ashley Dima, Sean Murray, Mahaley Huddleston. Brendan McElligott. Eddie Ramirez. Mechele Voorhes and Andre Rauch Ralph Werner gave out his last achievement awards to HES students. Practice awards were given to students who faithfully turned in their practice sheets each week. They were fifth grade-Kelsie Fox. Whitney Matthews, Baillie Keithley Jenna Bowman, Andre' Rauch and Megan Orr and sixth grade-Kylie Tasker, Nathan Kennedy and Sarah Hickerson. Outstanding Performer awards were given to fifth graders Sara Johnson, Kelsey Wolff, Katie Kilkenny, Sean Murray, Cyde Coil, and Luke Basile. Sixth grade awards were given to Kylie Tasker, Quinn Peck Regi Seitz. Brendan McElligott,Nathan Kennedy, Justin Delveaux, Drew Prindle. Aaron Allston and Tony Haguewood. Most Improved awards were given to fifth graders Kendra Hendricks, Stephanie Smith, Tayler 1 lodges and Eddie Ramirez and sixth graders Meghan Gaines, Justin Gregory and Casey O'Neal. Mary Ann Elguezabal holds a chess class for students Monday afternoons and Tuesday and Thursday mornings. In February students participated in a tournament in Hermiston. Participants were Ian Murray, Sean Murray, Bo Foster, Nacho Elguezabal. Bryan Holland, Matt Holland, Cole Morgan, Seth Morgan, Chris Hickerson, Christopher Hendricks, Lane Wichman, Conner Pappas, Andre' Rauch and Maggie Armato. The Knowledge Master Open is a computer based 'Jeopardy'-style test given to students all over the United States and several foreign countries. Students are tested on a variety of subjects such as science, math, language arts, music and even 'useless trivia'. Students in third, fourth, fifth and sixth grades take a qualifying test. One contest was held in January and another in March. HES came in eighth out of 15 schools at the January contest. Participants were Sean Murray, Rachel Alford, Seth Morgan, Brendan McElligott, Zach Alford, Drew' Prindle, Nacho Elguezabal, Jordan Shepherd, Casey O'Neal, Kelsey Wolff, Matt Holland, Ashley Wolff, Aaron Allstott, Kate Kendrick and Tony Haguewood. Jannie Allen gave a special recognition award to Brandon Davis, who "turned his educational career around" this year. The Morrow County Site Council recognized those students who achieved benchmarks in their third and fifth grades. Third graders were given certificates if they reached one or more benchmarks in Reading Knowledge and Skills and Math Know ledge and Skills. They were Jared Huddleston, Kellee Jones, Logan Just, Tom Lovgren, Catherine McElligott, Kylie Sieler, Lane Wichman. Wacy Coil, Chance Day, Brent Eckman, Jacob Gregory, Curtis Harper, Jordan Hatfield, Johnathan Flendricks, Bryan Holland, Jessica Hughes, Mark McCabe, Zach McCarl, Elbe McConnell, Kaley O'Brien, Rudi Ramirez, Colter Raver, Tyler Robinson, Brynna Rust, Kyle from Tayloe, Emily Thompson, and Ashley Wolff. Fifth graders were given certificates if they passed their benchmarks in one or more of the following categories. Math Knowledge and Skills, Reading Knowledge and Skills, Wnting and Math Problem Solving They were Kendra Hendricks, Jason Houwelmg, Aubree Just, Katie Kilkenny, Ben McCarl, Kylie Doherty, Nacho Elguezabal. Kelsie Fox, Jessica Heliker, Baillie Keithley, Taylor Kempas, Kate Kendrick, Eddie Ramirez, Andre' Rauch, Kendra Rayburn, Eric Skaggs, Stephanie Smith, Jason Wainwnght, Lane Bailey, Luke Basile, Jenna Bowman, Cyde Coil, Kelsey Wolff, Trent Miles, Sean Murray, Kyle O'Brien, Megan Orr. Logan Anthony, Whitney Matthew s and Matt McCabe. The final presentations for the evening were the sixth grade Presidential Awards for Academic Excellence. Silver award recipients scored 80 percent or better on one test in math and/or reading and held a 3.3 or higher GPA for all of fifth grade and the first semester of sixth grade. They were Sarah Hickerson, Colton Hanson, Justin Delveaux, Tony Haguewood, Regi Seitz and Brendan McElligott Gold award recipients scored 85 percent or better on two tests in math and/or reading and had a GPA of 3.5 or higher for all o f fifth grade and the first semester of sixth grade They were Drew Pnndle, Quinn Peck, Aaron Allstott and Mahaley Huddleston. President Bush sent a congratulatory letter to the students calling them shining examples for other young people throughout the country and commending them on their hard work and for meeting the highest academic standards. 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