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Chamber Chatter
by Claudia Hughes, Exec. Dir. Septem ber 8,2002
A year passes so quickly, or so slowly depending on where
one is coming from. For the many who lost loved ones in the 9/11
tragedy they may have w ished for it to go much faster so they could
pass the one year mark and move on. What have we done with this
past year? Have we lived life with more emphasis on being a better
person? Have we reached out to others? Have we stopped to smell
the roses? Have we tried to live life's commandments? Have we
given thanks, found compassion, realized what’s really important,
learned anything, and shown appreciation for others? Only by looking
inward can we know the answer; only by responding outwardly can
we show the answer.
Heppner has some very positive projects going on thanks to
numerous volunteers. Just drive by the new soon-to-be operating
Assisted Living Facility to see people in motion, putting on the finishing
touches for the new occupants and preparing for the public open house
from 1 to 4 p.m.. Sept. 15. The committee members who have put in
many long and difficult hours are to be commended. Their dedication
made this reality. It is a wonderful spot for our senior citizens to enjoy
life to its fullest. Drop by and say “thanks”.
Our youth are excited too. Get around kids these days and
you hear enthusiasm for the BMX Bike trails in Hager Park. Drive by
and you will see youth in action, challenging their personal expertise.
Randy Reybum has been putting in long volunteer hours to make this
a reality. Soon there will be a place for riding without jeopardizing'the
elderly on our Main Street sidewalks. The community and parents are
encouraged to pitch in and help complete this youth activity. Now if
we can get a combination rollerblade/ice skating area at the old pool
site we will be well on our way to having varied family activities for all
tastes.
Word has it that tickets for the first ever “Evening On Cemetery
Hill” dinner theatre are selling fast. This first-ever event, sponsored
by the Morrow County Museum Flood Committee, has been created
to assist in funding the 2003 Flood Commemoration Memorial.
Participants are having fun putting together an entertaining and
educational evening of historical/musical presentations w ith a catered
dinner to tantalize your taste buds. Attendance is limited so stop by
Klamath First, The Heppner Chamber, or the Morrow County Museum
for tickets today.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: “He who is discontented in
one place will seldom be happy in another.”
Church plans after-school program
Beginning on Thursday,
Sept. 19, the First C hristian
Church will be offering a once a
week after school program for
children in kindergarten through
sixth grade. Children who wish to
attend can come to First Christian
C hurch after school and the
activities will last until 5 p.m.
DOHERTY &
BALLARD, l l p
Attorneys at Law
There will be snacks,
games, crafts, stories and lots
more fun, all free of charge.
If your child would like to
come or needs someone to walk
with him/her to the church, or for
m ore inform ation call C .J.
Johnson at 676-9209.
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L a k e v ie w H e ig h t s S u b d iv is io n
Heppner
School board
continued from page one
from 213 last year; lone Schools
had an enrollment o f 154, down
from 156 last y e a r; Sam
Boardman Elementary School
had an enrollment o f 480, down
from 487 la st y e a r; A .C .
Houghton Elementary School in
lrrigon had an enrollment o f 414,
d o w n front 4 3 0 la st y e a r;
Columbia Middle School had an
enrollment o f 397, up from 394
last year; Riverside High School
had an enrollment o f460, up from
451 last year. Principals indicated
that th eir a tte n d a n c e peaks
a ro u n d m id -O c to b e r an d
declines som ew hat around the
holidays and at the end o f the
year. “ My guess is yes, we will
be lower than last year,” said
Crippen.
-received a report from
Mike W ittmayer o f the Oregon
School Board Association on the
d istrict’s policy review. The
re v ie w
p o in te d
out
inconsistencies betw een the
board’s policies, the district’s
student handbook, collective
b a rg a in in g a g re e m e n t and
Oregon statutes. Wittmayer said
the cost for the policy update is
around $6,850, with additional
travel expenses and additional
costs for continued maintenance
and updates
- a p p ro v e d
an
expenditure o f approxim ately
$ 1,152 each time for publication
o f a district new sletter by the
Education Service District to be
m ailed to district patrons four
times this year and six times next
year. Additionally, the district
would also have to increase their
la b o r c o s ts to p re p a re the
newsletter.
-accepted resignations
as follows: Teri Palmateer, half
tim e m edia assistant at lone
Schools; Brenda Griffin, A.C.
Houghton educational assistant;
Anne Bedortha, Heppner High
School special ed assistant/food
s e rv ic e c le r ic a l a s s is ta n t;
M a ly n d a
B a rro n ,
Sam
Boardman Elementary special ed
o n e -o n -o n e a s sis ta n t; Ju d y
D a n ie ls, C o lu m b ia M id d le
School assistant track coach.
-approved recall for:
Wally Greer, CM S technology
e d u c a tio n te a c h e r p o sitio n ,
replacing Benn Houk; Kathi
D ickenson, HHS special ed
assistant/food service clerical
assistant.
-approved employment
for Rebecca Porter, lone Middle
School science teacher; Trixie
Pullen, Riverside High School
reading specialist; Debi Stratton,
CM S assistant cook; M alynda
Barron, SBE one-on-one special
ed assistant, replacing Kristi
Orcutt; Lonnie Rill, CM S ed
assistant; M arta Barron, ACH
English-as-a-second language
assistant; Lori Grieve, ACH ed
a ssista n t, rep la cin g B renda
Griffin.
-approved extra duty
contracts for: Molly Rhea, HHS
assistant volleyball coach; Steve
Schaber, IMS assistant football
coach; K aren H olland, IMS
head volleyball coach; Nicholas
Budge, CM S assistant football
coach; Phyllis Danielson, CMS
Talented and Gifted program
coordinator.
-approved attendance
variances for a student who is
m oving into the Umatilla High
School attendance area to attend
Umatilla High School; a student
to c o n tin u e a tte n d a n c e at
Um atilla High School; and a
student too attend Riverside High
School to be released from the
Hermiston School District.
-approved a donation o f
books and school supplies from
Jack and La Vem Bozarth to Sam
Boardman Elementary School.
-d id n o t a p p ro v e a
request from an lrrigon family to
enroll their child in kindergarten
early. The child missed the birth
date deadline o f Sept. 1 by one
day.
-honored HHS teacher
Les Payne for serving 25 years
with the district, HHS classified
sta ff D arcy Robinson for 10
years with the district, and HHS
classified staffElaine Miller for
five years.
-approved a tw o-year
contract with the Port o f Morrow
fo r s e rv ic e s from d is tr ic t
technology coordinator Nate
Arbogast. Arbogast would divide
his tim e betw een the school
district and the port. The port will
reimburse the district for half o f
Arbogast's salary.
-appointed Doug Strebin
o f lrrigon to position #4 on the
budget committee. Position #5 is
still vacant.
-approved a resolution
concerning legislative policies
a n d p r io r itie s to be h a n d
delivered to the state legislature
by board member Larry Mills.
-learned from HHS/HES
P rin c ip a l W ade S m ith th at
H eppner H igh S chool food
service is providing meals for
lone Schools and HES, both o f
which are lacking kitchens, and
the satellite system is working
smoothly.
-recognized lone teacher
Marlene Pointer for printing the
board goals.
-heard the follow ing
announcements: the lone back-
to-school potluck is scheduled
for this Thursday, Sept. 12. lone
High School’s first home game is
Friday, Sept. 13; the Heppner
Elementary School open house
is planned for this Thursday,
Sept. 12, beginning at 6:30 p.m.;
th e n e x t b o a rd m e e tin g is
M onday, Oct. 14, at 7:30 p.m.
at Riverside High School.
D A 's Report
Morrow County District
Attorney David C. Allen has
released the following report:
-Robert Joe Palmer pled
no contest to two counts o f
unauthorized use o f a motor
vehicle, a Class-C felony. Palmer
was sentenced to 18 m onths
formal probation, 80 hours of
community service for the first
count, with a concurrent sentence
of 18 months formal probation for
the second count, and $2164 in
fines.
Sharon Lee Liedtke pled
guilty to possession of a controlled
substance, a Class-C felony, and
tampering with public records, a
Class-A misdemeanor. Liedtke
was sentenced to 18 m onths
formal probation, 80 hours of
com m unity
serv ice,
and
completion of a drug package with
the Morrow County Behavioral
Health for the first count, with a
concurrent sentence of 180 days
in jail, suspended, 18 months
bench probation for the second
count, and $914 in fines.
Robert Gene Morley pled
guilty to possession of a controlled
substance, a Class-C felony.
M orley was sentenced to 18
months formal probation, 80 hours
of community service, completion
of a drug package with Morrow
County Behavioral Health and
$664 in fines.
G regory P. Dixon
admitted violation of probation
allegations for manufacture of a
controlled substance. Dixon was
sentenced to 30 days in jail and
continued probation, with an
extension of 24 months.
Billie M. Sexton pled
guilty to hindering prosecution
(im m ediate
m isdem eanor
treatm en t),
a
C lass-A
m isdem eanor. Sexton was
sentenced to 180 days in jail,
suspended 80 hours community
service, 24 m onths bench
probation, was ordered to have no
contact with the victim except to
effectuate court ordered visitation
with the parties’ minor child, and
$164 in fines.
OLCC distributes July 2002 revenues
The O regon L iquor
Control Commission distributed its
July 2002 revenue allocations.
The revenues are generated by
the sale of distilled spirits to liquor
licensees (bars, restau ran ts,
nightclubs) and the public in 237
liquor stores, privilege taxes on
beer ($2.60 per barrel) and wine.
license fees, and fine for liquor
law violations.
Morrow County received
$3223, w ith the cities o f
Boardman, Heppner, lone, lrrigon
and Lexington receiving additional
funds totaling $5742.
Letten to the Editor
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Elementary school We know where
Maggie’s Drawers
remembrances
are
(Editor’s Note: This letter from
Claudine Drake Warren was sent
to Grace Drake, of Heppner.)
To the Editor:
1 appreciated your letter
in the Gazette.
It was hard for me to
hear that my school was being
torn down. I also realize that
these days it would be financially
prohibitive to rem odel it for
continued use.
When I started to first
grade my oldest brother Raymond
drove our family car as the school
bus and my three brothers, the
neighbor girl, Ruth Turner, and
myself were all passengers. The
next year we had a bus.
My first grade teacher
was Beth Bleakman and I really
liked school. I played on the play
ground bars a lot, jumped rope,
played hopscotch, jacks and all
those fun things that we used to
do.
“Dad” Driscoll, as we all
called him, kept the coal furnace
in the b u ilding going and
everything in good condition. I
especially liked the wide hallways
in the building and the shiny
hardw ood floors that always
looked so nice.
O ur hot lunch was
usually a cup of cocoa or soup
that parents helped provide and
prepare. This we ate with our
sandw iches in the basem ent
lunchroom.
My
second
grade
teacher was Elizabeth Dix. She
had such wonderful penmanship
and encouraged all of us to learn
to write our best. The third grade
teacher was Audrey Beamer,
fourth grade. Mrs. O ’Shea, fifth
grade Maude King, sixth grade
M ary W hite, seventh grade
Juanita Leathers and eighth grade
was Harold Buhman. I thought all
of these people were exceptional
teachers.
I went all through high
school here too, as my tw in
brother Claude did also. We had
a big study hall or assembly room
with a stage, on the top floor and
a lot of fun programs etc., were
presented there. There was also
a fire escape right off this room
and students were known to slide
down for a quick exit, even when
we didn’t have a fire drill! This
old fire escape can be seen on the
hill, about two m iles out o f
Heppner across from the golf
course now.
I had a lot of good times in this
building, some great teachers
and a lot of memories. I also am
appreciative of the many friends
that I met there.
In 1948, 1 was hired as the
secretary to the superintendent,
Leonard Pate, and clerk o f the
school district in this same building.
A lso, in 1949, Paul
Warren was hired as the plant
engineer and custodian o f this
building, a job which he had for
32-plus years. A year after he
started working there, he became
my husband and we both worked
there at that time.
(s) Claudine Drake Warren
Blue Basin hike
offered
John Day Fossil Beds
National Monument will offer a
ranger-conducted hike into the
spectacular Blue Basin fossil
beds. The two-hour hike will
feature the geologic landscape
and fossil history of the basin.
The tour will begin at 10
a.m., on Saturday, Sept. 14, the
only hike scheduled for
September.
It will begin at the Blue
Basin trailhead, located three
miles north of the Sheep Rock
Unit Visitor Center, along State
Route 19. Participants should
bring good hiking shoes, a sun hat,
ja c k e t, w ater bottle, and a
camera. For further information
call 541-987-2333.
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To the Editor (and any other in
terested parties):
It should ease Lance
Tibbies’ worried mind to know that
the Van Schoiacks have been
m anaging livestock around
“M aggie’s Drawers” since the
late 1940s; and that “Maggie’s
Reservoir” is honored by its own
GPS location by the Forest Ser
vice. It is also providing year
around water for deer, elk, cou
gars and cattle.
(s) Bob Van Schoiack
Heppner
Found stragglers at
Maggie’s Drawers
To the Editor:
Thursday, Sept. 5, 4
p.m., Maggie’s Drawers- found
two pair of stragglers (cattle) at
the Maggie’s pond after another
day spent riding in the USFS al
lotment that has been used by our
family for 56 years;
Sam e day, 8 p.m .,
home- read the Gazette and was
surprised that Mr. Tibbies thought
maybe only a few older fellows
w ould know the location o f
M aggie’s D raw ers. I’m sure
many other folks, besides my fam
ily, know of Maggie’s.
My immediate concerns are not
of removing a portion of the
Pledge of Allegiance, but rather
of keeping our hometown alive.
We are struggling in all aspects
of life here and I pray to God
that life, as we know it, can be
maintained.
With the ongoing drought,
our family is especially thankful
to have a mountain grazing allot
ment. We love, cherish and care
for “Maggie’s” and our grazing
land and we know others do too.
May God help us all to
preserve what we have. Let’s not
waste time and money on chang
ing something that is fine the way
it is.
(s) Patricia (Van Schoiack)
Maben
Heppner
Betty Gray’s run
for mayor
To the Editor:
I understand that Betty
Gray is once again running for
mayor of lone for the fifth time. I
have to laugh at how ironic this
seem s. First and forem ost-
Mayor Gray owns and operates
a business called the Beecher’s
R estaurant and Bar. Now if
anyone knows lone at all, they
would know that this facility is
closed down for lack of payment
o f taxes. Also, as a matter o f
public record she is now being
foreclosed on her personal home
which she has not paid taxes from
1998-2001. How can Ms. Gray
say she will be looking out for the
citizens of lone if she cannot even
maintain her own business or pay
the professional or personal taxes
th e re o f thus ben efitin g our
schools and city? If she cannot
manage a business or her own
personal life, how can she manage
the city of lone?
It has also been brought
to my atten tio n that her
constituents have questioned the
qualifications of Ms. Eynetich,
who, along with her husband
owns the lone Repair Shop and
Parts, where she is in charge of
all accounting, ordering and bill
paying. G uess w hat? That
business is solvent and paying
their taxes.
It does not take a rocket
scientist to figure out who should
be the next, and the better, mayor
of lone. I would be embarrassed
for the city of lone if they would
re-elect Betty Gray for mayor
now or ever.
(s) Vivian
Dudley-Smith,
Homeowner in lone,
Gresham, Ore.
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