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Childcare resource and referral services
available in Morrow County
By Katie Wall
The U m atilla-M orrow
Head Start offers a program
called Childcare Resource and
Referral. This is a free of charge
program that gives aide to child
care prov iders and parents looking
for child care.
C andy G reen from
Heppner is a parent/provider
consultant, who wants to make
sure the people of Morrow County
know about this program.
G reen said that the
program is involved in assisting
child care providers who wish to
receive training and become
registered providers in Oregon.
Once a provider becom es
registered the program works as
a referral service, as well as a
technical support group. Providers
can call with question including
O regon law s and resources
available to providers. There are
also scholarships available to
providers wishing to receive the
training to become registered.
For the parents o f
Morrow and Umatilla counties the
program provides them with a
directory of registered providers.
A parent can call the service and
get a list of three to four child care
providers in area of Morrow and
Umatilla counties they need. For
example, a parent in Heppner,
who may work in Hermiston and
would like to have their child cared
for there, could call the service
and get a list o f child care
providers in H erm iston. The
service does not, however, give
recommendations of one provider
over another. “We suggest that the
parent check out the provider and
its environm ent and choose a
provider based on their own
opinion,” said Green.
The Childcare Resource
and Referral service has over 200
provider listings for Umatilla
County and about 30 for Morrow
County. They also have two
paren t/p ro v id er consultants
available at their o ffice in
Hermiston.
Green would also like to
let registered providers know that
the service offers a “ lending
library.” The library includes
learning activities and materials,
books, videos, as well as
equipment such as cribs, and
toddler size tables and chairs. For
those providers in Morrow County
that would like to utilize the library
but cannot get to Herm iston,
Green offers to bring materials to
and return them for the provider.
For those who would like
more information. Green is in
Boardman on Fridays at the DHS
building in Boardman. Or, she can
be reached in Hermiston at their
offices located at 110 NE 4th St.,
and by phone at 1-800-559-5878,
from 8 a.m.- 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday.
Births
Hunter
Quaid
Greenup- a son. Hunter Quaid
Greenup, was bom on August 14,
2002, to Tiffanie and Travis
G reenup, at Good Shepard
M edical C enter, H erm iston.
H unter w eighed 8 pounds 7
ounces. His sister is Blake
Greenup. Grandparents are Barry
and Mary Ann Munkers and Bill
and C indy G reenup. G reat-
gran d p aren ts are Leonard
Munkers, Rocky and Nita Proctor
and Herb and Nancy Ekstrom.
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Isaiah Stillman o f the
Lexington V olunteer Fire
Department has been accepted to
attend the National Fire Academy
in Em m itsburg, M aryland.
Stillman was approved through
the Volunteer Incentive Program
whereby FEMA will reimburse
most of the expenses upon a
successful com pletion o f the
class. Stillm an will arrive in
Baltimore on Nov. 16 and depart
on Nov. 23 after an intensive six
days of classes.
This process started for
Stillman when he was challenged
to find a class that they offered
and apply for it. Lexington’s Fire
Chief Charlie Sumner had to send
a special letter o f reference
recommending Isaiah for this
class and asking for an exemption
o f requirements for him to be
eligible. The class that he is
scheduled to take is “Command
and C ontrol o f Incident
Operations”. Stillman’s long-term
goal is to be a professional EMT
and Firefighter. At the age of 18
he has already completed training
to become a NFPA Fire Fighter I
and is a certified w ildland
firefighter. Stillman has been a
member of the Lexington Fire
Department for 3l/ j years but up
until now has been limited by his
age in how much he could do.
In October, Stillman will
be trying to complete his wildland
task performance book to become
a Single Resource Crew Boss.
Stillman will be taking classes
from Blue Mountain Community
College this coming winter term
to prepare him for classes at
Chemeketa Community College
next fall. Stillman would like to get
an Associate of Arts Degree in
Fire Suppression as well as in Fire
Prevention. While going to college
in Salem he will be working a 24-
hour shift a week as a fireman.
He would like to work a shift as
an EM T also. He said, “ In
addition to the class at BMCC for
the next year I will try to earn
money for college and continue
to serve our community on the
fire department.”
When asked about the
upcoming training Stillman said,
"The N ational Fire Training
A cadem y will give me the
opportunity to meet and to work
with professional firemen who
have like goals. This class will
allow me to meet some college
requirements and it will provide
me with an excellent training
opportunity. At the same time it
makes me nervous for several
reasons: 1 have never flown
before, 1 will be working with
professional firemen, and being
back there where there are a few
more people than Lexington.”
When asked about what
his family thought about his goal
to be a fireman/EMT he replied,
“They were apprehensive at first
but are supportive o f it now. A
couple of thing that have helped
me over the years have been the
motivation I have received from
the various trainings and the
encouragement received from
various people.”
p rofessional
developm ent
opportunities.
A1 Meunier, who spent
16 years as a school
superintendent in Northeastern
O regon and now serves as
directo r o f the L eadership
Development Center which is
housed at the ESD, will serve as
project director. The Leadership
Development Center is a joint
project o f Lewis & Clark, the
ESD, and E astern O regon
University.
Murdock said that the
developm ent o f the grant
documents was a team effort
which involved Dr. Tom Ruhl,
dean o f the Graduate School of
Education and Kim Locatell,
program specialist from Lewis &
C lark as well as C ourtney
Stenson, a resource procurement
specialist with the ESD. He went
on to applaud the hours o f work
which went into preparing the
105-page grant document.
Added Murdock, “we are
cu rrently in the m idst o f
adm inistering a Transition to
Teaching Grant Program grant
which was written in cooperation
with the Northwest Regional Lab.
The new com ponent for
ad m in istrato rs is a natural
addition to our efforts to have a
regional presence throughout
Eastern Oregon in bringing high
quality training to local
educators.” He also noted that
Stenson had played a key role in
the preparation of the “Transition
To Teaching” grant request.
In ad dition to the
Transition to Teaching Program
and the new REAL Project, the
U m atilla-M orrow ESD also
operates the “Education Toolkit”
program which provides training
for about fifty-five new teachers
in Northeastern Oregon and the
Eastern
O regon
Sum mer
Institute, a two-week summer
program which this year attracted
nearly 300 teachers.
B oth M eunier and
Murdock, who played an active
role in helping design and prepare
the program design, will also be
involved in its implementation.
For additional information
contact the Um atilla-M orrow
ESD, at (541)966-3102.
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Two faces of Gordon Smith
To the Editor:
W ill the real G ordon
Sm ith please stand up? He
presents two different faces in his
current television ad campaign.
One strategy portrays
him as a really nice guy. This is
the compassionate Gordon Smith
in the TV ads that run over and
over each day, show ing his
concern for people, such as gays
and lesbians, who are often the
object of discrimination and hate.
One can applaud his compassion
while getting very tired of the
frequency of the ads.
There is also the Gordon
Smith whose campaign is almost
like a pit bull in tenaciously
attacking Bill Bradbury, again and
again, for his voting record on
taxation
in the O regon
Legislature. O f course, at times
that voting record was not that
different from Gordon Smith’s
when they served together in that
body. But this Smith strategy is
neither kind nor strong on logic.
In recent years, money has been
d esperately needed to fund
O regon’s programs; attacking
those who have voted for tax
increases of various kinds to pay
for them seems more than unfair.
And if you remember,
Smith ran this same type of anack
ad against Bradbury before the
primary election last spring had
even selected Bill Bradbury as
Smith’s opponent. Gordon Smith
can advertise at this level because
he has raised much more money
for this cam paign than Bill
Bradbury has. Smith started his
barrage of TV ads two months
before N o v em b er’s general
election, at a level usually aired
only in the last two weeks. The
TV viewer is being bombarded
with ads showing these two faces
of Gordon Smith.
I suggest that Gordon
Smith do Oregonians a real favor-
stop repeating all those ads, and
give the millions saved to the State
of Oregon to help maintain police
officers, correctional institutions,
manageable class sizes in schools,
etc. People would vote for him
out of gratitude for the help with
Oregon’s current budget crisis...
and relief at not having to watch
all those ads for another six
weeks.
(s) Linda Shaw
Heppner
4th Annual Morrow County Lewis &
Clark Bicentennial Observation in
Boardman
The free pie social will be
Umatilla-Morrow ESD received grant
The Um atilla-M orrow
Education Service District has
received a grant from the U.S.
Department of Education School
L eadership Program in the
amount of $607,329 according to
an announcement received from
the office o f Senator Gordon
Smith. The grant was written in
cooperation with Lewis & Clark
College.
ESD Superintendent
G eorge M urdock, who was
contacted via telephone by Susan
Toy in the D epartm ent o f
Education, said he was told that
the grant ranked third out of 175
which were submitted. A total of
20 grants across the U nited
States were funded through the
School Leadership Program.
Said Murdock, “federal
grants are incredibly competitive.
To even secure one is a
tremendous accomplishment. To
be third out of 175 which were
reviewed intensively by national
experts is definitely something to
be celebrated.”
The grant program is
designed to provide assistance to
high-need local education
agencies in the developm ent,
enhancement, or expansion o f
innovative programs to recruit,
train, and m entor principals
(including assistant principals) for
high-need schools.
According to Murdock,
the U m atilla-M orrow ESD
proposed to partner with regional
service providers in Eastern
Oregon and the Lewis & Clark
Graduate School of Education to
tailor and implement a program
model that specifically focuses on
rural areas. The title o f the
p roject
is
REA L— Rural
Education and Administrative
Leadership.
The ESD superintendent
also noted that in addition to
increasing the num ber and
diversity o f candidates who
receive th eir ad m in istrato r
license. Project REAL will provide
learning op p o rtu n ities and
stru ctu res to increase the
effectiveness of current principals
and decrease the effects o f
isolation caused by geography and
a lack of accessibility to regular
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A tra il o f m usical
opportunities from Boardman
Marina Park to Riverfront Center,
as well as a pie baking contest,
pie social and educational exhibits,
will be part of the free afternoon
activities for Lewis & Clark
B icentennial
H eritage
Observation, to be held Oct. 13
in Boardman.
The observation will be
topped with a 7 p.m. concert
featuring “Music from the Era of
Lewis & Clark” by The Trail
Band.
The event recognizes
Oct. 19, 1805, when Lewis &
Clark, the Corps o f Discovery,
Sacagawea, her French trapper
husband Charbonneau and infant
“Pomp” all visited and camped
with native people on a sandy
island in the Mid Columbia. The
island, off shore from Irrigon
Marina Park in North Morrow
County, is now under the waters
of the Columbia River.
The 2002 Lewis & Clark
B icentennial
H eritage
Observation will begin at 2 p.m.,
on Sunday, Oct. 13, with free
musical presentations along the
Columbia River Heritage Trail.
Visitors are encouraged to explore
the level paved trail connecting
Boardman Marina Park, Captain
A1 James Historic Barge Tug,
Riverfront Center and the new
Port o f M orrow trail east o f
Riverfront Lodge.
K inzel & H yde, an
acoustic blues duo from Portland,
w ill perform outdoors at
Marchelles, the site of the original
Boardman OWNR Depot; Win
Weston Combo will offer Old
time fiddle music at the Riverfront
Lodge; and The Shenanigans will
play at the pie social.
An early “American style
Pie Baking Contest” begins at 5
p.m. at Riverside High School,
210 Boardm an Ave NE,
Boardman. The pie contest is
open to all. Judging for “Prettiest
Pie,” “Flakiest Pie Crust, “ and
“Judges Favorite Pie” takes place
at 5:30 p.m.
held from 6 - 7 p.m. and will be
com bined w ith educational
exhibits.
Lorie Watlamet, from the
C olum bia River Inter-Tribal
Fisheries Enforcement, will have
an exhibit on preserving cultural
resources; & the new Columbia
R iver H eritage Trail M ap/
brochure will be available.
A fternoon
activ ities
and
advertising for Lewis & Clark
Heritage Observation are funded
by M orrow County U nified
Recreation District.
Beginning at 6:30 p.m.,
Riverside High School Auditorium
doors open for The Trail Band
concert seating.
Trail parking is available
at Boardman Marina Park Boat
Launch area, Captain A1 James,
and Riverfront Center. To reach
the trail, take Interstate 84 exit
#164, north on Main St. to the
Columbia River. Turn left on
Marine Dr. for Boardman Marina
Park, or turn right on Marine Dr.
for Riverfront Center.
Trail Band C oncert
tickets are $10 if purchased by
Oct. 12, and are available at these
locations: in Boardman- Columbia
River Title Company, 101 SW
K inkade
Rd.,
Boardm an
Pharmacy & Hardware, 202 1st
St. NW, and Boardman Chamber
o f Commerce, 206 N. Main St.;
in Irrigon- Irrigon City Hall, 1095
N. M ain St., and H uw e’s
Washboard & Laundromat, 300
E. Highway 730; and in Heppner-
Columbia River Title Company,
126 May St.
C oncert
T ickets
purchased at Heritage events on
Oct. 13 are $12.
C oncert
Sponsors
Include: City o f B oardm an;
Morrow County Court; Potlatch;
Boardm an
Pharm acy
&
Hardw are; Boardman Health
Care C enter, N orth M orrow
C om m unity Foundation and
others.
For more inform ation
about 2002 Morrow Co. Lewis &
Clark Heritage Observation, call
(541)481-9457.
Head Start program gets funding
The Umatilla-Morrow
Head Start program received
$343,000 in federal funding for
the fiscal year 2003. The funds
will be used to continue Head
Start’s on-going pre-kindergarten
programs, for children ages three
to five.
The announcement of
the funding came Sept. 24 from
Senators Gordon Smith (R-OR)
and Ron Wyden (D-OR). Both
senators praise the program.
“ This funding ensures that
Oregon children will be granted
the educational tools needed to
have a happy, successful future,”
said Smith. “Throughout Oregon,
Head Start is helping give kids the
skills to succeed in both school
and life,” added Wyden.
Head S tart, w hich is
funded by the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services
Administration for Children and
Families, is a child development
program that serves low-income
families. The program not only
provides
pre-kindergarten
program s, but also includes
medical, dental and mental health
care, nutritional advisement, and
parental involvement in children’s
lives.