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Anne Morter (left) adds a revenue-boosting suggestion to a committee's list, with Sarah Carlson (center) and
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Wednesday, December 25, 2002
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Juniper Canyon Road now open for travel
A truck travels down the new ly opened Juniper Canyon Road
Santa visits daycare center
Juniper Canyon Road is
now open for travel. The road
had been closed for several
months while Morrow County
w o rk ed on re a lig n in g and
reconstructing the roadbed.
These changes will improve the
safety o f the road, as well as
make it accessible for trucks
taking products to market. The
O reg o n
D e p a rtm e n t o f
Transportation (ODOT) and the
O reg o n
T ra n s p o rta tio n
Investment Act (OTIA) have
provided funding for this project.
The M orrow C ounty
Road Department is still working
on the road and there may be
some delays while equipment is
being moved. The road is finished
to gravel at this time, with pav ing
of the road to occur in late Spring
2003. If you have any questions
about this road or this project,
contact Morrow County Public
Works at 989-9500.
Cox brothers make
donation to Senior
Center
The Cox brothers made
a $250 donation in memory o f
their parents, Bill and Winifred
Cox, to the St. Patrick’s Senior
Center in Heppner
The money will be used,
at th e ir re q u e s t, fo r the
community Christmas dinner, to
be held Wednesday, Dec. 25, at
the Senior Center.
It will also go to provide
the entrée for the Jan. 25,2003
dinner for the Senior Board
annual meeting. Monies will also
be used for showing appreciation
for the volunteers that give time
in the office at the Senior Center.
A free dinner will be held, Jan. 8,
2003, for these volunteers with
the donation being picked up by
the Cox donation.
Bill and Winifred Cox
were long tim e residents o f
Heppner, where they raised their
five boys. Bill was a member of
the first Senior Center board.
Santa with the kids at the Heppner Daycare Center
Santa brought car toys, coloring books, candy canes and
other gifts to the children at the Heppner Daycare Center, on Friday,
Dec. 20. Children at the Center ranged in ages in from 10 months to
11 years. Santa also took pictures w ith some o f the children and
stayed to get a group photo as well.
Christmas
messages
from local pastors
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Four-month-old Matthew Orem attended the lone community school budget work session with his mom. Brandi
Orem (center). Also pictured are Larry Lutcher (left) and Joe McElligott.
They brought the babies.
They brought the old ladies. They
brought the teens and parents
and everyone in between. And
they all got together-150 strong-
in the lone School cafeteria
Tuesday, Dec. 17, to come up
w ith ideas on ways to cut more
than $270,000 to balance the
lone Schools’ 2003-04 budget
and increase funding to their
school.
T he
scene
w as
“organization with a capital 0 " as
each person entering the cafeteria
received a handout with a number
on the back. A fter an
in fo rm atio n al session w ith
Morrow County School Board
member John Rietmann, lone,
the assembly was divided into
groups by number. Each group
was assigned to come up with
budget cutting ideas and w ays to
increase revenue to the lone
School. At the end of the meeting
one person from each group
presented their ideas. Each
revenue-boosting suggestion was
assigned to an lone group for
dllow -through. Budeet cuttmc
including seventh and eighth
grade and high school classes;
sharing teachers district-wide, via
the v-tel system; eliminating non
core curriculum; holding football
games during the day to save
utility costs; eliminating the state
CIM and CAM requirements for
students; instituting a pay freeze
or a $ l-$ 2 cut in personnel
w ages district-w ide; having
students clean their own school
rooms; hav ing parents or teachers
do the school laundry, donating
school supplies; instituting half
day kindergarten; instituting
block scheduling; and organizing
volunteers for aides, ticket takers,
janitorial services, earpools,
prov iding music and an and e\ en
making school lunches.
Id eas to in c re ase
revenues included: building a
boarding school to draw out-of
town students; advertising for
a d d itio n a l s tu d e n ts; usi ng
educational interns or student
teachers; increasing the number
o f foreign exchange students;
suggestions were to be presented
to Dr. Jack Crippen, Morrow
County School superintendent.
Suggestions for cuts
included cutting: the lone Schools
principal, custodian, m usic
program, art program, tech ed
program , business program,
laundry person, lunch program,
field trips, outdoor school,
bussing, district courier, second
language requirement, counselor,
classified substitutes, extra duty
ticket takers, adm inistrative
overhead at the district level,
shop program, career ed, Plato
computer system, school supply
budget, one science teacher, one
elementary school teacher, PE
teacher and ESD services. Other
suggestions included funding
music, art and drama through the
M orrow C o u n ty U n ified
R ecreation D istrict, w hich
already provides funding for
athletics and other co-curricular
and community activ ities; selling
the district-owned house in lone
which has been used as housing
for the lone principal; selling the
district office: combining classes.
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lone High School students Tim Doherty (left) and Billy Gates brainstorm at the lone community meeting with
teacher Duane Neiffer.
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