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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppnef, Oregon Wednesday, March 12, 2003 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Heppner G A Z E T T E -T IM E S U S.P S. 240-420 M orrow C o u n ty ’s H om e-O w ned W eekly N ew spaper Published weekly and entered as periodical maner at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act o f March 3, 1879. Periodical postage paid at Heppner, Ore gon Office at 147 W Willow Street. Telephone (541) 676-9228. Fax (541) 676- 9211 I -mail gt a heppner net or gtn rapid serve net. Web site: www heppner.net Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P.O. Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836 Subscriptions: $24 in Morrow County, $18 senior rate (in Morrow County only; 62 years or older); $30 elsewhere. 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For PublicyLegal Notices public/legal notices deadline is Monday at 5 p.m Dates for publi cation must be specified Affidavits must be required at the bme of subm ission Affidavits require three weeks to process after last date of publication (a sooner return date must be specified if required) O n the HEPPNER WEBSITE: www.heppner.nel • Start or Change a Subscription • Place a Classified Ad • Submit a News Story • View Real Estate for Sale • City Council & Planning Minutes Local Businesses • County Park • Willow Creek Park Reservations • Free Digital Postcards • Senior Housing • and more! school board meeting continued front page one for the three high schools in the district to make v-tel classes more feasible. -approved Option A for the 2003-04 school calendar which calls for a post- Labor Day start o f school, S ept. 2, a tw o-w eek Christmas break, from Dec. 22-Jan. 4, and the last day o f school on June 10. lone graduation w ill be held on June 5, HHS graduation on June 5 and Riverside High School graduation on June 6. Option A w as o v erw h elm in g ly preferred by staff and advisory committees. Board member Gary Frederickson opposed the tw o-w eek C hristm as break, saying it was too long. Dr. Crippen said that the longer break allowed more people time to return from family trips. -ap p ro v ed a resolution of support for the F-astern O regon R ural Alliance, which is attempting to create a voice for eastern O regon in business and education. -receiv ed an extensive report outlining ESD services offered and those used by MCSD. - a p p r o v e d employment for Lonnie Rill, a ss ista n t track coach at Columbia Middle School. - a p p r o v e d resignations for: Paul Keefer, RHS boys’ assistant soccer coach; Donna Scott, Heppner Junior Fligh seventh and eighth-grade math teacher, at the end o f the 2002-03 school year; and D uane Yecha, director o f programs for the 2003-04 school year, to W e P r in t E n v e lo p e s H e p p n er Gazette- T im es 676-9228 accep t a p o sitio n as su p erin ten d e n t o f the Reedsport school district; and Lisa Konecny, Columbia Middle School assistant track coach. -accepted retirement for Maureen McElligott, RHS social stu d ies teach er, effective June 13. -ap p ro v ed an attendance variation for a stu d en t to atten d the Hermiston Alternative School in the H ermiston school district. -reco g n ized Lori McCabe for five years o f service with the district; Jim Raible for 10 years, Dean Robinson and Kay Aldritt, both 15, and Barb Collin, 25 years of service. -heard the following announcements: -the deadline for filing for elected positions is March 20. Five school board positions are up for election: Position One currently held by G ary F red e ric k so n , Boardman; Position Three, held by John Rietmann, lone; Position Four held by Larry Mills, Heppner, who was appointed; Position Five, held by Pat M cN am ee, Irrigon; and Position Six, held by Burke O ’Brien, Heppner, who was also appointed. According to the Morrow County Clerk’s Office as of Tuesday, March 11, John Kilkenny ofHeppner has filed for P osition T hree and Barney Lindsay, a former board m em ber from the Lexington area, has filed for Position Six. School board m em bers are no longer elected by zone, but by at- large positions. -th e next board m eeting is at C olum bia Middle School on April 14 at 7:30 p.m. H EPPNER ELKS 358 676-9181 "Where Friend* Meet" 142 North M ain HAW ST» PATRICK'S WEEKEND! T h u rsd ay, M a rc h 1 3 th I PE R , OLD T IM E R S and L A D IE S N IG H T . Lin d a Kenny, A n d re a M o rtim o re a n d crew will serve a chicken and rice dinner starting at 6 p.m. Lodge and Pin Ceremony will start at 8 p.m. Friday, M a rc h 14 th B U F FE T D IN N E R with BBQ pork and morel Dinner starts at 6 p.m. St. Patrick* A uction starts upstairs at 7 p.m. Saturday, M a rc h 1 5 th ST. P A T ’S B R U N C H . E n joy e g g casserole, hashbrowns, ham, fruit salads and sticky rolls from 1 1 a.m. to I p.m. Cost is $8 for adults and $5 for children under 12. C O R N BEEF A N D CABBAGE D IN N E R starts at 6 p.m. Live music begins at 9 p.m. with bands High 5 and 3 Quarters Short. D on't miss it! w The $ 1724 loss at the At w hat c o st? Pioneer Memorial Hospital for Sunday, Sept. 11 ? A return to the month o f January was the fear o f the Cold War, the Editor's note: Letters to the Editor must be signed The Gazette-Times will not probably 100 percent my bills. fear of pending holocaust? The publish unsigned letters. Please include your address and phone number on all letters for use by the G-T office The G-T reserves the right to edit. The G-T is not It took me a couple months fear o f not being safe from responsible for accuracy o f statements made in letters. (Any letters expressing before I could walk with a anyone? thanks will be placed in the classifieds under ’ Card o f Thanks 'a t a cost of $ 7.) walker or talk plainly. 1 had We’ve all seen the - someone bring my mail to me co m p lete d ev astatio n o f Clearing up secession but I never opened any o f it nuclear weapons, Hiroshima misunderstandings period ending the preceding for five months. By that time, and Nagasaki. We’ve also June 30 as certified by the PMH had turning it over to a seen the long lasting effects of districts to the administrative credit collector. I was rather nuclear energy, gone wrong, To The Editor: After reading Dr. Jack office of the county.” A careful upset about that so I ignored as in Chernobyl. We don’t C rip p en ’s colum n in last reading o f this language will those bills another six months. need it until we make it safe. w e e k ’s p a p er e n title d lead one to the conclusion that I had Medicare so the hospital Any country aggravating “Answers to the Mysteries of the result is not quite what Dr. got 80 percent of their money another with threats o f war, Education” I felt compelled to Crippen indicated it would be. from that. does not make it safe. In a d d itio n , Dr. try ad d ress som e o f the It sounds to me like This dilemma, who misunderstandings that he Crippen claims that the two there are a few people down started it? Sounds like a obviously has regarding lone’s values he used (insurance that Irrigon, Boardman way childish question, doesn’t it? a tte m p t to seced e from v alu e and A s s e s s o r’s who have walked to close to Some fathers would have both M orrow C ounty School Appraised Value) represent the river and fell in and got a kids standing in a comer until . District and the process under the most probable high and small amount of brain damage they figured it out. Will we ever low values o f the assets. He from not getting out quick know who or why, for sure? which we would do so. We d id , in fact, fails to understand that the enough. The only person I Where did all the hate start? : introduce Senate Bill 372 in an insurance values he is using are know personally from the A re U .S. to u rists th a t . attempt to clarify the current full replacement values. He health district article is Larry aggravating? statutes regarding school also fails to understand that the Mills. I think Larry Mills did T h a t’s o b v io u sly district boundary changes. values he calls “Assessors as fine a job as anyone could ridiculous. So, where did all , And the M orrow C ounty Appraised Values” are not at M .C.G G , then when he the hate come from, who School Board did, in fact, vote appraised values at all. Rather, retired he took on two o f the started it? to oppose the bill and ask to they are insurance values toughest jobs in the county. It Since the change o f have it killed in committee. provided to the Assessor’s is my opinion, we would have administrations the world has However, if they had taken a Office by MCSD in 1994 or lost our hospital and nursing gone to a distasteful place in a ,• (i.e .: o u td ated home if not for Mills. little more time to absorb the 1995 hand basket. replacement values). information that we provided Since Sept. 11, at the The U.S. government It is quite probable failure ofMeasure of 28, things and the U.N. don’t agree. to them and to consult with their legal counsel, they might that, when an actual appraisal have turned and Mills and the The U.S. government ; have reached a different is co m p le ted , both the committees he belongs to have and the inspectors don’t agree. . v alu e and had very little cooperation conclusion. They reacted in a in su ra n c e The U.S. government , hasty manner based on rumor “Assessor’s Appraised Value” from members o f the board and North Korea are acting and innuendo and, as Dr. cited by Dr. Crippen will be and outside people. I have not like over-bearing step-parent , Crippen said, since then we higher than the “Real Market in ten d ed to dow n g rad e and spoiled brat. Clinton gave have been able to answer most Value” of the assets. anyone, but I wanted to share them w hat they needed. So, until Dr. Crippen my views. o f the questions and clear up Powell says we can win both -, most o f the rumors regarding chooses to acquire all o f the ; I also would like to wars at once. facts about this situation, I comment about the story o f this bill. The U.S. government . Now, in relation to the would hope that he doesn’t Fran Oswald in the Feb. 26 and California don’t agree. division of assets and liabilities, choose to enlighten us further. edition of the Gazette. How many unnecessary wars (s) Lisa Rietmann Dr. Crippen still seems to be I will agree that the does this administration need ; lone Self Determination people of Oregon should “get to win? Clinton stepped out of ; lab o rin g u n d er som e Committee involved and speak up.” We his public oriented bounds, but misconceptions about how this lone should create a situation such he let the terminally ill be , would work. We have, in fact, agreed to an amendment to Measure 28 only worse and comforted. Or, should he be Morrow County as SB 372 that would put this maybe the state o f Oregon serving some o f the 8 5 years ; process under ORS 330.123. needs work in all would get rid o f 446 more for aiding and abetting? .♦ However, Dr. Crippen has troopers. O f course, Morrow There are tim es I areas chosen to selectively quote County Sheriff’s Office would believe, some would have use , ORS 330.123 in a way that To the Editor: probably hire some more of “earn” the “right’’ to speak , Concerning the article them. I cannot see why the freely , even th o u g h the does not accurately reflect what the statute says. Dr. in the Feb. 26 edition o f the state o f Oregon is in such bad constitution guarantees it. As Crippen skips over the part o f H ep p n er G a zette-T im es shape, when Morrow County if war and the military are .i the statute (ORS 330.123(1)) “ T em pers flare as Ione- schools are in worse shape needed “rights of passage.” , sp lit turn and Morrow County and the that directs the “district school M CSD My stepfather fought boards of the affected districts acrim onious;” if I were a city o f Heppner are going in WWII. I was in the service , to im m ediately after the resident of lone, or in that area, stronger than ever. between 1968 and 1972. I change make an equitable or my children were going to This City has worked didn’t go to Canada; I didn’t division o f the then existing school there, I am quite sure Saturday and Sunday with hide. I thought I was doing the ., assets and liabilities between my temper would flare also, if extra help to get ready for St. right thing. My heart and mind , the districts affected by the I were told my school would Pat’s Day. Money must be no have changed over the years. - ch an g e and p ro v id e the close. I can’t see as lone has problem. They have all fairly I c a n ’t say it w as done ; manner of consummating the any other choice but to do new trucks and equipment religiously, but I feel it just as what they are doing. division.” strongly; war and killing are , also. It is a known fact that He chooses instead to I will agree with who wrong. It does not stop the go straight to the instructions smaller schools have better Heppner has for a Mayor and hate. c to the Board o f Arbitration educated children; simply the new city foreman who is No person, no group ,\ that would be appointed if the because teachers have more probably over qualified for his o f people, should have the districts failed to reach an o ne-on-one co n tact w ith position that the city is in as right to dictate war. We the agreement within 20 days. He individual students. good shape as it is. people, as humans, should While keeping track accurately quotes this section The county is trying to have grown up at least that (ORS 330.123(6)) as saying o f lone School news, I see a buy 6000-plus acres to make much. that “Assets include all school large number of students make a snowmobile and 4-wheeler (s) Phillip Kight p ro p e rty and m oneys the honor roll through out their tract at the reload is quite Heppner belonging to the district at the school years. A very high ridiculous, $1.7 million, the time o f division. Liabilities percentage o f these honor same situation as the new include all debts for which the students go on to higher swimming pool in Heppner. S e v e n t h - D a y respective districts in their education. Come on people le t’s do In my opinion, lone something. Adventist Church corporate capacities are liable at the time o f division. In parents take very good care The working people to host special determining assets, school o f their students and are very have had to leave the area to property shall be estimated at proud of them. find work and the farmers have musical program If the Morrow County its real m ark et v a lu e .” had three of the poorest crops T he H ep p n er However, then he chooses to School D istrict w ants to in the last 50 years. The dry S ev en th -D ay A d v e n tist skip over some very relevant consolidate schools, they spell has been tough on cattle Church will be hosting the lan g u ag e and say, “ The should build one on Bombing as well. Hermiston Junior Academy, division... ‘shall be made in Range Rd. and put Irrigon, (s) Richard Peck Saturday, March 15, at 11 proportion to the resident Boardman, lone and Heppner Lexington a.m. The event will be held in average daily membership o f a" together out there. That way, the church’s gym. This will be all students could ride a bus U.S. at a the districts.’ a special musical program At th is p o in t the 150 miles to school and back; featuring the choir, hand bells crossroads, with and statute actually says: “The or pay $2 a gallon for gas and band. assets and liabilities shall be drive themselves. decisions ahead The program is free to Also, it appears to me divided between the districts the public and all are welcome. To the Editor: in proportion to the last that the M orrow C ounty The U.S. finds itself at There will also be a fellowship assessed value of the real and H ealth D istrict Board o f another crossroads, another dinner at 1 p.m. personal property. The district Directs have worked hard at tim e to make a decision. retaining the real property shall holding things together in all of Peace or war? WVSC postpones pay the o th e r d istric ts Morrow County. Or can we? Make a meeting I fell from a roof on concerned such sums as are decision? The rules that govern The Willow Valley determined in accordance with M ay 29, 2002 and broke the electoral college (the three vertebrae in my neck and Service C lu b ’s scheduled the provisions o f this section. senators and representatives of five in my top eight vertebrae pro g ram m eetin g for All funds to be apportioned each state) are firmly stated during the current school year, o f my back and crushed the within the constitution. When Thursday, March 13 has been after such division, shall be other three. If I would have the fed eral g o v ern m en t postponed to a later date. The made in proportion to the had to be tran sp o rted to disagrees with the popular club will meet on Thursday, re sid e n t av erag e d aily Hermiston or Pendleton I vote, it has the right to override M arch 20 w ith M aster membership o f the districts don’t think I would have made it. No matter it seems, the Gardener Cecil Rill, from 12- 1 p.m. at John’s Other Place divided, as shown by the it. I feel the Heppner hospital majorities expectations. saved my life. in Heppner. report o f such districts for the Letten to the Editor ; j j r
