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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
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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.
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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!
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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
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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
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