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Rec district board discusses relationship with school districts Bes3ie ¿'etzell U o f ü f i e#3pa j ar L i b r a r y 50 < HEPPNER imes r VOL. 123 NO. 5 10 Pages Wednesday, February 4,2004 Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon Wind storm causes local damage Thursday night's wind storm caused a tree next to G eorge and Anna Mae Steagall’s home to split in two and come crashing down upon th eir house. No injuries were re p o rte d . V Three Morrow County boys chosen for Shriners’ game T h re e C o u n ty f o o tb a ll p la y e rs w e r e chosen to play in the 5 2 nd annual S h rin e rs H o s p i ta l M o rro w Oregon East-W est A ll-S ta r f o o t b a l 1 Chuy Klguezabal g a m e . Chuy Elguezabal. a H eppner High School senior and Paul Neiffer, an lone High School senior, were selected as East team players. Kyler Lovgren. a HHS senior, was selected as an East team alternate. Players were chosen in The Dalles on Saturday, Jan. 17 as the 2004 season got underway. T his y e a r’s slate of o ffic ers w ill be u n d er the directio n o f N oble W ayne Lewis. B aker City, Al Kader S h rin e C en ter. F irst Vice C h airm an is N oble R alph Patterson, U nion, AI K ader Shrine Center and the Second Vice Chairm an is Noble Tom Reeves, Klamath Falls, Hillah Shrine Center. N oble Dick Gam er. W oodbum. AI Kader Shrine C enter will fill the secretary positions and Noble Randy Guyer, Baker City, AI Kader Shrine Center will stay on as tre a su re r. T he East- W e s t Association has 19 committees and/or d i r e c to r s t h a t a m m m ifc all aspects of th e game. Kyler Lovgren A pproxim ately 150 high schools participate in this activity contributing 120 high s c h o o l g r a d u a te s . T h e s e le c te d p la y e r s a re considered on their athletic ability, grade point average, the a b s e n c e o f a n y j u v e n ile criminal record and graduating senior status in the year he was s e le c te d . E ach tea m w ill consist o f a 30-m an player squad and a 30-man alternate s q u a d , e a c h o f w h ic h is comprised o f 14 players from the 3A schools, 12 from the 2A schools and 4 from the 1A schools. Should any one of the starting line-up be disqualified o r fo r any re a so n c a n n o t attend, he will be replaced from the alternate line-up. P la y er se le c tio n is c o n d u c te d s o le ly by th e c o a ch e s. T he c o a c h e s are selected on a rotating basis, e a ch co a ch h a v in g had a league w inning season. Ben B u c h a n a n , F o re st G ra v e , COWAPA League w ill be coach for m i th e W e st ♦ - * team. John M a ttila , Warrcnton. Northwest League and Todd S h irle y , Paul Neiffer P o w ers, Skyline League will assist him. T im D o d s o n , F lo r e n c e , Skyline League will be head c o ach fo r the E ast Team . Assisting him will be Bill Yester, Myrtle Point, Big Fir League and Dan Taylor. W amic, Big Sky League. T eam p e rs o n n e l manager for the East Team will be Dave Courtney, Bum s, A1 K ader Shrine Center. G ary Tate, North Powder. A1 Kader S h r in e C e n te r is te a m personnel for the West Team. The Shrine o f North American is the world's laigest philanthropy, supporting 22 hospitals throughout North America. The sole purpose of the Shrine is to im prove the life sty le s and a b ilitie s o f orthopedically disabled and burned children. The East- West game in Baker City has continued page two The M orrow County to spend som e o f their cash M C U R D reiterated U nified R ecreation District carryover,” she added. She th at they did not w ant to Board has decided to issue a said that M C SD previously m icrom anage M C S D ’s co- p r e s s r e le a s e to c o u n te r had asked for $318,(XX) when curricular program, as alleged statem ents m ade about the they had a $ 1 60.000 cash by Renfro, but instead had recreation district at a Morrow carryover. offered to help M CSD get out County School Board meeting C o lu m b ia M id d le o f a sticky political situation. a n d c la r if y M C U R D ’s School Principal Ron Anthony “We do not want to dictate p o s itio n . T h e r e le a s e is said that the school district had w hat activities the schools e n d in g board approval. increased its carryover during have," said M CU RD Board M CURD Chair Cyde the time o f Bruce Anderson’s m em ber Del LaRue, lone. E s te s b e c a m e c o n c e rn e d stin t as su p e rin te n d e n t to Lisanne C urrin, the about statem ents m ade by prepare for the opening of the recreation d istrict’s budget M CSD Chair John Renfro at Irrigon Junior/Senior High officer, who was present at the the M CSD meeting in Irrigon School, which could occur this m eeting, told M CU RD that Jan. 21 and brought the issue fall. The opening entails turning they could not continue to before the M C U R D Board Columbia Middle School into spend at their current level la s t w e e k . A c c o rd in g to the junior/senior high facility. w ith o u t c o n s e q u e n c e s . M C U R D Board m em bers, The M CU RD Board “Everyone has to realize we M CSD Board m em bers told sta te d th at they ty p ic a lly have only so much money and th e m th a t s c h o o l b o a rd receiv ed a budget request when it’s gone, it’s gone," said m e m b e rs h a v e a rig h t to from the school district, but did LaRue. express their opinions, but do not have specific information School d i s t r ic t not necessarily represent the s u c h as w h a t c o s ts a re principals iind athletic directors entire board. involved in running a football at the meeting concurred that M CURD B o a rd program, for example. M CURD provided a valuable members stress that the reason “We didn't realize that asset to M orrow County and they budgeted $94,000 for the you g u y s (p rin c ip a ls and expressed a desire to work new ly form ed lone School athletic directors) were asked through the situation. “There’s D i s t r i c t ’s c o - c u r r ic u la r to cut programs and funding . not a conversation with my program w as because that . . and w e w ere ask ed to colleagues from other school am ount was earm arked for increase our b u dget,” said districts where 1’ m not thankful lone in the budget M C SD Estes. (for M CU RD ) and we want presented to M CURD, if lone E s te s s a id th a t to be protective o f w hat we had not seceded. M C U R D M C U R D is also suggesting have,” said H eppner High a ls o p o in te d out th a t the th a t th e s c h o o l d is tr ic ts School athletic director and b u d g e t fo r the u p co m in g increase their co-curricular teacher Greg Grant. 2 0 0 4 -0 5 y e a r has not yet incom e by raising pay-to- Estes sum m ed up the been decided. participate fees from students situation by saying, “We all T he first M C U R D and gate receipts. have to play nice in the same budget meeting is planned for sandbox.” Thursday. April 29, at 7:30 p.m . at the Irrigon A nnex building. Public hearings will be held May 27 in lone and June 24 at Boardm an. Each year, M C SD and other involved entities have presented their b u d g e t r e q u e s ts to th e M C U R D Board. This will be the first year that lone will present its budget as a stand alone entity. The M C U R D Board said that their initial goal is to fund the sam e co-curricular program at each school and then, if m oney is available. M CURD could go beyond the basics and fund additional (L-R): Kelsey YVolfT. Whitney Smith and Wendy Appleton. program s, such as soccer, for Two Heppner Junior S ectio n s in cluded H onors example, which has become an H ig h s tu d e n ts r e c e n tly Band. Honors Orchestra and important activity at Riverside attended the Oregon All-State Honors Choir. High School. Music Festival held recently at H ead clinician and The M CU RD Board Springfield High School in g u e s t c o n d u c to r fo r the also took issue with the way Springfield. Kelsey Wolff was Honors Band section was Dr. Renfro calculated the amount selected for the Honors Band Jay W. G ilbert, chair o f the o f money M CU RD spent per section. W hitney Sm ith was m usic departm ent at Doane student. R enfro included all selected for the Honors Choir C ollege in C rete. NE. Dr. students in each district to section. David Childs, director of the a r r iv e at M C U R D 's p e r The H onors M usic Vanderbilt Symphonic Choice s tu d e n t e x p e n d itu re s . He Program is sponsored and run and a ssistan t p ro fesso r o f estim ated that students in the by th e O re g o n M u sic choral studies at the B lair lone School D istrict would Educators A ssociation, and School let the H onors C hoir rec e iv e $604 per stu d en t, involves those students who section. $94,000 for the entire district, The H eppner youth while students in the Morrow show extraordinary aptitude in the m usic arts. The program w ere able to interact w ith County School District would involves two days of technique o ther m usic students from receive only $ 140 per student, clinics and intense practical acro ss the state and from am ounting to $318,000 for applications. The culmination various sizes o f ju n io r high that district. How ever, says of the clinic is a formal concert sch(X)ls. Local music educator. E stes, M C U R D funds co- w ith a ll th re e s e c tio n s Wendy Appleton, referred the curricular activities at the junior dem onstrating their skills. students to the program. high and senior high level only, Local students selected for all-state not at the elem entary school level, so the figures quoted by Renfro are inaccurate. M C U R D expressed c o n c e rn w ith the am o u n t M C SD had earlier budgeted for cash carryover in their M CSD co-curricular budget. M C U R D m aintains that the c a r r y o v e r h a d in c re a s e d dramatically, while at the same tim e M C SD was asking for a d d itio n a l f u n d s fro m M CURD. “ It a p p e a r s th a t M CSD was over-inflating its budget,’’ Estes said. “We have encouraged the school board SMCST announces 2004 board members Bill Rietm annoflone w as elected president o f the S o u th M o rro w C o u n ty Scholarship Trust for the 2004 year at the S M C S T ’s annual m eeting held in Heppner. at Bank o f Eastern O regon, on Jan. 26. D el La Rue w as e le c te d tre a s u re r, S h aro n Harrison, secretary and Barb H a y e s , V ic e P r e s id e n t. M artha M unkers and Bill Rietmann were re-elected for a three year term. Other board members include Carri Grieb and Missy Cutsforth. 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