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Local youth participate in Bike Rodeo Bc33ia le ts«l1 U o f J .'¡e»3?a?er L ib r a r y Eugene, OR 9 7 4 J3 Patrick Burch (front) with new hike won at bicycle safety program, with MCSO Deputy John Bowles. VO L 123 ► NO. 20 16 Pages Wednesday, May 19,2004 P atrick B urch, 5, Heppner, was the winner of a bike awarded at the bicycle rodeo held in Heppner on May 14. He is the son of Dee and D avid Burch of Heppner. The bicycle safety program, put on by the Ride and Glide Stunt Team and sponsored by Red Lion and the M orrow C ounty S h e riff’s O ffice (V erlin Denton, Sheriff) featured d em o n stratio n s and encouraged bike safety and the use of bike helm ets. Local organizer was MCSO Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon Deputy John Bowles, with assistan ce from M CSO Deputies Justin Slinger and Colleen Neubert. First events held at OHV park The Ride and Glide M CSO, also traveled to Stunt team, sponsored by lone, Boardman and Irrigon. (Back Row L-R): Ride and Glide Stunt Team Brent Sprute, Jake Schuster and Fish Johnson; and (Front Row L-R): Morrow County Sheriff’s Office Deputies Justin Slinger, Colleen Neubert and John Bowles. ISD expects over $400,000 in cash carryover Chance Raver, 10, makes a jump at the Morrow County OHV park Saturday . Over 130 people participated in the poker run. The Opal Butte 100 race on Sunday drew 60 partici pants. OHV officials said between 400 and 500 were at the park over the weekend. The race was 37 miles long and the poker run was 25 miles. The next event at the park is June 12 . lone student instrumental in Italian drug bust W hile on a recent trip in Italy, lone High School senior Tim Doherty was instrumental in stopping a man stealing drugs. It is a common thing in Italy to see pickpockets, said Doherty, however, he was beginning to get tired of it. Then one day, w hile coming out of a hat shop in Rome, he saw a man with a bag of pink elephants. The man was standing there as if he was going to sell them, w hen all o f the sudden another man came running up and stole the bag. Deciding he really was tired o f pickpockets, D oherty threw his shopping bags to his friend, Billy Ross, also an IHS senior and went chasing after the guy. He Sheriff clarifies city police contract Injuries to two Morrow County deputies have not impacted the number of pa trol o ffice rs on duty in Heppner, the county sheriff said last week. Sheriff Verlin Denton said injuries of two deputies in a domestic dispute last month “Doesn’t have anything to do with what happened up North,” Denton told the Ga zette-Times. The sheriff contracts with the city of Heppner to pro vide police p ro tectio n . Denton took exception with a news report in last week's Gazette about a May 10 city council meeting, that said the city -co u n ty contract called for three deputies on duty at all times. Currently one of the depu ties that will be assigned to H eppner is at the police accademy for training. Sub sequently Heppner has only two deputies covering the city. The contract does call for three deputies to be assigned to Heppner, but also states that “With a three-man po lice force, the City experi enced and expected impacts on patrol time when officers were at training. The impact on patrol time under this contract due to training of deputies will be no greater than the city experience in the past with its three man police force.” was able to catch the guy by the back of his collar and then pinned his arms down so that he couldn’t run away. Italian police came to the com m otion and arrested the pickpocket. In talking to the police about what had happened, they told him that t h e elephants where a c tu a lly filled with c o c a in e and he had ju s t s to p p e d one drug IHS senior Tim Doherty dealer from stealing drugs from another dealer’s turf. He also learned that it is highly uncommon for anyone to stop a pickpocket because they are usually carrying knives and try to stab anyone who tries to stop them. T h an k fu lly for D oherty, he did not get stabbed and returned safely back to lone. ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENT DEADLINE: MONDAYS AT 5:00 P.M. I « The lone School D istrict Board learned at th e ir reg u lar m eeting M onday night that the district’s cash carryover for this fiscal year is expected to be over $400,000, rather than the $200,000 figure initially budgeted. A c t i n g su p erin ten d e n t G eorge Murdock told the board that u n an ticip ated revenues include a state facility grant of $110,000 for the capital reserve fund and $ 116,241 for the general fund from the settlement between ISD and M orrow C ounty School District. He said that the additional monies will help assure the continued success of the district, especially in the event o f lean tim es ahead, and cautioned the board that they should not expect such ad d itio n al revenues in the years to come. Of special concern is the projected reduction in revenues o f the M orrow County Unified Recreation D istric t w hich funds extracurricular activities for schools in Morrow County. ISD could receive in the neighborhood of $30,000 less than req u ired to m aintain e x istin g extracurricular activities for the 2005-06 school year. ISD Principal Dick Allen told the board that MCURD is projecting that the assessed value for M orrow C ounty w ill decrease by $83 million by the 2006-07 school year, with utilities the biggest cause for the d ecrease. Allen said that would result in MCURD’s contributions to schools decreasing from $420,000 to $362,000. An added factor is the additional money required for athletic programs for the new Irrigon High School. A llen suggested that ISD may want to consider increasing gate fees and pay to participate fees to increase revenue. He also added, however, “Please note that the athletic program s in Morrow County will still be better off than most school d istric ts because o f the Morrow County Recreation District.” ISD is cu rren tly receiv in g $94.000 from M CURD to run athletic- programs. Murdock told the board that MCURD “was kind enough to spend another $13,000” from its reserve funds for ISD athletic programs for the 2004-05 school year. LSD approved budget changes, adopted the supplem ental budget au th o rizin g the unanticipated monies and made appropriations. The adjusted capital reserve appropriation is $117,716 and the adjusted general fund a p p ro p riatio n is $1,810,396. Also at the meeting, Murdock told the board that the construction project and tra n sac tio n s w ith the M orrow C ounty School Board have been completed. He said ISD is still working on so lu tio n s to the Lexington-Pine City issue. When lone was still a part of MCSD, those students living in the Lexington-Pine C ity area could choose between lone and Heppner Schools. H ow ever since lo n e ’s secessio n , those students are within MCSD and the MCSD Board has not released those students to attend lone schools. Board m em ber D ebbie R adie has announced her resignation from the board, as she will be moving out of the lone district. ISD will advertise the position and plans to interview candidates at the June meeting and appoint a new board member at the July meeting. In other business, the ISD Board unanimously approved new graduation requirem ents. The newly approved standard diploma w ould begin w ith the graduating class of 2008, while an enhanced diploma w ould begin w ith the graduating class of 2005. 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