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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.
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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.
The
standard
diplom a to take effect in
2008 w ill req u ire four
language arts classes, three
mathematics, two science,
three social science, one
applied or fine art or second
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