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School board to receive $349,000 from rec district; up $41,000 over last year Bessie /.'etse 11 U of ü Newspaper Library Eumene, U3 97103 VOL. 123 NO. 32 8 Pages Wednesday, August 11, 2004 Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon Help celebrate Smokey’s 60th birthday Sm okey the Bear will be celebrating his 60th birthday and you can join him on Wednesday, Aug. 18 from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. at the Forest Service Building in Heppner. Cake will be served to attendees and Smokey will be there to take pictures w ith anyone who brings their camera. There will also be a fire engine at the event. The story behind the Smokey the Bear campaign goes all the way back to the 1950s, when a bear cub found him self in a forest surrounded by flames. To escape the fire burning around him, he climbed up in a tree. By the time the fire fighters found the scared and hungry cub, the forest was charred and blackened. The fire fig h te rs, park forest rangers and the warden were so moved by the bravery o f this little cub th at they nam ed him continued page 3 Smokey the Bear will celebrate birthday August 18 Heppner Schools to hold new student registration H epp n er S chools will be holding new student registration on Thursday, Aug. 12. H eppner Elementary registration will be held from 8-10 a.m . Heppner Jr/Sr High School registration w ill be held from 10 a.m .-12 noon. Special Fair & Rodeo section in this week’s paper The Morrow County Fair and Oregon Trail Pro Ro- deo starts next week, and included in this week's pa- per is a 16 page special section with articles and advertisements about the events._______________ Princess Emily Bergstrom Em ily B ergstrom , 16, once again has joined the M orrow County Fair and Rodeo, last year as a pennant bearer and this year as a princess. Bergstrom tried out for the Court because she thought that being on the Court sounded like fun and she wanted to be able to represent Morrow County and tell people w hat happens at the Fair and Rodeo. She also has an aunt that was queen in 1936 and other relatives that have been on the Court, which brought about some interest. Helping Bergstrom represent Morrow County is her 10-year-old q u arter horse Morgan mare, Penny. For the past seven years, Bergstrom has been active in 4-H with cooking, sewing and horse. This year, besides her performing her duties as princess, she will be showing her horse in the h orse show, as well as modeling for the sewing 4- H Club. She has also taught continued page 3 l The Morrow County School District approved an agreement with the Morrow County Unified Recreation D istrict and accep ted $349,000 from MCURD to fund e x tra c u rric u la r activities for the 2004-05 school year. M CSD is receiving $41,000 more than it received from MCURD the previous year, MCSD D eputy C lerk R honda Lorenz told the board at their regular meeting in Heppner Monday night. L orenz told the board to expect a reduced contribution from MCURD for the 2006-07 school year because o f a d rastic reduction in tax revenues th at year, g en erally a ttrib u te d to large tax contributors moving into the enterprise zone at the Port of Morrow. Lorenz said that M CURD is ex p ected to spend dow n its cash carryover that year also. Also at the meeting, the MCSD board authorized S u p erin ten d en t M ark B urrow s to spend an additional five percent for possible cost overruns on tw o d istric t p ro je c ts, if necessary, to save time in the bidding process. One o f the projects, to repair roofs at R iverside High School, H eppner E lem en tary School, H eppner High School and A.C. Houghton E lem entary S ch o o l, is estim ated around $1.25 million. The other project, estimated around $75,000, is to make changes to turn Columbia Middle School into a high school facility (Irrigon High School), so that it can open this fall. B urrow s said that the district will open bids on both projects this Thursday and will open bids for a new R iverside H igh School activities building on August 26. He also said that the p ro ject to ren o v ate the district office is “moving right along.” In other business, the board: -h eard from Burrows that state reports indicate that there is “some good news and some things we need to work on” with respect to student test scores. -was introduced to Daye Stone, the new half time vice principal/half-time counselor to begin work this fall in Heppner. Stone has a certified library license and also coaches sports. -learned that State Representative Greg Smith, R-Heppner, will be on hand at a MCSD Board workshop planned for August 26. The w orkshop w ill be held th ro u g h V-tel at both Riverside High School and Heppner High School sites. MCSD Board Chair John Renfro said that Smith has indicated in terest in the board’s position on certain issues and the board intends to ask him for clarification on issues p e rta in in g to charter schools. -reappointed Marcia Kem p, fo rm er board member and former budget com m ittee m em ber, to budget committee position # 2 . -ad o p ted a re so lu tio n c o n cern in g em p lo y m en t o f PERS re tire e s. The reso lu tio n states that a PERS retiree may be considered for re employment by the district “where another candidate cannot be found.” Those employees will be hired on a tem p o rary , o n e-y ear contract and will be paid at Step 8 on the district salary sch ed u le. "N o special c o m p e n s a t i o n accom m odations may be made in lieu o f contributions that the d istric t m ight o th erw ise have been obligated to make,” said the new wording. - a c c e p t e d resignations as follows: Pat S h errett, A C II/SB E and Windy River Elementary School music teacher. - a p p r o v e d em ploym ent for K rystin M iller, SBE first grade teacher. -ratified the Morrow C ounty E ducation Association coaches’ salary schedule with payment as follows (depending on five steps): -3-A schools: athletic directors ranging from $3,412 to $4136; head coaches from $3,205 to $4,032; JV coaches from $2,481 to $2,895; Head golf, tennis and wrestling frorn $2.636 to $3,205; Third assistants or C-team golf, tennis from $1,654 to $2,068. continued page 3 Walden makes Heppner visit G reg W alden, (back) visits with local kids L-R Kile W ilson, 10, Kati Tavloe, II, and Kyle Tavloe,12, when he made a visit to H eppner last Tuesday. Also with W alden was Sandy B aruah, C hief of Staff of the U.S. D epartm ent of C om m erce from W ashington DC (right). U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, Bush’s tax cuts as helpful to R -O re., a tten d ed the small businesses. He said H eppner C h am b er o f the tax cuts are creating jobs Com m erce luncheon and and allo w in g larger said one o f most important corporations to issue more issues in our district is the dividends. “The government healthy forest initiative that doesn’t create wealth, you would allow harvesting the create wealth.” Walden told forest o f dead and dying the chamber. trees. He said he also B efore the m eeting support setting aside $500 Walden took a walking tour million to fight forest fires. o f Heppner including the He ap p lau d ed President new Heritage Plaza. Hunters take cougar near Troy D ick Paris, of Heppner, with a small female cougar shot by his son-in-law Farron Reynolds, of Milton-Freew ater at Bartlett Bench near Troy on Sunday, Aug. 1. W hile on their way to go hear hunting, Paris and Reynolds came upon the cougar stalking a deer. Paris plans on m aking a rug out of the hide for his living room. MIST AND COOL OUTDOOR COOLING SYSTEM Makes outdoor areas up to 25 ° cooler Uses only a few gallons o f water per hour M orrow C ou n ty G rain G r o w e r s Prince** Emily Bergstrom with her hor*e Penny. 1 Lexington 9 8 9 - 8 2 2 1 • 1 - 8 0 0 - 4 5 2 - 7 3 9 6 For form •qvipimnt, vhit o«r % W »b lit* at WWW meet not
