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VOL. 123
NO. 42
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new building
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
Daylight Savings Heppner Booster
Time With
to end
Club to meet
the changing
The Gazette-Times
will be moving to its new
home, the former Heppner
City Hall building, this
Friday, Oct. 22. The new
office will open for business
Monday morning, Oct. 25
color of the leaves, it is also
nearing time to change our
clocks. The end of Daylight
Saving Time is Sunday, Oct.
31. Clocks need to be turned
back one hour Saturday
night, Oct 30
The * Heppner
Booster Club will meet on
Oct 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the Women Racers, including local racer Heather Rill (hack left).
Heppner High School. The
Sixty-eight racers group of racers were “X- racers
club will be discussing the
The group consisted
steak feed and auction as descended on the OHV Park Class” racers who compete
of
both
local
and out of town
well as an upcoming tailgate outside of Heppner this for points in the race circuit
racers.
weekend Included in the and are considered serious
feed
County School Board has
submitted a resolution to
the Oregon School Boards
Association to prevent
charter schools from
another districts without
inter-district transfer
agreements, the lone School
Board revealed at their
regular meeting Monday
According to the
resolution, the MCSD Board
asks OSBA to change “the
current charter school law
that would prohibit students
Morrow
County
School
District
opposes
lone
School
District
charter
school
move
The
Morrow accepting students from night
Gardner’s closing shop after 40 years
Roe Gardner in front of Gardner’s Men’s Wear.
G ardner’s M en’s
Wear is closing after 40 years
of business in Heppner
LeRoy Gardner
purchased the business in
1964 from Bill Blake after
leasing the propane company
for many years Gardner had
no experience in the clothing
business but wanted a
change from propane Much
of his clientele came from
contacts he had made during
the propane business days,
bringing in customers from
Spray, Fossil, Condon and
other area towns
Roe, Gardner’s son.
purchased the business in
1983 from his father, who
wanted to retire, as a way to
expand his business Roe had
opened Roemark’s in
Hermiston in 1973.
Gardner’s closure is
coming after much thought
and the desire of Roe to
prepare for retirement in the
future. “It was a tough
decision,” said Roe, who
after a recent birthday
decided to try to cut back his
workload
Another factor in the
closure was that he “didn’t
want to wait too long and
lose touch with the
business.” When looking
towards retirement, he
thought trying to sell two
businesses at once would be
difficult and decided he had
to start somewhere
No set closure date
has been established yet, but
the store has already begun
its going out of business
sales, with prices being
regularly marked down
Roe says he
appreciates all the support
Heppner has given the
business over the course of
the many years
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from attending a charter
school outside the student’s
resident school district
without the permission of the
student’s resident school
district.”
The lone School
District, which recently
broke from the Morrow
County School District, is
working toward becoming a
charter school, which,
according to current
regulations, could accept any
student, even those students
outside their residence area,
and receive state funding for
those students lone
currently has accepted out-
of-district students, but does
not
receive
state
reimbursement for them.
Students in question
generally live in the
Lexington/Pine City area
within the Morrow County
School District Prior to
lone’s secession from
MCSD, those students could
choose whether to attend
Heppner or lone schools
ISD has drafted a
letter to OSBA and to the
other charter schools in the
state opposing the
resolution In the letter to
OSBA, the ISD Board said
that Bill Kuhn, a Morrow
County School Board
member, had told them that
if lone tried to become a
charter school, he had “the
authority of the MCSD to
pursue any means legally or
legislatively to fight it.”
The ISD letter also
stated that if “MCSD claims
hardship for the loss of funds
generated by students who
have chosen to attend lone
Schools”, “the facts do not
support that.” ISD maintains
that the students in dispute
“never did attend any
schools currently in the
MCSD Funds they never
had cannot be counted as a
loss ”
ISD’s
letter
maintains that MCSD’s
“resolution was submitted to
deal with a local issue
without considering the
nearly 50 other charter
schools statewide ” ISD says
that it “believes the issue can
be resolved without
involving the other charter
schools in the state and the
general membership of the
OSBA” and requests the
OSBA resolution committee
to consider rejecting the
resolution
Kuhn told the
Gazette-Times Tuesday that
MCSD's resolution would
apply only to “charter school
districts” and he believes
only around two exist in the
state, and would not affect
the majority of charter
schools around the state
According to the Oregon
Department of Education
website, there are 56 charter
schools in Oregon. An ODE
representative said that the
term “charter districts” was
a misnomer She said, for
example, that a k-12 school
located on one campus could
become a charter school and
that there is no such term as
“charter district ” Two other
districts fit these criteria-
Paisley and Camas Valley
The ODE rep said that while
Paisley calls itself a charter
district, that term was
technically incorrect
If OSBA does pass
MCSD’s resolution, it would
still not become state law
OSBA acts as a lobbying
group and, if it approves the
resolution, could lobby the
state legislature and submit
bills to change the Oregon
statutes concerning charter
school regulations Changes
in the state laws pertaining
to charter schools would still
have to be approved by the
Oregon Legislature
The MCSD has also
appealed a ruling by the Big
Sky League, of which lone
is a member, to allow a
student outside of the lone
District to play sports in
lone According to Morrow
County
School
Superintendent Mark
Burrows, the student in
question attended Heppner
High School last year and is
attending school in lone this
year without a release from
MCSD Burrows said that
the Big Sky League granted
the waiver and allowed the
student to play sports in lone
“in violation of OSAA
rules ” OSAA rules prohibit
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