FOUR- Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March
Morrow County School District to
reorganize administration
Changes are coming to the Morrow County School
District administration In a move to better implement
curriculum and create “ more effective operations,” the
assistant superintendent position is being reinstated and the
maintenance department is being restructured, said MCSD
Superintendent Mark Burrows
“To help provide leadership and coordination in the
areas o f district curricula, instruction programs and support
programs including state and federal grant programs,” the
assistant superintendent position is being reinstated The
assistant will also work closely with the superintendent to
help divide the other administrative duties that are beyond
the cirricula, including budgeting, m anagem ent o f
maintenance and construction projects and implementation
o f the numerous district programs
Many programs, such as special education, Title
programs. Talented and Gifted and bilingual education have
been overseen by the programs director With the inclusion
of an assistant superintendent, the programs director will
move to a half-time position, in which the director will
focus only on special education
Another change is the need to have an administrator
in each school in the north end The administrators already
in position are being reorganized so that they can better
cover the schools to have one administrator in each building
This change is also being brought to help the middle
band o f students (fifth through eighth grade) better reach
state test averages “Test scores in kindergarten through
third grade are fantastic,” said Burrows. “The north end
schools are beating many state averages .” High school
scores are also doing well, but fifth and eighth grade tests
are not where the administration would like to see them It
is hoped that having leadership presence in each school
will help better implement curriculum that will better the
test scores
One o f the final changes in the administration will
be seen in the maintenance department. Responsibilities
that have general been handled by the maintenance
supervisor, maintenance worker and summer grounds
keepers, will now taken over by three facilities coordinators
who will hold full-time positions. The three coordinators
will be over three separate areas- Boardman, Irrigon and
LexingtonTJeppner. “The facilities coordinator will perform
a variety o f duties including custodial and maintenance
duties, as well as grounds keeping under the direction o f
the building principals and the assistant superintendent and
in cooperation with the head custodian at assigned schools,”
states the job description
These changes in administration will be seen as soon
as April, when the facilities coordinators will begin. The
position o f assistant superintendent will begin with the new
fiscal year which begins July 2005.
While many may worry that all things changes will
increase administration costs, Burrows was glad to inform
that the reorganization is actually reducing Vi an FTE
position, bringing the district total down from 1 \-Vi to 11
FTE position.
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On Thursday, Feb
17, Helen Crawford, with
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presented each third grader
at lone Elementary School
with a dictionary donated by
the Grange
C raw ford
told
students that, “A dictionary,
you’ll find, is a book you’ll
use all your lifetime.”
She also presented
four dictionaries to home
school students who hadn’t
attended the third grade in
lone the year before
A to tal o f 17
dictionaries were presented
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2, 2005
Royals end Mustangs season in second half
By Rick Paullus
A 37-7 advantage in
the second h a lf by the
Portland Christian Royals
ended the season for the
Heppner Mustang girls in the
second round o f the US
B ank/Les Schw ab Tires/
O SA A 2A b ask etb all
playoffs on Saturday, Feb
26. The M ustangs, who
ended up 19 and 7 on the
year, hit five o f eight 3-
pointers and had a 25-23
lead at the half, but a 21 -0
run in the th ird q u a rte r
carried the Royals to a 60-
32 win
The game marked
the end o f their high school
basketball careers for seniors
Shanna Rietm ann, Susan
Southworth, Terra Wilson,
Linsey Mitchell and Blair
Keithley. Madison Bailey
had her season end earlier
with a severe knee injury
Returning for coach Mark
D ow dy will be ju n io rs,
Heather Yocom and Lynan
B ingham , so p h o m o res,
Sarah Price, Lyndi Patton,
Regi Seitz and M ahaley
Huddleston and freshman,
Megan Orr.
The Mustangs took
a 16-14 lead after one,
getting two 3-pointers from
Patton, one from Seitz and
th re e
p o in ts
from
Southw orth as they came
back from an 8-0 deficit to
start the game
Patton and Orr each
hit 3-pointers in the second
q u arter as the M ustangs
clung to a two-point lead at
25-23 at the half.
The Royals came out
o f the half with a vengeance
as they took advantage o f
their height going on a 21 -0
run to take a 44-25 lead after
three quarters o f play.
Rietmann hit a 3-
pointer in the fourth, but it
w asn’t nearly enough as the
Royals continued to pull
away for the win
The
to p -ran k ed
R oyals will re tu rn to
Pendleton to defend the state
championship they won last
year as they beat Sherman
County in the title game
Patton led the way
for the Mustangs with nine
points and pulled down six
rebounds, with Orr adding
seven points, four rebounds
and four steals. Seitz had six
p o in ts and tw o steals,
Rietmann had five rebounds
and four a ssists and
S o u th w o rth
had five
rebounds and two steals.
Heppner 16 9 0 7-32
Portland Christian
14 9 21 16-60
H eppner-
Lyndi
Patton 3 0-0 9, Megan Orr 2
2-2 7, Regi Seitz 2 1-2 6,
Susan Southworth 2 1-1 5,
Shanna Rietmann 1 0-0 3,
Sarah Price 1 0-1 2, Linsey
Mitchell, Terra Wilson, Blair
Keithley, Heather Yocom,
M ahaley Huddleston and
Lynan Bingham Team: 11 4-
6 32. 3-pts: Patton 3,
Rietmann, Seitz and Orr
Portland Christian-
Kelsey Hill 8 3-4 19, Kim Hill
5 0-0 12, Bauman 4 0-0 8,
Myron 3 2-6 8, Johnson 2 1 -2
5, Tipett 1 3-4 5, Clisby 1 0-0
2, M cCain 1 1-2 1 and
Hutchinson Team: 24 10-18
60. 3-pts: Kim Hill 2.
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Photo bv Whitnev Matthews
Shanna Rietmann fights for the rebound against Portland.
Photo by Whitney Matthews.
Mustangs blow past Oakridge Morrow County
By Rick Paullus
The
H eppner
Mustang girls raced to a 31 -
14 lead at the h a lf and
coasted to a 56-46 win over
the Oakridge Warriors on
W ednesday, Feb 23 in
Oakridge in the first round
of the US Bank/Les Schwab
T ires/O S A A S tate 2A
basketball playoffs The
Mustangs improved to 19
and 6 on the year with the
win and w ere to play at
P o rtlan d C h ristian on
Saturday, Feb 26 in the
second round
The Mustangs took
a 16-7 lead after one, getting
six points from Megan Orr,
four points from Shanna
Rietmann, three points from
Linsey Mitchell and a 3-
pointer from Terra Wilson
Lyndi Patton hit a 3-
p o in te r and scored five
points in the second as the
Mustangs pushed their lead
to 31-14 at the half
O rr scored five
points in the third, including
a 3-pointer, but the Warriors
cut the lead to 42-29 going
into the fo urth q u a rte r
Rietmann and Patton each
hit 3-pointers and Mitchell
hit four o f four free throws
as the Mustangs increased
their lead to 20 points with
three minutes left and they
coasted to the win
Orr led a balanced
scoring atta ck w ith 13
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points, three steals and three
a ssists, w ith R ietm ann
adding nine points, seven
assists and tw o steals.
Mitchell hit seven o f seven
free throws finishing with
nine points, Patton had eight
points, two steals and two
assists, W ilson had four
rebounds and four assists
and Sarah Price had eight
rebounds.
Heppner 16 15 11
14-56
Oakridge 7 7 15 17-
46
H ep p n er- M egan
O rr 4 4-4 13, Shanna
Rietmann 4 0-2 9, Linsey
M itchell 1 7-7 9, Lyndi
P atto n 2 2-3 8, Susan
Southworth 1 2-2 4, Sarah
Price 2 0-0 4, Regi Seitz 2
0-0 4, Terra Wilson 1 0-0 3,
Blair Keithley 1 0-0 2, Lynan
Bingham 0 0-2 0, Heather
Yocom
and
M ahaley
Huddleston Team: 18 15-20
56. 3-pts: P atto n 2,
Rietmann, Wilson and Orr
O a k r i d g e -
M cC astand 6 0-0 16,
Obermeyer 5 0-1 10, Gamez
4 0-0 8, Freeman 2 2-3 6,
Cossette 1 1-2 3, Shoeder 1
0-0 2 and Saraz 0 1-2 1
Team: 19 4-8 46. 3-pts:
McCastand 4
HLL try-outs
rescheduled
T h ere will be no
major girl try-outs and the
minor girls’ try-outs have
been changed to March 9 at
4 p m at Bob Kilkenny field
For
m ore
information, contact Renee
Yocom
at
676-9474
mornings or 676-9821
Gun Club news
On Feb. 27, a warm
and breezy afternoon, 12
sh o o ters g ath ered
at
Morrow County Gun Club
In singles shooting
(16 yards), Jeff Cutsforth
took first place with 24 out
o f 25 hits D ennis Peck
followed with 22 hits, with
M ark S ch lich tin g and
Garrett Wilhelm tying at 20
hits each Deona Hodges
took high lady with 17 out
o f 25 sh o ts and T aylor
Hodges, in the sub-junior
category, hit 16 out o f 25.
In handicap shooting
(20 yards), Wilhelm was first
with 19 out of 25 shots Dick
Goodhead, Schlichting and
Cutsforth tied at 18 out of
25 shots Roger Mortimer
and Peck tied at 17 out of
25 shots Deona Hodges
took high lady at 19 and
Taylor Hodges, sub-junior,
took 17.
A nnies w ere then
shot with Mortimer winning
two and Schlichting and
G o odhead w inning one
each
The buckles that
Markel Mfg., and Peg Leg
Farms donated have arrived
In w eek four o f w inter
league shooting, team Peck
and Schlichting are still on
top with 394 points out of
4000 Team Crum and Crum
follow at 384 and team
Munkers and Haguewood
follow at 382. Teams
Mortimer and Cutsforth and
Ashbeck and Childers are
tied at 380
The next shoot will
be held on March 6 at 12
pm.
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