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Obituaries
Earlene
Wilson Miller
E arlen e
W ilson
Miller, 69, o f Hermiston,
died A pril 12, 2005, at
O regon H ealth Sciences
U n iv e rsity H o sp ital in
Portland.
A memorial service
was held April 18 at Burns
M o rtu a ry
C hapel
in
Hermiston.
Miller was born Oct.
15, 1935, at Ft Davis, TX
to Carlton Dewey “Dude”
and Goldie (Willis) Wilson
She was raised in Ft. Davis
and graduated from high
school there with her twin
brother Gerald, one of four
in her graduating class.
She w orked as a
telephone operator in Marfa
and El Paso, TX.
She
m et
her
'hiisband, James B. Miller, on
"¿blind date set up by his best
man They married July 6,
1956 at El Paso, TX. They
lived in Ft Bliss and El Paso
before moving to Corvallis
where Jim finished school
and graduated from Oregon
State University. The couple
then moved to Lexington
and farm ed w ith Jim ’s
brother for several years
A move to Pendleton
was next and they farmed on
Birch Creek for a time before
m oving to H erm iston in
1972.
M iller
enjoyed
reading, gardening and her
family.
S urvivors include
her husband o f 48 years,
Jam es
B
M iller o f
Hermiston; son, Terry Miller
o f Rodgers, AR; daughter,
Kristi Brown of Seattle, WA,
and eight grandchildren She
was preceded in death by her
parents, Carlton Dewey and
G oldie
M ae
W ilson;
daughter, Tana C larice
Thomas; son, James Kip; and
three brothers, Dunk, twin
brother, G erald and P L.
Wilson
M e m o r i a l
contributions may be made
to a charity o f your choice
Burns M ortuary o f
H erm iston is in c are o f
arrangements.
Paul Warren
Paul Warren, 83, o f
P o catello , ID, a retired
H eppner school d istric t
em ployee, died M onday,
April 11, 2005, at the Idaho
State V eterans H om e in
Pocatello
w as held
April 16 at the H eppner
Masonic Cemetery.
C o lo n ial F u n eral
Home, 2005 S. 4th Ave,
Pocatello, is in charge o f
arrangements
Death Notice
Joyce Y.
Dinkins
Joyce Y. Dinkins, 78,
o f Heppner, died Tuesday,
A pril 12, at her hom e
Arrangements are pending at
Sw eeney M o rtu a ry in
Heppner
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Law enforcement, Heppner’s paper
turkey
residential areas at 45 mph
To the Editor:
At
its
reg u lar
monthly meeting on April 11,
your city council voted 4 to
2 to ratify a contract with the
county sheriff for municipal
law enforcement services
Councilor Judy Buschke and
1 voted against it. Councilor
Tom W o lff w as absent
Mayor Tim Van Cleave and
councilors Kay Robinson,
Cynthia Doherty and George
Koffler carried the majority
vote Previous versions of
this contract have worked all
right, so no big deal, right9
Think again Under
the old contract, you got 120
hours per week o f police
coverage o f H eppner for
about
$ 18 0 ,0 0 0 /y ear-
roughly $60,000 per officer
T h a t’s b asically salary,
benefits, patrol vehicles,
w eap o n s,
uniform s,
communications equipment,
e tc ., fo r th ree full-tim e
officers
Under the new one,
you will get 80 hours (two
officers) o f weekly coverage
for about $ 155,000, or about
$77,500 per officer per year
Expressed in these terms,
you will pay ab o u t 30
percent more per officer, in
exchange for which you will
receive fully 1/3 less police
coverage.
That’s not all You’re
g e ttin g
local
law
enforcement managed by a
new county sheriff who has
balked at just about every
turn to provide the service
unless major concessions
were granted under a revised
agreement vesting him with
much greater control over
officer deployment, tour o f
duty d u ratio n and other
contract terms. Add to that
his contention that deputies
are bored with patrolling
Heppner That is, since we
haven’t been inundated with
m ajor crim es, H eppner
patrol is generally regarded
as a ho-hum assignment In
short, y o u ’re getting law
e n fo rcem en t
serv ices
pro v id ed by a bunch o f
people that don’t want the
job
And you’re getting
all th is at a tim e when
enforcement o f traffic laws
in Heppner is just about non
existent (m onthly officer
logs show ing few or no
c ita tio n s
issued
are
co m m o n p lace),
an
u n co m fo rtab ly
large
segment o f the local driving
population is running stop
signs and tearing through
and up and recent thefts o f
anhydrous ammonia from
area farm s su g g est an
u p su rg e
in
local
m eth am p h etam in e
lab
activity
Finally, hacking our
local law en fo rcem en t
co v erag e to bits has
understandably a ttracted
som e
reg io n al
new s
coverage And that’s as good
as an engraved invitation
announcing that Heppner is
now a great place for the
region’s drug-dealing jerks
to set up shop and conduct
a little commerce O f course,
much o f that commerce will
probably be financed by the
stre et value o f personal
property boosted from your
homes
Why did a solid
majority o f the city council
bend over backw ards to
approve such a contract?
And why wasn’t the obvious
alternative o f reconstituting
our own municipal police
department given a serious
h e a rin g 9
In te re stin g
questions; I wish I could
answer them for you But,
for the time being at least, it
looks like you and I are now
subscribers to what’s known
in government contracting
lexicon as a “paper turkey.”
The new
law
enforcement service contract
is not a good deal. It’s a bad
deal U nfortunately, two
d issen tin g v o te s a re n ’t
enough to overcom e the
uncanny ability o f political
assemblies to occasionally
com e
up w ith
bad
m anagem ent d ecisio n s
H ow ever,
citizen
involvement and oversight
might keep our little group
m ore co n siste n tly on a
reasonable track
I ask that more o f
you start getting into the
habit o f a tte n d in g city
council m eetings on the
second M onday o f each
m onth G ran ted , i t ’s a
sacrifice You’ll find these
sessions boring, mired in
routine city business and
usually d elib erated w ith
reaso n ab le co m p eten ce.
H ow ever, every once in
awhile, half-baked ideas and
p ro p o sals em erge like
cockroaches. T hat’s when
things get interesting and
that’s when you should be
th ere to th ro w a royal
conniption fit.
(s) Glenn Baker
Heppner City Council
Heppner
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lone superintendent receives praise
continued from page one
child care providers The
sessions include musical
activities, a group story and
an activ ity , w hich may
include crafts, extended
reading responses, games or
free play time The next
session on April 26 will
include a tour of the school’s
new greenhouse and children
will be able to plant their
own plants to take home
Read-n-Play has a page on
the ISD website
-Browning, Melissa
LaRue and Steve Schaber
attended a workshop at the
High Desert ESD pertaining
to early childhood education,
teen parenting and child
development, which will be
in c o rp o ra te d into the
s c h o o l’s h ealth classes,
Read-n-Play and elementary
e d u catio n classes. The
workshop was funded by an
O regon D ep artm en t o f
Education grant received
earlier.
-Student-led
conferences for grades five-
10 were held on April 7.
A tten d an ce
at
all
conferences exceeded 90
percent The Booster Club
made dinner for the staff that
evening.
-Volunteers Theresa
Dumler, who assists with the
“ Read Naturally” program
fo r sev en th and eighth
grades, and John Bristow,
Don Bristow and Katherine
L indstrom , who read to
students in grades one to
four each day, were to be
honored with a tea on April
19.
- “ Inside lo n e ,” a
program to show student
learning through projects,
videos, work samples and
presentations will be held on
April 21 at 6:30 p m. The
ev en in g w ill in clu d e
greenhouse tours and a book
drive for new and “gently
used” books to give to the
Confederated Tribes o f the
Umatilla Indian Reservation
library
-Tw o
ISD
employees, as yet unnamed,
will be h o n o red w ith
U m atilla M o rro w ESD
Crystal Apple Awards at a
banquet in Pendleton on
May 11.
-T u p p er for lone
students will be held May 9-
12 .
-lone Schools spring
music program will be held
May 25 at 7 p m.; the Junior/
Senior banquet will be held
May 17.
-ISD received notice
from its legal counsel that
the Morrow County School
District has decided not to
have its legal counsel review
the deeds involved in the
transfer from MCSD to ISD
and will execute them on
their own. No timeline has
been set.
-ISD enrollment is
162 students as o f April 13
-T he
b u dget
committee met April 11 and
included th e fo llo w in g
additions to the budget an
all-d ay
k in d e rg a rte n
p o sitio n ; an ad d itio n al
elem en tary
te ac h e r;
ex p an d in g Tom S h e a r’s
position from half-time to
full tim e (w hich w as
absorbed from the current
physical education position);
an increase in the PERs rate
from 11.11 percent to 16.97
percent, based upon recent
court rulings; a transfer for
the early re tire e health
b e n efits
ag reem en t.
Browning said that while it
“appears that the budget
reflects a larger than needed
in crease in s a la rie s ,”
“ certified and classified
contracts were finalized after
the 04/05 b u dget was
adopted, so it actually is
covering two years' worth of
raises ” “Recommendations
included funding specific
p ro g ram s at a higher
amount, reducing contracted
services where needed and
in creasin g th e cap ital
projects fund if possible for
future projects.”
-The lone pool has
p u rch ased a h eavy-duty
c o llap sib le canopy to
provide shade for the pool
audience The purchase was
funded by the 1909-1939
Alumni Association, headed
by H elen C raw fo rd and
Helen Lindsay.
-N atio n al H o n o r
Society members will create
a c o u rty ard in the area
su rro u n d in g the read er
b o ard as a com m unity
service project Plans include
installing a stone planter at
the base, landscape plants
and
flow ers
and
a
co b b lesto n e p ath /p atio .
Additional plans include a
bench and a plaque thanking
those who made the reader
board possible
In other business, the
board:
-learned that Ryan
Rudolf and Dennis Stefani
were selected as coaches for
the Eastern All Stars and
Nick Christman was selected
as a player
-learned that Kristal
Temple has been named a
N atio n al M erit Scholar,
ranking in the to p five
percent o f the nation.
-T he
S tu d en t
Success
C om m ittee
reviewed new bylaws for the
N ational H onor Society;
reviewed policy concerning
naming o f valedictorian and
salutatorian with regard to
home school students; and
drafted policy concerning
distance education
-learn ed th at the
pool plumbing project is
almost completed and the
cro w s nest is u n d er
construction.
-learned th at th e
shop cleanup and school
in v en to ry
have been
completed, along with repair
projects.
-h eard
from
Browning that the district is
in co m p lian ce w ith th e
O regon A d m in istra tiv e
Rules.
-heard from board
member John Rietmann that
the district does not have
sufficient funds to proceed
with a major paving project.
Rietm ann said that such
projects may have to be
funded through a bond levy
several years down the road.
-heard the following
announcements: the Oregon
School Boards Association
m eetin g will be held
M onday, May 2, at Blue
M o u n tain
C om m unity
C o lleg e; C ry stal A pple
Awards presentation, May
11, Pendleton Red Lion;
budget committee meeting
Monday, May 16, 6 p m.,
prior to the board meeting;
next board meeting Monday,
May 16, 7 p m
DA’s report
Bobby G. Burgess
was convicted o f Possession
o f a Precursor Substance, a
Class B felony, Possession of
a Controlled Substance 2, a
Class C felony and Burglary-
2, a Class C felony For the
two possession convictions
B u rg ess
received
a
concurrent sentence o f 10
months in jail and two years
probation. He will then serve
a consecutive sentence o f 13
months in jail and one year
probation for his conviction
ofBurglary-2.
C USTO M
BANNERS
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