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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - SEVEN HES students read 131,179 minutes in January N am es left o ff o f picture cap tion s In two pictures ran H ep p n er High School 8 * ^ names were left out. last week of dancers at the basketball game, a couple aP °i°?ize t° r the error. (R-L): Wade Matthew, Tim Lees, Shane Smith read on the steps during the after-school reading party on Jan. 26. Dancers from the Performing Arts Academy of Hermiston- Heppner performed during the basketball game on Jan. 21. Dancers in the K -l'1 grade age group: (Front Row L-R): Sophie Grant. Reiah Waite, Rachel Allen and Nicole Show; (Back Row L-R): Lannie Stone, Sierra Morgan and Kailea Sample. Dancers in the 2"‘l-4"’ grade age group: (Front L-R): Mattie Lindsay. Paige Grieh and Allie Allen. In the hack row are Ella McCormack and Raelyn Lindsay. Not performing that day was Allie Lovgren. Top 10 Winners for January (Back Row L-R): Natalie Rauch, Mrs. Jannie Allen, Alana Wilson, Zach Hintz and Garrett Robinson; (Middle Row L-R): Justin Bailey, Justin Pranger and Gabby Sanchez; and (Front Row L-R): Jacob Moore, Seth Palmer and Jonathan Chen. Students in grades five and six at H eppner Elementary certainly took tim e out o f th e ir daily routines to make time for books during the month of January. The annual reading in cen tiv e program , appropriately named Time Out For Reading, was a huge success as these young read ers logged 131,179 m inutes during the first month of the year. T his p o p u lar program has been in place at HES for over 15 years, encouraging students to read more for enjoyment, and to keep track of the time spent reading. “The great thing about Time Out For Reading is that it doesn't matter if a student is a slow reader, or a speed reader, as it’s the minutes that count and not the number of books read,” said Jan n ie A llen, coordinator of the program. In a d d itio n to individual readers clocking reading times to earn weekly rewards and prizes at the conclusion of the program, there is also a team incentive. S tudents are p laced on “teams" and the team with the highest average gets to enjoy a pizza and pop lunch. This year’s top team was the Cinco Dunkers, with team m em bers Justin Pranger, captain; Joe Sallee, Hanna FBLA students participate in regional skills conference Lovgren, Alana Wilson and close second was Ju stin Bailey with 9,636, followed Samantha Waddell. A n o th er e x citin g by Alana Wilson, Natalie element of the program is the Rauch, Seth Palmer, Zach evening reading party. On Hintz, G arrett R obinson, Thursday, Jan. 26, students Jo n ath an C hen, Jacob stayed after school until 9 Moore and Gabby Sanchez p.m. to read, have dinner to complete the top ten. T eachers say that (sack dinners from home), one o f the most exciting watch a m ovie, which is based on a children’s novel asp ects o f the program and play word games with comes after Time Out For their novels in an attempt to Reading is over, as many win prizes. Over 60 of the students have a new-found 73 students attended the love of reading and continue Veronica Wilhelm and Brenda party, with M rs. Dowdy, to spend their extra minutes Mrs. Smith-Griffith, Mrs. enjoying books. On Feb. 2, 2006. a C lough and M rs. A llen group o f FBLA (F uture serving as chaperones. B u sin ess L eaders o f A m erica) stu d en ts from On Tuesday, Jan. 31, H eppner H igh School the m inutes had all been totaled, and the students trekked to La G rande to p articip ate in the FBLA congregated in the computer regional skills conference lab of HES to pick their T he m onthly held at E astern O regon prizes. The prizes ranged from CD players to stuffed S in g sp ira tio n has been University. Their advisor, animals, from duffle bags to scheduled for Sunday, Feb. D arlene M arquardt, and basketballs, fold-up chairs to 12 at 7 p.m. at the Nazarene Jo y ceK ay H ollom an, pillows, and school supplies Church located at 335 N. grandmother of one of the to homemade chocolate chip Gilmore Street in Heppner. students, accompanied them. S p ecial m usic cookies. After choosing a presentations will be pre prize, winners also received a book of their choice. All arranged by request with one students who met the goal of per church, so we will have 360 minutes for the month more audience participation. N ext m o n th ’s received a prize, 66 readers, The Federal grazing walked away with a prize Singspiration held on March 12, will be at the Seventh fee for Western public lands and a book. managed by the Bureau of The top reader was Day Adventist Church. The event is open to Land Management and the Ju stin P ran g er w ith the the public and all are invited Forest Service will be $1.56 highest score ever attained per anim al unit month during Tim e O ut For to attend. (AUM) in 2006, down from Reading, 10,937 minutes. A $1.79 in 2005. The newly adjusted fee, determined by B LO W U P YOUR PHO TOS TO PO STER S IZ E ! a congressional formula and effective on March 1, applies Use your favorite photo or one from the G- T to nearly 18.000 grazing Digital or Print photos can be used p erm its and leases administered by the BLM All prices are for Premium Gloss Paper and more than 8000 permits (Other paper types are available) eXamPle a administered by the Forest the G-T o fy ce Service. Petite: 6”x20” - $45 The formula used for Small: 20”x24” - $52 calculating the grazing fee, Medium: 24”x36” - $65 established by Congress in the 1978 Public Rangelands Large: 36,,x48” - $99 Im p rovem ent A ct. has X-Large: 54"x60" - $212 c o n tin u e d under a presidential Executive Order XX-Large: 60”x72" - $273 issued in 1986. Under that Aluminum print hangers are also available! order, the grazing fee cannot S Singspiration to be held Victorio H eppner S tu d en ts who attended were: Cyde Coil, B aillie K eithley, Kelsey W olff, B renda V ictorio, Sarah Johnson, Veronica Wilhelm. Grant Smith, and Eddie Collins. Schools from as far away as Ontario, Vale, Burnt River and Condon, G rant U nion, and Hood River, as well as schools from W allow a C ounty, Union C ounty, U m atilla County and Morrow County participated in the event. Attendance of high school students from the Eastern R egions of O regon was higher than in past years. H eppner High Schools Leadership group did well among their peers. W ilhelm and V ictorio p a rtic ip a te d in an e n tre p re n e u rsh ip team competition and scored high enough to be in an elite group that is selected to participate in that event at the State FBLA leadership conference in Portland. April 2-4. H ep p n er’s club can select other members to go to state as w ild card participants or to participate in certain events that are held only at state competition and not at regional competitions. The club is looking fo r sponsorships to defray the expenses of the conference and lodging. If you or your business would like to help with this special opportunity, please mail your donation to Heppner High School FBLA by March 1. BLM and Forest Service announce 2006 federal grazing fee fall below $1.35 per AUM, and any increase or decrease cannot exceed 25 percent of the previous year's level. An Animal Unit Month is the amount of forage needed to sustain one cow and her calf, one horse, or five sheep or goats for a month. The an n u ally ad ju sted grazing fee is computed by using a 1966 base value o f $1.23 per AUM for livestock grazing on public lands in Western states. The figure is then adjusted according to three factors - current private grazing land lease rates, beef cattle prices, and the cost of livestock production. Based on this formula, the 2006 fee declined primarily because of an increase in production prices. I The $1.56 per AUM grazing fee applies to 16 W estern states on public lands administered by the BLM and the Forest Service. The states are A rizo n a, California. Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, N evada, New M exico, North Dakota. Oklahoma, O regon, South D akota, U tah, W ashington and W yom ing. The Forest Service applies different grazing fees to national g rasslan d s and to lands under its management in the Eastern and M idw estern states and parts of Texas. The national grassland fee will be $1.73 per AUM. down from $1.90 in 2005, and will also take effect March 1. The fee for the Eastern and M idw estern states and parts of Texas will be out later this month. I
