TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 9,2006
Morrow County Schools get serious about student performance
The Official Newspaper
of ihe City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
B> Wade Smith. MCSD Assistant Superintendent
Heppner
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Fair and Rodeo Court busy
meeting more people
Pennant Bearers Jessica Hamilton and Jarreid Miller, Princess
Josie Miller and Queen Heather Yocom at the Morrow County
Courthouse inside steps.
On Wednesday, Aug. 2, the Morrow County Fair
and Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo Court attended the County
Court in Heppner to meet County Judge Terry Tallman
and Commissioners Ray Grace and John Wenholz. They
discussed what they have been doing in representing the
county this year.
After the meeting, the group went and had lunch at
the city park.
The court enjoyed the afternoon with a trip up to
Willow Creek Terrace where they read cowboy poetry and
then visited with the residents.
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Morrow County AYPand Report Card results
The recent release of
the No Child Left Behind
Adequate Yearly Progress
Report and the Oregon State
School Report Cards was
cause for celeb ratio n in
Morrow County. Although
two schools missed meeting
AYP, all schools showed
significant growth in many
areas w hile one school
earn ed the p re stig io u s
Exceptional school rating for
their second time in four
years.
During the 2005-06
school year, the M orrow
C o u n ty School D istrict
B oard
of
D ire c to rs,
administrative team and staff
set lofty performance goals
for all of their students. The
goal read that, “Each student*
Executive director shares
information regarding clinic in
Boardman
To the Editor:
T his le tte r is in
response to your headline,
“ Federally funded clinic
refuses to make financials
public” in your Aug. 2,2006
edition. This headline implies
that C o lu m b ia R iv er
Community Health Services
has so m eth in g to hide.
N othing could he further
from the truth. As a private
non-profit corporation our
fin an cial in fo rm atio n is
available in the form of a
Federal 990 tax return. This
information can be obtained
on the internet.
O ur
m ission
statement is, “the primary
purpose of this clinic is to
protect and im prove the
quality of life for all people,
p a rtic u la rly
m ed ically
underserved and vulnerable
people, by providing access
to high quality primary and
preventative health care.”
We do this by providing
health, dental, prenatal and
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Contact Lynn Dee Ramos 676-5583
will achieve annual reading
and m ath RIT g ain s
prescribed by Oregon State
grade level standards. Each
student, a grade level or
more deficient in reading
a n d /o r m ath sk ills, w ill
achieve RIT gains sufficient
to ach iev e the stan d ard
within 3 years.” It is obvious
from the o u tsta n d in g
perform ance and grow th
shown on the two reports
that the implementation of
this goal played a significant
role in positively impacting
student performance.
As has been widely
discussed in recent news and
media releases, both the AYP
and Report Card ratings hold
schools to an extrem ely
rigorous set of standards.
Letters to the Editor
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Les Schwab Tire Center o f Heppner
Bank o f Eastern Oregon
Morrow County Grain Growers
Morrow County Wheat Growers
Hodgen Distributing o f Pendleton
Campbell Motors
Heppner Family Foods
Wheatland Insurance o f Heppner
& lone
Family & Friends of Mike Cumn
Kin/ua Resources LLC
JVB Dairy of lone
Announcer Curt Robinson from Pendleton, OR
will announce the 84'h Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo.
Cody Sanford is our Rodeo Clown. Come see Cody ride a
Bull Backwards!
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mental health services to all
people. In our first year of
operation as a non-profit
clinic, we saw 325 patients
who had never been to our
c lin ic b e fo re . We have
outreach services available
that are new to our
community such as a dental
van
and
d iab etic
m an ag em en t. T h ere are
applications available at the
clinic for anyone who feels
they q u a lify for these
services at a discounted rate.
We w ould like to
invite everyone in the county
to o u r seco n d annual
Community BBQ on Aug. 9,
from 3-5:30 p.m. at 201 SW
K inkade in B oardm an.
Please join us for food, fun
and a chance to see all the
great th in g s that are
happening here at Columbia
River Com m unity Health
Services. If you have any
questions, please contact
Mindy Binder, Executive
Director.
(s) Mindy Binder
Executive Director
Columbia River
Community Health
Services
We P r in t
C om puter
Form s
H ep pner
G azette-Tim e*
676-922K
The No Child Left Behind
A ct re q u ire s that states
provide their constituents
w ith
an,
“ ...a n n u a l
determ ination of whether
[their] schools, districts and
state have made adequate
yearly progress toward the
goal of having all students
m eet
rig o ro u s
state
academic standards by the
2 0 1 3 -2 0 1 4 sch o o l year.
Each year, the performance
of all students in the school
and d is tric t, as well as
subgroups of students, is
m easured against annual
perform ance targets. In a
school, if all groups meet the
statew id e
acad em ic
ach ie v e m en t targ ets in
English/Language Arts and
Mathematics and the school
meets the targets for either
attendance in elementary and
middle schools or graduation
rates for schools with grade
12, the school is designated
as Meeting AYP.”
Preliminary results
show that in Oregon, only 28
percent of high schools and
78 percent of elementary and
m iddle sch o o ls m et the
rigorous AYP standards.
Included is an outline of each
o f the schools in Morrow
C ounty, th eir AYP and
R eport C ard resu lts and
h ig h lig h ts
of
th eir
accomplishments.
For
m ore
information or for broader
e x p lan a tio n s or re su lts,
please contact Wade Smith,
Assistant Superintendent, at
989-8202.
Collection of historical artifacts
dictated by carefully prescribed
procedures
To the Editor:
I read with interest,
and considerable concern,
your recent article about a
local gentlem an who did
som e “ tre a su re h unting
during the demolition of the
old Heppner Gazette-Times
b u ild in g ”
in
2005.
( “ H ep p n er man p ieces
together bits of Heppner's
past,” 5/17/06).
Collecting historical
a rtifa c ts o f the type
described in the article may
have serious legal and ethical
im p lic a tio n s. State and
federal laws prohibit the
collection of artifacts from
most locations. They also
req u ire that rem oval is
acco m p lish ed under the
guidance of a professional
a rc h ae o lo g ist and
in
accordance with carefully
prescribed procedures.
Legal issues aside,
collecting without careful
e x cav atio n
and
documentation could also
u n d erm in e re sea rc h ers,
scholars and the general
public as they try to better
understand the story of a
particular site.
We
en co u rag e
Oregonians’ interest in the
past and suggest that citizens
contact that State Historic
P rese rv atio n O ffice , a
qualified archaeologist, or a
local historian if they have
questions about artifacts
they find.
(s) Dennis Griffin
State Archaeologist
Obituaries
Dallas L. Dalzell
Dallas L. Dalzell, 61,
of rural Condon, died Friday,
July 28,2006 at his Dry Fork
home.
A graveside service
was held July 29 at the
Dalzell Dry Fork Family
C em etery. A m em orial
gathering was held Aug. 2 at
the Condon Elks Lodge.
He was born June
15, 1945 at The Dalles to
Kermit LaVem and Frances
Mae Inskeep Dalzell. He
a tten d ed sch o o l at lone
where he graduated from
high school, then attended
Columbia Basin Community
College in Tri-Cities, WA.
He returned to the family
ranch where he worked until
the time of his death.
On Aug. 28, 2000,
he m arried E dna Mae
Weilert at Fossil.
He enjoyed hunting
and fish in g . He w as a
m em ber o f the C ath o lic
Church and the Condon Elks
Lodge No. 1869 where he
served as a tru ste e. He
served on the board o f
directors of Columbia Basin
Electric Cooperative.
Survivors include his
w ife, E dna o f C on d o n ;
mother, Frances Dalzell of
Condon; daughter, Rachell
Ellen Hughes of Mayville;
son. Edwin LaVem Dalzell
of Eugene; stepson. Steven
Paul Weilert of Fossil; and
grandchildren.
C ontributions, for
those who wish, may be
made to the Condon Elks
Lodge, P.O. Box 123, or the
donor's charity of choice.
Sweeney Mortuary
of Condon was in charge of
arrangements.
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