lone Board
considers
shorter bus
routes
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Bessie Wetzell Newspaper I ibrar\
University o f Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
VOL 125
NO. 47
10 Pages
The lone School
B oard, at th eir regular
m eeting M onday night,
heard a report from Marcie
Buschke with Mid-Columbia
Bus suggesting ways to
sh o rten bus times for
stu d en ts. A ccording to
Buschke, with changes, no
child would be on the bus for
more than one hour and 30
minutes one way. Buschke
told the board that lone
busses go “four different
directions” on roads that are
often bad. "We just have a
really long way to go,"
added Buschke.
C u rren tly , some
students in remote areas face
at least an h our and 45
minute ride one way. The
board was anxious to
implement the changes and
asked M id -C o lu m b ia to
subm it costs as soon as
possible. The board hoped to
have the new routes by the
time school resumes after the
Christmas break.
Also at the meeting,
the board learned that the
C ardinal B ooster Club
donated $1,000 to the nine-
member lone School speech
and debate team for
transportation, registration
fees and lodging so that they
could
attend the 5A/6A
Wednesday, November 22,2006 Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
speech to u rn am en t at
Tualatin High School last
weekend. Out of over 250
students from over 25 high
schools, Sarah Stillm an
receiv ed first place for
"novice oratory speech";
Teonna Vandever and Tiana
Camarillo placed fourth in
novice debate; and Camarillo
ranked second as an
individual debate speaker.
A d m in istra to r
Bryn
Browning noted that the
debate team did not seek the
grant, but the booster club
wanted to recognize their
efforts.
Airport improvements an economic
asset, says public works director
Meet Rostock Germany
Editor's note: the following information on Rostock,
Germany, the hometown o f Tim Hauer, HHS exchange
student, is from Tim \ dad, Uwe Hauer.
by llwe H auer
Rostock is a nearby 8(X) years old ’hanseatic' and
university town in the northeast of Germany (about 2(X)
km north of Berlin and 180 km east of Hamburg). It's the
largest city in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania with around
25(),()(X) inhabitants. Here is the centre of the holiday area
and the shipping industry among the German coastline of
Baltic.
Rostock and river Warnow
History and present
The name "Roztoc" first appears in 1161 AD in a
chronicle by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus. At
that time the Slavic stronghold was attacked bv the king of
the Danes. In 1200 German merchants and craftsmen
founded the settlement of Rostock here. Eighteen years
later, it received its charter from Prince Borwin 1. In the
course of time, the Middle and New Towns were built. In
1265 they and the Old Tow n united in a single community.
Trade and crafts flourished and the city gained monetary
sovereignty as well as full judicial authority. In 1323
Rostock acquired the little fishing hamlet of Warnemuende,
thus securing free access by water to the Baltic Sea. Soon
Rostock, Luebeck and Wismar founded the Hanseatic
League. Rostock became one of the largest and most
powerful cities on the Baltic. The city’s dynamic growth
was halted for a lengthy period by collapse of the Hanseatic
League, effects of the Thirty Years' War and the devastating
conflagration of 1677. Only in the late 19th century did
Rostock experience a renaissance of shipping under sail,
becoming an important harbor for the export of grain. Eight
hundred years of history have shaped this “Gatew ay to the
North". Rostock has preserved much of the charm that it
once possessed as the most important member of the
"Hanseatic League” .
Rostock has kept its importance as a trade center
to this day. as well as its status as a college town. Today
Rostock is a vibrant seaport which proudly bears the name
"Hansestadt" (Hanseatic City). Commercialism abounds,
traffic fills the streets, and many bombed-out areas were
replaced with the functional architecture popular during
post-war times. But her churches, massive gates and
fortifications, the town hall and typical gabled patrician
town houses, which form the boundary of many streets,
recall a glorious era of sailing ships dating back to the early
Middle Ages.
continued page two
Public Works Director Burke O 'B rien points out new taxiway being constructed as part
of the Lexington A irport upgrade project
T h an k s to the
efforts o f the M orrow
C ounty Public Works
D ep artm en t, along with
several Federal Aviation
Administration grants, the
L ex in g to n A irport
is
u ndergoing some major
upgrades. A tour of the
project by Public Works
D irector Burke O 'B rie n
Monday showed the extent
of the improvements.
O'Brien says the
biggest
part o f the
renovation is the moving of
one tax i-w ay and the
upgrading of another. “We
(public works) are going to
end up constructing 5.000
feet of taxi-way”, O'Brien
says.
He says public
works departments are not
usually allowed by the FAA
to tackle an airport project
like this, but because of the
county's proven work record
the FAA allowed them to do
the work, and accomplish
much more with the
available money.
O 'B rien says
there was about $600,000 in
federal grants available, but
w ithout
the
county
co n trib u tin g w ork, the
improvements would have
been much smaller. "The
asphalt alone would have
cost $300,000.” he said. "We
stretch those dollars out.”
As part of the
taxiway construction it was
necessary to install a K).(XX)-
foot drain field system
around the entire base of the
projects.
Other upgrades at
the airport include a new
agriculture operations area.
Construction of this area will
allow spray plane operations
such as loading and other
activities to be moved away
from the edge of the airport
that overlooks the town of
Lexington, where it will be
safer and more secure.
“Nobody every really liked
it where it is now,” O'Brien
said.
Also with a grant
from Connect Oregon, grant
funds used to im prove
transportation in the state,
the airplane fueling system
and the pilots lounge will be
improved.
The fueling
system will be upgraded
from an honor system to a
card lock system that takes
credit cards and will have
new hoses and other fueling
equipment.
The pilots lounge
upgrade will add two rooms
including a computer room
for navigational equipment,
an extra room for pilots to
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Meeting set
on revised
floodplain
maps
A Flood Insurance
Study Revision has recently
been
co m p le ted
for
in c o rp o ra te d
and Patrician town houses
Old and new harmoniously blend to form a city
u n in c o rp o ra te d M orrow
scape that could only have emerged over the course of
County. This revision was
many centuries. The University Square (a magnet for
done through a partnership
continued page 4
between FEMA and WEST
C onsultants. Inc., at the
The Hauer family
request of former Heppner
City M an ag er G erald
Breazeale, currently Irrigon
City Manager. It includes
updated floodplain maps
showing areas that would be
inundated by the base flood
(1 0 0 -y ea r flood). These
maps will be used by lending
institutions and insurance
agents in determining who
must
purchase
flood
insurance and the cost of that
insurance should it be
necessary. In addition, the
maps will be used by the
county
and
local
communities for floodplain
management and permitting
Back left to right: Tim Hauer’s mother. Susanne, sisters
purposes.
Lisa,
Julia and Claudia with her little dog. Ira. Front: Tim's
The basic changes in
dad. Uwe. with their dog Wilma.
this revision include new
Tim, an exchange student at Heppner High School (inset)
hydrologic and hydraulic
staying with the Chris and Kathy Rauch family, is the
m odeling, new vertical
youngest of our four children. His sisters are Julia, 24.
datum p ro je c tio n from
who is a hair stylist. Claudia, 20, who is a law student,
NGVD 29 to NAVD 88. and
and Lisa 19, who is in high school and a candidate for the
a new map panel layout
‘school-leaving examination'. Uwe is a chemist, who is
based on the U.S. Geological
working for a “great German shipping company" a s a safety
adviser for the transport of hazardous goods and maritime
Survey (USGS) 7.5 minute
environmental protection. “From time to time vessels of
quadrangle map grid.
our company are also in Portland, therefore I must know
The people most
the maritime l S Lin ironmental protection regulations and
d irectly affected by the
also the concerning regulation in Oregon and Portland."
issuance of this study are
he says. Susanne. is a nurse who works in the intensive
those owning property and/
care
unit of the biggest hospital in Rostock.
continued page two