FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 21,2007
Heritage Museum to hold workshop
and appreciation meeting
HES celebrates 50th birthday of The Cat in the Hat
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Brandi and Jordan Sweeney, Gibson, Tiffany, and Tresslyn McCurry read hooks by Dr. Seuss.
-Photo by Alita Nelson
Pictured is Cindy Kreidenhach at work on the microfiche
machine at the Morrow County Heritage Museum at 444 Main
Street. As a volunteer. Breidenbach assists the public with re
quests about local family history or county history. A work
shop and appreciation meeting is scheduled for Saturday, April
2X, at 10 a.m. at the museum for new and returning volun
teers. For more information contact Merle Cowett at 676-0216.
Students, staff, and
co m m u n ity m em b ers at
Heppner Elementary School
celebrated the 50"' birthday
of The Cat in the Hat on
Thursday, March 1, from 6-
7:30 p.m. in the elementary
gym. The
event
was
designed to promote literacy
awareness among all of our
community members.
Oregon Council of Teachers of Mathematics awards
Riverside Jr/Sr High School with Award
On Friday, March 9,
Betsy Shane, a junior high
school mathematics teacher
at R iverside Jr/S r High
School, was recognized for
her leadership and service in
the mathematics education
community by the Oregon
C ouncil o f Teachers of
M ath em atics (O C TM ).
OCTM
“ reco g n izes
educators who have made
exceptional efforts above
and beyond what was asked
of them to ensure that all
Oregon students have the
o p p o rtu n ity
to
learn
significant mathematics.”
W innie
M iller.
President of OCTM, said.
"Betsy has been truly one of
the math greats for a number
of^years. She has been
activ ely involved with
OCTM . She has served
several ODE p ro jects,
including being a problem
solving facilitator. She
currently is one of the school
and
d istrict
test
co o rd in a to rs. Betsy is
dedicated to helping 711' and
Betsy Shane
8lh graders learn math. She
loves to make math
meaningful for students and
strives to make math
accessible to all her students.
She has given of her time by
participating in the Standard
Setting Workshop, teaching
classes to assistants in our
area, and attending OML
and NWMC confcrcnccs.AII
of us with Oregon Council
of Teachers of mathematics
thank Betsy for her diligence
and genuine interest in
stimulating and fostering
interest in the learning of
m a t h e m a t i c s .
Congratulations for having
such as dedicated educator
on your staff.”
Betsy Shane has
worked for Morrow County
School District for six years,
serving for the last two years
at R iverside J r/S r High
School. Jay Rogers, a fellow
high school math teacher,
had the following to say
about Betsy. "1 have worked
with
Betsy for two years
at Riverside and 1 have never
seen such a dedicated math
teacher. She not only leads
at the school level but she is
also a leader in the world of
math at the district and state
levels.” Speaking towards
Betsy's ability to impact her
kids. Principal D irksen
noted, “Betsy is an excellent
teach er w ho has made
exceptional efforts above
and beyond what has been
asked of her to ensure that
all Riverside students have
the o p p o rtu n ity to be
successful.”
The Morrow County
School d istric t looks
forw ard
to
S h a n e 's
co n tin u e d su ccess and
positive impact on students.
Jack T h o m p so n ,
Heppner Elementary School
principal, read The Cat in the
Hat, while Jannie Allen, fifth
and sixth grade language arts
teacher, memorized Horton
H atches the Egg for a
delighted audience. Me Me
Flaherty also entertained
small groups with superb
reading and storytelling
while families gathered for a
night to remember Theodore
Geisel, also known as Dr.
Seuss. Cookies and “Seuss
J u ic e ” were served for
refreshments.
D uring the day,
Mary Ann Elguezabal read
Cat in the Hat in Spanish.
The custodians and SMART
(Start M aking a Reader
T oday)
co o rd in ato r,
Barbara Moore, read with SM ART (S ta rt Maki ng a
different classrooms as well. R eader Today) coordinator.
Barb Moore, a.k.a. The Cat in
the Hat.
School district announces new
administrative assignments
The Morrow County
School
D istrict
has
announced new assignments
for administrators for the
2007-2008 school year.
Joe Chavez, formerly
the E nglish Language
Learner director, will be
moving to Riverside High
School to assum e the
assistant principal position.
According to the district, the
building level administrative
duties will fu rth er his
administrative experience.
The school district believes
Chavez's leadership will add
to the RHS culture.
B.J. Wilson, who was
acting as Sam Boardman
principal as well as special
ed director will become
p ro g ram s
director,
responsible for overseeing
special ed and ELL
programs. "Wilson has been
e ffe ctiv e in special ed
d esp ite
his
time
restrictions.” Said Morrow
C o u n ty S u p e rin ten d e n t
Mark Burrows.
Thad Killingbeck
will move from Windy River
E lem en tary
to
Sam
Boardman Elementary as
principal.
M ark Jones will
become principal of Windy
River. “Jones is well
lone School wildlife class gets special visit from
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
Creative Arts and Crafts Club to meet
A workshop in oil
pain tin g by artist Betty
Crosswhite is planned for
April 27 and 28 at the fair
annex. M orrow C ounty
Creative Arts and Crafts will
be sponsoring the event.
They will havfc samples of
the paintings at their March
22 meeting in CD's banquet
room at I p.m. This years
selections are Irish castle,
sea sca p e,
floral,
or
landscape. Participants may
pick their favorite and then
bring the proper size canvas,
etc. for that painting to the
workshop.
This is the last week
to sign up and the class must
be paid for by March 27. For
more information contact
Joyce Ward at 676-9195.
Also on the agenda
is a watercolor workshop to
be held in the summer.
Copper Bracelets
(Assorted Styles)
q u a lifie d
for
this
promotion," said Burrows.
“ Prior to his teaching and
administrative work at RHS,
he was a sixth grade and
title-reading teacher.”
B urrow s
said,
"These assignments are truly
p ro m o tio n s
for each
individual that will add to
their personal expertise as
well as the efficiency of the
district. While they are all
excited about their next
year’s responsibility, they all
recognize they have almost
a half year of work on behalf
of their kids in their current
capacities."
Anyone wishing to have this
class and is unable to attend
the meeting needs to call
Trish Sweeney at 676-9226.
Meetings are open to
the public and new painters ii «1 i
are welcome to participate in Students from Erin Heideman's wildlife class listen as ODFW
biologist Steve Cherry talks about cougars.
the workshops.
On Tuesday, March been captured through the
Senior Center
13, the Oregon Department O regon
C o u g ar
of
Fish
and
Wildlife
visited
M
an
ag
em
en
t
Plan.
The
lunch menu
Erin H eidem an’s wildlife students were taught about
W illow
C reek
class at lone School.
the physiological aspects of
Baptist Church members will
Steve C herry, a a cougar, how many cubs
be serving lunch on
biologist with the Oregon they have, their teeth and
Wednesday, March 28. The
D ep artm en t of Fish and claw s, the d ifferen ce
menu consists of roast beef,
W ildlife b rought a 150- betw een co u g ars and
mashed potatoes with gravy,
pound male cougar that had wolves, and how to properly
green beans, and hot bread.
measure a cougar.
The class, consisting
of juniors and seniors, was
Mr. and Mrs. PiU Paeon
taught about O re g o n 's
Cougar
Management Plan.
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As both the cougar and
at the Marriage of their ¡Daughter
human populations have
grown, so have the number
of conflicts and damage
c o m p la in ts.
The
to
m a n ag em en t
plan
is
designed to address the
c o n flic ts betw een the
Son of Mr. and Mrs. ‘Kevin Huff
g row ing
num bers o f
cougars and humans. This
Saturday, the 24th of March, 2007
plan establishes a minimum
desirable
cougar population
at 4 p.m. at the ¡first ¡Baptist Church
Xfitie Marie
MichaeC fiuff
450 S T.. Jaiwiew St.
TrineviCCe, Oregon
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of at least 3.000. It does not
set a targ eted co u g ar
population level or a ceiling.
The number of cougars in
Oregon may exceed 3.(XK) as
they do today, but the draft
plan calls for managing no
fewer than 3.000 cougars.
The
cu rren t
co u g ar
population in O regon is
estimated to be 5.100. After
being nearly eliminated by
the mid-1960s, today they
have a healthy population.
The cougar is now
on loan from the Oregon
D epartm ent o f Fish and
Wildlife to lone School. The
wildlife class will be having
the cougar tanned and will
attempt to save as many of
the bones as possible.
lone School is
appreciative to Steve Cherry
and the Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife for the
cougar and all of information
that was provided to the
class.
For
more
inform ation about the
Cougar Management Plan
visit the Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife's website
at www.dfw.state.or.us.
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