Fire closes Sam Boardman Elementary for remainder of school year
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Bessie Wetzel I Newspaper Libran
University o f Oregon
Eugene. OR 97403
An early morning
fire at Sam B oardm an
E lem en tary School has
forced district officials to
cancel school for the
remaining 10 days of the
school year. The fire is not
suspicious.
The fire, which
started at around 4 a.m.
Monday morning, caused
damage to the library, a work
room, and at least one
classro o m , as well as
structural dam age to the
53,125-square-foot building
Due to the extent of
the damage, district officials
decided to close school at
Sam B oardm an for the
remainder of the year. The
O regon D epartm ent o f
Education has approved an
emergency school calendar
change. Sam B oardm an
Elementary students had
already ex ceed ed the
required instructional hours
for kindergarten through
third grade for the year.
School and district
staff helped make phone calls
to parents through a phone
tree, in con junction w ith Mid
Columbia Bus Company, to
put out word o f the fire
Monday morning.
However, the other
schools in the district will
c o n tin u e on sch ed u le
th ro u g h the last day o f
school on June 6. A school
barbecue at Sam Boardman
on May 24 also will still
occur, ju st o u tsid e the
building and on June 6.
The fire is believed
to have been started by a
heating unit near the library
and work room , said
S u p e rin ten d e n t
Mark
Burrows. The fire burned
hot, and got up into the
building's attic, forcing fire
fighters from Boardman and
Hermiston to cut a hole in
the school’s roof to fight the
flam es and release the
smoke.
‘T h e fire alarm went
off and the fire doors closed,
just like they were supposed
to ," B urrow s said. "We
really want to thank the
Boardman and Hermiston
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Ehrmantraut set to retire from City of Heppner
VOL. 126
NO. 21
18 Pages
A fter 27 years of
service to the City of
H eppner,
Roger
Ehrmantraut has decided to
retire and do a little
traveling.
Ehrmantraut began
his work for the City of
Heppner in April of 1980 as
a fill-in for someone who had
taken some time off. When
that person decided not to
return in May, Ehrmantraut
was offered the fulltime
position as assistant public
works supervisor. He has
worked for the city ever
since.
E hrm antraut first
came to Heppner in 1972
and worked in plywood mill.
He then left but later
returned in September of
1975 to work in the Kinzua
Saw Mill where he worked
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon until its closure in December
of 1979.
Wednesday, May 23. 2007
Road levy goes down; school board incumbents handily beat opponents
The Morrow County
Road im provem ent levy
went down 1167 to 791 in
the May 15 election. The
levy also failed to achieve the
50 percent rule with only 43
percent of the total eligible
voters voting in the election.
M orrow C ounty
School Board incumbents
Bill Kuhn. Pat McNatnee
and Craig Miles handily beat
their opponents in the May
15 election.
Kuhn beat out
challenger Ken Hackett, 984
to 499, for Position 3.
McNamee had 1074 votes to
3 17 for Elizabeth Melendez
for Position 5. Craig Miles,
with 960 votes, took the lead
over Darrell Gale with 319
votes and Kerry Muniz with
191 for Position 1.
Daniel Daltoso took
MCSD Position 4 with 775
votes over Kent Hansen with
318 and Neila Coffman with
295. Ken Matlack previously
held Position 4. but chose
not to run. M atlack and
Donald Eppenbach ran for
two spots on the Irrigon
Cemetery District, receiving
282 and 302 votes,
respectively.
Bink Ramos of lone
ran unopposed for director
Special Election
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Measure 25-48 - Morrow
County Road Levy
Position 2 on the lone
School
D istrict,
accumulating 207 votes. The
position was previously held
by Gregg Rietmann, w ho did
not run. lone School District
Position I incumbent Joe
M cE llig o tt
also
ran
unopposed and garnered 193
votes.
McElligott was also
elected to the Umatilla-
Morrow ESD Position 6
with 1525 votes, the lone
Rural Fire Protection
District board of directors
with 193 votes and the lone-
Lexington Cemetery District
with 214 votes. M arcus
Collier was elected to the
other lone RFPD spot with
213 votes and M arilyn
Childers took the other Ione-
Lexington Cemetery District
spot with 298 votes. Tom
Groat ran unopposed for the
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ESD Position 7 and received
1270 votes.
Incumbent Marvin
Padberg ran unopposed for
the Port of M orrow
Commissioner Position 4
and garnered 1421 votes.
Incumbent Larry Lindsay,
also unopposed, received
1494 votes for Position 5.
Incumbents Linda
LaRue, M orrow County
Health District Director
Position 4, and Larry Mills,
MCHD Director Position 5.
both ran unopposed and
received 1523 and 1508
votes respectively.
Dean M ason ran
unopposed for the Morrow
C ounty School District
B oardm an C om m unity
E ducation
C om m ittee
Position 3 and received 316
votes. No one ran for the
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Positions 2, 4 and 5, the
MCSD Lexington/Heppner
CEC Positions 1, 2, 3. 4. 5
and 6 nor the Irrigon CEC
Positions 2, 3, 4 and 6.
Bob C onner with
226 votes and Clinton Finley
with 213 beat out Jerry
Johnson with 90 for two
director positions on the
Boardman RFPD.
K e 1 w a y n e
Haguewood with 190 votes
and Don Bennett with 152
were unopposed for two
positions on the Heppner
RFPD. Lynn Hobbs ran
unopposed for Irrigon RFPD
Position 1, receiving 389
votes, and Cindy Turner ran
unopposed for the Irrigon
RFPD Position 2. receiving
382 votes.
Kim Cutsforth. Patti
Allstott and Skip Matthews
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lone School District returns $30,000 grant, hopes to
combine grants to hire teacher next year
The lone School
D istrict Board, at their
regular meeting Monday
night, approved returning a
$30,000 grant to the lone
E d ucation
F oundation
because, according to state
funding projections, the
funds won't be required to
balance the district’s budget.
Instead, the board
voted to ask the foundntion
to c o m b in e this y e a r's
$ 3 0 .0 0 0 gift with next
year's, so that the district
could hire an additional
primary school teacher with
those funds. "We’re all (the
school and the foundation)
trying to make the best
school we can," said retiring
board m em ber G regg
Rietmann.
The board directed
Superintendent/Principal
Bryn Browning to “put the
wheels in motion" to begin
seeking an additional teacher
who will be hired if the
foundation is agreeable to
the request.
The board also
approved a change in the
proposed teacher's contract
w hich would provide a cash
incentive to teachers to not
use their personal leave days
"unless they really need to."
According to the change,
w hich now goes to the
teachers, teach ers will
receive the same amount as
the daily substitute rate, now
around $ 142 per day, if they
do not use their personal
leave days.
The board heard
from Browning that the
Morrow County Unified
R ecreation
District
approved $94.000 to lease
lone School District facilities
for extra-curricular activities
and community activities and
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events for the 2007-08
school year.
Also at the meeting,
the board received the 2007-
08 bus estimate from Mid
Columbia Bus with the base
daily rate (50 mile minimum)
per bus up $5.25 to $243.71.
The base mileage rate per
bus in excess of 50 miles is
up ,03cents to $1.34. The
rate per mile for motor coach
activities is up .05 cents to
$2.48. The rate per mile for
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Pictured is Huger Ehrm antraut standing next to his truck that
he has used for his work with the City of Heppner.
E h rm an trau t was
born in North Dakota and
lived there until 1953 when
his p arents m oved to
Billings, MT. where he went
to first and second grade. In
1956. he moved to Couer
d'Alene, ID where he spent
most of the rest of his school
years. After school he went
into the Army from 1966-
1972.
Ehrmantraut’s first
job out of the service was at
Montague’s Trailers where
he helped restore trailers for
sale. After that he worked in
an apple cannery. Prior to
com ing
to
O regon,
Ehrmantraut worked for an
alum inum com pany that
made handles for.
A fter m o ving to
Heppner. he married Carol
Papineau in 1978. She has
two sons. Corey from lone
and Rodney in Grand
Rapids, Ml. Ehrmantraut
also has two children from a
previous marriage, Bettina in
Spokane, WA and Bryan in
Post Falls, ID.
E h rm an trau t has
done many jobs for the City
of Heppner. He especially
remembers one job where he
was digging to find a water
leak. T here was not
supposed to be anything in
the ground when suddenly,
his backhoe hit an 880 volt
electrical line. He prepared
to jump off the backhoe but
his foreman stopped him and
told him to stay w here he as
until C o lu m b ia Basin
Electric could turn off the
power.
Ehrmantraut enjoys
fly fishing and hunting and
plans to spend some extra
time doing both once he is
retired. For the first month
after
his
retirem en t,
Ehrmantraut and his wife
plan to travel. They plan to
first go to Michigan visit one
of Carol's sons. From there
the plan is to go on
Tennessee to visit the Grand
Ole Opry and go to
Hollywood. After that they
w ill head to New York to see
the Liberty Bell.
Ehrmantraut is also
planning to travel to Couer
d'Alene to visit family and
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Assistant Superintendent Wade
Smith resigns position
Wade Smith, assistant superintendent o f the
Morrow County School District, recently announced his
resignation to accept a job as the assistant superintendent
of the Hermiston School District.
Before becoming assistant superintendent. Smith
was the principal at Heppner Elementary School and then
Heppner Jr./Sr. High School for three years.
“My five years in Morrow County have been truly
wonderful: the best of my professional career. I have had
the opportunity to work with outstanding people; from the
teachers at both Heppner schools during my principal
tenure, to the custodians in the buildings in my maintenance
role, to the teachers in the SIOP cohorts, on up to the
administrators and district office personnel. Morrow
County is truly blessed with exceptional and dedicated
people." said Smith.
Smith will begin his new job in July. No replacement
has yet been named.
The Heppner Gazette-Times will
he closed on Monday, May 28, in
observance of the Memorial Day
holiday. The deadline for the
Wednesday, May 30 newspaper is
Friday, May 25, at 5 p.m.
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