Heppner Gazette-Times. Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 23. 2007 - THREE
lone School District returns $30,000 grant, hopes to
combine grants to hire teacher next year
Spring Reading Program
draws to an end
-Continued from Pa^e one third Monday with the exception of the January meeting
school bus activities is up .04 cents to $ 1.92; the overnight
motel/meal rat is up $ 1.95 to $90.44. The suburban rate
per mile is up .01 cents to .48 cents.
Additional fuel costs are anticipated should the costs
remain at the current rates.
In other business, the board;
-approved changes to the district's interscholastic
activities program as follows:
♦students will “demonstrate appropriate school
behavior including meeting dress code requirements during
practice, traveling and attending home and away games”;
♦students will "be in attendance the full day of any
scheduled activity in order to participate. The coach athletic
director and principal must approve any exceptions to this
policy. Excused absences as outlined in the school
attendance guidelines per the student handbook, will be
considered an exception to this policy. Attendance on
Thursday is mandatory for participation at a Friday contest.
Students absent or late to school the day after an activity
will be referred to the coach for disciplinary action per
team rules”;
♦students will "be in attendance at each regularly
scheduled practice. Any absence from a regularly scheduled
practice session without the coach’s authorization, either
by prearrangement, conference with the coach or absence
from school shall receive consequences per team rules”;
♦“extra duty em ploym ent shall be from the
beginning to the end of the specific sports season”;
♦“upon board review, the principal will extend a
letter of intent to rehire or notification of non-rehire to
each coach within 45 days of the sport season closing";
♦"the principal shall recommend for employment
the most qualified person, licensed or non-licensed and
employment shall be from the beginning to the end of the
specific sports season.”
-passed the follow ing resolu tio n to change
previously adopted funds as follows: Fund 201 State Title
(instruction) was changed from $4,(MX) adopted to $ 17,(XX);
Fund 202 Federal REAP (instruction) was changed from
$24,000 to $31,000; and Fund 240 Miscellaneous Grants
(instruction) was changed from $143,000 to $123,000.
-learned that the Oregon Department of Education
announced the final state support adjustment for $2005-
06 which called for a $55,451 payment from 1SD back to
the state. The ISD had estimated for 2005-06 that the
district would have one pregnant or parenting student, but
it had none; 5.6 students in poverty, when it had none;
teacher experience at .86, when the actual rate was .4 1;
$300,000 in property tax collections when it actually had
$388,274; and would spend $202,500 in transportation,
when it actually spend $169,558.
-approved the 2007-08 board meeting schedule:
August 20, September 17, October 15, November 19.
December 17, January 22. February 11, March 17. April
21, May 19 and June 9 with work sessions beginning at
5:30 p.m. and board meetings at 7 p.m. All are held on the
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w hich is scheduled for the fourth Tuesday; February which
is planned for the second Monday due to a holiday conflict
and June which is scheduled for the second Monday due to
a conflict with the OSSA Summer Institute.
-heard the following report from Browning:
♦David Piper has been contacted to install the
school’s doors.
♦Generation Plastering has been contacted to repair
the east elementary building’s exterior walls which have
been damaged by woodpeckers.
♦Stocker C onstruction has surveyed the pool
damage and damage repairs have begun.
♦the pool pump and control box are also in the
repair stages. The board approved lifeguards as follows:
Alyssa Rietmann-pool manager, Dalton Campbell. Kevin
Fowler. Whitney Meulink, Tori Heagy, Sarah Stillman.
Stefanie Archer, and Tiana Camarillo-part-time.
♦the irrigation system is up and running with breaks
identified and repaired.
♦those who "pitched in and mowed the school
grounds” while the city council and city hall went through
a transition period were thanked for their efforts.
♦three bids w ill be collected on filling in the existing
wading pool, which has been determined to be unrepairable,
and removing the fence.
♦2007 spelling bee winners are as follows: Joe
Doherty-elementary school; Christine Raible-middle school;
and Sarah Stillman. Christine Raible took first place for
her division at a two-county tournament held at Blue
Mountain Community College on May 14.
♦the Tupper experience was a good one with sunny
weather during most of the week.
♦lone kindergarten through fifth grade students had
a successful trip to the Oregon zoo on May 10.
♦the following lone students participated in the
BMCC Pathways Conference, formerly the skills contest:
Health Services Pathway-Brittnee DesBouillons, Aimee
Em ery and Ju lian n e Vanden B rink; B usiness and
Management Pathway-Emily Rietmann; Industry and
Engineering Pathway-Mason Bradfieldand Cody Keisling;
Hospitality and Tourism Pathway-Abby Arnspiger and
Kylee Svetich. Vanden Brink, Emily Rietmann. Arnspiger
and Svetich each earned $500 BMCC scholarships.
♦paper and pencil assessments have arrived and are
being administered. The school's goal is to test the students
w ho have no met their benchmarks and then, if time permits,
test all students who haven't tested a third time. Browning
anticipates that test results will be used for the 2006-07
school report card and the AYP report in August.
♦several teachers have "stepped up and taken over
new classes, given up their prep periods and volunteered
to help with supervision at lunch time.”
♦the sixth graders have completed their Mother's
Day plant sale, but flowers and other items are still available.
♦enrollment was reported at 152 students, up from
151 on May 11.
E ditor’s Note: The
following article ran in the
May 17 edition of the East
Oregonian. The article was
written by George Murdock.
An
ex-M orrow
County resident, who grew
up hawking copies of the
E ast O reg o n ian on the
streets of Heppner, has been
named national publisher of
the y ear by E d ito r &
P u b lish er, the
m ajor
publication of the newspaper
industry.
Chris Anderson, who
is chief executive officer and
president o f the O range
County Register, grew up in
Orange County Register Publisher Chris Anderson speaks
with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently at the
newspaper's office in Santa Ana, Calif. -Photo by Michael
(Moulding of the Orange County Register
schools there through his
freshman year in high school.
He says that as a kid. he
would walk up and down
Main Street selling copies of
the paper for a dime.
His father, N. C.
A nderson, was a county
extension agent who also
w rote a colum n for the
Gazette-Times, published in
Heppner. Wes Sherman, w ho
was then publisher of the
new spaper, had a son in
Anderson's class and he took
notice of Anderson's interest
in w riting. He asked the
young boy to write stories
about ju n io r high sports,
which then appeared in the
newspaper.
Earlier, the young
journalist had worked as a
printer's devil at the Gazette-
Times taking apart the pages
and melting down the lead to
create new “pigs” for the
lin o ty p e
m achine.
Som ew here around that
tim e, he decided he was
much more interested in
being a writer than a printer,
although his first job taught
him to read upside down and
backward and how to put the
type back in the cases.
During his freshman
year at H eppner High
School, A nderson was
named sports editor of the
Gazette-Times and covered
the Mustangs. He says he
wasn't big enough to play
football and w asn't good
enough to play v arsity
basketball, but he did letter
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planned oil painting workshops with Robert Walton (the
mural artist) on June 22, 23, and 24. On each day, class
time will be from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The group has asked Walton to do a snow scene
with cabins and some hills for background.
The cost is $115 for three days. Classes must be
paid for by June 1. New painters are welcome. For more
information contact Betty Mills at 676-5546
Anyone wishing to see what the painting w ill look
like may do so at the May 24 meeting of M.C.C.A.&C. at
GD's banquet room at I p.m. Also on the meeting agenda
is the watercolor classes on August 11 and 12. Teaching
the workshop will be Joyce Anderson of Walla Walla. The
cost for this class is undetermined until all sign-ups are in.
What to paint will be decided at this meeting also. To sign
up call Trish Sweeney at 676-9226.
The public is welcome to attend the meeting.
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Participants in the Spring Reading Program at the lleppner
Library used their creativity to decorate the sidewalk in
front of the library with colored chalk.
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in baseball, seeing limited
playing time.
At the end o f his
freshman year, his father
took a tw o-year leave of
absence from the Oregon
State University Extension
Service and went to Niger.
West Africa, under a contract
with the U.S. Agency for
International Development.
There he w orked w ith
farmers in Niger, a French-
speaking country north of
Nigeria. Anderson attended
boarding school in Niger
during the first year of their
stay. The school was across
the country from his parents.
In early I966, civil
war broke out in Nigeria and
his paren ts w ere not
comfortable having him so
far away even though the
Biafran War was on the other
side of Nigeria from w here
he was. At the end of the
school year, he said his
parents sent him back to
Oregon to live w ith his sister
outside of Portland.
W hen his parents
retu rn ed to the U nited
States, his fath er was
assigned to Linn County anil
Anderson spent his senior
year at Albany Union High
School. He said it seemed
pretty odd for him to have
attended four different high
schools in four years because
his five older brothers and
sisters spent "their entire
school careers in Heppner.
A sa student at OSU,
he asked Wes Sherman if he
could be an intern at the
G azette-T im es. He had
w orked the p rev io u s
sum m er at the A lbany
Democrat-Herald. Shortly
after he arrived in Heppner.
Wes and Helen Sherman
decided to take their first
vacation in 25 years.
Two days later, Wes
Sherman died suddenly of a
heart attack. Anderson, who
was not yet 19, found
h im se lf
running
the
newspaper and even writing
Sherman's obituary. He took
charge of the tiny staff, wrote
articles, sold ads, worked the
press and bundled papers.
At the end o f the
sum m er, Helen Sherm an
sold the new sp ap er and
Anderson was back for his
sophom ore y ear as an
experienced publisher.
He established later
ties to the area when he was
hired to become editor of the
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
at the age of 25. He was later
moved to the Seattle Times,
w hich ow ns the U nion-
B u lletin . T his sum m er,
Anderson's oldest daughter.
Erica, will be an intern at the
Walla Walla newspaper.
Anderson's parents
are now retired and live in
Dallas.
Meanwhile, he has
come a long way from his
e a rlie st
jo u rn a lism
experiences to becom e a
decorated leader of a major
newspaper that covers the 34
cities that makeup Orange
County.
Scott Flanders, the
chief executive officer of
F reedom
N ew sp ap ers,
which owns the Register,
a p p lau d s A n d erso n for
creating a newspaper that
has given Orange County a
badly-needed identity and
for h elp in g resh ap e the
newspaper industry through
innovative leadership.