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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - FIVE Ione Community School hosts science fair lo n e C o m m u n ity School hosted a science fair this past week for grades kindergarten through high school student that boasted over 100 people present and 50 entries. S tu d en t w ere a c countable for developing a project, creating a report com plete with objective, hypothesis, materials, pro cedure, data, conclusion and bibliography in addition to a display board. Each project was unique and different and catered to the individual interest o f students. “ I was really proud o f these kids,” said science teacher, Erin Heideman. “Their projects were w onderful and they did a tremendous job at the fair. This is the third year for the science fair and it keeps getting better.” Elementary judges were Bink Ramos, middle school ju d g es were Lisa Rietmann and Bill Jepsen and high school judges were Jim Swanson and Howard Mullin. The winners of each category listed below re ceived science medals and the judges picked an overall fair exhibit and people who attended voted for a 'peo ple’s choice’ award in each category; grade, middle or high school. G rade School -Engineering: Ally Haguewood, Babali Peter son (4lh/5,h), Jessie Flynn, Hannah Padberg (4,h/5th) -P hysical Science (Chemistry): Malychi Wen- berg (K) -Physical (Physics) M agnetism : A ngel Ruiz, Danny Doherty (4,h/5,h) -Physical (Physics) Electricity: Ann Rietmann (4th/5,h) -Physical (Physics) E nergy: Jake H eidem an ( l 1) -Biology (Zoology) A natom y: Jen n a T aylor (4th/5,h) -Biology (Zoology) Physiology: Jason Juarez, Joshua Stillman (4,h/5,h) -Biology (Botany) Physiology: Yaneri Cavillo, Ashley Medina, and Marisol Avila (4/5) M iddle School -Biology (M icrobi ology): Lacey Thompson, and Julianne Carlson -B iology (B otany) Behaviorism: Stacee Hal- vorsen and Shadow Ken drick -E arth (G e o lo g y ) V olcanology: K aid Peck and Brandon Peck -Physical (Physics) Machines: Gus Peterson and Joe Doherty -Physical (Physics) Energy: Emily Holland and Top Left Photo: People walk through the maze of science projects. Top Right Photo: Irene Holtz visits with Ashley Medina about her science project. Bottom Left Photo: Megan Doherty spent her birthday roaming the science fair and talking to Hannah Flynn. Bottom Right Photo: Mary Rietmann and Makenna Ramos pose next to their display board. -Contributed Photos Jackie Juarez High School -Biology (General): Tanner Rietmann and Alex Rietmann -Physical (Chemis try): Rebecca Jepsen -Physical (Physics) Magnets: Steven Holland Buy-in waiver extension approved for Disaster Assistance Programs Darcy Vial, Execu tive D irector o f USDA’s Farm Service A gency in Heppner recently announced that producers who did not obtain crop insurance or Non-insured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) coverage for 2008 can pay a buy-in fee through May 18,2009, to become eligible for 2008 disaster assistance programs authorized by the Food, C onservation, and Energy Act of 2008. “Producers have an additional opportunity to become eligible for several programs if they suffered 2008 a g ricu ltu ral losses due to natural disaster,” said Vial. Producers who have not already taken the neces sary steps to become eligible for the Supplemental Rev enue A ssistance Program (SU R E), Em ergency A s sistance for Livestock, Hon eybees, and Farm -Raised Fish (ELAP), and the Tree Assistance Program (TAP) are required to com plete the following steps by May 18, 2009: -Pay a $100 “buy- in” fee per crop. The maxi mum fee is $300 per county, per producer, not to exceed $900 for multi-county pro ducers. -In the case o f each insurable crop, excluding grazing land, agree to obtain a policy or plan o f insurance for the next insurance year for which crop insurance is available; coverage level should equal 70 percent or more o f the yield at 100 percent o f the price. -In the case o f each non-insurable crop, agree to file the required paperwork and pay the applicable ad ministrative NAP coverage Basket Class at Artisan Village! Sunday, April 15,12-6 p.m. Learn basket of your choice, twined or woven. Cost and time will vary with basket you choose to make. Can be Easter or Everyday. Artisan Village Main Street, Heppner, Phone 676-8282 Hours: Monday-Friday 9:30 - 5:30 Sunday 12:00 - 5:00 ■■ ** fee by the applicable state application closing date for the next available year. P ro d u c e rs w ho choose to “buy in" under this provision will be con sidered, for insured crops, to have obtained a policy or plan o f insurance for the 2008 crop year at a level of coverage not to exceed 70 percent o f the yield at 100 percent o f the price. For non-insurable crops, pro ducers will be considered to have a level of coverage equal to 70 percent o f the yield. These levels of cover age will be used to calculate the 2008 SURE guarantee. Producers who meet the definition o f “Socially D isad v an tag ed , L im ited Resource,” or “Beginning Farmer or Rancher,” are not required to pay the buy-in fee. Have a News story or Photo for the Gazette? Email to editor@rapid- serve.net We do Web S ites -P a g e D e sig n - -Complete Sites- -H o s tin g - Heppner Gazette- Times 676-9228 and Adam Collin -Physical (Physics) Energy: Zac Orem, Jordan Peterson, and Luke Emmel -Physical (Physics) Electricity: Micah Stillman and Kaleb Dumler Overall judges pick for the grade school was awarded to Danny Doherty and Angel Ruiz for electro magnetism, middle school went to Gus Peterson and Joe Doherty for their work with building a hovercraft and overall pick for high school went Rebecca Jepsen for the pH testing o f bever ages. People’s choice went to Rachel Holland for el ementary, Jackie Juarez and Emily Holland for middle school and Kaleb Dumler and Micah Stillman in the high school. Morrow County Court weekly meeting held The Morrow County Court met on March 18 at the Port o f Morrow offices with Judge Tallman, Com missioner Grieb and Com missioner Rea in attendance. Following is a summary o f those meeting provided by Leann Rea. -T h e C o u r t a p proved monthly Accounts Payable in the amount o f $138,970.89. -The Court signed an In te r G o v e rn m e n ta l Agreement (IGA) for the creation of the management plan for the Columbia River Enterprise Zone. The Court also signed an IGA for the management plan for the Columbia River Enterprise Zone. -The Court reviewed and signed two letters re garding the disposition of the Mustard at the Umatilla Army Depot. -Reviewed a memo provided by the sh eriff’s office regarding costs of the contract between the City of Heppner and the Morrow County Sheriff’s Office. -The Road Depart ment provided photos o f the fill on Depot Lane and the head walls o f the Road Canyon Bridge. Report: De- pot Lane - Have completed all touch up work along the shoulders, removed the con struction signs and put up all o f the road signs. No more work will be done in this area until the crew comes back some time in May to do the paving. It is estimated that the paving project will take seven days, plus one day o f staging. Upper Rhea Creek Road - Part o f the crew is w o rk in g on e x tending culverts and doing shoulder work on the road, between Ruggs and Basey Canyon Road. Road Canyon Bridge - This week the crew has continued with installa tion o f the sediment fence and tying rebar into the head walls for the bridge and set ting the forms to grade. On Thursday plans are to pour concrete for both headwalls. One side will be poured in the morning and the other side in the afternoon. Road grading - The crew will continue with road grading as weather permits. Graders are w orking in the Ione- Gooseberry, Lexington and Upper Rhea Creek areas. Road sweeping - The crew has been sweeping paved roads in the Irrigon area. When this project is finished the sweeper will move to the Boardman area. -The Court signed an access permit onto Wilson Lane for Cecil and Nancy Swaggart. -The C ourt heard a report that the City o f Boardman will be conduct ing their annual free cleanup project from April 1 through April 30. Anyone who re sides within the city limits o f Boardman and wishes to take items directly to the North Morrow Transfer Sta tion must go to city hall and obtain a voucher allowing for the free disposal. The Court reminds all Morrow County residents those large appliances (stoves, refrig erators, washers, dry ers etc.) and large furniture (sofas, m attresses, dressers etc.) may be taken to the transfer stations and disposed o f at no cost. The North Morrow Transfer Station is located on Frontage Road just east of Bombing Range Road and the South Morrow Transfer Station is located on High way 74 between Lexington and Heppner. Both Stations are open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays except holidays. Weed-free feed required in Northwest Forests As part o f a larger effort to reduce invasive species on national forest lands, w eed-free feed is being required in the 17 national forests and the C rooked R iver N ational G rasslands o f the Pacific Northwest this year. This follows a requirem ent in 2007 that weed-free feed be used in Pacific Northwest Wildernesses. Livestock ow ners and others will be required to use feed that is either co m m ercially processed feed or crop products certi fied to be free o f w eed seeds. Officials w ill concentrate on education and compliance this year, until signage and outreach efforts are fully implemented with stricter enforcement to follow. The new re q u ire ment says that all hay, cubed hay, straw, mulch, and other such products used or stored on national forest lands be state certified as weed free. Crop products often contain seeds o f non-native w eeds that germ inate on public lands and damage th eir health and beauty. Non-native weeds such as leafy spurge, spotted knap weed, yellow star thistle, and others are alien to the United States and have no natural enem ies to check their spread. Oregon and Wash ington have developed cer tification processes for crop products. Hay fields are in spected to ensure that listed noxious w eed seeds are absent. Once a field passes this in sp ectio n , hay and other crop products from the field are labeled as “certified w eed-free.” C om m ercial ly processed feed (pellets and steamed, rolled grains) are not affected by the order and should be used in the af fected national forest lands if certified hay products are not available. For more inform a tion, visit w w w .fs.fed.us/ rô/weeds. Advertise with the Heppner Gazette-Times Call 6 7 6 -9 2 2 Ô
