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EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 9, 2010 lone students take end-of-year field trips Pictured left: Seventh graders from lone Community School experienced an extension from the classroom as they explored natural resources w ith a tour of the Portland General Electric Coal Fire Plant with Safety Officer, Mike Garrett. Pictured from top to bottom, left to right: Rita McElligott, Zac Irons, Cassidy Braun, Joe Doherty, Brandon Peck, Michaela Forester, Daniel Holts, Lauren Garrett and Oskar Peterson. This 7th grade group also toured the Willow Creek Wind Farm enjoy ing the opportunity to stand in the base of a new w ind turbine (pictured above). -ContributedPhotos Eighth graders from lone Community School took a field trip to the Goldendale Observatory this past Saturday. The group left lone at 5:30 p.m. and returned after midnight. Pictured top to bottom: Emily Holland, Larissa Jones, Dustin Lutz, Nicole Lutz, Gus Peterson, Joel Stillman, Raid Peck and Jackie Juarez. -Contributed Photo Left Photo: Rebecca Jepsen and Melanie Eldrigde participate in high school pig dissection at lone Community School. Center Photo: Horticulture student, Micah Stillman, helps 1st graders Hunter Padberg and Colt Rice plant vegetables in the lone Community Garden. The garden is open for anyone to reaps the benefits of throughout the summer. Photo Above: Seventh grader, Zac Irons, completes a field lab for science at lone Community School. Students took samples ofWillow Creek and dissected insects and tested waterquality. -Contributed Photos lone students participate in Shape Up Across Oregon Oregon Trail Library District adopts Sage System Standardized Loan Rules The Oregon Trail Li brary District, in cooperation with other Eastern Oregon libraries, has adopted the Sage Library System Standardized Loan Rules to better serve library users. Beginning July 1, the Oregon Trail Library District libraries in Boardman, Hep pner and Irrigon will have two lending periods - 21 day and 7 days. Those items that previ ously could only be checked out for two weeks - books, audiobooks, magazines, etc. will be able to be checked out for three weeks. A ll other item s - DVD’s, telescopes, GPS units, Kill A Watt units, etcetera will have a one week check out pe riod. Any item returned to and checked in at any online Sage Library by the end o f the loan period will be considered to have been returned on time. All items will have a grace period o f one day in which overdue fines will not accrue. After that, fines will accrue at 20 cents per day per item, up to a maximum o f $5 per item . R enew als can be made if there are no holds on the items by using the OTLD website at http:// www.oregontrail.plinkit.org. Processing fees up to $10 will be assessed in addition to the replacement cost on lost/ destroyed materials. Library card holders will also be able to place up to six holds/interlibrary loan requests beginning July 1. A full description o f the loan rules will be available at any OTLD library. Mustangs fall in state championship baseball game lone Community Elementary School student recently participated in Shape lip Across Or egon. There were 59 students in grades K-5 that completed the 845 mile trek across the state. Students received a certificate from Governor Theodore Kulongoski and State Superintendent Susan Castillo. Contributed Photo WSU President’s Honor Roll List announced Top Photo: The Heppner baseball team with their sec on that list. least nine graded hours in ond place trophy. The Mus To be eligible for a single term at WSU or tangs lost their state champi the WSU President’s Honor a GPA of 3.50 based on at onship game 3-1 to Knappa. Roll, an undergraduate stu least 15 cumulative hours Right Photo: Wacy Coil slides safely into second base. -Pho dent must earn a grade of graded work. tos hv Sandy .Matthews Washington State University’s President’s Honor Roll for the spring 2010 term has been an nounced and Emily Kath erine Rietmann of lone is point average of 3.75 in at Main Street to close for Celebrate Heppner Main Street in Heppner w ill be closed between Willow and May Streets, start ing at 2 p.m. on Friday. Drivers are asked that all cars be removed from that part of Main Street by 1 p.m. NOAA issues monthly climate summary for Heppner According to pre- liminary data received by MOAA’s National Weather Service in Pendleton, tem peratures at Heppner aver aged colder than normal during the month of May. The average tem perature was 52.7 degrees which was 3.4 degrees be low normal. High tempera tures averaged 63.5 degrees, which was 5.6 degrees be low normal. The highest was 8 1 degrees on the 16th. Low temperatures averaged 41.9 degrees, which was 1.2 degrees below normal. The lowest was 32 degrees, on the 7th. Precipitation to taled 2.04 inches during May, which was 0.37 inches above normal. Measurable precipitation -at least .01 inch- was received on 16 days with the heaviest, 0.59 inches reported on the 18th. Precipitation this year has reached 6.50 inch es, which is 0.74 inches be low normal. Since October, the w ater year precipitation at Heppner has been 9.64 inches, which is 1.39 inches \ below normal. The outlook for June from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center calls for near normal temperatures and above normal precipi tation. Normal highs for Heppner during June are 77.0 degrees and normal lows are 48.5 degrees. The 30 year normal precipita tion is 1.08 inches. The Na t i o n a l Weather Service is an office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra tion, an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department. Morrow County Weed Advisory Board focuses on Whitetop C ardaria draba, commonly called Whitetop or Hoary Cress was added to the Morrow County “A” Noxious Weed List by reso lution in August of 1999. Weeds designated as such are required to be controlled and prevented from bloom ing or producing seed. Whitetop is a very aggressive perennial that competes with native veg etation and is a threat to alfalfa and wheat produc tion. Whitetopflikes a moist or irrigated area such as riparian areas, but will also infest the uplands. Staff of the Morrow SWCD will be contacting landowners and operators in person, by phone or mail where Whitetop is known to be growing to assist in identification of locations and control information. Submi s s i on of approved Weed Manage ment Plans also became a requirement in 1999. All known “A” list noxious weeds on a property are to be covered by the approved plan. Plans filed in the past must be updated to include new weed infestations or when there are ownership changes. When a Weed Management Plan is ap proved and followed, land- owners are protected from being found in violation of the Morrow County Weed Ordinance. • Assistance is avail able to develop management plans bv calling Morrow SWCD at 541-676-5452.
