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.
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Assistance is avail
able to develop management
plans bv calling Morrow
SWCD at 541-676-5452.