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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 16,2010 - FIVE SCHOOLD,IS™ ICT 2010 Celebrate Heppner held honor o f a deceased bus driver who was a supporter o f the school sports teams. The board suggested that the students seek the input o f the community. -approved the first reading o f the honors di plomas credit requirements: language arts-four credits (one must be advanced/hon- ors/college level); science- three credits (one must be advanced science-physics/ chemistry/ad life science/ A P; m a th -th re e c re d its (one must be at or above A lg eb ra II-p re -c a lc u lu s level); social science-four (one m ust be a d v an ced area (law/psychology/AP); health-one credit; physical education-one credit; career education-one credit; for eign language-two credits study of the same language; technology-one (PTE/busi- ness/ag science/computers); electives-six for Riverside and Irrigon junior-senior high schools for 26 credits, eight for Heppner Junior- Senior High School for 30 credits (eight-period day); grade point average o f 3.5 or 3.25 and 1650 SAT or 23 ACT score; must pass 11th grade benchmarks and com plete all work samples. -received the fol lowing attendance report as o f June 1: A.C. Houghton Elementary-266; Heppner E le m e n ta ry -193; Irrigon E lem entary-203; Irrigon High School-327; R iver side High School-394; Sam Boardman Elementary-303; Windy River Elementary- 216; M orrow E ducation C e n te r-M o rro w C ounty School District students-64; Morrow Education Center- U m atilla School D istrict students-25. - a p p r o v e d th e 2010-2011 board meeting calendar as follows: July 2010- no m eeting; August 9-district office, Lexington; S e p te m b e r 1 3 -H e p p n e r High School; October 11- Sam Boardm an E lem en tary; November 8-Morrow E ducation C enter, Irrig on; D ecem ber 13-Irrigon Elem entary; January 10, 2 0 1 1 - H e p p n e r E le m e n tary; February 14-Riverside High School, Boardm an; M arch 14-A .C . H o u g h ton Elem entary, Irrigon; April 11-Windy River El ementary, Boardman; May 9-Irrigon High School; June 13-district office. All meet ings are scheduled for 7 p.m. Work sessions will be scheduled as needed. -discussed sched uling a work session/re- treat for board members in August. -held an executive session concerning person nel. -received the fol low ing a n n o u n cem en ts: 2010 . July 5-Independence Day -received a request holiday; August 1-adminis to name the Irrigon High trators return to work; Au School softball field. Ir gust 9-next board meeting, rigon students requested district office, 7 p.m. Lorenz; personnel director/ executive secretary/desig- nee to apply and sign on grants and contracts-Julie A shbeck; n ew sp ap er o f record-H eppner G azette- T im es, E ast O regonian; district legal counsel-Doug H ojem o f Corey, Byler, Rew, Lorenzen & Hojem, LLC, Andrea Hungerford; insurance agent o f record- Nancy Snider, Wheatland Insurance; set borrowing lim it at $2 m illion; d e positories for district funds- S ta te In v e stm e n t P ool, Bank o f Eastern Oregon, Banner Bank, Wells Fargo, U.S. National Bank, Bank of New York; auditors for 2010-11 -Oster Professional Group of John Day. -approved the fol lowing textbook adoption recommendations: science grades five/six-F ull O p tion Science System, Delta Science Modules; science grades six/eight-Holt Sci ence & Technology, Levels G reen & B lue; b iology grades nine-12-H olt Mc- Dougal Biology; chemistry grades nine-12-still final izing; earth science grades nine-12-Holt Environmen tal Science; physical sci ence grades nine-12-Holt Science Spectrum: Physi cal Science with Earth and Space S cien ce; p h y sics grades n in e - 12-C oncep- tio n al P h y sics (u p d ated version/no purchase need ed); algebra 3-M cK enna Kirk; pre-calculus-Larson; Hostetler; calculns-Larson; Edwards; integrated math- Saxon 3, Houghton; Mif flin; Harcourt. -h e a rd a re p o rt from A ssistan t S u p erin ten d e n t P h y llis D a n ie l son on Oregon Assessment o f K now ledge and Skills (O A K S) testin g results. She told the board that test results were up except in the fourth and 10,h grades. She expressed concern, since both showed a downward trend over the past three years. She said that she was not quite as concerned with the 10,h-grade reading scores as they had shown improvement over the past five y ears, how ever the fourth grade test results had not improved over that period. -ap p ro v ed a tte n dance variances for three students from the Hermis- ton School District to attend MCSD. -approved a raise in substitute teacher pay to $159.47 per day. -approved a resolu tion to authorize the county treasurer to invest district funds. -approved a suc cessor contract w ith the M orrow County U nified R e c re a tio n D istric t for Advertise with the Heppner Gazette-Times Call 5 4 1 -6 7 6 -9 2 2 Ô F riday, June 11, was filled with lots o f ac tivities during the annual Celebrate Heppner festivi ties. The youngest com petitors were the 3-5 year olds participating in the Tri cycle Race. These winners received a free ice cream cone, donated by Sw eet Productions. The winners were: Zachary Brown - 3 years old; Zandra Master- son - 4 years; and Kyler Wilson - 5 years old. Flep- pner Day Care donated the tricycles. City Pqrk was also full o f games - egg race, egg toss, water balloon toss, and wheelbarrow race. Stu dents from Heppner High School helped in coordinat ing each game. Cornerstone and Murray Drugs donated coffee cards for some o f the prizes. The annual hot dog eating contest (as directed by Alvin Liu) brought in some great prizes donated by our local m erchants, gift certificates to the first place winner from Comer- store Gallery, The Stable of Youth and W illow Creek Diner and drink cards from Cornerstone and M urray’s. A dam s D istributing pro vided the hot dog buns, Heppner Family Foods dis counted the hot dogs, and Rusty Estes was standing by, just in case his services were needed. T he w in n e rs for this year’s event were: Ages 11-15: 1st place: E than Akers 2 nd p la c e : K y le Tompkins Ages 16-19: l 5' place: Shane Smith 2nd place: Joe Ar- mato Ages 19 and over: 1” p lace: B rian Harmon 2nd place: Adam Collins T h e S m a ll D og Races were sponsored by Dick Temple, DVM. The prizes were a free m icro chip for the first place win ner, Distem per/Parvo and Pictured above are scenes from Celebrate H eppne r on Ju n e Kennel Cough shots for the 11 . -Photos bv David Svkes second place winner, and a large bag o f Science Diet Dog Food for the third place winner. Honorable mention has to go to Shepoo (Greg Smith’s family dog). Appar ently Donnie, the Healy’s dog was enam ored with Sheepo and was distracted and would not take off run ning to the finish line, until much prodding and finally remembered what he was there to do and made it just in time to take third place. T he sm all dog w in n ers were: l sl place: Raelyn Lansford (Marley) 2nd place: Sharon Jones(Sassy) 3rd place: Jerry and Carmen Healy (Donnie) W elly Toss: The new event for this year was the team Welly Toss competition. A total of 12 teams competed. The teams that competed were: BEO Boot of Gold Bandits, Boot Chuckin Bankers, “Boot” Scootin Beauties of BEO, Bucknum’s, Forest Service Fire, Murray’s, The Fabri cators, Timber Dogs, Top Dogs, Wet WellyToss (Pio neer Memorial Hospital), Wheatland Insurance, and Wine O ’s. The winners for the team and individual compe titions are: Team Competion/ Winners: 1st Place: The Fab ricators (cream puffs do nated by Ginger Bowman and medium pizza donated by Howe’s About Pizza) 2 nd P la c e : Top Dogs (orange rolls donated by Mary Ella Johnson 3rd Place: Timber Dogs (tart truffles donated by Peggy Fishburn) Welly Toss Indi vidual Winners - presented “free drink card” from Mur ray Drugs: K in d e rg a rte n & Under: Kyler Wilson L " -3 rd grade: Roy1 Collins 4th - 6lh grade: Pat rick Collins 7th - 12,h grade: Andrew Bara A d u lt F e m a le : Shenna Shank Adult Male: Pat rick Reynolds HES announces students with perfect attendance Heppner Elementary School recently announced students with perfect atten dance during the fourth quar ter, second semester, and for the entire school year. Those students are: Fourth Quarter Per fect Attendance - Kaden Combe, Zander Fisher, Brock Hisler, Brian Lindsay, Bridget Wizner, Conor Brosnan, Jace Coe, Hannah Green, Brett Jewett, Ireland Martin, Za- Brena Masterson, Chance Mc Cormack, Roen Waite, Hadyen Hyatt, Mikel Jaca, Jackson Le- hman, Marlee Mitchell, Ken Kolby Currin, Onna DeLoach, neth Troxell, Sydney Wilson, Kellie Eadler, Alyssa Palacios Casey Fletcher, Gavin Hanna, and Daichi Walters. Second Semester Les Mason Lehman, Kael Osmin, Nicole Propheter, Jason Rea, Schwab Pride in Performance Cheyenne Shaw, Cami Va- Perfect Attendance - Kaden nArsdale, Madison Combe, Combe, Zander Fisher, Za- Jacee C’urrin, Cason Mitch Brena M asterson, Chance ell, Leo Waite, Ethan Akers, McCormack, Hayden Hyatt, Patrick Burch, Alex Lindsay, M ikel Jaca, Jackson Leh Nichole Shaw, Tarin Troxell, man, Kenneth Troxell, Gavin Reiah Waite, Cody Wizner, Hanna, Kael Osmin, Nicole Darby Holtz, Wyatt Steagall, Propheter, Cheyenne Shaw, Emily Cecil, Faith Jones, Me Cami VanArsdale, Madison lissa Martin, Janice Munkers, Combe, Jacee Currin, Cason Sky 1er Palmer, Emily Pappas, Mitchell, Leo Waite, Ethan Akers, Patrick Burch, Nichole Shaw, Tarin Troxell, Faith Jones, Janice Munkers, Kolby Currin, Onna DeLoach, Alyssa Palacios and Daichi Walters. AH Year Perfect At tendance - Kaden Combe, Jackson Lehman, Gavin Han na, Madison Combe, Jacee Currin, Cason Mitchell, Ethan A kers, N ich ole Shaw and Kolby Currin. The All Year Perfect Attendance students received an individual pool pass to Willow Creek Water Park. lone Community School announces second quarter honor roll lone C om m unity School recently announced their honor roll for the sec ond quarter o f the 2010 school year. The following stu dents have earned a 4.0 GPA: R a c h e l H o lla n d , Morrow C ounty Public W orks w ould like to rem in d everyone When your loading garbage for the transfer stations to please keep in mind we have a separate WOOD bin and a separate METAL bin. These items do not get put in with your regu lar household garbage. So please keep the wood and metal separated out for easy dumping. Thank you. North end Transfer Station, 69900 Frontage Lane, Boardman, OR. 97818. South end Transfer Station 57185 Hwy 74, Lexington, OR. 97839. Both hours of operation 9 :0 0 -4 :0 0 Saturday and Sunday. \ Victoria Rietmann, Oskar Peterson, Emily Holland, Julianne Carlson, Stacee Halvorsen, Evan Rietmann, R ebecca Jepsen, Jordan Peterson, Christine Raible, Makenna Ramos, Thomas H olland, M arco Juarez, Bethany Morter, Alex Ri etmann, Alex Carlson, Matt Hams, Eric Jepsen. Brianna Peterson, Sarah Stillm an and Vanessa Ziliani. The following stu d en ts have earned h o n or roll status [3.99-3.5]: Joseph D oherty, Lauren Garrett, Daniel Holtz, Bai ley H aguew ood, Jaque- line Juarez, Tannner Bass, Steven Holland, Shannon Metcalfe, Zac Orem, Mary Rietmann, Kaleb Dumler, Mary M cElligott, Mariah Bradfield. Jacob Trahan, K evin K o sk ela, T anner Rietmann, Michael Raible, Stefanie Archer. RJ Ramos and Tyree Svetich. The following stu- dents have earned honorable mention [3.49-3.0]: Jason Juarez, Joshua Stillm an, Paige Esterbloom , Jessie Flynn, Jorge Aguilar, Shel by Williams, Rita McEillott, Dustin Lutz, Zane King, Larissa Steinlicht, Jason T hom pson, Tim Em m el, Lacey Thom pson, Alisha Taylor, Kirk Haguewood, Shadow Kendrick, Tyrell Barnett, Jeremy Coleman, Mason Haguewood. Micah S tillm a n , Luke Em m el, MeLanie Eldridge, Adam C ollin and Yezmin Ver- duzco. HES students participate in field day On Ju n e 8. H eppner Elementary School held their annual Held day lead by Terri Gentry. Student« enjoyed a m orning of sack race«, w ate r ballon to««, w ate r rally and tug of war. During the barbecue lunch, HF.S honored Brian Thomp«on with a plaque for hi« many hour« volunteering time and talent« to clean up and re«eed the lower field. It will be ready for u«e this su m m er for soccer practices, events at HF.S and baseball in the fall. Pictured is the second grad e class participating in the w ater balloon toss. -Contributed Photo
