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State education to stress “birth
to college” says superintendant
Bv April Sykes
lone School Dis
trict and InterM ountain
ESD Superintendent Mark
M ulvihill told the lone
School Board, at their regu
lar meeting January 24, that
HEPPNER
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VOL. 131
N 0. 5
8 Pages
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
Fair and rodeo queen
celebrates coronation
M orrow C ounty
residents are encouraged to
mark their calendars now
for a night of music, food
and the official coronation
of our 2012 Morrow Coun
ty Fair and Oregon Trail
Pro Rodeo Queen Maggie
Collins. Her coronation will
be held on Saturday, March
10 at 6 p.m. at the Mor
row County Fairgrounds
in Heppner. The 2012 fair
theme is Country Pride.....
County Wide, at the Mor-
row County Fair.
Country music, old
time fiddlers, visiting roy
alty, county dignitaries, a
prime rib or chicken dinner, set; Willow Creek Storage,
silent and live auctions... 2012 custom Montana Sil
those are all on the eve ver queen’s crown; Roger
ning's agenda for
and Rena Henry,
raising money for
custom hand-made
this year's queen.
leather belt, Mon
The spon
tana Silver bracelet
sors o f her official
and queen’s Resis-
attire and awards
tol hat; Hal and Rita
also will be high
Bergstrom family,
Maggie
lighted at the coro Collins
queen’s sash, work
nation, including
ja ck et and much
M orrow C o u n ty
more; Mike’s Mo
Grain Growers, queen s bile Slaughter, Mike and
chaps; Bank of Eastern Or- Judy (Jepsen) Julio, a whole
egon, queen’s Montana Sil pig cut and wrapped for raf
ver buckle; Banner Bank of fle sale; and Sykes Real Es-
Boardman, Montana Silver
-See FAIR QUEEN/PAGE
heart earrings and necklace
SIX
Six positions open in
primary elections May 15
The 2012 primary
elections in Morrow Coun
ty will be held May 15.
General elections will be
held November 6.
County positions
open for the 2012 election
and current position hold
ers are: Morrow County
A ssessor, G reg Sweek;
M orrow C ounty C lerk,
Bobbi Childers; Morrow
C ounty C o m m issio n er
1, Leann Rea; M orrow
County Sheriff, Kenneth
Matlack; Morrow County
Surveyor, Judson Coppock
and Morrow County Trea
surer, Gayle Gutierrez. All
positions carry four-year
terms. The county commis
sioner position is partisan;
all other open positions are
nonpartisan.
County clerk, trea
surer and sheriff are elected
at a general election. Asses
sor, surveyor and Justice of
the Peace can be elected at
the May election depending
on the number of candidates
filed.
Filing is now open
for candidacy for nonpar
tisan or major party office
candidates. March 6, 2012
is the last day to file candi
dacy for a nonpartisan or
major party offipe. Filing
must be completed in the
office of the county clerk
by 5 p.m., but County Clerk
Bobbi Childers urges any
one interested in filing to
allow plenty of time in case
corrections need to be made
to filing paperwork.
C a n d id a te s fo r
sheriff must have a letter
from the Department o f
Public Safety Standards
and Training. Candidates
for assessor must have a
letter from the Department
o f Revenue stating they
meet the requirements un
der Oregon Revised Statue
204.016.
These are the cur
rent filings in the office of
the county clerk:
Bobbi A. Childers,
county clerk
Greg Sweek, coun
ty assessor
Gayle L. Gutierrez,
county treasurer
Kenneth W. Mat-
lack, county sheriff
Filing forms and
more information can be
found at: http://oregon-
votes.org/pages/publica-
tions/index.html under the
Manuals and Forms links.
Voters are also re
minded that they will re
ceive partisan (Democrat or
Republican) primary ballots
only for their registered
party. Unaffiliated and other
party voters will receive
only nonpartisan primary
ballots unless otherwise
designated by the party in
question. All general elec
tion candidates will appear
on N ovem ber’s general
election ballots.
Important dates for 2012
primary election
-September 8, 2011: First day to file candidacy for nonpartisan or major
party office
• -March 6, 2012: Last day to file candidacy for nonpartisan or major party
office
-March 8, 2012: Last day to file state voters’ pamphlet statement
-March 31, 2012: Ballots mailed to long-term absent voters (overseas and
military)
-April 3, 2012: Seven day reporting begins for campaign finance transac
tions
-April 16, 2012: Ballots mailed to out-of-state voters
-April 24, 2012: Voter registration deadline
-April 27 - May 1,2012: Ballots mailed to voters other than long-term absent
and out-of-state voters
-May 15, 2012: Election Day
-June 14, 2012: Certification of election results
needs to be put on the “fast
Governor John Kitzhaber’s dysfunction.”
“We all know kids track.” Mulvihill suggested
focus, and consequently the
state’s new education focus, zero to five are sponges,” using a modular building
for the facility.
will be on pre-kindergarten added Areher.
A meeting was held
-received the draft
education. He said that the
new emphasis stresses birth at Blue Mountain Com school district calendar
to college education and munity College Jan. 30 for the 2012-13 school
concerning the OEIB pro year, which would see
beyond.
school starting on August
Mulvihill, who has posal.
Mulvihill suggested 27, Thanksgiving break
been named by the gover
nor to Kitzhaber’s 12-mem that the lone School District from Nov. 19-23, Christmas
ber Oregon Education In begin contacting the parents break from Dec. 24-Jan. 4,
vestment Board, indicated o f prospective kindergar spring break from March
that the state intends to teners to see if the school 25-30, graduation on June 7
coordinate a wide swath of can administer assessments and the last day for students
services pertaining to early to their children, basically June 12.
-discussed bringing
childhood experiences, in to determine the child's
risk.
The
state’s
three-tired
the
school
year more in line
cluding services provided
assessment,
which
is
ex
with
colleges’
time lines
by other agencies in addi
tion to education, such as pected to be developed and and contemplated adding
the Department of Human approved early this year, school days in the event that
Services, W1C, Head Start, will be designed to assess the district needs additional
nutrition and health services a child’s education, social days to comply with state
skills, health— including requirements, especially
and pre-schools.
OE1B is propos height and weight—and if additional days are lost
ing legislative action in the child’s safety.. .whether because of snow and ice and
February o f this year to the child lives in a safe, school tournaments.
“This year w e’ll
“stream line early child functional home. lone has
hood programs and create a already adopted “Eastern just have to adjust accord
system of accountability for Promise,” Mulvihill’s plan ingly, because we cannot
student success from pre that coordinates eastern fall below state standards,”
kindergarten through K-12 Oregon high schools and said board m ember Joe
to college and career readi colleges, and offers college McElligott.
A rcher said that
ness.” Mulvihill said he did classes and college credits
not expect new funding to to students of cooperating if school is closed for a
follow the proposed new high schools while they are tournam ent, they would
make up the day on the
ed focus, but added that he still in high school.
In other business, next Friday following the
is not worried “about a pot
tournament. He said that if
of money” and said that he the board:
-learned that the additional days are missed
expects that funds will be
amount of the district’s pre and must be made up. the
set aside for pre-k.
M ulvihill said it vious levy will be lowered district may have to hand
has been shown that a child because the district got a out empty diplomas to the
who is behind when he en better price on its bond and seniors and then send out
ters kindergarten may never has collected $50.000 more the diplomas after the time
catch up, which could lead than required. The funds has been made up.
Mul vi hi l l c o m
to lack of success in high cannot legally be used for
other
purposes.
mented
that if the school
school and an increased
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l
e
a
r
n
e
d
t
h
a
t
is
trying
to make the senior
drop-out risk. Recent data
show that only 67 percent George Murdoch, owner year more rigorous, they
o f Oregon students gradu of the weight room and ath may not want to let the se
ate from high school on letic facility (the Rietmann niors out early as tradition
time, with graduation rates Building) has agreed to a ally done.
-learned from Ar
for children of poverty and rent reduction from $400
to $250, since the facility cher that the new school
color even lower.
Mulvihill said that has fallen into disrepair and closure notification process
the idea is to prevent throw can no longer be insured has been successful overall,
ing away the child’s first unless repairs are made. with some glitches con
years. 1SD Principal Jerry The board has indicated nected to power outages, if
Archer said that a three- that they would like to site calls were made to phones
year gap could already exist a facility, which would be requiring electricity to op
when the child enters kin open to students and the erate.
-approved a resolu
dergarten, no matter how general com m unity, on
many interventions have campus and would have to tion on a policy concern
be self-supporting, since ing reporting requirements
been put in place.
“We think they’re funds have not been ear regarding sexual conduct
ankle biters,” commented marked and bond monies with students and a policy
Mulvihill, “but five years have been expended. They -See BIRTH TO COLLEGE/
PAGE SIX
is a long time to deal with also agreed that the plan
BEO invitational wrestling
tournament Saturday
The Bank of East
ern Oregon’s 2012 Invi
tational Wrestling Tour
nam ent will be held at
Heppner High School this
Saturday, February 4 begin
ning at 10 a.m.
High schools
scheduled to compete are
Adrian, Crane Union, Cul
ver, Elgin, Enterprise, Grant
Union, Heppner, Imbler,
Irrigon, Joseph, MacHi
(JV), Riverside, Union and
Wallowa.
The Bank of East
ern Oregon invites the pub
lic to come watch these
talented athletes compete.
Tickets are available at the
door and concessions will
be available.
“The bank’s man
agem ent has been very
involved in establishing
this annual tournament and
looks forward to the 2012
competition. The first three
years o f the event were
outstanding and we intend
the BEO Invitational to be a
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Heard, Garrett Gibbs and Treston Maben; (back L-R) Jesse
Boyd, Raytee Burghard, Tim Nelson, Jared Lemmon, Andrew
Bara and Wade Matthews. -Contributedphoto
‘can’t miss' tournament on
every school's future sched
ule,” said Mark Lemmon,
Bank of Eastern Oregon's
Chief Financial Officer and
Heppner High School wres
tling coach. “We appreciate
bank staff and local citizens
who volunteer to help at the
event or sponsor amenities;
their help makes the tourna
ment run smoothly.”
Questions can be
directed to Heppner High
School’s Athletic Director,
Greg Grant, at 541-676-
9138 or Mark Lemmon at
541-676-0224.
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