Heppner Gazette-Tim es, Heppner, Oregon
SCHOOL BOARD HONORS TEAM
-Continuedfrom PAGE ONE
sic teacher to Heppner K-12
music teacher; extra duty
contract-Jason Whitbeck,
IJSH assistant track coach
for 2011-12.
-approved extra-duty
coaching contracts (Hep
pner listed only) for:
Heppner Junior High-
Chad Doherty, head foot
ball coach; Mindy Wil
son, head volleyball coach;
Luke Swanson, head boys’
basketball; Mike Ehrsam,
assistant boys’ basketball;
Anna Wedding, assistant
g irls’ basketball; Larry
Palmer, head wresting, as
sistant track; John Qualls,
head track coach, vacant-
assistant football, assistant
volleyball, head girls’ bas
ketball;
Heppner High School-
Greg Grant, athletic direc
tor, head football, head
golf; Les Payne, assistant
football; Kevin Payne, as
sistant football; Jeremy
Rosenbalm, assistant foot
ball, head boys’ basketball;
Pam Dowdy, head volley
ball; Dieter Waite, assis
tant volleyball; Ken Grieb,
assistant boys’ basketball;
Jeromy Wilson, head girls’
basketball; Melissa Lind
say, assistant girls’ basket
ball; Mark Lemmon, head
wrestling; Jerry Gentry,
assistant baseball; Laura
Browne, head track; Amber
Steinhoff, assistant track;
Petra Payne, head softball,
Janelle Ellis, assistant soft-
ball; vacant-head baseball.
-approved extra-duty
non coaching positions
(Heppner listed only):
Heppner Elementa-
ry-Melissa Coiner, head
teacher; Jannie Allen, Tal
ented and Gifted coordina
tor; Karen Smith-Griffith,
DART, Mary Ann Elgueza-
bal, English Language
Learner site coordinator;
Heppner High-Greg
Grant, head teacher, Jeremy
Rosenbalm, annual advisor;
Rick Drake, band; Virginia
Grant, half-time rally ad
visor; Jolene Stensland,
drama (one play only); John
Flaherty, TAG and DART.
-approved numerous
organizational details.
-approved a 2012-13
agreement with the Morrow
County Unified recreation
district to provide “cultural
and recreational activities”
for the people of Morrow
County, with two payments
of $158,700 to the school
district to subsidize school
athletics and other activi
ties for the 2012-13 school
year.
-approved a pay raise
for substitute teachers to
$161.48 per day.
-accepted $1,900 in
unanticipated revenue from
Mid Columbia Bus Com
pany for four scholarships
to graduating seniors and
$150 to support district
libraries.
-held a budget hearing
and adopted the 2012-13
budget.
-adopted the following
2012-13 board calendar:
July 2012-no meeting, Au
gust 13-district office, Lex
ington, September 10-Irri-
gon High School, October
8-Heppner High School,
November 13-Sam Board-
man Elementary, December
10- Morrow Education Cen
ter, Irrigon, January 14-Ir-
rigon Elementary, February
11- Heppner Elementary,
March 11-Riverside High
School, Boardman, April
8-A.C. Houghton Elemen
tary, Irrigon, May 13-Windy
River Elementary, Board-
man, June 10-district of
fice.
-approved the rescind
ing of numerous old special
education policies and ad
opted new policies.
-adopted new policy
on the district’s honors di
ploma as follows: four lan
guage arts credits, three sci
ence, three math, four social
science, one each for health,
PE, career education, tech
nology and fine arts, two
foreign language and five
electives for Riverside and
Irrigon junior-senior high
schools for a total of 26 and
10 electives for Heppner
Junior-Senior High School
for a total of 30 credits
(eight-period day), a 3.5
GPA or a 3.25 GPA with a
1650 SAT or 23 ACT score;
have received no Ds or Fs,
pass 11th grade benchmarks
and complete and pass all
writing samples, three col
lege credits for 2012-13, six
for 2013-14 and nine for
2014-15. The new policy
eliminates the necessity to
earn a state-issued CIM,
which was required under
the old No Child Left Be
hind policy. The prediction
is that the No Child Left Be
hind policy will no longer
be required under the new
administration’s policy.
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Wednesday, June 13,2012
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lone students learn
wheat marketing
Top: The Mustang state softball champions were honored with
a reception at the school hoard meeting. Bottom: Mustang
softball coaches (L-R): Madison Rosenbalm, head coach Petra
Payne, Kevin Payne, Shelley McCabe. Not pictured are Janelle
Ellis and Marissa Turner. -Photos by April Sykes
approved the K-12/ESD
Achievement compact for
2012-13 required by the
new governmental policy.
The district's compact pri
orities include graduation
rates for the class of 2013
(ninth graders in 2009-10)
as follows: four-year gradu
ation rate-74 percent/68
percent for disadvantaged
students; five-year gradu
ation rate-79 percent with
73 for disadvantaged; five
year completion rate-82
percent/76 percent disad
vantaged; post-secondary
enrollment-75 percent/63
percent disadvantaged; stu
dents earning nine-plus col
lege credits-15 percent/24
percent disadvantaged.
-approved allowing the
food service committee to
name the new food service
vendor for 2012-13, fol
lowing the final report to be
received by June 12.
-received the following
attendance report for June:
ACH-273, HES-190, HHS-
184, IES-220, 1HS-332,
RHS-396, SBE-306, WRE-
196, Morrow Education
Center-MCSD students-39,
MEC Umatilla School Dis-
trict students-11 for a total
of 2,147.
-learned from Men
doza that he has received
definitive information that
the district will not be re
sponsible for lone students'
education plans, but rather
it is charter schools' respon
sibility to take care of their
own students.
-held an executive ses
sion concerning student
expulsion.
-accepted the canvass
results for the renewal of
the district’s local option
tax as follows per precincts:
Heppner/Hardman precinct
#5-443 yes/205 no; Lex
ington #3-100 yes/77 no;
Irrigon #2-293 yes/287 no;
Boardman #1-265 yes/184
no; total-1101 yes/753 no.
-received the follow
ing announcements: next
board meeting, August 13,
7 p.m., district office (no
meeting in July); teachers
begin school, August 20;
district-wide in-service,
August 20, RHS, work/
in-service days-August 21-
23; students begin school,
August 27.
Community Bank
raffle winners
Top: Kirk Maguewood, a junior at lone High School, makes
unleavened bread with one of the food development scientists
at the Oregon Wheat Marketing Center in Portland. Bottom:
lone High School freshmen Joe Doherty and Daniel Holtz
taste noodles they made hot off the press at the Oregon Wheat
Marketing Center. This visit was part of a two-day emersion
into the transportation and development of Oregon wheat and
its products. Thirty students in Erin Heideman's Ag business
class were generously sponsored by the lone Education Foun
dation to participate in visiting the Wheat Marketing Center,
the Port of Portland, Portland French Bakery and Columbia
Grain. -Photos by Erin Heideman
Heppner FFA holds
recruitment BBQ
Bv Lilly Samlford
The room is full of
current members of the
Heppner FFA chapter, as
well as students entering the
eighth and ninth grades who
are interested in FFA. In
Heppner, OR on June 5, at
6:30 p.m., the 1 leppner FFA
chapter held a barbeque and
meeting to show kids who
are interested what it’s like
to be in FFA and what op
portunities can come from
being involved. This was
also the first meeting run by
the newly-initiated 2012-
2013 officers.
The food was provided
Grant program
funds park project
Cutsforth Park will be
looking a little better soon,
thanks to efforts by Morrow
County Public Works.
In the spring of 2011,
the Morrow County Pub
lic Works D epartm ent
(MCPW) applied for the
Local Government Grant
(LG) available through
Oregon Parks and Recre
ation Department. To aid
in meeting the county-re
quired match for the grant,
MCPW solicited help from
the
Oregon National Guard
Community Bank customer appreciation raffle winners (L-R)
Corey Sweeney and Gibson McCurry with Community Bank through Innovative Readi
branch manager Nikki Worden. Sweeney won the barbecue ness Training construction
and McCurry won the kids’ basket. -Contributedphoto
assistance.
The project assistance
request consists o f site
upgrades' (electrical and
power) to a few campsites,
new water storage system,
new ADA sidewalks, and
a foot bridge at Cutsforth
Eric Orem’s Place—
Park. No local funds are
available to complete this
72028 Blackhorse
project work without the
Canyon, Lexington
assistance of the National
Guard.
In August o f 2011,
Friday, June 1
MCPW was notified that
they could begin construc
Social Begins at 5:00 RM;
tion of the project. Later
that
month, Burke O'Brien
Dinner Served at 6:00igJ®^*^
met with the Army National
Guard to see if they could
Music By: Eric Jepsen and
assist with the project. Ser
geant Dearth indicated that
John Wambeke
it was a project the Guard
could aid in completing
Steaks Provided!!! during one of their train
ings. Discussions continued
Please contribute to potluck:
over the next few months,
A-M: Salad or Side; N-Z: Dessert finalizing details of the
project with several agen
cies
and businesses.
For m o re info, c o n ta c t L a rry L utcher
In May of 2012, the
(W h e a t A g e n t; O S U E xtension); 541-571-4454
Morrow County Road Crew
MORROW COUNTY
WHEAT LEAGUE SOCIAL
POTLUCK
by the officers and cooked
by Craig Miles, a member
of the Friends of Heppner
FFA Alumni and the father
of newly-initiated treasurer
Shane Miles.
The interested students
got a look at how a meeting
is run, what officers say and
what activities the Heppner
FFA engages in.
“The Heppner FFA
chapter is proud to have stu
dents interested in expand
ing their opportunities and
making new friends from
other FFA chapters,” said a
chapter spokesperson.
began cutting and prepping
for the sidewalk that the
National Guard unit would
complete.
The National Guard
unit will arrive on June 14
and start setting up for their
work, with plans to be at the
park until June 29. The Tri-
County 4-H Camp will also
take place during that time,
June 25-29, but campers
and their families are as
sured that’s not a problem.
“MCPW' has had nu
merous discussions with
both the 4-H camp leaders
as well as the National
Guard personnel to insure
everyone's safety,” said a
MCPW spokesperson.
During the month of
June, a large area of the
park will be unavailable to
the public due to construc
tion. Once the project is
completed, the area will
once again be open to the
public for use. It is esti
mated that the project will
be completed by the end of
July 2012, barring any un
foreseen circumstances.
“We hope that the pub
lic can understand and work
with us during this develop
ment upgrade to the park,”
says the MCPW spokesper
son. “The MCPW wishes to
thank the park patrons and
all those involved with this
project for understanding
and cooperation while we
complete this project.”
Local contractors who
have questions or opposi
tion to the National Guard
assistance in this project
may call Morrow County
Public Works at 989-9500.