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Mustang volleyball district champs IUnliiililn|||mil||l|ll||| Heppner state finals Bessie Wetzell Newspaper Librar\ University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 HEPPNER team first seed going into 2A 5(K The 2012 Blue Mountain Conference District Champions, the Heppner Mustang volleyball team. Back(L-R) Micha Hintz, Kayla Kindle, Nicole Kempken, Maddie Lindsay, Kelly Wilson, Ryan Dougherty and Emma Osmin. Front (L-R): Hanna Lovgren, Bailv Bennett, Paige Grieb, Alana Wilson and Makenzie Correa. -Photo by Sandy Matthews -See fu ll story "Mustang volleyball takes first in districts "/PAGE FOUR Sheriff’s Dept, receives new boat VOL. 131 NO. 43 10 Pages Wednesday, October 31, 2012 The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office3 recently took delivery o f a brand- new 2012 River Wild patrol and rescue boat. The craft cost the coun Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon ty only $ 1,500, with the rest of the $55,000 cost paid for through the O regon Marine Board. The 22-foot craft replaces a 20-year-old, nine-foot boat used by the department for patrol and rescue on the Columbia River. The department also has a 24-foot, 20-year-old audit in person. Thunder Jet boat in ser In other business, the vice. board: “ Deputy Randy Ray- -learned that the East bum gets the credit for the ern Oregon Coordinated Care Organization is “going live” this week. Under the CCO plan, each Medicaid patient will receive a set A lert area residents amount of money for his may have noticed that the care. The pot o f money 45 mph signs in the area will be distributed to cover around the old Kinzua mill, a wide range of care, from or “mill zone,” have van medical and dental to psy chological care. It has not yet been determined how this will eventually affect MCHD, but the district has assurance that it will receive A cco rd in g to M or cost-based reimbursement row County Clerk Bobbi for its services provided to Childers, 27.5 percent of Medicaid patients at least ballots for Morrow County through 2014. That means were in as of Tuesday morn the district will be reim ing, Oct. 30. bursed for its actual costs As a reminder, voters in providing care to those only have one week left patients. Eastern Oregon Coordinated Care Organi to submit remaining bal zation is currently headed lots; Election Day is next up by ODS (Oregon Dental Tuesday, Nov. 6. All ballots Service), GOBHI (Greater are due by 8 p.m. that day. Oregon Behavioral Health, Ballots must be received, Inc.) and the bigger hospi not simply postmarked, on tals, with ODS taking more that day. For voter conve nience, 24-hour drop boxes initiative in the process. -heard from Rhea that are located throughout the -See HEALTH DISTRICT/ county. B allots may be PAGE SIX deposited in the drop boxes until 8 p.m. Election Day to be counted; after that, the boxes will be locked. Ballot drop locations are as follows: Heppner: Courthouse parking lot (24 hours) or the Morrow County Clerk’s Office, Room 102 inside the Health district receives good reports of new equipment, software By April Sykes Molly R iea, director of nursing services for the M orrow County H ealth District told the board Mon day night that she believes the district made the right decision in purchasing elec tronic medical records hard ware and software from the Healthland company. The district has switched over to electronic records from paper records, as mandated by the federal government. Rhea had just returned from a Healthland confer ence in O rlando, which she said was excellent. She said that one exciting aspect in the future is the pos sibility of creating a portal that could allow people to access their own medical records online, which could eventually allow them to add information to their medical records and pay their medical bills online. MCHD Chief Financial Officer Nicole Mahoney said that the district has re ceived the Medicaid reim bursement for a portion of the costs for the Healthland purchase and expects that the district will receive the Medicare portion within the next 30 days. The clinic and finan cial portions o f the elec tro n ic m edical records system have not yet been purchased. Mahoney said that the district will need to go into negotiations on contract terms for those purchases. Also at the meeting, the board voted to retain the Wipfli company for the district’s auditing services. Wipfli did not submit the low bid, but board members said they felt very confi dent with the company, especially since Mike Bell, their previous auditor for many years, is now with Wipfli. Wipfli bid $17,250 for each year for the next three years, for a total of $51,750. Sw itching to a new company would also have entailed many hours o f work on the part of the dis trict’s CFO and accounting personnel. C liftonL arsonA llen, LLP, Seattle, had submitted a bid of $16,000 per year. The board also agreed that they would like to continue to have a Wipfli representative present the G-T Trophy Corner Department. work behind the department “He did all the work to get getting this boat,” said Un- this.” dersheriff Steven Myren. ‘Mill zone’ now 55 mph ished. According to sources at the Morrow County Sher- iff’s Office, that’s no ac- cident. The 45 mph speed zone has been rescinded, making the entire stretch 55 mph to the Heppner city limits. Ballots due Tuesday Drop boxes available fo r voter convenience Dropboxes like this one are available throughout the county for voter convenience. ing lot. Open 24 hours. lone: Spring St. (in front o f the turn to 3rd Street). Open 24 hours. Boardman: NW Board- man Ave. (24 hours). Irrigon: 205 NE 3rd St. (Irrigon Annex). Open into the mihlic works nark 24 hours. courthouse. Open 8 a.m. to noon and 1-5 p.m., M-F and Election Day (Nov. 6) from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. Lexington: 365 West Hwy 74 (Public Works Parking lot). Turn offHwy. 74 onto Tom Street and left Daylight Savings Time ends Sunday Daylight Savings Time will end Sunday, Nov. 4. Remember to “fall back” and turn your clocks back one hour. PORTER-CABLE 12V MAX COMPACT LITHIUM 2-TOOL KIT • Drill/Driver • Hex Impact Driver • (2) 12V Lithium Ion batteries • (1) 12V 30 min charger • (2) belt hooks • (1) PH -2 screwdriving bit • (1) double-ended .screwdriving bit • (1) storage bag. Justin Smith, 18, of Heppner shot his first elk, this 6x5 beanty, up in the Sugarbowl area on opening day of elk rifle season, Wednesday, Oct. 24. -Contributed photo ON SALE $159 M o rro w C o u n ty G rain G ro w ers Ldxington flton 989-8221 • 1 -800-452-7396 Farfara »qui pi n t I M n r m b s u it v n v .
