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HEPPNER
team first seed going into 2A
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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.
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Justin Smith, 18, of Heppner shot his first elk, this 6x5 beanty, up in the Sugarbowl area on
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