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SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 12,2012 MCSDBUDGET the boiler at Windy River ing enrollm ent report: possible reworking of the Elementary has a crack in A.C. Houghton Elemen burgeoning Public Em it and may have to be re tary, Irrigon-275; Sam ployees Retirement System placed. but it is still under Boardman Elementary, Boardman-347; Heppner is a critical portion of the evaluation. -adopted the 2013-14 Elementary-173; Irrigon budget. Dirksen said that the budget calendar as follows: Elementary-203; Windy district is continuing to March 23-budgets due from River Elementary, Board- work toward Governor Kit- buildings and departments; man-204; Heppner Junior/ zhaber’s education targets: April 17-publication of Senior High School-175; district achievement com notice of budget meeting Irrigon Junior/Senior High pacts, making sure kids (posted on MCSD website); School-362; Riverside Ju meet state benchmarks, de May 3-distribute budget nior/Senior High School, veloping a plan for pre-kin document to committee; Boardman-388; Morrow Education C en dergarten education, which May 6-first bud ter (M.C. School aligns with Kitzhaber's get meeting-bud- D istrict)-54; to new pre-K through age 20 get message; May tal-2,181. education plan, and Eastern 13-regular board -approved the Promise, which allows for meeting, second following employ students to complete col budget meeting if ment action: em- lege courses while they are needed, with addi still attending high school. tional meeting dates Randal Olsen ployment/promo- tions for Michael Also at the meeting, the to be set by com Cates, Sam Board- board and administration mittee if needed; May 20-deadline man Elementary/Windy recognized outgo for budget approv River Elementary PE teach ing MEC Director al; May 3 1 -pub er, replacing Randal Olsen; and lead teacher lication of notice transfer for Randal Olsen to George Shimer, of budget hearing; Morrow Education Center, who has left the June 10-budget replacing George Shimer; district to take a hearing-adopt bud extra duty contracts for TJ position with the get and make ap Burnett, Irrigon Junior High Boardman Police propriations; June assistant boys’ basketball Department. Shim George 10-regular board coach, and Chris Rauch, er will be replaced Shinier meeting; July 1-be Riverside High School as by Randal Olsen. Olsen, 28 has bachelor's ginning of 2013-14 fiscal sistant boys’ basketball and master’s degrees in year; July 15-deadline to coach. exercise sport science. He certify levy to assessor. -adopted a resolution -approved the first accepting and appropriat previously taught elemen tary PE at Windy River and reading o f new/revised/ ing $5,000 for Riverside Sam Boardman Elementary rescinded policies on ad High School donated from ministrators’ evaluations, the Oregon Community schools. In other business, the superintendent’s evalua Foundation to further the tion, student transportation auditorium technology at board: -learned that the dis services; use of district RHS. The grant was written trict’s Title III audit has activity vehicles for stu by teacher Rick Drake. -held an executive ses been completed, submitted dent transportation, student conduct on school buses, sion concerning negotia and approved. -scheduled a work ses criminal records checks tions. -heard the following an sion and subsequent board and fingerprinting, staff meeting to begin work evaluation, core teaching nouncements: Finals week- ing on the superintendent standards and assessment December 10-13; Christmas program. break-Monday, Decem evaluation. -approved a coopera ber 17 through Tuesday, -heard a brief report on the DEQ’s hearing on tive sponsorship between January 1; school resumes- the Ambre Energy coal lone High School and 1 lep- Wednesday, January 2; next pner High School for golf board meeting-Monday, project. January 14, 7 p.m. -learned from finance and tennis. -received the follow director Andy Fletcher that •Continuedfrom PACE ONE L es S chwab congratulates I one \ C ommunity S chool students lñ 1 Don't forget to drop o f f f your toy donations!! Les Schw ab is a drop site! Ariona Looney, kindergarten; Kelly Doherty, first grade; Daralynn Teeman, second grade; Julie Teeman. third grade; Jordan Rollis-fourth grade; Wyatt Aleksa, fifth grade; and Renee Peterson, sixth grade. Heppner grad part of 100-year naval service celebration A Heppner graduate got the chance to be a part of a historic event this summer. Kevin Scott, a 1994 Heppner high School grad uate, and his wife, Jennifer, were invited to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Navy Dental Corps in Washington, DC earlier this year. The Navy Dental Corps centennial gala at the Na tional Building Museum concluded a four-day cel ebration of 100 years of Navy dentistry. The event included a video greeting from the American Dental Association (ADA) and a U.S. Senate resolution, S. Res. 544, commemorating the occasion. “ The Navy Dental Corps has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to the dental profession,” said ADA president Wil liam R. Calnon in the video, viewed by more than 200 participants at the Aug. 22 event. “During your century of service to the United States, you have served as advocates for the oral health of Navy personnel and their families. You have contrib uted to organized dentistry on an ongoing basis.” S. Res. 544, approved unanimously by the U.S. Senate, was offered by Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va. Kevin and Jennifer Scott and cosponsored by Sen. Tom Cobum, R-Okla. The ADA was the prime mover of the resolution with the assistance of the West Vir ginia Dental Association. Congress passed an act on Aug. 22, 1912 rec ognizing Navy dentistry as a distinct branch among naval medical professions. Since then, the dental corps has provided routine and emergency dental care dur ing peacetime and war. par ticipating in the “spectrum of military combat, peace keeping, and humanitarian operations and exercises,” according to the resolu tion. The Senate, through the resolution, congratu lated the corps on its 100th anniversary, commended the corps for working to “sustain dental readiness” for the military and rec ognized the thousands of dentists who have served in the corps over the past 100 years. Scott was com m is sioned as a lieutenant into the Naval Dental Corps in August 2011 and completed basic training at officer training command at New port, RI. Serving as a reservist allows him to continue to live and maintain a dental practice in southwest Mon tana and travel monthly to provide dental support to Marines and Sailors all over the United States. COAL TERMINAL -Continuedfrom PAGE ONE the project far outnumbered those opposed and included elected officials from Herm- iston, Heppner, Boardman, and Umatilla and Morrow counties. Many of the Port of Morrow commission ers spoke in favor of the project, saying it would add up to 35 good jobs and give needed tax money to -Morrow County and the schools. Ambre has pledged 10 cents per ton of all coal shipped will go to local schools, which could add up to more than $800,000 per year once the project is at full capacity. Opponents of the proj ect say the coal will pollute the air even though the coal will be shipped and stored in covered containers. Nearly all the opponents urged the DEQ to expand its environmental impact study to include the entire shipping project from the mines to burning the coal in other countries. The environmental ac tivists were easy to recog nize in the crowded room, as almost all wore red shirts. The significance of the red clothing was not explained, but many also wore large stickers saying “No Coal Exports.” Proponents of the project wore lapel stickers and baseball caps in sup port of the project. In order to keep the meeting orderly and quiet, ground rules established by the DEQ moderator required people to show their support for statements by raising their hands in the air and wig gling their fingers. A physician from Hood River said coal dust would cause respiratory problems, especially among young children and those with existing medical condi tions. Proponents of the project said Ambre En ergy was committed to the most environmentally-safe coal-shipping system ever devised. Opponents of the proj ect also believe in man made global warming, and that burning coal contrib utes to climate change. When asked who in the crowd believed in global warming, all those wear ing red shirts raised their hands, while very few of the proponents of the project indicated they believed in the theory. Three DEQ officials from Bend, who will write the rules on the project, insisted over and over that their authority only applied to the Boardman coal termi nal and they had no regula tory authority over the rest of the project. The DEQ had origi nally said Ambre would not need an air-quality permit but then, under public pres sure, changed its mind and is requiring an air permit, a switch that did not set well with Umatilla County planning director Tamra Mabbott. “ In January you de cided there were not enough emissions to issue a permit, but you received a lot of public input and changed your mind. We cannot do that in local government,” she said. She accused the department of “moving the goal posts.” The meeting in Board- man was only an informa tion meeting and was one of three being held. 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