EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon
Wednesday, February 13,2013
Girl Scout cookie
sale underway
Clockwise from left: Cheyenne Shaw, McKenna Bray, Nichole
Shaw, Lexi Bray and Kylee Bray, with a mountain of Girl Scout
cookies. - Photo by April Sykes
The Girl Scout cookie
sale is now underway. Lo
cal Girl Scouts are selling a
variety of the annual treats,
including a coconut cara
mel cookie, a lemon cookie,
a shortbread cookie, a pea
nut butter crème sandwich,
a Latin inspired caramel
cookie, a cranberry cookie,
a peanut butter patty and the
much beloved Thin Mints.
Cookies are $4 a box.
To order cookies or
for more information, call
leaders Ruth Shaw, 541 -
377-4245, or Sandra Bray,
541-377-3937. They said
they would be willing to
deliver to the Heppner,
Lexington and lone areas.
Cookie booths will start
appearing after Valentine’s
Day.
Smart Hearts health Students take Time
fair planned
Out for Reading
The Parents for Parents
com m ittee invites H ep
pner, Lexington and lone
families to the Smart Hearts
Education and Health Fair
on Feb. 14 in the Heppner
Elementary School gym
nasium. A taco dinner is
available from 5:45-7 p.m.
and the fair will be open
from 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Many local and region
al organizations, including
the Morrow County Health
District, Pioneer Memorial
Physical Therapy, Commu
nity Counseling Solutions
and Northeast Oregon Area
Health Education Center,
will have booths with infor
mation and fun activities.
Parents and children are en
couraged to visit the booths
together to learn the many
ways to can keep ourselves
and others healthy and safe.
The children will then be
entered into a raffle to win
one o f ten bikes.
The Parents for Par
ents committee was formed
through the HES PTC from
a group of parents that was
struggling with parenting
decisions. The goal is to
provide parents with op
portunities to learn ways
to parent more effectively.
The com mittee’s hope is
that parents never feel that
they are alone with these
struggles and that they learn
provide empowerment to
each other.
Past projects have in
cluded the Smart Hearts
Fair and Career Fair, speak
ers such as Mac Bledsoe
and Michael Sedler, and
P arenting with D ignity
DVD classes. The commit
tee says it will continue to
bring more of these oppor
tunities to the area “in hopes
of bringing families and the
community closer.”
For more information
about the Health Fair or
the PFP Committee, contact
Brandi Sweeney at 541-
676-9128.
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Above: The top 10 readers in Heppner Elementary School’s
Time Out for Reading program: Alison Cecil, Cami VanArs-
dale, Cheyenne Shaw, Nicole Propheter, Caitlyn Scrivner, Kee
gan Gibbs, Zach Bredfield. Jacee Currin, Cason Mitchell and
Casey Fletcher. Below: Alison Cecil, who was the top reader
with 9,963 minutes. In total, the students in the program set
an all-time high of 187,000 minutes for the month of January.
-Contributed photo
BEO reports strong 2012 earnings
BEO Bancorp and its
subsidiary. Bank of Eastern
Oregon, announced consol
idated year-end 2012 earn
ings of $2,462,000, an in
crease of 22.4 percent when
compared to $2,012,000 in
2011. Basic earnings per
share increased 17 per
cent from $2.18 in 2011 to
$2.55 in 2012. Total assets
increased 9.4 percent from
$260.4 million to $284.8
million. Net loans ended
2012 at $224.8 million,
up 12.4 percent year-over-
year. Deposits increased 9.8
percent from $230.3 million
to $252.9 million.
“We are very pleased
with the 2012 results. This
is the best year the bank has
ever had from a net income
perspective. The regional
agricultural economy has
fared quite well over the
past few years. Even with
ever-increasing input costs,
good production and strong
prices for wheat, hay and
cattle continue to bode well
for our producers. While
C hief Operations Of
a strong local Ag
ficer Gary Proph
sector dramatically
eter said, “ Year-
helps our local busi
over-year deposit
nesses, the national
growth is substan
economy and global
tia l, e s p e c ia lly
econom ic factors
when you consid
continue to cause
er the prolonged
some concern for
low interest rate
all segments o f our Jeff Bailey
environm ent we
markets,” said Pres
are experiencing.
ident and CEO Jeff
The overall sup
port from our local com
Bailey.
“ Total shareholders’ munities is impressive. The
equity increased 12 percent continued trend of growth
year-over-year to $19.667 in core deposits tells us our
million. Our Tier 1 capi customers are happy with
tal ratio o f 10.13 percent Bank of Eastern Oregon’s
matches up favorably to our style o f banking, our flex
peer banks across the na ible products, and the excel
tion and continues to make lent, professional service
us the highest capitalized provided by our banking
bank in eastern Oregon,” teams.”
said Chief Financial Officer
“We have seen good
Mark Lemmon. “Return loan opportunities across
on Average Assets is 0.90 our branch and loan pro
percent and Return on Aver duction office system. We
age Equity is 13.23 percent continue to welcome new
compared to 0.79 percent customers and help existing
and 12.12 percent, respec customers with their addi
tively, year-over-year.
tional loan needs. Our new
NOAA issues Jan.
climate summary
for Heppner
Driest January on recordfor area
According to prelimi
nary data received by NO-
AA’s N ational W eather
Service in Pendleton OR,
temperatures in Heppner
averaged colder than nor
mal during the month o f
January.
The average tempera
ture was 31 degrees, which
was 4.2 degrees below nor
mal. High tem peratures
averaged 37.5 degrees,
which was 6.1 degrees be
low normal. The highest
was 57 degrees on Jan. 9.
Low temperatures averaged
24.5 degrees, which was 2.3
degrees below normal. The
lowest was 15 degrees, on
Jan. 4.
There were 25 days
with the low temperature
below 32 degrees. There
were 12 days when the high
temperature stayed below
32 degrees.
Precipitation totaled
0.18 inches during Janu
ary, which was 1.29 inches
below normal. That makes
this the driest January on
LPOs in Island City and
Pendleton have opened up
new market opportunities
for us and we see great po
tential in those locations,”
said Bailey. “When we look
at provision for loan losses
and expenses associated
with other real estate, the
2012 expense numbers are
down 27.1 percent from
2011. We continue to take
aggressive steps in dealing
with problem assets. Other
real estate owned is down
41.4 percent from 2011.
“2012 was a very good
year for Bank of Eastern
Oregon. We were able to
build upon the success of
2011. Our success is di
rectly attributable to our
excellent team of employ
ees and the support of loyal
shareholders and custom
ers,” he concluded.
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on the company or to access -Continuedfrom PAGE ONE
internet banking, please to leave school for any rea
visit our website at http:// son, we wish to continue
to work with the student
www.beobank.com.
and their stakeholders to
provide extra support in
creating plans, learning op
munity service and 30 days portunities, and schedules
jail time with credit for time that will lead to graduation
served. The defendant was and/or high school comple
also convicted of Assault tion.”
It is important to note
IV, a Class A misdemeanor;
imposition of sentence was that the state tracks gradu
suspended and the defen ation rates based on four-
dant given 36 months bench year and five-year cohorts
probation to include 40 o f students, whereas the
hours o f community ser federal government still
vice and a written apology requires states to report a
to the victim. Fines, fees, one-year dropout rate. This
assessments and restitution rate is calculated by looking
at the number of students
totaled $8,907.39.
who
drop out of grades 9-12
Morrow County Dis
in
a
given
school year. This
trict Attorney Justin Nelson
is
the
reason
why the drop
has released the following
out
rate
is
not
the inverse
report:
of
the
graduation
rate. In
-Gordon Wayne Tate,
60, was convicted of Dis
orderly Conduct II, A Class
B misdemeanor. Sentence
o f 90 days jail time was
suspended and the defen
dant sentenced to two years
bench probation. Fines,
fees, assessments and resti
tution totaled $2,833.70.
DISTRICT GRAD
RATES
DA’s Report
Morrow County Dis
trict Attorney Justin Nelson
has released the following
report:
-Jose Joel R am irez,
37, was convicted of Fail
ure to Perform Duties of a
Driver/Pi, a Class C felony,
and sentenced to have his
driver’s license suspend
ed for one year, as well
as three years supervised
probation subject to 180
sanction units with 90 jail
units. Probation includes
30 custody units used for
30 days jail time and 7.5
custody units converted to
120 hours community ser
vice. Additionally, Ramirez
was convicted of Criminal
Driving While Suspended
or Revoked, a Class A mis
demeanor. Imposition o f
sentence was suspended and
the defendant sentenced to
36 months bench probation
to include 40 hours of com
record, beating the previous
low of 0.31 inches in 1944.
Measurable precipitation
o f at least .01 inch was
received on six days, with
the heaviest, 0.06 inches,
reported on Jan. 8.
S ince O cto b er, the
w ater-year precipitation
at Heppner has been 4.25
inches, which is 1.28 inches
below normal.
The highest wind gust,
on Jan. 9, was 36 mph.
The outlook for Febru
ary from NOAA’s Climate
Prediction Center calls for
near-normal temperatures
and near-normal precipi
tation. Normal highs for
Heppner during February
are 47.4 degrees and normal
lows are 28.2 degrees. The
30-year normal precipita
tion is 1.12 inches.
The National Weather
Service is an office of the
Morrow County Justice of the Peace Ann Spicer has
National Oceanic and At
released the following Justice Court Report.
mospheric Administration,
-Spearman Jim Sweigart, 69, of Mesa, AZ pled no
an agency of the U.S. Com
contest
to Violating the Basic Rule 79/55. He was fined
merce Department.
$260.
-Camran John Pollick, 18, of Hermiston pled no
contest to Violating the Basic Rule 75/55 and was fined
$160.
Justice Court
Report
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Local FFA chapter
conducts food drive
Oregon FFA challenged to raise
more than 50,000 pounds o f
fo o d fo r local fo o d banks
T he H ep p n e r FFA
chapter is participating in
the Oregon Les Schwab
Tire Center’s “FFA 50,000
Pound Food Challenge.”
The “ 50,000 Pound
Challenge” was issued by
the Oregon Les Schwab
Stores as an initiative to
fight hunger and feed chil
dren and adults suffering
from food insecurity. Les
Schwab Tire Centers from
across the state are partner
The Morrow County Clerk has issued the following ing with the more than 100
marriage licenses:
local FFA chapters to raise
February 6: -Willie Ray Drane, 61, o f Heppner and food for local food banks
and charities.
Jodi Kaye Chapa, 45, of Heppner.
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other words, a graduation
rate of 62 percent does not
equate to a dropout rate of
38 percent.
A dropout is defined
as an individual who has
withdrawn from school and
has not enrolled in any other
school or ODE approved
program, and who has not
received a regular diploma,
modified diploma or GED.
The dropout rate is calcu
lated by dividing the num
ber of students who drop
out o f school in a given
year by the total number of
students enrolled as of Oct.
31 of that school year. Stu
dents who receive GEDs,
modified diplomas, etc., are
not considered graduates or
dropouts, but they are in
cluded in the four year and
five year completion rates
mentioned above.
o f February. Participating
chapters will be contact
ing their local Les Schwab
Stores to develop their own
localized plan for raising
the food.
The challenge means
that each of Oregon’s 113
FFA chapters must raise
500 pounds of food; cash
donations will count at a
rate of 50 cents per pound
o f food. All chapters meet
ing this goal will be recog
nized on stage at the FFA
Annual State Convention.
Chapters that raise the most
food based on their school
size—according to OSAA
rankings—will also be rec
ognized and receive a chap
ter scholarship.
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