EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
HHS honors basketball players, parents
at senior night
Heppner High School
h o n o red th e ir se n io r
basketball players and
their parents with a short
ceremony at the last home
game of the season recently.
The parents of the players
were introduced to the
crowd and called onto the
court to receive roses from
their children.
S enior boys w ere
JC Putman. Tate Gentry,
Andrew 1 latfield, Jaden Orr
and Jeff Dowdy.
The senior girls were
Kayla Ki ndle, Blake
Greenup and Micha llintz.
Bottom (L-R): Seniors JC Putman. Tate Gentry, Kayla Kindle, Jaden Orr, Jeff Dowdy, Micha These players w ill certainly
Hintz, Blake Greenup, Andrew Hatfield. Top (L-R): Parents Jeff Orr, Jim Putman, Sandi be missed by both of the
Putman, Jerry Gentry, Terri (¡entry, Jim Kindle, Becky Kindle, Lana Eckman, Pam Dowdy, basketball programs in the
Teresa VanDoorn, Tiffany Greenup, Travis Greenup, Tammy Hatfield, Ken Hatfield, Becky
Cherry and Steve Cherry. Contributed photo
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Get ready for ‘Boots in the Air’ 2014
A contestant gauges distance and gets ready to swing for the
prize during the 2013 w elly toss. File photo
The boots are set to fly
in Heppner during the St.
Patrick's Day celebration
on Saturday, March 15, at
the annual Welly Toss.
Residents and visitors
alike are invited to get teams
entered or, if preferred,
come by and throw as an
individual...and bring the
kids.
The event will be held
on Willow Street between
M urray’s Drug and the
former Artisan Village.
Team play begins at
10 a m. and continues until
noon.
Anyone who would
like a pre-scheduled team
time, pick up a form at
the chamber office and
subm it the com pleted
form to Sheryll Bates at
the Heppner chamber by
Wednesday, March 12 at
noon.
A $20 registration fee
will be charged for team
play. The fees collected
fund the prizes and supplies
for the event.
Free in d iv id u a l
play begins for all, kids,
teenagers and adults at
10:30 a.m. and lasts until
12:30 p.m.
Ages brackets are:
Kids, two to 12; teens, 13-
17; and adults, 18 and over,
including men and women.
All kids will receive a
gold coin for playing; there
will be prizes for the male
and female winners, as well
as a youth winner.
The top teams will
receive a prize, plus the
first-place team will have
its name engraved on the
traveling Boot Award,
currently on display at
Peterson's.
Team Championships,
if necessary, will be held
at 2 p.m.
COUNTY KRA
RESULTS Morrow County School
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(early math tests focus
on understanding shapes,
measurements, recognizing
patterns and sequence
numbers).
-Kindergarteners come
into school significantly
below average in letter
name and letter sound
literacy skills as compared
with the statewide average
(letter name tests measure
a student's ability to name
the letters of the alphabet, in
both lower and upper case
forms, and the letter sound
test measures a student’s
ability to produce common
sounds associated with the
alphabet).
“This important data
w ill help our school district,
families, public preschools,
private childcare providers
as well as our early learning
partners throughout the
region to come together and
set goals that will improve
early learning experiences
for all ch ild ren ,” said
District Superintendent
Dirk Dirksen.
As a result of these
findings, the MCSD will
continue to move forward
with providing all-day
kindergarten classes, as
well as continue to support
a system -w ide student
literacy learning program
as it relates to Response
To Intervention (RTI), the
goal of which is to have
consistency and systems-
wide literacy instruction
in each school building.
Interventions are based on
targeted student needs and
are data-driven.
In addition, the MCSD
w ill continue to implement
its 236 Plan that utilizes
academic data and teacher
judgment to give after
school and summer-school
interventions for students
who are below benchmarks
on summative assessments
for their grade level.
Orwick, Walker
named library
volunteers of year
Oregon Hunters Association urges
ODFW to review Oregon cougar plan
The Oregon Hunters
Association has requested
in a recent letter to the
Oregon Fish and Wildlife
C o m m is sio n th a t it
formally review the state's
cougar management plan,
which was last revised in
2006. The Oregon Fish and
Wildlife Commission is
made up of seven members
who are appointed by the
governor and formulates
g e n eral p o lic ie s and
programs for the Oregon
Department of Fish and
Wildlife's fish and wildlife
management activities.
Wi t h
elk
and
deer n u m b ers below
management objectives in
most wildlife management
units, big game management
c o n tin u e s to be an
important issue in Oregon.
OHA says it supports
managing cougars using
the best available science
and stresses that ODFW
needs to better identify the
impacts of cougars on big
game animals.
“The state’s cougar
management plan should
be updated to reflect the
current status of cougar
and big game populations
and the most up-to-date
w ild life m anagem ent
methods,” stated an OHA
press release. The decline of
big game herds and impacts
of predation are a major
concern to the hunting
community that pays for
most wildlife management
in Oregon.
“ It has been eight
years since the last review
of the cougar plan,” said
OHA President Fred Craig.
“With many deer and elk
herds below management
objectives, OHA would
like to see the latest science
used in the management of
cougar and prey species
alike.”
Designated target areas,
where cougars are removed
to address predation on
big game anim als, are
a critical part of cougar
management. The groups
says incorporating the latest
science and population
modeling techniques into
the plan will help identify
target areas that need to
be expanded to address
cougar predation on big
game animals.
B arbara Orwick and Ralph Walker were honored as
Volunteers of the Year for 2013 and 2014 by The Friends of
the Heppner Library during the Love Your Library night on
Feb. \ 2 . -Contributedphoto
Rainy outing for
local ski club
Nominations for 2014 Crystal Apple
Awards now open
PENDLETON—The
InterMountain Education
Service District is proud to
announce that nominations
for the 2014 Crystal Apple
“Excellence in Education”
Awards are now being
accepted through Tuesday,
April 1. The Crystal
Apple Awards will take
It was a bit rainy for the group skiing into Martin Prairie
on
Saturday but they said the ski out was dry, with plenty of
place in two locations on make our schools and qualify. Anyone in the
separate dates to reflect the students successful. The general public may submit snow' still on the ground. Pictured are (L-R) Dan VanLiew,
Molly Rhea, visitor Fred Buehler, Betsy Anderson and Terry
IMESD's regional service honor may be awarded a nomination.
Harper. -Contributedphoto
areas. Winners in Umatilla
and Morrow counties will
gather on May 21 at the
Pendleton Red Lion.
The purpose o f the
awards is to recognize
individuals who help to
to individuals who work
full-time or part-time in
any capacity other than
administration. The staff
member must have worked
in his or her current position
for at least one year to
In addition to the Crystal
Apple Awards, nominations
also are being accepted for
the Doug Flatt Memorial
Leadership Award, which
recognizes an outstanding
administrator.
Nomination forms,
qualifications and a list of
past winners are available
on the Crystal Apple
website, www.imesd.kl2.
or.us/crystalapple/home.
All nominations must be
made using the online form.
The deadline is Tuesday,
April 1, at 5 p.m.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE MUSTANG
! WRESTLERS ON THEIR RECENT VICTORIES!
Back: (L-R) Coach Mark Lemmon,
Jared Lemmon, Treston Maben,
John Propheter, Cord Flynn,
Ryan Smith. Front (L-R) Joe
Garcia, Jesse Boyd, Will Lutcher
Not pictured: Jacob Moses
and Kyle Aldrich
2nd Place- Pine Eagle Tournament
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