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I I TEN - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 12, 2014 WCVEDG ANNUAL MEETING -Continuedfrom PAGE ONE Econom ic D evelopm ent. conferences, netw orking with other businesses and sharing information about each o f our com m unities n e e d s , s t r e n g th s a n d successes; prom oting the differences between rural and urban com m unities; promoting tourism to bring economic dollars into our communities; continue to w ork w ith C A P E C O to keep in touch with funding dollars (hat can be used within our com m unities/ county to strengthen local workforce and promote new workforce opportunities. The executive director o f W CVEDG is Sheryll Bates. W C V E D G , w h ic h has 43 m em bers, has as its num ber-one goal jo b creation and developing plans to create jo b s and w o rk in g w ith e n titie s private, state and federal to accomplish this. Its second goal is business retention and to improve the viability and stability o f existing businesses in the Willow Creek Valley. It also works to market the livability o f the area. The current members include: Allstott C o n s tru c tio n , L L C , Bank o f Eastern Oregon, B lu e M t. I n v e s tm e n t M anagem ent, Jerry and Marsha Breazeale, Delmer and Judy Buschke, Heppner Fam ily Foods, Colum bia Basin Electric, Community C o u n s e lin g S o lu tio n s , Lois Duvall, John & Pat Edmundson, Gentry Homes C o n s tru c tio n , H e p p n e r C ham ber o f C om m erce, H eppner G azette-T im es, Heppner Ranger District, City o f Heppner, City o f lone, Jepsen Pest Control, Bob & Suzanne Jepsen, K rebs L iv e sto c k , K uhn & S p ic e r , A tt o r n e y s , Les Schwab Tire Center, Town o f Lexington, Larry & B etty M ills, M orrow C ounty G rain G row ers, M orrow C ounty H ealth District, M orrow County School District, M urray’s Drug, Inc, OSU Extension O f f i c e , P e t e r s o n ’s J e w e le r s , P e t t y j o h n ’s Farm & Builders, Port o f M orrow, Leann Rea, Ed & Tricia Rollins, Sweeney M o r tu a r y , I n c ., T re o Ranches, Umatilla-Morrow ESD, Dan Van Schoiack, W ilk e n s o n R a n c h e s , W h e a tla n d I n s u r a n c e H e p p n e r , W h e a tla n d Insurance lone and Thomas & Karen Wolff. A n y o n e w is h in g to b ecom e a m em b er m ay contact any board member or call Bates at 676-5536. Dues are $25 per year. where son Matt was bom. From there they moved to North Carolina where Dr. Jeanne finished her training, completing a fellowship in geriatrics. While there, son Vincent was bom. T h e fa m ily th e n returned to Portland. That brings the doctors to Heppner and their long tim e in v o lv e m e n t w ith MCHD. Son Nick was bom at St. A nthony H ospital in Pendleton. “We almost didn't make it,” said Dr. Ed. “Thanks to Dr. (Ken) Wenberg we were able to get some coverage.” Since he will have a little more free time now, Dr. Ed plans to pursue his “passion,” which is fishing. He co m m e n te d th at he w ill “ certainly enjoy the generous going-away gift” presented to him by the health district, which is a fishing package for two days for two people at Depoe Bay with the Trade Winds company. He tries to maintain a running regimen which, he says, is not only physically an d p s y c h o lo g ic a lly therapeutic, but also puts him in a “good quiet place, in my own zone,” he says. He also enjoys senior softball. T he B e rre tta s , w ho are C h ris tia n , are also looking into some mission o p p o rtu n itie s and have determined some areas of need in the realm o f Native A m erican re s e rv a tio n s , particularly Sacred Road at White Swan, WA, where they have been ministering and fundraising. Dr. Ed’s last day with the medical district will be Friday, April 25. A public reception for him has been planned for Thursday, April 24, with the tim e and place to be announced. I t ’s not c o m p le te ly g o o d b y e , h o w e v e r, as Dr. Ed plans to stay on as th e M CH D E m erg en cy Medical Services director. of board policy implementation; new policy on s tu d e n ts rig h ts and responsibilities; rescinded ?nd rep la ce d p o lic y on s tu d e n t c o n d u c t and discipline; rescinded and replaced policy on weapons in the schools; rescinded and re p la c e d p o lic y on student discipline; revised policy on use o f restraint and seclusion. -approved employment action for licensed sta ff for 2014-15 as fo llo w s (Heppner Schools l is t e d o n ly ) 2 0 1 3 - 1 4 p ro b a tio n a ry te a c h e rs - Heppner Elementary-Sybil Stewart; 2013-14 contract te a c h e rs re c o m m e n d e d for e x te n sio n : H ep p n er Elementary-Melissa Coiner, Pam Dowdy, Rick Drake, Mary Ann Elguezabal, Terri Gentry, Sue Gibbs, Sherry Matteson, Sharon Morris, Joselyn Piper. Molly Rill and Jerem y R osenbalm ; Heppner Junior Senior High School-Jean Collins. Beth D ickenson, Rick D rake, Mary Ann Elguezabal, John Flaherty, Dave Fowler, Terri Gentry, Greg Grant, Troy M organ, Andrea N elson, Jason Palmer, Petra Payne, J o s e ly n P ip e r, Je re m y Rosenbalm, Dieter Waite. -adopted a resolution accepting and appropriating unanticipated revenues in the am ount o f $150,000 from the Morr ow E d u c a tio n F o u n d a tio n . Five thousand each will go to w a rd A SB fu n d s for H eppner Elementary, Irrigon E lem en tary and Windy River Elem entary a n d $ 1 3 5 ,0 0 0 wi l l go toward technology support services. -a c c e p te d the O ste r P ro fe s s io n a l G ro u p as d i s t r i c t a u d it o r s a n d approved a district contract with them. -learned that classified employees’ week is March 3-7. -h e ld an e x e c u tiv e session to discuss personnel, negotiations and real estate. -received the following en ro llm e n t rep o rt as o f M arch: A .C . H oug h to n Elem entary, Irrigon-274; Sam Boardman Elementary, B oardm an-335; Heppner E le m e n ta ry -173; Irrigon E le m e n ta ry -175; W indy River Elementary, Boardman; Heppner High School-166; Irrigon Junior Senior High School-383; R iverside H igh School, B oardm an-385; M orrow Education Center, Irrigon-35; total-2129. -adopted the budget calendar with budgets due from departments on March 21. publication notice of budget m eeting on April 16, b u d g e t d o c u m e n t distributed to com m ittee on May 22, first budget meeting on May 5, second budget meeting if needed at regular board meeting May 12, with additional meeting dates to be set by committee if needed. -heard the follow ing a n n o u n c em e n ts: end of third nine weeks March 20, spring break March 24-28, and next board m eeting April 14. 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And the best part o f it all: Linux will probably run faster on your old hardware than Windows XP ever did. L i n u x is a l s o a good directio n to m ove if you are already using Firefox, Thunderbird, and O penO ffice/L ibreO ffice; all o f these were originally developed to run on Linux as well as Windows. Once you start using Linux, you w ill d isco v er dozens or hundreds o f other programs that do the same things as you “m iss” on W indows and Mac systems. b o a rd m em b ers N ancy Snider, owner W heatland Insurance, JefTBailey, CEO Bank o f Eastern Oregon, Kim C utsforth, Heppner City M anager and David Sykes ow n er H eppner Gazette-Times and Sykes Real Estate. R o llin s has been in credit and lending for 15 years. He has been with Bank o f Eastern Oregon since 2004 and is in his se co n d y e a r o f P acific Coast Bankers School. Ed is past president o f lone Community Agri-Business Organization and president o f Grow lone, Inc. He has been chairman of Morrow C ounty BOPTA, and is active in many other civic activities as well. G u e s t s p e a k e r at the annual m eeting was S cott F airley, R egional C oord in ato r for O regon F a ir le y s p o k e on th e successes and challenges facing economic developm ent in Eastern Oregon. Announced at th e m e e tin g w e re th e accomplishments for 2013, which included: Working on housing issues; trying to increase rental homes for families who want to move into o u r c o m m u n itie s ; w o rk in g on te m p o ra ry h o u sin g fo r tem p o rary workers who will be hired for u p co m in g p ro je c ts; s e rv e on T he O re g o n C o n s o rtiu m /O re g o n W o rk fo rc e A llia n c e - B oard re p re s e n tin g the private sector (C ham ber and WCVEDG); attended jo b fairs and distributed relocation information for South M orrow C ounty; a tte n d e d e c o n o m ic development seminars and Scott Fairly, annual meeting speaker. -Photo by David Sykes BERRETTA RETIRES -Continuedfrom PAGE ONE NY. They “ stru ck up a Sacramento, CA. is married w ith a dau g h ter who is graduating from college this year; son M atthew, S p o k a n e , W A, h a s a m aster’s degree in English; son Vincent, who is married and living in Seattle, WA, is also in the writing field; son Nick, currently in New York, recently graduated from the U n iv e rsity o f Washington with a degree in biochemistry. The Berrettas met in New York while Dr. Ed was in med school and Dr. Jeanne was in college at M arylhurst, doing an exchange program w ith a sister school in Albany, friendship,” says Dr. Ed. Pursuing the r e l a ti o n s h ip , he to o k the opportunity to do an externship at Em manuel Hospital in Portland. That was in November o f 1973. They decided to get married and were wed on December 18, 1973. At that tim e Ed was in the process o f finishing medical school, so Jeanne moved to Albany. After he finished med school they moved to Hartford, CT. By then Dr. Jeanne had developed an interest in m e d ic in e and w ent for tra in in g in m edical technology there. Since she is part N ative A m erican, she got the opportunity to attend the U niversity o f North Dakota in pre-med. It w as a tw o - y e a r program so she then had to tran sfer to a m edical program . Their daughter was bom in North Dakota. ITie family decided that they had had enough o f the brutal winter cold there, so they moved to a place that was almost totally opposite- A labam a, w here Jeanne finished med school. From there they moved to Portland, where Dr. Ed was a practicing physician and Jeanne was completing her residency. They stayed in Portland for three years. School district discusses staffing changes By April Sykes R e p la c e m e n ts f o r M orrow C ounty School Board executive secretary and hum an re so u rc e s d ire c to r Julie A shbeck, who will be retiring at the end o f the school year, were on hand at the regular s c h o o l b o a rd m e e tin g Monday night at Heppner Elementary School. C heryl C ostello will tak e o v e r as e x e c u tiv e s e c r e ta r y a n d h u m a n re so u rc e s a s sis ta n t and E rin S to c k e r , c u r r e n t Irrigon Elementary School p rin c ip a l, w ill b ecom e half-time human resources d ir e c to r and h a lf-tim e principal. A t the m e e tin g the board granted a request from Heppner High School te c h n o lo g y s tu d e n ts to attend the TSA conference in Washington, D.C. H eppner Elem entary S c h o o l te a c h e rs M ary A n n E lg u e z a b a l and Sherry M atteson told the assembly that 54 students were out for chess through their Chess M ates Chess for Success after-school program. Elguezabal said that their chess students have qualified for state. A lso at the m eeting, S u p e r i n t e n d e n t D irk D ir k s e n , in a w r itte n s ta te m e n t, a p o lo g iz e d for not providing enough support for the Irrigon High School g irls ’ basketball program , w hich has had difficulties during the recent season. Dirksen also congratulated the district’s sports teams for their success during the school year, including the R iv e rsid e H igh S chool cheer team who took first in the state championship for 1 A, 2A and 3A schools; the Irrigon H igh School cheer team who took “best 2A team” and finished third; Shrine Team first team pick Jordan Bailey and alternate J.C. Putman, both Heppner High School; state wrestling ch am p io n s R yan Sm ith and Jared Lem on, H H S; and the Irrigon K nights for tak in g the 2A state basketball cham pionship, among others. In other business, the board: -learned from Dirksen th at the C ry sta l A p p le aw ard cerem ony will be May 21 w ith an A pril 1 deadline for nominations. - l e a r n e d t h a t th e district math contest will be held April 9 at Irrigon Elementary. -learned that Riverside H igh S ch o o l w ill be a part o f O regon G ear-U p (Gaining Early Awareness and R e a d in e s s fo r Undergraduate Programs). The program was designed to ensure that low income m iddle school and high school students in Oregon h a v e s u c c e s s in p o s t s e c o n d a r y e d u c a tio n . Irrigon Junior/Senior High School had earlier been selected for that program. Dirksen said that IJSHS had received a $15,000 grant toward that goal. -approved the f o llo w in g : a r e v is io n XP or what? By Pat Struthers L ast year, M icrosoft c o n firm e d w h at it had long threatened: Windows XP, still currently used by ab o u t 30 percent o f PC users worldwide, would no longer be supported as of April 2014. What does this mean, exactly? My computer is long out of warranty. Does it matter whether I get support or not? Yes and no. I f you live in a cave, everything you depend on works, and you don’t care whether you ever jo in Facebook, you are pro b ab ly good w ith what you have. Just don’t expect any new hardware or software to work. If you’ve fo llo w e d good se cu rity practices in the past (don’t m ix business com puting with recreational use, don’t open suspicious email, don’t spazz out w hile surfing, etc.) then you already know the right things to do and you will probably be safe regardless o f what version o f Windows you use....as long as you are just a casual computer user. An even higher p e rc e n ta g e o f b u sin e ss P C s a re r u n n in g XP, and th e s itu a tio n m ay be a lot different if you are a business user. For instance, responsible POS v e n d o rs h a v e in som e cases specifically told their customers that they cannot legally support system s with XP machines as part o f the mix. If your business u ses so ftw a re th at w ill not run in XP, you should seriously consider upgrades in the next few months. Surprisingly, there is an alternative that w o n 't require you to buy new hardw are: use Linux. In addition to being free, Linux has m atu red a m a z in g ly in the years since XP has come on the scene. The vast m ajority o f PC hardware that has been built in the last decade will run handily. Most computer users will find very little they cannot do in Linux that they are used to doing day-to-day Rapunzel performance planned in Boardman Missoula Children’s Theatre and Boardman & Irrigon students invite area residents to join then Saturday, March 29, as the present an original musical adaptation o f Rapunzel at Sam Boardman Elementary School, 301 W Wilson Lane, Boardman. Tickets are $2 for adults and $1 for youth and are available at the door. -
