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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 18,2014 HES announces honor card winners Heppner Elementary School has announced Honor Card Winners for 4lh Quarter 2013-14. The 112 students awarded honor cards were as follows: Mrs. M orris— Paige Beebe. Mariah Combe, Lane Critchlow, Caleb George, Faith Holsinger. Connor McKinney, Lily Nichols, Austin Willis M rs. M a tte s o n — C la ra A n g e ll, Je sse Bowles, Jackson Coiner. Trenton Delibertis, Ally Green, Sierra Greenup, Kadie Henrichs, Hallee Hisler, Saige Jensen, Aden Lathrop, John Lindsay, Amelia Manning, lsiah Martin. Zaleta Masterson, Keeley Nairns, Madlin Payne, Landon Waddell, Nickolas Wenberg, Lynn Williams. Mrs. C o in e r — Austin Brown, Morgan Cutsforth. Ethan Delibertis, Faith Futter. Sebastian Garcia, Caden George, Reece G orham , Adan Guerra. Irelynn Kollman, Amber Manning, Zandra Masterson, Landon Mitchell, Hilary Payne, Teagen Ramsey, Arianna Worden. Mrs. Rill—Bill Alldritt. Ty Boor, McKenna Bray, David Cribbs. Perrin Furrer, Jake Lentz. Paul Lindsay, Ireland M artin, Trevor Nichols, Madison Palmer, Johnny Resch, Camryn Scrivner, Hailey Wenberg, Brooklyn Wilson. Katie Wilson. Daemon W'orden. Mrs. Gibbs—Harley Ann Anderson, Tucker Ashbeck, Amelia Baker, Kason Cimmiyotti, Jace Coe, Kaden Combe. Cedie Dayandante. Zander Fisher, Hannah G reen, Brock Hisler, Brian Lindsay, Blane Mahoney, Aubriana Rodriguez, Joseph Sherman, Derrick Smith, Jett Stew art, Jonathon Waddell. Bridget Wizner. Mrs. S te w a rt — Madison Ashbeck, Kvlie Boor, Conor Brosnan, Roy Collins, Alexis Cutsforth, K endall Dowdy, Sage Ferguson, Cody Fletcher, Hunter G reenup, Seth Grigg, Marlee Mitchell, Kevi n Rea, Sereni t y Rodriguez, Jayden Wislon. Mrs. Dowdy—Jazmin Barrett. Rylee Bray, Alison Cecil, Drew Coe, Casey Fletcher. Kellen Grant, Trinity Hearn, Emma Hermanns, Kami Holtz, Jackson Lehman, Mason Lehman. Abbie Marick. Tresslyn McCurry, Madelyn Nichols, Hannah Palmer, Nicole Propheter, Jason Rea, Cheyenne Shaw, Brianne Smith, Jordan Spaulding. Aimee Turrell, Carni VanArsdale. Morrow County essay, art contest winners announced Three Morrow County students were awarded for their understanding of “respect” recently. Oregon and Morrow C o u n t y F a m i l y and Community Education members join members Javne Simpson across the nation every year in sponsoring an essay and artwork contest for fourth- grade students. This year's theme for the annual contest was “respect.” Students were required to write an essay and draw a picture 53 involving the theme. The first-place winner for Morrow County was Roen Waite, a student at Heppner Elementary Roen also won second place at the state level. Jace Coe (left) and Roen Waite Honorable mentions for assembly Thursday, June 5. Morrow County were Jace Community School. Roen and Jace were Jayne was recognized May Coe, Heppner Elementary, honored at an HES school 19 in lone. and Jayne Simpson. lone CREZ CATEGORIES -Continuedfrom PAGE ONE area at the Port of Morrow) in lieu of property taxes. The zone is used to attract new businesses and so far has been very successful, with major new expansions and job creation from Con Agra Foods and Tillamook Cheese, and new computer server farms constructed by Vadata, a division of Amazon.com. The CREZ board has received and disbursed some funds already, mainly on housing, public safety and education, but wants to avoid having a stream o f groups and districts coming to it with requests. The board felt establishing the spending categories and disbursing the funds in lump sums to major organizations around the county would be the best way to go. “ We should look at larger categories where we don’t have to deal with every request,” said Neal, who is also general manager of the Port of Morrow. “If it is education, we push it (the funds) out there and let those that deal with education take care of the specifics.” The lone and Morrow County education foundations are examples already used by the CREZ for disbursing education funds. The Willow Creek Economic Development Group has also received funding for a housing program. A l t h o u g h no set percentage of the yearly f unds has yet been e a r m a r k e d for each category, it was suggested that education be given 30 to 35 percent of the money coming in each year. “I would like to see the money go to help our kids get a better education and go get a better job,” said board member Greg Sweek. Many board members agreed the money should be used to help local young people be better prepared to find employment. “We should help the kids go out and find a good job in the market,” said board chairman Don Russell. “We are getting money from the data companies, and do we want that money to train for jobs there?” asked CREZ manager Carla McLane rhetorically. ITie board also discussed possible partnerships with the businesses at the Port to provide more workforce training for the jobs being created. The major contributors so far to the CREZ are Rack Space which will put in S2.7 million over 15 years, Columbia River Technologies, or Tillamook Cheese, which will pay $4.875 million. Vadata at $599.000, Columbia Plywood at $75,000 and the biggest, ConAgra Foods, which is putting in a major expansion at the Port, and is set to pay $14.25 million to CREZ over the next 15 years. In other business the board looked over a list of charitable and other organizations, which will be presented to businesses in the enterprise zone for possible direct funding from those businesses. Any funds donated to the groups will be offset against the fees the businesses are contracted to pay the CREZ. The charitable giving is a way for the businesses to directly give money to worthwhile organizations in the county. So far McLane has compiled a list of eight cities, towns and chambers within Morrow County, 27 special taxing districts. 17 community organizations, and 12 youth organizations. - FIVE HES announces perfect attendance Heppner Elementary School has announced that 33 students obtained 2 nd Se me s t er Perfect Attendance for 2013- 14. Those with perfect attendance for the semester were placed in a drawing for M urray’s Drug gift cards, sponsored by Les Schwab. Perfect semester attendance was as follows: Mrs. Morris—Connor McKinney, Austin Willis. Mrs. M a t t e s o n — Jackson Coiner. Ally Green, Amelia Manning, Keeley Naims, Nickolas Wenberg, Lynn Williams. Mrs. C o in e r — Sebastian Garcia. Irelynn Kollman, Amber Manning, Zandra Masterson. Landon Mitchell, Teagan Ramsey. Mrs. Rill— Hayley Akers, Ty Boor, McKenna Bray, Shaylyn DeLoach. Mrs. Gibbs—Amelia Baker, Bryan Collins, Cedie Dayandante. Brock Hisler, Blane Mahoney, Chance Mc Co r ma c k , Derri ck Smith. Kegan Steagall. Mrs. Stewart—Gracey DeLoach, Kendall Dowdy, Kevin Rea. Mrs. Dowdy—Jazmin Barrett. Jason Rea, Gavin Robinson, Cheyenne Shaw. In addition, 61 students achieved perfect attendance for the 4,h Quarter 2013-14., as follows: Mrs. Morris—Connor McKin ney, Damien Sheoships-Ball, Austin Willis. Mr s . M a t t e s o n — Jackson Coiner, Trenton Delibertis, Ally Green, Hallee Hisler, Amelia Manning, Zaleta Masterson, Keeley Nairns, Nickolas Wenberg, Lynn Williams. Mrs. Coiner—Austin Brown, Ethan Delibertis. Faith Futter, Sebastian Garcia, Irelynn Kollman, Amber Manning, Zandra Masterson, Landon Mitchell, Teagan Ramsey. Mrs. Rill— Hayley A k e r s , T y l e r Boor , McKenna Bray, Shaylyn DeLoach, Jake Lentz, Trevor Nichols, Madison Palmer, Johnny Resch, Hailey Wenberg. Brooklynn Wilson. Mrs. Gibbs—Amelia Baker. Bryan Collins, Cedie Day andante. 1 lannah Green. Kassidy Henrichs, Brock Hisler, Brian Lindsay, Blane Mahoney, ZaBrena Masterson, Felix Matthew, Chanc e Mc Co r ma c k , Joseph Sherman, Derrick Smith, Kegan Steagall. Mrs. Stewart—Gracey DeLoach. Kendall Dowdy, Sage Ferguson, Gaige Futter, Kevin Rea, Jayden Wilson. Mrs. Dowdy—Logan Angell, Jazmin Barrett, Drew Coe. Casey Fletcher, Tr i ni t y Hearn, Evan Kollman, Hannah Palmer, Jason Rea, Gavin Robinson, Cheyenne Shaw. In addition, Heppner E l e me n t a r y awarded 19 students for perfect attendance all year. All Year Perfect Attendance students received a $25 gift certificate to Willow Creek Water Park, sponsored by HES. Perfect all-year attendance was as follows: Mrs. Morris—Connor McKinney. Mrs. M a t t e s o n — Nickolas Wenberg. Mrs. C o in e r — Sebastian Garcia, Irelynn Kollman, Zandra M as te rs o n, Landon Mitchell, Teagan Ramsey. Mrs. Rill — Hayley Akers, Shaylyn DeLoach. Mr s. Gibbs — Bryan Collins, Cedie Dayandante, Brock Hisler. Blane Mahoney, Chance McCor ma c k, Derrick Smith, Kegan Steagall. Mrs. Stewart—Gracey DeLoach, Kendall Dowdy. Mr s . Dowdy — Cheyenne Shaw. Blue Mountain forests plan webinar, launch Graham Lindsey to interactive map perform at Bucknum’s of BAKER CITY, OR— with a brief but detailed Americana artist takes the stage with Dog Bite Harris Americana folk-rock artist Graham Lindsey will make a stop in Heppner while touring in support of his latest release, Digging Up Birds. Lindsey is set to perform at Bucknum's in Heppner on Wednesday, June 25. Graham Lindsey and Billy Cook will perform at Bucknum's with local artist Dog Bite Harris at 7 p.m. that evening. Graham Lindsey unearths a trove of songs hidden away since 2000 for the release of Digging Up Birds: A Collection of Rarities & Others, which came out May 27. The release of Digging Up Birds coincides with the music video premiere for his song “We Are All Alone In This Together.” The video premiere and CD release show May 31 in Lansing, MI kicked off a four-week tour through parts of the Midwest and Northwest for Lindsey, joined by his wife and drummer Tina, and Billy Cook on bass. In March and April of this year, the Wallowa- Whitman, Umatilla and Malheur National Forests hosted 15 public meetings to share information about the Blue Mountains Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and Proposed Revised Forest Plan. To continue engaging with the public with more in- depth information-sharing and di scussi on about the DEIS and Proposed Revised Forest Plan, the Blue Mountain Forests are hosting an online webinar on June 25 from 6:30 - 8 pm. The webinar will begin presentation, followed by an opportunity for facilitated discussion about the topics presented. Advance registration is required to participate in the webinar. Register online at https://www4.gotomeeting. com/register/466254943. Registrants will receive a confirmation email that includes a personalized toll-free number and access code needed to join the webinar on June 25th. The comment period was extended 60 days; c o m m e n t s mu s t be submitted by the close o f the comment period, August 15. HEPPNER LES SCHWAB WISHES TO CONGRATULATE HEPPNER ELEMENTARY'S PERFECT ATTENDANCE STUDENTS PERFECT ALL-YEAR ATTENDANCE STUDENTS! Connor McKinney Nickolas Wenberg Sebastian Garcia Irelynn Kollman Zandra Masterson Landon Mitchell Teagan Ramsey Hayley Akers Shaylyn DeLoach Bryan Collins Cedie Dayandante Brock Hisler Blane Mahoney Chance McCormack Derrick Smith Kegan Steagall Gracey DeLoach Kendall Dowdy Cheyenne Shaw r jß u s semas I \] 2 4 N. 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