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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 6, 2016 School Exclusion Day is Feb. 17 Parents must provide schools or licensed child care facilities with children’s immunization records The Oregon Immuni- zation Program is remind- ing parents that children will not be able to attend school or child care starting Feb. 17—School Exclusion Day—if their records on ile show missing immuniza- tions. State law requires that all children in public and private schools, preschools, Head Start and certified child care facilities have up-to-date documentation on their immunizations, or have an exemption. “Immunization is an ef- fective way to keep schools and the entire community healthy,” said Stacy Mat- thews, school law coordi- nator at the Oregon Health Authority, Public Health Division. “We want to make sure children are fully protected against vaccine- preventable diseases such as whooping cough and measles.” Some updated vaccine requirements include: -The hepatitis A vac- cine is a two-dose series required for children 18 months and older in child care, preschool and kin- dergarten through seventh grade. -Seventh graders will also need a Tdap booster for pertussis (whooping cough). -A child getting ready to leave for college (in their senior year of high school) is required to have the measles vaccines. They are also encouraged to get a meningitis vaccine but are not required by all colleges. There have been some changes with the immuni- zation laws this past year. Religious exemptions to immunization signed before March 1, 2014 are no longer accepted. If a child has an outdated religious exemp- tion, parents will need to complete new documenta- tion of immunizations, a medical exemption, or a nonmedical exemption. What are the options for parents of children with old religious exemptions? -If your child has re- ceived the vaccines, turn in this information to your child’s school or child care. -If you want a non- medical exemption for your child, complete the new process and turn in two forms: 1) Certiicate of Immu- nization Status—ill in the dates of any vaccines your child has received, ill out the nonmedical exemption section by marking the vac- cines for which you want the exemption, and then sign and date the exemp- tion. AND 2) Vaccine Education Certificate—you will get this certiicate after com- pleting the required educa- tion about immunizations from a health care practi- tioner or the from the online vaccine education module. Go to www.healthoregon. org/vaccineexemption for more information about nonmedical exemptions. -Anyone who needs a medical exemption for their child should get a let- ter from the child’s primary care provider with the infor- mation stated on the Certii- cate of Immunization Status form. Turn in the letter to the child’s school or child care. Medical exemptions are reviewed and approved by the health department. Parents are encouraged to turn in the documenta- tion of immunizations or exemption as soon as pos- sible. If you don’t get the information in, you may receive a notice that your child will be excluded from school or child care because of missing immunization records. Schools are re- quired to send their vac- cination information to the local health departments no later than January 13, 2016. If school and child care vaccination records are not up-to-date, the child will be sent home on February 17. In 2015, local health departments throughout the state of Oregon sent 29,234 letters to parents and guardians informing them that their children needed immunizations to stay in school or child care. A total of 4,666 children were kept out of school or child care until the necessary immu- nization information was turned in to the schools or child care facilities. This year letters to parents will be mailed on or before Feb. 3. Parents seeking im- munizations for their chil- dren should contact their health care provider or local health department, or call 211 Info—just dial 211 for a place to get vac- cinated. No one can be turned away from a local health department because of the inability to pay for required vaccines. Pharma- cists can immunize children seven and older. Parents can contact their neighborhood pharmacy for details if they are interested. Additional information on school immunizations can be found at the Immu- nization Program website at www.healthoregon.org/ imm. For further informa- tion, contact the local health department. EXCHANGE STUDENTS -Continued from PAGE ONE Alessandro Panozzo, cont. to Seattle, football games, NBA games. They really helped me to understand their culture and live part of their lives.” Anything else? “I want to say thank you to the com- munity because everyone was patient with me and I felt at home, and in particu- lar to my family because they really made me happy. Thanks to my coaches because they really helped me. I really enjoyed the sports part of the experi- ence.” Gonzalo Rodriguez, cont. chance to attend any spe- cial events? What did you think of that experience? “The most special was Christmas because all my family here came to our house to celebrate it and there were like 30 people at our house. I was really involved in everything and I liked it. It made me forget I was missing Christmas in Spain.” Anything else? “I would like to thank my host fam- Ione exchange students (L-R) Pablo Ramos, Umedali Rajab- ily, my friends, my teachers, aliev, Gonzalo Rodriguez and Alessandro Panozzo. Gonzalo my coaches, and everybody and Alessandro both return home this month after a semester I’ve met here. Now they’re at Ione High School. -Contributed photo part of my life, and I hope I’m part of theirs.” - FIVE Lady Cards take second in tournament Top L-R: Ivy Sandford, Hannah Padberg and Maggie Flynn play defense in last week’s Oregon Trail Classic tournament game against Enterprise. Ione defeated the Outlaws to place second in the varsity girls’ games. Bottom: Morgan Orem watches as Hannah Padberg ights a Helix player for the jump ball in Saturday’s game, in which Helix defeated the Lady Cards 36-62. –Photos by Sylvia Sandford Ione boys take down Grizzlies Heppner JV splits games at Shoot-Out Your Birthday Gift Headquarters! Great Selection of Baby & Children's Gifts Melissa & Doug • Star Wars Art Supplies & More Our Housewares Department is a Cook's Dream! Small Appliances • Gadgets Galore Great Selection of Cookbooks KRUPS • Hamilton Beach • Prep Works Jewelry & Watches - European Soaps & Spa Items Let Us Create the Perfect Birthday Basket For That Special Someone! Books by Local Authors - Mustang Merchandise Gift Cards Available - Hallmark Cards in Stock From the Pharmacy... Prescription Proiles Available Now Upon Request 50% OFF CHRISTMAS BLOWOUT CONTINUES 217 North Main St., Heppner • Phone 676-9158 • Floral 676-9426 Serving Morrow, Wheeler & Gilliam counties Since 1959 The Heppner Mustang Junior Varsity took part in the Les Schwab Shoot-Out last week at the Pendleton Convention Center. The JV Mustangs split their games there at the tournament. They fell to the Hermiston JV2 team 51-30 on day one and then came back to beat the Ione JV team by the score of 41-34 on day two. It was a great experience for the Heppner JV team members to get a chance to play on the NBA court at the Convention Center. The irst game against the long and athletic Herm- iston team had the Bulldogs ahead at halftime 27-19. Everyone on the Heppner team got to play in the game, and that included many freshman who made the trip. The Mustangs were outscored 24-11 in the sec- ond half and lost the game by the score of 51-30. Derek Howard led the team in scoring with 8. Wy- att Steagall inished with 6 points and Hunter Nichols had 5. Gibson McCurry had 4 points and several blocks in the game. Beau Wolters chipped in 3 points while Kevin Smith and Trent Smith each scored 2 points in the game. In the game with Ione, Heppner trailed after the irst quarter 11-8. Heppner was also outscored in the second quarter and trailed 25-19 at halftime. The game started to change in the third quarter as the Mustangs outscored the Cardinals 13-9 to only trail 34-32 at the end of three. In the fourth quarter Heppner held Ione scoreless and netted nine points for themselves. That gave the Mustangs the win by a score of 41-34. A balanced scoring attack was led by Coby Dougherty with 9. Stea- gall inished with 8 points and Nichols had 7. Kevin Smith had 4 points and Derek Howard recorded 3. Wolters, McCurry, Cason Mitchell, Dakota Howard and Keegan Gibbs each scored 2 points in the game. The JV Mustang team will resume play this week- end against Irrigon and Stanield. Above (L-R): Alessandro Panozzo, Colton Hollis, Austin Carter, Jason Juarez and Aaron Smythe man up against an Enterprise player. Ione boys lost to the Enterprise Outlaws last week at the Oregon Trail basketball tournament in Pendleton. Below: Austin Carter blocks a Helix player Saturday. The Ione boys took wins against the Grizzlies in both the JV and varsity games. –Photos by Sylvia Sandford Get your business online..... Call the Heppner Gazette Today! We can help with web site set-up, design and maintenance. (541) 676-9228 david@rapidserve.net