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outdated religious exemp-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
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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
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