Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 14, 2016
- THREE
Heppner athletes
Heppner students attend technology
receive all-state honors competition
Logan Grieb
Kevin Murray
Three Heppner Mus-
tang football players were
recently honored by being
selected to the Oregon 2A
Football All-State team for
2016.
Kevin Murray and Lo-
gan Grieb are first-team
selections on both offense
and defense. Kevin is on
the first team as an offensive
lineman and linebacker.
Logan was selected to the
first team as a wide receiver
Wyatt Steagall
and defensive back. Kevin
was also honored as the co-
defensive player of the year
with Eric Gustin of Regis
High School.
Wyatt Steagall is a
second-team selection as a
defensive lineman.
This is the second year
in a row that Kevin and
Logan have been selected
first team all-state at two
different positions.
Alumni basketball
game Dec. 23
Pictured Front: Rien Maret, Christian Dubry, Bryan Fowler, Taylor Hamby, Aimee Doherty and Hannah Palmer. Back Row:
Antonio Matthew, Jacob Wallace, Carson Brosnan, Charles Cason, Ethan Holmgren, Jordan Spaulding, Kevin Rea and Kael
Osmin. -Contributed photo
The Heppner Technol-
ogy Student Association
Chapter attended the Or-
egon TSA Competition at
Blue Mountain Commu-
nity College in Pendleton
recently.
The high school chap-
ter competed in Flight
Heppner High School alumni are invited to sign up for
the sixth annual HHS alumni basketball games planned
for Friday, Dec. 23, at 6 p.m. The games are open to all
HHS alumni and their spouses.
The evening will start with a women’s game, fol-
lowed by the men’s game. Teams will be split depending
on numbers and the age of participants.
The event is a fundraiser for the HHS boys’ basketball
program. Cost is $25 per person and includes a t-shirt.
Everyone is encouraged to attend, and to bring along
friends and former teammates. Anyone who has ques- -Continued from PAGE ONE
tions or who would like to sign up, please message HHS expand dropout prevention
basketball coach Jeremy Rosenbalm at 541-256-0515 or strategies. He said that the
email him at Jeremy.rosenbalm@morrow.k12.or.us.
Port of Morrow has ex-
pressed interest in what the
district is doing in terms of
workforce development.
He told the board that
he was very pleased with
the progress of the district’s
All Stars Kids Club will meet again Dec. 19 from early childhood education
program, which is held two
3:15 to 6:30 p.m.
All students in kindergarten through sixth grades days a week for half a day in
are welcome to the free program, which is held the last the north end of the district.
He also mentioned the
Monday of each month (except December) at the Hep-
district’s
online program,
pner United Methodist Church, located on the corner of
which
is
in conjunction
Church and Gale streets.
with
Pendleton
and La
This month, kids will create their own Christmas
Grande
districts
and
Inter-
ornaments, sing carols, learn to set the table using special
Mountain
ESD.
He
said
that
place mats, learn how to make fruit kabobs, and enjoy a
while
the
school’s
program
family meal of macaroni and cheese with ham and more.
For more information, call 541-676-9224 and leave a is in competition with nu-
message or email heppneroregonmethodists@gmail.com. merous online programs,
with the district’s program,
students can come into the
school and take classes.
Also during the meet-
ing, the board adjourned to
the gym to view a demon-
stration of advanced pro-
gramming and robotics
presented by Irrigon Junior/
Friday afternoon and evening will be festive at Sweet
Senior High School instruc-
Productions in Heppner, with a series of free holiday
tor Jeff Searles and stu-
events for the family.
dents. The demo included
Events start off at 4 p.m. with a holiday story time
small computer operated
with Andrea Di Salvo of Usborne Books & More.
vehicles and drones.
Santa will be there from 4:30-6:30 to hear Christmas
In other business, the
wishes and be available for family photos; a mailbox is
also available at Sweet Productions to mail letters to Santa
when he isn’t on site.
Finally, the evening will conclude with festive Christ-
mas Karaoke at 7 p.m.
Endurance, Computer In-
tegrated Manufacturing
and Structural Design and
Engineering. The middle
school chapter competed
in Flight, Mass Production
and Structural Engineering.
High School Results:
Flight Endurance—first
place Jacob Wallace, sec-
ond place Antonio Mat-
thew. Structural Design and
Engineering—first place
Taylor Hamby and Bryan
Fowler.
Middle School Results:
Flight—first place Christian
Dubry, second place Rien
Maret. Structural Engineer-
ing—second place Aimee
Doherty and Hanna Palmer.
Mass Production—second
place Kevin Rea and Kael
Osmin.
and kitchen, $20/hr., large
gyms-$12/hr., small gyms-
$8/hr.
The district will charge
$25/hr. for all users for
kitchen personnel, up from
$12/hr., and $30/hr., up
from $12/hr. for custo-
dial personnel for time
spent outside regular school
hours.
-received the following
employment action report:
resignations/non-renewals:
Amy Butkus, IJSHS ed
assistant; Ken Thompson,
IJSHS head track coach;
employment/promotions/
transfers: Misty Hofbauer,
IJSHS head secretary; ex-
tra duty contracts: Norma
Ayala, RJSHS junior high
assistant girls’ basketball
coach, Greg Grant, HJSHS
high school C-team boys’
basketball coach, Jor-
dan Mittelsdorf, RJSHS
head softball coach, Andy
Stelk, HJSHS head base-
ball coach, Teiko Szasz,
RJSHS junior high head
baseball coach, Mindy Wil-
son, HJSHS head volleyball
coach 2017-18.
-adopted resolutions
accepting and appropriat-
ing unanticipated revenues
for: $20,000 from ConAgra
to the Irrigon Jr./Sr. High
School band for their trip
to Hawaii; $20,000 from
Columbia River Technolo-
gies, LLC., for the Irrigon
Jr./Sr. High School press
box project; $20,000 from
Wildhorse for the Windy
River Elementary music
department.
-adopted policy on dis-
cipline and dismissal of li-
censed staff and the Oregon
Veterans’ Preference Law
which requires the district
to grant preference to quali-
fied and eligible veterans
and disabled veterans.
-learned that no board
meeting will be held Jan.
9; however, the board will
meet for a work session
at 6 p.m. at Windy River
Elementary in Boardman.
Dirksen suggested a time-
line for the board’s consid-
eration and development of
his evaluation.
-heard the following
announcements: Christmas
break, Dec. 16-Jan. 1; end
of the first semester, Jan.
12; Martin Luther King
holiday, Jan. 16; next board
meeting, Feb. 13, Heppner
Jr./Sr. High School.
SCHOOL DISTRICT
All Stars after-school
program Monday
Holiday festivities
Friday at Sweet
Productions
board:
-adopted a facility use
fee schedule. The sched-
ule does not charge for
schedule A users, which
is the “use of facilities by
schools and non-profit orga-
nizations cooperating with
schools to implement or
produce programs primarily
for the benefit of school-age
youth,” but does list charges
for schedule B users, which
include government and
non-profit organizations un-
der the 501c Internal Rev-
enue service code or “shel-
tered under the umbrella of
another 501c organization
or individuals engaged in
charitable activities, the en-
tire proceeds of which, less
expenses will be donated to
a government or non-profit
organization,” and schedule
C for all other users.
Regular rates for Sched-
ule B users, when school
personnel are normally on
duty, are as follows: class-
room-$5 an hour, use of
library, cafeteria, stage/au-
ditorium, and kitchen-$10/
hr., large gyms-$6/hr., small
gyms-$4/hr. For Schedule
C users, classroom use is
$10/hr., use of the library,
cafeteria, stage/auditorium
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