SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Ione engineering class races
soap box derby cars
Ione plans Music in the Park
for 2017
This summer Ione will
host Music in the Park at
Ione City Park. The summer
lineup will begin June 24 at
6 p.m. with Frank Carlson
from Baker City with his
easy listening, country-
western style of music and
entertaining.
On July 22 at 6 p.m.,
Corey Peterson’s band will
be the entertainment. The
five band members are
Corey Peterson, Justin Esta-
brook, Dan Bellmore, Rich
Daniels and Cole Croth-
The Ione High School engineering class, taught by Eric Jepsen, spent recent weeks designing
and building soap box derby cars. They raced them on a gradual one-mile downhill stretch
of Gooseberry Road last week. Fastest times went to Austin Morter and Daniel Eubanks. An
engineless lawnmower also entered the race. -Contributed photo
swaite; they play traditional
country and classic rock
music. It promises to be a
fun evening with the home-
town group.
The August event will
be on Saturday, Aug. 26, at
6 p.m. at the park. Save the
date; the entertainment will
be announced soon.
On Friday, Sept. 22,
at 6 p.m. the final event
of the year will feature
Countryfied, a regional
favorite with high energy
and a country-rock based
repertoire that offers plenty
of variety. They have list of
more than 300 songs, not to
mention plenty of laughs
and smiles.
The Morrow County
Unified Recreation District
and Ione Library Board will
sponsor these free events.
Everyone is invited, just
bring a chair and cooler.
Concessions may be avail-
able. In case of rain the
events will move to the
Legion Hall.
Ione kicks off summer reading
with the ‘Ribbles’
IMESD receives safety award
from PACE
Pendleton—The Prop-
erty and Casualty Cover-
age for Education (PACE)
program’s board of trustees
recently recognized the
InterMountain ESD as a
School Safety Star. Phil
Wentz, chairman of the
PACE board, presented the
award in Salem during the
“PACE Day: Safe and Se-
cure Schools” event.
The IMESD was hon-
ored as the inaugural School
Safety Star for its regional
school security initiative, an
innovative program to pro-
vide the ESD’s 18 compo-
nent school districts in three
counties with evaluation
tools, resources and training
to improve school security
and increase student safety.
The award included $5,000
from PACE to be used in a
school safety improvement
effort.
“The IMESD is hon-
ored to receive this safety
award from PACE, but we
share this recognition with
the many regional partners
who continue to collabo-
rate with us on the crucial
issue of school safety. We
know there is more work
to be done,” said Michele
Madril, IMESD’s director
of communication and print
solutions.
Stuart Roberts, Pend-
leton’s chief of police, is
an integral partner in the
school security initiative.
Roberts said that safety
should be a priority for
everyone, and educating
people about appropriate
responses to perceived/
identified threats is impor-
tant.
“Through the leader-
ship of IMESD Superin-
tendent Mark Mulvihill and
his IMESD peers, deficien-
cies were identified and
solutions were vigorously
pursued in order to meet the
agency’s charge of not only
educating, but also protect-
ing students, staff and visi-
tors alike,” Roberts said.
“Albeit safety responses
and protocols will always
be a work in progress, I ap-
plaud the IMESD’s vision,
commitment and leadership
in the area of school safety.”
PACE (pace.osba.org)
is an insurance pool made
up of roughly 300 Oregon
member school districts,
charter schools, education
service districts and com-
munity colleges.
Author to enlighten
kids about eclipse
On June 15, the Ione
Public Library is getting
ready for the upcoming
solar eclipse by holding
a talk with the children’s
author and illustrator Nancy
Coffelt.
“The Big Eclipse” au-
thor will hold an hour-long
workshop at 3 p.m. at the
Ione Legion Hall (located
next door to the library).
This presentation will in-
clude a reading from her
book, a craft, many excit-
ing facts about eclipses and
information to get everyone
ready for the total eclipse,
which will take place on
August 21 of this year.
This presentation is
suitable for all ages and is
part of the Ione Summer
Reading Program.
Ione library board
to meet
The Ione Library District Board of Directors will hold
its monthly meeting and budget hearing on Thursday, June
22, beginning at 10:30 a.m. at the Ione Public Library, 385
W. 2 nd Street. The public is welcome to attend.
Community lunch
menu
Christian Life Center volunteers will serve lunch on
Wednesday, June 21, at St. Patrick’s Senior Center. Lunch
will include hot turkey sandwiches, mashed potatoes and
gravy, mixed vegetables, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin
cakes.
Milk is served at each meal. Suggested donation is
$3.50 per meal. Menu is subject to change.
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The Ione Public Library hosted the Traveling Lantern Theatre presentation of “The Ribbles
Build a Residence” on Tuesday, June 6, at the school gym as its kick-off for the Summer
Reading Program. Insect newlyweds Ima and Ura Ribble (and soon to be born Baby Ribblet)
entertained and incorporated the ABCs of Architecture, Building and Construction using
audience participation. The presentation was sponsored by Libraries of Eastern Oregon. The
Ione Public Library’s Summer Reading Program will be held on Tuesdays, June 13 through
July 25, in the Legion Hall next door to the library. The preschool program is 10-11 a.m. and
the kindergarten through sixth-grade program is 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. -Contributed photo
Boardman adopts 2017-18 city,
URA budgets
City council changes meeting date in July
During its June 6
meetings, the Boardman
City Council adopted the
2017-2018 city budget of
$20,686,642 and the Urban
Renewal Agency adopted
its 2017-2018 budget of
$2,835,850. City property
taxes will be levied at a
rate of $4.2114 per $1000
of assessed valuation and
$441,000 will be levied
for bonded indebtedness
not subject to Measure 5 or
Measure 50 limitations.
City Finance Director
Thomas Kligel said the city
will end the current fiscal
year, ending June 30, in a
strong cash position. The
focus for 2017-2018 will be
to support continued hous-
ing development started
in the previous years and,
additionally, activity in
city road maintenance and
to be proactive in the con-
tinued development of the
Urban Renewal District’s
projected long-term capital
projects.
In other city business,
the council approved the
first reading of an ordinance
for a franchise agreement
with Zayo Group, LLC, a
communications infrastruc-
ture service company.
The next meeting of
the Boardman City Council
will be Tuesday, July 11,
at 7 p.m. Please note that
the meeting date has been
changed due to the regu-
larly scheduled meeting
falling on the Fourth of July
holiday. The meeting will
be held at Boardman City
Hall Council Chambers.
Local host families sought for
high school exchange students
ASSE International
Student Exchange Pro-
grams (ASSE), in coopera-
tion with your community
high school, is looking for
local families to host boys
and girls between the ages
of 15 to 18 from a variety of
countries—Norway, Den-
mark, Spain, Italy, Japan,
to name a few.
ASSE students are en-
thusiastic and excited to ex-
perience American culture
while they practice their
English. They also love
to share their own culture
and language with their
host families. Host families
welcome these students into
their family, not as a guest,
but as a family member,
giving everyone involved
a rich cultural experience.
The exchange students
have pocket money for
personal expenses and full
health, accident and liabili-
ty insurance. ASSE students
are selected based on aca-
demics and personality, and
host families can choose
their student from a wide
variety of backgrounds,
countries and personal in-
terests.
To become an ASSE
Host Family or to find out
how to become involved
with ASSE in your commu-
nity, please call the ASSE
Western Regional Office
at 1-800-733-2773 or go to
www.host.asse.com to be-
gin your host family appli-
cation. Students are eager to
learn about their American
host family, so begin the
process of welcoming your
new son or daughter today.
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