Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, November 11, 2020 -- SEVEN
DIRKSEN
K-six-171; Irrigon Ele-
mentary, 4-6-185; Windy
River Elementary, Board-
man, 4-6-250; Heppner Jr./
Sr. High School, 7-12-140;
Irrigon Jr./Sr. High School,
7-12-368; Riverside Jr./Sr.
High School, Boardman,
7-12-454; Morrow Educa-
tion Center, Irrigon, K-12-
122; Total-2,212.
The enrollment by
community for 2019 and
2020 is as follows: Heppner
lost six students, from 317
in 2019 to 311 in 2020;
Boardman lost 62 students,
from 1087 in 2019 to 1025
in 2020; Irrigon lost 64
students, from 818 in 2019
to 754 in 2020; Morrow
Education Center gained 62
students from 60 in 2019 to
122 in 2020; the district lost
70 students, from 2,282 in
2019 to 2,212 in 2020.
-received the follow-
ing general fund report as
of Oct. 31: $29,519,214
in revenues, less 2021 es-
timated expenditures of
$29,146,769 for $372,446
in revenues over expen-
ditures with a $3,367,853
beginning fund balance for
a projected ending fund
balance of $3,740,299.
-approved a first read-
ing of “All Students Be-
long,” that “All students
are entitled to a high qual-
ity educational experience,
free from discrimination
or harassment based on
perceived race, color, reli-
gion, gender identity, sex-
ual orientation, disability
or national origin” and
employees and visitors are
entitled to an environment
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“free from discrimination
or harassment.”
-revised/readopted
“Public Conduct on District
Property.”
-rescinded policy on
“Retirement of Staff.”
-approved a resolution
accepting and appropriating
unanticipated revenues in
the amount of $3,000 from
the Robert Kilkenny Family
Foundation for Heppner
Elementary School.
-adopted a resolution
concerning Oregon Legis-
lative priorities and prin-
ciples.
-received the following
employment action for No-
vember: retirements-Kathy
Cutsforth, Heppner Ele-
mentary assistant custodian,
12-31-2020, Valerie Hop-
kins, Irrigon Jr./Sr. High
School department secre-
tary, 12-31-20, working
the remainder of the school
year, Cynthia Kuchenbeck-
er, Riverside Jr./Sr. technol-
ogy/business teacher, 12-
31-2020, Rebecca Renfro,
RJSHS science teacher,
12-31-2020; employment/
promotions/transfer-Linda
Pedro, IJSHS, transfer to
ed assistant.
-learned there will be
no school on Wednesday,
November 11 for the Vet-
eran’s Day holiday; the
Oregon School Board As-
sociation virtual annual
convention will be held Sat-
urday, November 14; there
will be no school November
25-27 for Thanksgiving
break; the next meeting will
be Monday, December 14
at RJSHS.
ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENT DEADLINE:
MONDAYS AT 5:00 P.M.
Ione Booster Club invites all supporters
to 6 p.m. Nov. 18 meeting at Legion Hall
Students gather a trailer full of cans in support of booster
club activities.
The Ione Booster Club
is asking all those who want
to show their support for
students and their school to
attend a meeting Wednes-
day, Nov. 18 at 6 p.m. at the
Ione Legion Hall.
“The Cardinal Booster
Club supports our K-12 stu-
dents throughout the year.
Some examples include
speakers, team camps, col-
lege scholarships, meals for
traveling teams, tournament
fees, field trips, back to
school potluck, Santa treats,
188 W. Willow
P.O. Box 337
Heppner, OR 97836
david@sykesrealestate.net
541-980-6674
$70,000
By David Sykes
A large new 500-mega-
watt solar farm planned
on 5,957 acres located
north of Lexington up to
the southern edge of the
Bombing Range is now in
the planning stages. No-
tice has been given to the
state energy department by
Nextera Energy and Wheat-
$85,000
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$15,000
Oversized city lot on dead end street. Sewer, water,
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350 Aiken St Heppner
610 Garrigues St Heppner
ber’s support in the form of
membership dues is greatly
needed, they added.
The Ione Cardinal
Booster Club is composed
of school staff, parents,
community members and
businesses dedicated to
supporting the athletic and
academic needs of students
at Ione Community School.
“Please consider giving
your time to attend meet-
ings and become involved
with supporting our kids.
The Ione Cardinal Boost-
er Club needs you. We
would really love to see you
there,” a club spokesperson
said.
North of Lexington, south of the bombing range
$535,000
365 S Gilmore ST Heppner
Students Mason Orem, Marty Medina, and Carter Eynetich
gather and bag cans during fund raising drive.
Big new solar farm planned for county
NEW LISTING!
Owner/Broker David Sykes
graduation refreshments,
the fitness facility project
and more. Your support
helps us achieve this,” the
group said in a news re-
lease.
Membership dues
along with the annual bas-
ketball tournament and
ongoing bottle drive finan-
cially funds many of the
group’s projects. This year,
due to Covid-19 guidelines,
the club will not hold the
annual basketball tourna-
ment so community mem-
ridge East Wind to build the
new facility. Nextera and
Wheatridge are the same
company currently wrap-
ping up construction and
installation of the large new
wind generating facility in
the county.
The facility will gen-
erate power by converting
sunlight with poly-crystal-
line cells into direct current
electricity. Each module
will be six feet long by three
feet wide. Total number of
modules needed to generate
500 mw was not specified
in the notice, but it did say
the final number of modules
needed will vary depending
on the technology, spacing,
mounting equipment, and
other design criteria, which
are subject to change during
final design.
The solar modules are
mounted on tracker sys-
tems that move to optimize
electricity production by
rotating to follow the path
of the sun throughout the
day. According to the ap-
plication notice as the solar
modules tilt throughout the
day, the height of their top
edges will shift accordingly,
possibly up to 16 feet high.
The tracker system posts
they are mounted on will
be specifically designed
to withstand wind, snow,
and seismic loads antici-
pated at the site. The posts
carrying the modules can
be buried anywhere from
between five and 20 feet
below ground and protrude
five feet above the surface.
In some soil conditions
concrete will be required
for each post.
Once generated the
power will be sent to in-
verters which convert the
power from 400-watt DC
to 1,500-volt alternating
current, AC, before con-
necting to the substations.
The Heppner Ga-
zette-Times wants to see
pictures of your trophy
animals from this hunting
season. Stop
by to have
your picture
taken, drop
off photos,
mail them to
PO Box 337
in Heppner, email them to
editor@rapidserve.net or
text cell phone photos to
541-980-6674.
A new 5,957-acre solar farm is in the planning stages for
Morrow County
The alternating current
from the inverters will be
routed to transformers that
will increase the output
voltage from the inverter
(480 volts) to the desired
substation feed voltage 34.5
kV. The facility will have
up to eight miles of 230-kv
overhead transmission lines
60 to 150 high.
To store the power gen-
erated by the solar farm
there will be battery storage
throughout the solar fields,
which will consist of lithi-
um-ion batteries in storage
containers. Each container
will be placed on a founda-
tion. Each container holds
the batteries, a supervisory
and power management
system, and a fire preven-
tion system. Lithium-ion
battery systems are modu-
lar systems in which each
module contains multiple
smaller battery cells. The
module containing the cells
is relatively small, general-
ly about the size of a desk-
top computer processer,
and serves as leak-proof
containment. Modules are
placed in anchored racks
within the concrete con-
tainers; typically, each rack
houses battery modules
along with a switchgear
assembly. Cooling units
will be placed either on top
of the concrete containers
or along the side.
Called Wagon Trail
Solar, the facility will be
built all on private ground,
nearly all of it on property
already hosting Nextera’s
wind towers. The project
is in the very preliminary
planning stages now with
the state but is expected to
start construction by 2023
and finish that same year.
~ G-T Trophy Corner ~
The Heppner Gazette Times would like to see pictures of your trophy animals
from this hunting season. Please send a photo along with your name, age, town
you live in, location of the hunt and a description of the animal to editor@
rapidserve.net, upload to Heppner.net or text to 541-980-6674.
DEADLINE:
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MONDAYS
AT 5PM
Shari Ober, Lexington, shot this 3X4 buck in the Columbia
Basin Unit.