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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 10, 2021 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow Heppner Teachers appreciate offer of COVID vaccines GAZETTE-TIMES The president of the Morrow County Education U.S.P.S. 240-420 association told the MC Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper School Board Monday night SEARCH OLD COPIES OF THE HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES ON-LINE: how much the teachers ap- http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/ preciate the district’s efforts to offer immunizations for Published weekly by Sykes Publishing and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879. Periodical postage paid the COVID-19 vaccine. at Heppner, Oregon. Office at 188 W. Willow Street. Telephone (541) 676-9228. Fax MCSD Superintendent Dirk (541) 676-9211. E-mail: editor@rapidserve.net or david@rapidserve.net. Web site: www.heppner.net. Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, Dirksen said that the county P.O. Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836. Subscriptions: $31 in Morrow County; $25 health department (Morrow senior rate (in Morrow County only; 65 years or older); $37 elsewhere; $31 student County Health Department) subscriptions. David Sykes ..............................................................................................Publisher “has done a tremendous Bobbi Gordon................................................................................................ Editor job” of working with the Giselle Moses.........................................................................................Advertising school district to provide All News and Advertising Deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. COVID-19 immunizations. For Advertising: advertising deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. Cost for a display ad is $5.25 per column inch. Cost for classified ad is 50¢ per word. Cost for Card of Thanks is $10 up to He said Erin Stocker, Ex- 100 words. Cost for a classified display ad is $6.05 per column inch. ecutive Director of Human For Public/Legal Notices: public/legal notices deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. Dates for publi- cation must be specified. Affidavits must be requested at the time of submission. Affidavits Resources, organized the require three weeks to process after last date of publication (a sooner return date must be effort. specified if required). Dirksen said that there For Obituaries: Obituaries are published in the Heppner GT at no charge and are edited to meet news guidelines. Families wishing to include information not included in the guidelines are still currently about or who wish to have the obituary written in a certain way must purchase advertising space “800 kids at home, the for the obituary. majority at the secondary For Letters to the Editor: Letters to the Editor MUST be signed by the author. The Heppner GT will not publish unsigned letters. All letters MUST include the author’s address and phone level.” He said that 100 number for use by the GT office. The GT reserves the right to edit letters. The GT is not percent of the Heppner Ele- responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters. Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under “Card of Thanks” at a cost of $10. mentary students have been in attendance, with about 92 percent at Heppner Jr./ Sr. High School; 85 percent Send engagement and wedding announcements to editor@rapidserve.net or at Irrigon Elementary; 81 upload to Heppner.net. percent at Sam Boardman Elementary; 78 percent at A.C. Houghton Elemen- tary, Irrigon;73 percent at Windy River Elementa- ry, Boardman; 41 percent at Riverside Jr./Sr. High School, Boardman; and 31 percent at Irrigon Jr./Sr. High School. Dirksen reported the district is currently in the green level district-wide in terms of Covid-19 infec- tions. However, he said if the rate rises into the red or orange level, they will have to do COVID-19 testing in the schools. The green level is less than 30 cases; the yellow level, 30-59; orange, 60-89; red, 90-100. As of March 1, students cannot go into the school if the level is red or orange. Dirksen said school volleyball, soccer, cross country and cheer could possibly start February 22 and continue to April 10. Engagements/Weddings Lovgren-Nicol to wed June 12 Torri Lovgren and Kyle Nicol Torri Raye Lovgren and Kyle Nicol, both Heppner, announce their engagement to be married. Torri is the daughter of Patrick and Bobbette Lovgren, Heppner. She is employed at the MCGG Feed Store in Heppner. Kyle is the son of Al- bert “Abby” and Martha Nicol, Austin, TX, formerly of McMinnville, OR. He is employed with the Morrow County Road Department. They plan a June 12 wedding at the Lovgren family ranch, Heppner. Births Send birth announcements to editor@rapidserve.net or upload to Heppner.net. Ryder Stinson Worden Richard and Kelsie Worden of Heppner announce the birth of their son, Ryder Stinson Worden. Ryder was born January 19, 2021 at 2:03 p.m. at St Anthony’s Hospi- tal in Pendleton. He weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces and measured 20.5 inches. Ryder joins sib- lings, Daemon (16), Arianna (15), Eva (10) Ryder Stinson Worden and Lucas (3) Worden. Grandparents are Kelly and Lorrie Fox and Robert and Pamela Worden, all of Heppner. However, he cautioned, “It could change tomor- row.” “We’re still looking at football,” he added, with the first practice possibly in February. The school board, put- ting off the superintendent’s evaluation this year because of the COVID-19 epidemic, voiced their appreciation to Dirksen during the epidem- ic, saying, “Good job Dirk. We appreciate all you do.” The MCSD Board received the enrollment report for February as fol- lows: A.C. Houghton Ele- mentary, Irrigon-210; Sam Boardman Elementary-335; Heppner Elementary-173; Irrigon Elementary-193; Windy River Elementary, Boardman-255; Heppner Jr./Sr. High School-146; I r r i g o n J r. / S r. H i g h School-369; Riverside Jr./ Sr. High School, Board- man-465; Morrow Educa- tion Center, Irrigon-123; total-2,269. Enrollment by com- munity shows that the Boardman schools lost 23 students over the past year, 1,078 to 1,055; Heppner schools lost four students, 323 to 319; Irrigon schools lost 28 students, 800 to 772; Morrow Education center gained 68 students, 55 to 123; district totals, plus 13, 2,256 to 2,269. Also, at the meeting Rob Tremper of Dickey & Tremper, LLC, presented the district’s annual finan- cial report, citing “four significant deficiencies in internal control” on their financial statements, but ex- pressing an opinion that the district presented a clean audit of its financial state- ments. He said that delays and changes in staff, with new people in those posi- tions, may have contributed to the deficiencies. “Most of the audit corrections were DA’s Report Morrow County Dis- trict Attorney Justin Nelson has released the following report: -Jeffrey Alan Kelly was convicted of attempted sex- ual abuse in the first degree. He was sentenced to 45 months prison sentence to the Oregon Department of Corrections and five years’ post-prison supervision. He was also convicted of failure to report as a sex of- fender and sentenced to 14 months prison sentence to the Oregon Department of Corrections and two years’ post-prison supervision. For his conviction of fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer he was sentenced to six months prison sentence to the Oregon Department of Corrections and one-year post-prison supervision -Liobaldo Villa Cam- pos was convicted of un- authorized use of a vehicle and sentenced to 18 months formal probation, not use or possess controlled sub- Day! Sunday, February 14th stances except pursuant to a medical prescription, sub- mit to testing for controlled substance, cannabis or alco- hol use, not possess weap- ons, firearms or dangerous animals, participate in a mental health evaluation as directed by the supervising officer and follow the rec- ommendation of the evalu- ator, complete 80 hours of community service work, not use, possess, or attempt to use or possess any drug paraphernalia including items primarily designed to manufacture, process or use narcotics including mari- juana, not associate with any person known to use, sell, manufacture, deliver, or possess unlawful con- trolled substances or nar- cotics including marijuana, small, but they added up,” said Tremper. In other business: -The board received two calendar options for the 2021-2022 school year, one with a pre-Labor Day start with students begin- ning August 30, 2021 and students’ last day June 9, 2022. With a post-Labor Day start, students begin September 7 and their last day is June 16. Winter break is December 17-January 2 and spring break is March 21-25 for both options. -The board received the following statement of 2020-2021 anticipat- ed revenues: total budget resources-$32,918,383; year-to -date reve- nue-$25,568,804; antici- pated revenue-$8,406,061; total-$33,974,865. Pro- jected ending fund bal- ance: $30,576 in revenues; $30,849,744 in expen- ditures; revenues under expenditures ($272,832); beginning fund bal- ance-$3,397,953; pro- jected ending fund bal- ance-$3,125,121. -The board approved the following action: resig- nations/non-renewals-Rob- ert Barker, RJSHS junior high head wrestling coach; Laura Browne-Winters, HJSHS assistant track coach; Beth Harrington, A.C.H. assistant custodi- an; Belinda Lomas, SBE ed assistant; and Kalinn Prouty, IJHSH ed assistant; employment/promotions/ transfers-Austinn Black, MCSD/SBE behavior tech; Alejandra Caldera Tell- ez, WRE ed assistant; Di- ana Chavez Barrera, WRE ed assistant; Paige Grieb, HJSHS ed assistant; Denis Lien, HES assistant cus- todian; Jacqueline Ritch, IJSHS temporary English Language Learner teacher; Lainey Rogers, SBE ed assistant. -rescinded the May 12, 2003 counseling and guid- ance program and adopted a revised December 14, 2020 school counseling program. -adopted revised/re-ad- opted “equal educational opportunity” policy. -revised/re-adopted policy on “threats of vio- lence.” In this policy, if a student threatens harm to himself or others, threatens acts of violence, including threats to damage school property, the student shall be subject to discipline up to and including expulsion. “The district may enter into contracts with licensed mental health professionals to perform student evalua- tions.” “Funds for evalu- ations, other disciplinary options or other procedures as may be required by law and this policy shall be provided by the district.” The building principal is no longer required to “ensure notification” of violation of the policy and disciplinary action imposed,” to the parent or guardian, but is required to “attempt to no- tify” the parent or guardian. -accepted and appropri- ated the following monies: HES-$1,000 from EC Elec- tric; HJSHS-$4,000 from NW Farm Credit Services; $19,237 from the Oregon Community Foundation; SBE-$788.37 from the Ben- evity Community Impact Fund; RJSHS-$1,769.99 from the RJSHS Booster Club. -approved an early graduation request for an IJSHS junior. -approved the ESD ser- vice plan. -announced there will be no school on Feb. 15, President’s Day. -announced that the next meeting will be held March 8 at ACH. not knowingly be present at any place where unlawful controlled substances are used, kept, sold, grown, manufactured or distribut- ed, neither use nor possess alcoholic beverages, not en- ter bars, taverns, or areas of other establishments where alcohol is the primary item of sale and complete an alcohol and/or drug eval- uation and any required treatment programming. -Rene Landeros Mon- tes was convicted of assault in the fourth degree and sentenced to 36 months for- mal probation, participate in a substance abuse eval- uation as directed by the supervising officer and fol- low the recommendations of the evaluator if there are reasonable grounds to believe there is a history of substance abuse, not possess weapons, firearms or dangerous animals, par- ticipate in a mental health evaluation as directed by the supervising officer and follow the recommendation of the evaluator, complete 120 hours of community service work, complete an anger management evalua- tion and any recommended treatment through a court approved provider, neither use nor possess alcoholic beverages, not enter bars, taverns or areas of other establishments where al- cohol is the primary item of sale, complete an alco- hol and/or drug evaluation and any required treatment programming and have no offensive physical, verbal, non-verbal, or third-party contact with the victim. -See DA’s REPORT/PAGE SIX Don’t Forget Valentine’s We will be open 9-4, Sunday, February14th. flowers - candy - gift baskets - wine We deliver to Heppner - Lexington - Ione Order early for Thursday, Friday or Saturday delivery! 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