Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, October 13, 2021 -- FIVE
Vaccine mandate puts pressure
on school board
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Morrow County
School Board is under pres-
sure from President Biden’s
and Oregon Governor Kate
Brown’s mandates with
a Monday, October 18,
deadline to dismiss teach-
ers who have not received
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their second COVID shot or
declared an exemption. The
board, however, can dodge
the deadline somewhat
because they won’t meet
again until next month.
Board member Barney
Lindsay told the Gazette at
the meeting Monday night
that only about four or five
teachers in the district are
pushing the deadline by not
getting a COVID shot or de-
claring an exemption as of
Monday night. To receive
Published October 13 & 20, 2021 Affidavit an exemption a person must
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Planning Commission
for the City of Heppner
will conduct a public hear-
ing on Nov 1, 2021 at 7:00
PM at Heppner City Hall
regarding the following
applications: Variance per-
mit to allow the placement
of a 4 feet height by 8 feet
wide pole sign in the lot lo-
cated in a downtown com-
mercial zone. Map #2S 26
35 BD Tax lot 4300 AKA
315 Center St. Applicant
The sign man.
A Copy of the application
and copies of all docu-
ments and evidence sub-
mitted by or on behalf
of applicants and copies
of any applicable zon-
ing criteria are available
for inspection at no cost
with copies provided at a
reasonable cost. Contact
Heppner City Hall, 111
N. Main ST. PO Box 756
Heppner OR 97836. Phone
(541) 676-9618. Persons
who wish to attend this
meeting and need assis-
tance are asked to call city
hall or TTY relay 1-800-
735-2900. Heppner is an
EEO employer.
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box. The money donated
will be donated to Pioneer
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On Thursday, October
21, the football team will be
hosting Irrigon. This game
will also be a pink out,
however admission will be
required.
The FBLA will have
a donation box, as well as
selling various pink items.
The FBLA is also starting
their annual pie sales. If you
are interested in ordering
pies, please contact Mrs.
Collins at the high school
for prices and flavors.
Heppner High School
will be holding a pink week
in recognition of breast can-
cer awareness month. On
Tuesday, October 19, the
Heppner High volleyball
team will be hosting Stan-
field in their final regular
season match. The student
section will be wearing pink
and fans are encouraged to
wear pink as well.
During the volleyball
games, the high school will
not be requiring fans to pay
admission, rather they are
asked to put their admis-
sion cost into a donation
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available at Heppner City
Hall or residents may call
fire chief Steve Rhea at
541-980-4232 or assistant
chief Eric Chick at 541-
701-4910.
Reminder – it is illegal
to burn any petroleum prod-
ucts such as plastic, rubber,
Styrofoam, etc. at any time,
even in a burn barrel.
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pner and Lexington will be
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The Heppner
River Elementary, Board-
man-246; Heppner Jr./Sr.
High School-164; Irrigon
Jr./Sr. High School-370;
Riverside Jr./Sr. High
School, Boardman-498;
Morrow Education Center,
Irrigon-77; Total-2,261.
Boardman schools
were up 61 students, from
1,021 in October 2020 to
1,082 in 2021; Heppner
schools-up 42, from 299 in
2020 to 341 in 2021; Irri-
gon schools, plus 19, from
742 to 761; MEC less 67
students from 144 in 2020
to 77 in 2021; district totals,
up 55, from 2,206 to 2,261.
-approved the general
fund anticipated revenue
of $28,264,944, 2022, es-
timated expenditures of
$28,068,518 for $196,426
in revenues over expendi-
tures for a beginning fund
balance of $4,503,426 and
a projected ending fund
balance of $4,700,272.
-approved a resolution
accepting and appropriating
unanticipated revenues as
follows: $4,750 for Hep-
pner Jr./Sr. High School
fund 221 from support-
ers of the Heppner FFA;
$39,000 for Sam Boardman
Elementary fund 450 from
the Boardman Community
Development Association.
-approved the follow-
ing employment action:
resignations/non-renew-
als-Terri Gentry, IJSHS
junior high head volleyball
coach, Tresa Grieve, Dis-
trict Office/Morrow Edu-
cation Center assistant cus-
todian, April Olsen, Irrigon
Elementary Title I teacher,
Albert Phillips, IJSHS ju-
nior high basketball coach,
Jared Purcell, RJSHS junior
high head girls’ basketball
coach, Ken Thompson,
IJSHS head track coach;
retirements-Carol Jones and
Zack King, both RJSHS ed
assistants; employments/
promotions/transfers-Krys-
tal Carroll IJSHS ed as-
sistant, Lori Henderson,
HES ed assistant, William
Maddox, WRE temporary
PE teacher, Lucero Me-
del, WRE library tech/ed
assistant, and Aislynne
Pope, ACH temporary ed
assistant; extra duty con-
tracts, Leah Harris assistant
high school track coach,
Ramon Montes, assistant
high school football coach,
Joshua Roberts, junior high
head track coach and Edith
Velasco, junior high assis-
tant track coach, all RJSHS.
-received the following
announcements: October
15-STEAM Friday; Octo-
ber 28-end of first quarter;
next board meeting, Mon-
day, November 8, Morrow
Education Center, Irrigon.
-held an executive ses-
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MCSD
superinten- Jeff Zimmer-
d e n t D i r k man
Dirksen, via
video-call, responded, “If
we want to keep the school
doors open” it is neces-
sary for the district to not
defy the state,” “whether or
not we disagree. I’m very
concerned about any man-
dates.” However, he added,
“We’re not just sitting here
and adopting the mandate.
We are working on it and
addressing it.”
“COVID cases are
higher than a year ago, but
we’ve continued to stay
open,” said Dirksen, add-
ing that he was “worried
about the fatigue of staff”,
students and parents. “It
feels like it’s late in the
year, but it’s October,” he
said. “We have to be as
thoughtful as possible as
we go forward.” He added,
“There was no evidence
of in-school spread, in this
year or last.”
Dirksen said that he
was also very concerned
about the “huge learning
loss” and “achievement
gap”, which is “widest in
children from poverty,” es-
pecially during the COVID
epidemic.
“Morrow County
citizen Jeff Zimmerman
testified against the mask
mandate saying, “Putting a
mask on a child for hours a
day…in my opinion, that’s
child abuse. It’s personal to
me. I don’t know your child,
but I care about them.”
Also at the meeting,
the board approved ap-
pointment of three board
members to the upcom-
ing Oregon School Board
Association superinten-
dent search for the Morrow
County School District in
preparation for the retire-
ment of current superinten-
dent Dirksen.
In other business the
board:
-heard a presentation
from the Heppner TSA
club and approved a travel
request for the club to at-
tend a national conference
in Dallas in June.
-learned the district was
up 55 students over last
year’s enrollment report.
District totals for October
2021 were 2,261, com-
pared to 2,020 for October
2020. The 2021 enrollment
report is as follows: A.C.
Houghton Elementary, Ir-
rigon-212; Sam Boardman
Elementary-338; Heppner
Elementary-177; Irrigon
Elementary-179; Windy
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