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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2015
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Chance of showers.
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Bend
46/28
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Burns
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48/28
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Sunset Elementary
School hosting a
book exchange
students will also have
the chance to visit several
classrooms set up with a
variety of themes including
Hawaii, space, the beach,
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change from 6 p.m. to 7:30
Students will be able
p.m. Jan. 23.
to take Accelerated Read-
Title I teacher Joyce er quizzes in the library,
Barak is requesting new and parents will be able to
or gently used books, both sign up for Home Connect.
hardback and paperback, to Home Connect is a feature
be dropped off at the school of the Accelerated Reader
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p.m. on school days. The to view the results of their
books will be distributed to students’ progress in the
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to help support reading.
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The opportunity is part email whenever their child
of the school’s family read- takes an AR quiz so that the
ing night. During the event, parent has immediate noti-
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serve at the will of the com-
munity.
“My whole intent behind
this is to try to refocus the
importance of why we do
what we do,” he said. “A
good mission statement
sets the tone, sets the direc-
tion for the department on a
very broad scale. It doesn’t
need to be long like our old
statement. It can be clear,
concise and to the point.”
Edmiston created the
new statement with the sev-
en other HPD supervisors,
including four sergeants
who started working a new
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last week, Edmiston said.
Each team will alternate be-
tween 28-day rotations on
the day shift, from 8 a.m.
to 8 p.m., and the late shift,
8 p.m. to 8 a.m., with two
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teams working each shift at
any given time, he said.
Edmiston said one of the
two teams on either shift
will work Mondays, Tues-
days, Fridays, Saturdays
and Sundays, and the other
team will work Wednes-
days and Thursdays, and the
teams will alternate weekly,
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of being able to plan things,
to do things with the fami-
ly, having some down time
on the weekends, which
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team will work together —
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he said. “The tangible thing I
am after is the camaraderie,
the teamwork, the peer ac-
countability.”
City Manager Byron
Smith supported the idea,
Edmiston said, as did the
Hermiston Police Asso-
ciation, which approved
a memorandum of under-
standing about the schedule
change. He said he has also
received compliments from
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will continue to monitor the
new schedule.
“I’m a little guarded in
making sure this accom-
plishes two goals: One, it’s
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and the city, and, two, it’s
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something I’ll have to keep
a close eye on.”
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