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LOCAL NEWS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2016 HERMISTONHERALD.COM • A3 Smith leaving for Walla Walla superintendent’s job Deputy Superintendent leaving Hermiston at the end of June By JENNIFER COLTON Staff Writer Hermiston Deputy Su- perintendent Wade Smith has accepted the position of superintendent for the Wal- la Walla School District. “It’s bittersweet,” Smith said Friday. “It was kind of surreal this morning. It’s been a great experience in Hermiston, but this was too good an opportunity to pass up.” The Walla Walla Public Schools Board of Directors unanimously named Smith that district’s new superin- tendent during a meeting Thursday night. Smith’s last day with the Hermiston School District is June 30, and he will begin the Walla Walla job on July 1. $¿UVWJHQHUDWLRQFROOHJH student, Smith’s career be- gan as a chemistry teacher in the Long Creek School District before becoming a principal at Heppner High School. After two years as assistant superintendent for the Morrow County School District, he came to Herm- iston nine years ago as an assistant superintendent. In 2011, Smith, then assistant superintendent for support services, was named Hermiston School District’s Administrator of the Year. That same year, he became the interim superin- tendent when Fred Maiocco was deployed to Kuwait for 18 months with the U.S. Army reserves. From April 2011 until Walla position is a way to October 2012, Smith led take the next step in his ca- the Hermiston School Dis- reer but remain in a rural re- trict and was named deputy gion he and his family love. superintendent upon “When you’re Maiocco’s return. looking for lead- “What a great ership and growth, ride,” Smith said there are only a few of his nine years in school districts in the Hermiston. “All the region, so you can’t things that we’ve pass up opportuni- done for kids — not ties,” he said. “This just the capital con- Wade was a big family dis- Smith struction improve- cussion before I even ment, but when it put my name in the comes to closing the hat, but my family is achievement gap with our incredibly supportive. They Latino students and our understand this is part of students in poverty. There working in education. The have been a lot of great next adventure in our life things that have happened started last night.” since I’ve been here. This In addition to the Walla is a community that rallies Walla position, Smith was around their youth, and I’m DOVR D ¿QDOLVW IRU WKH VX- sure they’ll have no prob- perintendent position in the OHP ¿QGLQJ RXWVWDQGLQJ Pendleton School District. folks to take over.” “I am going to miss the Smith said the Walla Hermiston community, the Local students move on to state in Battle of the Books By JENNIFER COLTON Staff Writer Battles were waged and prizes were won this weekend at Blue Mountain Communi- ty College, and at the end of the day, two Hermiston teams took home championships. 7KLUW\¿YH WHDPV IURP schools across Eastern Or- egon competed Saturday in bracketed play in the Region 6 Oregon Battle of the Books competition. Sandstone Mid- dle School brought home the championship in the middle school division, and Rocky Heights Elementary, also from Hermiston, brought back the championship for the elementary teams. Both championship Hermiston teams, as well as the second-place teams from each division — La Grande Middle School and McNary Heights Elementary — will FRPSHWH LQ WKH VWDWH ¿QDOV April 9 at Chemeketa Com- munity College in Salem. 7KLV LV WKH ¿UVW WLPH VLQFH 2008 the Eastern Oregon re- gion has had enough partici- pation district-wide to send the second-place team to VWDWH7KLVLVDOVRWKH¿UVWWLPH McNary Heights has compet- ed at the state level. The team bracket featured schools from across Eastern Oregon: Adrian, Arlington, Baker, Boardman, Echo, Ione, Helix, Heppner, Hermiston, La Grande and Pendleton. In the elementary divi- VLRQ WKH ¿QDOV FDPH GRZQ to the battle of the heights as Hermiston’s Rocky Heights Elementary faced off against Umatilla’s McNary Heights Elementary. For two young students — Tate Neddo and Elizabeth Doherty — the championship had an extra challenge as the cousins com- peted against each other. “It made for an extra excit- ing battle,” coach and parent Tess Neddo said Monday, “with their grandma sitting very diplomatically right in the middle.” 7KH ¿IWKJUDGHUV IURP Rocky Heights squeezed past the third-grade “Bookcraft” team from McNary Heights 48 to 43, according to Kristi Smalley, elementary librarian for the Hermiston School Dis- trict. Both teams will compete in Salem in April. As champions, both Sand- stone and Rocky Heights received a set of 12 titles for For more information, visit: http://oboblsta.pbworks.com/ CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY MELISSA DOHERTY The Rocky Heights Elementary team — Elizabeth Doherty, Stephanie Booher, Ashley Treadwell, Katelyn Wadkins — hold up books read for Oregon Battle of the Books. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY KRISTI SMALLEY CONKLIN INSURANCE AGENCY, INC. www.nateconklin.com 395 E. 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MEDICAL DIRECTORY Family Dentistry ~ N ew Patients Welcome~ CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY MELISSA DOHERTY CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY TESS NEDDO The members of “Bookcraft” — Tate Neddo, from left, April Bettencourt, Eden Enkey -oben Padberg — hold up certiÀcates after a school-wide championship battle at McNary Heights Elementary. the 2017 Oregon Battle of the Books program. “Upon receiving the books, Rocky Heights team member Ashley Treadwell Numerous Hermiston elementary students and staff participated in the regional Battle of the Books competition this weekend: Back row, from left: Kristi Smalley, HSD Elementary Librarian, Desert View Team: Kira Grigg, Booke Turner, Megan Palzinski, Cidney Estes, Sunset Team: Keyla Martinez, Lyndsay Egerer, Andrea Sachez, Brooklynn Warburton; middle row, from left: West Park Team: Helen Rohrman, Renna Gorham, Sabrina Stoddard, Emily Schwertfeger, Highland Hils: Claire Owens, Lauren Wilson, McKenna Hillman, Madeleine White; front row, from left: Rocky Heights Team: Elizabeth Doherty, Stephanie Booher, Ashley Treadwell, Katelyn Wadkins immediately asked, ‘Can we read them?’ and them enthu- siastically picked out the ti- WOH VKH ZDQWHG WR UHDG ¿UVW´ Smalley said. 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