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“Even allowing $50,000 for
the car, that leaves $20,000 for
personal gear,” he said.
Hermiston officers and the
Oregon State Police SWAT team
plan to train for three days in
late July at Rocky Heights Ele-
mentary School, slated for dem-
olition, Edmiston said. The old
Armand Larive Middle School
previously served as a training
site prior to its demolition.
“It’s a good deal for both of
us,” he said. “The OSP ‘ninja’
team gets to practice at a real
world site, and we can learn
from them.”
said that’s about minimizing
the number of people who
are victims.
“That’s the way our agency
trains,” he said, “and we do train
on it.”
Riverside Junior-Senior High
School in April 2018 was the
site of an active school shooter
training that involved Board-
man police and local law en-
forcement from throughout the
region, as well as Oregon State
Police. Almost 400 people in all
watched or participated in the
drill, including 45 students and
260 members of the Morrow
County School District. Stokoe
stressed the importance of area
law enforcement training and
learning together.
“In small rural communities,
we have to rely on each other,”
he said.
Three Boardman police per-
sonnel were among other lo-
cals who responded Feb. 7 to
Richland, Washington, for the
deadly shooting at a Fred Meyer
store. If there was a similar
shooting in Boardman, he said,
officers from Umatilla County
and agencies in Washington are
likely to respond.
Stokoe said Boardman po-
lice follow the model from the
I Love You Guys Foundation,
which developed its Standard
Response Protocol based on
five actions: hold, secure, lock-
down, evacuate and shelter.
According to the foundation,
more than 30,000 schools, dis-
tricts, departments, organi-
zations and cities around the
globe use the protocol.
But not every agency in the
area follows the protocol, he
said, and one element of training
is to make sure different agen-
cies can communicate effectively
with each other during a crisis.
“You want everyone on the
same sheet of music,” he said.
Stokoe added he recently
reached out to the Morrow
County School District and
Mark Mulvihill, superinten-
dent of the InterMountain Ed-
ucation Service District, to do
more training for this kind of
school emergency.
two students are entering the
military and four students are
going to trade school, she said.
“Collectively, this group of
seniors is pretty determined,”
she said. “I am excited to see
what they do next.”
Burton credited teachers,
administrators and other em-
ployees of the school for their
efforts, too.
“The staff at Stanfield Sec-
ondary School have worked for
years to build a college-going
culture and we are seeing the
effects of that work,” Burton
said. “Stanfield students have
many opportunities, and we
see students taking advantage
of those in similar numbers
year to year.”
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ECHO HIGH SCHOOL
Confetti dropped on the
graduating class of Echo High
School in a recent ceremony for
its graduates.
According to Mandy Palma-
teer, administrative secretary,
15 students graduated.
“No one was left behind,”
she said; all of the seniors
graduated.
What’s more, Palmateer said,
all of the graduates have plans
to further their education with
college. This, she said, is pretty
common for Echo.
“We’re obviously super proud
of them,” she said. “It’s a big ac-
complishment. They’ve made it
this far, and we’re excited to see
where they go in the future.”
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Boardman Police Chief Rick
Stokoe echoed his colleagues.
He said his department’s pro-
cedure on a school shooter and
the like is to “immediately en-
gage the threat.” That applies to
a school resource officer or the
first patrol unit to arrive at the
scene, he said, but the situation
dictates what the engagement
looks like.
A shooter who drops their
weapon, surrenders and com-
plies with police is likely to end
up in handcuffs.
“If they are actively shooting,
that’s probably not going to be a
good outcome,” he said.
Police in that situation can
“neutralize” — shoot and even
kill a suspect — and Stokoe
She said notable students
included Rheanna Rivera, a
co-valedictorian, who spoke at
graduation. In all, according
to Rivera’s speech, 458 college
credits were earned by students
of the graduating class. Also,
eight students graduated with
an honors diploma — no small
feat, as students must earn
at least 30 college credits to
achieve this distinction. Rivera
stated that 26 students gradu-
ated with a 3.0 GPA or higher.
Burton went on to say one of
the graduates, Jennifer Flores,
is a Ford Family Scholar.
In addition, Burton boasted,
52% of this class has college
plans for the fall. Nine students
are going into the workforce,
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Beth Burton, Stanfield School
District superintendent, praised
the graduating class of 2022.
“I am sincerely happy for the
Class of 2022,” she said. “They
completed high school during
one of the most interesting and
unique times in our country,
and I think each of these stu-
dents is stronger for it.”
On May 29, Stanfield Sec-
ondary School graduated 38
students — 37 seniors and one
junior, who managed to gradu-
ate early, according to the super-
intendent.
“All of the seniors that we saw
in the building this year made
it,” she said.
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Echo senior Kolby Spurlock passes the flame of education to Logan Hansen as part of a graduation ceremony Friday, June 3, 2022.
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MORROW COUNTY SCHOOL
DISTRICT
“This group of seniors have
overcome a lot in their four
years,” Dirk Dirksen, Morrow
County School District super-
intendent, said. “I’m proud of
each and every one of them.
Set to retire this year, Super-
intendent Dirksen celebrated
graduations at four different
schools — Riverside Senior
High School, Heppner Senior
High School, Irrigon Senior
High School and the Morrow
Education Center.
“This is my 11th year as su-
perintendent,” he said. “We have
increased pretty much over that
11-year period. We’ve always
stayed above the state average,
but we are well above it now.”
The Oregon Department of
Education reports graduation
rates statewide hover over 80%.
Meanwhile, according to
Dirksen, Morrow schools are
looking pretty good by com-
parison. He said 157 of 163 stu-
dents in the 2022 cohort group
were set to graduate on time,
giving the district a graduation
rate over 96%.
“This is an estimate, he
added. As with rates given by
other superintendents, numbers
are not official until they are re-
viewed by ODE.
According to the superinten-
dent, Irrigon High alone has 47
graduates. Heppner High has
32, Riverside, 71 and Morrow
Education, 7.
The number of graduates
does not tell the full story,
though, he stated. Also, one
should look at the scholarships
earned. This class, he said, is
typical of recent classes, as they
earned around $2.5 million in
scholarships.
“You really have to congratu-
late the students themselves for
their dedication, their parents,
teachers, administrators, all the
people working hard to make
sure (students) were able to get
across the stage with a diploma,”
Dirksen said.
UMATILLA HIGH SCHOOL
Of the 92 enrolled seniors at
the high school, 90 graduated
on time, according to Heidi
Sipe, Umatilla School District
superintendent.
“We’d be happier if it was
92,” Sipe added.
She said that the high
school usually has a “very
good” graduation rate, in part
thanks to a dedicated team at
the high school. Employees
of the school, she said, track
students and encourage good
performance.
The students, though, de-
serve much of the credit,
as they were the ones who
pushed through the COVID
years, she said.
“I think that it’s really im-
portant to recognize that the
kids who graduated worked
really hard to walk across that
stage,” she said.
Sipe spoke of two students
who worked especially hard,
as they earned their associ-
ate of arts transfer degrees.
Marisol Santa Cruz and
Thalia Trujillo are planning
to continue their education at
Portland State University in
the fall.
Numerous others, she
added, earned college credits.
And that’s not all.
“We have a number of stu-
dents who are graduating with
their biliteracy seal from the
Oregon Department of Educa-
tion,” Sipe stated.
Those students, who
earned their biliteracy seal,
are Isaac Armenta, Neida Es-
pain Aceves, Crystal Garcia,
Gerardo Garcilazo Escobedo,
Fernando Godinez Morelos,
Brauyan Gomez-Meza, Perla
Leon-Mendoza, Kevin Meza
Macias and Ashley Nava.
The biliteracy seal indicates
that a student has completed
rigorous language testing in
both English and Spanish.
Dee Lorence, UHS coun-
selor, shared yet another ac-
complishment of this class.
She said scholarship and grant
totals “should be between
$767,000 — $800,000 over two
to four years.”
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