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12 The INDEPENDENT, December 20, 2000 anks school board impressed by eighth graders’ presentations Banks School Board direc tors were impressed with the poise and knowledge displayed by four eighth grade students who gave presentations at the board’s December meeting. Amanda Petty reported on studying cell biology in sci ence, Samantha Kitchen talked about Native American Studies as a part of the Social Studies curriculum, Krista Hancock talked about the Recycling Pro gram and Ford Decker dis cussed the Community Service Project. The annual Shakespeare Assembly was held November 28 with a workshop following the assembly for interested students. The actors comment ed on the courteous and friend ly reponse of Banks students. Banks High School Principle Jeff Smith reported that teach- January 16 set as Rural Oregon Day at state capitol Stand Up for Rural Oregon Day is set January 16, 2001 at the Capitol Building Galleria in Salem. The day offers rural Oregonians an opportunity to meet with state legislators and educate them on the needs of rural Oregon, according to or ganizer Deborah Higa, execu tive director of the Oregon Rur al Development Council. “Great things are happening in Oregon’s rural communities and this is our day to let all elected representatives know how they can support rural Oregon’s efforts to survive and thrive,” Higa said. The day will begin with reg istration and coffee at 10 am and will include the Rural Rally Hour from 10:30 am to 11:30 am, a luncheon forum from 11:30 am to 1 pm where a live ly rural issues discussion is an ticipated, and visits arranged Worker shortage causes problems Many private-sector employ ers in Oregon have had difficul ty filling openings during the past year, according to a recent Oregon Employment Depart ment survey of Oregon em ployers. Two-thirds of all pri vate-sector employers (almost 60,000) tried to hire employees during the 12 months prior to the survey. Over one-third of these recently-hiring employ ers reported having a high lev el of difficulty filling either regu lar, year-round openings or seasonal openings in at least one occupational group. Sur vey respondents indicated they had the most difficulty filling regular, year-round manage ment, professional, production, construction and agricultural job openings. Sales, service, computer-related and clerical job openings were somewhat easier to fill. This hiring difficulty was sim ilar across all regions of the state, but varied somewhat by industry. Computer-related jobs were mentioned as hard to fill by a larger share of survey re spondents in the manufactur ing industry and in the finance, insurance and real estate in dustry than in other industries. Responses indicating that pro fessional jobs were hard to fill were concentrated in the serv ices industry. Sales jobs re ceived more frequent mentions as hard to fill by employers in the wholesale and retail trade industry. Production jobs were mentioned most frequently by respondents in the manufactur ing industry. Over half of private-sector respondents feel that the “na ture of the work” is a main fac tor making it difficult for them to find qualified applicants for their most difficult-to-fill occu pations. Low pay, lack of bene fits, few career opportunities and lack of full-time work are somewhat less commonly cited factors. Location was men tioned more frequently as a main factor by respondents in several rural regions. One-third or more of private- sector respondents said that difficulty finding qualified work ers had lowered productivity, increased cost of recruitment, reduced product or service quality, lowered minimum qual ifications for applicants or re duced output or sales; howev er, almost one-third of respon dents said difficulty finding qualified workers had not no ticeably affected their organiza tions. The findings above, and many more, are included in a report that is now available in electronic format and in print. The electronic format docu ment is available through the OLMIS Web site: <www.olmis. org/Publications/> in both Acro bat Reader (PDF) and HTML formats. The printed version of the report is available by con tacting Curtis Thrapp at 503- 947-1204 or 1-800-327-3710, ext. 71204; by fax at 503-947- 1210 or by e-mail at Curtis.M. Thrapp® state.or.us. by individual participants to legislators will begin at 1 pm. State Senator Gene Durfler (R- District 16) and State Repre sentative Mark Simmons (R- District 58) are scheduled to address the participants during the Rural Rally Hour. As part of Rural Oregon Day, legislators will also be presented with a Rural Oregon White Paper that outlines local, state, regional and national rural issues. The 2001 Legislative ses sion will address Our Oregon, tackling statewide issues rele vant to both urban and rural; and on occasion legislation unique to either urban or rural. Legislators are being encour aged to consider the rural im plications of all legislation. This will be the third state legislative session to enjoy a Stand Up for Rural Oregon Day. The event is organized by an interagency committee that besides the Oregon Rural De velopment Council includes the Regional Services Institute, Rural Development Initiatives, Inc., Rural Community Assis tance Corporation, Association of Oregon Counties, Associa tion of Oregon Community De velopment Organizations, USDA Rural Development, and the Oregon Economic and Community Development De partment. For additional information of Rural Oregon Day, please con tact Deborah Higa at 503-229- 6357, fax: 503-230-8863 or email: ordc@orednet.org. THIS SPACE PAID FOR BY VERNONIA SENTRA AS A COMMUNITY SERVICE TO OUR AREA ers are collaborating with each and Willis Meeuwsen said that other to accomplish observa they would be running for re- tion of their teaching. Their election to their positions. Di goal is to learn from each other rector Spencer Vandehey was and to reflect their belief in life not present at the meeting. Fil long learning. Smith also in ing deadline for these positions formed the board that Youth is January 11. • Noted that there is an Contact had hired Mindy opening on the Budget Corn- Holdsworth as drug and alco hol counselor for Project Suc mittee. • Were informed by Superin cess. tendent Marilyn McGlasson The career center at BHS is open and available for student that work is in progress on cor use. All students will visit the recting the acoustics of the career center at least once be board meeting room; and that • Kindergarten teacher Bon fore the end of the year. Se niors complete career activities nie Schumaker will officially re as part of their social studies tire at the end of December, but classes and are also expected will continue teaching for the to accomplish a practical, job- remainder of the school year. related project. In other business, the board: • Heard the first reading of updated special education poli cies, as required by the state, Abbreviations: EMS, Emergen cy Medical Service; MVA, Mo and policies to formalize gradu tor Vehicle Accident ation requirements. • Discussed the three board NOVEMBER 2000 positions open for election in March. Directors Joe Evers Tri-City Rural Firu Distriot $ Banks students Math-A-Thon Banks Elementary School students are participating in a “Math-A-Thon” to benefit St. Jude children’s research hospi tal. Supporting participants in the event will help raise funds for the internationally recog nized center, according to local coordinator Esther Lee. The event is scheduled to begin January 15. Lee is urging local citizens and businesses to support the program. To make a donation, or for more information, call Banks Elementary School, 503-324- 2772. 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