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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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