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SERVING SHERIDAN, WILLAMINA AND GRAND RONDE SINCE 1881
Spring Sports
Spartan track and field team cel-
ebrates 50 years since first state
champ.
Skier Breaks Back
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WHS Vice Principal busted with pot
By Marguerite Alexander
Correspondent, The Sun
Willamina High School Vice Prin-
cipal Brett Woolley is on paid admin-
istrative leave after he was cited by
Oregon State Police for possession of
marijuana earlier this month.
According to an OSP report,
Woolley, 40 of Willamina, was in a
parked 1999 Ford Expedition near the
intersection of Highway 18 and Sawtell
Road at approximately 7:45 p.m. on
Saturday, March 5, when Trooper Creed
Cummings stopped to investigate.
Cummings found Woolley in pos-
session of marijuana and two smok-
ing pipes. Woolley was cited and re-
leased for possession of less than one
ounce of marijuana. He is scheduled
to appear in Polk County Circuit Court
at 9 a.m. on April 4.
Woolley was hired by the Wil-
lamina School District in June of 2005
as an elementary physical education
teacher and the Teacher on Special As-
signment at Willamina High School.
He was named vice principal at the
high school in August of 2009.
According to Superintendent Mark
Jeffery, the school district is conduct-
ing an investigation regarding the
charge. Once the investigation has
been completed the dislrict will look
at the facts and determine if the situa-
tion warrants disciplinary action.
While the local investigation is un-
derway Woolsey is on paid administra-
tive leave. The vice principal is still per-
forming some of his duties, Jeffery said.
The incident has also been reported
to the Teachers Standards and Prac-
tices Commission. Each year the
TSPC investigates approximately 200
discipline cases.
After receiving a complaint the
TSPC conducts an investigation to
determine whether or not the allega-
tion is factual. The educator is noti-
fied of the complaint and is encour-
aged to respond. The commission,
which meets five times a year, then
considers the pre "lmainary investigation
report and determines if the educator
has violated TSPC standards.
In some cases the commission must
permanently revoke or deny a license
to educators convicted of serious
charges, including many sex-related
crimes. In other cases, depending on
the circumstances, a teacher or
administrator's license may be re-
voked or suspended or the educator
may receive a public reprimand or be
placed on probation.
According to TSPC online records,
Woolsey received an expedited service
teacher license in August 2000 and a
conditional permit to teach for the
Gervais School District in November
of 2002. He did not receive his initial
teaching license, with endorsements to
teach health and physical education,
until June of 2009. Woolsey received
his initial license as an administrator
in August of 2009.
Since he was hired by the Wil-
lamina School District, Woolley has
also served as an assistant volleyball,
softball and girls basketball coach.
Band
teacher
loses
battle to
cancer
By Daniel Crawford
Correspondent, The Sun
Richard Herrick, 63, lost an
eight-year long battle to colon
cancer on March 8. On that
same day the community lost a
beloved friend.
Herrick taught band and
choir class at WHS for 20 years,
touching generations of lives
along the way. His impact on
students past and present was
immeasurable. Students often
spoke about how the name "Ri-
chard Herrick" will still be on
their lips throughout their en-
tire lives. That is an honor re-
served for only the most re-
vered of human beings.
Herrick was removed from
all chemo-therapy treatments
by the end
of 2010.
His doctors
had deter-
mined that
he had
reached the
point
where the
cure be-
Richard Herrick comes a
contribut-
ing cause alongside of cancer
to a patient's detriment. Herrick
was advised to change his diet
and rest when his body needed
it and that would increase his
life. He gained an extra three
months of living by "eating like
a woodland creature" as he
would explain two weeks prior
to his passing.
To have had the pleasure to
know Richard Herrick for any
amount of time it was easy to
see that he was a special human
being. He had a way of making
sure everyone felt cared and
loved while in his presence.
Students at Willamina
schools all had opportunities to
talk to grief counselors in the
days following Herrick's death,
according to Superintendent
Mark Jeffery.
Japan Quake-
An earthquake upgraded to
a magnitude 9. 0 and the follow-
ing deadly tsunami are believed
to have killed more than
10, 000, reported the Associated
Press on Tuesday.
Officials have only con-
firmed approximately 3,300
deaths, but with many thou-
sands more missing the death
toll is feared to be much higher
The U.S. Geological Survey
said the 2:46p.m. quake on Fri-
day, March 11, was the biggest
earthquake to hit Japan since
officials began keeping records
in the late 1800s, and one of the
biggest ever recorded in the
world
The quake struck at a depth
of six miles, about 80 miles off
the eastern coast, the agency
said The area is 240 miles
northeast of Tokyo. Several
quakes had hit the same region
in recent days, including a 7.3
magnitude one on Wednesday
that caused no damage.
Initial reports said the
deadly tsunami reached 23feet.
Later reports stated the water
topped 30feet. Tsunami waves
crashed onto the beaches of
Hawaii during the early morn-
ing hours of Friday and
reached the Oregon Coast at
approximately 8 a.m.
The tamami has caused con-
tinuing problems with radiation
threats at several nuclear power
plants on Japan "s coast.
Relief efforts have been
launched from all over the
world.
Waves felt in Sheridan
By Clinton Vining
Publisher, The Sun
Fuyumi Fujiwara was
working at an elementary
school in Yamada, a small
port town north of Sendal,
Japan, when she heard they
had 15 minutes to get to
higher ground.
Not long after they'd
been shaken by an earth-
quake registering 8.9 on the
Richter scale on Friday af-
ternoon, Fujiwara was run-
ning with a group of 6 to 11-
year-olds.
"They actually saw the
tsunami wave coming up to-
ward the school," said Sheri-
dan Japanese School sensai
Elizabeth Delacy.
Nine years ago, Delacy
lived with Fujiwara and her
family in Iwate. Delacy hasn't
had an opportunity to talk to
her 35-year-old host sister, but
communicated by email and
then by phone with her host
mother further inland this
weekend.
• Finally, on Monday
Delacy received word that her
host sister had survived the
deadly tsunami that wiped out
most of Yamada and many of
the cities along the eastern
coast of Japan's northern re-
gion.
"I think it was a 13-foot
wave that hit them and most
of the town is gone," Delacy
said.
JAPAN I Page 8
Daytime blaze designed to test resources
Sirens blared. A second-
alarm was sounded, but the fire
at the comer of Savage and
Rogers roads on March 8 was
only a training exercise staged
by the fire district to check the
daytime response and assess
the leadership skills of
firefighters in training.
With few volunteers avail-
able during the day, the ma-
jority of the fire crews on
scene that afternoon were
paid staff and sleepers-----col-
lege students living at the fire
station while etarolled in fire
or paramedic programs.
As Fire Chief Wade Davis,
one of the fire board members
and the property owner,
watched from the distance
firefighters honed their leader-
ship skills. In an unexpected
twist, a second-year Chemeketa
student rettLming to Sheridan
• from the Buell fire station was
first on the scene and took com-
rnand of the call.
"He did a marvelous job,"
said Deputy Chief Bill
Alguire.
The fire district will hold a
more traditional Bum to Learn
on Saturday at the old
Ridgeway residence on Sav-
age Road.
Photo by Susan Ragan
Sheridan firefighter Dustin Hill fights a fire on
Savage Road on March 8. The blaze, a practice fire,
took place on Fire Chief Wade Davis' property.
Publ!c
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laws
1 Sheridan
council gets
lesson about
meetings laws
By Marguerite Alexander
Correspondent, The Sun
Public meeting laws, filling
a council vacancy, discussing
the roles-and responsibilities of
the council and reviewing a
contract with the state for a
grant on wastewater facilities
are all topics planned for the
March 21 Sheridan City Coun-
cil meeting.
In light of a recent court de-
cision in a lawsuit filed against
three Lane County Commis-
sioners, the council will be re-
viewing public meeting laws.
At the heart of the matter is the
use of personal computers and
email communications to make
public decisions in private.
"I am firmly convinced that
this council is not deliberating
in private," said City Manager
LAWS [Page 8
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Adams on
Willamina
council
By Marguerite Alexander
Correspondent. The Sun
After several months of op-
erating with a vacant seat, the
Wdlamina City Council is back
at full strength. On Thursday
the council appointed Corey
Lee Adams to fill the position
vacated by Tonya Saunders
who completed her term of ap-
pointment but chose not to run
for election in November.
Until late February no one
showed interest in filling the
vacancy. Then Adams, a con-
tractor who has lived in the
community for more than four
years and served briefly on the
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WEST VALLEY COMING EVENTS
Free Mulligan Stew:. The community is invited 5-6:30 p.m. Satur-
day, March 19, United ist Church, 234 N. Bridge, Sheridan.
Spring Brunch 9 a.m. to I p.m. March 20, Good Shepherd
Catholic Church. Adults $6, children 6-10 $3, under 6 free.
Red Cross Blood Drive: 1-6 p.m. Wednesday, March 23,
Open Door Church, 339 NW Sherman St., Sheddan. Call
Dorothy Brink at 503-560-4970 to schedule an appointment.
Benefit Dinner for Babe and Sam Kamk: 5:30-8 p.m. Fn-
day, March 25, at Willamina H'Rjh School. Free wB offedng. Spon-
sored by Willamina Christian Chumh. Into: 503876-2097.
Willamirm Senior Grad Night- Ham Bingo Fundrai=am. 6 p.m.
Tuesday, March 29, WHS. $5/card or $20 for 5 cards. Con-
cessions will be available. Info: 503-560-8173.
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