30 Years Ago

Thursday, January 12, 1989

New auto dealership announced

Gary Alderman and Lewis Hoffman of A & H Truck Stop announced that they have been approved for a dealership in new and used Ford and Chevrolet vehicles through Heberle Ford of Forsyth.

The new business will be combined with the old at the Truck Stop. Alderman says they now have used vehicles and will be receiving the new models of Ford and Chevrolet cars and pickups soon. The new vehicles will be shown in the big display room formerly used by Hyatt Chevrolet.

He also noted that they will be advertising weekly specials in CB’s, car stereos, tool sets and miscellaneous auto accessories. The combined businesses will be open from 6 in the morning until 10 o’clock at night, the partners report.

Unified School Board members voted seven to two Monday night to offer superintendent Duane Denny a contract for 1989-90.

It was the third one-year contract offered to Denny, who was hired to replace Sam Sears in 1987.

“I’m glad to be back,” Denny told the Examiner. I think we can do a lot of good things for the school… The board, administration, and staff... if we work together.”

Board members voting to retain Denny as superintendant included Charles Russell, Betty Aye, Neal Sanburn, Walter Ferguson, Junior Capra, Jerry McGill and Gordon Archer. Margaret Scoles and Carl Samuelson cast the dissenting votes.

The Board will vote on Principal J. Oliver Gordon and Hal Hawley’s contracts at the February meeting.

Denny added that one goal he hoped will be accomplished yet this school year is to get community input into curriculum.

“We are going to try to get the community involved in look at the curriculum and areas that can be improved on,” he explained. “The dates of meetings have not yet been set. It will be happening before the school year ends.”

In other business before the board, Denny said that the Montana Attorney General has ruled that the school does not have to provide for public smoking areas during after school activities.

The Board had voted earlier to completely ban smoking from the school-at-large and had designated the open patio area as open to smoking. One small room in each school was remodeled to accommodate staff members who smoke.

“We do not have to provide public smoking areas in the school. We do, however, have to provide one for employees,” the superintendant said. “That may be a moot point though. He (Attorney General) felt that the legislature will pass a no smoking in school anyway.”

Denny also said that with the completion of work over the holidays, the Elementary School is now relatively asbestos free.

The work was done in accordance with recently passed mandates by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Work at the Elementary School included removing asbestos from the boiler room and from 423 pipe joints, located in the ceiling of the building. A study by Carvin Engineering had been done previously and 250 pipe joints wrapped in asbestos had been found. The increase in the original figures by 173 joints cost the school $5.017 more than had been anticipated, bring the total cost of the project up to slightly over $20,000.

Denny said that he and the board were pleased with the work despite the increase and that Carvin Engineering should not be blamed. “We’re happy to have the school clear of asbestos although it cost more than had originally been anticipated,” he said. “The only way Carvin Engineering could have known there were more joints would have been to have torn the school ceiling apart. They are not to blame and we’re satisfied with the work.”

The Elementary School is now completely asbestos free with the exception of several joints, located behind the walls in classroom bathrooms. That project will be taken care of, using school custodians trained during 16-hour course, after the summer vacation begins.

But for the largest and most expensive project, removal of asbestos from the high school, the work still lies ahead, however, and will probably be completed during the summer months. Asbestos material was used extensively throughout the older portion of the school and the anticipated cost for removal will run over $200,000.

Hawk volleyball team wins first two games

The Hawks volleyball team started their season on a positive note, when they traveled to Lodge Grass last Saturday. The Hawks came up with a victory in two games, 15-12, 15-4.

The team was led by offensive players of the week, Niki Gotfredson and Vicki Lloyd-Stout. Gotfredson dominated the net with six kills and one solo block. She was also 13 for 13 from the service line. Lloyd-Stout held the offense together with her 11 set assists and added one kill to her name. Janey Earley was chosen defensive player of the week for outstanding back-row play. Earley led the team with three digs and had one solo block.

Other outstanding plays included five kills by Lody Mader, along with one block assist and two digs. Stacey Alderman was nine for nine from the serving line and delivered two kills.

The Hawks will be at home this Friday to take on Baker. The varsity team will play at 5 p.m. the junior varsity at 4 p.m. The varsity team is made up of the following players: Alderman, Earley, Ila Gaskill, Gotfredson, Mader, Christine Olson, Vickie Robinson, Lloyd-Stout and Kristy Vallejo.

The junior varsity squad consists of Tami Archer, Dori Barbero, Stephanie Best, Cory Dunning, Alison Jurica, Stacy Kraft, Libby Lanning, Inke Mathauer, Lori Ann McGill, Lauri Morella, Rhonda Raschkow and Talana Traub.

Offensively, the team was led by Mathauer and Morella, as each had one kill a piece. From the service line, Archer was five for five and Best was four for four. Archer had one set assist.

Defensively, Barbero, Morella, and Traub each had one dig, a result of aggressive back row play. Mathauer was the only player given credit for defensive net play, she had one block assist.