March 1, 1937 â May 10, 2021
âTwas 1937 that a mid-February blizzard blocked the 12 miles of road between Cove and La Grande, Oregon.
Edward Harvey Campbell, who was serving as superintendent of the Cove School District, and his wife, Carmen Olive Celestine Touvenel Campbell, were expecting their first child. Mrs. Proctor, the Cove postmaster, organized a brigade of farmers and ranchers to open one lane of the road to get Mrs. Campbell to the Grande Ronde Hospital in La Grande. They got there but, no baby appeared. Not liking that cold bumpy ride in mid-February, I decided to wait until there was warmth and sunshine, which there was on March 1. Such was the weather when I made my debut to the world. I think spiliyay taught me that trick.
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PENDLETON â By a 5-2 vote, the Blue Mountain Community College Board of Education approved reducing the collegeâs staff by 14 positions, including seven layoffs, at a special board meeting on Friday, April 30.
The move represented a slight improvement from a previous projection that anticipated 11 layoffs as a part of 16 staff reductions, but BMCC administrators maintained the cuts needed to happen so the college could stabilize itself as it attempts to recover from a sustained period of declining enrollment exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
BMCC will lay off five supervisory employees that covered areas like grants, student success, admissions and marketing. The college is also laying off a business instructor and a web content specialist.
PENDLETON â By a 5-2 vote, the Blue Mountain Community College Board of Education approved reducing the collegeâs staff by 14 positions, including seven layoffs, at a special board meeting on Friday, April 30.
The move represented a slight improvement from a previous projection that anticipated 11 layoffs as a part of 16 staff reductions, but BMCC administrators maintained that the cuts needed to happen so that the college could stabilize itself as it attempts to recover from a sustained period of declining enrollment exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
BMCC will lay off five supervisory employees that covered areas like grants, student success, admissions and marketing. The college is also laying off a business instructor and a web content specialist.