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FALL Couniy fctimes@midrivers.com 406-778-3344 VOLUME 100 ISSUE 36 BAKER, MONTANA 59313 $1.00 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2016 City Council holds special meeting By Sherry Vogel On August 23, 2016, Mayor Clayton Hornung turned in a letter of resignation to the Baker City Council. Mayor Hornung, who sites cur- rent health issues as a hindrance to continuing his duties as mayor, has served the City of Baker as the mayor for the past twenty-four years. The City Council held a special meeting on Monday night, August 29, at 7 pm, in the basement of City Hall, to address the vacancy. Jodi Huckins Pratt long-stand- ing city alderman . has been ap- pointed mayor until the next general municipal election to be held in 2017. Pratt vacates an alderman posi- tion -representing ward # 1, which is open for immediate occupancy. There are three remaining years to this term. Other business discussed at the meeting was the business of ap- pointing an Ex officio member to the City of Baker Study Commis- sion. After some discussion, Randy Morris volunteered to fill the position vacated by Brandon Schmidt's resignation. The coun- cil then appointed Brittany Hover- sland to the city study commission filling a vacancy created by Jade Boggs. The meeting was then closed to discuss a continuing litigation matter. TAKE NOTE Sagebrush Sisters luncheon Sagebrush Sisters Red Hat luncheon will be held Friday. Sept. 9, 12:45 p.m. at the Tav- ern. Times Office closed The Fallon County Times will be closed Monday, September 5, for Labor Day. Deadline will re- main the same, Tuesday at 2 p.m. Have a safe and enjoyable hol- iday. O'Fallon Community Choir rehearsals The O'Fallon Community Choir will start preparing for their Christmas Concert September 5, at 7 p.m. in the Longfellow music MOIR. If you like to sing, come join the choir Monday, September 5. Practices arc short and the fellow- ship is good. Contact Debbi Varner at 406-778-3542 or Don Nygaard at 406-778-2608 for more information. Mayor Clayton Hornung resigns By Sherry Vogel Mayor Clayton Hornung, who has served as the mayor of Baker for the past 24 years, turned in his resigna- tion on August 23.2016. Hornung, who has had health is- sues these past few months, made the decision to step aside just short of one year and four months of fulfilling his term. Clayton began his career in Baker city politics when he was MOIR in as a council member in 1990. Ile was later appointed Pres- ident of the council. Upon the death of Mayor Kelly Coldwell in March 2002 Hornung was appointed mayor. At the time the new mayor was also teaching political science and history full time at Baker High School. He retired from teaching in 2013, after completing 35 years as an educator. Hornung enjoyed the job of mayor because he has a love for govern- ment. He also liked working with the varied councilmen over the years. Each member brought a dif- ferent perspective to the council. The biggest challenge Hornung has faced as mayor is to find enough revenue to upgrade a decaying infra- structure. He feels this will continue to be a challenge for the city in the future as well. When asked to tell the Times about his greatest accomplishments as mayor, he had quite a list of im- provements that he has seen come to fruition. The first improvement he listed was the upgraded sewer mains that were completed within the past three years. The new water tank on the east side of town and the exten- sion of water main to Keystone XL Man camp was second on his list. 2016 Teacher's Roll Call By Sherry Vogel Christina Schmid is the new Special Education teacher for K-6 grades. She is home based in the Lincoln School and travels to the Longfellow school each day. Schmidleskillallelsing position was in Gilletje, WY, where sheViis the case managei for special services for five years. The job started with the oversight of 150 students and within a year's time expanded to a caseload of 250 kids. After retiring three years ago, she has made her home on her family's ranch located thirteen miles south of Ekalaka. Schmid grew up on a farm 58 miles from Ash- land, MT. She attended a little country school with only three other children enrolled. Two of the children were her own brothers and the other boy her cousin. One year the kids went through seven teachers in one year. She contributed this to the isolation of the area, the long distance it took to get there on dirt roads or even worse, the roads when they were muddy. She also hinted, \Maybe the boys in her school were perhaps a little rowdy.\ Christina decided right then and there, that she was going to become a teacher when she grew up and that she would never leave her students mid term. After high school Schmid attended Sheridan Jr. College for one year. The following year, she transferred to Rapid City. She received her Bachelors in Elementary Education with an en- dorsement in Reading. She decided to obtain a Mas- ters Degree in Reading and transferred to Eastern Mon- tana College in Billings. She earned two Masters degrees there, one in Reading and the other in Special Education. Schmid accepted her first position in the Ash- land Public School District where she taught K - 8th grade students for five years. later accepting a position at the St. Labre Catholic Indian School in Ashland where she taught for 14 years. After becoming a widow, she decided to move closer to her son and family, living on a ranch south of Ekalaka. Schmid accepted the position of Principal in Ekalaka. The following year she became the Superintendent, a position she held for two years. During this time she became ac- quainted with Don Schillinger, of Baker. Schmid commented, \I always enjoyed working with CHRISTINA SCHMID The list went on. Hornung was also instrumental in building an addi- tional cell at the lagoon site to in- crease capacity at the lagoon. Ile also improved most of the alleys throughout the city by milling them down. The biggest change he has seen over the past 24 years as mayor, was in the increase of all regulations by the Federal and State governments. Clayton stated, \Back in the 90's we would have a meeting and we would get done with business in approxi- mately an hour. Now to keep in compliance with all the new regula- tions it is nothing to haw meetings that last four hours.\ In closing, Mayor I lorming shared the following words, \Because of our work together over the past years. I know that the City of Baker and its citizens are in good hands and their future is going to be very bright. I want everyone to know that it is has been a tremendous privilege to serve you all and to serve this great City of Baker. Good Luck and God bless you all.\ him.\ Now after being retired for three years and after experiencing the ranch life, Christina decided she still has a lot to give and decided to enter the work force once again. She is looking forward to meeting the students and their families. She said, \It gives a teacher such a warm feeling to see the students go front wherever they are, to as far as they can go.\ Schmid shared one such success story. \I had one student that was struggling to read.\ She had explained to the student. \The skills of reading are like hooking-up individual railroad cars; learning the sounds, combining the letter sounds to form words, then connecting the words all to- gether to make a story.\ adding, \When you learn those skills, the train will be ready to take Mt.\ One day the child began to read a little botik all by himself. He looked up at her w Mt a huge smile and said, \I have all my railroad cars hooked up.\ Moments like those are what keep a teacher mo tivated. \It is so heartwarming to see the kid. .0 proud of themselves,\ she added. In Christina's free time she enjoys raising a small herd of dairy cows. She has slatted a surro- gate cow/calf program where she pairs orphaned calves, from the surrounding ranch community. with one of her 'wet nurse' cows. She is also busy training for the Twin Marathon, a 26.2 mile run, to be held nest Sall iii 2017. A new teacher this fall is Michelle Wrzesinski who will be teaching the 6th grade at the Longfel- low school. Michelle moved to Baker front Ennis, MT with her husband, Jon. Baker's new superin- tendent, and two children. Mrs. Wrzesinski is in her 25th year of teaching. She taught for 14 years in the USA and 10 years in two overseas locations. The Wrzesinski's are excited to be part of the Baker School District as they both love sports and are impressed with BHS' sport programs and fa- cilities. Michelle was raised in Harlowton, MT. After graduation she attended the University of Mary, Bismarck, ND on a track and cross-country schol- arship. Wrzesinski earned a Bachelors of Science in El- ementary Education with an endorsement in K- 12 Physical Education. She later earned a Masters of Education from Plymouth State University in Plymouth, NH in 2009. As a new teacher Michelle accepted her first job in Rapelje. MT, a small community 20 miles west of Billings, just north of Columbus. She taught 5- 6th grade PE. The following year she moved to Middleton, ID where she taught K-2 physical cd- neat* all day. One year later, she returned to her hometown of Harlowton. She and her new husband taught there for the next ten years. During those years they saw the Ilarlowton Engineers volleyball, basketball, and track teams win 12 State Cham- pionships. Things seemed to be working like clockwork in Harlowton; all their teams were winning, etc. Until her husband got the bug to change things up. He discovered the International Teaching Cir- cuit through Joy Jobs.com. In 2004. the family moved to Islamabad. Is- lamic Republic of Pakistan. Their son Clcet, was six years old and their daughter Wrcnzi was four. The children have received most of their formal education in private schools, as that is where their parents were teaching. Two years later the family once again made a move, this time to Pudong. Shanghai, the Peoples Republic of China in 2006. Mrs. Wrzesinski loved living in China. She taught Physical Education. The PE department in- stituted a program in which the PE student wore a heart rate monitor all day. The monitors are a simple and practical way to gauge how hard the student is working while performing a steady aer- obic activity. They had to stay active for 30 min- utes a day, to receive an A for that day. The program was cus- tomized to each individ- ual. It took into account their individ- ual training zone. Wrzesinski shared, \Every student has something they are good at. I try to identify and bring that out.\ She continued. \I also try to en- courage the student to find what they excel in and I impress on them to consider an occupation that uses those skills. That way they will always enjoy their jobs.\ In closing. Mrs. Wrzesinski shared what she believes makes a great teacher. \Great teach- ers make learning fun. 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