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OROVILLE BASEBALL

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The Oroville baseball team includes (l-r) Coach Tam Hutchinson, Stetson Spears, Zane Scott, Anthony Gurule, Juan Lopez, Spencer Martin, Austin Hamernik, Brayden Thompson, Hunter Martin, Maxwell Turner, Matthe Malcom, Thomas Rosales, Baixi Long, James Drumwright and Coach Dwayne Turner. Not pictured: Andrew Mieirs and Taylor Minarcin

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The Tonasket baseball team includes (front row, l-r) Trenton Sams-Unaff, Chris Powell, Austin Wood, Garrett Thomas, Dawson Bretz, Jordan McGuire and Hunter Thomas, (middle row) Nicholas Crandall, Riley Haug, Benny Williams, Chad Bretz, Quincy Vassar, Joe Ogborn, Austin Rimestad, Zion Butler and Coach Dan Vassar. (back row) Chance Watson, Coach Dale Crandall, Azael Herrera-Calderon, Ryker Ayers, Dallin Good, Dylan Kalmat, Kyle Huber, Wyatt Pershing, Conner Timm, Chace Reid and Coach Stephen Williams.

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TONASKET – Dan Vassar, in his second season as Head Coach of the Tonasket Tigers after work-ing as an assistant coach half a dozen years, described his team this season as very young, but a good defensive ball club.

“Most of our starting varsity will be freshmen and sopho-mores,” said Vassar of the large turnout of 25 players. Three seniors are returning to the dia-mond this year; infielder and relief pitcher Cade Hockett, out-fielder Nick Crandell and Dallin Good. Returning junior Zion Butler was named All League Honorable Mention last year as a catcher.

Also returning are four players who earned varsity letters last year as eighth graders: Benny Williams, Quincy Vassar, Riley Haug and Dawson Bretz.

“We are excited to have them now as freshmen,” Vassar said. “We are light on upper classmen when it comes to pitching, so I will be running three freshmen out to the mound for most of our innings.”

Quincy Vassar spent some time on the mound last season, and he will share that position with fel-low classmen Williams and Haug. Hockett will also pitch a bit in relief.

“Considering the amount of young players we will have on the field, we would be very excited to be a 500 ball club (winning half their games),” said Vassar.

The team had nine players who were in the eighth and ninth

grades, but managed to go 8-12 competing against more experi-enced players.

“We had four games that were decided by four runs or less, and those four games were against

teams that made the playoffs,” Vassar said.

The highlight of last year’s sea-son, Vassar said, was being the only ball club in the league to have a junior varsity team. The

JV team put on a lot of miles trav-eling to away games with a double digit schedule of a dozen games.

Vassar said they would not change much of last year’s strat-egy, other than “allowing the

young players to face the learning curve that is in front of them.”

Returning with valuable expe-rience to the coaching staff is Steven Williams, in his second season as assistant coach after

being the varsity coach for four years.

The Tigers play their first home game Tuesday, March 22, against Liberty Bell. The opening pitch is thrown at 4 p.m.

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OROVILLE - While a turnout of 16 players for a baseball team may not sound like very many, Head Coach Tam Hutchinson said this year’s team is large compared to the last few years. Hutchinson has been coaching the Hornets for 17 years, and is assisted by Dwayne Turner.

Returning players that did exceptionally well last season include Spencer and Hunter Martin, Andrew Mieirs, Zane Scott and Max Turner.

Hutchinson said young players showing promise include Thomas “Carlos” Rosales, Stetson Spears, Brayden Thompson, Austin Hamernik, Anthony Gurule and James Drumwright.

First year player Juan Lopez is the only senior on the team this year.

Hutchinson described the team overall as young and inex-perienced.

The Hornets first home game is Tuesday, April 12 against Manson. The game begins at 4:30 p.m.


OROVILLE - Dane Forrester is looking forward to another fun and exciting season on the softball diamond with his Lady Hornets.

A decade spent as a coach, Forrester is well aware of the need for fun along with dedication and discipline in creating a team that’s a force to be reckoned with when playing their best.

“If a coach doesn’t make it fun, the kids aren’t having fun and they don’t respond as well. So I try to make it fun instead of regi-mented, and then they are open to learning more at their prac-tice,” said Forrester. “I teach them to be aggressive and try their best to win.”

Some serious fun was had last year when the Lady Hornets played a three-way tiebreak playoff at the end of the season against Tonasket and Bridgeport that literally turned into a mud-bath. The game was played to determine who got the district tournament berth.

“All three coaches agreed to play in the rain instead of just saying, ‘No, it’s too rainy.’ It was fun; the kids were sliding into third base and having a blast,”

said Forrester. “We don’t like to pitch in the rain—it’s really tough because the ball gets really slick—but we do like to play in the rain.”

Another important element

of the coaching relationship is respect, according to Forrester.

“I coach with a lot of respect for the kids, and in return the kids give me the respect I need,”

he said. Communication was also on

the list of necessities.“Overall these girls commu-

nicate really well,” said Forrester.

“I tell them if we don’t talk we’re going to lose. The more they communicate, the better their chance to win.”

If the team is big on fun and

respect, they are small in size, though par for the course for Oroville. Fourteen players turned out this year, and Forrester said the average was 14-16.

The lone senior on the team is Faith Martin, named All-League Honorable Mention last year; whose father Brian Martin returns for his second year as assistant coach. He and his wife Shelly coached many local soft-ball players in Little League over the years.

“Last year’s was a really young team with five eighth graders,” said Forrester. “All five played throughout the season as starters; they were very talented and all of them returned this year. My freshmen are going to be a good strong team. They all progressed from last year.”

Returning to the pitching mound are Courtnee Kallstrom (also named All-League Honorable Mention last year) and Hannah Hildebrand. “I was hoping to gain another pitcher this year; I had an eighth grader that turned out with potential to be a pitcher, but she decided to take Track and Field instead,” said Forrester, adding that he didn’t try to convince kids which sport to choose.

“I would rather have a group of kids that are there by their own choice; having fun and giving 100 percent.” Forrester said.

The Lady Hornets have their first home game Tuesday, April 12, hosting Manson with a 4:30 p.m. game time.


We would like to take this opportunity to wish ourNorth County athletes the best of luck with their upcoming

SPRING SPORTS SEASON!

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TONASKET SOFTBALL

Hornets looking forward to fun and exciting season


Oroville’s fastpitch softball team includes (front row, l-r) Faith Martin and Alexis Allenby, (standing) Melissa Carpenter, Coach Dane Forrester, Taralynn Fox, Jennifer Cisneros, Wendy Ortega, Madison Whiteaker, Katie Rawley, Sydney Egerton, Coach Brian Martin, Courtnee Kallstrom and Yaneli Alvalos. Not pictured: Hannah Hilderbrand and Pie Todd


TONASKET The Tonasket softball team is starting anew this season with new Head Coach Johnna Sutton, new assistant coach Jeff Prock and a new volunteer coach, Jim Blair. This is Sutton’s first year

coaching the softball team, but the Lady Tigers are familiar with her as an assistant coach with the volleyball team last fall.

“I started coaching volley-ball eight years ago and softball seven years ago in Oregon,”

said Sutton. “I coached my older daughters’ teams (Alex Sutton is a Tonasket junior and Olivia Sutton is a Tonasket sophomore), moving up with them as they progressed to middle school.” The Suttons moved to Washington in 2012.

Sutton said she has a holis-tic style of coaching, staying positive and focused. As far as coaching strategy goes, Sutton said everything has changed with the new coaching staff and new strategies brought to the program.

“With a whole new coaching staff, our goal is to focus on the future of this program,” said Sutton. “This group of girls has untapped potential. With a positive attitude and hard work we will have success this season regardless of the win/

loss record.”Sutton said she was very

excited to have a large turnout of girls this year. With 26 play-ers, she has enough for both a Varsity and J.V. team.

Returning seniors are Sammie Keller, Shyane Lewis,

Nichole Fletcher and pitcher Vanessa Pershing, who was given All-League Honorable Mention last season.

Also returning after being named All-League Honorable Mention last year are Kayla Willis and catcher Lexi Wahl.


The Tonasket softball team includes (front row, l-r) Madilynn Larson, Laura Escatel, Vanessa Pershing, Shiann McCallum, Alejandra Avilez, Nichol Fletcher, Olivia Sutton (back row) Coach Johnna Sutton, Anna McCullough, Shyane DeJong, Megan Powell, Lexi Wahl, Zoe Rodriquez, Trinity DeJong, Alexa Sutton, Vanessa Keller, Samantha Keller, Jewell Keller, Cheyenne Stirek, Jennifer Cosino, Abiah Donaldson and Coach Jeff Prock

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Johnna Sutton, Coach Tonasket Tigers Softball


TONASKET - Bob Thornton is back for his 30th year coach-ing Tonasket’s Track and Field team, with 40 students turning out.

Thornton is assisted by Chad Portwood, and he described

their coaching style as “relaxed but competitive.”

“We work hard but we like to have fun,” said Thornton, add-ing that the team’s willingness to work hard and smile a lot was one of their strong points.

Their hard work gave them lots to smile about last year; with six of the returning Tigers com-peting at State last year: Rose Walts, Jaden Vugteveen, Jenna Valentine, Katie Henneman, Hunter Swanson and Lloyd Temby.

The Tonasket League Meet will be held Thursday, March 31, beginning at 4 p.m.



The Tonasket track and field teams include (front row, l-r) Riley Morris, Alycia Tibbs, Katie Henneman, Gavin Frazier, Garrett Wilson, Reese Caddy, Natalie Gomez and Abby Duchow. (second row) Justin McDonald, Richard Temby, Jordan Thrasher, Camille Wilson, Ellie Alberts, Emily McCullough, Zachary Clark, Ethan Smith, Jackson Mehfuaski and Jared Savage, (back row) Coach Chad Portwood, Bryden Hires, Rade Pilkinton, Jaden Vugteveen, Rose Walts, Lisa Kudlik, Luis Casarrubias, Jevonti Haney Williamson, Devon Kiely and Coach Bob Thornton.

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Tonasket council

hears budget

requests

OEA says demands on teachers’ time too high

Tonasket and Oroville High

Schools to honor veterans on

Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 9 a.m.

Veterans Day Assemblies

TONASKET SCHOOLS IN THE

NEWS FOR FFA, GARDEN

See B3

Above, Aaden McNaer, six,

chugs down the street dressed as

a locomotive and Ava Ozo, three,

as Queen Elsa (from the Disney

movie “Frozen”) for the Oroville

Chamber of Commerce’s annual

business Trick or Treat event,

held last Friday from 3 p.m. to 6

p.m. Oroville businesses reported

giving away hundreds of treats

to the many kids who dressed up

for Halloween and participated.

Left, Gru (Supt. Steve Quick)

and his Minions, Shay Shaw,

Betty Cole and Erin McKinney,

from the movie “Despicable

Me,” were the winners of

Best Costume in the Business

Halloween Costume and

Decorations contest. The group

at the Oroville School District

Office have earned the title sev-

eral times over the years

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“The bottom line is we

have to attract teachers

to our district and we

are already remote. I’m

asking you to keep that

in mind when you are

negotiating”

Dr. Lynn Johnson, President

Oroville Education Association

“More than ten people

told me they intend to

vote for the Tonasket

Parks and Recreation

District. ”

Clair Jeffko, Council Member

City of Tonasket

Union president says

demands increase, while

time and pay do not

BY GARY A. DE VON

[email protected]

OROVILLE – Dr. Lynn Johnson,

president of the Oroville Education

Association, says more is being asked of

Oroville teachers, while time to accom-

plish tasks and compensation remain the

same or less.Johnson made a presentation to the

Oroville School Board at their Monday,

Oct. 26 meeting.

“I’m here as a representative of the

OEA to let you know about legislative

actions that have impacted the Oroville

School District. I know you are aware that

teachers all over the state have walked

out or gone on strike,” said Johnson,

assuring the board that wasn’t her group’s

intention, but that they should be aware

of how these new demands and their

impact on the district.

Johnson, a teacher at Oroville, is a

member of the certified contract nego-

tiating team for the teacher’s association.

She has 29 years in education as a teacher

and as an administrator, she said. At one

time she was the Oroville Elementary

School principal. The information she

presented came from UniServe and

the Washington Education Association

(WEA), according to Johnson.

Johnson said there was a long list

of requirements for

teachers in Washington

State, including the

Washington State

Te a ch e r / Pr i n c ip a l

Evaluation Project.

(TPEP).“TPEP is time con-

suming, for princi-

pals and teachers and

teachers are not pro-

vided additional time

or pay for all of this

work. There are 53 dif-

ferent items that have

to be observed or the

teacher has to pro-

vide evidence of,” said

Johnson.Then there are changes to teacher

certification requirements, according to

Johnson.“They are super, super tough on new

teachers. They’re putting in double duty,”

she said. “Seasoned teachers continue to

pay the costs to renew certifications, but

the salaries continue to decrease.”

Johnson said the school hours have

increased for students as well.

“There are longer student days and

teachers have lost up to 15 minutes of

preparation time each day, added up over

a school year they’ve

lost over six days of

time to prepare and

get ready for school,”

Johnson said.

She then addressed

the online planner.

“It’s great for admin-

istrators and teachers

like it, but it takes more

time than a planner on

a desk. The concern is

an unreasonable work-

load continues to grow

without pay,” she said.

Like many of the

new state require-

ments of teachers

Johnson said, “Again, it’s not that it is a

bad thing, in just takes more time.”

Johnson said altogether teachers were

averaging about 50 days of work that

wasn’t compensated for.

“Students are suffering, there are less

breaks to revitalize, too much testing and

teachers can’t/won’t do it all. Students are

feeling the pressure,” Johnson said.

She warned that there is a shortage of

teachers in the state and fewer people are

choosing to go into teaching as a career.

She said if Oroville doesn’t compensate

for the extra time being asked of teachers

like other districts in the state are having

to do, then the few teachers that are look-

ing for jobs will look elsewhere.

“College students are not choosing

teaching, there are less and less that are

interested. The bottom line is we have to

attract teachers to our district and we are

already remote. I’m asking you to keep

that in mind when you are negotiating,”

she said. For the teachers here I am not

saying things are all bad, we just have to

take care of our people.”

To make the district more attractive

to teachers she suggested providing an

attractive contract that is comparable or

better than other districts. She said there

were disparities between the Oroville

and Tonasket school districts.

“One teacher was approached (by

Tonasket) and said that they’ve got a bet-

ter contract. We want to be profession-

als,” she said.Chuck Ricevuto, a veteran teacher at

Oroville High School addressed the situ-

ation to School Director Rocky DeVon,

the president of the school board.

“Rocky you were one of my students

and I think you know we took the time

to personalize our instruction to stu-

dents... that time to do that is gone,” said

Ricevuto.“I want to compliment you for the

time you took to personalize what you

taught,” said DeVon. “It has been a big

message that the school directors and

myself have been taking to the state, no

more programs without the money to

pay for them.”

DeVon said he was also worried about

the closure of the Buckhorn Gold Mine,

which is about 25 percent of the district’s

property evaluation.

He said he appreciated what teachers

do, but he had to see a way to make it all

balance out.“I appreciate the comparison you

gave us between Oroville and Tonasket,”

added School Director Todd Hill.

“I’m not against Mr. Quick, but look

at the number of administrators we have

and only 550 students. He was hired as a

part time superintendent and you moved

him to full time. Do we really need a

full time superintendent,” asked Johnson,

reminding the board the district had the

same number of administrators it had

when the district had twice the students.

RR crossing, sidewalks

and pedestrian bridge

also discussed

BY KATIE TEACHOUT

[email protected]

Tonasket City Council met Thursday,

Oct. 29 and further discussed the bud-

get. At a budget workshop held Oct. 14,

department heads submitted requests for

needed items.

Police Chief

Darren Curtis asked

for Surface tab-

let computers, new

chairs for the police

station, stop stick

strips and $7,000 to

$10,000 for a new car.

Superintendent Hugh

Jensen needs a paint

striper, a vehicle and

a new mower. Mayor

Patrick Plumb said he

would like to increase

rates for water by five

percent and sewer by two percent in

2016. City Clerk and Treasurer Alice

Attwood requested to have medical cov-

erage continue, a new phone system for

city hall, a maintenance agreement for

computer hardware, new front doors for

city hall and a cost of living increase.

In the ongoing attempt to secure a new

crossing of the Cascade and Columbia

River Railroad (CSCD), to provide sec-

ondary access into Chief Tonasket Park,

the council discussed a traffic study of

the area prepared by City Planner Kurt

Danison at the request of the Washington

State Utilities and Transportation

Commission (UTC).

Chief Tonasket Park is located on

city-owned property adjoining the city’s

wastewater treatment plant, with the

Okanogan River as the opposing bound-

ary. The park is accessed from Railroad

Avenue, so visitors to the park must

travel through a busy industrial area to

access the baseball fields, soccer fields,

skate park, Water Ranch, boat launch

and other amenities.

The city has been attempting to devel-

op a second point of access into the park

since the late 1980’s. One of the city’s

concerns is that in the event of an emer-

gency along Railroad Avenue or within

the industrial area which contains sever-

al buildings with atmospheres controlled

by ammonia and other toxic chemicals,

people using the park would be unable

to evacuate. The city gained permission from the

Okanogan County Commissioners for

the new access, then received permis-

sion from Genesee & Wyoming Inc.

(G&W), the CSCD’s parent company,

for a new crossing. Mayor Patrick Plumb

then asked the UTC in January 2015

for approval of a new

crossing. After meet-

ing with the UTC in

Tonasket along with

county maintenance

personnel and one

county commis-

sioner, the decision

was made to upgrade

a temporary cross-

ing constructed by

the federal Bureau of

Reclamation in the

early 1990s, finding

this option to be the

most cost effective and least damaging

to the wetland areas west of the railroad

tracks. G&W approved a basic crossing, rath-

er than a fully signalized crossing, due

to infrequency of trains on the track

and expected limited, seasonal use of

the crossing to be located at the south-

ern boundary of the county’s shop land.

The UTC then informed the city that

new crossings require fully signalized

facilities. With further explanation of the

planned use of the crossing, UTC staff

agreed to consider the option after being

provided the traffic study which details

the Average Daily Trips expected to use

the crossing. In other city business, Councilwoman

Claire Jeffko asked who’s responsibil-

ity it was to fix a heaving sidewalk near

the railroad tracks. Attwood said the

abutting property owner is responsible.

Plumb said because the property was

located on the railroad it was probably

the city’s responsibility, so Jensen said he

would look at it the next day.

Jeffko also reported more than ten

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IT on the doorstep at North Valley Hospital District

Oroville concerned County Health may close

Oroville Chamber Hosts Candidates Forum Oct. 15 at Vicki’s Backdoor Club

Candidates Forum

SEEN AT THE OKANOGAN FAMILY FAIRSee A3

Above, the Oroville Hornets celebrate last Friday night with the Victory Bell game trophy after several years of defeat at the hands of North County Rivals the Tonasket Tigers. The football game was not only the “bell” game, a rivalry which start-ed several decades ago, but was also the Homecoming Game, as well as Senior Night. Left, Hornet Head Coach Tam Hutchinson was showered with Gatorade by his elated team following the Hornet’s victory.

RUNG THE BELL

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“I think we should respond, either indi-vidually or as a city”Chuck Spieth, MayorCity of Oroville

“Doctors have been trained to take care of patients first, and they will have to transition to taking care of the elec-tronic records. We have to change from being clinical to being techno-logical, because that is what we are being man-dated to do.”Lori Sawyer , Former NVH RNHealth Information Specialist

City passes recent federally required audit without any problemBY GARY A. DE [email protected]

OROVILLE – The Oroville City Council was informed that Okanogan County Health may no longer do water sample testing and may even close.“We do a lot of testing in Wenatchee,

things they can’t do, but there is talk that the whole department may close. That would be inconvenient,” said Rod Noel, Oroville’s superintendent of public works, at the council’s Tuesday, Oct. 6 meeting.

“Not only that it would be incon-venient for the general public,” said Councilman Tony Koepke. Koepke was referring to the fact that

Oroville often acts as a drop off for people, especially those living outside the city limits. County Health regularly stops by city hall to pick up both the city’s samples and those dropped off by others.

“There can be ten to 12 other samples

waiting here,” said Karen Monroe, depu-ty city clerk.

Mayor Chuck Spieth said he thought there should be a response to the fact the county wasn’t going to do water sampling any more.

“I think we should respond, either individually or as a city,” said Spieth.They also asked Councilwoman Neysa Roley, the city’s repre-sentative to the Public Health Board, to relay the city’s concerns to the county commis-sioners

There was more discussion about the increase in fees being charged to the city next year for online reservation services for Oroville’s Osoyoos Lake Veterans Memorial Park.“Basically the contract from Camis

is the same other than the fee increase. However, the one time yearly charge will go away,” said Noel. “We have been working with them continuously as well as looking for an alternative. We pretty much have to go with them again for another year while we look for another

service.”The fees to those using the service are

going up by $4.00. “It seems like a lot to me and it seems they will be making a lot more money than we are getting,” said Councilman Ed Naillon.

Noel said he figured it would balance out if the city raises the park fee and the one-time yearly fee charged by Camis is dropped.Clyde Andrews, Oroville Chamber of Commerce President and manager of the Camaray Motel sug-gested the city con-sult him about future changes.

“The service I’m talking about was one I’ve used and they seemed very reason-able and reasonably priced,” he said.The city also passed a recent audit with

flying colors. The audit was brought on by the Central and Cherry Street projects and the airport improvement project. When a city uses more than $300,000 in federal funds the audit is automatically triggered.

Two of the candidates for Oroville City Council, David “Mac” McElheran and Richard Fuchs introduced themselves. McElheran works for the U.S. Border Patrol and moved here eight years ago. He is running for the position being

vacated by Councilman Naillon. Fuchs works for Hughes Department Store and moved to Oroville 15 years ago. Both will be at a candidates forum planned for Thursday, Oct. 15 at Vicki’s Backdoor Club.


Rod Noel accepts a certificate of appreciation for 30 years of service to the City of Oroville

from Mayor Chuck Spieth. Noel serves as the Superintendent of Public Works, as well as

the fire chief.

BY KATIE [email protected] - Payge Fries, Health

Information Manager, reported on implementation of the new ICD-10 at the Oct. 8 North Valley Hospital Board of Commissioners meeting. The ICD-10 is the tenth revision of the

International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. ICD codes have been required for reim-bursement of Medicare and Medicaid claims since 1979. The ICD-9 had 13,000 codes but the ICD-10 has around 68,000; providing greater specificity in report-ing diagnoses. “The ninth revision has been out since the 1970s, so there are lots of changes and lots more codes,” said Fries. “The gov-ernment mandated it be put in place by October, so we started a group back in March to get it in place.”

According to the Medicaide.gov web-site, one of the big-gest concerns in tran-sitioning from the ICD-9 to the ICD-10 is there is no simple mapping or transla-tion from one to the next; codes from the previous ICD don’t usually have one-to-one correspondence, but often require one-to-many, many-to-one, many-to-many or no correspondence at all.Fries said one diagnosis in ICD 9 now

has two and a half pages of diagnosis in the ICD-10.“We have been working with coders to

make sure they are prepared, to prevent denials of billings,” said Fries.Electronic tables and crosswalks have

been published to help clinicians and physicians chose the correct codes, including general equivalence tables by the National Center for Health Statistics.

“But if they are not specific enough, it will go unspecified, which Medicare will deny,” said Fries. “We are going through each unspecified billing and calling clin-

ics to get the specifics. It is taking a lot of man hours.”Fries said it costs the hospital a lot

of money to re-bill after a claim has been denied, and it’s unknown upfront if something will be reimbursed when it’s re-billed.She said additional employees are

needed who have experience and train-ing in billing and coding.“It’s not something that’s easily taught,”

said Fries, adding, “It’s pretty difficult right now, but we will get through it.” “Payge Fries has championed this project to prepare our organization for this time of change reimbursement,” said NVH CEO Mike Zwicker, adding that the hospital might see the effects of decreased Days Cash on Hand over the next few weeks due to the conversion. Chief Information Officer Kelly Carriker and Lori Sawyer, a former NVH RN who works in Health Information now, presented infor-mation on Quality Reports required by Medicade.

Sawyer said reports are run weekly with statistics on meeting core objectives based on computer usage.

“For example, we have to send a certain percentage of prescriptions by computer or fax to pharmacies,” said Sawyer. Another example she gave was the requirement of more than 5 per-cent of patients to access their medical records by computer from their home or the hospital. “This one is hard with our demo-

graphics; a lot of people don’t have com-puters or internet, but we are reaching the required percentage,” said Sawyer. The project, started five years ago, is

currently in Stage 2. Carriker said once it reaches Stage 3, instead of 5 percent of patients accessing records online, 30 percent would be required.

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City passes recent federally required audit without any problemBY GARY A. DE [email protected]

OROVILLE – The Oroville City Council was informed that Okanogan County Health may no longer do water sample testing and may even close.

“We do a lot of testing in Wenatchee, things they can’t do, but there is talk that the whole department may close. That would be inconvenient,” said Rod Noel, Oroville’s superintendent of public works, at the council’s Tuesday, Oct. 6 meeting.

“Not only that it would be incon-venient for the general public,” said Councilman Tony Koepke.

Koepke was referring to the fact that Oroville often acts as a drop off for people, especially those living outside the city limits. County Health regularly stops by city hall to pick up both the city’s samples and those dropped off by others.

“There can be ten to 12 other samples

waiting here,” said Karen Monroe, depu-ty city clerk.

Mayor Chuck Spieth said he thought there should be a response to the fact the county wasn’t going to do water sampling any more.

“I think we should respond, either individually or as a city,” said Spieth.

They also asked Councilwoman Neysa Roley, the city’s repre-sentative to the Public Health Board, to relay the city’s concerns to the county commis-sioners

There was more discussion about the increase in fees being charged to the city next year for online reservation services for Oroville’s Osoyoos Lake Veterans Memorial Park.

“Basically the contract from Camis is the same other than the fee increase. However, the one time yearly charge will go away,” said Noel. “We have been working with them continuously as well as looking for an alternative. We pretty much have to go with them again for another year while we look for another

service.”The fees to those using the service are

going up by $4.00. “It seems like a lot to me and it seems

they will be making a lot more money than we are getting,” said Councilman Ed Naillon.

Noel said he figured it would balance out if the city raises the park fee and the one-time yearly fee charged by Camis is dropped.

Clyde Andrews, Oroville Chamber of Commerce President and manager of the Camaray Motel sug-gested the city con-sult him about future

changes.“The service I’m talking about was one

I’ve used and they seemed very reason-able and reasonably priced,” he said.

The city also passed a recent audit with flying colors. The audit was brought on by the Central and Cherry Street projects and the airport improvement project. When a city uses more than $300,000 in federal funds the audit is automatically triggered.

Two of the candidates for Oroville City Council, David “Mac” McElheran and Richard Fuchs introduced themselves. McElheran works for the U.S. Border Patrol and moved here eight years ago. He is running for the position being

vacated by Councilman Naillon. Fuchs works for Hughes Department Store and moved to Oroville 15 years ago. Both will be at a candidates forum planned for Thursday, Oct. 15 at Vicki’s Backdoor Club.


Rod Noel accepts a certificate of appreciation for 30 years of service to the City of Oroville from Mayor Chuck Spieth. Noel serves as the Superintendent of Public Works, as well as the fire chief.


TONASKET - Payge Fries, Health Information Manager, reported on implementation of the new ICD-10 at the Oct. 8 North Valley Hospital Board of Commissioners meeting.

The ICD-10 is the tenth revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. ICD codes have been required for reim-bursement of Medicare and Medicaid claims since 1979. The ICD-9 had 13,000 codes but the ICD-10 has around 68,000; providing greater specificity in report-ing diagnoses.

“The ninth revision has been out since the 1970s, so there are lots of changes and lots more codes,” said Fries. “The gov-ernment mandated it be put in place by October, so we started a group back in March to get it in place.”

According to the Medicaide.gov web-site, one of the big-gest concerns in tran-sitioning from the ICD-9 to the ICD-10 is there is no simple mapping or transla-tion from one to the next; codes from the previous ICD don’t usually have one-to-one correspondence, but often require one-to-many, many-to-one, many-to-many or no correspondence at all.

Fries said one diagnosis in ICD 9 now has two and a half pages of diagnosis in the ICD-10.

“We have been working with coders to make sure they are prepared, to prevent denials of billings,” said Fries.

Electronic tables and crosswalks have been published to help clinicians and physicians chose the correct codes, including general equivalence tables by the National Center for Health Statistics.

“But if they are not specific enough, it will go unspecified, which Medicare will deny,” said Fries. “We are going through each unspecified billing and calling clin-

ics to get the specifics. It is taking a lot of man hours.”

Fries said it costs the hospital a lot of money to re-bill after a claim has been denied, and it’s unknown upfront if something will be reimbursed when it’s re-billed.

She said additional employees are needed who have experience and train-ing in billing and coding.

“It’s not something that’s easily taught,” said Fries, adding, “It’s pretty difficult right now, but we will get through it.”

“Payge Fries has championed this project to prepare our organization for this time of change reimbursement,” said NVH CEO Mike Zwicker, adding that the hospital might see the effects of decreased Days Cash on Hand over the next few weeks due to the conversion.

Chief Information Officer Kelly Carriker and Lori Sawyer, a former NVH RN who works in Health Information now, presented infor-mation on Quality Reports required by Medicade.

Sawyer said reports are run weekly with statistics on meeting core objectives based on computer usage.

“For example, we have to send a certain percentage of prescriptions by computer or fax to pharmacies,” said Sawyer. Another example she gave was the requirement of more than 5 per-cent of patients to access their medical records by computer from their home or the hospital.

“This one is hard with our demo-graphics; a lot of people don’t have com-puters or internet, but we are reaching the required percentage,” said Sawyer.

The project, started five years ago, is currently in Stage 2. Carriker said once it reaches Stage 3, instead of 5 percent of patients accessing records online, 30 percent would be required.

Gary DeVon/staff photos

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Harold Jensen returns for his 21st season of coaching the Oroville Track and Field team, with assistant coaches special-

izing in events. Tony Kindred will coach athletes engaged in the throwing events, Whitney Massart will coach the hurdlers and Justin McGavin will coach athletes in the jumping events.

An average number of students

(23) turned out for track and field this year; about 75 percent of them sophomores. Bailey Griffin and Dakota Haney are the only returning seniors.

Returning State competitors are Katie Egerton and Tylynne

Watkins. Both of them competed in the pole vault, with Egerton taking seventh place at State.

“We are a year more mature with great gains in mental tough-ness,” said Jensen. “They will have a good year.”

The Oroville Invitational takes place Saturday, March 19 start-ing at 11 a.m. The Hornets will be hosting Okanogan, Omak, Tonasket and Waterville. another of last year’s seniors was fifth in the javelin.



The Oroville’s track team include (front row, l-r) Emili Divine, Itzel Castillo, Tylynne Watkins and Cheyanne Sandoval, (middle row) Marcela Ocampo, Alexia Garcia, Bailey Griffin, Katherine Egerton, Teresa Fast, Tori Kindred and Mikaela McCoy, (back row) Coach Tony Kindred, David Iniguez, Coach Harold Jensen, Cameron Marcille, Klinton Flowers, Dakota Haney, Jerry Millholland, Seth Miller, Caleb Mills and Coach Justin McGarvin.

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The Tonasket soccer team is coached by Darrin Collins, in his second year; and Todd Mathews, in his tenth year as assistant coach.

The Tigers won nine of their regular season games last year and lost seven, falling to Liberty Bell, Okanogan, Brewster, Chelan and Bridgeport.

“As always, Brewster and Okanogan will be tough teams to beat,” said Collins. “Same as last year.”

Collins said that, like last year, the ongoing challenge in coach-ing is having kids understand that a great player is a player who makes their teammates bet-ter “and not necessarily the play-er who scores the most goals.”

“Competition in soccer is always tough. The teams have talented players up and down the league,” said Mathews.

Asked about the most chal-lenging aspect of coaching the team, Mathews replied, “Having kids understand that a great player is a player who makes their teammates better, and not necessarily the player who scores the most goals.”


OROVILLE - Tony Flores returns for a second year as Oroville’s head soccer coach, after three seasons as an assistant and one season as a volunteer with the boys’ team. He is assisted this year by Obi Miranda.

“My coach-ing style is pretty simple,” said Flores. “I want to have possession of the ball and just quick pass-ing.”

T w e n t y -four players turned out this year, the larg-est team Flores said he has seen in Oroville. Last year’s team had 20 players.

“I have to say I have a mixed team. With this amount of play-ers we have a little of every-thing fast; good ball technique and knowledge of the field,” said Flores. “We also have beginning players or just people that haven’t played since the youth years. And we have a couple of exchange stu-dents, which one is experienced and the other is just trying it out.”

Returning seniors this year are Jesus Churape, Javier Castillo,

Moises Capote and Emmanuel and Daniel Castrejon.

“I have a couple of new play-ers that look like they belong in this sport,” Flores said. “I think we will do well against all of our opponents. The score at the end doesn’t usually show it, but when it comes down to who played the game better I think it could go both ways. To win a game all you have to do is score one goal. And that is where I think we have some trouble.”

Flores said he thought the team’s only weakness was them-selves. “We have to go out every

game and play our game; make the other team play our game. Doing this should give us the upper hand. We do have some trouble scoring, but I believe we should be get-ting better this year.”

Flores said he plans to have a couple of dif-ferent formations going “so our competition can’t predict us dur-ing the games as we play them more than once.”

A highlight of last year’s sea-son, Flores said, was the Hornets’ first game against Liberty Bell. “I think we controlled the whole game, as we were up 2-0 for most of the game. I think it was in the last 15 or 20 minutes that they were able to take the lead,” said Flores, adding that he thought



The Tonasket boys soccer team includes (front row, l-r) Samuel Flores, Eric Valdovuner, Jesus Gonzales, Sesar Saldana, Jose Beltran, Alex Palomares, Christian Garcia, Carlos Abrego, Hugo Sanchez, Victor Flores, Jeffrey Luna, Rycki Cruz and Hector Guevara. Middle row: Chris Rivera, Cristian Zarazua, David Ornelas, Javier Hernandez, Israel Gomez, Gerardo Castaneda, Jose Castenada, Michael Davis, Jovany Daniel Calderon, Juan Puente and Walter Reyes. Back row Coach Todd Mathews, Anthony Luna, Yovany Rosa, Esteban Flores, Dominique Wilcos, Angel Torres, Rene Ramirez, Andrew Clauson, Ethan Castrejon, Carlos Nicolas and Coach Darren Collins.


The Oroville soccer team include (front) Yohnny Castillo. (front row, l-r) Alfonso Maestro, Jose Nemecio, Juan Lara, Brigido Ocampo, Emmanuel Castrejon, Luis Vasquez, Daniel Castrejon and Javier Castillo, (back row) Coach Tony Flores, Chadin Chaiponpisuth, Gil Delgado, Jesus Parra, Eric Cocino, Adolfo Delgado, Moises Capote, Noah Dawson, Jesus Churape, Aldo Perez, Jose Tellez and Coach Obi Miranda.

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TONASKET - Mark Milner is back for a third season coaching the Tonasket tennis team, assisted this year by Lana Beyers and vol-unteer Brian Hendrick.

Hendrick went to State as a Tonasket player in his senior year under Milner as coach, taking second place as part of a doubles team.

Milner played all four years of his high school career at Cashmere.

Scores for last season’s games were not posted, and Milner had no comment on this year’s team.


OROVILLE - Oroville is look-ing forward to an exciting season with a large turnout of 25 players, a sizeable increase over last year’s 15 member team.

“This is awesome, and makes everyone on the team better because they are competing for Varsity spots and have dif-ferent people to hit against,” said Coach Billy Monroe. “I started four years ago with only 12 kids , so this is a very exciting time.”

Last year’s team may have been small, but it was strong; with Nathan Hugus earning a position as a State alter-nate, and Connor Bocook just one match away from making it to State last year in Doubles. Both Hugus and Bocook are back on the team this year.

“We have a good core of returners,” said Monroe. “Nathan Hugus, a returning State alter-nate, and others to round out a strong boys team. Elijah Burnell is a freshman who played last year as an eighth grader, and he has improved a lot. We have lots of new players this year as well.”

Seniors returning to the girls team are Ella Mae Burnell and Mikayla Scott.

Also returning to the Hornets’ courts is Assistant Coach Noah Burnell.

Monroe, a Tonasket alum, played for the Tigers 2003-2007.

“I think we will be very com-

petitive, and hopefully send someone to State this season,” said Monroe. “I would like to

give a shout out to the Oroville Booster Club who recently pur-chased us a ball machine which

is going to be vital to helping the veterans hone their skills and the new players get vital repetition,”

he said“I see there being a good

chance that Oroville tennis has a

state participant this year. That is our goal.”



The Tonasket tennis teams include (front row, l-r) Baillie Hirst, Brianna Gutierrez, Julie Bello, Maddy Gariana, Victoria Chervinska, Maria Garcia, Jamie Wilson and volunteer coach Brian Hendrick, (back row) Coach Mark Milner, Mandi Wilson, Johnna Terris, Cordelia Muth, Joseph Schell, Vance Frazier, Jordan Hughes, Caleb Hardesty, Eric Owsley and Coach Lana Beyers.

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OROVILLE – DeHaven Hill returns to the links for his 21st season coaching the Hornets.

With a turnout of seven golfers the team is small compared to previous years (14 last year), but almost half those golfers went on to State competition.

Jordyn Smith represented the Lady Hornets well as the 2015 District Champion who went on to take 9th place at State.

Bryce Glover qualified for State after reigning as the 2015 District Champion for the boys. And Cayden Field, who joins the team from Tonasket, took second place at Districts last year and finished sixth in the State competition. “These three kids have another good chance to qualify for the State tournament in 2016,” said Hill.

Also joining the team from Tonasket is Zach Lofthus.

“We also have a couple of

younger golfers, Ryan Scott and Jaxson Rise who have potential to

be good high school golfers.”The Hornets host Okanogan

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Oroville HornetsOroville BaseballDate Opponent Time LocationSat, Mar 12 Soap Lake 11:00 a.m. AwaySat, Mar 12 Soap Lake 1:00 p.m. AwayTue, Mar 29 Manson 4:00 p.m. AwayFri, Apr 1 Liberty Bell 3:00 p.m. AwayFri, Apr 1 Liberty Bell 5:00 p.m. AwayTue, Apr 12 Manson 4:00 p.m. HomeSat, Apr 16 Pateros 11:00 a.m. AwaySat, Apr 16 Pateros 1:00 p.m. AwayTue, Apr 19 Lk Roosevelt 3:00 p.m. HomeTue, Apr 19 Lk Roosevelt 5:00 p.m. HomeTue, Apr 26 Okanogan 4:00 p.m. HomeTue, Apr 26 Okanogan 6:00 p.m. HomeSat, Apr 30 Tonasket 11:00 a.m. AwaySat, Apr 30 Tonasket 1:00 p.m. AwayTue, May 3 Bridgeport 4:00 p.m. AwayTue, May 3 Bridgeport 6:00 p.m. AwayThu, May 5 Brewster 4:00 p.m. HomeThu, May 5 Brewster 6:00 p.m. Home

OROVILLE SOFTBALLDate Opponent Time LocationSat, Mar 12 Soap Lake 11:00 a.m. AwaySat, Mar 12 Soap Lake 1:00 p.m. AwayTue, Mar 29 Manson 4:00 p.m. AwayFri, Apr 1 Liberty Bell 3:00 p.m.

AwayFri, Apr 1 Liberty Bell 5:00 p.m. AwayTue, Apr 12 Manson 4:00 p.m. HomeSat, Apr 16 Pateros 4:00 p.m. HomeSat, Apr 16 Pateros 6:00 p.m. HomeTue, Apr 19 Lk Roosevelt 3:00 p.m. HomeTue, Apr 19 Lk Roosevelt 5:00 p.m. HomeSat, Apr 30 Tonasket 11:00 a.m. AwaySat, Apr 30 Tonasket 1:00 p.m. AwayThu, May 5 Brewster 4:00 p.m. HomeThu, May 5 Brewster 6:00 p.m. HomeSat, May 7 Okanogan 1:00 p.m. AwaySat, May 7 Okanogan 11:00 a.m. AwayTue, May 10 Bridgeport 4:00 p.m. AwayTue, May 10 Bridgeport 6:00 p.m. Away

OROVILLE SOCCERDate Opponent Time

LocationTue, Mar 15 Tonasket 4:00 p.m. HomeSat, Mar 19 Manson 11:00 a.m. AwayTue, Mar 22 Liberty Bell 4:30 p.m. AwayThu, Mar 24 Manson 4:30 p.m. HomeTue, Mar 29 Okanogan 4:30 p.m. AwayThu, Mar 31 Brewster 4:30 p.m. Home

Tue, Apr 12 Bridgeport 4:30 p.m. HomeThu, Apr 14 Tonasket 4:30 p.m. AwayTue, Apr 19 Bye Thu, Apr 21 Liberty Bell 4:30 p.m. HomeSat, Apr 23 Bridgeport 11:00 a.m. AwayTue, Apr 26 Bye Thu, Apr 28 Okanogan 4:30 p.m. HomeTue, May 3 Brewster 4:30 p.m. Away

OROVILLE TENNISDate Opponent Time LocationTue, Mar 22 Omak 4:30 p.m. AwayThu, Mar 24 Lk Roosevelt 4:30 p.m. AwayTue, Apr 12 Liberty Bell 4:30 p.m. AwayThu, Apr 14 Pateros 4:30 p.m. AwayMon, Apr 18 Entiat 4:30 p.m. AwayThu, Apr 21 Lk Roosevelt 4:30 p.m. HomeTue, Apr 26 Okanogan 4:30 p.m. HomeFri, Apr 29 Liberty Bell 4:30 p.m. HomeTue, May 3 Tonasket 4:30 p.m. HomeThu, May 5 Lk Roosevelt 4:30 p.m. Away

Tonasket TigersTONASKET BASEBALLDate Opponent Time LocationSat, Mar 19 Brewster 11:00 a.m. AwayTue, Mar 22 Liberty Bell 4:00 p.m. HomeSat, Mar 26 Republic 12:00 p.m. HomeSat, Mar 26 Republic 1:00 p.m. HomeWed, Mar 30 Omak 4:00 p.m. HomeSat, Apr 2 Okanogan 11:00 a.m AwaySat, Apr 2 Okanogan 1:00 p.m AwayTue, Apr 12 Liberty Bell 4:00 p.m. AwayThu, Apr 14 Omak 4:30 p.m. AwaySat, Apr 16 Manson 11:00 a.m. AwaySat, Apr 16 Manson 1:00 p.m. AwayTue, Apr 19 Pateros 4:30 p.m. AwayFri, Apr 22 Pateros 4:30 p.m. HomeTue, Apr 26 Bridgeport 11:00 a.m. AwayTue, Apr 26 Bridgeport 1:00 p.m. AwaySat, Apr 30 Oroville 11:00 a.m. HomeSat, Apr 30 Oroville 1:00 p.m. HomeTue, May 3 Lk. Roosevelt 3:00 p.m. HomeTue, May 3 Lk. Roosevelt 5:00 p.m. Home

TONASKET SOFTBALLDate Opponent Time LocationTue, Mar 15 Omak 4:00 p.m. Home Sat, Mar 19 Brewster 11:00 a.m. AwaySat, Mar 19 Brewster 1:00 p.m. AwayTue, Mar 22 Liberty Bell 4:00 p.m. HomeSat, Mar 26 Republic 12:00 p.m. HomeSat, Mar 26 Republic 2:00 p.m. Home

Sat, Apr 2 Okanogan 11:00 a.m. HomeSat, Apr 2 Okanogan 11:00 p.m. HomeTue, Apr 12 Liberty Bell 4:00 p.m. AwayThu, Apr 14 Omak 4:00 p.m. AwaySat, Apr 16 Manson 11:00 AM AwaySat, Apr 16 Manson 1:00 p.m. AwayFri, Apr 22 Pateros 3:00 p.m. AwayFri, Apr 22 Pateros 5:00 p.m. AwaySat, Apr 30 Oroville 11:00 a.m. HomeSat, Apr 30 Oroville 1:00 p.m. HomeTue, May 3 Lk. Roosevelt 3:00 p.m. HomeTue, May 3 Lk. Roosevelt 5:00 p.m. HomeSat, May 7 Bridgeport 11:00 a.m. AwaySat, May 7 Bridgeport 1:00 p.m. Away

TONASKET SOCCERDate Opponent Time LocationSat, Mar 12 Okanogan 11:00 a.m. AwayTue, Mar 15 Oroville 4:00 p.m. AwayThu, Mar 17 Liberty Bell 4:30 p.m. HomeTue, Mar 22 Manson 4:30 p.m. AwayThu, Mar 24 Okanogan 4:00 p.m. HomeSat, Mar 26 Omak 4:30 p.m. AwayTue, Mar 29 Brewster 4:30 p.m. AwayThu, Mar 31 Bridgeport 4:30 p.m. HomeSat, Apr 2 Chelan 11:00 a.m. HomeThu, Apr 14 Oroville 4:30 p.m. HomeSat, Apr 16 Cashmere 11:00 a.m. AwayTue, Apr 19 Liberty Bell 4:30 p.m. AwayThu, Apr 21 Manson 4:30 p.m. HomeSat, Apr 23 Omak 11:00 a.m. HomeTue, Apr 26 Okanogan 4:30 p.m. AwayThu, Apr 28 Brewster 4:30 p.m. HomeTue, May 3 Bridgeport 4:30 p.m. Away

TONASKET TENNISDate Opponent Time LocationThu, Mar 17 Cascade 4:00 p.m. AwaySat, Mar 19 Chelan 11:00 a.m. AwaySat, Mar 26 Omak 11:00 a.m. AwayTue, Mar 29 Cascade 4:00 p.m. HomeThu, Mar 31 Okanogan 4:30 p.m. AwaySat, Apr 2 Chelan 11:00 a.m. HomeTue, Apr 12 Cashmere 4:00 p.m. AwayThu, Apr 14 Lk. Roosevelt 4:00 p.m. HomeSat, Apr 16 Omak 11:00 a.m. HomeThu, Apr 21 Liberty Bell 4:00 p.m. HomeTue, Apr 26 Pateros 4:00 p.m. AwayThu, Apr 28 Entiat 4:00 p.m. HomeSat, Apr 30 White Swan 1:00 p.m. AwayMon, May 2 Okanogan 4:30 p.m. HomeTue, May 3 Oroville 4:00 p.m. Away

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