THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2015
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Warrenton wrestles with school expansion options
at an elementary school, with
grades 7 through 12 at a high
school.
• Board member Kelly
Simonsen, who said the dis-
trict might be able to use the
property in Hammond as mit-
igation for the impacts of ex-
panding at the existing WHS
site.
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
While every other school
district in Clatsop County has
shrunk over the past 16 years,
Warrenton-Hammond School
District grew by 94 students.
That, combined with an eco-
nomic recovery meeting ex-
pectations is a reason enough
to start looking ahead, War-
renton’s Superintendent Mark
Jeffery said.
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we’re going to need to grow
in our capacity,” said Jeffery,
who’s already buying portable
classrooms as a stop-gap mea-
sure to house the glut of new
students entering Warrenton
Grade School.
Jeffrey and his school
board looked Tuesday at all
the options for the future of
Warrenton-Hammond’s build-
ings, including land on Dol-
phin Avenue.
The district, Jeffery said,
was approached by Martin
Nygaard and Stephen Fulton
of Warrenton Fiber Company,
offering them about 40 acres
of land along Dolphin Avenue
in 2011. At the time, Jeffery
added, an appraiser for the
district valued it at $1.8 mil-
lion. But at that time, enroll-
ment was falling, along with
the budget.
The school board and Jef-
fery agreed that it would like-
ly take a bond to build a new
campus. Board Chairwoman
Debbie Morrow said that at a
recent Oregon School Boards
Association conference, she
heard that a successful bond
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process. Board member Isaac
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EDWARD STRATTON — The Daily Astorian
The Warrenton-Hammond School Board talked Tuesday about building a bigger campus. The options included land
possibly for sale on Dolphin Avenue that Superintendent Mark Jeffery said he was approached about by owners War-
renton Fiber Company and the Nygaard family his first year in Warrenton.
Anderson added the district
needs to make sure the public
support is there if they pursue
a bond.
Jeffrey said he’s planning
to have OSBA experts come
in and talk to Warrenton about
bonding, along with represen-
tatives from Seaside, which
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million bond in 2013 to build
a new campus outside of the
tsunami zone. Morrow added
that Warrenton should bring
in President Lawrence Gal-
izio from Clatsop Community
Nonimations sought for
environmental award
CANNON BEACH —
Nominations are open for
the next recipient of the
Cannon Beach Gaylord Nel-
son Award, the person who
has contributed the most to
preserving the natural envi-
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U.S. Sen. Nelson was the
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Nominations should in-
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sisting of the honorees from
previous years: Jerome Ar-
nold, Ed Johnson, Jan Sie-
bert-Wahrmund, Tom and
Gretel Oxwang, Barbara
Linnett, Rich Mays, Melis-
sa Cadwallader, Barb Knop,
and Bob Lundy.
College, which successfully
passed a bond for the redevel-
opment of Patriot Hall.
Land to work with
The district owns four
separate pieces of property.
They include about 34 acres
at the site of Warrenton High
School, much of it wetlands.
The district owns a square
block in the middle of War-
renton for WGS. And the dis-
trict still owns about 8.5 acres
in Hammond where a middle
school once stood.
Board members and staff
used Tuesday as a spring-
board for ideas, including:
• Anderson, who said a
good idea could be to build
a new K-12 campus on Dol-
phin Avenue, demolish WHS
and sell the Warrenton Grade
School property.
• Morrow, who wondered
whether the district could
build a kindergarten through
third-grade school at the
Hammond property.
• WGS principal Tom Ro-
gozinski, who lamented over
Hunters plan cleanup
Fundraiser for
summer camps set
The Astoria Ward
of the Church of Je-
sus Christ of Latter-day
Saints is having its annu-
al fundraiser Dinner and
Auction for Boy Scout
and young women’s
summer camps at 6 p.m.
Friday in the cafeteria
at Lewis and Clark Ele-
mentary School, 92179
Lewis and Clark Road.
The public is welcome.
Barbecued pork plus
accompaniments will
be on the menu, with
a $5 suggested price
per person, or $20 per
family donation at the
door.
One-of-a-kind
and handcrafted items
and services will be
auctioned. The event
also features activities
for children and family
fun.
SVENSEN — The Oregon
Hunters Association will hold
a garbage pickup at 9 a.m.
Saturday in the area of Palm-
rose Road, which is south of
Koppish Road, off U.S. High-
way 30, between Svensen and
Knappa. Garbage bags will be
available at the intersection of
Koppish and Palmrose roads.
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the need for more gym space
in the face of increasing time
requirements for physical edu-
cation by 2017-18. Rogozinski
recommended building a track
on the Hammond property. The
move would provide space for
expansion or a new building at
the existing WGS site.
• Board member Adam
Neahring, who wondered
whether the district could still
operate in the same schools
with a redistribution of grades.
Rogozinski said districts of a
like-size have run a K-6 split
School administrators at
the meeting Tuesday said
they’re running out of rooms
to put the increasing number
of kids in.
“We blocked a hallway, so
we could do dental services
for kids,” Robbie Porter, an
assistant principal at WGS,
said.
The district’s preschool
program, Warrenton Prep, she
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enrollment quota within three
days.
Marah Bonneau, a kinder-
garten teacher at WGS, said
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cult to use the library because
of all the other school events
happening there already. Ro-
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space is at a premium,
The district faces a kinder-
garten class of more than 110
this year, up from the classes
in the 60s when she and Jef-
fery started three to four years
ago. Part of that is because
Warrenton and Knappa are the
only districts offering full-day
kindergarten.
Even as most schools be-
gin to receiver funding for
full-day kindergarten from the
state next year, Jeffery said,
Warrenton’s still likely to see
80 or more kindergartners a
year coming in.
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