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Fishermen head to playoffs Fire breaks out at Gimre’s SPORTS • 4A NORTH COAST • 3A 143rd YEAR, No. 89 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2015 ONE DOLLAR SEAGULLS SOAR TO WIN STATE CHAMPIONSHIP First Clatsop County cross country team to win since 1992 By GARY HENLEY The Daily Astorian E Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian UGENE — “Perfect and get- tin’ better.” That’s the greeting you get any time you meet Seaside cross coun- try coach Neil Branson. Now, however, Branson can short- en that to just “perfect,” because his Gulls can’t get any better. They are No. 1. “Branson’s Boys” won their ¿UVWHYHU VWDWH FKDPSLRQVKLS 6DWXU day in Eugene, as the Gulls — with no VHQLRUV DPRQJ WKHLU WRS ¿YH UXQQHUV ² ¿QLVKHG ZLWK SRLQWV WR WRS WKH ¿HOGRI&ODVV$WHDPV3KRHQL[ZDV second with 65, with Tillamook (78) third. And while he’s heard his last name pronounced more than a few different ways when he’s on the awards stand, there’s no denying the fact that Seaside junior Bradley Rzewnicki is a winner. Rzewnicki led the charge for the *XOOVFURVVLQJWKH¿QLVKOLQHDVWKHLQ GLYLGXDOVWDWHFKDPSLRQ¿QLVKLQJWKH 5,000-meter course in 16 minutes, 13 seconds, well ahead of Sisters senior Tony Hooks (16:18). 6HDVLGH¶V QH[W ¿QLVKHU ZDV MXQLRU +XQWHU 7KRPSVRQ ¿IWK IRO lowed by junior Jackson Januik (ninth, DQG VRSKRPRUH 5D¿ 6LERQ\ (12th, 16:59). “We had the same plan we did at districts, with Bradley going out and Seaside’s Bradley Rzewnicki, center, receives his medal after winning the 4A boys OSAA Cross Country State Championship at Lane Community College in Eugene Saturday. See more photos from the state championship online at www.dailyastorian.com See SEAGULLS, Page 7A Helping ¿VKÀRZ Truant students in Clatsop County Workshop helps ODQGRZQHUV¿QGEHVW SUDFWLFHVIRU¿VK restoration In some schools, up to a third of students are chronically gone By KATHERINE LACAZE EO Media Group Across the state, there are more WKDQ DUWL¿FLDO E DUULHUV WR ¿VK passage through waterways, lead- LQJ WR ¿VK SRSXODWLRQ GHFOLQHV GDP ag ed habitats and affecting watershed health. The Oregon Forest Resources In- stitute hosted a workshop Tuesday to give landowners information about YROXQWDU\SURMHFWVWRLPSURYH¿VKSDV sage and habitat in forested streams. $ERXWSHRSOHSDUWLFLSDWHGLQWKH free workshop . The goal was to edu- Katherine Lacaze/EO Media Group Jim Hunt, of Greenwood Resources, talks about a project completed at Hawley Creek in the Lewis and Clark Tree Farm in 2007 during a Fish Passage and Habitat Workshop held in Seaside Tuesday. cate small -forest landowners on best practices for restoring and enhancing ¿VK KDELWDWV DQG S URYLGH WRROV WR GR the job, said Julie Woodward, the in- stitutes’s senior manager of forestry education. 7KH ¿VKSDVVDJH GLOHPPD LV V\V temic and pervasive across the state, VDLG*UHJ$SNH¿VKSDVVDJHSURJUDP coordinator for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Human-made ob- structions, such as culverts at road and stream crossings, dams, tidegates and RWKHUDUWL¿FLDOVWUXFWXUHVDUHWREODPH See FISH, Page 10A cent of its students chronically absent, had one of the biggest attendance problems in the country in the 2012- 13 school year. The situation hasn’t QRWDEO\LPSURYHGWKLV\HDUZLWK percent statewide considered chron- By EDWARD STRATTON ically absent this year, while the coun- The Daily Astorian ty’s rate has increased from 13 to 15 percent over two years. More than 700 students K-12 in Absenteeism starts high in kin- Clatsop County were reported as dergarten, dips as students advance chronically absent last year in a recent through grades and perks back report from the Oregon Department up among upperclassmen in high RI(GXFDWLRQRXWRIPRUHWKDQ school. In Astoria and Seaside, near- chronically absent students statewide. ly a quarter of kindergartners were The department of education de- chronically absent last year, part of ¿QHVFKURQLFDEVHQWHHLVPDVPLVVLQJ a similar historic trend. Meanwhile, at least 10 percent of scheduled days more than a quarter of seniors in Sea- between the start of the school year side were chronically absent last year DQG0D\7KLVLVWKH¿UVW\HDUWKH at Seaside High School, along with a state has released detailed attendance third of juniors and seniors at Astoria data on its own, after the “Empty High School. Desks” series by the Oregonian last See TRUANT, Page 10A year revealed Oregon, with 17.7 per- All on the line: Football’s unsung heroes L ONG BEACH, Wash. — Identify heroes on a football team. The quarterback and those speedy fellows who run the ball into the end zone? True. But without these teammates doing their job, the backs would be seeing stars, not being stars. Like the infantry in warfare, offensive linemen are key to the success of any football team. It’s a philosophy shared by Ilwaco and Naselle football programs that’s taught from Day 1 by head coaches Kevin McNulty and Jeff Eaton. Left to right are Allyn Bauer, Carson Bergeson, Cody Kirkman and Ramzi Estes. Bauer is a defensive specialist who steps into the three- man line when the Comets execute an offen- sive play called “jumbo,” in which Bergeson switches to fullback. PATRICK WEBB/For the Observer Both attended Naselle High School in the early 1980s when lineman Eaton blocked for full- back McNulty. The two men grew up as next-door neigh- bors and leaned their craft, in part, from a professional. “Linemen are not well -pub- licized, they don’t have the notoriety that the other posi- tions do,” said McNulty, refer- ring to the professional game where quarterbacks and the speed men are paid millions more than the big men who block for them. “And yet if you don’t have a good line, you don’t have a great offense. In order for the backs and receivers and the quarterback to get their names See THE LINE, Page 7A