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8A • April 10, 2015 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com Seaside schools to pilot college BU SIN E SS DIRE CT ORY savings awareness program ³:KHQ ZH YLVXDOL]H RXU selves doing something, when we think we can do it, when we talk about doing it, it becomes much more possible and likely to happen,” she said. The program will in- volve educating parents DERXWKRZWRSODQIRUIXWXUH college expenses, motivat- ing kids with classroom materials and partnering with local business and FLYLF RUJDQL]DWLRQV WR UHLQ IRUFH WKH PHVVDJH WKDW LW¶V LPSRUWDQW WR VDYH IRU FRO lege as early as possible. :KDW WKDW PHDQV IRU Seaside is “we’re going to work with everybody,” Parker said. “It’s not just going to be a school-based event. We want the commu- nity to be involved as well.” “It’s totally nonideologi- cal, it’s totally nonpartisan; SHRSOHMXVWVHHWKHEHQH¿W´ said John Valley, the out- UHDFK GLUHFWRU RI 2UHJRQ &ROOHJH 6DYLQJV 1HW work. In addition to Seaside, the Be College Ready will be piloted in the Hermis- ton, Grants Pass, McMinn- ville and North Clackamas school districts. The goal is to expand the kinder- JDUWHQ WKURXJK ¿IWKJUDGH program every year and XOWLPDWHO\ RIIHU LW WR HYHU\ school district statewide. “We do also want to make sure we touch base ZLWKWKRVHSDUHQWVRIROGHU NLGV ZKR FDQ JHW LQIRUPD WLRQ IURP XV UHJDUGLQJ ¿ nancial aid and scholarship opportunities,” Parker said. )RU PRUH LQIRUPDWLRQ about the Oregon College Savings Plan, visit www. OregonCollegeSavings. com, call (866) 772-8464, or go the program’s Face- book page. 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And, on the way, they UHFHLYHG ZRUG RI D second emergency taking place on 6DGGOH0RXQWDLQD³IDOOSD tient.” arcadia organic landscaping & design 503.440.1491 arcadialandscaping@hotmail.com lcb 9071 C ONSTRUCTION B OB M C E W AN C ONSTRUCTION , INC . E XCAVATION • U NDERGROUND U TIITIES R OAD W ORK • F ILL M ATERIAL S ITE P REPARATION • R OCK Fallen woman As it happened, patient No. 2, a woman who looked WR EH LQ KHU V KDG IDOOHQ IURPDSRLQWRQWKHVDPHWUDLO almost directly above the unconscious stroke patient. She had tumbled through brush down the embank- ment, passed the stroke pa- tient, and came to rest about IHHWEHORZKLP*DUGQHU HVWLPDWHVWKDWVKHIHOODERXW WRWDOIHHW The original caller “wit- nessed it with his own two eyes, could have reached out and touched her,” Gardner said. Seaside, Gearhart and Hamlet sent emergency per- sonnel. Having determined the “call within a call” would require a rope rescue, they UHTXHVWHG DVVLVWDQFH IURP the Clatsop County High L AWN & G ARDEN C ARE CCB#1992 05 very receptive to anything The program starts by that helps the kids,” said VFKRROV EHFRPLQJ FHUWL¿HG Angela Fairless, a member DV &ROOHJH 6DYLQJV RI 6HDVLGH +HLJKWV¶ 3DU Schools. 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The Oregon College There’s something that sort The schools, in return, Savings Plan, which is RI FOLFNV LQ´ 3DUNHU VDLG will receive homework SDUW RI WKH 2UHJRQ ³2XUJRDOLVLIWKDWGRHVQ¶W IROGHUVSHQFLOVSHQVERRN College Savings Network, FOLFNLQLI\RXKHDUDERXWLW marks and posters each announced the Be College at your school, it’s going to \HDU ,Q WKH ¿UVW \HDU HDFK Ready program just recent- click in. So that’s why the school also will receive a ly. The program will kick RIILQ6HSWHPEHU ³:H UHDOO\ ZDQW WR IRV ‘We really want to foster a college- ter a college-going culture going culture in our state and in our state and we want we want to make sure that to make sure that every kid who wants to should every kid who wants to should have the opportunity to go have the opportunity to go UHJDUGOHVV RI PRQH\ RU regardless of money, or family IDPLO\VLWXDWLRQRUDQ\WKLQJ else,” said Michael Parker, situation or anything else’ H[HFXWLYH GLUHFWRU RI WKH 2UHJRQ &ROOHJH 6DY Michael Parker, executive director of the Oregon 529 ings Network. “We want College Savings Network every kid to know that they can be college ready, re- JDUGOHVVRIWKHLUVLWXDWLRQ´ The Oregon College elementaries are so import- GRQDWLRQWRLWVSUHGH Savings Plan chose Seaside ant to us at this time.” WHUPLQHG FODVVURRP IXQG School District because The state’s goal with the DQG D VFKRRO FHUWL¿ WKH JURXS ZDV ORRNLQJ IRU SURJUDP3DUNHUVDLGLV FDWH 7KH GHVLJQDWLRQ geographic diversity and to have compound interest is meant to be a reminder to YDU\LQJ GLVWULFW VL]HV ZKHQ ZRUNLQJ IRU SHRSOH UDWKHU VDYHIRUFROOHJH piloting the Be College WKDQ DJDLQVW WKHP $ IDPL “It’s good to give parents Ready program. Also, the O\ FDQ VDYH DERXW DQG VWXGHQWV D JRDO IRU WKH &RQIHGHUDWLRQ RI 2UHJRQ by putting aside $200 per IXWXUH EH\RQG HOHPHQWDU\ School Administrators sug- PRQWK IRU \HDUV DW D school, high school,” Gear- gested Seaside would em- SHUFHQWUDWHRIUHWXUQHDUQ hart Elementary School brace the program, Parker ing approximately an extra 3ULQFLSDO -XOL :R]QLDN said. $11,000 in interest. In con- said. “When we have a “It’s awesome that Sea- WUDVWERUURZLQJDWD goal, sometimes we make side’s going to be a pilot, 6.8 percent interest rate and GLIIHUHQW FKRLFHV SRVLWLYH and it doesn’t really sur- SD\LQJ LW RII RYHU \HDUV choices.” prise me because we are equals $400 per month. Fairless agreed. Be College Ready program to launch this fall OWNED AND OPERATED BY M IKE AND C ELINE M C E WAN 503-738-3569 PHOTO COURTESY OF MATT GARDNER Cannon Beach Fire and Rescue and other local agencies performed a double rescue on Sad- dle Mountain the aft ernoon of March 27. One rescue involved a possible stroke patient, the other a woman who fell a good ways down the mountain in almost exactly the same spot. Fire and Rescue to re- ceive multiple emergency medical calls in a single day. “That’s standard.” To get them “back to back to back” is a little odd. %XW WKH FRLQFLGHQFH RI IDFLQJ WZR UHVFXH VLWXD tions — at the same time, in the same remote loca- tion, that are completely unrelated — is beyond unusual in Gardner’s ex- perience. Go fi gure “It’s not common. It is normal, Gardner Let’s put it that way,” Fire VDLG IRU &DQQRQ %HDFK &KLHI0LNH%DO]HUVDLG Angle Rescue Team. “It was MXVWDWHDPHIIRUWPDQ´KH said. ,QFUHGLEO\WKHIDOOSDWLHQW DSDUWIURPVXIIHULQJDPLQRU KHDGODFHUDWLRQVHHPHG¿QH DQGHQGHGXSUHIXVLQJWUDQV port to Providence Seaside Hospital, where the stroke patient wound up. “She had to have used up HLJKW RI KHU QLQH FDW OLYHV´ Gardner said. FIRST CATCH OF THE SEASON! 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