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Appeal Tribune Wednesday, August 2, 2017 3A Health insurance workshop offered JUSTIN MUCH APPEAL TRIBUNE The Oregon Health Insurance Marketplace is holding “Health Insur- ance 101” in Silverton, a free 90-minute work- shop on understanding health insurance. The workshop is open to the public and will be held 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thurs- day, Aug. 24, in the Silver Falls Public Library Pro- gram Room, 410 S. Water St. A spokeswoman said Health Insurance 101 is designed to help attend- ees prepare for the health insurance open enrollment period that begins next fall. An ex- perienced health-insur- ance educator from the marketplace will ex- plain how health insur- ance works, describe coverage options and an- swer questions about health insurance in Ore- gon. To register, call 855- 268-3767 or email in- fo.marketplace@ore- gon.gov. Scotts Mills volunteer retires after 36 years The Silverton Fire District bid goodbye to Battalion Chief Fred Bridgehouse at a July 26 party following his re- tirement earlier this summer. A volunteer for more than 36 years, Bridge- house supervised the Scotts Mills, Crooked Finger and Abiqua sta- tions and shared the task of running the district on weekends. “He’s a pretty special guy. He’s going to be hard to replace,” said Silverton Chief Bill Miles. “He has a sleeve- full of certifications.” Bridgehouse’s “day jobs” included working for Northwest Natural Gas and as a master me- chanic for General Mo- tors. Because of his abil- ities, he was able to help PHOTOS BY MADDY TRAVER / SPECIAL TO THE APPEAL TRIBUNE Brea McKee and Ben Dumitrescu at Camp Invention. STEM Continued from Page 1A Over the course of the week, students designed alarm boxes, created their own fictional plan- ets, built and marketed Duct tape creations and engineered slingshots (for flinging rubber chickens). Almost as popular as the inventions was the chance to tear down ev- erything from DVD play- ers to telephones. Each camper arrived with an item to disassemble, with staff adding their own contributions from home and Goodwill. “Taking stuff apart,” was 7-year-old Wyatt Hurl’s favorite pastime. He also enjoyed building a birdfeeder, a practical in- vention that included lights so that his feath- ered friends could see their food at night. Mailey Peterson, 6, said she “liked camp a lot” and won’t forget how much fun it was to take apart a light bulb. When she grows up, she wants to be a teacher. Cordelia Bay, 10, wants to follow her mom into a science career, maybe even working for NASA. At camp, she and her friends created and mar- keted Duct tape high- heeled flip-flops in Cross’ Duct Tape Billionaire challenge. In Mission Space Mak- ers, a challenge led by Sta- deli, students were as- signed an “exo-planet,” a fictional planet from out- side our solar system, that they needed to make more hospitable to human life. For example, on a dan- gerously hot planet, one group added air condi- tioners and wrapped the mountains in aluminum, said Sarah Zilzelberger, a high schooler who assist- ed third and fourth grad- ers. “That is the best part of being a teacher when you watch your high school kids teaching younger kids,” said Bay, who was keep dis- trict vehi- cles run- ning; these included his own Bridgehouse hand-me- down com- mand vehicle, Miles said. Bridgehouse’s fire service began in Scotts Mills, when the town had its own fire district; at one point he served as its chief. He came to Silver- ton Fire with the merger in the 1990s. As his duties expand- ed, the Scotts Mills sta- tion, No. 8, remained his home. Currently, it houses an engine, a 3,000-gallon tender and a rescue/brush rig and is staffed by six volun- teers, Miles said. School officials to spend day on carrier A decade ago, PBS’ hit show “Carrier” gave TV viewers an inside look at life on an aircraft carrier. Now a pair of lo- cal school administra- tors will get an even more personal experi- ence. Silver Falls Superin- tendent Andy Bellando and Mt. Angel Superin- tendent Troy Stoops will spend 24 hours as distin- guished visitors on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt on From left, Joey Lockett, Shane Seeger, and Mailey Peterson at Camp Invention. From left, Molly Lockett, Lincoln Hoffer, Maggie Kelley, Lincoln Schurter at Camp Invention. Zilzelberger’s biology teacher last year. Going into the 2017-18 school year, Bay is invit- ing students to join a brand-new STEM Club, the main goal of which is to lead STEM Nights at schools throughout the district. Parents at in- town and outlying schools can look forward to stu- dent-led science events at their schools, if all goes according to plan. Camp Invention is a sure thing for 2018, with signups happening next January, Bay said. Be- cause attendance will be capped at 120, she’s also considering after-school programs. The National Inventors Hall of Fame created a five-week STEM curriculum that she hopes to offer soon. “I love seeing our stu- dents engaged in any kind of activities and camps like this during the sum- mer, but the STEM focus is timely in our district, especially with the eclipse right around the corner,” said Superinten- dent Andy Bellando, who dropped in at Camp In- vention. “STEM educa- tion is a growing and im- portant focus at all schools in the district.” Bay agreed, noting that high school graduates na- tionwide desperately need more STEM skills to succeed in their careers: “Kids aren’t coming out of high school ready. 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