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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
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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. They
don’t have the skills in
building, teamwork or
communication.”
At camp, she delighted
in watching kids go from
“arguing over what color
Duct tape to use,” to
“working together.”
Aug. 2-3. Courtesy of the
U.S. Navy, they will fly
from San Diego, Calif.,
to the carrier in the Pa-
cific Ocean.
The Navy’s distin-
guished visitor program
invites community lead-
ers to embark on the ad-
venture and share their
experiences with others,
said Vice Admiral Mike
Shoemaker.
Bellando
and Stoops are two of a
dozen Oregon superin-
tendents participating in
the trip.
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