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schools june1 2017 Head Start Recruiting Now Local Head Start programs are now recruiting 3 and 4 year olds for the 2017-18 school year. A large percent- age of students will be selected in June. Staff suggests that parents apply now to have their family included in the first selection. Heads Start offers a compre- hensive preschool experience free of charge to qualifying families. A de- velopmentally appropriate classroom curriculum taught by certified teachers offers all children the opportunity to be kindergarten ready. The program offers parents op- portunities to learn and grow along with their children; receive guidance to com- plete medical, dental and nutritional as- sessments; get on the job training in the early childhood field and learn about lo- cal opportunities for the whole family. Children receive USDA ap- proved lunch plus breakfast and/or afternoon snack on each day of class. (Head Start and USDA are both equal opportunity providers.) For more information you may phone local centers: Vernonia/Mist area (503) 429-9243, St. Helens/Scap- poose area (503) 397-4114, Clatskanie/ Rainier area (503) 728-2940, Knappa/ Astoria/Warrenton area (503) 861- 9681. Head Start is a Community Action agency. PCC Columbia County Update With spring in full bloom, the lambs at Rock Creek are gaining weight and our students are sprinting toward the finish line. Here is an update on the many projects and commitments going on in Columbia County. What remains at the top of the list is the PCC OMIC Training Center in Columbia County. Another legal chal- lenge has been settled, meaning the ap- peal process focused on the annexation of the approximately 350-acre parcel within the city’s urban growth boundary, is finished. Next comes the completion of the application package, which ad- dresses offsite storm water and wetlands mitigation, followed by a review pro- cess. Once the subdivision master plan is approved by the City of Scappoose, PCC will move to acquire property for construction of the PCC center near the Scappoose Industrial Airpark. The facility will be built using PCC bond funds and leveraging $5 million in resources from the Oregon Manufac- turing Innovation Center (OMIC) ap- propriation in the 2016 legislative ses- sion. PCC looks forward to scheduling a groundbreaking ceremony later this year. PCC and the Northwest Re- gional Education Service District (NWRESD) are working together with the Columbia County School District Superintendents and regional industry partners to launch OMIC-related train- ing at St. Helens and Scappoose High Schools this coming school year. Select college-level courses in advanced manu- facturing will be offered as dual credit for high school students and standard 11 Schools Update: Thank You! By Aaron Miller Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! To all patrons of the Vernonia School District, thank you for passing the District’s bond request to move an- other giant step forward in putting the 2007 flood behind us. Special thanks are also in or- der for Sharon Bernal and the Vernonia School Bond Committee. They spent many hours meeting with individuals and local community groups, making phone calls, mailing information and working hard to ensure our community was informed on the contents and im- pact of this measure. Their efforts were tireless, effective and very much appre- ciated. Again, our gratitude goes out to everyone in the community for your continuing support of our staff and stu- dents to ensure our children’s education is safe and stable. Now that the bond has passed, what’s next? credit for late afternoon/evening classes open to adults. Courses will stack to- wards industry-recognized credentials, PCC degrees and certificates, and Reg- istered Apprenticeships. PCC and the Scappoose School District leaders are finalizing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for this exciting new facilities-sharing venture. On April 5 the NWRESD orga- nized a meeting at Oregon Aero in Scap- The actual sale of the bonds will take place in mid-July, which after lots of paperwork and red tape, will bring actual funds into the District sometime in late fall. In the meantime the District and its Board will be setting meetings to gather input from the community to develop a master plan of priorities and timelines for implementing the projects authorized by the bond. As funding is made available and projects are initiated, Requests for Proposals (RFP’s) will be developed to obtain contractor bids. Work will begin, and we will move through the master plan as quickly as possible. The District will work hard to share details on the progress of this work, and to spend our community’s tax dollars as effectively and efficiently as possible. As always, if you have any questions about anything happening at school, please give us a call at (503) 429-5891. Again, THANK YOU!!! poose to explore a unique internship model created by Joni George, formerly the HR Director at Climax Manufactur- ing in Newberg. This meeting included Columbia County business leaders and government officials, as well as PCC staff from the PCC Foundation, Future Connect, and OMIC. 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