Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, December 13, 2017
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Micro Tier I production
sites may have a maximum
of 625 square feet of canopy
for an indoor grow and 2,500
square feet of canopy for an
outdoor grow. Micro Tier II
production sites may have
626 to 1,250 square feet of
canopy for an indoor grow
and 2,501 to 5,000 square
feet of canopy for an outdoor
grow. For reference, 5,000
square feet is 2.3 percent of
the total square footage of
5.01 acres.
The regulations don’t
apply to medical grow sites
but, because of changes at
the state level, such sites can
have no more than 12 mature
plants, in most circumstances
related to RR land, at a time.
The ordinance’s final
deliberations resulted in
a handful of changes. The
previous iteration planned
to prohibit the sustained
generation of mechanical
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Another readiness effort is
the Kaleidoscope Play and Learn
program, now in its second full year
at Evergreen, which offers weekly,
facilitated play groups for young
children and their parents and other
caregivers, such as extended family.
Through guidance and modeling,
conversation, peer learning, and
hands-on experience, caregivers learn
what they can do at home to support
children’s learning and healthy
development. But the program is able
to serve only nine to 12 kids weekly.
“It’s a piece of the puzzle,” said
Regal, while noting its limitation
due to the large number of persons
-- among children, parents and
extended family -- that must be
accommodated in a limited space.
And last year Evergreen started a
new, two-afternoon-a-week program
for incoming kindergarteners, called
Kinder Bound.
But still, according to Regal,
the school is not able to reach all the
kids who need help. “I would like
to have a preschool on our property.
But it all comes down to dollars and
cents.”
For those children who are not
school-ready, Evergreen staff is
faced with the challenge of teaching
such considerations as how to follow
directions, how to act with their
classmates, and so on. “There’s a lot
noise at night to 30
decibels, measured from
the property line, but was
raised to 50 decibels after the
commissioners realized that
30 decibels is the volume of
a whisper. Legal operating
hours were also redefined.
The hours are now 7 a.m. to
7 p.m. rather than dawn to
dusk.
The annual Compliance
Inspection Certification
process was the primary
point of contention during
the final proceedings because
of modeling, teaching, practicing,
over and over again, that we have to
do,” said Regal.
As with all three of the Illinois
Valley schools, chronic absenteeism,
defined as missing 10 percent or
more of school days, is a serious
problem at Evergreen. In a school
year of 176 days, 10 percent of
classes equates to roughly 18 missed
days. Last year, 34.8 percent of
Evergreen students were chronically
absent.
Regal said that now, as part of
a Three-Rivers-School-District-
wide effort, a software program
automatically generates letters on
a weekly basis to parents or other
caregivers when a student misses
school. On a daily basis, phone calls
are generated automatically when
a student fails to show. If a child
continues as a no-show by about day
three, then office staff will follow
up with a personal phone to check
on the situation. By state law, added
Regal, any child who misses four
school days in a month automatically
receives a letter of truancy, though
unlike in days gone by, there are no
longer any truancy officers. “But,”
said Regal, “we’re working our butts
off to get those kids back in school.”
“After about the third letter,”
said Regal, “I set up a meeting with
the parent to try and come up with a
game plan. Sometimes it’s as simple
as they need an alarm clock. There’s
always a different situation with each
parent, and we try to figure out how
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of its potential illegality
under state law. ORS
475B.345(1) mandates that
no entity other than the state
legislation may levy a tax or
fee on cannabis, aside from
the three percent local sales
tax which can be enacted
at the discretion of the
voters. The commissioners,
after realizing that the
state is giving the county
cannabis tax dollars and
that the county is using
those dollars for additional
code enforcement personnel
to support them.”
Regal added that students who
miss many days of school are not
only missing crucial lessons for
success in elementary school, but
lessons that can determine all of their
future academic success.
“Studies show that if kids are
reading at third grade level by the
end of third grade, they will graduate
from high school. If kids understand
fifth grade math by the end of fifth
grade, they have a better chance of
graduating from high school.”
Our conversation then turned
to the new emphasis in teaching,
focused on critical thinking, and
embodied in the Common Core
standards that have been adopted
by almost all the states, including
Oregon.
“It’s different from when I was
in school and you had to memorize
stuff,” said Regal. “Now what we are
teaching kids in Envisions, our math
curriculum, is that there are multiple
ways to solve a problem. The kids
have to choose the solution that fits
best with the way their brains work.”
Evergreen offers a variety
of academic and enrichment
programming for students.
In math, there are daily hour
long grade level sessions, and then
a half hour of what the school calls
Double Dose math sessions, when
kids get remedial help, or math
enrichment, based on their needs.
In reading, there are hour regular
sessions, then a half hour of small
who will be performing
the inspections, vowed to
eliminate the fee. The fee’s
formula, which was not
outlined in the ordinance
itself, ran as high as $500.
“I wanted to approve this
last week but I’m thankful
that Commissioner Morgan
stepped up and stopped the
process,” DeYoung said,
insinuating that the changes
were necessary and for the
better.
group instruction, and then a half
hour Double Dose session in reading.
Every day there are what the
school calls Specials, which is a
rotation among computer lab, library
and physical education, depending
upon the day. Then there is Theme
Time,” a 40-minute period at the
end of every day when there is
a teacher’s choice among such
‘themes’ as art, science, social
studies, etc.”
There is also emotional support
for students - Options for Southern
Oregon, a mental health organization,
comes in and provides either therapy
or emotional skills training to a
current case load of 50 students.
Regal said that his kindergarten and
first grade teachers have all taken
training on the PAX Good Behavior
game, which helps reduce student
problematic behavior.
Regal added that he will do
home visits, including conducting
parent-teacher conferences at a
students’ homes. He and his office
manager will often drive a sick kid
home.
“As principal you’re the
advocate and support system for
parents, kids and staff.”
“Our staff is like a family,” he
added. “We are all there for tough
times and good times. We stick
together. We support each other. The
reason we got into this because we
love and are passionate about kids.”
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