10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, APRIL 20, 2015 Auction: Unique local experiences draw the most interest Continued from Page 1A did such a good job running the bond campaign for the Pa- triot hall Redevelopment, he’s now in Texas running former Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential campaign, joked his wife and stand-in Saturday at the auc- tion Janice O’Malley Galizio. Galizio really is in Texas, but at the American Associa- tion of Community Colleges’ 95th annual convention in San Antonio. “There’s a ton of issues,” Galizio said over the phone Sunday, adding he’s on the AACC’s Higher Education Reauthorization Act Task Force looking at such issues as Pell grant availability, col- legiate accreditation and a possible federal rating system for colleges and universities. The auction’s results proved the community’s sup- port for the community col- lege, Galizio said, as did state Sen. Johnson making CCC’s special appeal amid the 78th Legislative Assembly, one if the busiest sessions in Ore- gon’s history. Adding it up “He’s not in charge of my purse strings tonight,” said Janice O’Malley Galizio, who starting live auction bidding with $500 on a multicourse Latin dinner by the CCC Lati- no Club valued at $250 — she eventually paid $600. The live auction brought in $22,825, according to pre- liminary results, with unique local experiences drawing the most interest. Businesses and community members do- nated their services, offering chances to brew beer, cooking classes, dining, guided hikes, canoe trips, Timbers tickets, hotel stays, Astoria Music Festival passes and even a PHPEHUVKLS IRU DWKRPH ¿VK delivery. Members of the college’s board, faculty and clubs of- fered up their skills, including the CCC Latino Club’s din- ner; speech instructor and ac- complished singer Deac Gui- di’s private performance; and a private kayak trip with CCC board member Tessa James Scheller. “That certainly makes it feel community oriented,” said Scheller, who in the past offered sailing sessions on her boat. The silent auction includ- ed art, goods and services, from cooking classes to Man- darin and Spanish lessons. It brought in nearly $8,000, while the college mystery ZLQH UDIÀH ³*UDSH ([SHF- tations,” brought in another $1,320. Auction tickets for the event added another $5,790; the CCC Foundation even sold the centerpieces on its ta- bles, making another $60. JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian A roomful of people talk and bid during the silent auction portion of the Clatsop Community College Foundation Arts & Experience dinner and auction. JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian John and Melanie Ryan, from Astoria, are seen browsing the art pieces through the reflection of the piece “Head of a Woman VI” by Vicki Baker at the Clatsop Community College Foundation Arts & Experience dinner and auction. Melanie Ryan donated a stained-glass piece titled Fleur De Lis. ‘Your financial investment this evening is not just an investment in a college. But it’s an investment in a community.’ JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Joe Henthorn holds up an art piece for auction during the Clatsop Community College Foundation Arts & Experience dinner and auction. Better and better The auction has continual- ly improved its performance, earning about $73,000 in 2012, nearly $90,000 in 2013, $101,000 in 2014 and $107,000 this year. But the amount raised still doesn’t match what the foundation gives out, which its chair- woman Pat Lehman said equaled $229,000 in schol- arships and program support last year and regularly av- erages more than $100,000 each year. “A major focus for the foundation is our support for students, whether they’re pursuing an academic degree, gaining workforce skills, ex- ploring a personal interest or retraining for a new career,” Lehman said during her ad- dress to the bidders. Before the auction, she brought up nursing student Regina Whitaker as an exam- ple of who the bidders would be supporting. A good investment Whitaker, a self-described “domestic engineer” for 15 years while raising four kids, said she started back to work in 2009, teaching at a private school. She was interested in teaching as a career but fretted over the cost. Then she came across the nursing program in the college’s cat- DORJXH$ ÀRRG RI PHPRULHV came back, she said, from helping her mother answer phones at the Red Cross and volunteering for a local hos- pital and working as a cer- WL¿HG QXUVLQJ DVVLVWDQW LQ D nursing home and spending 15 years researching a dis- abling medical condition that affects her son. “It dawned on me that I had pretty much spent my HQWLUHOLIHLQWKHPHGLFDO¿HOG without even knowing it,” — Regina Whitaker nursing student said Whittaker, who started at CCC in 2012. “It was just life, and I went along with WKHÀRZ “I saw that this was a de- gree at the college that I could complete and begin working as a nurse right away.” Whitaker said one of her oldest daughters has nearly FRPSOHWHGKHU¿UVWWZR\HDUV and her second-oldest will soon be studying for a nurs- ing degree at CCC. ³<RXU ¿QDQFLDO LQYHVW- ment this evening is not just an investment in a college,” she said. “But it’s an invest- ment in a community, and in a mother and in her children. And for this, I must say thank you.” Crouter: She began her career with the county in 1994 mook counties. Crouter said the effort is funded by a three- is a prevention specialist with year grant through the Oregon the county’s Juvenile De- Parent Education Collabora- partment. She has a 20-year- tive. It mainly focuses on chil- old son Ryan, a 15-year-old dren 0 to 6 years old, she said, daughter Kelsea and husband providing $100,000 this year Brian, who works for the (until June 30) and $90,000 Warrenton Public Works De- the next two, before funding partment. drastically decreases. An Astoria native, Crouter Northwest Parenting focus- started with the county in 1994 es on family, parent and child as a staff assistant with the Clat- engagement. It offers family VRS&RXQW\6KHULII¶V2I¿FH,Q events in reading, recreation 2000, she started working with and home economics; par- the Juvenile Department. enting programs and classes A few years ago, she start- for parents of infants to teen- ed at Northwest Parenting, a agers in middle school; and three-county partnership in school-readiness workshops Clatsop, Columbia and Tilla- like Clatsop Kinder Ready and Continued from Page 1A others for preschool. Crouter said funding for teens is more challenging. Northwest Parenting runs Strengthening Families, a program to improve com- munication and empathy be- tween parents and their 10- to 14-year-olds. “Children will challenge at every stage of child devel- opment,” she said, adding the classes provide a framework to approach the different stag- es of development. “One of the biggest re- quests I get is about classes for adult children, and I don’t have any programs for that.” Classes cost $25, with scholarships, a sliding fee scale and child care and din- ner when needed. Crouter said Facebook is the best way to keep up on what Northwest Parenting is doing, along with www.nwor- parenting.org and northwest- parenting@gmail.com ²%\(GZDUG6WUDWWRQ MORE INFO Registration is required for the free Clatsop Kinder Ready workshops, which are 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Seaside Library; 10 a.m. to noon May 2 at Warrenton Grade School, 820 S.W. 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