NORTH COAST
THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, APRIL 20, 2015
Literacy tutors honored
Mary Lou Harlan
Harlan, retired from the
marines, has had several stu-
dents during the last 10 years.
Two students, a mother and
daughter from Mexico, be-
came citizens because of her
tutelage. They have called
upon her for various reasons
over the past decade, when
other questions and problems
have arisen, even though for-
mal tutoring activities had
ended.
Harlan helped empower
the husband to understand his
rights as a worker, and the fam-
ily has sent other students to
her for tutoring. One of these
referrals is a student who just
opened a successful business
that employs four people. She
worked with him for three
years to improve his English.
Her most current student is
poised to enter CCC in the fall
because of Harlan’s teaching.
She also spent hours helping
this student obtain her US
passport, which was compli-
cated because this student, an
American citizen, was raised
and schooled in Mexico.
Photo courtesy of Clatsop Community College
From left, Rolly Lindstrom, Marshall Tate, Donna Hill, Rosemary Baker-Monaghan and
Eileen Purcell. All but Monaghan, the chairwoman of the Clatsop Community College
Board of Directors, were honored Tuesday for their efforts as adult literacy tutors.
sumed working with the wom-
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meet at the cannery where she
Rolly Lindstrom
works, because this employer
Lindstrom is retired from a also supports her education.
career in social work.
She would like to eventually
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students worked in a local
Donna Hill
market and deli. The employer
Hill, retired, came to the
requested help from the litera-
cy program and paid for her to CCC literacy program with
study English with Lindstrom experience as a reading tu-
at the work site. Lindstrom tor in Portland. In Astoria,
and his student centered their she worked with the Start
lessons on cooking, and they Making a Reader Today
used exotic cookbooks as (SMART) program and with
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working in a cannery — not second-graders. She had not
on the production line, but in worked before, however, with
human resources, hiring and English as a Second Language
scheduling Spanish-speaking (ESL) students.
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workers.
Lindstrom, a Russian a Spanish-speaking woman
speaker, worked with a Rus- with a number of children liv-
sian speaker across the river, a ing in Emerald Heights who
worker from a Mexican restau- had no driver’s license. Hill
rant and, for the last 2 1/2 agreed to meet with her in
years, with a Spanish speaker her home. Hill said she soon
who is working on English and learned not to assume any-
the citizenship process. At the thing about her students, par-
same time, Lindstrom has re- ticularly about what a student
did or didn’t know.
Hill said her reward for
working with immigrant
students comes from hear-
ing their stories, which they
were asked to relate in En-
glish. Some of Hill’s notable
student success stories in-
clude a Portuguese-speaker
who owns and operates an
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shipping company and who
earned her citizenship, and
another woman who runs a
restaurant in Astoria. Donna’s
newest student is an Arabic
speaker whose family owns
two businesses in town.
Marshall Tate
Tate is a retired pharma-
cist with experience teaching
future pharmacists at Oregon
Health and Science Univer-
sity (OHSU). He has tutored
many students over the past
decade, producing new U.S.
citizens, empowering wom-
en to gain independence and
assisting immigrant business
owners. He’s a long-term so-
journer in Mexico and he has
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ency in Spanish.
Tate worked with a woman
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being able to say “hello,”
“goodbye” and “where’s the
milk” (she has kids to feed)
to earning her U.S. citizen-
ship. While learning English,
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in Spanish. Tate tutored her on
the algebra portion of the test
in Spanish.
This winter, on an annual
extended trip to Mexico, Tate
met with a former student and
continued to tutor her. His
student’s goal is to take the
Test of English as a Foreign
Language and then become
eligible to work as a border/
customs agent in the U.S.
Tate has also tutored stu-
dents remotely, both from
across the river where he
lives and from Mexico when
he goes for months-long vis-
its. He also uses Skype to fur-
ther his own language learn-
ing, conducting intercambios
(exchanges), with friends and
teachers in Mexico.
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Clatsop Community Col-
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Fire District 1 recently made
its debut.
The Fire Science program
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training.
CCC unveiled the engine
with its new number, lettering,
colors and logo at the Wednes-
day high school job fair conduct-
ed at the Clatsop County Fair &
Expo Center The engine’s new
graphics were designed and
applied by Jeff Miller of Red
Dwarf Graphics in Astoria.
The CCC Fire Science pro-
gram includes a less-than-one-
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in Fire Science and a two-year
Associate of Applied Science
degree in Fire Science. The pro-
gram offers hands-on training
for local structural and industrial
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Photo Courtesy of Clatsop Community College
Clatsop Community College’s Fire Engine 2421 was a donation from Pacific County
(Wash.) Fire District 1.
training in U.S. Coast Guard-ap-
proved Basic and Advanced
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tunities exist for high school
students developing an interest
in Fire Science and for veteran
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Additional training en-
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will result from a special ap-
peal conducted at the CCC
Foundation’s Arts & Experi-
ence Dinner and Auction Sat-
urday. For information, con-
tact 503-338-2306.
ODOT plans tree planting along U.S. 101
CANNON BEACH — An
Oregon Department of Trans-
portation crew is planting
trees and other plantings in an
area along U.S. Highway 101
near Cannon Beach that was
thinned in early March to re-
move hazard trees. The work
is scheduled for 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. April 28 and 29.
Travelers should be aware
of increased activity along the
highway right of way and the
public is encouraged to drive
with caution through the area.
The activity is scheduled to
take place along U.S. High-
way 101 from Ecola Creek
Bridge at milepost 28.70 to
Sunset Boulevard at milepost
29.48.
The project is part of
ODOT’s vegetation manage-
ment of the U.S. Highway
101 corridor through Can-
non Beach. Trees, shrubs and
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the Cannon Beach Forest Cor-
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ridor management plan that
are better suited along ODOT
highways will be planted.
In early March, ODOT
crews removed a number of
alder trees that were identi-
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and to the safe operation of
the roadway. The tree thin-
ning effort is part of a multi-
year commitment to improve
safety along this section of
highway while addressing
the guidelines of the Cannon
Beach Forest Corridor vegeta-
tion management plan.
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Adopt-A-Garden
program offered
Clatsop
Community
College, with sponsorship
from its Wellness Com-
mittee, announces a new
program to actively engage
students, staff and commu-
nity members in healthy
outdoor activity that pro-
motes community and
helps beautify the college
campuses.
The Adopt-A-Garden
program invites volunteers
to select a landscape area
on one of the CCC campus-
es and maintain and beauti-
fy that space during spring,
summer and fall terms. Vol-
unteers can also participate
in the campuswide Spring
Clean-Up Day, to be an-
nounced soon.
Those adopting an area
are asked to maintain the
space by weeding and
pruning existing plants.
Beds should be tended
approximately every two
to three weeks as needed.
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planted if approved by the
CCC Facilities Department
and removed at the end of
the growing season. Only
nontoxic substances may
be applied, and access to
water is very limited. Vol-
unteers should plan ac-
cordingly.
The program is open to
individuals and groups and
volunteers will be recog-
nized on the CCC website
and in its Annual Report to
the Community.
For additional infor-
mation, a map of avail-
able spaces and volunteer
forms, visit www.clat-
sopcc.edu/community/
volunteer-opportunities
or contact Patricia Warren
at 503-338-2306 or pwar-
ren@clatsopcc.edu
Seaside recreation
district invites public
to meet executive
director candidates
SEASIDE — The public
can meet the three Sunset Em-
pire Park & Recreation Dis-
trict executive director candi-
dates Thursday.
The district will hold a
meet and greet event at the
Bob Chisholm Community
Center from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Thursday.
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the position have been invit-
ed. Their interviews with a
technical panel and commu-
nity panel are scheduled for
earlier in the day, along with a
facility tour. They are sched-
uled to meet with the district’s
board Friday.
From a pool of about 40
applicants, the board nar-
rowed the selection down to
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nates. Some candidates have
withdrawn, but three will be
interviewed Thursday.
On April 1, the board also
unanimously approved the
Special Districts Association
of Oregon to hire former dis-
trict General Manager Mary
Blake to serve as interim ex-
ecutive director until the posi-
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board expects to make a hire
by July 1.
For more information, call
the recreation district at 503-
738-3311 or visit www.sunse-
tempire.com/
Registration deadline for
May election is April 28
The Clatsop County
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reminds local residents that
April 28 is the deadline to
register to vote in the May
19 special district election.
Ballots for the election
will be mailed out begin-
ning April 29.
The deadline to hand
in or mail a registration
form if you are registering
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5 p.m. April 28. To be eli-
gible to vote, you must be
an Oregon resident, a U.S.
citizen, and be at least 18
years old by May 19.
You must update your
registration if you move
or change your mailing ad-
dress, change your name,
or wish to change your
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who are updating their reg-
istration have until 8 p.m.
on the day of the election
to do so.
People can register on-
line with the Oregon Sec-
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www.sos.state.or.us/elec-
tions. Voter registration
forms can also be down-
loaded from the “Clerk &
Elections” page at www.
co.clatsop.or.us or ob-
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at 820 Exchange St., Asto-
ria.
The May 19 election
features contests for seats
on the Port of Astoria,
Clatsop Community Col-
lege and Sunset Empire
Transportation
District,
as well as school districts,
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sewer service districts.
For more information
go to the “May 19 Special
District Election” page on
the Clatsop County web-
site or call 50-325-8511.
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