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Community College and oth-
er colleges and universities
Fish said she worked with compete. Warrenton’s second
WHS’ technology depart- team, S.S.F.D.R., is one step
ment, which she’s a student below in the Navigator class,
assistant for, on the design facing off against 11 other
of the robot, tweaking many teams; and Team Gold is in
of the aspects as the team the entry-level Scout bracket
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taking to North Bend.
The mission represents only
The Blue Rangers are part of the ROV competition,
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er teams in the Ranger class engineering reports and presen-
of the ROV competition, the tations to an industry panel.
highest for K-12 students
The students of the Blue
and one step below the Ex- Rangers seem aware of the
plorer class, in which Clatsop technical concepts in math
and physics they’re using to
design the robot, such as the
physics of its movements
through the water or the vec-
tor designs used in the cre-
ation of some of its parts.
“It’s kind of like critical
thinking,” Watson said about
taking concepts they learn in
class and applying it to a re-
al-world mission. “It’s a lot
more fun.”
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“It’s also a sneaky way of
getting them to learn math
and science,” Jannusch said
of his mission to incorporate
more practical applications
into math and science educa-
tion.
The
Warrenton-Ham-
mond School District has
committed itself to spread-
ing STEM through every
level of school. Davis and
Fish, in addition to their own
robotics team, are mentors to
a First Lego League robotics
team — the F1shst1ckz —
who recently competed in
their own regional competi-
tion at Intel in Hillsboro.
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Long Beach Elementary
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Principal Todd Carper was on
The prank threat also cre- his way back to his building
ated an opportunity to review when he was told about the
security systems districtwide.
threat. In his absence, front
“You always review the desk secretary Sara Ryan was in
individual buildings after charge of putting the school into
something like this,” Super- lockdown.
intendent Jenny Risner said.
She called 911, the early
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and police April 20 to talk WKHQWKHGLVWULFWRI¿FH6KHFRQ-
through what happened April tacted the students and teachers
16. “We talked about different who were out at the park on the
entry points and that sort of other side of the building and
thing and look at what doors told them not to come to the
we do have that remain open school, but to cross the street
throughout the day. ... Even and take shelter in the Chi-
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how we could have stream- she made sure that all students,
lined communication.”
teachers and other adults in the
Since the threat targeted building were accounted for and
Long Beach Elementary specif- in locked rooms.
ically, it was the only building
In the few minutes it took
that was supposed to go into Carper to drive from Ilwaco to
full lockdown mode with kids Long Beach, Ryan had put the
and teachers secure behind school in lockdown and could
locked classroom doors. The account for every single stu-
other buildings in the district dent.
were only supposed to go into
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are locked. Along the way, that where every kid was.” She
message was lost, and everyone knew, for example, which kids
went into full lockdown.
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meetings at Ilwaco High School knew right away and we were
that morning, interviewing can- able to identify where students
didates for the middle school were.”
principal position.
The band students and other
students caught out of classroom
were hustled to the nearest areas
that could be locked, which,
in some cases, meant very
cramped quarters.
“If the situation happened
again, you’d do the same thing,”
Risner said. Students out on the
grounds would not be marched
across campus if there was a
secure option nearby — the
weight room or a closet, for
example. “If there is a shooter,
we don’t want to parade kids
around outside.”
“Unfortunately,” she added,
“sometimes that’s not comfort-
able.”
Carper and high school Prin-
cipal Dave Tobin said they were
fortunate the lockdown did not
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food or bathroom issues, though
the district is also now looking
into ways it could provide for
those needs in the future. Carper
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“go bag”-style option: a bucket
kept in each classroom that is
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and can also double as a bath-
room if need be.
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more things,” Tobin said. But,
he added, “Right now, in my
mind, it’s the communication
piece that I want to be sure we
shore up.”
The district’s Technology
Director Tom Thompson is
looking into mass communica-
tions options for the district.
Across the district, some stu-
dents didn’t take the threat seri-
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take it seriously the entire time,
but most did exactly what they
were supposed to do. They got
to a safe place and waited pa-
tiently and quietly, principals
said.
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Carper said teachers later
provided him with a list of kids
who hadn’t taken the threat se-
riously.
“We didn’t want to come
down on them too hard because
it was a stressful time for every-
one,” he said, but he wanted to
make sure he and teachers dis-
cussed it with them later. The
school’s counselor was also
around Friday, Monday and
Tuesday to talk with any stu-
dents who wanted to visit her or
still felt scared.
On Friday, some kids stayed
home from school. At Long
Beach Elementary, Carper said
close to 80 students were absent,
though not all absences were
due to the shooting threat from
the day before.
“Certainly, it was much
higher than normal though,” he
said.
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quickest removal Chapman Point has seen
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dunes and spent approximate-
ly 100 hours uprooting the
Scotch broom from the sandy
soil and hauling it away. They
also scoured strips of land on
the east side of Oak Street.
The four men — Snodgrass;
Dave Santos, the landscape fore-
man; and Miles Lawson and Ryan
(last name withheld), both new
crew members — covered about
21 acres of affected area, from
Chapman Point to the Breakers
Point subdivision boundary.
In all the years of annual
Scotch broom removal, this is
the quickest Chapman Point has
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Snodgrass, a Chapman Point
homeowner.
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is the result of the thorough work
he and his team did last year,
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through of the area.
Staying ahead of it
If keeping Scotch broom in
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ting the bright yellow blooms and
plucking the shrub from the earth,
then that would be one thing.
But, because landscapers
want to pull the broom before the
plants blossom and scatter their
seeds — which usually happens
in mid-summer — many of the
targeted plants are still relatively
small, green and blend into their
environment.
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ering all at the same time,” Sno-
dgrass said. “So you really need
to be able to see the little foliage
amongst the dune grass.”
What’s more, the Scotch
broom, which elk like to munch
on, is competing with at least 100
different types of vegetation, he
said.
“You don’t really see it until
you get right up on it,” said San-
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last year.
However, winter on the North
Coast was so mild this year that
“the plants are about six weeks
ahead of where they would be in
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so the 7 Dees crew did their work
a few weeks earlier than normal.
“We’re trying to stay ahead of
it,” he said. “We don’t want the
seeds to spread.”
Even after spreading, Scotch
broom seeds can lie dormant for
many years — 50 or more, Mc-
Quhae said — before they ger-
minate, so landscapers may not
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how well they did, Snodgrass
said.
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When the homeowners asso-
ciation began the annual Scotch
broom maintenance program
back in 2003, the Scotch broom
in the affected area was huge,
“standing 10 feet or so,” said
McQuhae, who organizes the
Scotch broom eradication and
thereby earned the nickname
“The Broom Master.”
The trail from the Chapman
Point subdivision to the beach
was basically a tunnel through
the broom’s woody foliage, he
said.
“It’s a shrub that will ma-
ture into something more than
a shrub,” said Snodgrass, also a
Chapman Point homeowner. “It
can really get big if let go un-
checked.”
Scotch broom, which can be
seen all along the Oregon Coast
Several local groups,
including the North Coast
Land Conservancy and North
Coast Watershed Association
watershed councils, hold
volunteer work parties every
year in May to remove inva-
sive Scotch broom from pub-
lic and private land. This year,
Ecola Watershed Council will
focus on the Ecola Creek es-
tuary, along Les Shirley Park
and the newly designated Ne-
Cus Park in Cannon Beach.
All volunteers are wel-
come. Meet at Les Shirley
Park on East Fifth Street,
off Laurel Street at the north
end of Cannon Beach. Vol-
unteers should wear work
clothes and waterproof shoes
and bring rain gear and a re-
usable water bottle. Gloves
and tools will be provided.
For more information, con-
tact Brooke Duling at 503-
468-0408 or northcoastwa-
tershedcouncils@gmail.com
from U.S. Highway 101, is “ex-
tremely aggressive, and it will
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Lawson said.
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Snodgrass said. “If we let it go
for a couple of years, it would
again get out of hand.”
Last year, Snodgrass thought
he and his crew got rid of it all,
but “it fooled me,” he said. “You
need to stay after this, ongoing, to
interrupt that natural progression
of new plants.”
Though his task is Sisyphean,
Snodgrass takes pride in protect-
ing Chapman Point’s oceanfront
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of doing it,” he said. “I’m hoping
that the neighborhood and the
tourists all appreciate the efforts
that are being done here, because
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If the Chapman Point Home-
owners Association will have
him back, Snodgrass plans to
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“So I may be ‘The Broom Mas-
ter’ at some point,” he said, smil-
ing.
into CCC’s ROV Club, led
by physics instructor Pat
Keefe.
Keefe said his ROV
Club, which has often
placed well at regional
competitions despite going
up against more well-fund-
ed programs, will likely pull
back from the competition
this year. He added that the
club is instead focusing its
attention on working with a
group of marine anthropolo-
gists to possibly explore the
Beeswax shipwreck near
Nehalem Beach.
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balancing test is similar
to what is applied to other
materials under state’s
public records law
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the approximate date and
time of an incident, and
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that a body camera is in to make all faces uniden-
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safety or unreasonably EDUUHGLIDMXGJHRUGHUVWKH
impair a criminal investi- sealing of records in a spe-
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A defendant can have the video off-limits.
access to the video, but
On the committee vote,
such recordings can oth- Republican Reps. Wayne
erwise be used only for Krieger of Gold Beach and
law enforcement pur- Sherrie Sprenger of Scio
poses. Agencies can use MRLQHG DOO ¿YH 'HPRFUDWV
third-party vendors for in favor. Krieger is a re-
storage, but the records be- tired Oregon State Police
long to the agencies.
trooper, and Sprenger is a
The bill does provide former sheriff’s deputy.
an exception if public in-
Dissenters, both Re-
terest in disclosure of the publicans, were Reps.
video outweighs the need Andy Olson of Albany —
to shield it. This balancing a retired Oregon State Po-
test is similar to what is lice lieutenant — and Bill
applied to other materials Post of Keizer.
under Oregon’s public re-
The Capital Bureau is a
cords law.
collaboration between EO
But requests must be Media Group and Pamplin
“reasonably tailored” to Media Group.
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Ecola Watershed Council
busts Scotch broom
CANNON BEACH —
Volunteers are gearing up
for the fourth annual Cannon
Beach Broombuster event
at Les Shirley Park from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May
2. Originally introduced from
Europe as an ornamental
plant and for erosion con-
trol, Scotch broom is highly
aggressive and forms dense
stands, which displace native
plants and provide poor wild-
life habitat. Many people are
highly allergic to its pollen.
The Ecola Creek Wa-
tershed Council is a lo-
cal stakeholder group that
works to protect and restore
wildlife habitat in the Ecola
Creek watershed in Cannon
Beach and Arch Cape. It is
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Coast Watershed Associa-
tion, which also manages the
Nicolai-Wickiup, Skipanon
and Youngs Bay Watershed
Councils.
Jannusch hopes to go
for more advanced train-
ing with SeaMATE this
summer and expand ROV
clubs to Warrenton’s mid-
dle-schoolers. If his high
school teams prevail Satur-
day in North Bend, they can
qualify for the MATE inter-
national ROV competition
in St. John’s and Labrador
City in the Newfoundland
province of Canada June 25
to 27.
Principal Rod Heyen
said he hopes members of
WHS’ ROV teams will feed
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