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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2015
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Ilwaco hires new middle school principal from Astoria
By KATIE WILSON
EO Media Group
ILWACO, Wash. — A new
principal is coming to Ilwaco
Middle School.
After a round of interviews,
the Ocean Beach School District
offered the job to Chad Madsen,
current assistant principal at
Astoria High School. He will
replace former principal Marc
Simmons. Simmons resigned
in November; since January, his
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terim principal.
Madsen has worked as the
assistant principal at Astoria
High School for three years, and
before that taught math, physical
education and health at both As-
toria High School and Seaside
High School. The school board
is expected to approve his hiring
at its next meeting April 27.
As Middle School principal,
Madsen will lead a building that
has already weathered a num-
ber of changes in the last school
year and must adjust for even
more in the year to come.
Last September, as reno-
vation work wrapped up at the
Ilwaco High School building
next to Black Lake and a new
superintendent took over at the
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became its own entity after
seven years of sharing space
with the high school students.
The district’s sixth-grade class-
es were also added to its roster
approved the hire of Deb Turver
at the beginning of January and
she has been serving as principal
there ever since.
Then, the board approved
Risner’s recommendation to
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es to the middle school where
they will form a separate ele-
mentary school entity with the
sixth-grade classes. The dis-
trict administration hopes the
Chad Madsen
move will help free up space
at Long Beach Elementary
— a transition that Superin- where enrollment has contin-
tendent Jenny Risner said later ued to grow this year and ease
was rushed and poorly planned. the transition for sixth-grade
Then, in November, Principal students entering middle
Marc Simmons resigned and the school.
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Madsen will oversee both
an interim principal. The board the middle school and this
County pursues hazardous waste center
By The Daily Astorian
Clatsop County’s House-
hold Hazardous Waste Pro-
gram is moving forward this
year with creating a per-
manent collection center to
dispose of toxic, flammable
and other corrosive items,
according to the county.
The collection center is
planned for construction at
the Astoria Transfer Station.
It will collect hazardous prod-
ucts such as pesticides and
herbicides, paint, cleaning
solvents and other materials
not suitable for disposal with
standard household trash.
It is expected to open in
April 2016.
With the project under-
way, the county announced
this week it will no longer
sponsor the yearly house-
hold hazardous waste col-
lection events held each
May.
Until the new collection
center is operating, resi-
dents can find other options
online at www.co.clatsop.
or.us
The center will be open
at least eight times per year
to collect waste items from
county residents and quali-
fying small businesses.
The center will be fund-
ed through an Oregon De-
partment of Environmental
Quality grant and a sur-
charge on garbage collec-
tion rates.
Many home and yard
products when not com-
pletely used up accumulate
in cabinets, garage shelves
or outdoor sheds exposing
children and pets to tox-
ic chemicals, the county
warns.
Hazardous
wastes
should not be put down
home drains, street storm
water drains, discarded in
the garbage or poured on
the ground. Doing so pol-
lutes water, places harmful
chemicals in the sewage/
septic systems and expos-
es waste haulers and fire
fighters needlessly to haz-
ardous conditions.
The following is a list of
ways the county suggests re-
ducing hazards year-round:
• Reduce the amount that
may sit in cupboards by pur-
chasing only what is need-
ed.
• Read the labels before
buying to purchase nontoxic
products whenever possible.
• Look into green alter-
native products.
• When storing hazardous
products, put them in a safe
place away from children
and pets, and keep them in
their original containers.
• Share unused product
with a neighbor or friend to
get rid of it all.
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VERNONIA — The Ore-
gon Department of Fish and
Wildlife invites new anglers
to take part in its Family
Fishing Event from 9 a.m. to
2 p.m. Saturday at Vernonia
Pond, a 42-acre former mill
pond located in Vernonia.
The event is free and open
to the public. ODFW will
provide equipment for the
event including rods, reels
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served basis. Anglers are
also welcome to bring their
own gear. Angling education
instructors and volunteers
will be present to answer
questions and offer assis-
tance. Approximately 6,000
trout will be released into the
pond just prior to the event to
improve everybody’s chanc-
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portunity for all to discover
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ing event coordinator for
ODFW’s North Coast Wa-
tershed, said. “We’ll have
plenty of experienced anglers
at the event to answer any
questions and help with in-
struction.”
Anglers 13 years old and
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ing license, while those 14-
17 years of age will need a
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can be purchased for $9. Ev-
erybody else must have an
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pass. Licenses will not be
sold at the event, so individ-
uals planning to participate
should obtain them ahead of
time from an ODFW license
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online at www.odfw.com
Ambulance Advisory Committee seeks applicants
Clatsop County’s Am-
bulance Service Advisory
Committee is accepting
applications to fill three
vacancies on the commit-
tee.
The vacancies are for
two seats for citizen mem-
bers and one seat reserved
for a registered nurse. The
terms of all three positions
run through Nov. 30, 2016.
The county encourages ap-
plications from residents of
South Clatsop County.
The committee monitors
and reviews local emer-
gency medical services in
accordance with the county
Ambulance Service Plan.
In addition, it gathers infor-
mation from service users,
providers and the medical
community, monitors coor-
dination of service resourc-
es and dispatch procedures
and reviews service area
boundaries. The committee
meets four times per year.
Application forms are
available online at www.
co.clatsop.or.us or at the
County Manager’s Office
at 800 Exchange St., Suite
410, Astoria.
Appointments will be
made by the Board of Com-
missioners.
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total of 13 people applied, Risner
said. (Turver had also indicated
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lead his own building. ... He’s Madsen.
Risner believes Madsen’s
had multiple opportunities to be
prior experience with living on
the person in charge.”
“He really seems like a for- the coast will be an advantage.
“Just knowing the challenges
ward, progressive thinker and I
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climate and the rural nature of
from that,” she said.
The district had a large pool where we live,” she said. “I think
of candidates to draw from. A it’s going to help him a lot.”
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