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NORTH COAST THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2015 3A Port supports Buckmaster During the regularly scheduled Port of Astoria Commission meeting and work session Tuesday, the Port Commission unanimous- ly endorsed Bruce Buck- PDVWHU¶V QRPLQDWLRQ WR ¿OO D vacancy on the Oregon De- partment of Fish and Wildlife Commission. “The Port of Astoria is ac- tively engaged with both the VSRUW DQG FRPPHUFLDO ¿VK- ing industry and recognizes Buckmaster’s leadership as Director of Salmon for All,” a Port release said. “Salmon for All has always strived to sup- port a balanced approach for DOO¿VKHULHVDQGWKHFRPPLV- sion feels that Buckmaster has an unrivaled knowledge of the LVVXHVUHOHYDQWWRWKH¿VKHULHV of the Columbia River and is best suited for the job.” The Port Commission au- thorized staff to forward a letter to Gov. Kate Brown en- couraging her to select Buck- master, who was nominated last month. Buckmaster’s 2UHJRQ 6HQDWH FRQ¿UPDWLRQ hearing is scheduled for May 14 in Salem. Buckmaster is one of four nominations to the ODFW Commission, along with Hol- ly Akenson of Enterprise and Michael Finley of Medford, both reappointments. Finley is the commission chairman. The fourth nomination is Ja- son Atkinson of Medford, a former Republican legislator By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian erone on the trip, said it was a future focused on creating more connections between what Job Corps provides, the U.S. Department of Labor and what employers want. “There’s a term called a ‘badge’; it represents a cer- tain number of skills a stu- dent is trained for,” Gasser said, adding that the focus is on reaching out to em- ployers, seeing exactly what skills and training they want in employees. Bailey said Simmons fo- cused on the need to mod- ernize Job Corps’ technol- ogy to keep the education relevant with the job market. “She made a really strong point about partnerships,” Moss said. “Job Corps stu- dents aren’t necessarily her customers. Employers are.” Photo courtesy of Bruce Buckmaster Bruce Buckmaster holds a salmon before its release in Alaskan waters in 2011. and gubernatorial candidate. Astoria Mayor Arline LaMear has sent a letter to state Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, and state City Council calls special meeting on Senior Center project Senate Majority Leader Di- ane Rosenbaum, D-Portland, the chairwoman of the Senate Rules Committee, in support of Buckmaster’s appointment. The letter describes Buck- PDVWHUDVDQDYLGVSRUWV¿VK- erman who is also sensitive to the needs of commercial ¿VKHUPHQZKRHDUQWKHLUOLY- ing from the Columbia River. The mayor also stressed the importance of having a rep- resentative from the North Coast on the Fish and Wildlife Commission. “Mr. Buckmaster is widely regarded as a bridge-builder in our community, and we be- lieve he will do the same on the Fish and Wildlife Com- mission,” LaMear wrote. Bids came in higher than expected The Daily Astorian The Astoria City Coun- cil has called a special meeting at 6:45 tonight to consider the increased costs for renovating the Astoria Senior Center. Construction bids for the project came in higher than expected, prompt- ing the city to adjust the scope of the project and seek additional financial support. The Oregon Business Development Depart- ment’s Infrastructure Fi- nance Authority had pro- vided a $1.5 million grant for the project. The IFA has agreed to offer an addition- al $240,000, bringing the total to $1.74 million. The City Council’s spe- cial meeting is at City Hall. Job Corps success stories go to Washington, D.C. Bryndan Bailey, 22, and Maggie Moss, 25, are on the front lines of Job Corps’ mission. Both started their journeys to Job Corps at or near minimum wage in the retail sector. Now, after coming to Tongue Point Job Corps Center for training, both find themselves on the cusp of new careers. Between April 20 and 24, they found themselves in Washington, D.C., repre- senting their center at Job Corps’ 50th anniversary cel- ebration. “Something that really impressed me and amazed me is how much support we have,” Moss said. While in Washington, she and Bailey attended a lead- ership conference by Man- agement and Training Cor- poration, which operates Job Corps centers nationwide, and toured the nation’s cap- ital. They met with Rep. Su- zanne Bonamici; staffers of Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden; and with National Director Lenita Jacobs-Sim- mons from Job Corps, who used the 50th anniversary to talk about the future of the program. Katrina Gasser, Tongue Point’s recently promoted community liaison and chap- Reaching past retail Bailey was working as a grocery store clerk in Nor- folk, Va., making $7.50 an hour out of high school. “I wanted to do some- thing else, and I didn’t real- ly want to go into the mili- tary,” said Bailey. “I tried to get a con- struction job, but they told me I needed on-the-job ex- perience,” he added. “How do I get on-the-job training when I can’t get a job for training?” His mother had worked Submitted photo Tongue Point Job Corps Center sent students Bryndan Bailey, left, and Maggie Moss, right, to Washington, D.C., April 20 to 24 along with Business and Community Liai- son Katrina Morrell Gasser as part of the job-training pro- gram’s 50th anniversary. at Job Corps and told her son about the opportunity. Nearly two years ago, Bai- ley found himself at Tongue Point. While at the center, Bailey studied carpentry, earned several profession- al certifications and helped oversee construction proj- ects at the center and in Astoria. After completing carpentry, Bailey enrolled in Clatsop Community Col- lege and started studying maritime sciences at the Marine and Environmental Research and Training Sta- tion. He hopes to graduate Dec. 18 with a Vessel Oper- ations Associate of Applied Sciences degree and is al- ready contacting employers. “I’ve heard I can make $60,000 a year,” Bailey said. “You’ll do a six-month run, you’ll get five months off.” Bailey said he hopes to give a maritime company at least eight solid years of work before going for his captain’s license, and years later his ultimate goal: to be a Columbia River Bar Pilot. Working in the maritime in- dustry, he added, will also allow time for him to prac- tice carpentry and become a motivational speaker. Moss lived from pay- check to paycheck in Se- attle, selling cosmetics at a mall and making $10 an hour in a city that recently approved working its way up to a $15 minimum. “At the end of the month, I didn’t really have enough money to pay my bills,” Moss said. “I was making Corn Beef & Cabbage D inner With Potatoes, Carrots, Onions & Cornbread Friday M ay 8 th Maritime Museum awarded competitive NPS grant By KYLE SPURR The Daily Astorian The Columbia River Maritime Museum recently learned it was awarded a com- petitive, federal grant from the National Park Service and Maritime Association to pur- chase shelving for storage of the museum’s boat collection. The $33,549 grant requires matching funds from the Mar- itime Museum. It will help the museum in its process of purchasing shelving and pallet racks to store additional collections of historic boats, equipment, tools and other donated items. Extra collections are kept in two former Astoria Build- ers Supply buildings across the street from the museum’s main building. “This is a nuts and bolts Respiratory Health Fair offered in Seaside SEASIDE — Providence Seaside Hospital offers an Asthma and Chronic Ob- structive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Respiratory Health Fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Providence Seaside Hospital Education Center A&B (lower level), 725 S. Wahanna Road. Community education and support are available from TXDOL¿HG WKHUDSLVWV DQG VWDII providing action plans, spi- rometry, tobacco cessation education, nutrition, speech, physical and occupational therapy, medication education and upcoming news. Snacks will be served. There is no cost for this event, and no registration is required. grant to allow us to purchase more shelving for the (for- mer) Astoria Building Supply Building,” Museum Execu- tive Director Sam Johnson said. “Acquiring more shelv- ing for storage (will allow us) to add more boats to the col- lection.” The NPS and Maritime Administration awarded $2.6 million to 35 projects in 21 states through the Maritime Heritage Program, a part of the NPS’s Park History Pro- gram. The only other recipient in Oregon was the Confeder- ated Tribes of Grand Ronde, who received $36,876 for education and preservation programs in canoe culture, waterways, travel and trade. According to the award letter, Johnson said, the to- tal amount of submitted re- quests was more than $10 million for a pot of $2.6 million. A total of 127 pro- grams applied for the fund- ing. On the heels of receiving the 2015 Museum Store As- sociation Visual Merchan- dising award last month, which recognizes excel- lence in visual merchandis- ing by a museum, Johnson said, the museum is becom- ing nationally prominent. “In terms of showing the museum has a presences nationally, it’s very impres- sive,” he said. The National Maritime Heritage Grant Program is supported by revenue from the scrapping of vessels from the Maritime Admin- istration’s National Defense Reserve Fleet. Funds from selling the federally-owned ships goes into the grant program, without using tax dollars. The Maritime Heritage grants are made available to state, tribal and local governments, as well as pri- vate nonprofit organizations such as the Maritime Muse- um, according to the NPS. 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She’s since become certified in CPR, first aid and in electronic health re- cords; recently started a two-month internship at Providence Seaside Hospi- tal; and said she can expect to make at least $14 an hour once she graduates as a cer- tified clinical medical assis- tant. “One of the cool things about Job Corps looking to partner with employers is they’re looking at jobs that need to be filled,” Moss said. “Medical assisting is definitely a booming field. I hear it’s going to grow by at least another 30 percent in the next 10 years.” A lot of medical assis- tants are cross-trained, she added, lending them well to higher positions. Moss hopes to eventually move into hospital administration, and like Bailey, she hopes to stay on the North Coast. ASTORIA AMERICAN LEGION Clatsop Post 12 1132 Exchange Street 325-5771 SE A SID E A M E R IC A N L E G IO N available at a newsstand near you New England LIVE CE C H AN L AS T R N O W ! 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