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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2015
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Port supports Buckmaster
During the regularly
scheduled Port of Astoria
Commission meeting and
work session Tuesday, the
Port Commission unanimous-
ly endorsed Bruce Buck-
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vacancy on the Oregon De-
partment of Fish and Wildlife
Commission.
“The Port of Astoria is ac-
tively engaged with both the
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ing industry and recognizes
Buckmaster’s leadership as
Director of Salmon for All,” a
Port release said. “Salmon for
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port a balanced approach for
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sion feels that Buckmaster has
an unrivaled knowledge of the
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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
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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-
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erman who is also sensitive
to the needs of commercial
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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
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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
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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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the decision of whether I
was going to pay my bills or
get dinner that night.
“I went online and Goo-
gled ‘free education,’ and
Job Corps was the first
thing that popped up.”
Moss started at Job
Corps about eight months
ago, studying medical as-
sisting. 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.
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