Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The daily Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1961-current | View Entire Issue (June 2, 2015)
4A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 2015 WARRENTON VALEDICTORIAN Brianna Marsch Graduate’s high school: Warrenton High School Continuing education: I will continue my education at Oregon State University to earn a degree in zoology and animal sciences. Community/school involve- ment: I was the president of student council my senior year, the president of NHS (National Honor Society). I also help with Warrenton Kids Inc., and work as a server/busser/hostess at the Astoria Golf and Country Club. Scholarships: I have received the Sandy Adams Softball Schol- arship through Warrenton Schol- arships Inc. program, and I have applied for many, many more. Sports: I play volleyball and softball. I have been on varsity for both sports since my sopho- Cannon Beach has big ticket budget items By ERICK BENGEL EO Media Group If the City Council passes &DQQRQ %HDFK¶V ¿VFDO \HDU 2015-16 budget in its current form tonight, the city can look forward to a handful of capital improvement projects taking shape around town fairly soon — from street and sidewalk renovations to emergency preparedness measures. Consequently, City Manager Brant Kucera said he anticipates more expenses than revenues in WKHXSFRPLQJ¿VFDO\HDU¶VEXG- get, which may rise about 8.5 SHUFHQW RYHU WKLV ¿VFDO \HDU¶V budget, from $13,508,389 to $14,659,865. However, the city’s fund bal- ances are large enough to absorb the loss and still have a robust amount remaining, he told the budget committee. “We absolutely need to maintain healthy fund balances. That’s key. That’s critical,” he said. “But you also need to rein- vest those fund balances into the community.” General fund • The ongoing renovation of City Hall: $50,000; • Repairing and rehabili- tating the surfaces of the city’s downtown tennis and basketball courts: $40,000; • Constructing a new plaza at the west end of Second Street with benches, low lighting and a rebuilt sidewalk: $35,000; • Hooking up water, power and wastewater services to the cache container sites and assem- bly sites, plus installing antennas at both the north-end and south- end emergency cache container sites: $33,000. RV Park enterprise fund 7KH¿UVWSKDVHRIDWKUHH phase project involving a re- placement of the RV Park’s electrical and water systems and a sewer upgrade. The project also includes the in- stallation of 50-amp service and water pedestals at each RV pad and repaving roads and pads: Phase No. 1: $220,000; Full project: $450,000. Water enterprise fund • The replacement of two ¿OWHUEHGVDWWKHZDWHUWUHDWPHQW plant: $85,000. Roads fund • Reconstructing the Spruce Street blocks between First and Third streets to make them ADA-accessible: $75,000. Water, sewer and roads funds: • Repair of the public works garage: $30,000. Utilities Though many people tend to focus on the general fund, Kucera stressed that enterprise funds — basically, water and sewer — are “just as critical to running the city as the police and administration.” Cannon Beach has about 1,700 residents, but, “if you look at the number of visitors that we get here, we function like a city of essentially 10,000 people a year,” he said. A tourist community’s pop- ulation can be a rather deceiv- ing number because it is “not QHFHVVDULO\ D WUXH UHÀHFWLRQ of what government actually needs to do for the residents,” he said. more year. I have member all of the also played club bus rides for sports volleyball for four and band, and I years, as well. will miss it. I will Favorite class remember the time and teacher: I we won state band have many favor- for 3A my junior ite teachers, but year and senior I will have to say year. my favorite teach- Advice for suc- er is Mr. (Steve) cess? My advice Porter (in biology) for success would for believing in me be to persist and and helping me all never give up. Life these years. My fa- gets hard some- Brianna Marsch vorite class would times, but it does be zoology, which no good to lay Mr. Porter taught as well. down and be the victim. Grab What will you remember the bull by the horns and take the most? I will remember most command. Blaze your own trail all of the memories I have made and do whatever it takes to put with my closest friends. There yourself in the best position to isn’t just one thing. I will re- achieve your dreams. WARRENTON SALUTATORIAN Shaden Moss through Gateway Continuing Ed- Lodge No. 175. ucation: Attending Sports: Cross Brigham Young Uni- country, track and pep versity in the fall. Plan- band. ning to get a bachelor’s Favorite class and degree in mechanical teacher: Band with engineering and ad- Mr. McClure. vance into aerospace What will you re- engineering through a member the most?: master’s program. I will most remember going to cross country Community/school camp with the team involvement: Band, last summer. We fell pep band, National in the river while in- Honor Society, Key Shaden Moss ner-tubing, which was Club, Boy Scouts of fun, and in the middle America, early morn- ing seminary through The Church of of camp they had a small birthday celebration for me. Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Advice for success? Work hard, Scholarships: Brigham Young Grant, North Coast Scholarship stay motivated, get enough sleep Foundation Scholarship, Dick and food, don’t overwork yourself and Harriet Baldwin Scholarship and prioritize.