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Hugs at Oregon Coast Invitational Forest, farms and foam SPORTS • 7A INSIDE 143rd YEAR, No. 19 MONDAY, JULY 27, 2015 ONE DOLLAR Road plan unlikely until 2017 Deal could wait until after elections By PETER WONG Capital Bureau Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Students in the migrant summer school program, including Karen Zuniga Jiminez, right, work on constructing pinatas at Astoria Middle School Thursday. Migrant summer school provides some stability Instruction could help close achievement gap By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian A raceny Borja, 11, sat in a classroom at Astoria Mid- dle School Thursday, only two months after she and her moth- er moved to the North Coast from Mexico for what she called “a bet- ter life.” Borja, with translation by a new friend sitting next to her, shared her trepidation at having to make new friends in an entirely new place, and her excitement about being able to take art classes. Borja is one of more than 100 students kindergarten through seventh grade attending a migrant summer school program offered through the Northwest Regional Education Service District and the Astoria School District. The program serves students whose parents have moved around for work. In Clatsop County, that PRVWO\PHDQVZRUNHUVLQ¿VKSUR cessing, tourism and other seasonal industries. “It’s trying to create an equita- ble circumstance for these kids,” said Seth Tucker, a migrant recruit- er with the service district’s mi- grant education program. The district has programs in Astoria, Tillamook and Scappoose. Students in the programs must have moved in the past three years for their parent’s work. Last year, Astoria Superinten- dent Craig Hoppes said, Astoria had 75 to 80 migrant students. The QXPEHUV ÀXFWXDWH DQG JURZ ZLWK economic activity in the summer. Running the program at Astoria Middle School is Astoria kinder- garten teacher Kellie Clay, along ZLWK ¿YH WHDFKHUV DQG WZR WHDFK ing assistants. The teachers divide students by grade into all-inclusive classrooms practicing reading, writing, math and art. English learning “They already understand con- versational English, but we’re teaching them academic language,” said Dindy Fischer, a third-grade teacher during the school year ZKRWHDFKHV¿IWKVL[WKDQGVHY enth-graders at the summer school. Each class incorporates an En- glish Learning Development mod- el to help grow the students’ En- glish skills. “For a 5-year-old navigating two languages, it’s important to give them the structures early,” said Betsy Mahoney, a Seaside kindergarten teacher teaching the same age group at the migrant sum- mer school. She has taught kinder- gartners through fourth-graders at the migrant summer school. The students at the migrant school range from those with a full handle on English and straight As to Borja, who speaks almost no English, has never before attended American schools and starts mid- dle school in the fall. “I mostly get bored at my house, so I come here,” sixth-grader Kar- en Zuniga Jimenez said, a common sentiment among kids who come to school for the socialization, academ- LFUHIUHVKHUVDQGORFDO¿HOGWULSV Binational exposure While helping students come back to school in the fall with les- sons fresh in their mind, the service district also sends a teacher from Mexico to help remind the largely Hispanic student body of their cul- tural history. Elizabeth Aguilera, a preschool teacher in Guanajuato, Mexico, on loan to migrant summer school programs in Oregon, goes from classroom to classroom. She led students in building piñatas, Day of the Dead-themed paper mache and other activities to expose students to Mexican culture. “This tradition, it’s very im- portant in Mexico,” Aguilera said. “I want kids to know those tradi- tions.” See SCHOOL, Page 10A µ7KHUH¶VDOZD\VDQRWKHUVWRU\WR¿QG¶ Active retirement, with maritime history — and dogs R etirement doesn’t always mean you stop working. Not for Astoria resident Marcy Dunning, anyway. Dunning received her undergradu- ate degree at Middlebury College and her master’s degree in library science at Simmons College. She cofounded the information research company Access/ Information, Inc. in 1981 in Denver, Colo. She’s retired, but she still does work for some of her old clients. Dunning spends two afternoons a week at the Columbia River Maritime Museum, where she recently began working. She has been going through several SALEM — Even though state lawmakers say action on a funding plan for road and bridge repair and other transportation needs is unlikely before the 2016 election, advocates say it’s not too early to start talking again. “We need to pick up the work that has been done and not let it fall away,” said Craig Campbell, who represents the American Automobile Association of Oregon and also is president of the Oregon Transporta- tion Forum coalition. “We need to discuss it and work it,” said Campbell, whose coalition includes transportation users, gov- ernments and some environmental groups. While state House Speaker Tina Kotek vowed recently that “we still need a transportation package in this state,” she said the lead time required for laying out details is such that action is un- likely before the next long session in 2017. Some say a good starting point is where a bipartisan group of eight lawmakers left off this year . hundred books the museum received, checking them against the collection for duplicates and cataloging those that are unique. “There are things here that you ZRXOGQ¶W ¿QG LQ YHU\ PDQ\ OLEUDULHV even around the world,” Dunning said. The museum’s collection contains materials relating to global maritime history, not just that of the Columbia River, according to Jeff Smith, the cu- rator. See ROAD PLAN, Page 10A Svensen man gets 29 years for assaults Mother feared for her life By KYLE SPURR The Daily Astorian A Svensen man with a record of assaulting his mother and multiple law enforce- PHQW RI¿FLDOV was sentenced Friday in Clat- sop County Circuit Court to 29 years in prison. Ole Marvin Hayne, 54, was found guilty last month on Ole Marvin all charges af- Hayne ter a trial where he represented himself, instead of hiring a lawyer or having one ap- pointed. 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