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LOVE OF DANCE Gulls force 40 turnovers INSIDE coast weekend 143rd YEAR, No. 117 SPORTS · 7A THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2015 ONE DOLLAR CLATSOP COUNTY HIGH-SCHOOLERS LEARNING the HEALTH BEAT Time to end to da\light saving? Medford man seeks end to spring forward, fall back By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau Photos by Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Marissa McGuire, center, a senior at Astoria High School, practices chest compressions on a mannequin while being kept on beat by her Health Occupations instructor Venus Fromwiller, right, during a CPR lesson at Columbia Memorial Hospital Monday. Medford resident David Miles grumbles ever\ \ear about having to turn his clocks for- ward in the spring and back again in the fall. This \ear, Miles decided to respond differ- entl\ b\ launching a ballot initiative 1ov. 2 to end da\light saving time in 2regon. “I complain almost ever\ time there is a time change and do nothing about it, and I didn’t want to be that gu\ an\more,” he said. A month later, Miles has 2 volunteers in 2regon towns and cities who have gath- ered nearl\ , signatures — a ¿ rst step toward placing an initiative on the ballot. He said he e[pects to hit the ,-signature mark b\ mid-December. 2nce the volunteers pass that hurdle, the\’ll need to round up a total of ,8 signatures to send the measure to voters in 1ovember. The proposal abolishes da\light saving in 28 and allows voters in individual counties to opt out through an election. Miles added that provision with Malheur Count\ in mind. That count\ alread\ follows Mountain Time to be uniform with neighboring Idaho. “The fringe bene¿ t is other counties can decide to sta\ on da\light saving time, through general count\ election,” Miles said. See CLOCKS, Page 10A CMH Health Occupations lets students sample medical careers A Seaside class explores art, nature, plants By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian s the %ee Gees’ “Sta\in’ Alive” streamed on athletic trainer Chad Rankin’s phone Mon- da\, he urged his understudies to keep up with the beat. At beats per minute, the disco classic aligns with the com- pressions per minute recommended b\ the American Heart Association for CPR. Around Rankin, nearl\ 2 high school Muniors and se- niors took turns compressing their mannequins’ chests, simulating CPR to resuscitate a dormant heart Then Rankin pulled out CPR masks to practice rescue breath- ing, and an automated e[ternal de¿ brillator to teach stu- dents how to shock a heart back to life. %\ ne[t week, the students will test for a two-\ear certi¿ cation in CPR from the American Heart Association. The students, mostl\ from Astoria with two from .nappa, are enrolled in Health 2ccupations, a \earlong introduction to the health care ¿ eld offered at Columbia Memorial Hospital for more than 2 \ears. Heading the program is Venus Fromwiller, a former health teacher at Astoria High School who recentl\ transferred to the hospital and took over the program from .endra Gohl, who taught the program 8 \ears. The class is largel\ paid for b\ the hospital and tied to Clatsop Communit\ College’s medical -assisting pro- gram. The program also receives a minor amount of By KATHERINE LACAZE EO Media Group Chad Rankin, an athletic trainer at Columbia Memorial Hospital and one of many visiting professionals to the Health Occupations course, reviews the steps to performing CPR. Jenna Rudolph, a junior at Astoria High School, practices chest compres- sions on a mannequin. See BEAT, Page 10A SEASIDE — A new elective class at Seaside High School introduce s students to a combination of studies, including art, bot- an\ and ethnobotan\. Teachers Julie Greene and Dorota Haber-Lehigh offered the art of ethnobota- n\ class as an elective to students in all grades . T he teachers shared the importance of maintaining a diversit\ of native plants and their importance to humans and the ecos\s- tem in the 3aci¿ c 1orthwest. “It was more along the lines of environ- mental education, appreciation for nature and for what surrounds us,” Haber-Lehigh said. “I’m hoping the students will see some of it and have different attitudes toward na- ture and also toward being resourceful, be- ing caring and being more sustainable.” Greene has more than \ears of See CLASS, Page 10A Clatskanie woman dies, NW braces for more rain Landslides, high water closed parts of state roads By MANUEL VALDES and LISA BAUMANN Associated Press FALL CITY, Wash. — While much of the 3aci¿ c 1orthwest on Wednesda\ got a respite from rains that have pummeled the region for da\s, mudslides and À ooding rivers triggered multiple rescues and claimed the life of a wom- an after her car became submerged in Clats- kanie. 5esponding to a call Wednesda\ after- noon, ¿ re¿ ghters rescued a man the\ found standing on top of a car in knee-to-waist-deep water. The\ said the man drove himself and the woman into water in an area where the road was closed near 8.6. +ighwa\ and Lost Creek Road in Clatskanie . The man, Richard A. Forrest, 82, of Clats- kanie was able to get out but responders found the woman, 3enn\ Forrest, 2, dead at the scene. In 3ortland, a large 'ouglas ¿ r tree crashed into a home earl\ Wednesda\, killing a -\ear- old woman who was in bed. The tree was uprooted and sliced through the front corner of the house from the back at about a.m., pinning the woman underneath. See RAIN, Page 10A Bill Wagner/The Daily News Cherise Giberson carries one of her family’s pets, they have three dogs, three puppies and a hedgehog, that was rescued from their flooded home in the Swedetown Vil- lage mobile home park in Clatskanie, on Wednesday. The water was freezing and the current swift when she was thigh-deep in the rain-swollen river that overflowed its banks and inundated the homes.
