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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2015 Beat: Local students are getting FUDVKFRXUVHLQKHDOWKFDUH¿HOG Continued from Page 1A funding from the federal Carl Perkins Grant. The grant is administered by the college and supports career techni- cal education programs for high-schoolers across Clatsop County. Submitted Photo Intro to health care “Students come with a limited view of what type of health care jobs are avail- able,” Fromwiller said. She tries to keep the class broad, spending the school year introducing students to between 15 and 20 health care positions inside and outside the hospital. Staffers from every department of the hospital, as well as Life Flight pilots, acupuncturists and paramedics from Medix, Photo courtesy of Venus Fromwiller visit to explain their jobs and demonstrate a Health Care High-schoolers in Columbia Memorial Hospital’s Health Occupations course learn how 101 menagerie of techniques to create a barrier between themselves and germs as part of keeping the work environ- and principles, from donning ment sterile. protective equipment and eth- ical decision-making to taking from the college’s nursing YLWDOVDQGSHUIRUPLQJ¿UVWDLG program, starting at the hospi- Students sign an oath to tal as a bedside nurse within follow patient privacy laws. two weeks of passing her li- They disperse around the hos- censing exam. She now super- pital as volunteers and spend vises the hospital’s medical several hours shadowing and surgical unit, which she employees. Fromwiller said once shadowed in, and hosts students seem genuinely en- other students. gaged. Feeder course While keeping students in Staffers like Rankin and an observing role for medical procedures, Fromwiller said Roman said the course helps she tries to expose them to the VWXGHQWV ¿QG D GLUHFWLRQ EH- more queasy parts of hospital fore leaving high school, work, such as blood and bodi- while the experience can O\ÀXLGVWRVHHLIWKH\DUHXS help give them a leg up when to it. One student, she said, applying to health care pro- came into class talking about grams. KRZ VKH JRW WR SXW KHU ¿UVW Gohl, who still works for aid skills to the test recently, the hospital as an infections helping stem the bleeding of a preventionist and teaches stu- crash victim using napkins on dents about protective equip- U.S. Highway 30 on her way ment, said the Health Occu- back to Knappa. pations course has long been a strategy to grow the number “I gave a newborn baby a of health care providers, espe- bath,” said Astoria senior Tay- cially in rural communities. lor Mickle, who shadowed a Over her 18 years in charge nurse and helped her wash a of the program, Gohl said, half-day-old newborn. she taught more than 500 stu- Mickle said such hands-on dents, more than half of whom Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian experiences were part of why she estimates have gone into she joined the class. She came Nurse Kelly Roman took the Health Occupations course health-related careers. into Health Occupations in- when she was in high school. She now works at Columbia Gohl said many of her for- WHUHVWHGLQWKHGHQWDO¿HOGEXW Memorial Hospital. mer students work or have has since warmed to becom- worked at Columbia Memo- LQJDQXUVH6KHLVQ¶WWKH¿UVW Occupations course as a ju- a position she job-shadowed rial. “Others were employed nior at Astoria in the mid- at the hospital. But Roman here at one time and have convert from the program. 2000s. shadowed a nurse and said since moved on to other cit- From student to nurse Roman said she initially she quickly became enamored ies. I have other doctors, nurs- “I always wanted to be a thought the only crossover with the variety and teamwork es, rehab and even a special- teacher,” said Kelly Roman, between teaching and health the position provided. ty neurology assistant on the who enrolled in the Health care would be as a masseuse, She eventually graduated West Coast.” During the art of ethnobotany class, the students spent a lot of time outside observing, identifying and drawing plants. The class combined art, botany and ethnobotany, which is the relationship between humans and plants. Class: Studies the link between humans, botany Continued from Page 1A experience in botany and biology and Haber-Lehigh, an artist, has taught multiple botanical drawing classes and workshops in the com- munity. The two instruc- tors were looking for a new teaching opportunity and the chance to offer something different for students. They decided to collaborate on the art of ethnobotany. “It’s something fun that combines our interests,” said Greene, a special edu- cation teacher. Art or science credit Students could choose to earn either art or sci- ence credit for completing the course. Throughout the class, students were taught the basics of botany, how to identify both native and non-native plants, discern if they were edible or poi- sonous and collect written observations. They learned how the plants historical- ly were used by humans of many cultures for vari- ous things: food, medicine, clothing, shelter, arts and crafts, construction mate- rial and more. The primary focus, Greene said, was on how indigenous people used the plants. Additionally, stu- dents learned how various plants are used — or some- times not used — today. “It’s not just learning botany,” Haber-Lehigh said. “Ethnobotany is the rela- tionship between plants and people. And we threw in the art component, because it’s fun to learn about plants and nature through drawing and sketching.” Haber-Lehigh, who teaches English as a second language, said she’s always been interested in indige- nous cultures. In her native Poland, she said, there is an emphasis on using native plants medicinally and for- aging for edible plants, such as huckleberries and mush- rooms. She hopes to instill similar values and interests in the students through the class, so they will be consci- entious of their natural sur- roundings, and protect the environment from over-de- velopment. “I think all humans have an innate love of nature, and you just kind of need to re- kindle it,” she said. Hands-on learning The teachers stressed hands-on and experiential learning, rather than relying heavily on textbooks and classroom lectures. At least one day per week, the students were outside LQ WKH ¿HOG 7KH\ IRUDJHG for edible plants and made tea from yarrow, rose hips, Western red cedar, Douglas ¿UEUDQFKHVDQGFORYHUÀRZ- ers. The teachers gave them worksheets to help them pay attention to details. The students took three ¿HOG WULSV IXQGHG E\ PRQ- ey raised through the Til- lamook Head Gathering fundraiser earlier this year. At Fort Clatsop, Gearhart Ridge Trail, the Mill Ponds and the Necanicum Estuary, WKH VWXGHQWV LGHQWL¿HG DQG sketched plants and made ¿HOGREVHUYDWLRQV As a service project, they pulled invasive ivy from Sit- ka spruce trees on the south side of the school campus. Drawing real plants gives people a unique relationship to the plants, Haber-Lehigh said. “The art gives students a deeper appreciation and depth of knowledge about the plants,” she said. “It forces them to look closely and see all the patterns and details and intricacies.” Rain: ‘This year, we’ve already KDGWKUHHRUIRXUÀRRGVDOUHDG\¶ Clock: Measure would end ritual of daylight saving Continued from Page 1A Continued from Page 1A Dennis Elleson told The Oregonian his wife, Roberta “Bobbi” Elleson, had moved to a different bedroom to sleep a few hours before. “I ran in the bedroom and she was moaning,” Dennis Elleson told the newspaper. “I went to her side and told her, ‘Hang on. Hang on.”’ He said he couldn’t move WKH WUHH DQG WULHG WR ¿QG D place for her to get air, but it was too late. In western Washington, seven people were swept into the Puyallup River from a riverbank homeless camp Wednesday morning. Someone called 911 around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday to report that people were in the river up to their waists and chests beneath the State Route 512 overpass. All were pulled out of the river by authorities by 8 a.m. Nearby, a small RV park was evacuated Wednes- GD\ PRUQLQJ DV ÀRRGZDWHUV stranded several vehicles. )LUH¿JKWHUV ZHQW YHKL- cle-to-vehicle to check on oc- cupants and some people were evacuated by boat. The camp was a temporary home for several dozen RVs and camp- er-trailers. Residents throughout western Washington and Or- egon were assessing damage Wednesday from the heavy rains and strong winds. People who live along the Steve Dipaola/AP Photo A worker assesses damage from a large fir tree that fell on a house overnight and killed an elderly woman in Portland, Wednesday. Snoqualmie River in Wash- ington state are used to wa- ters cresting the banks but the storms that slammed the Pacif- ic Northwest this week were more intense and destructive than the locals have seen in some time. “This year, we’ve already KDG WKUHH RU IRXU ÀRRGV DO- ready,” Eric West said in Fall City, 25 miles east of Seattle. “This one is the worst.” Washington Gov. Jay In- slee declared a state of emer- gency, directing the Wash- ington Military Department to coordinate state response activities. Washington transportation RI¿FLDOV FORVHG DOO ODQHV RI northbound Interstate 5, the state’s busiest highway, in an area about 30 miles north of Portland Wednesday af- ternoon due to a slide that brought rocks and mud onto the road. Cleanup will begin RQFHRI¿FLDOVKDYHGHWHUPLQHG it is safe. At Sea-Tac Airport, where WKHRI¿FLDOZHDWKHUIRU6HDWWOH is recorded, the weather ser- vice says 2.13 inches of rain fell Tuesday. That beats the previous Dec. 8 record of 1.61 inches. The National Weath- er Service in Seattle said in a tweet Wednesday night that the 5.96 inches of rain re- corded at Sea-Tac this month PDNHVLWWKHZHWWHVW¿UVWQLQH days in December on record. Forecasters say more rain is on the way Thursday and through the weekend. The storm led to pow- er outages affecting about 100,000 in Washington and Oregon customers at its peak and closed schools. The Oregon Department of Transportation said landslides and high water closed parts of many state highways. High water was a prob- lem along the Oregon Coast, where pooling caused road closures, stranded cars and ÀRRGHG QHLJKERUKRRGV +HDY\ GDPDJH IURP ÀRRG- LQJ OHG RI¿FLDOV LQ 7LOODPRRN County to declare an emergen- cy to free up funds for repairs, County Commission Chair Tim Josi said. “It’s more than our county budget can handle,” Josi said, estimating that damage will top $1 million. An RV commu- nity, a long-term facility and households were evacuated. let voters to decide whether to abolish daylight saving in Changing clocks back and 2021. forth is disruptive to internal Dozens of Oregonians tes- body clocks, sleep patterns and WL¿HGLQIDYRURIWKHSURSRVDO can even be dangerous, he said. Joanne DeWitt, one of A 2014 study by University those who submitted testimo- of Colorado at Boulder found ny, said daylight saving causes WKDWIDWDOWUDI¿FDFFLGHQWVVSLNH hazards while serving no pur- by 17 percent on the Monday pose. “I would like to see it go after clocks spring forward. Daylight saving began in the way of other old dino- the United States in 1918 to saurs,” DeWitt said. The legislation stalled in conserve electricity during WKH¿QDOGD\VRI:RUOG:DU, the Senate Rules Committee. It became a permanent ritual Some lawmakers were con- in 1966 with passage of the cerned about being out of sync Uniform Time Act. The fed- with Washington and Califor- eral legislation was designed nia, according to Thatcher’s to end a confusing patchwork RI¿FH “I think once one state does of different time zones in the country but allowed individual it, the others will follow, and states to opt out. Arizona, Ha- honestly, it isn’t that big of a waii and some U.S. territories deal,” Miles said “I have never have chosen to stay on stan- heard people in Arizona say, ‘I hate being off time with Utah.’ dard time. Nowadays, the time change They always laugh at the rest fails to accomplish the goal of of the country at daylight sav- ing time.” saving energy, Miles said. Albany resident Carrie Da- A University of California Berkeley study found that a vis, one of the volunteer peti- two-month extension of Now- tioners, said she has always adays time in Australia during hated daylight saving time. the Sydney Olympic Games in Her opposition compounded 2000 failed to curtail electricity when she had children. “Now that I have kids, it demand. Earlier this year, there were is apparent to me when we proposals in several states to try to change our daily sched- end time changes by either re- ule even by an hour, it is so maining on daylight saving or impactful to our whole success adhering to standard time year- through the day,” Davis said. round, according to the Wash- “Trying to get a toddler to go to sleep an hour later or an hour ington Post. State Sen. Kim Thatcher, earlier is just challenging, for a R-Keizer, introduced a bill VXSHU¿FLDO VRFLDO DJUHHPHQW in January that would have we don’t need.”
