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THE DAILY ASTORIAN FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2016
Student helps celebrate Seaside High’s 100th year
Senior prepares
community
event to mark
high school’s
long history
By KATHERINE
LACAZE
For EO Media Group
SEASIDE — A hun-
dred years ago, Seaside
Union High School became
a reality for South County
families.
For her Pacifica Project,
2016 senior class President
Alie Zagata research ed the
decades that transpired since
the school’s foundation in
October 1916 . Her work will
culminate in a centennial
celebration some time in late
April or early May.
“Seaside High School has
really helped me to become
the student I am, and I know
it has for a lot of other peo-
ple,” said Zagata, who is
from Manzanita and attends
Seaside as an out-of-district
student. “I just would like to
be a part of celebrating it and
marking 100 years of excel-
lent education.”
Before 1916
Prior to 1916, Seaside had a
high school for its local youth,
but it was determined by the
district and surrounding dis-
tricts that a united high school
would be the best option for
secondary education. Seaside’s
Union High School was built
within the same property used
by the high school today.
The “new” building was
constructed in the late 1950s,
with a few updates completed
since then.
At the event, Zagata hopes
to display memorabilia and
a time line that outlines each
decade and signi¿ cant aca-
demic and sporting events —
such as winning state titles
— at the high school. The com-
munity event also will feature
speakers sharing experiences
from their tenure at Seaside
High School. The idea, Zagata
said, is to involve a lot of people
in celebrating the high school
“and what it has achieved in the
past 100 years.” Another senior
is spearheading a time capsule
project that will be presented
during the celebration.
Zagata would like the dis-
play to be interactive in some
way — for instance, using
sticky notes for people to write
down their stories and place
them at the appropriate place
Katherine Lacaze/For EO Media Group
Senior Class President Alie Zagata is researching Seaside High School’s history and
plans to present her work during a community “centennial celebration” event she is
organizing for late spring.
on the time line.
She is researching the his-
tory using old yearbooks as her
primary source of information,
and she also has reached out
Hatchery steelhead banned
from Grays and Chinook rivers
EO Media Group
OLYMPIA, Wash. — The
Washington Department of
Fish and Wildlife will no lon-
ger release hatchery-reared
steelhead in the Grays River,
a decision meant to help pre-
serve the wild steelhead pop-
ulation near the mouth of the
Columbia River.
The Chinook River, which
À ows into the Columbia 15
miles farther downstream, will
also be off-limits to the release
of hatchery steelhead now that
the department has designated
the Grays- Chinook wild steel-
head population the state’s
newest wild ¿ sh gene bank.
That designation, announced
Wednesday , is part of a statewide
policy to protect self-sustaining
populations of wild steelhead by
reducing the risk to them posed
by hatchery ¿ sh, said Cindy Le
Fleur, the Department of Fish and
Wildlife’s regional ¿ sh manager.
“This is the last of four
gene banks currently planned
for wild steelhead in the L ower
Columbia River Basin,” Le
Fleur said. “The department
remains committed to produc-
ing hatchery ¿ sh for harvest,
but we also need to protect
wild steelhead against inter-
breeding, disease, and compe-
tition from hatchery ¿ sh.”
Oregon mailers list primary
options for unaf¿ liated voters
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EUGENE — Oregon of¿ -
cials say they are reminding
unaf¿ liated voters that they
still have time to register with
a political party and participate
in the May primary election.
The
Register-Guard
reported that Secretary of State
Jeanne Atkins says there are
540,000 unaf¿ liated voters
statewide. The state will send
mailers that lay out the pri-
mary options for those voters.
Atkins’ of¿ ce says the
mailers are being sent because
the Independent Party has
decided to open its primary
voting to unaf¿ liated voters,
while the Oregon Democratic
and Republican parties have
decided to keep their primaries
closed to those voters.
Unaf¿ liated voters make up
24 percent of registered voters
in Oregon, up from 22 percent
in 2001, and fewer voters are
registering as Democrats or
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to the Seaside Historical Soci-
ety and gone to the library. She
is looking for more people in
the area to share their stories
to help ¿ ll in gaps or materi-
Neglected horses rescued in Clatskanie
The Daily Astorian
Fifteen horses have been
seized from residents in Clats-
kanie who have been cited
previously for animal neglect.
The Oregon Humane
Society said investigators
found several horses on
the rural property that were
underweight and one that
appeared to have sores. One
horse was dead. The horses
were removed Monday from
the Colvin Road property
after the humane society and
the Columbia County Sher-
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als she can display at the com-
munity event. Those wishing to
contribute can contact the high
school at 503-738-5586 to get
in contact with Zagata.
“We’d love to see anything
that anyone has and would
be willing to share,” she said.
“It’ll be a lot of work, but I’m
excited to see how it all ends
up, and I hope to see a lot of
people come out — a lot of
alumni, a lot of community
members.”
During her research, Zagata
discovered that in the early
1920s, the high school had a
basketball team for girls. How-
ever, shortly after, it was dis-
continued for several decades,
or “until girls sports started to
come back,” she said.
“It was interesting that there
was a girl-speci¿ c basketball
team that early on, and then
that it would just disappear for
so long,” she added.
After graduation, Zagata
hopes to attend Whitman Col-
lege, a liberal arts college in
Washington . During her four
years, Zagata has participated
in sports, band, Key Club and
other activities, in addition to
being class president two con-
secutive years.
“I’ve had a really good edu-
cational experience at Seaside
High School,” she said. “I can’t
complain about anything. I just
have really enjoyed my time
here and I would like to leave
my mark and offer a fun cele-
bration for everyone.”
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