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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MAY 2, 2016 Derby: Former students take part in event Continued from Page 1A “Come back next week, and you’ll catch a lot of our hatchery ish,” Nikkila said. Cain’s students spent Friday night seining for the rainbow trout, pulling 69 out and running them one and two at a time in nets to an oxygen-fed tank in the back of a school district truck for delivery to Coffenbury the night before the derby. As for the ishing, Cain gave more credit to the general unpre- dictability in the sport. “It’s hard to know why the ish don’t bite,” he said. Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian The night before their fishing derby fundraiser, students in Astoria High School’s aquatic biology program and fish- eries technology class scooped tagged rainbow trout out of a student-run hatchery for delivery to Coffenbury Lake. Research Hatchery The high school’s hatchery receives ish from the Salmon and Trout Enhancement Pro- gram. Students also raise batches of rainbow trout for der- bies three years out. Cain said he sees the science center as more research-focused. Each year, he sends his students out into the ield to conduct inde- pendent research assignments, from Nikkila’s study of micro- plastics debris in the diets of salmon to Sariah Dieffenbach’s study on the effects of tempera- ture on freshwater snails. “This class has actually altered my job for the future,” said junior Soia Ward, who studies the salinity tolerance of local freshwater ish and wants ‘I feel like I had a science- type mindset. I like being able to work outside and work in nature.‘ Brian Alfonse 2002 graduate who went on to become a wildlife biologist with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife Alumni event to be a biologist. Dieffenbach said isheries technology is the class she looks forward to most at school, a common sentiment in the tight- knit group of students drawn to the hands-on scientiic work in nature. Making the rounds on the lakefront Saturday, Cain kept spotting his former students, back to take part in the derby, some current or studying biolo- gists who started their research in his class. A graduate from 2013, Mack Hunter makes custom tackle, and was one of nearly 30 businesses to donate a prod- uct for the rafle at the end of the derby. Hunter’s tackle helps pay tuition at the Uni- versity of Oregon, where he studies aquatic biology with a focus on salmon habitat, and hopes to transfer from into the isheries and wildlife sci- ences program at Oregon State University. Down the waterfront Sat- urday was Brian Alfonse, a 2002 graduate who went on to become a wildlife biologist with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. “I didn’t really know what I was doing until I started that program, and that really inspired me to get into isher- ies,” Alfonse said, remember- ing the salmon barbecues the program used to put on to raise money. He now works in a program to reintroduce chum salmon on the lower Columbia River. On Saturday, he was helping a niece and nephew keep a hold of their poles. “I feel like I had a sci- ence-type mindset,” he said. “I like being able to work outside and work in nature. “That can be one of the great inspirations, having a great teacher.” Departures: County has not been briefed about the resignations to conirm these departures and to understand the reasons why.” Continued from Page 1A sources say the resignations are in critical functions such as psy- chiatry, psychiatric nursing, cri- sis management and addiction counseling. Cameron Moore, the county manager, said the county has not been briefed about the reasons behind the resignations. “We already had concerns about the quality of care that CBH was providing to Clat- sop County residents,” he said. “This, obviously, adds to those concerns. “However, at this point, we haven’t been briefed by CBH adequately addressed persistent complaints about care. “Anytime the community raises a concern at all, we have the authority to investigate,” said Susan Stigers, a public affairs specialist with the Ore- gon Health Authority. “We take our responsibility seriously to do that.” Oregon AFSCME, a labor union that represents staff, took a “no conidence” vote against Michele Crump-Hart, the agency’s clinical director. The union claimed staff morale and the public perception of the agency have declined under her leadership. Investigations The Oregon Health Author- ity is conducting a review of management issues at Clatsop Behavioral Healthcare, which is responsible, through a contract, for providing mental-health ser- vices on behalf of the county and state. Law enforcement leaders and some social-service advo- cates have described a men- tal-health system in crisis and have questioned whether the agency’s administrators have In addition to the state review, Clatsop Behavioral Healthcare is conducting an internal investigation. “Both investigations are still in process, and we do not have a deinitive time for when they will be complete,” Benas said. Moore said he does not want to impose an artiicial timeline on the reviews, but would like to know some results soon. “I’m very much hoping that by the end of May we would begin to see either the complete — or some results — from both the state and what I understand is an internal investigation being conducted by CBH,” he said. DEALER DAYS HAVE LANDED! Nance: She is fundraising to buy more safety, video equipment Continued from Page 1A “I only found one men- tion of a woman of African descent, and this woman was from Barbados,” she said of Maria Victor, who spent 2007 to 2013 circling the globe. A friendly escape Nance was born in Grants Pass and raised a des- ert-dweller in Tucson, Ari- zona. While babysitting her friends’ children near Phoe- nix for room and board in 2012, Nance said she posted on Facebook about her yearning to see the world. “The funny thing is I couldn’t igure out exactly how,” she said. “How am I going to do it? How am I going to get the money?” Her answer came with a message from Smith, whom she had lived, worked and become friends with in Phoe- nix. Smith had been sailing since he was a child, wanted to circle the globe but didn’t want to do it alone. Despite having zero experience with sailing, Nance dove in. “I went to the library and checked out a bunch of books about sailing, includ- ing ‘Sailing for Dummies,’” she said. “I watched a lot of sailing videos on YouTube and DVD.” Two years ago, she moved to Astoria. Within a few months, Smith had upgraded from his CAL 25 to a roomier Newport 28, which the two named Emuna Endeavor, the forename Hebrew for “faith.” While sitting in a local employment ofice months later, Nance saw a lier for Clatsop Com- munity College’s maritime sciences program. “I took a lot of naviga- tion courses, charts and aides … pretty much all the navi- gation courses,” said Nance, who earned a certiicate in navigation from the program. Ambassadors of peace “First I actually have to learn to sail,” Nance said. “That’s the main project this summer, getting me to be an actual sailor.” The Emuna Endeavor needs to be hauled out, scraped and painted. Once they take off next summer, she said the plan is to follow the West Coast south around the tip of South America, then north to New England, where they will visit friends in Boston and possibly sail inland to the Great Lakes, before crossing the Atlan- tic Ocean to the British Isles, Scandinavia and the Medi- terranean Sea. Nance said their trip is planned as a single voyage with an open schedule to account for side trips and vis- its with friends. “The original idea of the Emuna Endeavor was inter- acting with people of differ- ent cultures,” she said, add- ing she and Smith would act as ambassadors for peace. “Dovid speaks like ive lan- guages. I’m trying to learn French and Spanish.” She expects the trip to take three to ive years, depending on whether they sail around Africa or go through the Suez Canal. 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