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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MAY 2, 2016
Derby: Former students take part in event
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“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.”
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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
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“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.
Nance
said
that
although their voyage will
happen regardless, she and
Smith are fundraising to
buy more safety and video
equipment.
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