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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2016 Jewell grads step up to the future Eleven students ready for life after high school Students help restore windows at mausoleum By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Graduation season started Saturday in Jewell School, where 11 seniors took an initial step into adulthood. The Class of 2016 was led by valedictorian Trystan Silva and salutatorian Sage Didlake. “Going into the real world after 14 years of having to raise your hand to go to the bathroom or get a drink of water — it’s pretty insane, you know,” Didlake said during her address. It’s even scarier to join the world from such a tiny place, she said, going from a place where everyone knows one another’s business to the wide world full of strangers. But she said one thing graduates could take into the world is their close-knit sense of community. Silva came to that commu- nity from Las Vegas in his ifth- grade year. “I was just thinking ‘where are all the people at,’” Silva said, adding his elementary school in Nevada had 1,500 students, compared to about 150 K-12 in Jewell. Silva said he got involved in sports and other extracurric- ulars to acclimate, and found an environment with plenty of one-on-one support and teach- ers and staff who motivated him to succeed. Students in the tiny, tim- ber-tax-rich district nestled in the middle of the Clatsop State Forest receive unprecedented support services, small class sizes and almost always grad- uate. But the school has strug- gled with sending students on to higher education. Three years ago, after some tumultuous leadership changes, Jewell hired Alice Hunsaker as superintendent and Mike Scott as principal. While the allure of entering the forestry sector and mak- ing a decent wage is a draw, Scott said, the school has made a concerted effort to help stu- A window into the evermore Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian The 11 graduates of Jewell School turn their tassels from right to left Saturday. Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian Salutatorian Sage Didlake, center, walks at graduation Saturday with her father, Matt, and mother, Shawna. Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian Principal Mike Scott, left, and Superintendent Alice Hun- saker congratulate Nicholas Chavera-Munk on receiv- ing his diploma Saturday at Jewell School. dents continue on with their education. Hunsaker said a pri- mary goal is to help change the culture in which only about 50 percent of graduates from the last two years had gone on to a college, trade school or other training program. “It’s a culture shift to get them to think beyond the (Nehalem) Valley,” she said after graduation Saturday. The district takes students on ield trips to universities and provides scholarships for each graduate moving on. Hunsaker said she feels one of the biggest accomplish- ments this year is that 80 per- cent of this year’s gradu- ates have a plan for after high school starting in the summer or fall, whether that’s the Art Institute of Portland, commu- nity college, Job Corps or an apprenticeship. “And, you know, that’s the ultimate goal,” she said. WARRENTON — Students from Clatsop Community Col- lege have inished restoring several stained glass windows in the century old Ocean View Abbey Mausoleum. Lucien Swerdloff, director of the college’s historic preserva- tion program, secured a $3,200 grant from the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department and brought his students in over three weekends in April and May to restore the windows. The stu- dents had help from Jim Han- nen of Hannen Stained Glass in Seaside and in-kind labor from the city of Astoria, which owns Ocean View Cemetery. The grandiose, Egyptian Revival-style, mirror-image mausoleum was designed by Ellis F. Lawrence, who had a contract with the Portland Mau- soleum Co. for structures around Oregon, He also designed Knight Library, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and McArthur Court basketball arena at the University of Oregon, along with Mahonia Hall, the governor’s mansion in Salem. Inside the heavy, bronze kalamein front doors is a room entirely covered in mar- ble, with small alcoves on either side. The shelves hold- ing the dead are marked with gold lettering and decorated with lowers from family and Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian City staff said the Brix family, which has several relatives interred at Ocean View Abbey, hired someone to clean in- side and refurbish the gold lettering. friends. Identical orange-and- yellow stained glass window columns let in sunlight from the east and west. Students used saws to remove the windows, which Swerdloff said were mortared into place, before disassembling the zinc came used to frame the diamond-shaped glass panels. “It was corroded to the point where you could grab it with a pair of pliers and it would crum- ble,” Hannen said. Repairing the windows required help from several com- panies. About 85 percent of the original glass was put back into the windows. The original panes were made by Kokomo Opales- cent Glass Co. in Indiana. Han- nen said the company still had the original 1913 recipe and sent replacement panes, which stu- dents then cut into diamond and triangular shapes. Student Hannah Phelps said White’s Heating and Sheet Metal in Seaside helped make replacement zinc frames, which the class laid out and assembled. Student Alisyn Smith said P&L Johnson Mechanical helped the students create new wooden frames that it the thin, columnar windows. Swerdloff is now trying to secure more grant funding to repair two window slits in front and about 10 monitor windows ringing the top of the mauso- leum, as well as recasting some of the broken stone luting around the top. “It’s a simple building, but it’s a nice building,” Swerdloff said, adding the structure needs a new roof. Amid budget cuts and staff- ing shortages, the city has faced continuing criticism for lack- luster grounds maintenance at Ocean View, where Parks Direc- tor Angela Cosby said about 20,000 people are buried. The mausoleum is sur- rounded by city land but tech- nically owned by those with family members interred in the marble walls. Cosby said the refurbishment of the structure wouldn’t be possible without partners like the college and the Brix family, which has sev- eral relatives interred at the mausoleum and hired some- one to clean inside and refur- bish the gold lettering. Two ires under investigation The Daily Astorian Astoria Fire Department responded to two home blazes Sunday, one likely accidental and another suspicious. Astoria Fire Chief Ted Ames said his department was dispatched at 4:30 a.m. Sun- day to a ire at a home along Lief Erikson Drive between 44th and 45th streets. He said the ire extensively damaged the home’s interior, leaving a few portions of roof collapsing in on the structure. The ire temporarily blocked trafic, with Asto- ria Police Department and the state Department of Trans- portation setting up a detour around the block. Ames said the ire investigation team will be at the site today to deter- mine the cause. “At this point in time, it appears to be acci- dental,” he said. On Sunday night, the Asto- ria Fire Department responded to a possible arson in Emerald Heights Apartments. Ames said the ire depart- ment was dispatched to Halsey Road, where the police were responding to a situation he said preceded a ire in a sec- ond-story unit. His crew extin- guished the ire, which he said gutted the interior of the unit and caused smoke and water damage to neighbors. Astoria Police Depart- ment, which is investigat- ing the suspected arson, was not immediately available for comment. Authorities search for Elma man suspected of murder, arson By NATALIE ST. JOHN EO Media Group ELMA, Wash. — The Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Ofice is seeking information about an Elma man who is sus- pected in a murder and arson. Authorities said Jacob Lloyd Eveland, 36, is a known drug user who may be in pos- session of one or more weap- ons. He should be considered armed and dangerous. Police have a warrant for his arrest. Eveland is the owner of a home where a ire and murder occurred at about 11 p.m. on May 31. According to a KIRO news report, neighbors reported hearing a gunshot and then seeing the ire at about 11 p.m. When ireighters arrived at the home, it was in lames. Fire- ighters found a man’s body outside the home. According to the Sher- iff’s Ofice, the victim was assaulted with an “edged weapon,” as well as a gun. The weapons have not been recovered, leading police to believe that Eveland may still have them in his possession. Eveland was last seen at the residence about two hours before the mur- der occurred. At the time, he was in possession of a gold 2005 Chevy Silverado truck, license plate number B35387U. The truck, which was stolen from Thurston County, has a matching can- opy with an NRA sticker on the rear window, running lights on top of the cab, and aftermarket chrome wheels. When the vehicle was sto- W A NTED len, there was a .22 caliber pistol inside. According to the Sher- iff’s Ofice, Eveland may be headed to central Oregon. 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