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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. He
is a 6’1” white male with blue
eyes and brown hair.
Anyone who thinks they
have information about Eve-
land or the vehicle should
call Det. Brad Johansson at
360-533-7448.
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