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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JULY 5, 2016
Seaside teacher made history come alive Managers aim for
As for him, he has planned
this trip for about a year but
desired to do it his whole life.
McKirdy
retiring from
Broadway
Middle School
Enjoys traveling
McKirdy enjoys travel-
ing and, over the years, gave
students opportunities to take
history and culture-focused
trips to Europe, Costa Rica,
Australia and East Coast des-
tinations such as Washing-
ton, D.C., New York, Bos-
ton, Florida, Baltimore and
Kentucky.
He usually led students
and adult chaperones or par-
ents on trips in June. Over
the years, McKirdy said,
“It’s been harder and harder
to get people who can afford
the trip,” which he believes is
unfortunate because of how
the trips benefi ted students.
“We’ve had a lot of fun,
and the cool thing is, we’ve
gotten a lot of kids interested
in traveling,” he said. “You
learn so much history, too.
I mean, that’s typically the
main interest.”
By KATHERINE
LACAZE
For The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — What could
students expect when they
took a class with Broadway
Middle School social studies
teacher Kelly McKirdy?
Mock elections, out-of-
state and overseas trips,
interviewing a grandparent
and learning strange facts,
fi gures and tidbits not often
found in conventional history
books, to name a few.
“I always try bringing in
things that are sort of dif-
ferent,” said McKirdy, who
is retiring after 30 years at
Broadway Middle School.
“I try to, if I can, relate it to
something in their life. Any-
thing, even if it’s a small
thing, so they can make a
connection somehow.”
For instance, when teach-
ing local history, he shared
about the 1960s riots that
occurred in Seaside and
were, in fact, one of his fi rst
introductions to the town.
Straight out of college
McKirdy started his
teaching career straight
out of college — where he
majored in political science
— at Canyonville Christian
Academy, previously Can-
yonville Bible Academy. He
spent fi ve years there, took a
temporary job in Brookings
for a year and then landed
his job in Seaside. He said
when he told people where
he was moving, they often
responded, “That’s where
they had the riots.”
Not to be deterred,
McKirdy still took the job
and incorporated information
about the incidents into his
curriculum for students.
Using old newspaper clip-
pings and images from the
Oregon Historical Society,
he put together a slideshow
and collages about the riots,
which involved “a bunch
of college kids going crazy,
Informed citizens
Katherine Lacaze/For The Daily Astorian
Broadway Middle School social studies teacher Kelly
McKirdy.
doing all sorts of things,”
McKirdy said. He also
invited a former policeman
who served during the riots
to present for the students.
“That was really fun to
hear what it was like,” he said.
Teaching students lit-
tle-known facts about his-
tory, or sharing with them a
different perspective or twist,
was one aspect of McKirdy’s
classes, which included
seventh-grade world his-
tory, eighth-grade United
States history and multiple
electives.
Grandparent report
Another tradition he bor-
rowed from a Clatskanie
teacher and started at Broad-
way Middle School was the
grandparent report. Students
interviewed one of their
grandparents— or another
person two generations older,
if no grandparent was avail-
able — and wrote a report.
McKirdy said he is happy
to learn his replacement,
Daniel Floyd, agreed to
keep that project in the cur-
riculum for eighth-graders.
McKirdy also led a proj-
ect during which students
selected a state and gath-
ered information such as
the state capital, popula-
tion and when they might
want to visit. This year, he
“jazzed up” the project by
giving students the route he
intends to follow during a
22-week road trip with his
wife . The route includes
New England, Tennessee,
Georgia, California, Ari-
zona and many states in
between.
The students created a
slide show with informa-
tion about each state, such
as where McKirdy can fi nd
a state park, national park,
places to camp in an RV and
a theme park — “because
I love roller coasters and
theme parks,” he said.
“I think it helped add to
the excitement,” he said.
Besides travel, McKirdy
also introduced his students
to the world of politics, vot-
ing and persuasive debate.
Since the 1980s, McKirdy
held mock elections each
year that varied based on cur-
rent events and what races
and topics were on the ballot
at the time.
Over the years, eighth-
grade American history stu-
dents debated about and
voted on congressional races,
presidential primaries, the
U.S. general election and
major measures, such as
those regarding marijuana
and gay marriage laws.
“We’ve had some pretty
hot topics on the ballot over
the years,” McKirdy said.
Generally, the students’
voting results mirrored the
actual results from each
election.
Students
perused
voter guides, did individ-
ual research and prepared
speeches. McKirdy feels
they were suffi ciently able to
grasp the topics.
“Sometimes I think they
end up knowing more than
their parents do,” he said .
cooler water in Snake
River to aid sockeye
By KEITH RIDLER
Associated Press
BOISE, Idaho — Water
managers have started releas-
ing more cold water from a
reservoir in northern Idaho for
endangered Snake River sock-
eye salmon following a year
where 99 percent of the run
died due to lethally hot water.
The decision late last week
to bump up the amount of
43-degree water released from
Dworshak Reservoir on the
North Fork Clearwater River
should keep water temperature
at Lower Granite Dam on the
Snake River under 68 degrees
through the summer, fi sheries
managers say.
The increase to about
10,000 cubic feet per second
is slightly earlier than average
as fi sheries managers and res-
ervoir operators seek to avoid
a repeat of last year. An esti-
mated 4,000 Snake River sock-
eye had entered the Colum-
bia River in what managers
expected would be one of the
best-ever returns to high moun-
tain lakes in central Idaho. But
only about 1 percent survived
the 900-mile journey.
“Last year wasn’t any fun,
and we don’t want to do that
again if we can avoid it,” said
Ritchie Graves of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
Overall, about 90 percent
of the 510,000 sockeye salmon
that entered the Columbia River
last year died when an unusual
combination of low water and
an extended heat wave pushed
water temperatures past 70
degrees. Those conditions had
not occurred in the basin since
at least the 1950s and are lethal
for cold-water sockeye.
Water managers say they
have little ability to infl u-
ence water temperature in the
Columbia River but that Dwor-
shak can supply enough water
to make a difference in the
Snake River.
Also, the Columbia Basin is
cooler this year and much more
hospitable for salmon and
steelhead, Graves said. About
285,000 sockeye have entered
the Columbia River so far,
40,000 more than the 10-year
average. The run is now look-
ing like it will be about three
times larger than the pre-sea-
son estimate of 100,000,
Graves said.
The pre-season estimate for
Snake River sockeye was about
1,000, but it appears now sig-
nifi cantly more fi sh will return.
A handful of those sockeye —
specially marked so their prog-
ress can be tracked through the
system — have already arrived
at Lower Granite Dam and did
so in about 10 days after enter-
ing the Columbia. That’s about
half the time it took the few fi sh
that survived that far last year.
Despite the good out-
look, offi cials appear ready
to respond quickly after last
year’s massive die-off.
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