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Program: Voters will decide on education funding package
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Superintendent Craig Hop-
pes said he learned from state
Sen. Betsy Johnson, D-Scap-
poose, about the grant and how
it funded a similar career-tech-
nical center at Tillamook High
School. Astoria administered the
grant, recruited students and sent
Fromwiller to Indiana for a week
of training with Amatrol Inc., a
company that supplies techni-
cal and hands-on learning equip-
ment for students in the trades.
Astoria’s Curriculum Direc-
tor Melissa Linder said the dis-
trict is piloting the program while
the partners igure out how to
share the equipment between
ive districts around the county.
The last countywide coali-
tion on career-technical educa-
tion was the Area Vocational
Center. Funded by the North-
west Regional Education Ser-
vice District, the campus offered
automotive, welding and horti-
culture programs to high school-
ers from across the county. It
closed in 2002-03 amid bud-
get constraints, a similar fate of
many career-technical programs
across the country. By the next
academic year, Clatsop Com-
munity College had signed on
to offer dedicated high school
classes in automotive, weld-
ing and ire science, albeit at a
diminished level from the old
vocational campus.
Expanding options
The pilot program starts less
than two months before vot-
ers will decide on a much larger
career-technical education fund-
ing package.
Measure 98, on the Novem-
ber ballot, would require the
state Legislature to set aside
$147 million — an average of
$800 per student — to expand
career-technical programs, early
college courses and dropout
prevention. The measure could
mean nearly $479,000 for Asto-
ria, $355,000 for Seaside and
$222,000 for Warrenton-Ham-
mond, according to inancial
consulting irm ECONorthwest.
While critics decry the
measure as an unfunded man-
date, advocates say the fund-
ing is needed to help improve
Oregon’s 72 percent gradua-
tion rate, the fourth-worst in the
U.S. last year. According to the
state Department of Education,
students who participated in a
career-technical program gradu-
ated at a 15 percent higher rate
in 2014 than peers who did not.
Kristin Wilkin, head of the
college’s vocational campus for
more than six years, has said at
least 69 percent of students who
took career-technical courses
at the college after its program
started stayed throughout the
academic year. Nearly a quarter
went on to earn a certiicate or
degree from the college.
Measure 98 appears set to
pass in November. A recent poll
by nonpartisan survey irm iciti-
zen showed 64 percent of Ore-
gonians support the measure,
with 19 percent in opposition
and 17 percent undecided.
Whale: Visitors should not touch marine mammal Citizens: ‘This is the irst
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The whale came ashore only
2 miles south of where it was
irst found on an Arch Cape
beach Friday. The whale’s stom-
ach was initially bloated with
gas, but delated midday Satur-
day, leaving stomach contents
and a stench that illed the air.
Because of tide patterns, Chan-
dler and Tiffany Boothe of the
Seaside Aquarium and a team
of researchers from Portland
State University were unable to
access the whale Saturday.
By their return the next day,
the whale had washed back into
the ocean.
“Where it washed ashore at
Arch Cape, it was on a cobble
beach,” Cox said. “With no sand
there to create that extra friction,
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A dead humpback whale washed up on Short Sand Beach
Wednesday at Oswald West State Park.
it loated out to sea.”
Chandler noted the mammal
had been dead for some time and
its tissues likely rotting, which
could make understanding its
cause of death more dificult.
Potential reasons for whale
deaths in general include lack
of prey, diseases, biotoxins and
trauma through ishery gear
entanglement or collisions with
vessels.
Oregon State Parks and Rec-
reation staff will be on hand at
Short Sand Beach at 1 p.m. Sat-
urday and Sunday for free inter-
pretive talks, whether the whale
washes back out or not. Staff
will talk about the importance
of whales in the marine environ-
ment and the food source they
provide when they wash ashore,
Cox said.
Visitors are advised to park
at North Short Sand Trailhead
on U.S. Highway 101. Follow
trail signs to Short Sand Beach,
then walk north.
According to the parks depart-
ment, visitors should not take any
pieces of the whale or touch it and
pets should be kept away from the
shore. Researchers with required
federal permits can collect tissue
from the mammal.
Port: Property has been used for races, homeless camps
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The Port faces the choice of
whether to cancel or continue
the sublease with Oregon LNG,
and whether to keep leasing
the property from the state for
$129,000 a year.
When conversation on the
lease came up, commissioners
Bill Hunsinger and Stephen Ful-
ton said the commission should
speak in an executive session
closed from the public. Com-
missioner James Campbell
disagreed.
The Port Commission last
discussed the Oregon LNG
lease and called an impromptu
executive session in June. The
Port’s attorney, Tim Ramis, said
whether to keep the conversa-
tion in executive session is up to
the Port Commission. The con-
versation remained public.
Fulton said he wants to wait
and see what Oregon LNG does,
and keep them on the hook for
the sublease. “I would like to see
that money go to the Common
School Fund,” he said of the
statewide education fund where
lease payments from state lands
are deposited.
Hunsinger said the commis-
sion was promised an appraisal
of the property before making
any decisions. Hunsinger has
argued that Oregon LNG was
required to return the property
in the same condition as when
the company leased it in 2004.
He has accused Oregon LNG of
allowing the property to go from
industrial to wetland because of a
lack of maintenance, and said the
Port needs to reach out to former
maintenance staff about the his-
toric condition of the property.
The property has been used
for races, mudding, under-
age drinking, homeless camps
and a dumping ground for any-
thing from household trash to
cars. The Port recently blocked
access to the peninsula via King
Avenue over the trespassing
concerns.
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Port Commission Chairman
Robert Mushen said Executive
Director Jim Knight made clear
in a report to the commission
that the Port has no reasonable
case against Oregon LNG for
damaging the property. Com-
missioner John Raichl said noth-
ing was stopping the Port from
maintaining the property.
“Why don’t we sit here and
throw away $129,000 for noth-
ing?” Campbell asked, urging a
vote for a property he said does
nothing for the Port.
Fulton and Hunsinger
wanted to table the matter, while
Campbell and Mushen wanted
to vote. Raichl appeared sup-
portive of voting, but agreed to
table the vote for another meet-
ing in October to allow more
research, as long as it would not
hurt the Port inancially.
In other news:
• The Port Commission
voted to have environmen-
tal consulting irm Maul Fos-
ter Alongi respond to ques-
tions from other parties such as
McCall Oil and Chemical Corp.
and ExxonMobil Energy about
its proposed solution to historic
underground petroleum contam-
ination leaking into the Colum-
bia River. The proposal is to
build a sheet pile wall between
piers 2 and 3, ill and cap the
area to prevent petroleum from
leaking out. Maul Foster has
also been exploring injecting a
permanganate solution into the
underground petroleum contam-
ination, turning it into a manga-
nese-based rock.
• Mushen responded to an
anonymous letter sent to The
Daily Astorian, mayors and fel-
low commissioners accusing him
of having a drinking problem and
anger issues. Mushen denied the
claims in the letter and said he is
taking medication that requires
him not to drink alcohol. “Cow-
ardly acts like this are unneces-
sary,” he said of the letter. Mushen
received comments of support
from Campbell and Raichl.
place where thousands irst
set foot on American soil’
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Anderson’s parents pur-
chased the property in 1950.
The site was added to the
National Register of Historic
Places in 1960, and Ander-
son is working to secure its
future as part of the National
Parks system.
Getting the go-ahead
Naturalization ceremo-
nies for new citizens are
often hosted at courthouses
or immigrations ofices,
Anderson said, but signii-
cant historic sites are some-
times used for a special
touch. Given the property’s
historic role in immigration
to the Northwest, Anderson
thought it might be appro-
priate to host a citizenship
ceremony there — espe-
cially if it could fall on (or
near) U.S. Citizenship Day,
on Sept. 17. That’s the date
the U.S. Constitution was
signed into law in 1787.
After coming up with the
idea, Anderson had to seek
approval from the U.S. Cit-
izenship and Immigration
Service. The agency agreed
that it was a itting place to
welcome the new citizens,
who all reside in Washing-
ton or Oregon.
After Astoria Regatta
Queen Aubrey McMahan
sang the national anthem,
Anderson welcomed the
new citizens and their fam-
ilies to the ceremony.
“This is the irst place
where thousands irst set
foot on American soil,” she
said. The hourlong cere-
mony also featured speakers
from the U.S. Public Health
Service, National Parks Ser-
LISTINGS
A - Charter Astoria/ Seaside - L - Charter Long Beach
vice, and the U.S. Citizen-
ship and Immigration Ser-
vice. The American Legion
Post 12 Color Guard from
Astoria provided lags and
ambiance.
United goal
The new citizens may
have hailed from a half
dozen very different coun-
tries, but the goal of U.S. cit-
izenship united them. Maria
Melgar, 18, came to the U.S.
as a child from El Salva-
dor where she led violence
and poverty. She inally
received her citizenship at
the ceremony.
“It’s my American dream
that I’ve always had,” Mel-
gar said. “I’m not going to
be sent home from where
I’m from. There’s a better
future for me here.” Melgar
now calls Scappose home.
Homa Kazemi, originally
of Iran, started the ceremony
with a serious expression
etched on her face. By the
end, it had given way to an
indelible smile. How did she
feel now?
“Very happy. So happy,”
she said, as she posed for a
picture with her son Fabod,
7, and her husband, Farhad,
who became a U.S. citizen
July 5.
Liz Vigil came to the cer-
emony from Longview. She
is originally from Mexico.
She attended with her young
son.
“I’ve lived here all my
life, so it already feels like
home,” she said. Now, she
added, citizenship makes it
real, her place here, secure.
“Now I’ll be able to vote.
I’ll be able to make a differ-
ence,” she said.
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