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DailyAstorian.com // TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2017 144TH YEAR, NO. 148 ONE DOLLAR File Photo The Jewell School Board has opposed a marijuana facility near Jewell School. Pot facility gets cold shoulder in Jewell Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian Clatsop County Emergency Management Coordinator Bijan Fayyaz speaks to students during his presentation about terrorism on Friday at Astoria High School. The presentation is part of the Community Emergency Response Team class curriculum. A lesson in disaster Emergency preparation at area high schools By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian ijan Fayyaz, Clatsop County’s emer- gency management coordinator, remembers as a child going three weeks without power in his hometown of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, during Hurricane Frances in 2004. For Hurricane Katrina in 2005, it was a week-and-a-half. His father, a civil engineer with the city, was tasked with coordinating emergency efforts, sometimes providing him an inside view of how response works. The experiences, he said, gave him an understanding of what it’s like to live through emergencies, with resources often being pulled from less populated areas like Fort Lauderdale and focused on larger nearby cities like Miami. It’s a situation he said Clatsop County could face, being in close proximity to Portland. In an expansion of what used to be an after- school club, Fayyaz is taking all high school seniors in Astoria, juniors in Seaside and soph- omores in Warrenton through a nine-week course in disaster response. By the end of the year, the course will result in more than 250 local high schoolers certified to join a Community Emergency Response Team. And Fayyaz said the county plans to make the disaster training a permanent part of local curriculum. B Lifesaving courses An economics major at Florida State Uni- versity, Fayyaz completed the school’s Emer- gency Management Homeland Security pro- gram, and eventually attended the Emergency Management Institute, learning to train others in emergency response. He visits each of his high school classes once a week, taking over from the teacher for Building would be near Jewell School By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian JEWELL — The Jewell School Board came face-to-face for the first time Monday with the owner of a proposed marijuana pro- cessing facility they have opposed. Marc Plew, from Happy Valley, pur- chased a small lot at the corner of Oregon highways 103 and 202, slightly more than 1,000 feet north of Jewell School. Shortly after, he applied for a permit to build a mar- ijuana processing facility, dispensary and residence. During a presentation Monday about the school district’s appeal process, Jewell Superintendent Alice Hunsaker said the dis- trict found out about the proposed facility from one of four property owners within 250 of the site who were notified about Plew’s application. Outside the radius, the school district was not notified. “As the leader of the school district, I had significant concerns,” she said. See JEWELL, Page 4A Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian Jared Lucore is lifted by classmates as they demonstrate a blanket carry during one of their Community Emergency Response Team classes. the day. Over nine weeks, he takes students through the structure of response teams, disas- ter psychology, search and rescue, first aid, tri- age, firefighting and other disaster response skills. At the end of the course, students are tested in a disaster simulation, their grades dependent on how efficiently they assess a sit- uation and treat victims. Earlier this month, Fayyaz was teaching students in Chad Clouse’s junior health class at Seaside High School how to efficiently search a disaster-stricken area and extract survivors. “It’s prioritizing how to save the most lives, the greatest number of people, in the shortest amount of time,” he said. After a little cajoling, Fayyaz convinced juniors David Schwinof, Megan Brown and Cole Herrington to come up in front of class and demonstrate how to carry each other. “I wouldn’t imagine picking up people I don’t know,” Brown said of the experience, after hauling her classmate Herrington by the feet. But Brown, like her classmates, said she understands the need to have a corps of youth- ful volunteers with such skills, ready at all times in case disaster strikes. “It’s nice to have some responsibility,” Schwinof said, adding Fayyaz’s classes have rekindled a childhood interest of being a first responder. Clouse said Fayyaz’s course was an easy fit, covering many of the same topics he did, such as first aid, while going more in-depth on See LESSON, Page 4A ‘It’s prioritizing how to save the most lives, the greatest number of people, in the shortest amount of time.’ Bijan Fayyaz Clatsop County emergency management coordinator Trump Bump Environmental groups cash in on uncertainty over president By JOHN O’CONNELL EO Media Group The money began rolling in to the environmental groups immediately after Donald Trump won the presidential election last November. Though they wouldn’t divulge specific amounts, environmental activists say building their war chests has MORE INSIDE ‘Right to farm’ a target in Oregon on Page 3A Trump advances Keystone, Dakota pipelines on Page 3A never been so easy, as a grow- ing support base looks to them to take on Trump and his Cab- inet picks they say are linked to “extractive” industries. Pictures of oil pipelines and industrial smokestacks spewing dark clouds accom- pany social media warn- ings alleging that the new Republican president and See BUMP, Page 4A Charles Krupa/Associated Press Environmental groups say they’ve experi- enced a sharp increase in contributions since Donald Trump was elected president. Ted Shorack/The Daily Astorian Douglas fir logs harvested near Jewell are brought up to a landing in the Clat- sop State Forest. The Jewell School District will stay in a $1.4 billion lawsuit against the state over timber harvests. Jewell stays in timber suit School board decides to take no action By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian JEWELL — The Jewell School District, one of two timber-funded school districts in the state, will stay in a $1.4 billion lawsuit over timber harvests. Without explanation, the school board decided on Monday to take no action regard- ing the Linn County lawsuit, by default stay- ing involved. Asked after the meeting about the inac- tion, Brian Meier, the school board chair- man, said the board avoids taking political stances. The breach of contract lawsuit claims the state has failed to maximize timber reve- nue on forestland deeded by 15 counties and about 130 taxing districts statewide. Clatsop County, which contains the larg- est share of forestland targeted in the law- suit, voted to opt out, but many individual taxing districts in the county have to make their own decisions. The Port of Astoria Commission voted last week to stay in the lawsuit. The Clatsop Community College Board decides tonight. Superintendent Sheila Roley said the Sea- side School District plans to take no action before the Jan. 25 deadline, which means the district will remain a plaintiff.
