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Burpee: Passion
comes from his desire
to see visitors who
become enthralled
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“I’ve always consid-
ered myself a Northwest-
erner wherever I’ve lived,”
Burpee said. “There isn’t a
more northwest story than
Lewis and Clark and their
interactions with the tribes
here. It’s one of the things I
like about this place.”
After serving as a
volunteer and later a park
ranger at Fort Vancouver,
Burpee worked at national
parks and monuments in
California, Georgia and
Florida. He also spent two
years as a National Park
Service Bevinetto Congres-
sional Fellow in Washing-
ton, D.C.
‘Magic’ in parks
Burpee, who describes
himself as very positive, said
his experience in the Park
Service helped him over-
come shyness. He speaks
often of the “magic” within
the parks and monuments
where he’s worked. His pas-
sion comes from his desire
to see visitors who, as he
did when he was 8, become
enthralled.
“You can see it in their
eyes when they go, ‘Pow, I
get it!,’ or it gets someone to
think about something big-
ger,” Burpee said.
Most recently, Burpee
spent 16 months as the
superintendent of Tule
Springs Fossil Beds National
Monument in Nevada. He
always saw himself as a
ranger, but realized that
his gift for the job could
allow him to take on more
responsibilities.
In other words, he could
facilitate the “magic” at the
park.
“There’s a realization
that, if park management
does their job well, that’s
what allows that to happen,”
Burpee said.
More time for
creativity
He was the first and only
employee at Tule Springs for
the first nine months. Among
the number of tasks Burpee
inherited was planning struc-
tures like visitor centers and
beginning outreach to the sur-
rounding community.
“I was fixing a fence one
day and meeting with the
mayor the other,” he said.
At Lewis and Clark, a
nearly 60-year-old park that
hosted a record 284,531 vis-
itors last year, Burpee hopes
to have more time to think
creatively. One of his major
goals is to involve the local
community, he said.
Many of the park’s visi-
tors each year come from out
of the area. Bringing in new,
temporary exhibits and estab-
lishing new programs, such as
youth groups, can be an effec-
tive way to keep members of
the local community coming
to the park, he said.
“It’s a place that, anybody
can immediately come here
and feel a difference in time,
difference in place,” Burpee
said, “even if you live just 2
miles down the road outside
the park boundaries.”
In addition, the park will
reach out to other programs
in the county by supporting
efforts for tax credit funds and
national registry nominations.
“A national park is at its
best when it is of the com-
munity and not just a national
park that happens to be in a
community,” he said.
While it’s hard to know
where his career in the Park
Service will lead, Burpee
expects to stay at Lewis and
Clark at least longer than
some of his other stints.
“It really does, for me, feel
like coming home,” he said.
“The lure of this community,
of the Northwest, it would
be hard to get me out of it, I
think.”
Grad rates: 1,300 more
Oregon graduates in
2016 than previous year
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Astoria Superintendent
Craig Hoppes said Astoria
High School continues to
work on different avenues to
help students finish. He said
a big focus for educators now
is on how much funding the
county’s school districts will
receive as part of Measure
98, which voters approved in
November.
The measure, seen as
a support mechanism to
improve the state’s gradua-
tion rate, is expected to pump
approximately $800 per stu-
dent into adding career-tech-
nical offerings, providing
more college credit courses
in high school and supporting
dropout prevention programs.
Hoppes said Astoria is
hoping to boost the Gray
School Campus Alternative
Education Program. Astoria
takes in students from dis-
tricts around the county who
for whatever reason don’t fit
in traditional high school,
providing them a self-paced
opportunity to earn a diploma
or study for the GED exam.
Students in Jewell School
District — which awarded
10 diplomas in 2015-16 —
showed a marked improve-
ment from the year prior,
with 83.33 students com-
pleting in four years, up
19.04 points from 64.29 per-
cent in 2014-15. Warren-
ton-Hammond School Dis-
trict improved by 5.15 points
from 69.09 percent in 2014-
15 to 74.24 percent this past
year. Knappa School District
improved by 3.6 points, from
66.67 percent in 2014-15 to
70.27 percent this past year.
The state graduated 1,300
more students in 2016 than in
the previous year. All demo-
graphic groups improved
their rates.
Almost 90 percent of
Asian students graduated in
four years, but white, black,
Hispanic and American
Indian students all remain
short of 80 percent. Seven-
ty-eight percent of girls grad-
uated in four years compared
with 71 percent of boys.
Gov. Kate Brown lauded
the statewide improvement.
“My goal is that
students graduate high
school with a plan for their
futures, and we should cel-
ebrate 1,300 more Oregon
students charting promis-
ing paths,” Brown said in a
statement. “I remain com-
mitted to improving Ore-
gon’s graduation rates, and
will prioritize investments in
the upcoming legislative ses-
sion that empower communi-
ties and educators to improve
graduation rates, particularly
for historically underserved
and rural communities.”
Oregon Department of
Education Deputy Super-
intendent Salam Noor also
praised the state’s progress.
“It shows the dedication
of our teachers and school
administrators that gradu-
ation rates are increasing
across the board,” he said.
“We are making progress,
while recognizing there is
still more work to do. We
are pleased our state’s focus
on improving graduation
outcomes for all students is
making a difference.”
‘We are making progress,
while recognizing there is
still more work to do.’
Salam Noor
Oregon Department of Education deputy superintendent
Mary Tyler Moore dies at 80
She wasn’t perfect: View-
ers identified with her flustered
moments and her plaintive
cry to her husband: “Ohhhh,
Robbbb!”
Moore’s chemistry with
Van Dyke was unmistakable.
Decades later, he spoke warmly
of the chaste but palpable off-
screen crush they shared during
the show’s run.
They also appeared together
in several TV specials over the
years and in 2003, co-starred in
a PBS production of the play
“The Gin Game.”
“There are no words. She
was THE BEST! We always
said that we changed each oth-
er’s lives for the better,” Van
Dyke tweeted.
By LYNN ELBER
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Mary
Tyler Moore didn’t have it all
on her 1970s sitcom, but what
she had was enough.
A husband and kids, long
the stock TV recipe for female
contentment, were absent
from “The Mary Tyler Moore
Show.” Instead, Mary Richards
combined work, friends and
lovers into an alternative ver-
sion of a modern young wom-
an’s full life.
Feminism already had said
it was possible. Mary made it
mainstream with her charm and
million-watt smile, showing
America that an independent
woman could be admired and
embraced.
She was so inspiring that
even those lacking her per-
fect balance of grace and, yes,
spunk, imagined themselves
achieving their own success.
Moore, who died Wednes-
day at 80, “influenced my
career more than any other TV
role model,” NBC newswoman
Andrea Mitchell posted on
Twitter. “She indeed turned on
the world with her smile.”
Marlo Thomas, who played
another single women intent
on a career in the 1960s sitcom
“That Girl,” saluted Moore
and their shared achievement.
“I’m proud that we were in
that groundbreaking sorority
that brought single independent
women to television. She will
be deeply missed,” Thomas in
a statement.
Tam in the air
In downtown Minneapolis,
where Moore’s sitcom was set,
Plucky producer
Jerry Holt/Star Tribune
Actress Mary Tyler Moore, standing beside a statue de-
picting her legendary tam toss in 2002, tossed another
tam as the bronze statue of her was unveiled on Nicollet
Mall in Minneapolis. Moore, 80, died Wednesday.
fans laid flowers at the base of
a statue that depicts the open-
ing-credits scene in which she
joyfully, triumphantly throws
her tam in the air.
Nichole Buehler, 35, who
said she grew up watching the
show with her great-grand-
mother, called Moore’s char-
acter “a strong, independent”
working woman.
Moore also was a daring
actress whose talents extended
beyond comedy, said Rob-
ert Redford, who directed her
to an Oscar nomination in the
1980 family drama “Ordinary
People.”
“The courage she dis-
played in taking on a role ...
darker than anything she had
ever done, was brave and enor-
mously powerful,” Redford
said in a statement.
Moore, who gained fame
in the 1960s as frazzled wife
Laura Petrie on “The Dick Van
Dyke Show,” went on to win
seven Emmy Awards over the
years.
As Laura, she traded in the
housedress of countless sitcom
wives for Capri pants that were
as fashionable as they were
suited to a modern American
woman.
But it was as the plucky
Minneapolis TV news producer
on “The Mary Tyler Moore
Show” (1970-77), that Moore
truly made her mark.
Mary Richards was com-
fortable being single in her 30s,
and while she dated, she wasn’t
desperate to get married. She
sparred affectionately with her
gruff boss, Lou Grant, played
by Ed Asner, and addressed
him always as “Mr. Grant.”
And millions agreed with the
show’s theme song that she
could “turn the world on with
her smile.”
The series ran seven seasons
and won 29 Emmys, a record
that stood for a quarter century
until “Frasier” broke it in 2002.
“Everything I did was by
the seat of the pants. I reacted
to every written situation the
way I would have in real life,”
Moore told The Associated
Press in 1995.
Flu: ‘It picks on everyone equally’
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Clatsop County in the past
few months have had flu-re-
lated symptoms at the time of
their death, Mazzarella-Tisch
said. The causes of these
deaths included other symp-
toms, such as pneumonia, and
no other deaths in the county
were a result of the flu.
Five children across the
country, none in Oregon, have
died as a result of the flu, Maz-
zarella-Tisch said. Across the
state, 726 people have been
hospitalized so far, compared
to 410 total last year.
Public health officials say
it is not too late to receive a
flu shot. Vaccines typically
take up to two weeks to take
full effect and may not immu-
nize all types of flu strains.
Residents can receive vacci-
nations at the health depart-
ment for free or at local clin-
ics and pharmacies.
Other preventative steps
include wearing face masks,
especially if you have the flu
and are out in public, washing
hands, avoiding contact with
your face or mouth and stay-
ing home as much as possible.
Children under 5 years old,
pregnant women, the elderly
and those with compromised
immune systems should visit
the emergency room if they
experience symptoms. All
other cases are encouraged to
visit local clinics.
At a Seaside City Council
meeting on Monday, Fire Chief
Joey Daniels said two residents
were flown from Providence
Seaside Hospital because of
the flu and that many in his
department are missing work
due to symptoms.
“There are five strains of
bronchitis and pneumonia
going around, so watch out
for friends and family,” he
said. “It’s striking everyone
from infants to the elderly. It
picks on everyone equally.”
R.J. Marx contributed to
this report.
College: Invalidation means board’s vote is 3-3
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JoAnn Zahn, the college’s
vice president of finance and
operations, contacted gen-
eral counsel Karen Smith with
the Oregon Community Col-
lege Association. According
to the college, Smith said pub-
lic meeting law does not allow
votes by email.
Monaghan said she and
college President Christopher
Breitmeyer, who was also not
at the meeting, had assumed
it was all right for Moberg to
submit a vote by email. “It’s
too bad, because honestly
everybody was operating in
good faith,” Monaghan said,
adding Moberg had sent an
apology to the board.
The invalidation means the
board’s vote is 3-3, leaving
the college as a plaintiff in the
lawsuit. The deadline for the
15 counties and approximately
130 taxing districts in the
class-action lawsuit to vote on
withdrawing was Wednesday.
The college has contacted
John DiLorenzo, an attorney
with Davis Wright Tremaine
LLP, the law firm handling
the lawsuit for Linn County, to
find out if an extension is pos-
sible for submitting an opt-out
letter.
“No response has been
received at this time,” the col-
lege said in a news release.
The college “does not expect
any flexibility in the date but
are awaiting a response.”
Reached
by
phone,
DiLorenzo said he received an
opt-out notice from the college
Tuesday, followed by another
email Wednesday rescinding
the decision. He said the Linn
County Circuit Court has indi-
cated that Wednesday was the
deadline to send a letter opting
out, and that he expects about
95 percent of the original tax-
ing districts included in the
lawsuit to remain as plaintiffs.
The Clatsop
Community
College
Board’s
4-3 vote to
opt out of a
timber law-
suit against
the state is
invalid be-
cause one
member
voted by
email.
AP Photo
Don Ryan
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