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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017 Pop-up lunch helps Job Corps chefs By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Drop in for lunch at Baked Alaska, and pay whatever you can. Throughout the week, Chef Christopher Holen of Baked Alaska is holding a Pay What You Can pop-up lunch. Holen said the lunch was an idea he had for years but recently popped up in his mind. “Why did I do it?” he asked. “I guess I’m crazy. I want to see what happens.” Customers can choose from shrimp melts, grilled cheese and tomato soup, cur- ried chicken wraps, smoked salmon chowder in a bread bowl, chicken and vegan sal- ads and mushroom spaghetti. Making the meals are culinary students from Tongue Point bia River, including stops in Astoria. The lunch is running 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily through Friday in Baked Alaska’s annex, across 12th Street from the main restaurant. Job Corps Center, from which Holen’s restaurant has long hosted interns. The students change each week, except for lead sous chef Martien Chisholm, who came to Tongue Point from Longview, Washington. Chisholm said Job Corps has about 25 stu- dents, of which about 15 will be cycling through the pop-up lunch at Baked Alaska. Chef Outta Water Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian Interact with community For the students, the lunch is an opportunity to interact with the community. Anna Le, from Oak Har- bor, Washington, cooks in the cafeteria at Job Corps but said it was fun getting out into the community. During a visit from a local U.S. Coast Guardsman, Le said, she became interested From left, Anaise Holen bussed tables Monday for her fa- ther Christopher Holen, chef and co-owner of Baked Alas- ka, at a pop-up lunch Monday in the restaurant’s annex. Holen is running the event with the help of a rotating cast of Tongue Point Job Corps Center culinary students, in- cluding Martien Chisholm, Anna Le, Alycia Williams and Costner Johnson. in joining the service. Costner Johnson, who traveled from Guam and has been at Tongue Point about one year, said he’s getting ready to interview as a cook with American Queen Steamboat Co., which makes trips up and down the Colum- Holen said he has his main business, Baked Alaska, and a more philanthropic and cre- ative arm, Chef Outta Water, a global membership program of events that celebrate food and travel through chef exchanges. The program brought in an Icelandic chef Snorri Sig- fusson of Restaurant KOL in Reykjavik in September for a $150-a-plate dinner. The same effort organized the pay-your- own-price lunches, which Holen said he might hold about twice a year. “Chef Outta Water” is also the name of an international cooking show Holen is hoping a network such as Discovery or Travel Channel might pick up. The show features Holen traveling the world — Towns- ville, Australia, and Reykja- vik, Iceland over the summer — to meet with other chefs, explore their local cuisine and bring it back to Astoria, where Chef Outta Water offered an Icelandic-themed dinner in September. “That’s what Chef Outta Water is, is being uncom- fortable and getting outside your comfort zone,” Holen said. That same ethos guides the pop-up lunches, he said. He hopes people of differ- ent cross-sections will come together over a bite, no matter their price range. Divide: Clatsop County has one family planning clinic Continued from Page 1A Unprecedented decline The federal Centers for Disease Control and Preven- tion tracked the unprecedented decline in the teen birth rate nationally to 22.3 per 1,000 women 15 to 19 in 2015, down from 41.5 in 2007. A report released by the CDC in November outlined the urban-rural divide. In larger urban counties, the teen birth rate declined by a stun- ning 50 percent between 2007 and 2015, while the rate in rural counties dropped by 37 percent. In Oregon, the teen birth rate was 17.2 in urban coun- ties in 2015, compared to 32.2 in 2007, a 46.6 percent fall. In rural counties, the rate was 29.3 in 2015, compared to 42.8 in 2007, a 31.5 percent drop. The pattern was evident in Clatsop County, where the Oregon Health Authority put the teen birth rate at 30 in 2015, higher than the statewide rate — 25.1 — and the rates of metropolitan counties such as Multnomah — 27.7 — Wash- ington — 19.5 — and Clacka- mas — 15.6. Researchers have tied the steep decline nationally to more effective use of contra- ceptives and higher-quality sex education. The urban-rural divide is more difficult to explain, but is likely driven by limited access to reproductive health care and by social and cultural behavior. “It’s really just a matter of being able to have access, and it’s limited,” said Dr. Tracy Erfling, Clatsop County’s fam- ily planning clinician. One clinic Clatsop County has one family planning clinic — at the county building in Asto- ria — a barrier for teenagers who live outside the city or who lack transportation. Open- ing smaller clinics around the county could reduce the bar- rier, but the county does not have the money. The family planning clinic provides contraceptives and other reproductive health ser- vices. Options counseling is available for teenagers who are pregnant, with referrals to health care providers. Messages about abstinence, safe sex and intimacy without intercourse are getting through to teenagers, Erfling said, while cultural and family traditions also have a role. “I do think that in rural communities people tend to kind of go for creating a family unit a little faster than in urban, because there are more choices in an urban environment. As far as education choices and job choices and partner choices,” she said. “In a more rural com- munity, you’re often follow- ing suit with family tradition, which is not a negative.” Positive trend Oregon Health Authority statistics show that the teen birth rate in Clatsop County rises as teenagers get older. The pregnancy rate for teens 15 to 17 was 13.1 per 1,000 in 2015, but climbed to 52.7 for 18 and 19 year olds. The trend is positive for educators, who want young women who do get pregnant to at least get their high school or GED diplomas. Local public school princi- pals and school counselors say teen pregnancy has been less of an issue at schools over the past decade or so. State law requires pub- lic schools to provide age-ap- propriate, medically accurate instruction on human sexuality as part of health education. “There’s a large focus on healthy relationships,” Astoria High School Principal Lynn Jackson said. “Not just about the sexuality element, but what truly does a healthy rela- tionship look like with regards to feeling affirmed, feeling safe, feeling validated and consensual.” Warrenton High School Principal Rod Heyen said he plans to add a one-week unit on human sexuality for fresh- men next school year after noticing some knowledge gaps. “We felt like that was a need that had come up a cou- ple of different times in a cou- ple of different ways,” he said. “I felt like I was too late to the dance with some of my freshmen.” ‘Made me blush’ Heyen said the human sex- uality curriculum is much more frank than many adults might remember from school. “That sex ed curriculum would have made me blush when I was in high school,” he said. “But we also have to have those conver- sations because too many par- ents aren’t having them.” Knappa High School Prin- cipal Laurel Smalley said she is not surprised by the urban-rural divide. “There is clearly a divide in resources between rural and urban students, and I think that’s probably a big reason why that gap still exists,” she said. Local schools turn to indi- vidualized programs for teen- agers who get pregnant that are tailored to their personal situ- ations. Some stay at their high schools — with flexible sched- ules if necessary — or go to the alternative education program at Gray School in Astoria. “I want the best shot for them to finish,” Heyen said. “What I try to do is what is going to give them the most support and give them the clearest path to finish or com- plete high school.” Gray School At the Gray School cam- pus, pregnant students have access to child care through the city’s Lil’ Sprouts Academy. They can learn online from home and come in to take tests or receive support. The alterna- tive school has also offered a parenting class that can involve both mother and father. Clatsop Post 12 Spaghetti Dinner Alexa Knutsen, the alterna- tive education lead teacher, is a new parent herself. “I’m 30 and I’m learn- ing how difficult this is,” she said. “So I have this new- found respect for our teens that are in our program and doing this, because it is incredibly difficult.” Knutsen said some of her students have learned life’s les- sons the hard way, or have seen others struggle with the emo- tional, physical and financial demands of pregnancy. “I don’t think any parent, when you have your child, would ever say, ‘I regret this,’” Knutsen said. “You know that when you look at your child, you’re like, this is life-chang- ing and I don’t regret this. 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She also recon- ciled with Jesse. Last June, Bubar earned her diploma and walked with the senior class at the Astoria High School graduation. She works as a housekeeper in Sea- side but hopes to one day be a nurse. “That was important to me,” Bubar, 21, said of walk- ing with the other graduates. “I didn’t think I’d ever see myself doing that.” with Salad and Garlic Bread Leinassar Dental Excellence 503.325.0310 1414 Marine Drive, Astoria from her doctor that she was pregnant as a Warrenton High School junior, she was scared. “What am I supposed to do?” she recalled thinking. “How do I tell my mom? How do I tell my dad? How do I tell my boyfriend?” Sexually active women 15 to 19 have the highest rate of unintended pregnancy, accord- ing to the Guttmacher Institute, which studies reproductive health, and about 42 percent of all unintended pregnancies end in abortion. 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