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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
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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.
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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. But,
‘Man this was hard, and I don’t
know if I was ready for that at
that moment.’
“And I’ve had my students
say as much.”
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taken to a Portland hospital,
where her newborn spent sev-
eral weeks in neonatal inten-
sive care.
She became pregnant again,
dropped out of school, married
her boyfriend, and moved to
Kansas, where Jesse was sta-
tioned in the military. She gave
birth to Clara in 2014. She had
her third daughter, Ema, by a
different father in 2015.
Bubar came back to the
North Coast with three chil-
dren and moved in with her
parents. She returned to Gray
School to finally finish her
senior year. 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
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my boyfriend?”
Sexually active women 15
to 19 have the highest rate of
unintended pregnancy, accord-
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which studies reproductive
health, and about 42 percent of
all unintended pregnancies end
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Bubar, who wanted to keep
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