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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MAY 19, 2017
Patriot Hall: ‘Will be a valuable resource for years to come’
ulum for a drug and alcohol
counseling program has been
approved by the state. “But in
conversations with the com-
munity, it’s not the best oppor-
tunity for providing what stu-
dents need for good jobs, and
what the community needs,”
she said.
Frimoth said the college is
still working with community
partners on how to create an
effective program in drug and
alcohol counseling.
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The main gym won’t be
part of the fi tness program,
but the college is setting up
usage fees for community
sports, such as basketball and
badminton.
Aiming to make Patriot
Hall a revenue source, the
college has budgeted $40,000
in the 2017-18 school year in
fees and sponsorships from
renting Patriot Hall out for
tournaments, conferences and
other events. JoAnn Zahn,
the college’s vice president
of fi nance and operations,
said the college will charge
$125 per hour to rent the
gym to for-profi t groups, and
$62.50 per hour for nonprof-
its. Patriot Hall will host its
fi rst rental, a basketball camp,
in July.
Staffi ng Patriot Hall will
be physical education instruc-
tor and Dean of Transfer Edu-
cation Teena Toyas. Zahn
said the college plans to use a
pool of 15 to 20 federal work-
study students to monitor the
building.
Finishing up
Patriot programs
When pushing the county
bond measure that paid for
half of Patriot Hall, former
President Lawrence Galizio
touted the building as the
future home of paramedic,
alcohol and drug counsel-
ing and exercise physiol-
ogy programs. But the col-
lege has since scaled back its
ambitions.
Kovatch said the college
has reached out to other para-
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The inside of Patriot Hall will include a gym on the main floor, workout areas on the sec-
ond and an elevated running track on the third.
medic programs to gauge the
possibility of making the col-
lege a satellite campus.
“Partnership discussions
are currently underway,” she
said. “It was determined that
a standalone CCC -accredited
paramedic program would be
cost-restrictive.”
Kovatch said the college is
encouraging paramedic hope-
fuls to take prerequisites at
the college before transfer-
ring out. One of Patriot Hall’s
classrooms will be dedi-
cated for an emergency med-
ical technician certifi cation
program.
An exercise physiology
program was explored, but
Toyas said it was deemed
ineffi cient for students. “Our
area is not very conducive
to jobs in that program, and
people can get the same type
of training for less money
online,” she said.
Margaret Frimoth, the col-
lege’s new vice president of
academics, said the curric-
The college broke ground
on Patriot Hall in June 2015,
hoping to open the building
the beginning of this school
year. Patriot Hall is the third
phase of the college’s Jerome
Campus r edevelopment p roj-
ect, after the construction of
Columbia Hall and the reno-
vation of Towler Hall.
But Ann Gyde, the col-
lege’s historian and a man-
ager of the Patriot Hall proj-
ect, said general contractor
P&C Construction, which has
worked on the college’s pre-
vious construction projects
as well as Columbia Memo-
rial Hospital’s new cancer
treatment center, has faced
challenges in a constricted,
hillside work site at the cen-
ter of campus. Contractors
have had to truck materials up
Coxcomb Hill and stage
them in a parking lot behind
Columbia Hall. A landslide
occurred in the project site
Open house at Ilwaco’s
Cape D on Saturday
ILWACO, Wash . — U.S. Coast Guard
Station Cape Disappointment will hold
an open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturday.
Meet local fi re and police agencies;
tour the base and vessels; walk on board
Honoring veterans
Patriot Hall was fi rst dedi-
cated on the fi rst anniversary
of Armistice Day Nov. 11,
1921. The region’s veterans,
the namesake of the build-
ing, were commemorated by
a large metal plaque that hung
on the old building’s northern
wall.
The college will hang the
plaque at the southeastern
entrance to Patriot Hall near
the end of construction. The
building will be rededicated
on the 96th anniversary of
Armistice Day Nov. 11.
“Patriot Hall will be a cen-
ter of community engagement
on our campus whether it is
through the educational pro-
gramming, special events or
recreational opportunities,”
college President Christo-
pher Breitmeyer said. “Patriot
will be a valuable resource for
years to come.”
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at the corner of Lexington
Avenue and 16th Street
in February 2016, so the
property needed to be
restabilized.
Gyde said contractors will
fi nish landscaping and the
courtyard between the Patriot,
Towler and library buildings
in early June.
“It is anticipated it will be
ready for summer term June
26,” she said. “Some work
will continue after that date,
depending on subcontractors’
schedules.”
the Columbia River Bar Pilots boat; and
learn about the Coast Guard’s mission.
The base is located at 322 Coast Guard
Road in Ilwaco.
AHS Honors Society
holds rummage sale
Astoria High School’s National
Honors Society will hold a rummage
sale Saturday to raise money for
classroom materials.
Proceeds from the sale will go to a
scholarship available to high school teach-
ers to buy classroom materials. The sale
will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sat-
urday at 228 Niagara Ave.
The National Honor Society recog-
nizes high school students who have per-
formed beyond the call of duty. The club
is led by co -presidents Jenna Rudolph and
Sariah Dieffenbach, with school counselor
Beth Fausto as adviser.
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