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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
Exchange students from Brazil and Norway in Seaside
New school,
new language,
new customs
By R.J. MARX
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — Among the
461 students enrolled at Sea-
side High School this year are
three exchange students from
overseas.
Arthur Brugneratto Prada
and Fernanda Vasconcellos,
both of Brazil, and Mathilda
Gunleiksrud of Norway
appeared with returning
exchange student Sam Thorn-
ton at the school district’s
board of directors meeting
Tuesday night.
“I’m really enjoying my
time down here,” Vascon-
cellos said. “Last weekend
R.J. Marx/The Daily Astorian
Fernanda Vasconcellos of Brazil, Seaside’s Sam Thornton,
Mathilda Gunleiksrud of Norway, and Arthur Brugneratto
Prada of Brazil are participants in the school district’s for-
eign exchange program.
I went to my fi rst football
game. I couldn’t understand
what was going on, but it was
fun.”
Gunleiksrud, of Dolmen,
Norway, will be living with
her host family for the year.
So far she’s traveled to Can-
non Beach, Nehalem and
Portland, and will be visit-
ing Boston in November. She
plans on participating in the
drama club’s fall play. She
likes her host family’s home
cooking and the availability
of local takeout food.
Brugneratto Prada , a
senior, said he liked the elec-
tives at the h igh s chool. The
most fun he’s had in the U.S.
was at a wedding in the Cal-
ifornia redwoods. “It was
really cold,” he said, before
adding, “Every day here is
really cold.”
He plans on joining the
wrestling team and participat-
ing in the Key Club.
New friends,
new dreams
The exchange program has
a long history at Seaside High
School, said Natalie Osburn,
the school’s assistant princi-
pal . Students typically take
their exchange period during
their junior year because they
want to spend their senior year
with peers.
Thornton returned from a
year in Mexico . “I went in with
no Spanish at all,” she said.
Thornton lived with two
host families and developed
her language skills by speak-
ing Spanish every day. “I
really connected with them,”
she said. “I met some of the
best friends of my entire life.”
Shayla Tsuji, a senior from
Seaside who went to Brazil
last year as an exchange stu-
dent, was not at the school dis-
trict meeting, but in a letter
read by Osburn, said the expe-
rience brought “not only new
friends, but new dreams.”
“I am still in contact with
many of my friends from the
trip,” Tsuji wrote. “I left an
average high school student,
and came home with a Brazil-
ian heart.”
Osburn said she expects
this year’s visitors to Sea-
side to fi t right in. “I’ll check
in two or three times formally
to see how they’re doing,” she
said. “But the students at Sea-
side are so wonderfully inclu-
sive and are so excited to hear
from students from around
the world, that they really get
involved in activities and have
the opportunity to get to know
different cultures without trav-
eling themselves.”
‘Most wanted’ fugitive arrested near Raymond County unemployment
arrived home to dis-
C a b r e r a - G u t i - Raymond. The Pacifi c County
creeps up in August
cover that Cabre-
errez was charged Sheriff’s Offi ce took over from
By NATALIE ST. JOHN
EO Media Group
SOUTH BEND, Wash. —
Pacifi c County Sheriff’s depu-
ties arrested a kidnapping sus-
pect Monday who had been on
the FBI’s Most Wanted Fugi-
tives list for almost three years.
In fall 2014, Berks County,
Pennsylvania, resident Maria
Evelia Cabrera-Gutierrez, 46,
was in a custody battle with
ex-boyfriend Guy Markus
over their 2 -year-old son,
Daniel. According to a news
release from Pennsylvania
Crime Watch, “the court pro-
ceedings did not appear to be
going in her favor.”
On Nov. 14, 2014, Markus
ra-Gutierrez had fl ed
with
interference
with Daniel and her
with custody of chil-
older son from a pre-
dren and concealment
vious relationship.
of the whereabouts
She left behind a note
of a child in Berks
that said, “When I
County. A state war-
fi nd legal help, I’ll
rant was issued for
Maria Evelia
contact you.”
her arrest. S he was
Cabrera-
Police
learned
also charged in fed-
Gutierrez
that she took the chil-
eral court with unlaw-
dren to Texas in vio-
ful fl ight to avoid
lation of the custody order for prosecution, and a federal war-
Daniel. She stayed with fam- rant was issued for her arrest .
ily members and in hotels in
On Monday , FBI agents
San Antonio and Austin before contacted the Raymond
police lost track of her. Inves- Police Department, saying
tigators suspected she was they believed Cabrera-Gutier-
headed for Mexico, where she rez was staying at a home on
was born.
South Fork Road, outside of
there, because the home is in
the county’s jurisdiction, Chief
Criminal Deputy Pat Matlock
said.
“One tip said she was living
in that area under an assumed
name with her two boys,” Mat-
lock said. He and Lt. Jim Berg-
strom spoke with detectives in
Pennsylvania, met with Ray-
mond Police Chief Chuck
Spoor, then went to the home.
Daniel’s story received
wide media attention in Penn-
sylvania. He was found one
day after a segment about his
kidnapping aired on the CNN
television show, “The Hunt
With John Walsh.”
Body of hiker who fell in Oswald West recovered
The Daily Astorian
The body of Joseph Les-
cene, who fell to his death
off a cliff in Oswald West
State Park Sept. 10, was
recovered Tuesday at Short
Sands Beach.
Oregon State Police
received a report Tues-
day morning of a deceased
man washed up on the
beach. The state police and
Nehalem Bay Fire & Res-
cue responded and located
the body, which was posi-
tively identifi ed as Lescene.
The Tillamook County Med-
ical Examiner assisted with
the investigation.
Lescene, 51, of British
Columbia, was hiking with
his wife near Devil’s Caul-
dron when he reportedly lost
his footing and fell 800 feet
to the water below. No foul
play is suspected.
Nehalem Bay Fire & Res-
cue recovered the backpack
he was wearing in the water
Recycling the topic of Fort George lecture
The Daily Astorian
Astoria residents are jug-
gling multiple garbage bins
following the roll out of a new
curbside pick up program that
added glass and compost ear-
lier this month.
But organizers of an
event Thursday night at Fort
George Brewery and Public
House want to help people
make better use of the options
available to them now, send
less material to the landfi ll
and maybe save money on
their garbage bill.
The “Waste Zero Work-
shop,” led by Renee Johnson,
sustainability director at Fort
George, and Recology repre-
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Fort George’s popular Thurs-
day lecture series for this
season.
Adding the compost and
glass curbside pick up ser-
vices added several dollars to
everyone’s monthly garbage
bill when the Astoria City
Council voted 3-2 in June
to approve these changes.
Though people can opt out
of having the extra bins, they
still pay the increased fee.
“We want to help people
fi nd a way to make it work for
them,” Johnson said about the
w orkshop. Also, she added,
recycling “is not always as
intuitive as people think it
is.” There are some “do’s”
and “don’ts” that may be sur-
prising or confusing.
The free lecture will be
held at 7 p.m. in Fort George’s
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below the cliff. The Coast
Guard searched with life-
boats and a helicopter but
was unable to fi nd his body.
A GoFundMe account
was set up by family friend
Nancy Sheppard at http://
tinyurl.com/4JoesFamily to
help his wife, Sarah, and two
daughters, Ofelia and Sofi a.
The Daily Astorian
Seasonally
adjusted
unemployment in Clatsop
County rose above 4 per-
cent in August, according
to the state Employment
Department.
Unemployment, which
reached its lowest real-
istic level over the sum-
mer, has slowly crept up
over the past few months,
at 3.8 percent in July and
4.1 percent in August. Last
month’s unemployment rate
was still nearly 1 percent
lower from the year prior,
matched the statewide fi g-
ure and was lower than the
national rate at 4.4 percent.
A loss of 150 jobs in the
county was expected for the
month, but the county only
shed 70. That left total non-
farm payroll employment at
18,170, 10 higher than the
year prior.
The private sector cut
60 jobs in August, and gov-
ernment employment fell
by 10. Food services and
drinking places gained 40
Jobless rates
for August *
Area
Clatsop
Aug. July 1-yr.
2017 2017 ago
4.1 3.8
5
Columbia
5.2
4.8
6.3
Tillamook
4.3
4.1
5.1
Oregon
4.1
3.8
5
U.S.
4.4
4.3
4.9
*Preliminary, seasonaly adjusted rates.
Source: Oregon Employment Department
Daily Astorian graphic
jobs, but accommodations
cut 40. Food manufacturing
shed 50 jobs, and the retail
trade dropped by 30.
The industries adding
the most jobs over the year
were leisure and hospitality
(160) and fi nancial activ-
ities (50). This was offset
by a loss of manufacturing
jobs (210).