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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2017
Warrenton fulfills its own Christmas wishes
‘Every kid goes
home with a gift’
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Santa’s workshop on Fri-
day was the cafeteria at War-
renton Grade School’s cafete-
ria. Lining the benches where
kids eat were black trash bags,
stuffed with gifts and tagged
with the Christmas wishes of
anonymous families.
Wa r r e n t o n - H a m m o n d
Healthy Kids, the nonprofit
providing holiday dinners,
gifts and daily living staples to
local youth in need, collected
donations for about 100 fami-
lies and 250 kids to take home
for Christmas gifts.
“Every kid goes home
with a gift,” said Debbie Mor-
row, head of the group and
chairwoman of the Warren-
ton-Hammond School Board.
The district has consis-
tently faced the highest rates
of student homelessness, with
large backpack food programs
helping feed around 180 each
weekend. The Christmas gift
started three years ago provid-
ing for 150 kids, then grew to
238 the following year, Mor-
row said.
Families submit a form at
the beginning of the year indi-
cating whether they want to
partake in the backpack pro-
grams, holiday meals and
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Rosa Gilbert, left, helps students at the Warrenton Grade
School move bags of gifts to the cafeteria.
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Left to right: Mike, Connor and Serena Moha wrap presents for families in need at the
Warrenton Grade School last week.
other services. For Christmas,
they list their children’s gen-
der, age and interests. Fami-
lies adopt and shop for others,
while Healthy Kids fills the
gaps with separate donations
and shopping.
Overseeing such aid pro-
grams is Rosa Gilbert, the
district’s bilingual family
liaison and federal programs
coordinator.
“Our greatest need is with
adolescents,” Gilbert said.
Reaching out for help is
more stigmatizing for teenag-
ers, Gilbert said. The district
tries to identify older kids in
need though their parents and
younger siblings. Separate
gift drives run by the own-
ers of Main Street Market and
Warrenton Mini-Mart focus
on older kids.
Gilbert’s position was
added after the district real-
ized there was a barrier to
parental involvement, Gilbert
said. About 13 percent of the
district is Hispanic, and 90
percent of the parents in those
families don’t speak English.
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
WEDNESDAY
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Jan 1
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New
Jan 8
SEATTLE — Restrictions
limiting boats from getting too
close to endangered southern
resident killer whales have
not harmed the whale-watch-
ing industry, according to a
new federal study.
The study by the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
indicated
that whale-watching tourism
continues to grow even with
the federal restrictions that
require vessels to stay at least
200 yards from the orcas in
Washington’s Puget Sound,
The Seattle Times reported.
Lack of food, environ-
mental contamination and
boat noise are the primary
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Seaside is in charge of arrangements.
Dec. 21, 2017
CHAMBERS, Claudia Jean, 71, of War-
renton, died in Warrenton. Ocean View
Funeral & Cremation Service of Astoria is in
charge of arrangements.
THURSDAY, Dec. 28
Clatsop County Recreational Lands Planning and Advisory Committee, 1 to 3 p.m., fourth floor,
800 Exchange St.
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy,
sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
sn-snow, i-ice.
IN
Dec. 23, 2017
FRANDSEN, Dale Rodney, 82, of Sea-
side, died in Seaside. Caldwell’s Luce-Lay-
ton Mortuary of Astoria is in charge of
arrangements.
QUAINTANCE, Susan June, 63, of Can-
non Beach, died in Seaside. Caldwell’s
TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
3 A 0 RS
utive director of the Pacific
Whale Watch Association.
When boats enforcing the
restrictions are on the water,
the study found the federal
rules to be more effective with
fewer violations by recre-
ational vessels.
Washington Sen. Kevin
Ranker said he plans to intro-
duce legislation to fund an
enforcement boat and two
state Department of Fish and
Wildlife officers to be on the
water five days a week during
peak whale-watching season.
The Democratic senator said
to preserve whale watching, it
requires preserving the whales.
“We have to protect the
orca whale from our stupid-
ity,” Ranker said.
DEATHS
REGIONAL CITIES
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
Over
threats to the survival of
Puget Sound orcas, according
to the agency. The population
of southern resident whales is
down to 76 — the lowest in
30 years.
Noise from boats can dis-
turb orcas, causing them to
spend less time looking for
food and more time travel-
ing, according to researchers.
The restrictions enacted in
2011 were aimed at reducing
the stress placed on the orcas
from noise.
Departing from more than
20 locations on both sides
of the U.S.-Canada border,
about 400,000 people take
commercial tour boats to
watch whales each year, said
Michael Harris, former exec-
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Tonight's Sky: First Quarter Moon (1:20 a.m.).
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UNDER THE SKY
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Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Mason Vuylsteke checks bags of gifts ready for families to
pick up at the Warrenton Grade School.
Study: Distance restrictions on
orcas haven’t hurt tourism
Associated Press
Portland
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Sunset tonight ........................... 4:35 p.m.
Sunrise Wednesday .................... 7:57 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................ 12:39 p.m.
Moonset today .......................... 12:08 a.m.
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Precipitation
Monday ............................................ 0.11"
Month to date ................................... 4.66"
Normal month to date ....................... 8.02"
Year to date .................................... 80.97"
Normal year to date ........................ 65.39"
Dec 26
SATURDAY
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Monday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 43°/34°
Normal high/low ........................... 48°/37°
Record high ............................ 63° in 1980
Record low ............................. 21° in 1924
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ALMANAC
FRIDAY
The district recently
opened the Warrior Room,
a resource center for fami-
lies needing computer access
or meeting space, and an
environment to grow trust
between parents and edu-
cators. The district offers
classes in parenting, search-
ing for colleges and special
migrant students sections for
kids whose parents have to
move for work.
“It’s all about what parents
need to make sure their kids
are successful,” Gilbert said.
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