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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018
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The Rally for Our Lives event in Astoria drew several hundred people on Saturday.
Rally: Students say recent shootings have frightened them
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“Our teacher, she talks a lot about
guns, which I understand,” said Gohr
Quin, 10, a Lewis and Clark Elemen-
tary School student.
An Astoria police officer stood
watch at one of the street corners
throughout the rally. Small barri-
cades, which were not used, were
stacked near the post office.
People at the rally overwhelm-
ingly vocalized their support for
gun control legislation, with some
exceptions.
Lois Dupey, 61, of Astoria, stood
on one of the street corners chanting,
“Defend the Constitution” and hold-
ing a sign that read, “Take out the
Second Amendment and who will
defend you?”
A handful of protesters crowded
her to challenge the statements. “Do
you want kids to be killed by guns?”
one man asked her. “Don’t touch
me,” she snapped back.
“The Second Amendment is under
attack by the people who are using
terrorist acts in our schools to take
our guns away. Not OK,” Dupey said
after the rally. “People get on this
bandwagon and just don’t think.”
Students at the rally said recent
shootings and the need for routine
lockdown drills have frightened them.
“I don’t like the impending doom
feeling like I could walk into school
one day and watch my friends die,”
said Leo Van Steenberg, 14, an Asto-
ria High School student.
Many at the rally questioned
whether elected officials have the
political appetite to change gun laws.
“They’ll probably just put out a
statement and say, ‘Hey, thanks for
going out,’ and probably do nothing,”
said Abby Ank, 15, an Astoria High
School student.
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Cold and rainy conditions did not stop people from showing up to
the event.
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“It’s electronics in a damp,
wet, oily, smoky space, and
so eventually those things are
going to start wearing down,” he
said.
The fire simulator is still oper-
ational. The college hopes to have
the new computers installed and
ready to go by fall term.
Donaldson estimates between
600 and 900 students come
through the fire research center
each year. Along with students,
the college trains members of
the Coast Guard, Army Corps of
Engineers, local fire agencies and
large regional employers such as
the Georgia-Pacific Wauna Mill.
The three-story simulator
includes engine rooms, bunks, a
kitchen and other parts of a ship
rigged with burn props. Opened
in 2002, it was paid for by a
grant from the Office of Naval
Research.
Along with the central com-
puter, Donaldson said, the center
will eventually need new gas sen-
sors monitoring the air quality in
the building and helping protect
against accidents.
The funding for the fire cen-
ter’s new computers will come
from the college’s plant fund, said
JoAnn Zahn, the college’s vice
president of finance and opera-
tions. Plant funds commonly pay
for the construction, renovation
and acquisition of capital assets.
The college is also planning to
use the fund, which includes
about $2.5 million, to purchase
the Marine and Environmen-
tal Research and Training Sta-
tion next school year and upgrade
the campuswide computer sys-
tem. The college is working on
how to plan for these purchases in
advance, Zahn said.
“We want everyone to start
thinking in that way across the
campus,” College President
Christopher Breitmeyer said.
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