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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2018
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GUEST COLUMN
Warrenton school bond is for our children
T
his fall the Warrenton School Board
is asking voters to support our kids
and to vote yes on our 2018 school
bond. This bond will make important progress
toward school safety and security, help reduce
overcrowding, modernize our aging schools,
and expand career and technical learning
opportunities.
I am a mom who cheers on our winning
Warriors – from baseball to band. I work in
the real estate industry and know the import-
ant role that investing in our schools means
to the future of our region and our property
values.
Also, I have the honor of serving as an
elected member of the board of directors for
the Warrenton-Hammond School District. I
see every day how hard our
teachers and staff are work-
ing to support the education
of our children.
As a district, our focus
has always been on creating
pathways to engineer success
DEBBIE
in our students. Our goal is
MORROW to graduate students with a
21st-century education. To
that end, we have been successful at main-
taining smaller class sizes, a higher number
of school days and robust program offerings,
while increasing student enrollment and grad-
uation rates, high school completion rates, and
college enrollment rates.
This focus has allowed us to have teachers
and support professionals who continue to
invest in their own professional development
— they truly are our best asset. Our continued
investment in technology ensures we have the
capacity for quick and easy access to online
resources on both campuses.
More than a year ago, our school district
convened an in-depth facilities planning com-
mittee. What started out as a community con-
versation around school overcrowding evolved
into very strategic planning sessions around
the future of education for Warrenton children
and our community. Ultimately this led us to
identifying the need for a first-phase bond to
address our critical safety needs, including
building outside the tsunami inundation zone.
The diversity of the committee allowed for
many different perspectives, from civic leaders
to elected officials to teachers to grandparents
to parents to the school board and administra-
tors — all with an equal voice at the table.
With the upcoming retirement of our
2002 bond, this fall Warrenton voters have
an opportunity to continue supporting our
children’s education.
As a school board, we support this measure
as parents of public school children, but just as
strongly as working professionals, community
Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
ABOVE: Students at Warrenton High School
work on graphic design projects. LEFT:
Jeanne Moha, far right, with the SMART
program helps students at Warrenton Ele-
mentary School pick out books to read.
members and citizens.
The $38.5 million bond is expected to raise
property taxes by $2.03 per $1,000 of assessed
value. The overall property tax burden in the
school district is projected to be $2.68 per
$1,000 of assessed value through 2049 if the
bond passes.
Our Warrenton community has consistently
demonstrated that it values public education
and equal opportunities for all students. The
An organization which includes Astoria-area men has been
formed to prevent heating of the Columbia River by nuclear
power plants and any resulting loss of salmon.
Russell Bristow, executive secretary of the Columbia
River Fishermen’s Protective union, said some 25 represen-
tatives of fishing industry and conservation groups met Sun-
day in Salem. They set up what is tentatively called the Clear,
Cool Water committee.
Water
under
the bridge
Compiled by Bob Duke
From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
75 years ago — 1943
10 years ago
this week — 2008
It was short but delicious.
Columbia River chinook enthusiastically bit the hooks of
thousands of excited fishermen in recent weeks, but the catch
rate brought the Buoy 10 chinook season to a disappointingly
early close today.
This is bad news not just for fishermen but for the charter
boats, tackle stores and others who planned on fishing lasting
through Labor Day. Fishing for coho salmon will continue,
but these are a faint consolation compared to hard-fighting
chinook that tip the scales at nearly 50 pounds.
The Buoy 10 chinook allocation of just 6,500 fish is very
much in keeping with the pattern this spring, which heavily
favored upriver urban fishermen. As many as nearly 1,200
adult chinook have been passing Bonneville Dam each day
recently on their way to spawning grounds and hatcheries.
Scientists at Oregon State University say a new
analysis of a 200-mile-long fault line off the south-
ern and central Oregon coast shows it is more active
than the San Andreas Fault in California, blamed
for the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
They say Blanco Transform Fault Zone likely
won’t produce the catastrophic earthquake many
predict for the Pacific Northwest, but they say an
earthquake of magnitude 6.5 to 7.0, capable of
inflicting heavy damage, is at least possible.
During the past 40 years there have been about
1,500 earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 or greater along
the Blanco Transform Fault Zone, and many thou-
sands of smaller quakes.
50 years ago — 1968
One of the rainiest Astoria Regattas in history ended Sun-
children of Warrenton need school buildings
not only to be safe and seismically sound but
they must provide space for dynamic and
engaged learning.
This bond represents long-term thinking
and planning, not just for our students and to
provide them with the best possible education,
but for how we will manage our school build-
ings and collective school resources.
This bond is for our children and our com-
munity and we truly want to hear from you.
Visit Warrenton-HammondSchoolBond.Org to
share your thoughts.
Debbie Morrow is administrator of the
Clatsop Multiple Listing Service, executive
officer of the Clatsop Association of Realtors
and chair of the Warrenton-Hammond School
Board. She and her husband, Chris, have lived
in Clatsop County for 20 years.
1968 — Ray Burkett, right, of Royal Oak, Mich., landed
his 12-foot aluminum boat at West Astoria basin, end-
ing a voyage from Detroit. He was met by chamber of
commerce manager Jean Hallaux. Burkett addressed
the Lions club and was given a friendship pin. He said
service clubs and Boy Scouts are the secret weapons
of America. He planned to leave in his boat for Port-
land, where he hopes to sell it.
day, highly successful despite drenching rains that fortu-
nately let up long enough for Saturday’s parade and Sunday’s
inboard hydroplane races.
The lure of the Lewis and Clark expedition is still
powerful after a century and a half, and people of
all ages succumb to the urge to follow the trail of the
explorers of 1804-06.
Latest to do so, and complete a successful jour-
ney over that arduous route, is 72-year-old Ray Bur-
kett, Detroit, Mich.
Burkett reached Astoria in an outboard-powered
12-foot aluminum rowboat, four months out from
his Michigan home.
He survived fire, sinking and various minor mis-
haps and lost 15 pounds on the way. He arrived hale
and tanned.
Burkett, who admits to a background in radio
and newspaper work, said he undertook the trip
partly for his health and partly to promote sale of a
couple of books he has written. One is a handbook
for vending machine operators, the other a volume
of poetry.
American women must get along without nylon
hose for the duration, but after the war supplies will
be plentiful.
This was the message of Earl Constantine, pres-
ident of the national association of hosiery manu-
facturers, in an address last week to hosiery sales
representatives.
He predicted, however, that new synthetic fab-
rics developed for wartime use would compete with
nylon for the favor of the nation’s womanhood.
Ida Larson, observer at Knappa post, was awarded the sil-
ver and gold “Observer of the Month” medal by radio station
KOIN of Portland. The presentation of this award was aired
recently over KOIN’s “Stop, Look and Listen” program.
News reaching shore from the broad reaches
of the Columbia River told today of better-than-
usual sports fishing luck, as the Waltonians from all
over Oregon tested their mettle against the illusive
Columbia River chinook.
Consensus of opinion among sporting goods
houses here and other observers is that the “old
stand-byes” or the guys who annually make their
pilgrimage to the shrine of the chinook are here in
force; and while there are not as many out-of-state
visitors, sale of tackle and licenses indicates fishing
equal to 1942.
The informal exchange service a customer apparently
believed in operation at Carolyn’s apparel shop when she
came in to the establishment with her old coat and walked out
with a new one, without paying, has been discontinued, Rich-
ard See, operator of the shop, said. In fact, See has gone fur-
ther than this. He has notified the police of the transaction and
a search is on for See’s unusual customer.
Nearly a half inch of rain Tuesday night made
this month the second-wettest August in 118 years
of weather history.