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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2018
Jewell accepts grant Inslee calls coal export
to open health center idea a ‘harebrained’ plan
Wyden also
speaks out
Concerns about
efficacy, costs
were raised
Associated Press
Washington state Gov.
Jay Inslee says the Trump
administration’s idea to use
military bases or other fed-
eral properties to export
fossil fuels to Asia would
undermine national secu-
rity and state rights.
Inslee, a Democrat,
called the idea a “hare-
brained proposal” in a
statement.
The potential use of
naval or other federal prop-
erties as transshipment
points was described to The
Associated Press by Interior
Secretary Ryan Zinke and
two Republican lawmakers.
By BRENNA VISSER
The Daily Astorian
JEWELL — In a split
vote, the Jewell School Board
on Monday night accepted a
grant to start a school-based
health center.
The annual $60,000 grant
will help establish an in-house
health center that could pro-
vide primary care services
such as general exams, sick
visits, treatment of minor inju-
ries, vaccinations and more
for staff and students.
The health center could
issue prescriptions, but the
school board declined to con-
sider alcohol and drug coun-
seling, mental health and
reproductive health services.
A steering committee
will design what services the
health center will offer, as well
as possible locations.
Clatsop County will staff
it with a physician’s assistant,
which could save the school
district $10,000 by eliminat-
ing the need for a school nurse.
“Even if it’s just open two
days a week, it’d be a very
busy place and meet a lot of
needs,” Jewell Principal Ter-
rence Smyth said.
Michael McNickle, the
county’s public health direc-
tor, initially reached out to
Jewell’s administration this
summer after learning there
were more grants available
for medically underserved
communities.
But the proposal has been
met with continuous criticism
from some school board mem-
bers, who had concerns about
safety after hearing the clinic
would be open to the pub-
lic. McNickle reaffirmed to
school board members that
they can control what services
R.J. Marx/The Daily Astorian
The Jewell School District will get a health center.
the clinic offers, how often it
operates and who can visit.
The school board voted 3-2
to accept the grant.
School
board
mem-
ber Brian Meier, who voted
against the grant, raised ques-
tions about how many fam-
ilies would be interested in
using the program. He also
said he felt more research
should be done about the fea-
sibility and costs before com-
mitting to a grant. McNickle
estimated running the clinic
would cost about $400 a week
if it were open one day, which
may or may not be covered by
the grant, depending on how
the school board and steering
committee decided to allocate
the money.
“It’s not free,” Meier said.
School board member
Michael Stahly also voted
against the grant, arguing the
board only got “one side of
the story” from McNickle and
wanted to hear from school
districts like Astoria, which
decided to decline the offer.
McNickle explained the
Astoria School Board voted
in 2013 not to partner with
Coastal Family Health Center
on a school-based health cen-
ter over reproductive health
services and parent permis-
sion, but Stahly remained
skeptical.
“I just don’t know if there
wasn’t more to it,” Stahly said.
School board chairman
Bryan Swearingen and board
members Ginger Kaczenski
and Michael Wammack voted
in favor of the health cen-
ter, seeing it as a way encour-
age more preventative care to
reduce absences, as well as
bridge critical medical ser-
vices to families who would
otherwise have to travel to
Seaside or Astoria.
“We cannot deny the kids
the simplest things like medi-
cal attention. We don’t do that
with food. We don’t turn them
away because they can’t afford
lunch; we find grants to feed
them,” Kaczenski said. “Our
kids are so rural they don’t
have the same opportunities as
kids in town … Maybe it helps
out a few parents who strug-
gle, who can’t afford to take
off work to take their kids to
the doctor.”
McNickle expects a soft
opening for the clinic in May
or June.
“If it doesn’t work then
we don’t have to continue it,”
Swearingen said. “But I think
we owe it to the students to
try.”
West Coast officials
have rejected private-sec-
tor efforts to build new
coal ports to ship the fuel
to Asia.
Inslee says President
Donald Trump should con-
sider the national security
threats of climate change.
Oregon U.S. Sen. Ron
Wyden said the Trump
administration is “tram-
pling” on the rights of West
Coast communities.
Wyden, a Democrat,
said in statement that the
federal government should
invest in renewable fuels
and not try to prop up dirty
energy sources such as
coal.
“The U.S. should be
doing more to invest in
clean energy, not threaten-
ing the health and safety
of Oregonians by propping
up dirty energy investors.
Zinke’s approach shows a
complete disregard for sci-
ence and the voices of local
communities,” the senator
said.
The Trump adminis-
tration’s proposal would
advance the administra-
tion’s agenda of establish-
ing American energy dom-
inance on the world stage.
Zinke says it’s a mat-
ter of national security to
ensure U.S. allies in the
Pacific Rim have access to
affordable fuels.
National security also
has been cited by the
administration as justifica-
tion for keeping domestic
coal-burning power plants
on line to prevent disrup-
tions of electricity supplies.
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