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Closet: ‘This is about giving girls the opportunity to level the playing field’
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But Pike also remem-
bers friends who lent her
dresses to make sure she
could attend dances when
she went to Warrenton High
School.
“It was a feeling of accep-
tance ... the feeling of being
included,” she said. “They
didn’t want me to miss out
on something like that. We
still wanted to do things
together, but if you didn’t
have a dress you couldn’t
go — just like Cinderella. I
just remember feeling like
somebody cared enough.”
So on Saturday, it was
especially meaningful for
Pike, a stylist for Allure
Salon, to be able to help girls
getting ready for Warrenton
and Seaside proms through
Cinderella’s Closet. The
program, run by the Assis-
tance League of the Colum-
bia Pacific, lends prom and
homecoming dresses to stu-
dents who may not other-
wise be able to afford the
attire.
About 30 students on the
North Coast took advantage
this year of the stockpile of
shoes, accessories and more
than 600 donated dresses.
The hope is to make
everyone “feel like a prin-
cess” at prom, said Seana
Fields, the program’s newly
named chairwoman.
Maranda Blecha, left, works on Hannah Jones’ makeup before
the Warrenton High School prom.
Photos by Colin Murphey/The Astorian
Seana Fields delivers prom dresses to Cinderella’s Closet in Warrenton.
“Going to dances is
expensive. This is about
giving girls the opportunity
to level the playing field,”
she said.
This year, the program
worked with four local
salons to give students a free
hair and makeup session.
“We thought, ‘How could
we make it more special?’”
Fields said.
When Pike heard about
the opportunity, she knew
she had to get involved.
“I just wanted to give
back to a young girl like
myself who couldn’t drive
to Portland and try on a
bunch of dresses,” she said.
Adding a free salon day
is part of Fields’ overall
goal to expand Cinderel-
la’s Closet and revitalize its
image. For several years, the
Assistance League has seen
participation lag.
In the past, the league has
struggled to get the word out
through schools, as well as
battled the perception the
donated dresses are too out
of style or only for girls with
single-digit dress sizes.
Fields hopes to change
that by doing a fundraiser
so the program can have its
own money and flexibility
to buy a variety of dresses
each year.
Fields joked that she
has already started study-
ing by scrolling through
everyone’s prom photos on
Facebook.
She also wants to include
boys by accepting donations
for items like dress slacks
and shirts.
“Yes, (dances) are frivo-
lous and fun. But it’s another
layer of what it’s like to be
in high school,” Fields said.
“I want to see people feeling
comfortable and happy, and
I think it’s important to give
people the opportunity if it’s
there. These things aren’t
necessities, so it’s nice to
not add additional burden to
families.”
For Janessa Bork, a
freshman at Warrenton High
School, the idea of getting
all dolled up in makeup and
a fancy dress for prom made
her a little nervous.
“I wasn’t sure how I’d
like it on me,” she said.
Buying an expensive
dress for one night seemed
financially unrealistic for
her family. Her initial local
shopping trip to find a dress
in her budget wasunfruitful.
So when Bork saw a flyer
for Cinderella’s Closet, she
decided to give it a try.
“I think it’s great,” June
Bork, her mother, said while
watching her daughter’s
hair get curled. “Dresses are
expensive, and we couldn’t
find anything here. Her
friends would have been
doing her hair instead if it
weren’t for this.”
Now she has a red, strap-
less ballgown to look for-
ward to on prom night.
About halfway through her
hair appointment, it was
clear Janessa Bork’s ner-
vousness had faded.
“I’m getting more excited
about it,” she said, smiling
into the salon mirror.
Little: ‘Your livelihood relies on people trusting you by knowing you’
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For the past two years, he
has attempted to recruit a
successor so he could train
them on the job, but so far
has had little luck.
“There just seems to be
less of an interest,” he said.
There could be many
reasons, Little said. Clat-
sop County’s population is
too small to support a full-
time, independent child
abuse evaluation center, so
the work Little and others
do at the Lighthouse is on an
on-call basis, and often on
top of other jobs.
It’s not an uncommon
model for rural communi-
ties. Places like the county
jail, where Little also works,
nursing homes and other
entities all require ad-hoc
doctors to perform on-call
functions.
Traditionally, many of
these roles have been filled
by doctors in private practice,
Little said. While the North
Coast is seeing more doctors
likely than ever before, fewer
and fewer are going into pri-
vate practice due to growing
economic pressures.
Little also believes part of
the issue could be a change
in culture within the medical
community. The demands of
medical practice are greater,
meaning fewer feel they can
carve out time for another
job.
Medical practice is also
seen more as an 9-to-5 job,
he said, with more doctors
moving from opportunity to
opportunity rather than set-
tling down and committing
to one community for years.
“(In private practice),
your livelihood relies on
people trusting you by know-
ing you,” he said. “There’s
an economic imperative to
build your practice up, and
you build your practice up
by being in the community.”
“Small-town life is built
on everybody pitching in and
helping everybody,” Little
continued. “As a small-town
doctor, you come in with a
certain mindset.”
If his position at the
Lighthouse can’t be filled,
Little said, the medical
piece would have to be out-
sourced to a regional center
in Portland.
But sometimes, when a
family is in economic and
emotional turmoil, the differ-
ence between a 15-mile drive
and a 100-mile drive can
be the difference between
whether a child abuse case is
fully pursued.
“It’s hard enough to take
time off work,” he said. “We
want to make this as barri-
er-free as possible when it’s
needed.”
He hopes someone will
step forward.
“We’re not going to stop
child abuse by having the
Lighthouse,” Little said.
“But if we can find out what
has happened to kids or
what’s not happened to kids,
we can better help the fami-
lies, and maybe make a dif-
ference in the outcome of
that child’s life.”
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