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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2019
IN BRIEF
Trump administration to close
forest job training centers
The Trump administration announced Friday it will
close two U.S. Forest Service job training centers in Ore-
gon and Washington state.
The Timber Lake Job Corps Civilian Conserva-
tion Center in Estacada, and the Fort Simcoe CCC near
Yakima, Washington, are two of nine facilities nation-
wide that will close.
The job centers offer programs in vocational fi elds
like forestry and renewable resources, hospitality and
construction. They offer no-cost vocational training tar-
geting low-income, at-risk youth. The programs include
room and board and some paid on-the-job training
opportunities.
“Most of these students are students that have failed
high school and have given up and dropped out,” said
Brian Hickman, who graduated from and works at the
Timber Lake Job Corps in Oregon.
He learned about the decision to close Timber Lake
Friday morning. Hickman is also the chief steward for the
National Federation of Federal Employees, Local 1697.
The remaining 16 centers, which include Angell CCC
in Yachats and Wolf Creek CCC in Glide, will no lon-
ger be operated by the Forest Service. They will be taken
over by private or “partnership” contracts overseen by the
U.S. Department of Labor.
— Oregon Public Broadcasting
On Memorial Day,
remembering the
ones who were lost
Oregon restricts solar development on
prime farmland
As Oregon’s climate policies steer the state toward
renewable energy like solar, its land use laws are putting
up roadblocks.
The Oregon Land Conservation and Development
Commission has approved new rules that restrict com-
mercial solar development on millions of acres of high-
value farmland across the state.
The rule-making process pitted two of Oregon’s most
treasured values — protection of agricultural land and
environmental stewardship — against each other.
The confl ict is especially intense in Willamette Valley
wine country, where many vineyards are simultaneously
embracing solar energy while opposing commercial solar
development.
— Oregon Public Broadcasting
Popular wilderness trail remains
closed after wildfi re
SALEM — One of Oregon’s most popular wilderness
trails will remain closed into the beginning of this sum-
mer, almost two years after a large wildfi re closed it down
in the Mount Jefferson Wilderness.
The Statesman Journal reported Whitewater Trail, the
most common route to the popular backcountry camp-
sites of Jefferson Park, had its closure order extended into
August, the U.S. Forest Service said.
The trail was heavily damaged by the Whitewater Fire
that burned in July 2017.
Crews worked last summer and fall to fi x the trail
but more trees died over the winter and spring, leaving a
mess on the road and at the trailhead.
Detroit district ranger David Halemeier says crews
need additional time to clean out the area before reopen-
ing it to the public.
— Associated Press
Big low tides coming to the coast
The Oregon Coast is full of low-tide treasures – nat-
ural wonders and manmade objects hidden in the surf –
but to see some of them you have to wait until the tide is
especially low.
In 2019, the lowest tides will arrive during short peri-
ods at the end of spring and in summer, setting up good
opportunities for tide pool explorers, beach adventurers
and photographers. This year’s lowest low tide events
will occur from June 4 to 6, July 3 to 5 and August 1 to
2, according to predictions by the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration.
— The Oregonian
MEMORIAL
Photos by Katie Frankowicz/The Astorian
ABOVE: People gathered on Monday for a Memorial Day service at Maritime Memorial Park in Astoria, remembering men and
women who have worked in maritime industries and, in many cases, died doing this dangerous work. TOP: Ruth Lomhoff , 92,
attended to honor the memory of her grandson, a commercial fi sherman.
Wood gets to work early at Jewell School
New principal at
rural campus
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Astorian
JEWELL — Jon Wood,
selected in March by the
Jewell School District as
the new principal of the
rural K-12 campus, is tech-
nically still director of pro-
grams for the Nyssa School
District in E astern Oregon
through July.
That didn’t stop Wood
from coming in during
a vacation to help Jew-
ell secure federal grants
worth about $60,000 and
start assembling a student
handbook.
Wood used to work in
Nyssa with Scott Phillips,
who was recently named
acting superintendent. Phil-
lips took over for Alice
Hunsaker, who the Jewell
School Board barred from
representing the school
district after investigators
found she worked without a
license and failed to ensure
the completion of employee
evaluations.
Wood replaces Wendy
Crozier, who was selected
to fi ll out the school year
for Terrence Smyth after
his resignation in
“I’m not the kind
March.
Smyth,
of guy to sit back
Hunsaker’s signifi -
and wait for that to
cant other, has since
happen, so we got
been hired as the
to work,” Wood
interim
principal
said. “One of the
of Gresham High
fi rst things we tack-
Jon Wood
School. He and
led was our title
Hunsaker moved to
programs.”
the Portland area.
Wood manages federal
Wood has echoed Phil- programs for the Nyssa
lips’ repeated pronounce- School District. He and Tera
ments that Jewell has a lot Van Dyke , Jewell’s busi-
of work ahead to improve ness manager, went to work
chronically lackluster aca- catching the school dis-
demic performance. B ut the trict up on its applications
school has capable students , for federal grants around
as witnessed by the often teacher training , supporting
award-winning band.
low-income students and
“Those are the same kids other student assistance .
taking math tests, the same Getting the grants allows
kids that are taking science the district to reallocate
and writing tests,” he said. about $60,000, he said.
“And so there’s no reason
“It saves the general
they can’t be just as good fund money,” he said. “It
there as they are with their provides special opportuni-
instruments.”
ties for the kids. It allows us
Jewell often has a harder to do things that are outside
time attracting staff to the of the ordinary with kids.”
rural campus nestled in
He also noticed Jew-
the Clatsop State Forest. ell hasn’t had a ratifi ed stu-
The school district needs dent handbook since 2016 .
to focus on empowering “It’s really hard to hold kids
and building the skills of accountable when there’s
its existing staff with addi- not a policy in place, ” Wood
tional training, Wood said.
said.
Shortly after he was
Wood , Phillips and Cro-
hired, Wood sat down with zier have been combin-
Phillips to talk about what ing the school district’s and
needed to be worked on.
state student conduct poli-
Saturday, June 1
DEEDER, Janet Eleanor (Olsen) — Memorial ser-
vice at 12:30 p.m., Evergreen Memorial Gardens,
1101 N.E. 112th Ave. in Vancouver, Washington.
National parks
track visitor dollars
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10th St.
Seaside Airport Advisory
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Ave.
Astoria Planning Commis-
sion, 6:30, City Hall, 1095
Duane St.
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Astoria City Council,
2 p.m., City Hall, 1095
Duane St.
Gearhart City Council,
6 p.m., special meeting, City
Hall, 698 Pacifi c Way.
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cies in the hopes of putting
a draft student handbook in
front of the school board
over the summer break.
Wood started as a sci-
ence teacher 15 years ago.
Five years ago, he became
an administrator, fi rst as
vice principal of Nyssa Ele-
mentary School, and later as
director of programs for the
school district.
Nyssa, a city of 3,100
on the Snake River across
from Idaho, enrolls about
1,200 students , compared
to Jewell’s average of less
than 200. Agriculture drives
the region’s economy, com-
pared to trees in Jewell, a
timber-rich district .
Much of Wood’s atten-
tion to federal grants comes
from the demographics he
oversees in E astern Ore-
gon, where about 60 per-
cent of students are desig-
nated migrants.
“We get migrant funding,
federal funding,” he said.
There’s “a high English as
a Second Language popu-
lation there, so a big chunk
of our general fund budget
comes from those federal
programs.
“But at the end of the
day, it’s not where you get
your money,” he said. “It’s
how you use it.”
Gone for a year, remembered every day, and
missed so very much. Your loving memory lives as
a smile in our hearts.
A new report shows 1.3
million visitors to national
parks in Oregon spent $94
million in the state last year.
Overall, that spending
resulted in more than 1,000
jobs and a cumulative ben-
efi t to the state economy of
$133 million.
Nationwide, the National
Park Service report found
$20.2 billion of direct spend-
ing by more than 318 million
park visitors. The cumula-
tive benefi t to the U.S. econ-
omy was $40.1 billion.
Oregon’s North Coast
contains
one
national
park, the Lewis and Clark
National Historical Park in
Warrenton. The state’s other
national parks are Crater
Lake National Park, John
Day Fossil Beds National
Monument and Oregon
Caves National Monument.
“The national parks
of Oregon attract visitors
from across the country and
around the world,” Stan
Austin, regional director for
the National Park Service’s
Pacifi c West Region, said in
a statement. “Whether they
are out for an afternoon, a
school fi eld trip, or a month-
long family vacation, visitors
come to have a great experi-
ence, and end up spending a
little money along the way.”
Lodging
expenses
accounted for the biggest
chunk of visitor spend-
ing, about $6.8 billion total
in 2018 at parks nation-
ally. Food expenses ca me
in second at around $5 bil-
lion between restaurants and
bars and grocery and conve-
nience stores.
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