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THE ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
College board appoints new member
Stahancyk has
practiced family law
By KATIE
FRANKOWICZ
The Astorian
A former Portland attor-
ney will replace Suzanne
Iverson on the board of Clat-
sop Community College .
Iverson, a retired col-
lege employee, won a nar-
row victory over incum-
bent David Zunkel last May
but died unexpectedly this
summer.
Her replacement, Jody
Stahancyk, was sworn in at
a Zoom meeting Tuesday
night. Her term in Zone 3,
Position 6 runs through June
2023 and she has indicated
she would consider
Stahancyk, origi-
running for election
nally from Prineville,
for an additional two
previously served on
years after her term
the Linfi eld College
expires.
Board and on other
Previously based
boards in Portland.
in Portland, she
She also has con-
Jody
practiced
family
nections with state
Stahancyk
law with her fi rm
Sen. Betsy John-
Stahancyk, Kent &
son, D-Scappoose.
Hook. She has long main- The two women grew up
tained an offi ce in Astoria together, she told college
and shared space with for- board members during can-
mer local attorney Steve didate interviews last week.
Roman.
Stahancyk and her hus-
Roman, who died in band relocated more perma-
May, was friends with for- nently to the coast last year.
mer Astoria Mayor Willis They have owned a beach
Van Dusen and represented house in Gearhart since
him at various times. Van 1989.
Dusen’s daughter, Trudy
Five of the six c ollege
Van Dusen Citovic, was board members favored
elected to the college board Stahancyk’s application for
in May .
the vacancy.
Zunkel, a retired physi-
cian, had also applied for
the appointment , along with
Harvey Claussen , a retired
chemical engineer in Can-
non Beach. Board member
Anne Teaford-Cantor pre-
ferred Zunkel over Stah-
ancyk, but the board decided
to go with Stahancyk.
B oard member Tim
Lyman had recruited Iver-
son to run on a platform that
included concerns about
enrollment and the college’s
management software.
In her interview with the
c ollege board, Stahancyk
also voiced concerns about
enrollment, as well as build-
ing maintenance issues. She
said the college faces “heavy
challenges,” but also a num-
ber of opportunities.
Hospitals: Workers seeing more breakthrough cases
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“It takes a lot of scram-
bling to make sure that we’ve
got a private room avail-
able for that patient, and that
we’ve got the space for that
patient,” Plamondon said.
The hospital has to consider
such factors when COVID
patients arrive — “where are
we going to set them up, how
are we going to care for them
… It takes more resources
from the hospital to care for
these patients.”
Geiger explained that
nurses caring for COVID
patients “have to put on a lot
of PPE (personal protective
equipment) to go into the
room, then they have to take
it off very carefully to come
out of the room so they don’t
spread any COVID. And
then they have to go on to the
next patient and do the same
thing as they’re taking care
of several COVID patients.”
Columbia Memorial is
considering taking down
a special COVID unit, an
area of the hospital con-
verted from a same-day sur-
gery where virus patients are
held so that infectious air
would not move into the rest
of the hospital. Virus patients
would be sent to the hospi-
tal’s other in-patient units,
“as long as we don’t get
another surge of them,” Gei-
ger said.
The surge in local virus
cases over the summer,
which public health leaders
have attributed to the delta
variant, has caused more
stress on hospitals than at
any time during the pan-
demic. Personnel from the
Oregon National Guard have
been assigned to Colum-
bia Memorial and Provi-
dence Seaside to help health
care providers handle the
demand.
The hospitalization data
is “very compelling infor-
mation,” Margo Lalich,
the county’s interim public
health director, said. “There
are diff erent things that moti-
vate the public and piques
their attention, and this has
been something that has
really piqued their attention,
of who’s being hospitalized
and whether or not they’re
vaccinated.
SPORTS
Royals defeat
Knappa volleyball
The Astorian
In a big Northwest
League volleyball match
Tuesday, the Portland Chris-
tian Royals handed Knappa
its fi rst loss in league play,
25-18, 27-25, 25-12.
The Royals improved
to 4-2 in league, while the
Loggers dropped to 2-1.
Knappa coach Jeff Kaul
said the Loggers were “hit-
ting on all cylinders” in
the second set, “with some
incredible blocks and hus-
tle plays.”
Knappa led until the
fi nal points, when the Roy-
als rallied for a 27-25 win.
Kaul said it was his
team’s “fi rst real chal-
lenge in league play, and
other than that third game I
think they played very well
against a very seasoned
and strong team. With a
few tweaks here and there,
I really think this team can
compete at this level.”
Carlie Casper led the
Knappa attack with six
kills, with Hannah Diet-
richs adding six digs, fi ve
kills and four blocks. Taryn
Barendse fi nished with six
digs and three aces, Ari-
ana Miller had six blocks
and Ava Skipper had eight
assists.
Knappa hosts fi rst place
Nestucca Thursday.
Elsewhere,
Yam-
hill-Carlton defeated Asto-
ria 25-15, 25-14, 25-23, and
sixth-ranked Jewell out-
lasted Crosshill Christian
in fi ve sets, 15-25, 25-18,
22-25, 25-19, 15-5.
On Monday, Estacada
defeated Seaside 25-21,
23-25, 25-16, 26-24.
St. Helens tops Seaside girls soccer
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Health care providers are hopeful as the number of coronavirus patients declines.
County reports
25th virus death
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vaccine.”
The c ounty Public Health
Department, she said, relies
on local hospitals “to release
that data and share it with us
and so we can share it with
the public, and the plan is
to continue to do so as long
as it’s meaningful to the
community.”
Coming into Tuesday’s
match with just one goal
in their fi rst three games,
St. Helens erupted for three
goals in a 3-1 victory over
Seaside in a nonleague girls
soccer contest at St. Helens.
The Lions, now 1-3
overall, were coming off a
2-0 loss to Astoria, while
the Gulls were fresh off a
4-0 win last week against
Junction City.
Seaside scored the fi rst
goal in Tuesday’s match, in
the 11th minute.
But St. Helens answered
in the 22nd minute, with
Rachel Freitag scoring
from close range at the
right post for a 1-1 tie. The
Lions tacked on a goal just
three minutes later, as Jeza-
rel Ortiz fi nished off a cor-
ner kick.
Seaside freshman Kaylee
Snyder had shots on goal
late in the fi rst half and early
in the second, but the shots
were defl ected or saved.
St. Helens added a third
goal in the 66th minute, as
Hannah Hayduk scored
from close range off another
corner kick.
In nonleague boys soc-
cer action, Yamhill-Carlton
defeated Astoria 8-0.
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE
THURSDAY
Volleyball — Yamhill-Carlton at Seaside, 6:30 p.m.; Warrenton at Banks,
6:30 p.m.; Nestucca at Knappa, 6:30 p.m.; Willamette Valley Christian at Jewell,
6 p.m.; Ilwaco at Raymond, 7 p.m.
Boys Soccer — Astoria at Gladstone, 4 p.m.; Taft at Seaside, 7:15 p.m.
Girls Soccer — Astoria at Gladstone, 6 p.m.
FRIDAY
Football — Molalla at Astoria, 7 p.m.; Seaside at Estacada, 7 p.m.; Warrenton at
Culver, 7 p.m.; Alsea at Jewell, 7 p.m.; Forks at Ilwaco, 7 p.m.; Winlock at Naselle,
7 p.m.
Cross Country — Meriwether Classic, TBA
Clatsop County reported the 25th coronavirus-re-
lated death since the pandemic began.
A 60-year-old man died Sept. 7 at a local hospi-
tal, the county said. No other information was imme-
diately available.
The Oregon Health Authority reported 35 new virus
cases in the county on Tuesday and two new virus
cases over the weekend. Since the pandemic began, the
county had recorded 2,024 virus cases as of Tuesday.
“We know the majority of
people who are contracting
COVID are unvaccinated,”
Lalich continued, “although
we’re seeing more and more
vaccinated cases getting
COVID ‘cause it’s not 100%
protective. But in hospital-
izations and serious illness,
it’s still the unvaccinated. It
is motivating people to get a
dose, or that second dose, of
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Birthday
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