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East Oregonian
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#YoungmanOnEllen
Students launch
Twitter campaign
to get teacher on
‘Ellen’ show
By KATHY ANEY
East Oregonian
Kathryn
Youngman’s
name was all over the Twit-
tersphere on Monday.
The Pendleton High
School teacher didn’t likely
give it much thought since
she was busy getting a chemo
treatment at the Tri-Cities
Cancer Center.
Unbeknownst
to
Youngman,
however,
her students launched a
campaign this weekend to
get their beloved teacher
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The East Oregonian
featured the Spanish teacher
in a human interest story on
Friday about her third battle
with cancer. Youngman
receives treatments every
other Monday, returning to
school the next day, despite
fatigue and nausea.
The Twitter campaign
started gaining traction on
Sunday and went crazy on
Monday.
“It’s blowing up,” said
Roman Martinez, a student
in Youngman’s Spanish 4
class.
Martinez, who sent out
plenty of his own tweets,
noticed with elation that NFL
football player Vic Beasley
had tweeted twice on the
teacher’s behalf.
“Please help us get
Kathryn Youngman on @
TheEllenShow. She’s going
to beat cancer for the 3rd
time all while teaching.
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Spanish language teacher Kathryn Youngman has lost her hair due to chemother-
apy treatments she has undergone while battling against breast cancer. This is
Youngman’s third bout ighting cancer.
# Yo u n g m a n O n E l l e n , ”
tweeted Beasley.
The defensive end for the
Atlanta Falcons posted a link
to the East Oregonian story.
Both tweets shared hundreds
of times.
“I don’t know how he
found out about it, but he
must have seen one of the
tweets and hopped on the
bandwagon,” Martinez said.
Other athletes joined
in, including University of
Oregon quarterback Vernon
Adams, Oregon State basket-
ball player Tres Tinkle and
Olympic beach volleyball
player Kerri Walsh.
Martinez also messaged
Portland
Trail
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to tweet back. As of Monday
afternoon, Lillard hadn’t
responded, but Martinez
holds out hope.
Many of the tweets feature
photos of PHS students
holding signs with words
of encouragement such as
“Fight like a girl,” “Heroic”
and “Kind.”
The students are effusive
about Youngman.
“She’s always so positive
and encouraging about
everything,” said senior
Taryn Sokoloski. “She
always makes us feel loved
in school and in life. You feel
like you have someone on
your side.”
Substitute teacher Katie
Monchalin teaches Young-
man’s classes on treatment
days. Montchalin, also
Youngman’s niece, watched
in awe as students talked up
the Twitter campaign and
planned other ways to show
support. When Youngman
returns to class Tuesday, she
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“The entire school will
wear pink,” Montchalin
said. “Some tweeted about
it, but it’s been mostly word-
of-mouth and it was on the
morning announcements.”
Even PHS rival Hermiston
High School has tweeted
in support, Martinez noted,
and HHS Associated Student
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to wear pink in solidarity on
Tuesday.
Who knows how long the
Twitter campaign will last
or whether Ellen will notice.
These things tend to ebb and
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but on Monday, enthusiasm
ran high.
“People put sticky notes
with ‘#YoungmanOnEllen’
all over the hallway walls,”
Montchalin said. “Someone
even wrote it with dry erase
markers on the bathroom
mirrors.”
Students are working on a
video to send to the “Ellen”
show.
———
Contact Kathy Aney at
kaney@eastoregonian.com
or call 541-966-0810.
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Portland Community College
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By GEORGE PLAVEN
East Oregonian
Energy-efficient
upgrades are now in place
at Milton-Freewater and
Athena-Weston schools that
will allow the districts to
remotely control heating and
cooling in every classroom.
Similar controls were
installed last year at Morrow
County schools. The system
uses a Web-based platform
where
custodians
can
monitor room temperatures
and preset schedules to maxi-
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“Anywhere you can get
on the Internet, they can
access their controls system,”
said Cory Wiltshire, project
manager with McKinstry
in Portland, an energy and
facility services contractor.
At
Milton-Freewater
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McKinstry upgraded the
controls system at 94-year-old
McLoughlin High School
and 106-year-old Central
Middle School over summer.
The total cost was $260,000,
with $50,000 in incentives
provided by Milton-Free-
water City Light & Power
and the Energy Trust of
Oregon.
Controls
were
also
modernized
at
Weston
Middle School, along with a
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at Weston-McEwen High
School. That project cost
$200,000, with $7,500 from
the Energy Trust of Oregon.
The districts are expected
to save a combined $30,000
annually in energy costs.
Wiltshire said the idea is that
savings can eventually offset
the initial cost of construc-
tion.
“The biggest goal for us
was to ultimately realize
no day-to-day changes in
comfort level for the users,
the students,” he said. “So
far, I think we’ve accom-
plished that.”
Energy and utility costs
generally account for 20-40
percent of a school’s mainte-
nance and operations budget,
according to McKinstry. The
company cites a U.S. Green
Building Council report that
takes student comfort as
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achievement in school.
“These
improvements
not only help our districts
stretch their energy dollars
on day one, but provide a
healthier, more comfortable
learning environment for all
school occupants,” said Lee
Hankins, energy business
unit manager for McKinstry’s
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———
Contact George Plaven
at gplaven@eastoregonian.
com or 541-966-0825.
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Jeff Tomac. “I’m very
proud of how quickly and
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to accomplish the necessary
planning and thankful to
the community and other
agencies for their support.”
For more info, call the
Wallowa-Whitman National
Forest at 541-523-6391.
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