COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL • MARCH 13, 2019 •
Schools
from A1
In Elkton, both the city and school
came to a halt with power out every-
where and no way to get in touch with
anyone. On top of those issues, most
individuals were stuck at their hous-
es due to the roads being blocked by
downed trees. On Thursday Feb. 28,
Boe was able to make his way to Cot-
tage Grove where he, for the first time
all week, had the chance to start mak-
ing some phone calls. Boe was told that
power in Elkton was predicted to be
out for at least the next four weeks.
In conversations with the Elkton
school board chairman and mainte-
nance director, it was decided that the
district would get generators at both
the high school and the grade school.
Each generators costs $9,000 a week to
rent in addition to fuel costs. Boe es-
timated that the school will pay over
$50,000 for the generators.
“We can’t not (have the generators).
Dorena
from A1
noted that it was a near miracle
that no trees fell on the building
and that the school was fortu-
nate that last year’s leaky roof
was replaced this summer.
“If we hadn’t got that new
roof on that building, I imag-
ine we would have had some
pretty good water damage,” she
said. With the school closed, the
teachers made their way to the
SLSD office, where they put to-
gether a plan for the week.
SLSD interim superintendent
Dr. Larry Sullivan worked with
Folkman and SLSD Director of
Our option was don’t run school and
I thought it was better to get kids in
school. That was the right decision
even though it will cost so much mon-
ey,” said Boe.
But the generators quickly went be-
yond helping just the school as the Red
Cross set up an emergency shelter in
the Elkton gym on Saturday March 2.
By Sunday, the word was out and peo-
ple made their way to the gym where
they were able to get a hot shower,
warm meal and a place to charge their
phones.
“People were so appreciative,” said
Red Cross Regional Volunteer Services
Officer Hanna Malak who was at the
site from Saturday to Wednesday. “The
way they looked and felt after a shower,
it seemed so simple. I shower every day
and I can’t imagine going a full week
without a shower and these folks didn’t
have the option.”
The gym, which also had cots for in-
dividuals to stay the night, stayed busy
throughout the week but peaked on
Monday with 143 served at dinner. In
Director of Human Resources
and Director Staff Effectiveness
Brian McCasline to come up
with a solution of what to do
with Dorena. It was resolved
that the 76 Dorena students,
along with teachers and staff,
would spend the rest of the
week at Harrison Elementary
School.
“We have space [at Harrison].
The building was built for 615
students and we have 450,” said
Sullivan. “It worked out really
well.”
At Harrison, each grade level
shares a common area with four
different classroom spaces —
or “pods” — attached to it for
addition to the Red Cross, two mem-
bers of the Southern Baptist Disaster
Relief were on hand with a trailer that
has four additional showers, one wash-
ing machine and one dryer. Elkton res-
idents put left their laundry in the gym
and the Southern Baptist volunteers
washed, dried and folded the clothes.
“We’re working from day up to dark
to try and get through the laundry,”
said 82-year-old volunteer Howard
Martin.
At of this printing, the Red Cross
had not identified an end date for op-
erating at Elkton High School.
With the Red Cross in place and
power at the school, classes resumed,
with a two-hour delay in place un-
til power comes back on, on Monday
March 4 across Elkton.
“The community really feels like this
is the right place for kids to be, even
though they have fires to set at home
and water to draw and all that stuff.
People are serving kids and that’s really
cool,” said Boe. “I know it’s really, really
hard for people but they’re not saying
each specific classroom teacher.
With Harrison in its first year of
the building, the district decid-
ed at the start of the school year
to just fill three of the four pods
at each grade level. The open
pods were filled for the week
by Dorena Elementary stu-
dents while the middle school
students worked in a room off
the library. Now with a place to
learn, it was another endeavor
for teachers to determine ex-
actly what they needed to bring
from Dorena to Harrison.
“The teachers were kind of on
their own. They had Monday
to plan and I said to them on
Monday, ‘Plan for sure on three
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it. They’re not expressing it. I mean, it’s
just, let’s go do this type of thing.”
The Elkton school district has school
four days a week which will allow the
schools to add any missed days on var-
ious Fridays throughout the rest of the
year. The district may also tack on an
additional day at the end of the year.
In Cottage Grove at the South Lane
School District, the schools, except
for Dorena, were able to start back
up last Monday. Cottage Grove High
School had minor water damage but
as a whole, the district withstood the
storm.
“In all, the staff did remarkable. It
was just that no one ever expected this,”
said SLSD interim superintendent Dr.
Larry Sullivan. “You can plan and we’ll
certainly go over our procedures in
the short term and we’ll do that and
see what we can do better. We plan for
some things but not something with
that significance and that level.”
After the roads began to clear up, the
next step for SLSD was to get schools
up and running again, a process that
days but think about the whole
week.’ And so they packed ac-
cording to what they needed,”
said Folkman. Adding, “It was
dependent on the teacher on
what they wanted to bring up.
And the fact that I said, ‘Hey,
what you bring up you have
to haul back so be aware. Pack
wisely.’”
In addition to adjusting to
being in a new building that
dwarfs the size of their school,
the Dorena students, many still
without power at home, had
other needs for things such as
a warm shower, a hot meal or
their clothes washed — all of
which were provided for them
at Harrison. Once the neces-
sities were taken care of, then
learning could begin again.
“Now when everyone’s pret-
ty comfortable we’re getting to
some more academics. But I
thought about what was going
to engage them and keep them
interested. What was going to
give them an opportunity to
voice all the stuff that has been
going on in their lives,” said
Ariel Pavlak, a Dorena teacher
of the second and third-grade
7A
Sullivan estimates takes a day and a
half. That process includes getting the
buildings heated, clearing debris in
parking lots and ensuring the kitchens
are able to prepare meals.
Similarly to Elkton, SLSD also
worked with the city and Red Cross
as they got the old Harrison building
back and running to prepare an emer-
gency shelter in Cottage Grove.
“That took an immense amount of
work to get that building up and going
so we could house the shelter. The Red
Cross folks were absolutely phenome-
nal,” said Sullivan.
In North Douglas and Yoncalla, the
schools had a similar experiences of
cancelling school for the week but were
able to avoid any large-scale damage.
“When you look at our facilities and
the surrounding area, we survived
pretty well,” said North Douglas super-
intendent John Lahley. “Building wise
we had no issues.”
It was the sentiment in Yoncalla. “It
could have been a lot worse for us,” said
Yoncalla superintendent Brian Berry.
blended classroom.
Sitting in her temporary
classroom on Friday, she went
over how the key to keeping her
students engaged and transition
them into an academic mode
was to continue to talk, think
and write about their experi-
ence with the snow.
Each year, Pavlak’s class pub-
lishes a book and after recent
events, the class will now focus
on the events of “Snowpoca-
lypse 2019.” To start their brain-
storming, her class shared their
favorite and least favorite parts
of their week of snow. The high-
lights and lowlights spanned a
wide range from typical snow
day events such as snowball
fight and getting to play board
games to low lights that fea-
tured trees falling near their
house, no internet and stepping
in dog poop and not being able
to wash it.
Pavlak, and those at Dore-
na, expressed gratitude to the
district for getting their school
quickly plugged into anoth-
er school and to the Harrison
teachers for offering assistance
as needed. But after four days at
Harrison, she echoed a shared
feeling: it was time to go back to
Dorena.
“We all felt like country
bumpkins that first day. It was
like, ‘Whoa… check this place
out everything is new and
shiny. There’s an elevator!’” said
Pavalk. “But now they’re like,
‘Are we going back to Dorena
on Monday?’ They miss their
school. We do have a really
unique, small community up
there and it’s very comfortable
and safe for all of us. So defi-
nitely a lot of small fish in a big
pond feeling.”
Monday morning back at
Dorena, students recounted
their favorite memories of their
time at Harrison. They enjoyed
the state of the art technology, a
bigger library and a hill out on
the playground that they got to
slide down. But now, they were
back where they belong.
“We’re finally back into our
regular classrooms and doing
our regular stuff,” said an ex-
cited student in the second and
third grade blended class.
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