T he C olumbia P ress
September 15, 2017
School district likely to need third campus
The Columbia Press
In the next 18 years, War-
renton will need a new school
– probably a new campus for
middle-schoolers – and it
will cost $32.5 million.
The was the conclusion of a
long-range facility planning
study just completed by R&C
Management Group on be-
half of the Warrenton-Ham-
mond School District.
An additional 2,037 people
are expected to live in the city
by 2035 and that amounts to
227 more school kids.
Warrenton Grade School –
which includes junior-high-
age students -- already is
past its 554-student capac-
ity. Six additional portable
classrooms were added to
the campus this year to meet
the growing student popula-
tion, now at 734, plus 40 pre-
schoolers.
Warrenton High School has
a capacity of 280 students
and enrollment currently is
264.
“We want to create a road-
map to get us where we need
to be,” said Scott Rose, a se-
nior project manager with
R&C who presented his
findings to the school board
Wednesday night.
That roadmap includes sur-
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The Columbia Press
Twelve grade school teachers were honored by the school board
Wednesday night for making the National Honor Roll in a nation-
wide reading program. They are Corey Conant, Jessie Ehrhart, Tr-
ish Janzen, Dee Hartley, Nancy Kennell, Mindy Little, Angie Horton,
Hannah Johnson, Courtney Johnsen, Margaret Heyen and Crystal
Salmi. Salmi won a special award for having the highest-scoring
first-grade readers in the nation. Her class read more than 7,000
books last year.
veying all the buildings and
infrastructure, surveying the
staff, looking at historic en-
rollment data and population
projections and reviewing
all the funding mechanisms
available.
In introducing Rose the
board, Superintendent Mark
Jeffrey said, “He knows more
about the district than any
human alive.”
He has crawled onto roofs,
into utility rooms and re-
strooms and ended his phys-
ical
assessments
earlier
Wednesday with an in-depth
look at the Warrenton High
Fisheries facility. He also sur-
veyed every staff member to
find out what they considered
the biggest structural needs.
Their answers ranged from
“upgrading technology” to
“added meeting spaces” to
“more power receptacles in
the classrooms.”
The district needs to ask
voters to pass a bond, Rose
said, and all data, planning
and grant requests must be
in place.
The district will develop a
“core team” of community
and district staff members.
The group will meet at least
twice to develop goals and, an
action plan.
• Provide mutual aid for struc-
ture fire, 7:19 a.m. Sept. 6, 2845
Marine Drive, Astoria.
• Provide mutual aid for struc-
ture fire, 8:05 a.m. Sept. 6, 1033
Marine Drive, Astoria.
• Fire alarm water flow alarm,
11:48 a.m. Sept. 6, Warrenton
Grade School.
• Illegal backyard fire, 7:31 p.m.
Sept. 6, Sand Dollar Lane.
• Fire alarm, 6:45 p.m. Sept. 8,
Warrenton High School.
m ediCal Calls
• Female with head injury, 12:04
p.m. Sept. 4, 2200 block South-
east Dolphin Avenue.
• Female with possible heat
stroke, 12:38 p.m. Sept. 4, Fort
Stevens historical area.
• Male with heat emergency, 1:23
p.m. Sept. 4, historical area, Fort
Stevens State Park.
• Male who’s dizzy with chest
pain, 2:10 p.m. Sept. 5, 100
block Alt. Highway 101.
• Male brought in by helicopter,
12:11 p.m. Sept. 6, Coast Guard
Air Station.
• Female with possible stroke,
1:56 p.m. Sept. 6, Ranger Station
Fort Stevens State Park.
• Female fell and is bleeding
from face, 6:09 a.m. Sept. 6, 100
block Southeast Neptune Drive.
• Intoxicated female who hit
herself with picture frame, 6:35
p.m. Sept. 6, 32500 block Turlay
Lane.
• Female with difficulty breath-
ing, 8:54 p.m. Sept. 6, 600 block
South Main Avenue.
• Male having seizures, 10:18
a.m. Sept. 7, 400 block Fleet
Street, Hammond.
• Female with rapid heart rate,
12:28 p.m. Sept. 7, 1600 block
Southeast Ensign Lane.
• Female with possible stroke,
4:48 p.m. Sept. 8, 1600 block
Southeast Ensign Lane.
• Female not feeling well, 2:51
p.m. Sept. 9, 1000 block Nauti-
cal Drive, Hammond.
• Female having allergic reaction,
3:19 p.m. Sept. 9, 1800 block
Southeast Ensign Lane.
• Female with chest pain, 8:54
p.m. Sept. 10, 700 block South
Main Avenue.
• Female having seizure, 6:56
p.m. Sept. 10, Camp Kiwanilong.
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