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T he C olumbia P ress 1 50 ¢ C latsop C ounty ’ s I ndependent W eekly www.thecolumbiapress.com April 3, 2020 Food deliveries help families during difficult times School kitchen staff, bus drivers take it to the streets for kids Hotline Clatsop County’s public informa- tion line is taking questions on COVID-19. Call 503-325-8500. Where we stand with COVID-19 B y C indy y ingSt The Columbia Press Teachers won’t be standing in front of a classroom blackboard for a while. Yet they and dozens of other school employees continue to work, ensuring students are fed physical- ly, mentally and emotionally. Food Services Manager Stephanie Davis and five kitchen employees are preparing and delivering meals to children living within the War- renton-Hammond school district. “We need to keep the kids fed,” said Mike Moha, the district’s busi- ness manager. “A lot of our stu- dents eat breakfast and lunch here. They’re the main meals for some of them during the school year.” During spring break, the district handed out 150 meals per day. On Wednesday, they’d distributed 310. “It’s huge and it’s growing,” Moha said. Vol. 4, Issue 14 The Columbia Press Worldwide cases of coronavirus COVID-19 are expected to pass 1 mil- lion by the end of the week with deaths nearing 50,000. The United States moved to the top of the list for countries with confirmed cases, reaching 204,000 on Wednes- day, far surpassing China’s peak of 82,400. Oregon’s cases continued to rise with 736 cases and 19 deaths as of Wednes- day. Of the 213 hospitalizations, 40 people were on ventilators. Nearly 14,000 Oregonians had been tested for coronavirus. Clatsop County has had three con- firmed cases and no deaths as of Wednesday. Two of those cases were See ‘Virus’ on Page 8 Amanda Oseguera, who works in the kitch- en at Warrenton Grade School, delivers sacks with lunch and break- fast to first-grader David Jepsen, above, and to ninth-grader Brandon Runolfson and second-grader Ellie Partridge, right, in front of the former Hammond City Hall. See ‘Deliveries’ on Page 4 Cindy Yingst The Columbia Press See related story on Page 5 OSU researchers develop model to better understand flooding in coastal communities B y S teve L undeBerg Oregon State University Researchers at Oregon State Univer- sity have developed a new methodolo- gy for building computer models that paves the way to better understanding the flood risks faced by coastal commu- nities. That’s important because towns along the coast, such as Warrenton, are often situated near estuaries, which makes them vulnerable to both storm tide in- undation and river flooding. Estuaries occur where rivers flow into the ocean, meaning the rivers are influ- enced by tidal flooding and experience frequent, periodic changes in salinity, sunlight and oxygen. The study site for this research was Washington state’s Grays Harbor, but the methodology can be applied to any area subject to estuarine flooding. “Flooding in areas like the Pacific Northwest is complicated since many processes contribute, such as tides, large waves and river flow,” said Kai Parker, corresponding author of the study pub- lished in Coastal Engineering. “We need See ‘Flooding’ on Page 5 Large plumes of tide-af- fected land can be found throughout the Northwest coast, includ- ing this area of Tillamook County. Courtesy Oregon State University
