May 1, 2020
T he C olumbia P ress
Family donates pizza to school backpack program
Andy and Ashlee Klump-
er, new owners of the Sea-
side Papa Murphy’s Take ‘N’
Bake, donated 150 pizza kits
to Warrenton Grade School’s
Weekend Backpack program.
Their daughter, Kennadee,
a fourth-grader at Gearhart
Elementary School, hand
wrote a personal note of love
and encouragement inside
each pizza box.
The backpacks are spon-
sored by the nonprofit group
Warrenton
Hammond
Healthy Kids. Each backpack
provides enough food for ev-
ery child in a household on
weekends when school meal
programs aren’t operating.
For more information
about signing up for the
backpack program or to do-
nate food or money, contact
Warrenton Grade School at
503-861-2281.
The Klumper family,
above, and a personal-
ized note from Ken-
nadee, left.
Letters to the editor
New commissioner
needed for county
We need John Toyooka to
help our businesses recover
from the damage Sarah Ne-
beker has done over the last
eight years, implementing
harmful policies for our com-
munities.
John has been a longstand-
ing leader and has done a lot of
good. He uses common sense
and real-world solutions,
which will be really helpful in
our current economic crisis.
Right now, John is running
against Sarah Nebeker and
her failed, misguided pol-
icies, such as rejecting the
$200 million timber settle-
ment that our county need-
ed. She has exponentially
increased
homelessness,
made Clatsop County unaf-
fordable for many working
families and now wants to
put Wauna out of business!
We need John to fix what Ne-
beker has done and protect
our working families. Please
vote John Toyooka for Dis-
trict 2 County Commissioner
on May 19.
Stephanie Millman
Seaside
Toyooka will help
county recover
Why
I
will
vote
for
John
Toyooka
A vote for John Toyooka is
a vote to help our county re-
cover.
In our current economic
crisis, John has the experi-
ence to make the kinds of de-
cisions required to help our
local businesses succeed. I
cannot say that about his op-
ponent, Sarah Nebeker.
I will vote for John not only
because of his business skills,
but because of his longstand-
ing commitment in our com-
munity. He has served on the
Providence Hospital Foun-
dation Board and currently
serves on the Clatsop College
Foundation, where he is par-
ticularly focused on job-skills
training for students in order
to prepare them for a career.
The students need him and
business owners need him.
Our county faces an uncer-
tain future. We need stable
elected officials that make
good decisions for all of us,
not just for special interests.
If he is elected, John will
faithfully put our county first.
Vicky McGath
Seaside
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Celebrating school lunch workers
Friday, May 1, is School
Lunch Hero Day.
Those who want to show
appreciation for the people
who prepare and distribute
student meals are encour-
aged to do so.
“(It’s) a great opportunity
to showcase the difference
that school nutrition profes-
sionals make,” said Tamra
Taylor, a director for Chart-
wells, the company Warren-
ton-Hammond and Seaside
school districts use to handle
nutrition programs. “Right
now, lunch isn’t just about
serving food. It’s about mak-
ing a true impact on the lives
of students and families in
need.”
Schools may be closed,
but cafeteria teams remain
on duty, ensuring students
are fed during the COVID-19
pandemic.
The cafeteria employees
have continued serving stu-
dents every weekday af-
ter schools were closed in
March.
“This year needs a bigger cel-
ebration,” Taylor said. “These
front-line heroes have stepped
up in a big way to make sure
students in our community do
not go hungry.”
As many as one in six chil-
dren in the United States
lives with hunger, according
to some estimates, and six in
seven hungry children don’t
get adequate meals when
schools aren’t in session.