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Warrenton High kicks off football season
Joshua Earls and
teammates board
the bus for last
Friday’s Willamina
Jamboree.
By Bruce Dustin
For The Columbia Press
Warrior football was back in
action as the team headed off
to the Willamina Jamboree
last Friday.
“I’m excited. I think we are
a really good team,” safety/re-
ceiver Joshua Earls said as the
team boarded the bus. “Yeah,
we’ve lost some players, but
others have stepped up to fill
those roles. Our strength is
an offense backed by Hordie
Boden Boden.”
And then he thought a bit.
“Our weakness is our fo-
cus. We’re a little loose, a lit-
tle too comfortable. We need
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Ethan Caldwell
to play up, to play a little bit
harder.”
The weakness also was
clear to Assistant Coach Cade
Wilkins, a government, eco-
nomics, and weight training
teacher at the high school.
“Football? We have a new
front line, but they’re solid,”
Wilkins said. “The backfield
is experienced and good. We
were league champs last year
September 3, 2021
and we hope to do that again.”
After the game, linebacker/
receiver Ethan Caldwell said
the season looked promising.
“It got me excited, the way
we could take in the opportu-
nities, the accomplishments
that we made,” he said.
Standouts, according to
Ethan, were Kaison Smith, a
left tackle, Josh Smith, a left
guard, and Ryder Sturgell, an
inside linebacker.
“Josh never let the energy
go down,” he said. “He picked
up his teammates emotional-
ly. Ryder is only a freshman,
but he wasn’t afraid to make a
tackle. Good for him.”
The Warriors’ first home
game is at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept.
3, against Knappa.
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“Mr. O’Brien has been in-
strumental in keeping our high
school
stu-
dent-athletes
engaged in the
classroom and
on the playing
fields through-
out the pan-
demic,” Rogoz-
Heyen
inski said.
Warrenton Middle School
Classes are 8:30 a.m. to 3:30
p.m. for grades 6-8.
Joining Jannusch is Chad
Madsen as assistant principal.
Madsen has been an educator
for 18 years,
with four years
as
assistant
principal
at
Astoria High
School and one
year as princi-
pal at Hilltop
Middle School
in Ilwaco.
Jannusch
Warrenton Grade School
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Classes are 8 a.m. to 2:30
p.m.
Tiffany O’Donnell has been
named principal. She has 11
years of experience as a prin-
cipal in Oregon public schools.
She is an innovative elemen-
tary school administrator, Ro-
gozinski said, with a success-
ful track record in developing
young readers
and
building
focused, posi-
tive, dynamic
schools.
Longtime
WGS teacher
Dionne
Mar-
shall is the new
assistant prin-
cipal. She is a O’Donnell
Warrenton High
School graduate. In 2019, Mar-
shall received an Outstanding
Teacher Award from the Ore-
gon Science Teachers Associa-
tion.