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The Columbia Press September 24, 2021 More consistency needed, volleyball coach says Q. How could your team By Bruce Dustin learn from this loss? For The Columbia Press SM: The girls have played I recently had a chance to so well up until now. I’d for- interview Warrenton Vol- gotten that there is only one leyball Coach Staci Miethe player that has any signifi- about this season. cant varsity experi- Q. In last Thurs- ence. We are start- day’s match with ing two freshmen Banks, you lost who did not have an three out of the four eighth-grade season. sets, and the match. We have a first-year How did you feel varsity junior under about the game? our belt. It will take SM: The Banks Staci Miethe some time to get our game was rough. We chemistry and roles absolutely didn’t play like solidified, but then, I expect we have been playing. Our really good volleyball. chemistry was nonexistent, Q. You have an away game which greatly affected our Tuesday against Rainier, serve reception, our de- how do you think the team fense. And, without passing will do? What do you need to effectively, we couldn’t exe- concentrate on to win? cute on offense. SM: To beat Rainier we have to be consistent. I don’t think we need to be great all the time, but we can’t give up what we have been calling “an avalanche of points.” We seem to do that in the beginning a lot -- give up 4, 5, 6 points right away. Or we get a good lead, 4 to 6 points, and then we can’t maintain it because we let our opponent come back with 4 to 5 in a row. Consistency and the abil- ity to end rallies and termi- nate the point, that’s where I am focusing. Bruce Dustin More than 60 local children attended a four-day camp at War- renton High School sponsored by Warrenton Youth Football. The children ranged from first to eighth grades. A look at Warrenton’s top stories from The Columbia Press annals Terror attacks prompt patriotic response from mayor September 2001 10 years ago • City commissioners award a $21,787 contract to low bid- der John Wilson Construc- tion of Hammond to re-side and repaint Warrenton Com- munity Center. A week later, the commission rebids the project after the contractor backed away from the job and the next lowest bidder, Mark Baldwin Construction, filed a formal protest over the city allowing the winning bidder to submit a bid security de- posit after the bid deadline. • The 1980 Warrenton High School football team, Dee- Ann McCoy, David Mitts, Jack Burkhart, Jim Corkill, Gary Jensen, and Don and Renay Patterson all are in- ducted into the Warrenton Hall of Fame. 20 years ago •Mayor Jeff Hazen asks all Warrenton residents to fly the U.S. flag in solidarity and support of the victims of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 in New York, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania. • Three new housing proj- ects are planned in the city: Heron Meadows, an eight- lot subdivision at Gardenia Avenue and Ninth Street; Westside Meadows, a nine- lot subdivision off Northwest First Street near Gardenia; and Battery Russell No. 4, a 37-lot housing development in Hammond on Lake Drive and Ninth Avenue. • Forty dogs, cats and birds were found crammed into a 19-foot motorhome belong- ing to a Klamath Falls cou- Honing football skills The girls won their away game 3-2 against Rain- ier Tuesday and were to be home against Portland Christian on Thursday. History in the Making September 2011 3 ple, who broke down while crossing the Astoria-Megler Bridge. •Anthony Scott Garner is found guilty of the 1998 mur- der of Dana Bailey aboard a boat at the Warrenton Mari- na and then lighting the boat on fire. A second man faces trial on similar charges. September 1996 25 years ago •Officer Walt Garcia returns from Texas with a new part- ner – a drug-sniffing dog. More than $7,500 was donat- ed by the community for the dog and training. • Warrenton’s post office finally gets improved park- ing and access, thanks to completion of a paving proj- ect that realigned Southwest First Street a bit farther to the south.