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Class of 2022: Off to challenge the world
Vol. 6, Issue 23
Driver shortage is mother of invention
Transit district turns to former inmates
By Cindy Yingst
The Columbia Press
Carla Moha
Students receiving scholarships from the local Masonic Lodge are recog-
nized at an all-school awards ceremony last week.
The Columbia Press
They are the bonafide leaders of
tomorrow, this class of 61 seniors.
Tonight, they’ll bid farewell to
Warrenton High School and begin
living their dreams. With all the re-
sponsibilities of adults.
They’re a pretty impressive
group, with seniors earning more
than $250,000 in scholarships and
contributing hundreds of hours to-
ward community service through
blood drives, roadside trash and
See ‘Graduation’ on Page 8
Valedictorian
Zander Moha
7 p.m.
Friday, June 10
Warrenton
High School
Football Field
1700 S. Main Ave.
UO has close ties to Ukrainian campus
By Sharleen Nelson
University of Oregon
Special graduation pull-
out section inside.
Warrenton
High School
Commencement
Finding viable employees
has become increasingly
difficult for many business-
es and, in the public sector,
a lack of job candidates has
led to office closures and
service reductions.
Unemployment rates are
Hazen
at historic lows and many
post-pandemic
workers
have left the job pool.
For Sunset Empire Transportation Dis-
trict, which provides bus service through-
out Clatsop County and beyond, address-
Salutatorian
Alyssa Thoma
ing the worker shortage has required
creativity.
“Our district had to cut service in Sep-
tember by 27 percent just because we
don’t have enough drivers,” SETD Di-
rector Jeff Hazen told fellow members
of the state’s Public Transportation Ad-
visory Committee late last year. “All our
drivers were working six and seven days
a week, and even with cutting the service
so much, drivers are still working six
days a week.”
A potential solution: look to the prison
and parole systems.
The idea was proposed by Julia Castil-
lo, head of a transit agency in Iowa, in a
See ‘Drivers’ on Page 4
Earlier this year, students at Ukrainian
Catholic University in Lviv were busy with
their studies, enjoying in-person classes
again and looking forward to things re-
turning to normal.
Today, the UCU campus, located on the
border of Poland in the westernmost part
of Ukraine, has become a major supply
hub and sanctuary for displaced refu-
gees fleeing bombs and invading Russian
troops in eastern Ukraine.
University of Oregon associate profes-
sor of architecture Gerald Gast has been
monitoring the situation closely from
Portland. He has friends, colleagues and
family in Ukraine.
And, since 2008, campus construction
of five new buildings that make up the
UCU campus near Stryiskyi Park in Lviv
have been the focus of an ongoing master
design project with graduate students in-
volved in the UO’s Urban Projects Work-
shop in the College of Design.
Founded in 2002, the program provides
advanced UO architecture students with
opportunities for immersion in research,
public architecture and urban design
See ‘Lviv’ on Page 8