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Lviv: Oregon students helped design campus
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projects.
“We have two new beautiful res-
idence halls, and they are stuffed
with refugees,” Gast said of the
Ukraine school. “Many of the stu-
dents are also in there, but some
of them have gone home to help
their parents. The other build-
ings on campus, including their
beautiful new library, have been
turned into collections centers for
emergency supplies, and they are
sorting supplies and getting ready
in case of a future attack.”
Millions of Ukrainians have
fled their homes and resettled
elsewhere.
Lviv had been largely spared
from the Russian assault until a
warehouse was bombed.
On April 18, missiles struck
again, killing seven people, the
first reported deaths in the city,
and injuring 11 others. In early
May, missile strikes and power
outages disrupted classes.
“They live with this every day,
not knowing when or where the
next missile is going to fall,”
Gast said.
When Gast first visited Lviv in
2014, the 13-acre campus site
was a blank slate, but over the
past 14 years, five new buildings
have been completed.
“When we started this, I said
this will be about a 25-year ef-
fort,” he said. “We’re probably
40 percent finished in terms of
the physical buildings, but we
have another eight more or so to
Graduation: A class of achievers
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brush cleanup, and more.
Other achievements:
•The ROV Club qualified for
the World Finals in Long Beach,
Calif.
•Boys Track finished fourth at
state, with Zander Moha placing
first overall and becoming a two-
time state champion.
•Boys Baseball won the Coastal
Range League.
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•Girls Softball took second
in league with Avyree Miethe
named player of the year.
•Boys Wrestling placed sixth
statewwide.
•Warrenton High School Fish-
eries raised $126,000 for the
program.
•Four teams – baseball, soft-
ball, boys track and boys golf
– received all-state awards for
their academic achievements.
go.”
Identifying more with Poland
and Western concepts, UCU
is a Catholic college with a hu-
manitarian mission that offers
its students a broad, liberal arts
education.
“In these past 14 years it has
changed so much, become so
much free, become so much
more Western; more business-
es opening up and it has really
blossomed,” Gast said.
Still, it has not been that long
since Ukraine was under Rus-
sian control.
“Ukraine got its independence
from the Soviet Union about
1992, so for the last 30 years
they have been a free, indepen-
dent country, at peace,” Gast
said.
“All of a sudden, in one month,
the lives of everyone have been
uprooted. You can imagine if
you were a student at the UO and
The library has become a supply center during the war.
your country was attacked and stroyed, Gast said, of course
you’ve never experienced war. they will rebuild.
This is a life-changing event.”
“It’s hard to talk about build-
Meanwhile, the campus build- ing a new campus, but life will go
ing project is on hold at least on,” he said. “I’m confident that
until the fall, but students at Ukraine will not only survive
UCU have been sending videos but thrive after this. The war has
to Gast every week documenting brought people together, and at
the continuing war.
the local level at our university
And if the unthinkable should they’re even more intensely uni-
happen and the campus is de- fied and committed now.”
Awards: Seniors earn money and praise
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Lum’s Auto Center: Alex
Tapia, Elijah Whitsett
Masonic Lodge #175: Hordie
Bodden Bodden, Ethan Cald-
well, William Carruthers, Josh-
ua Earls, Grace Fritz, Alejandra
Lopez Nestor, Zander Moha,
Avyree Miethe, Brittney Peter-
son, Tiana Rehwald-Quicke,
Nathan
Streibeck-Peterson,
Christian Tapales, Alex Tapia,
Alyssa Thoma, Elijah Whitsett.
Morisse Family: Avyree Mi-
ethe, Nathan Streibeck-Peter-
son
Murl Peterson: Zander Moha
Multicultural Club: Tiana
Rehwald-Quicke
OSEA: Parker Greenawald,
Wyatt Hawkins, Josh Earls,
Josh Smith
Pat & Linda Ryan: Zander
Moha, Alyssa Thoma
PNW Warrant Officers:
Grace Fritz, Tiana Re-
hwald-Quicke
Ted Antilla Memorial: Alex
Tapia
Thomas-Nguyen
Family:
Austin Atwood, Alex Tapia
U.S. Senate Youth Program:
Alejandra Lopez Nestor
Warrenton
Achievers:
Hordie Bodden Bodden, Je-
nessa Bork, William Car-
ruthers, Grace Fritz, Alejan-
dra Lopez Nestor, Zander
Moha, Avyree Miethe, Tiana
Rehwald-Quicke,
Christian
Tapales, Alyssa Thoma, Elijah
Whitsett
Warrenton-Hammond
Healthy Kids: Ashton Kalama
Warrenton High School
Scholarships Inc.: Hayleigh
Anglim, Ethan Caldwell, Wil-
liam Carruthers, Joshua Earls,
Grace Fritz, Addison Jackson,
Alejandra Lopez Nestor, Zan-
der Moha, Brittney Peterson,
Jose Talancon Botello, Chris-
tian Tapales, Alex Tapia, Alys-
sa Thoma, Elijah Whitsett
Warrenton Mini Mart: Josh-
ua Earls, Cotton Ferrell
Warrenton Volunteer Fire-
fighters Association: Cotton
Ferrell, Grace Fritz
Wauna Credit Union: Alex
Tapia