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selves doing something, when
we think we can do it, when we
talk about doing it, it becomes
much more possible and likely
to happen,” she said.
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volve educating parents
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Seaside is “we’re going
to work with everybody,”
Parker said. “It’s not just
going to be a school-based
event. We want the commu-
nity to be involved as well.”
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cal, it’s totally nonpartisan;
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In addition to Seaside,
the Be College Ready will
be piloted in the Hermis-
ton, Grants Pass, McMinn-
ville and North Clackamas
school districts. The goal
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program every year and
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school district statewide.
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nancial aid and scholarship
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about the Oregon College
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Next in line is Cannon
Beach. “We were toned out
because Hamlet didn’t have
anybody responding,” said
Frank Swedenborg, Cannon
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mountain, Gardner and a
Cannon Beach recruit, Kea-
ton Walde, hiked up the trail
— where Medix technicians
had already arrived — to
reach the possible stroke pa-
tient. And, on the way, they
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nessed it with his own two
eyes, could have reached out
and touched her,” Gardner
said.
Seaside, Gearhart and
Hamlet sent emergency per-
sonnel. Having determined
the “call within a call” would
require a rope rescue, they
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‘We really want to foster a college-
ter a college-going culture
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in our state and we want
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to make sure that every
kid who wants to should
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regardless of money, or family
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situation or anything else’
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Michael Parker, executive director of the Oregon 529
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PHOTO COURTESY OF MATT GARDNER
Cannon Beach Fire and Rescue and other local agencies performed a double rescue on Sad-
dle Mountain the aft ernoon of March 27. One rescue involved a possible stroke patient, the
other a woman who fell a good ways down the mountain in almost exactly the same spot.
Fire and Rescue to re-
ceive multiple emergency
medical calls in a single
day. “That’s standard.” To
get them “back to back to
back” is a little odd.
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tions — at the same time,
in the same remote loca-
tion, that are completely
unrelated — is beyond
unusual in Gardner’s ex-
perience.
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Angle Rescue Team. “It was
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patient wound up.
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