June 12, 2015 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com • 9A
Seniors volunteer time, skills in community
Students share
testimonies at 23
annual Pacifica Project
Presentations
‘A Short Story of a
Long House’
Anguiano, Liu, Martinez
and Weber were looking for
an enjoyable project to do,
and Hawes had received a let-
ter from the museum about a
By Katherine Lacaze
project creating a replica of a
Seaside Signal
Native American long house.
When Seaside High Tom Horning, a local geolo-
School Chris Anguiano made gist, took the students on a
the pun, “We had to think out- few trips to gather cedar and
side the box on this one,” he showed them how to split the
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Project he did with three oth- cause it is strong, weather-re-
er seniors that involved creat- sistant, versatile and abundant
ing a scaled-down model of a in this area. The students used
Native American cedar plank a puzzle method with ropes
house with a box for the foun- to tie together small pieces of
dation that doubles as a carry- wood to create longer beams,
a crucial part of the structure.
ing case.
Anguiano’s statement si- “It’s indestructible,” Martinez
multaneously referred to the said.
“Or close,” Anguiano add-
creativity required of the four
students as they could not use ed.
nails, screws or other modern
equipment to hold together ‘Inspire CHAOS —
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built as an educational tool for
Seniors Rebecca Misho
the Seaside Museum and His-
torical Society. Anguiano and and Hayleigh Nagle, for their
his team – seniors Jensen Liu, project, set about combating
Pedro Martinez and Bradley the loss of funding and sup-
Weber — were among more port encountered by creative
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ed their projects to judging school system. In November
panels and the community at 2014, they put on an event
the Seaside Civic and Con- called Inspired CHAOS,
which stands for Creative
vention Center on May 27.
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During the annual Pacifica Project Presentations at Seaside Civic and Convention Center on
May 27, Seaside High School Seniors Hayleigh Nagle, left, and Rebecca Misho give a presen-
tation on the event, Inspire CHAOS, which they put on in November 2014 to raise money for
performing and fine arts at the high school.
Hearts and Old Souls, to
fundraise for the high school’s
choir and other arts programs.
They chose the name, Misho
said, because “what is life,
but one chaotic roller coast-
er?” Planning the event, she
added, lived up to the name,
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time organizing something of
that caliber. “Becca and I both
really had to put ourselves
outside of our comfort zones
to pull this off,” Nagle said.
Misho agreed, adding,
“Though stress got to each of
us, we kept it together, know-
ing it would lead to some-
thing great.” The event was
a collaboration with Holiday
Helpers, a program operat-
ed through the Seaside Elks.
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tickets that were drawn at the
event. The approximately
$650 raised will go toward
providing Thanksgiving food
baskets for those in need.
Serving the local
food bank
Seniors Tristine Geer,
Joey Jones, Floyd Stinson
and Cassidy Williams vol-
unteered at the South County
Community Food Bank un-
der the mentorship of man-
aging director Karla Gann.
Their work included a dona-
tion drive to obtain personal
care items, from hand sani-
tizer to tissues. Some of their
other responsibilities includ-
ed stocking shelves, folding
clothes, recycling boxes,
taking out trash and repack-
aging bulk foods. They dis-
cussed the food bank’s mis-
sion, volunteers, products
and clientele. The pantry is
open weekdays from 8 a.m.
to 4 p.m. to receive donations
and volunteer help. Each
member of the group said
they would be willing to do
the project again, or continue
volunteering at the food pan-
try. “It’s good to give back to
our community,” Geer said.
Others from the 96-mem-
ber group comprising the
Class of 2015 spent their time
putting on plays and fashion
shows, coaching sports, men-
toring the Broadway Middle
School robotics team, assist-
ing the Northwest Outdoor
School and Seaside Kids Inc.,
making care packages for the
troops, cleaning beaches and
other natural environments,
helping with Providence Sea-
side Hospital Foundation’s
Festival of Trees and doing
numerous other projects.
Camp Kiwanilong gets grant to make repairs, renovations
Site ready for Summer
Youth Program to start
June 21
By Katherine Lacaze
Seaside Signal
Camp Kiwanilong has
been named a Gray Family
Foundation “Success Story”
after obtaining and imple-
menting a $35,000 main-
tenance grant and nearly
$17,500 matching funds to
spruce up the 270-acre site in
Warrenton that has generated
countless camp memories for
nearly 80 years.
The Camp Kiwanilong
Board of Directors and volun-
teers, along with several con-
tractors, have been busy the
past year using the money to
eliminate a number of items
from the camp’s deferred
maintenance projects list.
“Getting the grant was a
bonus - just a shot in the arm,”
said Marge Huddleston, vice
chair of the volunteer Camp
Kiwanilong Board.
In April 2014, the Gray
Family Foundation board
approved Camp Kiwan-
ilong’s Camp Maintenance
Fund proposal and awarded
a 50 percent matching grant,
which means the foundation
gave $2, up to $35,000, for
every $1 raised by the camp,
whether through monetary
donations, donated materials
or committed volunteer la-
bor. Overall, the board raised
more than $52,000 to upgrade
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cilities, which is a criterion
for Camp Maintenance grant
recipients.
The camp, which is locat-
ed between Long Lake and
a wooded area bordering the
ocean near Fort Stevens, re-
ceived donations from about
100 area individuals and
businesses, Huddleston said,
adding, “a lot of local com-
panies are generous with do-
nating their time, services or
products.”
Kiwanilong was one of
13 camps in Oregon in 2014
to receive the $35,000 grant,
which is awarded each year
to facilities that “have main-
tenance and improvement
needs, serve Outdoor School,
are geographically dispersed
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Foundation’s values regard-
ing inclusion and multi-cul-
tural diversity,” according to
the foundation’s website.
“We were selected be-
cause of the good work we
were doing, but we were in
need of some help,” Hud-
dleston said. “It was kind of
an honor to be chosen a ‘Suc-
cess Story.’ They wanted to
put us on their website. It felt
good.”
With the grant money,
Camp Kiwanilong was able
to complete 11 maintenance
projects on several camp fa-
cilities. Some repairs to the
Boyington Lodge, the main
gathering spot, included reha-
bilitating ill-functioning win-
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ing kitchen cabinets, walls
and work areas; repairing
waterline problems under the
sink and dishwasher; making
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the interior log walls and re-
moving rot on an exterior
wall. Two Pioneer Cabins
got new foundations and sid-
ing repairs. The food storage
building also received repairs;
three facilities were pressure
washed and treated; and the
camp removed hazardous
trees and limbs along paths
and in the main camp area.
While the facilities are
very rustic – “they’re never
going to be the Taj Mahal,”
Huddleston said – the grant
accounted for big improve-
ments and, more importantly,
allowed the camp to knock
out a greater number of de-
ferred projects in a single year.
The camp had to complete or
at least start all the projects by
Oct. 1, 2014, but could be-
gin implementation as soon
as funds were received. The
board now has until June 1 to
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Summer program
and year-round use
Camp Kiwanilong, or
“Camp K,” is well-known for
its resident Summer Youth
Program, when the camp hosts
about 100 young campers for
a week at a time. The Sum-
mer Youth Program, which is
in its 37th year, will operate
six weeks this summer, from
June 21 to Aug. 1. Each ses-
sion has a different theme, and
the camp is offering a shorter
session, from July 14 to 18,
for third- through sixth-grad-
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19 to 25, is targeted for older
then was leased to the Girl
Scouts of America from 1936
to 1975.
Besides hosting the Sum-
mer Youth Program, the site
also is used throughout the
year by various groups, such
as the Oregon Museum of
Science and Industry, the Lin-
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Columbia County 4-H pro-
gram, church groups and nu-
merous others. The site also is
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used for weddings and fami-
Inside the Boyington Lodge at Camp Kiwanilong, in Warren-
ton, repairs and additions included chinking, replacing lodge ly reunions. The most recent
cabinets and doors and strip lighting.
data shows 2,261 youth and
1,846 adults used the camp
youth in grades seven through age 15 or older and have been site in 2014. Prior to that,
nine. The other four sessions accepted into the program, 4,337 individuals were host-
are open for all third- through which will run from June 28 ed in 2013 and 3,500 in 2012.
through July 11.
eighth-graders.
The site’s capacity is about
Because of donated funds
140 for over-night events.
from many Friends of Camp History of the camp
Camp Kiwanilong is a
Kiwanilong, the camp can
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RIIHU ¿QDQFLDO DVVLVWDQFH week-long youth camp, di- staff member is Ranger Amy
known as Sparkyships, to rected by Neal Maine, was in Koch, who works part time.
many Clatsop County chil- July 1975. That was the same Groups are required to bring
dren who are in need. The year Clatsop County leased their own staff members, if
Sparkyships often are based the camp to an independent needed.
on teacher recommendations. board of directors, which
To bring awareness to the
The camp also offers a currently has nine members, camp and allow donors to see
two-year Counselor-In-Train- to operate and maintain the where their money has gone,
ing program, where older IDFLOLW\DVDQRQSUR¿WRUJDQL- Huddleston said, the camp is
youth focus on learning and zation. The board signed a 99- holding a public open house
developing techniques to year lease with payments of from 1 to 4 p.m., June 6.
serve physically and mentally $1 per year, Huddleston said. During the event, attendees
disadvantaged youth and in-
The Astoria Kiwanis Club can tour Camp Kiwanilong
corporate those campers into sponsored the original project and see the completed proj-
the general population. The to build Camp Kiwanilong in ects. For more information,
counselor program requires 1936, but the Great Depres- call (503) 861-2933 or www.
two summers of training. It sion-era Works Project Ad- campkiwanilong.org, or call
is open for youth who have ministration cleared the land (503) 298-0767 to register for
completed ninth grade, are and built trails. The camp camp.
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