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February 19, 2016 Seaside Signal seasidesignal.com 9A Warrenton’s Bruce %REHNDQQRXQFHVUXQ for Oregon House Noted physician seeks seat in Legislature By R.J. Marx Seaside Signal 'U%UXFH%REHNDQ$VWR- ria physician and president of Columbia Memorial Medical 6WDIIZLOOVHHNWKH5HSXEOLFDQ nomination for Oregon House District 32. The district includes Clat- sop County and parts of 7 L O O D P R R N and Washing- ton counties. The term of Dr. Bruce Bobek RI¿FH KHOG by incumbent Deborah Boone, is two years. %REHNKDVOLYHGLQ&ODWVRS County for 26 years and pre- viously served as a commis- sioner for the City of Warren- WRQ'XULQJKLVWLPHLQRI¿FH %REHNKHOSHGIXQGDQGEXLOG WKH:DUUHQWRQ/LEUDU\HVWDE- lish the Warrenton Wetlands 3ODQDQGGHYHORSWKH:DUUHQ- WRQ%XVLQHVV$VVRFLDWLRQ “I always had an interest LQ SROLWLFV´ %REHN VDLG :HGQHVGD\)HE %REHN PRYHG ZLWK KLV IDPLO\ WR $VWRULD LQ When his youngest daughter said the city’s hills were “too high and scary,” the family, LQFOXGLQJ %HYHUO\ DQG ¿YH children, moved to Warrenton. “I was a city commis- sioner in the ’90s and then my practice got so busy that EHWZHHQ P\ NLGV DQG P\ practice, I didn’t have time IRU SROLWLFV´ %REHN VDLG ³, helped start the Warrenton scholarship program in 1996. I was president of that for several years and now I’m on the board.” With his children grown and career solidly estab- OLVKHGLQ-DQXDU\%REHNGH- FLGHG WR PDNH D ELG IRU WKH /HJLVODWXUH He described his political SKLORVRSK\ DV ³¿VFDOO\ FRQ- servative, but pretty open.” He said regulations are “onerous for businesses in general, and for small busi- nesses throughout.” )URP D SROLF\ SHUVSHF- tive, he said he was focused on improving health care and education throughout the VWDWH %REHN VDLG KH UHFRJ- QL]HV D QHHG IRU HPHUJHQF\ preparedness, but “would try to stay within budget.” ³,¶PDOOIRU¿UVWUHVSRQG- ers, whatever we can do to KHOS WKHP PDNH LW HDVLHU´ he said. “But I would be a big IDQ RI PDNLQJ VXUH ZH KDYH the money to do all these WKLQJV,ZRXOGEH¿VFDOO\UH- sponsible.” He said Salem was in need of change. “I appreciate the ZRUNDQGWLPH'HEELH%RRQH has put in. I’m not a negative person. I’m not going to say her performance is bad, but I WKLQN SHRSOH ZRXOG YRWH IRU an overall change of policy.” %REHN LV XQFKDOOHQJHG ZLWKLQKLVSDUW\3ULPDU\GD\ is May 17. Food 4 Kids keeps students fed Backpack program supplies supplemental meals for local elementary, middle school children By Katherine Lacaze Seaside Signal 'XULQJ WKH VFKRRO ZHHN students have access to free and reduced-price meals, but those options are not avail- DEOHGXULQJWKHZHHNHQG7KDW leaves some students to en- dure a few days with possibly OHVV WR HDW 7KH )RRG .LGV EDFNSDFNSURJUDPDLPVWR¿OO that gap. 7KH JRDO RI WKH RUJDQL]D- tion is to supply elementary and middle school students in the Seaside School District ZLWK VXSSOHPHQWDO ZHHNHQG meals during the school year. Using food primarily pur- chased with donated money, VHYHUDOGR]HQYROXQWHHUVZRUN ZHHNO\WRUHDFKWKDWJRDO Seaside residents Cor- DO &RRN DQG KHU GDXJKWHU %UDQGL 3HUU\ DUH WZR RI WKH program’s longtime volun- WHHUV &RRN ZDV LQYROYHG with a summer lunch pro- gram for about eight years XQWLO WKH VFKRRO GLVWULFW WRRN LW RYHU 7KHQ &RRN ² DORQJ ZLWK 5RVHPDU\ .HPSHU5LG- GRFN $QQHWWH %URGLJDQ 0DU\ %ODNH 0DXUHHQ DQG -LP &DVWHUOLQH -DQ -DFNVRQ $O 3HLQKDUGW DQG RWKHUV ² VWDUWHG WKLQNLQJ RI ³KRZ WKH NLGVDUHQ¶WIHGRYHUWKHZHHN- ends,” she said. The group HVWDEOLVKHG WKH )RRG .LGV program in 2011, starting with KATHERINE LACAZE/SEASIDE SIGNAL Teagan Dufy, 5, is one of Food 4 Kids’ youngest volunteers. He helps prepare and package food to fill the backpacks that get sent home with students on the weekend. Seaside Heights Elementary School students and growing from there. 6LQFH .HPSHU5LGGRFN passed away in October 2015, 6DOO\/D&RVWHVWHSSHGLQIURP 2XU/DG\RI9LFWRU\&DWKROLF church. Other volunteers also WRRNRQVRPHRI.HPSHU5LG- GRFN¶V YDULRXV UHVSRQVLELOL- ties. However, “there is no re- SODFHPHQWIRUKHU´&RRNVDLG RI.HPSHU5LGGRFN Generally, the volunteers SUHSDFNDJH FROG IRRG LWHPV on Wednesday afternoons and set out products to be VHSDUDWHG LQWR WKH EDFNSDFNV Thursday. One of six par- ticipating groups — includ- LQJ 2XU 6DYLRXU¶V /XWKHUDQ &KXUFK2XU/DG\RI9LFWRU\ &DWKROLFFKXUFK6HDVLGH(ONV /RGJH+RPH'HSRWWKH6HD- VLGH$PHULFDQ/HJLRQDQGWKH Seaside Methodist Church — are responsible for rotating ZHHNV EXW VRPH YROXQWHHUV come more often than with WKHLUDI¿OLDWHGRUJDQL]DWLRQ 7KH EDFNSDFNV DUH VHQW KRPH ZLWK VWXGHQWV )ULGD\V and they return them Mon- days so the process can start over. Volunteering together $IHZPRQWKVDJRWKHSUR- gram got new volunteers, and VRPHRILWV\RXQJHVW$URXQG 7KDQNVJLYLQJ&RRNJRW DFDOOIURP1DWDOLH'XII\ZKR moved with her family to the DUHD IURP 3RUWODQG LQ Duffy’s then 5-year-old son, 7HDJDQZDQWHGWRVSHDNZLWK &RRNDERXWYROXQWHHULQJ “He said, ‘Hello, I would OLNH WR KHOS ZLWK WKH EDFN- SDFNV¶´&RRNUHFDOOHG Since then, Teagan, his mother and her other three sons have come almost every Wednesday to lend a hand. ³7KH ER\V UHDOO\ OLNH LW´ Duffy said. The spirit of volunteer- ism is “passed down in the family” and fostered by their Christian convictions, Duffy said, adding, “We do feel it’s DFDOOLQJ´2QHRIWKH¿UVWYRO- unteer projects the Duffys did as a family was to prepare car FDUH SDFNDJHV ² EDJV ¿OOHG with pop-top soup cans, uten- sils, water bottles and other items — to be easily distrib- uted to panhandlers or others in need. “They had fun handing WKHP RXW NQRZLQJ WKH\ ZHUH helping people,” Duffy said about her sons. $W WKH 'XII\¶V IRUPHU FKXUFK LQ 3RUWODQG WKH\ SDU- ticipated in a program simi- ODU WR )RRG .LGV )DPLOLHV ZRXOGWDNHDEDFNSDFNDSLHFH DQG EH UHVSRQVLEOH IRU ¿OOLQJ it continually throughout the \HDU$IWHUWKH\PRYHG'XII\ said, Teagan expressed inter- HVWLQ¿QGLQJDVLPLODURSSRU- tunity in Seaside. Duffy said VKH WKLQNV WKH )RRG .LGV program is important, because if students are “not getting a IUHHOXQFKDWVFKRRORYHUWKH ZHHNHQGVWKH\PLJKWQRWEH getting much at home, if any- thing.” Local man helps international organization combat sex traicking Barber, a Seaside City Council member, is a senior fellow for the Vancouver, Washington trust, which an- nually trains about 15 non- SUR¿W RUJDQL]DWLRQV LQ UH- source development through the program. Barber became a con- sultant to help Shared Hope PDQDJH LWV ¿QDQFHV +H GH- scribed his role as an “exec- utive coach,” who advises Smith and helps with staff DQG ¿QDQFH GHYHORSPHQW +H helps with fundraising, pursu- ing grants and expanding the board of director’s reach and HI¿FLHQF\ :KLOH %DUEHU¶V job responsibilities remain constant, his motivation for VHUYLQJ WKH RUJDQL]DWLRQ KDV FKDQJHGVLQFHKH¿UVWJRWFRQ- nected to Smith. “I started out as a consul- tant, but now I’m passionate about the initiative,” he said. What triggered his passion to combat the problem, he add- ed, was “actually meeting face to face with some of the young women who were sur- vivors.” Barber, who has two daughters, considered that the survivors, and those still be- ing abused, are other people’s daughters, granddaughters, sisters and friends. There was only one course of action in his mind: “This can’t continue to happen in our country,” he said. Driven by demand Smith founded Shared Hope International after a trip to the brothel district in Mum- bai, India, where many of the people prostituted were girls WUDI¿FNHG IURP 1HSDO ER\V DOVR DUH YLFWLPL]HG EXW LW LV OHVV FRPPRQ 7KH RUJDQL]D- tion established a safe house LQ 1HSDO WR KHOS UHVWRUH DQG rehabilitate rescued survivors. Smith and her staff then became aware of the minor VH[ WUDI¿FNLQJ LQGXVWU\ WDN- ing place in the United States, cards — one for each state and Washington D.C. — that DQDO\]H NH\ OHJLVWODWLYH components in a state’s laws that are necessary to effec- tively respond to domestic PLQRU VH[ WUDI¿FNLQJ FULPHV The report cards, according WR WKH RUJDQL]DWLRQ SURYLGH D EOXHSULQW IRU SROLF\PDNHUV to establish policies and laws creating a safe environment for children. “We believe advocates and legislators are willing to strengthen laws to protect children, but they’re busy or WKH\ GRQ¶W NQRZ HYHU\WKLQJ about the issue,” Offenbacher SUBMITTED PHOTO/SEASIDE SIGNAL said. The report cards provide ³DYHU\TXLFNVXPPDU\RIWKH Jay Barber at Shared Hope International’s annual JuST Con- areas their states are doing ference in Washington, D.C. well,” in addition to ways to which is the focus of Smith’s PHQDQGZRPHQZKRWUDI¿FN improve and language to in- ERRN³5HQWLQJ/DF\$6WRU\ and pimp out children are corporate into legislation, she RI$PHULFD¶V3URVWLWXWHG&KLO- often master manipulators, added. dren,” co-authored by Cindy preying on those who are ,Q WKH ¿UVW \HDU WKH Coloma. The group started physically and emotionally cards were released, 26 states spreading awareness about vulnerable. The industry only had failing grades. More than the issue and that it is hap- thrives because a demand per- VWDWHVEHJDQFKDQJLQJWKHLU SHQLQJDWKRPH,QWKH3DFLI- petually exists — people are laws based on the initiative. LF 1RUWKZHVW UHJLRQ 8QLWHG willing to pay a lot of mon- In the 2015 report, no state States Interstate 5 is a major ey to sexually exploit a child received a failing grade and artery for the minor sex traf- who was forced or coerced VL[UHFHLYHG$JUDGHV2UHJRQ into prostitution. ¿FNLQJLQGXVWU\ went from a D in 2011 to a B “The biggest disservice in 2015. someone can do to the issue Decriminalizing The next challenge is to is to believe it’s not impact- the victims PDNH VXUH WKH ODZV DUH HQ- ing them or their community, $W WKH WLPH RI WKH RUJD- forced, Barber said. because it hasn’t happened to QL]DWLRQ¶V IRXQGDWLRQ PDQ\ them,” Director of Commu- laws were set up to criminal- Spreading the hope nications Taryn Offenbacher L]HSURVWLWXWHVEXWQRWVRPXFK In addition to conducting VDLG³:HNQRZLWKDSSHQVLQ the people buying, selling research to inform policy and small communities all across and using them, Barber said. practices, Shared Hope focus- the states.” Shared Hope began to focus es on training service provid- 6KDUHG +RSH ZRUNV WR its energy and resources to ers, law enforcement person- FRUUHFW PLVLGHQWL¿FDWLRQ DQG change state laws across the nel, community advocates misrepresentation of victims, country, he said. DQG RWKHUV RIIHULQJ PHQWDO who sometimes are wrongly Shared Hope started the health services and counsel- portrayed as promiscuous or 3URWHFWHG ,QQRFHQFH &KDO- LQJWRVXUYLYRUVIXQGLQJDQG somehow to blame for their lenge, a comprehensive strat- providing technical assistance VLWXDWLRQ5DWKHUWKDQGLVFUHG- HJ\WRSURPRWH]HURWROHUDQFH to shelters and service pro- iting or blaming the children, IRUFKLOGVH[WUDI¿FNLQJ YLGHUV 7KH RUJDQL]DWLRQ DOVR SHRSOHPXVWEHZLOOLQJWRORRN 7KHRUJDQL]DWLRQHDFK\HDU KDV D VKHOWHU LQ WKH 3DFL¿F deeper, Offenbacher said. The releases 51 individual report 1RUWKZHVWIRUVXUYLYRUVDJHV A 32 bed residential care facility designed specifically for residents living with dementia We focus on resident-centered care , foster a stimulating and nurturing environment , and facilitate as independent a life as possible. ‘This can’t continue to happen in our country.’ Jay Barber 18 to 26, who are interested in pursuing General Educa- tion Development, vocational training or college. 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Shutters, W ood B lind s, C ellular Shad es, Soft Shad es, Vertical B lind s, Valances, W oven W ood & m ore! conference, said Barber, who has attended each year on behalf of Shared Hope, is to “bring all that energy to a fo- cal point.” During last year’s three-day conference about 70 survivors attended to share their testimonies. 7KLV$SULO6KDUHG+RSHLV VSRQVRULQJWKH¿UVW-X67)DLWK Summit, which is similar to the conference but designated for churches and other faith-based RUJDQL]DWLRQV7KHFKXUFKKDV “a might role in addressing and stopping the tragedy” of VH[ WUDI¿FNLQJ DFFRUGLQJ WR WKH RUJDQL]DWLRQ¶V ZHEVLWH Some churches across varying denominations have neglected the issue, and Barber said he suspects it might be because LW SURPSWV WKH TXHVWLRQ ³$UH we practicing what we preach about the value and validity of every person?” ³$V ZH FRQVLGHU WKDW PHQ in the churches are abusers, what does that say about how we practice our faith?” he said. )RUPRUHLQIRUPDWLRQDERXW the conference or Shared Hope, RU WR UHSRUW WUDI¿FNLQJ YLVLW sharedhope.org/ or call 360- 693-8100. 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