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8A • November 11, 2016 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com Program brings seafood from boats to school Students to eat and learn about Oregon seafood By Lyra Fontaine EO Media Group Seaside Heights Elemen- tary fifth-graders will learn about local and sustainable fisheries through a new “boat- to-school” culinary program. Throughout the year, the students will raise salmon, prepare seafood meals at a culinary event, take a field trip to a hatchery and re- ceive take-home dinner kits to cook with their families. They will learn about salmon, ground fish, crab, albacore and pink shrimp through ac- tivity books, lesson plans and hands-on activities. The Oregon Albacore Commission was awarded a $15,411 Farm to School grant from the state Department of Education to promote Ore- gon seafood with fifth-grade classes in the Seaside School District. “This is our pilot school,” said Oregon Salmon Com- mission Executive Director Nancy Fitzpatrick at a fall school presentation. “We’ll see where we go next year and how far we expand.” Speakers will include guests from the Oregon com- missions on salmon, trawl, Dungeness crab and albacore and fishermen from each fish- ery. The Marine Stewardship Council has certified many of the fisheries students will LYRA FONTAINE/EO MEDIA GROUP Oregon Salmon Commission Executive Director Nancy Fitzpatrick teaches Seaside fifth-graders about how hatch- ery fish, like the salmon held by fisherman Ray Monroe, are tagged. ‘It’s exciting to see that we still have a lot of fishing families in the area.’ Christa Svensson, Bornstein Seafoods in Astoria LYRA FONTAINE/EO MEDIA GROUP Oregon Salmon Commission Executive Director Nancy Fitzpatrick helps fifth-grade Seaside students demonstrate “trolling,” a fishing method. learn about. Pacific City salmon fish- erman Ray Monroe talked to students about small dory fishing boats and the process of cleaning, gutting and freez- ing fish. Students were chosen to demonstrate “trolling,” the method of slowly moving the fishing line through the water. “Our fisheries are also heavily regulated and sustain- able fisheries,” Monroe said, adding that a tax on fishing licenses and permits goes to a restoration and enhance- ment fund that helps restore streams and plant trees. “Fishermen want to make sure there is still plenty of fish out there in the ocean, so they do everything they can to make sure that the fish are sustainable,” Fitzpatrick said. Christa Svensson, with Bornstein Seafoods in Asto- ria, coordinates domestic and international sales so that fish can be made into fillets or oth- er forms and shipped to differ- ent locations. Some students raised their hands when Svensson asked if anyone had family members who work in fishing or plants. “It’s exciting to see that we still have a lot of fishing fam- ilies in the area,” Svensson said. “It’s thousands of people in Astoria, Seaside, Gearhart and Cannon Beach that are involved in helping bring sea- food to your tables.” The speakers emphasized that women can be fishers, too. Svensson said she started going fishing in grade school with her father. “Fishing is a choice,” Fitz- patrick said. “It’s with joy that they do this job.” Students saw frozen Chi- nook salmon and learned about coded wire tags inserted into fish from hatcheries. The tags can tell scientists what hatchery the caught fish came from, such as the Co- lumbia River or Rogue River locations, Fitzpatrick said. In January, students will raise Chinook salmon eggs until they are ready to go out into the stream. Talking Tombstones reveal voices from Seaside’s past Program debuts at Evergreen Cemetery By Katherine Lacaze For Seaside Signal The Evergreen Cemetery in Seaside came to unusual life Halloween eve when the spirits of several departed locals took form once again to share their stories during Talking Tomb- stones XIII: Buried Treasure. A steady stream of visitors, who faced a drizzly afternoon to come hear historic tales from beyond the grave, were intro- duced to people who lived in Seaside decades ago and both watched and contributed to the city’s growth. The ghosts were portrayed by local volunteers. The special event, present- ed annually by the Clatsop County Historical Society and co-presented this year by the Seaside Museum and Histor- ical Society, was held for the first time in Seaside. “We’re very excited to in- troduce this charming ceme- tery to a lot of people,” said McAndrew Burns, executive director of the Clatsop County Historical Society. Talking Tombstones was sponsored for the 13th year by Astoria Granite Works. to be mayor. He was integral in progressive city projects such as installing miles of side- walks, public utilities and the Promenade. He also saw to it that Seaside was designated as the end of the Lewis and Clark Trail and the Oregon Trail. Although Hurd experi- enced a number of noteworthy events and developments in his lifetime — the television, two world wars, space flight, motorized vehicles and more — “the greatest thing I ever saw was this town grow up to be what those old-timers said it never would,” Reid said as Hurd, who passed away in 1967. ‘Friends in life’ One of Hurd’s contempo- raries and friends, Eva Guinn, portrayed by City Council- or Tita Montero, was born in 1877 — the year Rutherford B. Hayes became president, Al- exander Graham Bell invented the phonograph and the Great Railroad Strike took place. She saw the city’s growth begin to pick up in the 1930s, although another fire in 1935 struck the historic Gilbert Building downtown, wiping out the old KATHERINE LACAZE/FOR EO MEDIA GROUP Krista Bingham (right) portrays Hannah Melby Navro, whose parents were Norwegian and Swedish immigrants, during the Talking Tombstones XIII Buried Treasure event at Ever- green Cemetery in Seaside. Safeway and Graham Drug- store. Guinn served as a police woman for six years, and she made good friends with Hurd and others. “We were friends in life and we’ve stayed closed in death,” said Montero as Guinn, who died at age 76 in 1953. In a nearby grave rests Hannah Nelby Navro, played by Krista Bingham. Navro, of Swedish and Norwegian de- scent, settled in Seaside with her parents and siblings in the early 20th century. Although her father was an alcoholic who abused his family, divorce was socially unacceptable during that era, and Navro’s mother stayed in her marriage. According to Bingham, it was with mixed emotions that Nav- ro and her sisters heard news of their father’s apparent suicide in 1913. Navro started working in a candy shop at age 11. Feeling trapped in Seaside, she expect- ed her marriage at a young age to give her the freedom she desired. The couple moved to Alaska, but her husband suf- fered from bipolar disorder. He was admitted to an institution and passed away five months into their marriage. He lies bur- ied in Warrenton. Navro then lived with her mother, her mother’s brother and her sister and her sister’s family before her second mar- riage. With her second hus- band, she moved to Seattle, but came back to Seaside when she became unwell during preg- nancy. While Navro’s daugh- ter, Julia Maria, went on to be an accomplished actress, Hannah Nelby Navro died as a young woman of tuberculosis in 1929. During the afternoon, graveyard visitors also were introduced to the spirits of a woman who oversaw a shop- lifting ring and died in prison; an immigrant named Sam Lee, known as “The Chinaman,” who faced discrimination because of his race, but was well known for his gaggle of pets that sometimes trailed him around town; and a man named James Merrifield, orig- inally from Portland, Maine, who served under Gen. George Custer, and whose wanderlust drew him to Seaside “for just a grand time,” according to Matt Hensley, who portrayed Merrifield. The deceased dis- appeared once again as dusk descended on the cemetery. Join us for a special viewing of the documentary THE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR Desmond Doss refused to kill enemy soldiers or carry weapons due his personal beliefs as a Seventh- day Adventist. He became a medic, and while serving in World War II, he saved the lives of numerous solders, while conforming to his religious beliefs. November 5 th & 12 th AT 7:00 Free Admission and book Seaside Adventist Church • 1450 N Roosevelt Drive For more info call: 503-739-5184 Meeting the deceased Using information gleaned from historical documents, the actors took on the life of their respective decedent to share details from their lives. David Reid played Earl Nolton Hurd, who was affec- tionately dubbed “Mr. Seaside” for his contributions to the city. Born in 1876, he served in the military and worked for the Oregonian and Oregon Jour- nal before moving to Seaside around 1910. When he arrived, the town’s population hovered around 400 and the Seaside Signal, which he leased with an option to buy, was a four-column, four- page publication. He had great hopes for the city’s future, al- though other, older residents doubted his vision. Even two years later, when Seaside suffered a devastating fire that damaged the down- town business district, Hurd “preached the gospel of op- timism,” according to Reid. 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