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
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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
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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.
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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.
Hurd was elected as president
of the Seaside City Council on
a platform of creating “a bigger
and better Seaside.”
Hurd served six terms on
City Council and then went on
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