April 28, 2017 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com • 5A
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Girl Scouts plant trees
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Girl Scouts at work planting trees near the Seaside water treatment facility.
Ashley Houston. Seaside/Gearhart
Girl Scout leader and event and travel
coordinator for all Clatsop County Girl
Scouts, led 30 second- and third-grade
Girl Scouts, 12 adults and two grand-
parents to a tree-planting on Arbor Day,
Sunday, April 23, in Seaside on the banks
near the water treatment plant. Scouts
planted about 140 shore pine trees.
“It rained a little bit, the wind blew a
little bit, but the kids didn’t care,” Seaside
Public Works Director said at Monday’s
City Council meeting. “We had a great
time.”
LETTERS
Where’s the plaque?
The Astoria Chapter
of DAR (Daughters of the
American Revolution)
wishes to thank everyone of
Seaside who has helped with
the search for the World War
I memorial plaque.
In 1920, it was presented
to honor the men and women
of Seaside who served. The
last location was the old City
Hall on Broadway. (It was
to the right as you entered
under the arch.)
All memorials are being
located for the Centennial
next year. If anyone has any
information as to the where-
abouts of the memorial or an
old photograph of it, contact
Seaside Public Works or call
Marjorie Stevens at 503-717-
8635 as it would be helpful
if a replacement is needed to
be made.
Marjorie Stevens
Seaside
Community’s
health care needs
Providence Seaside Hos-
pital’s CEO Kendall Sawa
correctly identifi ed an im-
portant community need at
the recent Clatsop Economic
Development Resources
business awards; we need to
attract and retain more health
care providers. “We contin-
ue to have challenges with
recruiting providers to our
coast,” he said.
Sawa was talking about
doctors, but the same is
true of nurses. Nurses are
the backbone of our local
hospitals. For example,
Providence Seaside employs
approximately 20 doctors
and 85 registered nurses.
When patients receive
hospital care, it usually
comes from a nurse. Because
we rely heavily on nurses,
when the hospital doesn’t
have enough nurses in a
specifi c department — like
labor and delivery or inten-
sive care — it turns patients
away; sending them on long,
expensive ambulance rides
to Portland-area hospitals.
This should never happen.
We have the ability to
care for our patients here,
and we should welcome
them with open arms. The
solution isn’t limited to
recruiting more health care
providers. We can provide
the care our community
needs by cross-training
nurses to work in multiple
departments.
Cross-training is stan-
dard practice in many rural
hospitals. It gives nurses the
experience and fl exibility
to meet changing patient
needs, and prevents com-
munity members from being
sent away for health care.
When one department needs
additional help, cross-trained
nurses working in a different
part of the hospital can move
there quickly to make sure
patients receive the care they
need.
As an editorial in The
Daily Astorian said, we can’t
afford complacency when
it comes to our health care
system (“Proven leaders
position our hospitals for
success,” March 30).
Nurses at Providence Sea-
side are eager to adopt local
cross-training programs to
help meet our patients’ needs.
We hope Providence Seaside
Hospital’s administrators are
willing to work with nurses
and embrace best practices
like cross-training to make
sure all our community
members receive the care
they need, when and where
they need it.
Mary Romanaggi, RN
Seaside
Note: Romanaggi is an
emergency room nurse at
Providence Seaside Hospi-
tal, and chairwoman of the
Oregon Nurses Association’s
bargaining unit at Provi-
dence Seaside.
Port staff hiding
Budget Committee
meetings are a time for Port
board members and citizen
members to publicly review
the practices and operation
of the Port in regards to their
budgetary affects and to
recommend fi scal changes as
necessary. The budget is then
approved and presented to
the Port Commission for its
approval.
Port director Jim Knight
appears to interpret this duty
as simply presenting the
Port’s budget and expecting
the Port Budget Committee
to rubber stamp and approve
it with minimum input and
oversight.
I have served on local,
county and state budget
committees over the past
40 years, and I am troubled
at constraints Port staff
has put on the Port Budget
Committee that prevents
it from doing its job. Port
staff has continually refused
to answer questions about
budget concerns that would
include: failing to timely
correct non-payment of
rent at the Riverwalk Inn
and a warehouse on Pier 2;
DEQ stormwater violations
of $69,319 that were not
disclosed; loss of equipment
value abandoned by Port
tenants; and transferring Port
interest in buildings for less
than the fair market value.
The Port’s Budget Commit-
tee needs answers to these
budget concerns so it can
properly plan for the next
year’s budget and ensures
fi nancial accountability.
In my view, commission-
er Steve Fulton has been
asking these necessary bud-
get questions all along and
the public benefi ts from his
insights. Everyone should
care because these budget
concerns affect the bottom
line of the Port of Astoria,
its future and your property
taxes.
Richard Lee
Port of Astoria Budget
Committee chairman
Astoria
Phyllis C. Edy
March 19, 1925 — April 19, 2017
Phyllis C. Edy passed
peacefully into the world be-
yond on the evening of April
19, 2017, with family mem-
bers by her side.
Weighing only 3 pounds
12 ounces, Phyllis Mae Chris-
tensen was born on March
19, 1925, to Lloyd Anton
Christensen and Tekla Katrina
Weik. She was brought home
in a shoebox, and kept warm
and alive by the wood stove.
Later she was joined by two
sisters, Betty and Jacquelyn.
Throughout her entire life she
displayed remarkable strength
and resilience to all who knew
her.
Phyllis attended grade
school in Coquille, Astoria and
Seaside. In 1943, she graduat-
ed from Seaside High School
as class valedictorian. Phyl
attended Oregon State Uni-
versity, where she obtained
a degree in home economics
in 1947. Other than one B in
fencing, she received straight
As. Her sorority sisters of Al-
pha Chi Omega were an inte-
gral and important part of her
entire life.
In 1946, Phyllis married
Donald Allen Edy, her high
school sweetheart. They were
married for almost 50 years.
They are survived by chil-
dren, Mark Edy and Susan
Memorial for
Claire Lovell
Phyllis Edy
Edy, and son-in-law, Kerry
Smith; daughters of the heart,
Becky Edy and Mechthild
Luger; grandchildren, Heather
Sharpe, Bowen Turetzky, Kev-
in Edy and Kaisa Edy; as well
as great-grandchildren, Had-
ley, Grayson, Clara, Booker,
Wyatt and Guthrie.
Phyllis returned to school
in 1960 to earn degrees in
English and education from
Portland State University. She
taught at Lewis and Clark
Consolidated, Astoria Mid-
dle School and Astoria High
School, where she was head of
the English Department. Stu-
dents from years ago would
still stop “Mrs. Edy” to share
that she had made a difference
in their lives.
Phyllis was a member of
AAUW, serving at the state
level. At the time of her death,
she was the longest living PEO
member of her Astoria chapter,
and attended meetings into her
90s. Along with Michael Fos-
ter, Phyllis was instrumental
in the creation of the Astoria
High School scholarship foun-
dation and served on its board
for many years. She was a
member of the United Meth-
odist Church, Astoria Golf and
Country Club and Alderbrook
Golf and Country Club at
Hood Canal.
After Don’s death, Phyllis
remarried long time college
friend, Jack Grey. Jack was
devoted to Phyllis, and they
were married happily, just shy
of 20 years. Phyllis loved trav-
el, golf, reading, and anything
to do with Oregon state sports.
She was a pie maker extraor-
dinaire.
Throughout her life, edu-
cation was of the utmost im-
portance to Phyllis. Memorial
gifts may be sent to: Astoria
High School Scholarship Inc.,
P.O. Box 598 Astoria, OR
97103.
A celebration of her life
will be announced.
Phyllis will be missed by
so many, but she would be the
fi rst to tell you she had a long
and wonderful life.
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