July 6, 2018 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com • 7A
As two principals depart, familiar faces fill new roles
Staff changes
at middle,
elementary
schools
By R.J. Marx
Seaside Signal
Seaside School District stu-
dents and parents will see some
new faces next year, and some
familiar faces in new roles.
At the June 19 meeting, the
district presented and approved
a list of staff appointments.
Among the new hires are a
new athletic director, Aaron
Tanabe and Broadway Middle
School Science teacher Lynette
Harthold.
Principal Jeff Roberts will
continue to serve as the Gulls’
head varsity football coach as
well as manage administrative
duties at the high school.
Athletic director and teach-
er Jason Boyd will take over as
assistant principal at Seaside
High School. Aaron Tanabe,
R.J. MARX
Sheila Roley and Sally Francis at the Seaside School District’s board of directors. Francis is
retiring as executive secretary after 30 years with the district.
formerly of Valley Catholic,
will serve as athletic director,
assistant coach and teach social
studies and physical education.
The district’s board of di-
rectors accepted the resigna-
tion of Seaside Heights Ele-
mentary School principal John
McAndrews and Broadway
Middle School principal Rob-
the system works, and how to
advocate for themselves and
others. Through workshops
and trainings, they learn how
to best make their voices
heard by politicians and pol-
icy makers, the public and
influencers of the system that
impacts their lives.
A staggering number of
children enter the foster care
system every year. It’s imper-
ative these youths learn what
their rights are, and how to
best succeed while in the
system.
For example, they learn
what medications they can
legally be given, how to not
be trafficked, navigating sib-
ling separation, what schol-
arships are available to them
to further their education and
independent living.
Importantly, they learn
how to manage the tricky and
dangerous period when they
“age out” of services so they
don’t wind up on the street.
According to currently
available information rough-
ly 428,000 minors in the
United States are presently
in foster care. They enter the
system because of parental
neglect, parental drug use,
their legal caretaker’s inabili-
ty to cope. More than 20,000
of them age out of care each
year, leaving 18-year-olds
with no home, no parental
figure, and no safety net.
Bodner said she started
the organization initially as
a website after she and her
husband became the de fac-
to foster parents to two boys
who lived next door. She said
from the start, she wanted
Foster Club to be informed
from a youth perspective. Es-
sential programs were gradu-
ally developed encompassing
youth leadership, national
policy training, outreach, so-
cial media, a help line. Foster
Club is partnered with the
Providence Foundation and
is a model program for youth
in foster care about policy
work and system change.
“We are now represented
in more than 30 states,” Bod-
ner said. “We’ve been in-
strumental in the passage of
several new laws regarding
foster care.”
‘We’ve been
instrumental
in the passage
of several new
laws regarding
foster care.’
Celeste Bodner
Executive director of Foster Club
The Milestones meeting
began with a Native Amer-
ican Yakama Tribe exercise
where participants used a
string they dotted with knots,
each knot representing a ma-
jor milestone in their lives.
There was a lot of sharing,
but no war stories. It was
an emotional but uplifting
event. It was impossible not
to be moved by these young
people who survived their
early life experiences and
have flourished.
Whether you are a child
welfare professional, a con-
cerned citizen, a foster parent
or caretaker, or a foster youth,
Foster Club exists to provide
life improving resources.
Being placed in foster
care is a chaotic and anguish-
ing experience, but it doesn’t
have to be crushing. For
more information, log on to
www.fosterclub.org.
STEADY STATE STUDIOS
Abigale Koch
AAUW scholarship recipient
Dayaan Contreras.
AAUW scholarship recipient
Faythe Koontz.
Gearhart’s
Abigale Koch is
graduate
Abigale Koch of Gearhart
was among just over 370
graduating high school se-
niors who have now joined
a growing alumni base of
Oregon Connections Acade-
my, the state’s largest virtu-
al school. Several hundred
families, friends and class-
mates attended the 10th Or-
egon Connections Academy
graduation ceremony earlier
this month. The tuition-free
online school held an in-per-
son commencement for its
10th senior class on June 9
at the State Fairgrounds in
Salem.
Seaside AAUW
2018 scholarship
recipients
Dayaan Contreras was
selected as the 2018 AAUW
Scholarship recipient of
$2,000 for a woman return-
ing to school after a five-year
absence. She is presently en-
rolled at Clatsop Community
College and will be seeking
a law enforcement degree
through Western Oregon Uni-
versity.
Expansion plan
heads to ballot
By R.J. Marx
Seaside Signal
OPSIS ARCHITECTURE
Street view of proposed Sunset Empire Park and Recreation
District building expansion.
cost summary delivered by
Opsis Architecture.
Demolition and site devel-
opment add about $1.2 mil-
lion.
Soft costs, including fix-
tures, equipment and program
materials, raise the estimate
to $16.5 million to $19.2 mil-
lion. Wages, tariffs and other
costs could add to the project.
As a result, the total cost
could range from $18.6 mil-
lion to $21.5 million.
With a 20-year payoff peri-
od and an $18 million expan-
sion scenario, the tax impact
to the owner of a $200,000
AAUW scholarship recipient
Stephanie Mendez-Garcia.
Graduations and honors for area students
Faythe Koontz and Stepha-
nie Menez-Garcia, two recent
Seaside High School gradu-
ates were each awarded the
June Stromberg Scholarship
for $1,000 awarded to the first
female in their family to at-
tend college.
Menez-Garcia will attend
Clatsop Community College
in the fall before transferring
to Oregon State University
to major in forestry. Koontz
plans on attending Oregon
State, where she will major in
elementary education.
The Seaside AAUW
Scholarship Foundation has
grown from a simple $300
grant in the 1990s to $5,000
in scholarships awarded each
year. For more information
about the program and how
it is helping girls and women,
visit the Seaside AAUW web-
site.
Carmichael,
Moren awarded
degrees from
Oregon Institute
of Technology
land-Metro Campus who
received degrees during
commencement exercises on
Sunday, June 17, in Wilson-
ville. Carmichael graduated
with a bachelor of science
degree in mechanical engi-
neering.
Harley Moren of Seaside
was among more than 700
students who received de-
grees during commencement
exercises on Saturday, June
16, at Oregon Tech’s Klamath
Falls campus. Moren graduat-
ed with a bachelor of science
degree in renewable energy
property would be about $126
per year. The impact for a
$400,000 property would be
about double that.
The bond will be decided
in November by voters of the
independent taxing district,
who include most residents of
the Seaside School District,
excluding Cannon Beach and
Gearhart.
Board members sought
to keep costs at or under $20
million.
“People like round num-
bers,” Mills said. “People will
see a clarity in that. It seems
like a fit.”
Students make
the deans’ list
at Azusa Pacific
University
Morgan Brown and Sum-
mer Spell, both of Seaside,
were among those who made
the academic deans’ list at
Azusa Pacific University for a
spring 2018 grade-point aver-
age of 3.5 or better. They are
joined by 1,760 students re-
ceiving the same honor.
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Construction could start in
“really late 2019 or early in
2020,” with about a year to a
year and a half building peri-
od, Skyler Archibald, the dis-
trict’s executive director, said.
During construction, pool
facilities would continue to
operate and fitness programs
and classes would move to
other district facilities.
“Over 70 percent of our us-
ers are there to use the pool,”
Archibald said. “The reason
why this program makes a lot
of sense is we don’t have to
eliminate or reduce any of the
pool operations. We can keep
operating without the major-
ity of the patrons seeing any
consequences.”
Board members will for-
mally consider adoption of
the bond proposal at a meet-
ing July 17.
The recreation center
bond is among several bond
requests that will go before
voters in November. Bond
financing will be sought for
school improvements in War-
renton and Astoria and an ex-
panded Clatsop County Jail.
engineering.
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Rec district plans 20-year, $20M bond
The Sunset Empire Park
and Recreation District has
narrowed down options for
an expansion of the pool and
fitness center on Broadway
Street.
The recreation district will
back a 20-year, $20 million
bond plan in November to
add a second-floor walking
track, indoor racket courts
and fitness areas, and recon-
figure administrative areas,
classrooms and storage space,
among other upgrades.
The project could start in
late 2020.
Board member Jeremy
Mills saw the numbers as
fortuitous. “Twenty for 20 in
2020 — it’s almost a slogan,”
he said. The building expan-
sion is estimated at $11.5 mil-
lion to $13.5 million, ranging
from $294 to $336 per square
foot, according to the project
tary School, Juliann Wozniak,
who has been Gearhart Ele-
mentary School principal for
four years, will work from
Seaside Heights and serve as
principal for the district’s ele-
mentary program. She will be
based out of Seaside Heights
until the new campus is built.
Wozniak said she is
“looking forward to anoth-
er adventure next year.”
Jeremy Katt, who worked out
of Seaside Heights, will move
from his position as special
services director to assistant
elementary principal, based in
Gearhart.
The district is in the process
of looking for a special ser-
vices director.
In the office, Sally Francis
is leaving as executive assistant
after 30 years. “When I was a
first-year school principal, she
was my high school secretary.
We started working together in
an administrator/secretary role
21 years ago.”
Leslie Garvin will assume
the role of executive assistant.
GRADUATE NEWS
Club All Stars learn
from experience
Foster Club from Page 1A
ert Rusk, both of whom will be
taking new posts.
“We’ve reconfigured the
team,” school district superin-
tendent Sheila Roley said at the
district’s June 19 meeting.
Natalie Osburn, who has
served as Seaside’s High
School’s assistant principal,
was named Broadway Middle
School principal. Steve Sher-
ren will remain as assistant
principal.
Rusk will take a position at
Seaton High School, a Catho-
lic prep school in Vancouver,
Washington. “I will miss you
guys,” Rusk said. “Thank you
so much for the opportunity —
but you are in great hands with
Natalie and Steve.”
McAndrews heads to an el-
ementary school in Newberg.
“I wanted to thank you all for
a really fantastic five years,
from a great school commu-
nity, from the board to Sheila,
the administrative team, the
teachers and of course the stu-
dents parents have been really
great. I’m going to miss the
community and thank you very
much.”
With a coming merger of
Gearhart Elementary School
and Seaside Heights Elemen-
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