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SEASIDESIGNAL.COM OUR 112th Year $1.00 March 29, 2019 School board candidates file for May election LESSONS FOR LABRADORS By R.J. MARX Seaside Signal Two of three open seats will see competitive races at the Seaside School District board of directors election. Jeremy Mills, a State Farm insur- ance agent in Seaside, announced his intention to run for the district board on March 15. Mills will seek the Zone 5, Position 1 seat, currently held by Son- dra Gomez, who was appointed by the board after the resignation of Steve Phillips earlier this year. Mills, a Seaside resident, has 11 years as an agent with State Farm Insurance. He is a graduate of Louisa County High School in Virginia and attended Western Oregon University. He is currently a member of the board of directors of the Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District, a position he holds until 2021. Gomez has also announced her intent to run for the Zone 5, Position 1 seat, a four-year term. Gomez has a bachelor of arts degree from Cal State San Bernardino and a bachelor of fine arts degree from American Interna- tional University. Photos by Lorna Brandt See Election, Page A7 Tiger, a black Labrador owned by Bruce McPhearson, takes the plunge during a training session with the Rose City Labrador Retriever Club in Gearhart. Labrador training day in Gearhart By EVE MARX For Seaside Signal T ami Bellingham is a member of the Rose City Labrador Retriever Club, a not-for-profit organi- zation licensed by the American Kennel Club and a member of the Master National Retriever Club. On March 10, club members from all over Oregon and Washington participated in a training day on her property in north Gearhart. e See Training day, Page A7 Pandyce McCluer; Denise Nelson, with Hudson; Bruce McPhearson; Lizzy Moir with Warrick; Wendy Nasseth with Max; Jessica Smith; Julianna Douglass; Tami Bellingham with Bonner and Bindi. 2020 U.S. census count gets a preview in Seaside By R.J. MARX Seaside Signal Not being counted will cost Ore- gonians money. That was the message presented by Sarah Bushore, one of six partnership specialists with the U.S. Census Bureau in the state. A total of $675 billion is handed out to states every year for revenue shar- ing. Of that, Oregon gets $13.4 billion for school lunches, Section 8 housing, construction, hospitals, free clinics and other uses. “You’ve got quite an exten- sive list of what we use that money for,” Bushore said. “That’s why the count is so important and that we get it correct. Our goal is to count everyone once, and only once, and in the right place.” While about 80 percent of the popula- tion are expected to respond via the inter- net, phone or mail, about 20 percent of county residents are considered “hard-to- count individuals,” Bushore said. These could include senior citizens, those who don’t have access to the inter- net; migrant workers; renters; children under the age of 5, homeless or people from other nations, Bushore said. Names, address, phone number, birthdays are among the data collected by census takers. This year, the Cen- sus Bureau may ask an 11th question: “Are you a U.S. citizen?” “We’ll find out when the Supreme Court makes their decision, which could be toward the end of April,” Bushore said. See Census, Page A7 SEASIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT How board games serve as a learning tool for local kindergartners By KATHERINE LACAZE For Seaside Signal For kindergarten students at Seaside Heights Elementary School, homework each week is profoundly simple: Playing a board game with their family. Each kindergarten class has enough board games so they can be rotated among the students on a weekly basis as part of game bags, which also include proce- dure sheets, game instructions, and a reflection sheet where the students can provide feedback. The practice, which was intro- duced this year, meshes with the school’s goal of approaching each child as “a person first, and a student second,” Principal Julie Wozniak told the district’s board of directors during a presentation at their meeting March 19. To introduce board games as a learning tool and age-appropri- ate homework, the school held a family game night in January. About 80 people, or 23 families, attended. “It was a rousing success,” kindergarten teacher Jocelyn Mil- liren told the board. The program was initially sponsored by Northwest Par- enting, and the school has since During a Seaside School Board meeting March 19, Seaside Heights Elementary School kindergarten teachers talk about how using board games as homework for their students helps engage families, teach age-appropriate skills, and bolster social-emotional learning. Katherine Lacaze See Board games, Page A7
