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Friday, August 9, 2019 | Seaside Signal | SeasideSignal.com • A5 A commitment to journalism pays community dividends I t’s been three months since we doubled the frequency of the Seaside Signal — now publishing every week instead of every other week, and asking for $1 an issue at the newsstand instead of giving it away. At the same time, The Daily Astorian became The Astorian, delivered three days a week by mail. So how’s that working for us? Thanks to our readers, adver- tisers and employees, most of the time it’s working really well. The Seaside Signal has received a lot of compliments for our weekly coverage, and R.J. Marx and our correspondent team have done a good job of fi lling weekly pages with news unique to Seaside. So much so that peo- ple who don’t subscribe now pay for a newspaper that used to be free. Even though we’ve been shorthanded this summer looking for an advertising representative for our Seaside offi ce, our Astoria sales staff, including Sarah Sil- ver-Tecza, our advertising sales manager, have done a good job of fi lling the gaps with advertising. As for the Astorian, we are selling an average of 98 more copies a day in stores and racks than we did three months ago. Plus we have 29 more digital sub- scriptions than we did on May 7. FROM THE PUBLISHER KARI BORGEN Our advertising is up over the same time last year at the Asto- rian, and our expenses are signifi - cantly reduced with the changed delivery and schedule. Three days a week, mail delivery has proven to be a good business model for the Astorian. So what does that mean? Why should you care? The Seaside Signal added local news to be delivered every week. The Astorian did not cut staff or reduce local news content when publishing was reduced from fi ve days to three weekly issues. Is it important for you to know how your public offi cials are dealing with building heights, traffi c issues, homelessness and vacation rentals? You bet it is. That’s why we pay our reporters to go to public meetings, research the documents and interview affected people on local issues, so you can learn the facts to make decisions on voting, shopping and living here. What about the latest enter- tainment, your kids’ school activ- ‘IS IT IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO KNOW HOW YOUR PUBLIC OFFICIALS ARE DEALING WITH BUILDING HEIGHTS, TRAFFIC ISSUES, HOMELESSNESS AND VACATION RENTALS? YOU BET IT IS.’ ities, the Seaside Gulls summer baseball season? We pay report- ers to cover those things too. Our team works daily, and posts news online daily. In fact, our traffi c to seasidesignal.com last month was over 18,000 users and 50,000 page views. Because we are members of news sharing organizations Associated Press, Tribune Regional News Service, and EO Media’s owned newspa- pers, the Seaside Signal and the Astorian news goes far beyond just our county. If you’ve ever wondered why a story you read in print or online from the Seaside Signal or the Astorian was on Portland TV, it’s because it was fi rst reported in our pages and picked up from us through a news sharing agreement. That’s how news published here can impact the rest of the state, Northwest, even the nation. Those reporters and pages, print and online, are paid for with advertising and subscrip- tions. Your subscription dollars help pay for local journalism to be delivered to you. The bulk of our revenue, however, comes from advertising. Local busi- nesses reach you, our readers, with their information by buying ads in print, online, social media and email from the Seaside Sig- nal and the Astorian. Advertising helps our local businesses prosper by growing their sales and cus- tomer base, and that helps keep locals employed producing our news products. The other revenue for our business comes from printing other regional news. The Asto- rian serves as the regional print- ing facility for newspapers in the Lower Columbia region, includ- ing the Columbia Press in War- renton, Hipfi sh, The Tillamook Headlight Herald, North Coast Times in Manzanita, Cannon Beach Gazette, News Guard in Lincoln City, Clatskanie Chief, St. Helens Chronicle and most recently added, the Wahkiakum Eagle. Of course we print EO Media Group owned newspa- pers too, The Astorian, Chinook Observer, Seaside Signal, and Columbia River Business Jour- nal. As other printing facilities in Tacoma, Olympia, Centralia and Longview have closed, we’ve made a commitment to provide small newspapers a high-quality printing facility by investing in a new press tower and upgraded distribution equipment. That’s a long way of saying that’s why we think it’s import- ant to make good business deci- sions at the Signal and the Asto- rian. Our mission remains the same as it has since 1873 — a commitment to relevant, credi- ble local news and information for our readers, and the belief that a well-informed public keeps our community strong. We plan to continue to employ local jour- nalists, customer service and pro- duction staff for many years to come. Please contact me with ques- tions or comments at kborgen@ dailyastorian.com, or mail to 949 Exchange Street, Astoria. I look forward to hearing from you. When training your pet, exercise patience, patience, patience CANINE CORNER RAIN JORDAN & DAHLIA I n the pairing of humans with their best friends, love means humane training as well as treatment. Love is Humane Training. In addition to being non-aver- sive, humane training is slow and methodical, because a methodical, anti-aversive approach implies a patient and kind trainer. “Love is patient, love is kind.” Humane training is slow, humane training is methodical. Some dogs struggle with basic requirements of being companions to us humans. Having their nails trimmed, for example, is a com- mon struggle. Many humans are just as afraid to trim our dogs’ nails as dogs are of having their nails trimmed, yet we can learn and thereby spare them the distress of having a stranger — whom our dog might fi nd aversive, thus adding an extra layer of distress — do that work. What follows is an outline of how force-free, pain-free, and therefore reduced-stress nail trimming may be trained. (You’ll want to contact me for full details as it isn’t pos- sible to cover every nuance in this short article.) General Rules: If you fi nd yourself getting frustrated, tired, or restraining your dog, stop and try again another time. If your dog gets upset, stop and try another time. The goal is to have your dog comfortable and cooperat- ing willingly, not being held down or restrained. S/he will eventually learn it is worth cooperating if the associated food is novel enough (to your dog), tasty enough (meats, cheeses, pates, et cetera), and plentiful. Keep the food hid- den in a treat bag attached to your belt or waistband and draw from it as you work. You may prefer to have a partner do the feeding while you do the handling. Step One: Every day for one to fi ve minutes, handle — touch, pet, and eventually softly hold, while gently manipulating— each of your dog’s paws and each claw. Two seconds after you begin the handling process, start feed- ing your dog pea-sized or smaller pieces of soft cheese, hot dog, tur- key, chicken, steak, hamburger, or other aromatic, super-tasty human food while continuing the han- dling process. Immediately after you are done handling the paws and claws, then stop feeding and put away the food. Once your dog is comfortable with Step One, move to: Step Two: Every day for one to fi ve minutes, show your dog the nail clippers while following the same feeding instructions as above. If the dog is not at all both- ered by the sight of the clippers, you may go directly to: Step Three: Every day for one to fi ve minutes, lightly touch the clipper to each of your dog’s claws, and follow the same feed- ing instructions as above. Do this daily until your dog accepts the clipper touching every claw with no sign of fear, distress, or avoidance. Up until now you were begin- ning each session, then feeding continuously, until the session ended. Next, adjust the method as follows: After every one action you do with the clipper that your dog accepts, deliver one small piece of food to your dog. Step Four: Practice Session: a/ Touch one claw with the clipper. b/Retract clipper. c/Deliver one piece of food to your dog. Repeat a-c for all claws. If no avoidance and no distress, move to pre-clip: Step Five: a/Place clipper around the tip of one claw but do not squeeze or clip. b/Remove the clipper. c/Deliver one piece of food to your dog. Repeat a-c for all claws. When dog shows no hesitation or stress for any/all claws, move to: Step Six: Very carefully angle the clipper along only one side edge of a claw as if you were pre- paring to lay the clipper head Determining our region’s top health care priorities By PATTI ATKINS For Seaside Signal Columbia Pacifi c CCO and our community partners have worked together to engage in community conversations in 2018 and 2019 about the factors that create health and well-being for all individu- als who live in the three counties in the Columbia Pacifi c CCO ser- vice area. Looking at the health indica- tors for the region combined with a narrative survey of more than 1,200 residents, has informed the new Regional Health Needs Assessment and Health Improve- ment Plan for the next fi ve years. “We asked more than 1,200 residents to tell us what they val- ued as important about their health experiences and well-be- ing,” said Mimi Haley, executive director, Columbia Pacifi c CCO. “And we partnered with public health departments, hospital clin- ics, community safety net provid- ers, behavioral health organiza- tions, the education system, and identifi ed theneed to support the ongoing efforts to improve for each priority area and supports and access to are divided into categories care, including acknowl- based the following areas edging that health happens of action in which Colum- through the social safety bia Pacifi c CCO and its net.” regional partners will con- “The resulting fi ve-year centrate work to achieve Mimi Haley, Regional Health Improve- the goals of each priority CEO of ment Plan advances health in the plan. The categories Columbia and well-being and will be include: Pacifi c CCO used during our planning Access to care: Impacts process for the next fi ve the number, availability years.” Haley continued. “Within and quality of health care options the plan, we defi ned eight priority and resources areas for improving health in the Data collection and utiliza- region.” tions: Impacts the ability to collect The eight priority areas include: and analyze information about the • Community resilience and community as a whole in order to trauma informed care better understand and provide for • Access to care: primary care the community’s needs • Access to care: behavioral Prevention and policy: Impacts health risk factors that infl uence health • Access to care: oral health and by implementing plans for com- dental care munity investment and action • Access to care: social safety In all, more than 1,900 people net contributed the development of • Chronic disease prevention this assessment and plan. Numer- • Suicide prevention ous organizations and individuals • Housing volunteered time and effort to col- In the plan, available online lect and synthesize information. at colpachealth.org, the objec- Others provided funding, time and tives and strategies are outlined energy to develop frameworks for understanding and addressing the region’s most pressing health issues. Importantly, many commu- nity members shared their per- sonal stories about health and well- ness contributing to a rich dataset that informed every aspect of the Regional Health Improvement Plan. “We acknowledge each of these participants with sincere grati- tude and in the spirit of our shared vision for a region where health and well-being abound, for every- one.” Haley fi nished. Columbia Pacifi c CCO and our Regional Advisory Council and Board of Directors would like to acknowledge and thank the follow- ing collaborating partners for their participation in the regional health improvement planning process: Clatsop County Public Health, Columbia County Public Health, Columbia Memorial Hospital, Providence Health & Services, and Tillamook County Public Health. For information contact Patti Atkins, communications consul- tant, 503-961-2535 or atkinsp@ careoregon.org. Saltmakers living history re-enactment returns Sept. 7-8 Seaside Signal Seaside Museum and Historical Society Salt produced interpreters. by historic What do you do when you run out of salt — and the nearest store is more than 2,000 miles away? When the explorers of the Lewis and Clark Expedition arrived at the Pacifi c Coast in 1805, they needed salt to preserve meat, along with adding a little fl avor to their meals. But the sup- ply of salt which they acquired in St. Louis, before they began their long and arduous voyage across the vast American West, was exhausted. So the members of the Corps of North Western Discovery — as Capt. Meriwether Lewis called the party in his journal — did the only thing they could: make their own salt. More than 15 years ago, the Seaside Museum, aided by the National Park Service at Fort Clatsop and interpreters from the Pacifi c Northwest Living Histo- rians initiated a re-enactment of this salt-making expedition. In 2015, the Museum put the event on hiatus. This year the exhibition of salt making by the Lewis and Clark expedition returns. On Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 7-8, the Sea- side Museum, assisted by a grant from the city of Seaside Tourism Advisory Committee, sponsors Lewis and Clark Salt Makers. Interpreters will create and share the experience of that exploration group, bringing to life the salt camp which those explor- ers established 213 years ago. The program will be held from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday. The event site will be on the Seaside beach west of the Avenue U and Prom intersection. For more information, call the Seaside Museum at 503-738-7065. down on its side on the side of the paw. This angle helps keep you away from the quick. Aim to slowly, cautiously clip only a sliver shaving of nail edge, work- ing your way around the out- side edge of the claw. Deliver one piece of food after each clip — so if it takes two clips per claw — one on each side—then that means two pieces of food per claw. Repeat with other claws only if your dog is not stressed and only if your dog cooperates freely. If your dog shows distress or avoidance, go back a step as this means s/he is not ready for clipping yet. With slow, methodical prac- tice, both you and your dog will become more comfortable. “Love (and humane training) always pro- tects … always perseveres.” Visit https://www.expertcanine. com/clipperplacement for more information. Rain Jordan, CBCC-KA, KPA CTP, is a certifi ed canine behav- ior and training professional. Visit her at www.expertcanine.com. Coming up at the library: Astoria in the ’50s, cooking tuna, and more! OFF THE SHELVES SEASIDE LIBRARY CALENDAR Aug. 6 3 p.m., Teen Tuesday giant games and ice cream party. Aug. 7 10 a.m., Preschool bilingual story time chickens theme. Aug. 10 1 p.m., for adults: Documentary fi lm: Astoria in the 1950s. Aug. 13 2 p.m., bilingual family program leap into science all ages. Aug. 14 10 a.m., preschool bilingual story time Eric Carle books theme. Aug. 21 10 a.m., preschool bilingual story time shark week theme. Aug. 22 7 p.m., for adults: music concert solo guitar with Wes Wahrmund. Aug. 24 1 p.m., for adults: Vintage jewelry ap- praisal with Danuta Hackett Aug. 28 10 a.m., Preschool story time summer reading wrap up theme Aug. 31 Last day to turn in summer reading logs for prizes 1 p.m., for adults: Albacore tuna cook- ing class; sign-up required with Jenni- fer Burns Bright
