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NEWS IN BRIEF
Dougherty, board
members take oath
at education service
district
Doug Dougherty, who
served as the superinten-
dent for the Seaside School
District from 1998 to 2016,
was sworn in as a new board
member for the Northwest
Regional
Education
Service Dis-
trict at a
recent spe-
cial meeting.
Dough-
erty
rep-
Doug
resents Zone
Dougherty
2,
cover-
ing
Asto-
ria, Banks, Forest Grove,
Jewell, Knappa, Neah-Kah-
Nie, Nestucca Valley, Sea-
side, Tillamook and Warren-
ton-Hammond. He has been
an educator his entire profes-
sional career.
Dougherty has been
involved with Northwest
Regional Education Service
District since it was formed.
Past leadership positions
include president of the Ore-
gon Association of School
Executives, adviser to the
Oregon State Board of Edu-
cation; state commissioner
representing Oregon’s K-12
schools, colleges and univer-
sities on the Oregon Earth-
quake Commission; board
service for the Confedera-
tion of School Administra-
tors; president of the Sea-
side Rotary Club, University
of Oregon College of Educa-
tion Alumni Association and
Seaside Providence Hospital
Board of Directors.
Dougherty’s term ends
June 30, 2023.
Dougherty was sworn
into the board with four other
members, including Diane
Wilkinson (social services
position) and Maureen Wolf
(at-large position). Tony
Erickson (zone 4) and Ross
Tomlin (higher education
position) were sworn in for
second terms.
The education group is
governed by a nine-mem-
ber board. Five zoned mem-
bers are elected by school
boards from the repre-
sented zone. Four members
are appointed by the zoned
members. Appointed mem-
ber positions include repre-
sentation from the social ser-
vices, higher education and
business organizations within
the education group’s bound-
aries. There is also an at-large
position.
Board members are vol-
unteers and work closely
with the superintendent to
oversee policies and ensure
the 20 component school
districts in Clatsop, Colum-
bia, Tillamook and Washing-
ton counties receive quality
services.
Seaside American
Legion holds
fundraiser for
Whisler’s family
The Seaside Ameri-
can Legion hosts a special
“Angus Burger Basket” fund-
raiser event for police offi -
cer Thomas
W h i s l e r ’s
family
on
Aug. 21.
Astoria
police offi cer
Sam Whisler,
26, passed
Samuel
away on July
Whisler
9 of natural
causes in his
home in Warrenton. The pub-
lic is invited from 4 p.m. until
burgers are gone. Minimum
donations $10.
Donations may be mailed
directly to the Seaside Amer-
ican Legion, 1315 Broadway
St.
in the nightmare of sex slav-
ery. Businesses interested in
sponsoring or volunteering
can contact Melissa Ousley,
Sunset Empire Park and Rec-
reation District marketing
and special events manager,
at 503-738-3311, ext. 102.
Registration is $30 and
includes a T-shirt. To fi nd
out more about this event
and register to partici-
pate, please visit https://
www.sunsetempire.com/
break-the-chains-run.
Seaside Break
the Chain 5K
Lynne Griffi n will over-
see Northwest Regional Edu-
cation Service District’s pro-
grams and services as the
new administrator for the
Clatsop Service Center.
Griffi n has more than
two decades of experience
in education, including a
decade as a speech-language
pathologist, seven years as
an administrator and three
years as a teacher on special
assignment.
In this role, Griffi n will
oversee the education group’s
early intervention and early
childhood special education
programs in Clatsop County.
She will convene school dis-
tricts and facilitate collab-
orative initiatives, such as
aligning COVID-19 opera-
tions plans to local guidance
from public health authori-
ties. Griffi n will also oversee
The fourth annual Sea-
side Run to Break the Chain
5K will be held on Saturday,
Aug. 14, at 9 a.m. The fam-
ily-friendly race will begin
on the beach at 12th Avenue
and participants will run the
length of the beach to Ave-
nue U and back to complete
the 5K.
The goal of the Seaside
Run to Break the Chain 5K is
to raise awareness and benefi t
the Sunset Empire Park and
Recreation District and Oper-
ation Underground Railroad ,
an organization which exists
to rescue children from sex
traffi cking. Proceeds will go
toward local, healthy activ-
ities for children and fami-
lies, as well as the rescue and
recovery of children caught
Griffi n takes role
at Northwest
Regional Education
Service District
a youth transition program
that prepares students with
disabilities for college and
career opportunities.
The agency recently relo-
cated to Seaside from Asto-
ria. Most programs will be
located at the Sunset Recre-
ation Center.
Most recently, Griffi n
worked as the director of spe-
cial services for the Seaside
School District. During that
time, she oversaw special
education, 504, talented and
gifted and Title IA programs.
In addition to the day-to-day
oversight required of the role,
Griffi n looked for ways to lis-
ten to families and to update
policies so that students from
all backgrounds could suc-
ceed, especially those from
historically
marginalized
communities.
Previous roles have
included assistant coordi-
nator of teaching and learn-
ing for the Corvallis School
District and special educa-
tion director for the Brook-
ings-Harbor School District.
Griffi n will start her new
position on Aug. 30.
Bookmobile in
Seaside, Gearhart,
Cannon Beach
Pacifi c Ridge School
librarian Maureen Ogilvie
kicked off the summer sea-
son with the Seaside School
District Bookmobile in Can-
non Beach. She gave free
books to children aged pre-
school to high school.
About half the people
dropping by her well-marked
van were local, and the oth-
ers were visiting from as far
away as Minnesota and Cali-
fornia. Ogilvie and the book-
mobile will be at the city park
in Cannon Beach every Tues-
day from noon to 2 p.m. this
summer.
The bookmobile will be
in Broadway Park in Sea-
side Wednesdays from 1 to
2 p.m.; at Cartwright Park
on Wednesdays from 2:15 to
3:15 p.m.
The bookmobile will be
in Gearhart Thursdays from
1 to 2 p.m., at City Hall; and
in Warrenton at Cullaby Lake
Boat Ramp on Thursdays
from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Masks encouraged
at park district
facilities
With a surge of COVID-
19 cases at least partially
attributed to the delta variant
of the virus, the leadership
team at the Sunset Empire
Park and Recreation District
may alter policies regarding
masks or other items to keep
patrons safe and limit the
spread of COVID-19. The
district will continue to work
with state and local health
authorities as they provide
guidance.
While masks are not cur-
rently required while using
facilities, staff and patrons
are strongly encouraged to
wear a mask as well as to
receive the vaccine.
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It is designed to prioritize
“student and staff health and
well-being through care, con-
nection and the creation of
safe, inclusive and support-
ive learning environments,”
according to the state Depart-
ment of Education.
“My priority is to ensure
our kids are able to safely
return to full-time in-person
learning this fall, fi ve days per
week and with minimal dis-
ruptions,” the governor said.
“With many children still
ineligible to be vaccinated,
masks are an eff ective way
to help keep our kids safe in
the classroom, the learning
environment we know serves
them best.”
The guidance in the frame-
work has transitioned, giving
local school districts jurisdic-
tion over protocols and proce-
dures related to social distanc-
ing, contact tracing, student
check-ins and more.
Even though the Ready
Schools, Safe Learners
framework has moved from
required to recommended,
“we still base everything on
the research and what’s going
to be best for the health and
safety of our students and our
staff and our community,”
Penrod said.
They are balancing that
priority with a desire to main-
tain a focus on learning, as
well as the long-term goal of
“keeping everybody in school
all year, with minimum dis-
ruption,” she added.
Shields agreed, adding the
leadership team is striving to
follow guidelines from the
health authority and Depart-
ment of Education, in addi-
tion to listening to the con-
cerns of the community.
During the 2020-21 school
year, the district conducted
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surveys to get input from
parents, guardians and other
stakeholders. They’ve also
partnered with the Clatsop
County Public Health Depart-
ment for a community forum
about the coronavirus vac-
cine and for regular meetings
involving
superintendents
and administrators around the
county.
“We really value our part-
nership with Clatsop County
health,” Penrod said, adding
she looks forward to further
guidance from them as the
resiliency framework receives
updates.
Some of the health and
safety practices, particularly
those related to cleaning and
sanitization, were in practice a
few years before the COVID-
19 pandemic to help mitigate
the spread of viruses during
cold and fl u season.
“We will continue a lot of
those kinds of practices,” Pen-
rod said.
In terms of vaccinations,
the school district’s only
involvement is to share public
health information. They also
plan to collaborate with the
county to off er vaccine clin-
ics on campus during back-to-
school registration and open
house events and conferences.
Other considerations are
still tentative. Seaside’s lead-
ership team was to meet on
Tuesday to continue discuss-
ing the district’s health and
safety plan, with the goal of
presenting it to the Seaside
school board for approval at
the Aug. 16 meeting. They
also must submit a plan to the
state by Aug. 23.
The overarching goal,
Penrod said, is to “try to take
the wonderful things we’ve
learned from this past year
and then also try to bring back
some of the things we missed
from last year.”
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Jewell School District
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Contracting Exemption
August 16th, 2021, 6:00 pm,
Jewel School Jewell SD
library
Jewell School District School
Board, acting in the capacity
as the City of Jewell Local
Contract Review Board, will
conduct a Public Hearing on
Monday, August 16th, 2021
beginning at 6:00 pm to hear
and take testimony on the
adoption of an exemption
from competitive bidding
pursuant to ORS
279C.335(2). If approved,
the exemption would allow
the District to solicit and
award a contract pursuant
to the Design Build (DB)
alternative contracting
method for public
improvements associated
with the remodel and
expansion of the Jewell
School District New
Gymnasium & Locker Room
Renovation. The meeting
will begin at 6:00 pm in the
Jewell School District Library
located at 83874
Highway 103 Seaside,
Oregon 97138. The draft
findings are available for
public review at the Jewell
School located at 83874
Highway 103 Seaside,
Oregon 97138. All interested
parties are encouraged to
attend.
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Military, dolls, jewelry, coins,
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