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Lions Club served city proudly JIM FOSSUM The News Guard
For 15 years, Shirley Hill has spent her Tuesday afternoons getting to know and conducting business with area residents who share the goal of giving. With a vote last month to disband, the social gatherings and luncheons held by the local North Lincoln County Lions Club for almost eight decades are no more. Either, for Hill and a
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dwindling number of club members, will be the sharing, a fact that alarms the club’s president of numerous years, including the last four. “We are just not a large enough club anymore to do all the things that we like to do,” she said. “We just don’t feel like we can do those jobs like we should.” By a 5-4 vote, the Lincoln City-area Lions Club elected to disband on March 1 following years of fighting to stay alive.
“That’s not enough of a difference to be able to continue,” Hill said. “That is not enough to do all those things.” See LIONS, Page A9
Shirley Hill, president of the North Lincoln County Lions Club for the past four years, worries about a decline in giving with the disbanding of her organization after 77 years of service to the Lincoln City community.
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Taft High students display college success
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importance and value of vegetables for 130 Taft students, including two thirdgrade classes and two fifth grade classes. “By planting and growing vegetables, we hope that the students will learn to appreciate vegetables and eat them readily,” said Kelley. “Plus this gets them outdoors and gets them active and introduces them to a world they might not have otherwise known about.” Susan Roebber, a Taft third-grade teacher, said the project helps the students learn about the life cycle of
Taft High School graduates are exceeding state and district performance in the number of incoming students who remain in state schools, and lead the district academically in their freshman year, according to Oregon University System data. “We’re excited on two fronts,” Taft Principal Scott Reed said. “One, that Taft High School exceeds the state and district average when it comes to students persevering in the state university system. It also gives the freshman GPA, and that was the highest for the district, too, so it shows that our kids are successful when they leave here to go to college.” The Entering Freshman Profile (EFP), data compiled and released by the Oregon University System, indicates that 90.9 percent of 2011 Taft graduates returned to state schools for their sophomore year compared to 81.6 percent statewide and 75.5 percent within the Lincoln County School District (Newport High School also exceeded the state total at 83.3 percent, while Waldport and Toledo totaled 57.1).
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WEATHER GUIDE PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS High Low Prec.
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Taft Elementary School students braved the wind and rain April 4 to help move dirt into four raised beds at their school as part of a hands-on gardening lesson.
Hands-on gardening grows on local students “T JEREMY C. RUARK The News Guard
Weekly Rainfall: 1.1 inches Yearly Rainfall: 21.22 inches
Heavy rains and howling winds didn’t put a damper on the excitement for dozens of students at Taft Elementary School on April 4 as they worked to shovel dirt into four raised planting beds in front of the school building. Taft fifth-grader Chloe Stroud called the gardening project awesome. “I think this is cool that we are doing this at our school,” she said. “It is really well worth it.” “This takes manual labor,” fifth-grad-
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er Kyle Gakstatter said. “But it is fun.” The students will plant radishes in the coming weeks and hope to harvest and eat the radishes in about two months. School volunteer Sharron Kelley said the project is a teaching lesson about the
Pixieland project: Free the Trees April 22 By JEREMY C. RUARK The News Guard
It was once a 40-acre amusement park called Pixieland built in a tidal marsh in the Salmon Free The Trees River Estuary • April 22 at the junction • 4:30 – 7 p.m. of High- • Salmon River way Estuary 18 and Just east of the Highway Highway 101/ 101. The Highway 18 park junction was open for only about four years before the operation went bankrupt. An RV park was established on the property soon after that, but it also closed, according to Catherine Pruett,
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invasive plant species, re-graded the marsh to its natural level, reestablished natural stream flows and See PIXIELAND, Page A5
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