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enforcement (Battle Ground Police Department) and elected oficial (Mayor Lisa Walters).” Chavez said the group agreed to be the oficial “men-tee” and the process began. Over the past eight months, he said the group has developed a new strategic brand (Prevent Together: Battle Ground Pre-vention Alliance) and has gone through multiple local and na-tional training sessions on Pre-vention Science and Coalition Development. The county’s PREVENT! coalition is using the money received from the respec-tive grants to help the Battle Ground group apply for its own $500,000 Drug Free Communities grant for 2013. Chavez said they are on sched-ule to apply in March 2013 and if the grant is awarded to the Battle Ground group, they will be notiied in Septem-ber 2013. However, even if the group doesn’t receive the grant, Chavez said the group’s members are very strong with a desire to be a community coalition regardless of federal funding. “One of the main goals of the mentor/mentee relationship is to set the foundation so a co-alition can exist without fund-ing and apply year after year if needed,” Chavez said. “This grant is extremely competi-tive and most coalitions have to apply multiple times before being awarded. We are hopeful for funding, but again regard-less this group will continue to function as a community coali-tion dedicated to the reduction and prevention of substance abuse in Battle Ground.” Chavez said he is happy to report that the Battle Ground prevention group is growing rapidly and they have numer-ous supporters from across the area. Although the group is

still in its developmental stage, he said they do have a Steering Committee, a Coalition Devel-opment Group, a Community Group reviewing treatment and recovery, as well as a host of community partners, includ-ing medical care, law enforce-ment, private business, media, school district, youth, service clubs, community volunteers, the faith community and treat-ment/recovery providers. According to Chavez, the ultimate goal of the Battle Ground prevention group is a healthy, productive Battle Ground community free from the effects of substance abuse. He said they hope to achieve this goal through a compre-hensive approach based on prevention science that will work with the prevention and reduction of substance abuse. “The main focus at this point is prevention and reduction of substance abuse,” Chavez said. “Substance abuse is a common element in so many different disparities. The group will con-tinue to grow and work in part-nership with other community

coalitions and organizations that are working to minimize or eliminate these disparities.” Although this is not a school-based group, Chavez said they still hope to involve students in the process. He said the Battle Ground School District has supported these ef-forts and is a positive working partner with the group. He also said youth are a critical role and there are open positions for youth to be formally involved with the coalition membership as well as youth organizations as oficial partners. “The school district does an outstanding job working on the issues of substance abuse with-in the walls of the schools,” Chavez said. “This group will support those efforts by work-ing on these issues outside the walls of the school and into the community.” Nancy Miller, director of ROCKSOLID Community Teen Center and a supporting member of the Battle Ground prevention group, said that ROCKSOLID its into the pre-vention program because they give students a safe, drug-free environment to come to every-day after school. Through the staff and dedicated volunteers at ROCKSOLID, Miller said they give the students great mentors to spend time with. Miller said ROCKSOLID actually formed a group of students who attended the teen center a couple of years ago called R.O.C.K. (Really Out-rageous Concerned Kids). She said the focus was to create a “team” of students in the Battle Ground and Hockinson areas that could learn about tobacco, alcohol and drug prevention, as well as suicide prevention. Through that group, ROCK-SOLID became involved with different activities with the PREVENT! coalition in Clark County. When Battle Ground formed the new prevention alliance, ROCKSOLID was asked to be a part of it. Miller said it is her personal goal, as well as the goal of the Prevent Together group, to as-sess the current situations in the Battle Ground community to determine what issues re-lating to tobacco, alcohol and drugs possess the biggest risk to our youth and what they can do to get to the root of these is-sues and help address them. “I know many issues ex-ist and we really must work together as a community to ix the situation,” Miller said. “This is not an overnight ix. It will take individuals from law enforcement, the schools, churches, health care and the business community in general to determine what the causes of the abuse are and to deter-mine ways to develop solu-tions. We have those dedicated individuals involved in Pre-vent Together. I know we will work together to create posi-tive, preventative results.” Battle Ground Police Chief Bob Richardson said the Battle Ground Police Department is looking forward to working with the Battle Ground Pre-vention Alliance to improve the lives of community mem-bers. Richardson said most people know individuals and families in the community that have been impacted by alco-hol and drug addiction, mental health issues and suicides. “We need to engage our community to identify poli-cies that support prevention, positive community norms and attitudes,” Richardson said. “The Alliance is the mecha-nism that brings our youth, parents, nonproits, faith-based groups, businesses, schools and governmental agencies together in collaboration to ad-dress these issues and provide resources. The long-range goal is to provide a healthy environ-ment where our children and families can live, work and grow. As Ben Franklin once said, ‘An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.’” Prevent Together: Battle Ground Prevention Alliance has met regularly since sum-mer 2012. If people are inter-ested in being actively involved in the coalition, Chavez said they can contact him at Sean.chavez@esd112.org. He said they are still working to de-velop a website and Facebook page for community updates. Although there is not a “pub-lic coalition” meeting planned for January, Chavez said they do have multiple “work group” meetings planned.

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Evalyn was born in Spokane, WA and spent her childhood years in Elk, WA. She passed away on Dec. 16, 2012 at Carolee’s Assisted Living facility in Ridgefield, WA.

Her first husband was Arthur Oltmann with whom she had five children. She is survived by Gary Oltmann, Ken (Melinda) Oltmann, Sherrill (John) Harding and daughter-in-law Barbara (Dewey) Oltmann. She was preceded in death by sons Dennis and Dewey. She also had eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

She later married Cecil Governor who passed away in March, 2001. Evalyn and Cecil were caretakers at Daybreak Park for many years. Prior to the park, she had numerous jobs, including at the Washington State School for the Deaf and the School for the Blind. She also worked at Meadow Glade Nursing Home and in photography for Vanity Fair Studio.

She enjoyed bowling, traveling, growing flowers and watching baseball and the Trail Blazers on television.

She also liked to travel, having taken trips to Europe, Mexico, Hawaii and many vacations to Arizona.

Evalyn enjoyed her many nicknames, among them Speedy, Bubbles, Hollywood, Twiggy and Nana GG.

A private service will be held at Layne’s Funeral Home in Battle Ground on Friday, Dec. 21st.

The family wishes to express their heartfelt thanks and gratitude to the staff of Carolee’s Assisted Living facility for all of their care and love given to Evalyn.

Harriet Hazel (Adkins)

OlsonHarriet Olson, 67, of

Vancouver, WA passed away at Carmen’s Quality Care Home on December 13, 2012. She was born on April 6, 1945, at Vancouver Memorial Hospital to Lloyd O. and Berniece Adkins. She graduated from Ridgefield High School in 1963.

Harriet retired from SEH America, Inc. as an Inspector. She was a charter member of Pleasantview Church of the Nazarene and loved God, Family, Church and the Christmas season.

Harriet was preceded in death by her sister Donna Hoffman. She is survived by her daughters, Sandra (Buzz) Marsh, Susan ( Jeff ) Anderson and Sheryl ( Jim) Carlson; brother, Gary (Lona) Adkins; sisters, Fairy (Norm) Trowbridge and Diane (Frank) Whitesel; four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

�e graveside service was at Memory Memorial Park at 11 a.m. on Saturday, December 22, 2012, and memorial service was at 1 p.m. at Pleasantview Church of the Nazarene. Memorial donations may be made to Pleasantview Nazarene Teen Outreach or the American Cancer Society.

JEAN MARIE USKOSKI

Jean Marie Uskoski, 79, died Dec. 4, 2012, in Vancouver. She was born Aug. 25, 1933, and resided in Brush Prairie. Uskoski was preceded in death by her parents, Edward

and Anna Jolma; brothers, Glenn, Clarence and Raymond; and sister, Greta. She is sur-vived by her husband, Clar-ence Uskoski of Brush Prairie; sons, Paul Uskoski of Brush Prairie, Lyle Uskoski (Kris) of Yacolt, Mark Uskoski (Amy) of South Dakota and Tom Us-koski (Amy) of Amboy; daugh-ters, Mary Ann Cole (Randy) of Woodland, Linda Sarkinen (Leroy) of La Center, Greta Trahan (Gene) of Yacolt, Lisa

Lobbestael (Todd) of Michigan and Sara Sarkinen (Warren) of Amboy; and sister Mae Uskos-ki Wirtanen. Uskoski also had 52 grand-children and 32 great-grand-children. Layne’s Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. A service was held for Uskoski Dec. 8 at the Old Apostolic Lu-theran Church in Brush Prairie. Internment took place at Elim Cemetery.

Billye Ann ZumwaltBillye Ann Zumwalt, 81, of Longview died December 5, 2012,

at the Americana care facility.

She was born March 3, 1931, in Pitcher, OK, to Samuel and Ruth

(McBride) Ennis. She is survived by four children, Richard Carl Zumwalt

of Dallesport, WA, Suzan Lynn Pietz of Ridge�eld, WA, Michael Ray

Zumwalt of Inverness, CA, and Lory Ann Evans of Kelso, WA, 21

grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and

nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband of 63 years,

Richard H. Zumwalt, on August 22, 2011.

Inurnment will take place at Cowlitz Memorial Gardens in Kelso.

Cremation has taken place under the direction of Cascade Northwest

Funeral Chapel at Green Hills Memorial Gardens & Crematory.

Her nephew Steven J. Marten will o�ciate at a memorial service for

family and friends. Please sign the guest book at www.tdn.com/obits.

Barbless hooks required Jan. 1 on Columbia River

View Ridge Middle School honor roll released

Starting New Year’s Day, anglers will be required to use barbless hooks until further no-tice when ishing for salmon, steelhead and cutthroat on a large section of the Columbia River. The rule issued by the Wash-ington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) will affect sport isheries from the mouth of the Columbia River – includ-ing the north jetty – upstream to the state border with Oregon, 17 miles upstream from Mc-Nary Dam. Under the new rule, an-glers may still use single-point, double-point, or treble hooks in those waters, so long as any

barbs have been iled off or pinched down. State ishery managers said the immediate need for the rule is to make Washington’s ish-ing regulations consistent with those in Oregon, where that state’s ish and wildlife com-mission recently approved a broad-based measure that pro-hibits Oregonian license hold-ers from using barbed hooks on the Columbia River starting Jan. 1. “Fisheries can be very difi-cult to manage under two dif-ferent sets of rules,” said Guy Norman, WDFW southwest region director. “The two states have worked together for near-

ly a hundred years to maintain regulatory consistency on the river that serves as a common boundary.” In recent months, both states have been discussing a ban on barbed hooks as part of broad-based policy to restruc-ture Columbia River isher-ies to promote the recovery of wild salmon and steelhead. As a conservation tool, barbless hooks are easier to remove than barbed hooks, reducing the likelihood of killing or injuring the ish, Norman said. “That’s especially important on the Columbia River, where anglers are required to release ish from a number of protected

runs unharmed,” he said. The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission, which sets policy for WDFW, is scheduled to take action next month on the new draft policy that includes a ban on barbed hooks and a variety of other management changes. A vote on the draft policy, which also includes phasing out the use of gillnets by non-tribal ishers in the mainstem Columbia River by 2017, is scheduled Jan. 12 during a pub-lic meeting in Olympia. More information about the draft pol-icy is available at http://wdfw.wa.gov/conservation/isheries/lower_columbia/.

View Ridge Middle School Principal Chris Grifith recently announced the students who have been named to the Honor Roll for the irst term of the 2012-2013 school year. An asterisk (*) preceding the name indicates a 4.0 grade point average for the term at the school in the Ridgeield School District. For the Eighth Grade: Cole Adams, Karas Aichele, Antho-ny Alexander, Zoe Allmaras, *Christina Anderson, Nicko-las Andrews, Anthony Ayers, Adrianne Badolato, Aliesha Ball, Cielo Baro, *Anna Bat-son, Conner, Bell, *Kayla Besel, Madison Bischoff, Sa-mantha Bishop, *Autumn Bo-chart, *Helena Bockstadter, Julia Bradford-Latshaw, Jett Broeckel, Bryant Buttars, Madi-son Campbell, Quinn Capley, Shawn Chandra, Savannah Chick, Megan Collins, Sabrina Davis, Shane Davis, Megan DeBroeck, Makayla Draper, Tiahna Duprat, Madison Ednie, *Nathan Ehline, Ethan English, *Natalie Eussen, *Kaitlan Fau-cher, Casey Figone, Rebekah Frankum, Wyatt Gaspar, Taylor Gatlin-Rimes, Andrew Goaring,

Luke Goddard, Brent Goff, Tra-vis Gottsch, *Allana Guild, Brit-tan Gullickson, Madison Har-ter, Mariah Hassler, *Julianne Hess, Ryan Hinson, *Annie Hoch-South, Sydney Hoogh-kirk, Colton Jenkins, Camryn Kaufman, Kaia Keller, Melissa Kennedy, Reese Kirschenman, *Kara Klaus, Hayley Kraus-man, Katrin Langer, Sierra La-Valley, Jenae Laxson, *Brandon Lehto, Braden Lewis, Sierra Love, *Rosaline Mayield, Ja-cob McLaughlin, *Tamarick Mendoza, Kevin Miser, Emily Mixter, Isabel Mocca, Austin Nolan, Brooklyn Ochoa, *Ko-rah Olson, Jason Osborn, Sam-uel Pankratov, Wrylie Parks, Kelsi Pfau, Rubuen Ponce, An-drew Post, *Lauren Rath, Cami-ren Reese, Kennadi Reynolds, Paige Rice, Drake Richardson, *Taryn Ries, Wyatt Roberts, Kailey Rogers, Evelina Saidov, *Jill Salonga, Trenton Serface, Brandan Sharp, Grace Shields, *Erin Siegel, Joshua Silves, Ca-leb Sivewright, Maciah Skov, Katrina Slocum, Kevelyn St. John, Jacquelyn Stapper, Justin Sullivan, Logan Summers, Hail-ee Taylor, Jenna Thaler, *Kylee Tjensvold, *Destiney Topete,

Kody Voshell, Taylor Wake, Macie Wells, Amara Willham, Andrew Williams, Jalen Wil-liams, Makeila Wilson, Faith Wirchak, Olivia Zimmerly. For the Seventh Grade: Ash-ley Andersen, Lauren Andrews, *Matthew Armstrong, Chase Ashmore, Madeline Asquith, Kaylee Atkinson, John Bauer, *Sally Bishop-Smith, *Emily Bradshaw, Michael Brown, Wy-att Burkhart, Kaydee Buttars, Cain McKenna, Amber Carl, Alexis Carnell, Tessa Condon-Castano, Boston Clark, *Nich-olas Conrad, Hannah Corder, *Natalie Dean, Max Decker, Jarom Dobosz, *Hannah Far-ley, Hailey Figueras, Jacob Figueras, Jonathan Flury, Tatum French, Jeannette Fry, Matias Garnes, *James Haden, *Hailey Harris, Meghan Harris, Kellen Hartnett, Jared Hinds, *Molly Holbrook, Olivia House, Olivia House, Hailey Hughes, *Jordan Jhaveri, Zachary Johnson, *Ju-lia Jones, Hannah Karnes, Chan-dler Kast, *Krystal Kaufman, Jarett Kennon, *Christy Ketels, Samuel Koethe, Andrew Lamb, Michael Lamb, James Lee, Jen-nifer Llanos, *Jeremy Martin, Tyler Martin, *Lillian Maul,

Nathan Mazzanti, Corbyn Mc-Gill, Trent Meisner, Rylee Mar-tin, Wyatt Mersinger, Macken-zie Mollet, Jose Montiel, Cory Morris, *Kelsi Morris, Ross Morris, Noah Mossman, Ko-bee Nelson, Anika Nicoll, Mi-chael Null, *Emilie Ouffoue, Wyatt Patterson, Haley Paul, Seth Petersen, Alvin Phahon-chanh, Hailey Pieratt, Jordan Post, Kaylee Presley, Emily Price, Adilene Quiroz, Timothy Radosevich, Michael Rapp, An-gelo Ratermann, Luke Renner, *Randi Richards, Tucker Rob-erts, Francisco Romo, *Alex-andra Rutherford, Samantha Rutledge, *Halli Sakrisson, *Kevin Sanchez, Julia Schultz, Angie Setthavongsack, Brendan Shroyer, Evan Silves, *Hallie Stalcup, *Amanda Stay, Audrey Stenersen, Makayla Stenersen, Cole Stillman, Carri Sullins, Raveena Supra, *Christopher Swan, Garrett Swendsen, Zach-ary Tilton, Daniel Trevino, Dan-iel Tudor, McKenzie Ullom, *Claire Volz, Joseph Vossen-kuhl, *Ailis Waddill, *Rachael Werbowski, Mateo Wilkins, Aidan Williams, *Kaitlyn Wright.