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Sweet Home High School forestry and natural resources instructor Blake Manley received the first-ever Rob Waibel Educator of the Year Award in April, presented by the Oregon Natural Resources Educators Association (ONREA).

ONREA President Lori Loeffler, a natural resources career and technical education instructor at Tillamook High School, said Manley was selected "because of his work on the 'Manley Jobs' series of videos and the creative means he used to reach kids during the lockdowns. That series of videos has become part of many classroom lesson plans, including my own, as well as outre...