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Clatskanie artist awarded residency and commission CHRISTINE MENGES chronicle2@countrymedia.net
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Clatskanie City Council members had a bit of a chuckle during the monthly law enforcement update. It seems a speeding motorcyclist wasn’t as slick as he thought. Chief Deputy Ryan Murphy, Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, told the council that a deputy spotted the alleged speeder blazing a trail down Highway 30 in the Clatskanie area around 8 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4. The deputy attempted to make a traffic stop but terminated pursuit due to reckless riding by the motorcyclist. Despite cutting off the pursuit, the deputy was able to track the motorcyclist, who eventually turned down Kallunki Road and was caught. The motorcyclist did not resist arrest and had no weapons, and no force was used in the arrest, according to Sheriff Brian Pixley. The suspect, who was later identified as 23-year-old Douglas Matthew Moyer of Longview, Washington was taken to the Columbia County Jail and charged with attempt to elude law enforcement, reckless driving and two counts of reckless endangering as well as second-degree criminal trespass for entering Port Westward’s property. Correction: In last Friday’s Chief, an article about the Columbia County Tourism Initiative incorrectly stated that Columbia County Commissioner Henry Heimuller denied the initiative’s $10,000 request. Heimuller did not deny the request, but rather did not second the motion brought up by Commissioner Alex Tardif, stating he needed to receive more documentation before approving the request. The Chief regrets the error.
Jeremy Furnish, founder of the Clatskanie Artists Network, whose most recent project includes the musical bench that sits outside the Clatskanie Cultural Center, has a few new projects under his belt. Furnish was awarded the Coastal Oregon Artist Residency (COAR), which began June 1, and he will present his work at a show on Oct. 12. He was also recently awarded a commission to build the Regatta Monument on the Astoria waterfront next to the Columbia River Maritime Museum in honor of the boat race’s 125th year. Furnish will build and unveil the monument before showing it sometime next year before Astoria’s annual Regatta in August. COAR, which is completing its fourth year in Astoria, is a partnership between Astoria Visual Arts and Recology Western Oregon and involves creating art from materials found in Recology’s Astoria Recycling Depot and Transfer Station, according to Recology’s website. Furnish was given salvage rights at the transfer station and has four months to create pieces from materials found at the station. So far, Furnish has created close to 15 medium-sized sculptures as well as a few wall hangs, all created from items ranging from glass bottles to metal to other products. The purpose of the project, according to Furnish, is to draw attention to overconsumption and waste. “[The purpose] is to give a visual understanding of our waste as consumers, an educational experience to help us not be as irresponsible with our planet,” Furnish said. A lot of Furnish’s sculptures
include a strong metal background, and subjects include people fishing or birds. “Some of it’s abstract, some of it’s more literal and there’s a little bit of surrealism in there,” Furnish said. Furnish has been interested in participating in the residency for a while but had never found it realistic to participate due to a few different factors, but particularly the stipend, which increased from approximately $500 a month to $1,000 a month this year. Additionally, COAR added another month to their residency program. The studio space for the project is in Warrenton, Oregon and is a space that Furnish really likes. “The gallery space is really fantastic,” Furnish said. “I want to fill it up and do it justice.” While both projects are an honor to Furnish, the Regatta Monument is especially important, because Furnish has a personal connection to the boat race. “My great-great grandfather emigrated from Denmark to Astoria the same year the regatta began,” Furnish said. Furnish’s great-great grandfather worked as a fish packer in one of the canneries in Astoria in 1894. Sailing ships would arrive in Astoria, bringing back fish from Alaska. The competition between the ships would turn into a big boat race, a tradition which has stuck for the city, making it one of the oldest festivals west of the Rocky Mountains, according to the Astoria Regatta’s website. The tentative placement for the monument right now is on the pier just to the left of the Columbia River Maritime Museum on the water
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One of the pieces Furnish has created for the Coastal Oregon Artist Residency (COAR), entitled “Little Help.”
Commission hears arguments on Deer Pointe Meadows Building permit approved for mobile home park
filed the land use appeal against the building permits. Campbell’s appeal is based on the argument that space 10 was one of 13 spaces that were blocked from park use by county officials during septic system repairs in 2017. Campbell said when nonconforming activities or uses are lost or abandoned, current criteria must be applied to the property.
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Deer Pointe Meadows was the focus of a hearing held by county officials in late August. The discussion was a continuation of talks held in late July stemming from a construction permit application at the mobile home park. Exparte contacts, fire code The August meeting began with disclosures of exparte communications related to the matter. Columbia County Commissioner Alex Tardif said a discussion with a staff member regarding RV park septic system certifications had led to a mention of Deer Pointe Meadows, at which point he ended the conversation, not knowing how it might be related to the current matter before the commission. Commissioner Margaret Magruder said she spoke with Chief Steve Sharek, Clatskanie Rural Fire Protection District, prior to his writing a letter to the Columbia County Board of Commissioners regarding fire code concerns at the mobile home park. She said the substance of that conversation was captured in the fire chief’s letter, which ended with a recommendation that county planning and permitting processes should meet all standards and codes. In the letter, Sharek requested that a recent Land Development Services staff report be clarified to reflect the lack of knowledge or documentation indicating that fire officials were notified at each step of Deer Pointe Meadows’ permitting process throughout the years. Sharek’s letter said it appears that
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the County has inconsistently enforced fire code regulations found within building codes as they apply to the permitting process. Commissioner Henry Heimuller said he spoke with State Sen. Betsy Johnson (DScappoose) sometime after the July hearing and she asked him if there was a current, ongoing sewer failure at Deer Pointe Meadows, reportedly having heard that from a Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) official. Heimuller said he then contacted county legal counsel, who confirmed that staff found a “minor” drain-related issue at the RV park portion of the mobile home park, unrelated to building permit applications at hand. Discussion and concerns Moving to deliberations, Magruder suggested taking into consideration the entirety of the mobile home park in ruling on the
land use appeal regarding the single space for which building and electrical permits were requested. Tardif agreed with Magruder, calling the case an interesting and fascinating example of the complex nonconforming land use issues in Oregon. “I would have to agree that in this case, space 10 should be allowed a building permit, an electrical permit, and the ability to move forward with siting,” Tardif said. Heimuller said he would support approving the permits, noting that issues with Deer Pointe Meadows have been intertwined with his time on the Board of Commissioners seemingly from the minute he took office. He said the current owner is doing everything possible to bring the mobile home park into compliance. Heimuller added that he disagreed with the legal interpretation held by Rainier-area resident Don Campbell, the park neighbor who
Living next to Deer Pointe Meadows, Campbell has closely watched a history of septic system failures at the mobile home park. He has expressed great concern in city, county and state meetings about the number of active spaces in the park and what he says is the likelihood of a major septic system failure if capacity isn’t restricted. Initially established in 1965, a past owner illegally expanded the park from 33 to 46 spaces, according to county land use documents. In 1996, Columbia County Board of Commissioners approved the expansion with a mandate that the failing septic system be repaired and able to meet DEQ standards for the increase in sewage from additional spaces. Repeated septic failures at the park have resulted in discharges of untreated or partially treated sewage to the ground or surface waters on multiple occasions. A county land use document states that previous failures, while many contributing factors should be considered, were caused mainly by too much wastewater and
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DEQ approves air quality permit CHRISTINE MENGES chronicle2@countrymedia.net
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has granted Global Partners, LP, which also operates as Cascade Kelly Holdings, LLC, a renewal of its Standard Air Contaminant Discharge Permit for its Columbia Pacific Bio-Refinery (CPBR), at Port Westward in Clatskanie. The permit will allow the facility to construct equipment to produce ethanol from wheat and to recover wheat coproducts after fermentation. The facility had previously been able to produce ethanol from corn, although they have not done so since 2009, according to the DEQ’s hearing officer’s report on the permit renewal. CPBR has also applied for a second permit renewal, which is an air quality permit for transloading of crude oil. That permit has not yet reached the public comment period. During the public comment period for the recently renewed air quality permit, DEQ received 276 written comments, 812 names of people either supporting or opposing the permit and 37 spoken comments at a public hearing that DEQ held in July. Both permits have been sources of controversy since the first air quality permit was
introduced earlier this year. The environmental group Columbia Riverkeeper as well as individual residents from Columbia County have criticized various aspects of the permits. DEQ received many comments regarding fears that this permit allows for circumventing the permitting process for the transloading facility, sharing equipment between the ethanol and transloading facilities, as well as other comments regarding climate change. Liz Tehraar, Communications Director for Columbia Riverkeeper, explained some of the reasoning behind these concerns in a statement released to The Chief on July 24. “The permit renewals contain overlapping components. This is both confusing and concerning,” Tehraar, speaking on behalf of Columbia Riverkeeper, said. “Global’s overlapping permit applications for ethanol production and oil train shipments raise the concern that Global could obtain permits to build, buy, and operate additional tanks for one purpose (ethanol) while planning to use them for another (crude oil).” Lauren Wirtis, Public Affairs Specialist for the Northwest Region of DEQ explained some of the overlapping elements in the two permits.
“The tanks are separated,” Wirtis said. “The tanks are allocated for ethanol and for transloading crude oil. What is shared is some of the lines through which those materials are transmitted.” DEQ responded directly to comments regarding that the two permits would allow for the circumvention of the permitting process for the transloading facility. “CPBR is required to submit a notice of intent to construct for modifications to the ethanol and transloading facility,” the report states. “Because the facilities are considered separate sources of air pollution the transfer of equipment from one to the other is considered a modification and is treated like new construction.” Another type of comment DEQ responded to was a comment that items not be shared between the facilities. DEQ responded that air quality permits are issued for source. “The fact that they use some of the same equipment doesn’t change the fact that the tanks are used for two different operations and therefore belong to two different sources and in-turn two separate air contaminant discharge permits,” the DEQ report states. Dan Serres, Conserva-
The Columbia Pacific Bio-Refinery, at Port Westward in Clatskanie.
tion Director for Columbia Riverkeeper, explained the reasoning behind their concern, which is mainly concern for the potential impact of oil trains through the county. “We’ve been concerned for a long time about oil trains coming through Columbia County,” Serres said. “If one of them were to derail we could have another Mosier type of event.” Serres also explained that Columbia Riverkeeper has concerns about Global itself. The company purchased the bankrupt CPBR at Port Westward in 2013, which had already been an ethanol production plant. Since then, the company has been involved in some controversies. One of the
major controversies occurred in 2014 when DEQ fined Global for shipping more oil than its permits allowed. In December of 2018, the Port of Columbia County also approved a change to Global’s lease to allow the company to move heavy oil in addition to ethanol and lighter crude. “Their long-term plan is to move back to oil, otherwise they wouldn’t have asked the port for permission to handle oil,” Serres said. Catie Kerns, the Vice President of External Communications for Global Partners denied these speculations. “Since 2015 we have shipped only ethanol and currently have no plans to ship oil. If we were to resume
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export of oils, we would communicate in advance with the local community,” Kerns wrote in an email to The Chief. “Neither of these permit renewals change our operations except for allowing ethanol to be manufactured from a locally grown commodity—wheat. There are no modification requests to the transloading permit.” The second permit, a transloading permit for oil, has not been open for public comment yet, but when it does Serres said that Columbia Riverkeeper will be engaging the public. “I hope they press the pause button and really think this through,” Serres said about DEQ.
President of #TimberUnity Association speaks in Clatskanie CODY MANN headlightnews@countrymedia.net
Vernonia resident Mike Pihl is a logging company owner and the president of #TimberUnity Association, a grass-roots organization that represents logging, trucking, farmers, and those working in natural resources-based industries. You might have seen him on the History Channel’s “Ax Men.” He spoke to the Clatskanie Chamber of Commerce this past week. “We really want to show everybody else that there’s actually people in America who get up early in the morning, go to work, and produce a commodity,” Pihl said of his company’s recent return to the popular TV program. Pihl said the recognition he earned from being on the show and speaking about the industry across the country played a part in his rise to president of #TimberUnity Association. The group came together this past June in protest of House Bill 2020, calling for the defeat of the proposed cap-and-trade carbon tax legislation. A walkout by Oregon Senate Republicans, heavily supported by #Timber Unity, ultimately led to the death of House Bill 2020. Log-
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Senate Republicans with #TimberUnity members and opponents of House Bill 2020 at the Capitol after the proposed legislation died.
gers surrounded the Capitol building during several days of protests, circling in log trucks and standing on the front steps with signs against the proposed law. Even before House Bill 2020 was proposed, Pihl said many businesses in smaller communities were feeling the burn from big-city lawmakers,
PERMIT From Page A1 “high strength wastewater” that takes more effort and soil capability to process. Monitoring also revealed that flows were exceeding design limits during winter months because of water pipe infiltration as well as people running water to prevent freezing pipes. According to the DEQ, in the past two years there were approximately four effluent discharge events on the ground surface at Deer Pointe Meadows. DEQ said standard warning letters were issued and the facility corrected the problems. A DEQ representative said the agency was at the site on Aug. 2 of this year and reconfirmed permit compliance. Commission ruling “As we look at the nonconforming use, and Mr. Campbell’s suggestion that not using a space or a group of spaces during a period of vacancy that is there for modifications … his is an interpretation of nonconforming use that I disagree with personally as well as so far as I can see in the law,” Heimuller said. The commissioners unanimously voted for tentative approval of both permit requests in separate motions. A final order was set to be approved during a future board meeting.
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seemingly targeted by laws affecting rural Oregon industries such as a gross receipts sales tax. When the cap-and-trade legislation hit Pihl’s radar, he and a handful of others started calling attention to it. #TimberUnity Association now includes 53,000 members from far and wide and it is moving towards for-profit
business association tax status. “If it would not have been for our group, I believe myself, this would have passed – with an emergency clause, which means effective immediately, which means no voting on it,” Pihl said. Pihl said when he first read a two-page brochure about House Bill 2020 it seemed
worth supporting. After reading the more than 90-page bill himself nearly a dozen times, however, he still could not understand what he called its vague language, but he felt it would destroy the way timber mills operate through cap-andtrade carbon credit economics. He said it would also shut down forests, taking them off
the market and making them unmanaged potential disasters. Following the bill through the legislative process, Pihl learned the ins and outs of House Bill 2020, confirming in his mind that it was detrimental for the timber industry. He quickly went from a spokesperson for #TimberUnity Association to president. While he was happy to apply himself to the position, he said it is time consuming and requires that he constantly educate himself on important subjects. His efforts earned him an audience with Democratic Gov. Kate Brown, telling her that his story of working for a living goes back to picking berries as a child, and like many he represents, he was taught to be a good steward of the land and the natural resources it provides. He highlighted the destructive industrial practices of China and warned against legislating Oregon out of its natural resources-based industries as competitors grow in strength. “We really need to pay very close attention in February to what they’re trying to pass,” Pihl said. “Otherwise we’re going to be non-competitive … we’re a proud group of people; we don’t want to give up.”
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Merkley, Wyden announce more than $7.8 million for opioid treatment programs Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced more than $7.8 million in federal grants that will support efforts to treat and prevent opioid addiction—one of Oregon’s most pressing issues as communities across the state face an increase in opioid-related deaths. “I have heard heartwrenching stories from
Oregonians who have lost loved ones after a prescription for an injury or treatment turned into an addiction,” Merkley said. “The opioid crisis will require a multipronged approach, and that’s why in addition to introducing the Opioid Treatment Surge Act—which would require the drug companies that flooded the market with improperly marketed opioid drugs to pay
for a dramatic increase in treatment—I’ve used my seat on the Senate Appropriations Committee to fight for these grant resources. This funding will support programs that are critical to helping our communities respond to this crisis and save lives.” “Oregon communities battling the opioid abuse that’s devastating families across our state can use these
resources to make real gains in substance use treatment and prevention,” Wyden said. “These federal grants complement the bipartisan opioids legislation I worked as the Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee to pass last year in response to what I heard from Oregonians in town halls, grocery store lines and ballgames. All these steps are needed urgently to
reverse the human cost of opioid abuse that surfaces far too often in Oregon homes and neighborhoods.” Every day, more than 130 people in the United States die from an opioid overdose. In 2017, the last full year of available opioid data, 1.7 million Americans experienced a substance use disorder stemming from opioid prescription drugs. According to the
National Institute on Drug Abuse, 21 to 29 percent of patients who are prescribed opioids for chronic pain misuse them. The $7.8 million U.S. Health and Human Services State Opioid Response grants will support prevention, treatment, and recovery services in Oregon, part of $1.8 billion distributed nationwide to address the opioid epidemic.
Bishop Paul Erickson 971-813-4000 Scappoose Ward Bishop Lorin Fielding 503-987-2179 Sunset Park Community Church 174 Sunset Blvd, St Helens Pastor Aaron Hiller St. Helens Church of Christ 295 S. 18th St., St. Helens Pastor Ivan Bissell 503-366-0967
58690 Ross Rd., Warren 503-397-0405 Pastor Dean Christensen Warren Baptist Church 56799 Columbia River Highway, 503-397-1005 Pastor Randy Thomas Warren Community Fellowship 56523 Columbia River Highway, 503-397-4387 Pastor Cary Wacker
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Clatskanie Baptist Church 415 South Nehalem St., 503-728-2304 Senior Pastor Kirk Bennett Clatskanie Presbyterian Church 215 South Nehalem Street Clatskanie, OR 97016 Phone: 503-728-2300 Clatskanie Presbyterian Church is a community of Christian faith that expresses a relationship with God, and the Holy Spirit for everyone individually and collectively. Clatskanie Presbyterian Church Sunday 9/15/19 Old Testament: Jeremiah 4: 11-12, 4: 22-28 New Testament: 1st Timothy 1: 12-17 Sermon title: Mercy Received Pastor: Erik Huget Adult bible study on Sunday’s at 9:15 a.m. in the Fireside Room Mayger-Downing Community Church 80071 Life Lane, 503-728-2305 Pastor John Thomas St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
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100 SW High Street 503-556-5641 Great Vow Zen Monastery 79640 Quincy-Mayger Road, Clatskanie, Oregon 97016 Sunday Morning Program 10 a.m. 503-728-0654 Faith Lutheran Church 1010 5th Street, Clatskanie, Oregon 97016. 503-728-4604 Pastor - Mary Anthony
Riverside Community Church 305 West C Street, Rainier 503-556-1216; Pastor Paul Rice Columbia Bible Church 10:30 a.m. Sunday 407 East Second St. Rainier, OR 97016 Robert Klukas 360-501-4060 Heritage Bible Church, Rainier Senior Center, 48 W 7th St., Rainier, Oregon 97048
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Alston’s Corner Assembly of God 25272 Alston Rd. 503-556-1961 Pastor Steve Berry Nativity Of The Blessed Virgin 204 C St., E Rainier 503-556-5641 Rainier Assembly of God 74950 Rock Crest St., 503-556-8211 Pastor Jeff McCraken Rainier Community Church of God 321 W C St., Rainier, 503-556-5661 Rainier United Methodist Church Corner of 1st & ‘C’ St., 503-556-3440 Pastor Michele Holloway
Ascension Evangelical Lutheran Church 1911 Columbia Blvd., 503-312-1072 Pastor Burkhardt Calvary Lutheran Church 58251 Division Rd., St. Helens 503-397-1739 Pastor: Mark Dennis Columbia River Foursquare Church 555 Commons Drive, St. Helens 503-397-0069 Senior Pastor Mike Cooke Christ Episcopal Church 35350 E. Division Rd., St. Helens 503-397-1033 Rev. Jaime Sanders
Columbia Christian Center 235 S 15th St., 503-366-8028 Pastor Terry Luttrell St. Helens Community Bible Church 35031 Millard Rd., St. Helens Pastor Max Snook www.sthelensbiblechurch.org Christian Church 185 S. 12th St., St. Helens 503-397-2151 Pastor Justin Bruner First Lutheran Church 360 Wyeth St., 503-397-0090 Interim Pastor Randy Sinn First United Methodist Church 560 Columbia Blvd., 503-397-0061 Pastor Jared Maddox Plymouth Presbyterian Church 2615 Sykes Rd., 503-397-0062 Pastor David Hutchinson St. Frederic Catholic Church 175 S. 13th St., 503-397-0148 Father Nicolaus Marandu The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 2755 Sykes Road, St. Helens St. Helens 1st Ward Bishop Kent Dery 971-225-8727 St. Helens 2nd Ward
Grace Lutheran Church 51737 Columbia River Hwy., Scappoose 503-543-6555 Joshua Wiley Scappoose Foursquare Church 33404 SW JP West, Scappoose 503-543-5069 Pastor Daniel Schmoll St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church 51555 SW Old Port Rd., Scappoose 503-543-2110 Chuck Wood Bethany Lutheran Church 34721 Church Rd., Warren 503-397-2050, Pastor Scott Grace Baptist Church
Nehalem Valley Bible Church 500 North St., 503-429-5378 Pastor Gary Taylor Vernonia Christian Church 410 North St. 503-429-6522 Pastor Sam Hough St. Mary’s Catholic Church 960 Missouri Ave., 503-429-8841 Father Dale Waddil, Father Luan Tran Cornerstone Baptist Church 70024 Goble Rd. 360-562-6201 Pastor Fred Mathews
•O bituaries • • LaRoi Leon Robertson
Aug. 22, 1933 ~ Aug. 30, 2019 LaRoi Leon Robertson passed away August 30, 2019 at The Oregon Veterans Home in The Dalles, Oregon. LaRoi (Robie) was born in Fremont, Nebraska on August 22, 1933 to John Ray Robertson and LaVon Geraldine (Larson) Robertson. Robie grew up in Grand Forks, North Dakota living with his mother, sister, aunt and cousins during the war. The family moved to Valley City, North Dakota his freshman year, where he attended Valley City High School. After graduating high school, Robie attend Valley City State Teachers College, and was a member of the VC Vikings football team that won two conference championships receiving All Conference recognition his senior year.
In 1953 Robie met Donna Marie Luker at the local theater where Donna worked at the candy counter, and they were married April 19, 1955. To help pay for college Robie joined the Army and was stationed in Germany for a portion of his service. He was also member of the North Dakota, Nevada and Oregon National Guard. Robie’s passion was teaching and coachin. He started his career in North Dakota but eventually moved his family west, living in Nevada before landing in Oregon. The first half of his Oregon teaching career was in southern Oregon at Henley, Phoenix and Lakeview High Schools. In 1980 Robie and Donna moved to Clatskanie, Oregon where Robie taught and coached
football and track until his retirement from teaching in 1993. He continued as head football coach at Clatskanie through the 2004 season. After retiring he enjoyed golfing with his longtime friends and fellow coaches. Robie always felt he was a lucky guy getting to work with kids and helping them achieve their full potential. Robie is preceded in death by his wife and son Randall. He is survived by his sister LaRae Carlson; sons James and Casey; daughter-in-law Brenda; daughter Judy; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Robie was caring husband, father and coach. He was an eternal optimist and will be missed by his family and friends.
CCSO announces round two of Hometown Heroes JULIE THOMPSON chronicle1@countrymedia.net
It’s time for round two of Hometown Heroes in Columbia County, spearheaded by the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO), who recently made the announcement on their Facebook page seeking help in identifying local residents who are currently serving in the military and who are stationed overseas. “I think it went really well last time,” CCSO Captain Tony Weaver said. “We got hundreds of pounds of donations in different food items we asked for – socks, baby wipes, books, everything from gum to jerky to candy – it was an amazing show of support from the community for our five local heroes we did this for in round one.” The hope, the CCSO said, is to surprise these
heroes, along with the rest of his or her unit, with some personalized care packages. Round two will be a bit different, however. In this round, the CCSO will also be collecting donations for our local National Guard Unit, who will have 99 soldiers deploying overseas later this year. “We wanted to try to do something for them, as well,” Weaver said. “They’re deploying in late October or early November.” Additionally, the CCSO will be doing a bit more fundraising for this round. Weaver said they weren’t quite prepared last time for the cost of shipping so many heavy boxes overseas. The sheriff’s office is also partnering with the American Heritage Girls this time. In round one, they helped package everything up for our Hometown Heroes and created handwrit-
ten notes to all the service men and women that were surprised with the packages. Weaver said sometime in the very near future, the CCSO will have a display in their lobby where donations can be dropped off. They’ll also be creating a Facebook Page specifically for Hometown Heroes that will link to the CCSO page. On that page, the community will be able to locate all the pertinent information for donating, and the various items the CCSO hopes to collect for round two. “Since the post went up on Sept. 10, we’ve already received three nominations for potential heroes,” Weaver said. If anyone knows of someone currently serving overseas, please contact Captain Weaver at tony. weaver@columbiacountyor. gov or by phone at 503366-4638.
Open burning allowed as of Wednesday The recent fall like rains in Columbia County are allowing local fire districts to terminate the burn ban in the county. Debris burning will be allowed again beginning Wednesday September 11, 2019 with a valid burning permit as decided by local fire districts. Those burning are encouraged to use caution
when burning debris piles. Any open burning must be attended by a non-impaired, responsible adult. A water source and hand tool to suppress any escaped fires should also be kept on site during any open burning. Northwest Oregon is notorious for experiencing fall rains before turning to
“Indian Summer” where dry east winds and warm days quickly dry out vegetation greatly increasing the fire danger. Should the fire danger increase again a burn ban will be reinstituted. The public is encouraged to remain vigilant for changing weather conditions and use caution when burning.
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Rainier proudly open for business as construction continues JERRY COLE Mayor, City of Rainier
The people and businesses of Rainier pride themselves as “The Spirited City on the Mighty Columbia.”
But a summer of construction that will result in a much needed and improved A Street has tried that spirit. Through the construction disruption, the locally owned businesses and residents of A Street have been good natured and stoic with the confidence of the promise of a new and improved neighborhood. But that has come at a cost. The multimillion-dollar A Street improvement project, overseen by the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), will eventually bring a new vibrancy to A Street. Getting to that point has meant noise, dust and dirt, detours, and other hardships to residents and
businesses located along the heart of historic Rainier. They have struggled to maintain access to their homes and establishments, suffered through loss of water service, had tranquil summer days pummeled by the noise and vibration of large pieces of equipment, and battled contractors who appear wholly focused on the project while seeming to not realize the discomfort and disruption that emanates from their work, disrupting the lives of the community. The elected leaders of the city and city staff have vigilantly stood in support of Rainier and its residents and businesses, forewarning of weekend construction,
detours, and other interruptions to life in our peaceful community. The city council has demanded and gotten the presence of ODOT officials at city council meetings to give first-hand updates on the project and to answer the concerns of citizens and council members. The ongoing construction and the attendant hardship have had an impact on almost everyone along A Street, but merchants and hospitality businesses and their employees have borne the brunt of the pain, with customer traffic precipitously dropping during the construction. That has meant more than lost busi-
ness revenue, it has meant decreased hours and tips for the hourly employees, the working men and women who we depend on to serve us food and beverage, help with everyday purchases, and provide professional services. The wages that pay their rent, feed their families, and shoe their children, have often been smaller than expected this summer, a time when good weather and the beauty of Rainier usually means an increase in traffic, customers and by extension, earnings. Through it all, Rainier has remained open and will continue to do so as the construction moves to the final phase, the construction of a
new street surface and new sidewalks, making A Street an even more attractive place for recreation, relaxation, and patronizing true locally owned businesses. Between that new day on A Street and today, despite the ongoing construction, as mayor of Rainier, I am encouraging everyone to come to our town, particularly A Street. Have lunch or dinner, shop our local merchants, stroll the river front, enjoy our family friendly park. Support businesses that are truly local. Meet our friendly residents. Enjoy a day in our small but vibrant town and experience firsthand “The Spirited City on the Mighty Columbia.”
Honest and tough conversations can save lives PATTI AKINS Communications Consultant for Columbia Pacific CCO
One of the top 10 causes of death for Oregonians is suicide. Oregon has more deaths each year from suicide than motor vehicle accidents. There are more than 600 deaths by suicide and more than 1,800 hospitalizations due to suicide in Oregon each year. i The friends and family members (suicide loss survivors) left behind are forced to navigate the tragedy of loss. In many cases, suicide loss survivors are left in the dark. Too often the feelings of shame and stigma prevent them from talking openly. Suicidal thoughts, much like other mental health conditions, can affect anyone regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation or background. In fact, suicide is often the result of pain from
an untreated mental health condition. Suicidal thoughts, although common, should not be considered normal and often indicate more serious issues. Crisis resources • If you or someone you know is in an emergency, call 9-1-1 immediately. • If you are in crisis or are experiencing difficult or suicidal thoughts, you can call the National Suicide hotline/ Lines for Life (Oregon) at 1-800-273-TALK (8255). • If you are uncomfortable talking on the phone, you can text 273TALK to 839863 at Lines for Life in Oregon. They also have veteran’s and teen peer support available. Know the warning signs Any person exhibiting these behaviors should get help immediately: • Threats or comments
• Climate change caused by many things There is regular reporting in the media concerning “climate change.” And that topic is typically bound to the idea that human activity is the cause. Well, that is as far as it ever goes. There is never mention of the idea that as long as the number of people on the planet increases by the current rate of a billion souls every twelve-and-a-half years, that human activity
about killing themselves, also known as suicidal ideation, can begin with seemingly harmless thoughts like “I wish I wasn’t here” but can become more overt and dangerous • Increased alcohol or drug use • Aggressive behavior • Social withdrawal from friends, family and the community • Dramatic mood swings • Talking, thinking or writing about death • Impulsive or reckless behavior • Putting their affairs in order and giving away their possessions • Saying goodbye to friends and family • Mood shifts from despair to calm • Planning, possibly by looking to buy, steal or borrow the tools they need to commit suicide, such as a gun or prescription medication
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Risk factors for suicide Research has found that about 90 percent of individuals who die by suicide are experiencing mental illness. A variety of things may put a person at risk of suicide, including: • A family history of suicide. • Substance abuse -drugs and alcohol can result in mental highs and lows that exacerbate suicidal thoughts. • Intoxication – more than one in three people who die from suicide are found to be currently under the influence. • Access to guns.
• A serious or chronic illness. • Gender – although more women than men attempt suicide, men are four times more likely to die by suicide. • A history of trauma or abuse. • Prolonged stress. • Isolation. • Age – people under age 24 or above age 65 are at a higher risk for suicide. • A recent tragedy or loss. • Agitation and sleep deprivation. Can thoughts of suicide be prevented? Mental health professionals are trained to help a person understand their feelings and can improve mental wellness and resiliency. Depending on their training, they may be able to provide additional ways to help including: • Psychotherapy, such as cognitive behavioral therapy
and dialectical behavior therapy, can help person with thoughts of suicide by recognizing unhealthy patterns of thinking and behavior, validate troubled feelings and learn coping skills. • Medication may also be used if necessary to treat underlying depression and anxiety and can lower a person’s risk of hurting themselves. Depending on the person’s mental health diagnosis, other medications may be used to alleviate symptoms. One difficult conversation can save a life Have this crucial conversation with someone you love, you can talk with passion and strength around suicide prevention. The truth is, we can all benefit from honest conversations about mental health conditions and suicide, because just one conversation can save a life.
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Green New Deal was described as an “economic stimulus package”. That it is a “disgusting”, “blatant falsehood” to claim it will end air travel and eliminate beef. Just Google ‘AOC’ and ‘green new deal’ together for a whole slew of examples of AOC’s defense of her GND ‘eliminating cow farts’ and her claim that her high speed bullet trains will ‘eliminate the need for air travel’. From NPR: “Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Releases Green New Deal Outline”: “...overhauling transportation systems
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Upcoming programs: Hunt to Home: Game Processing Saturday, September 21 2019, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m., Columbia Soil & Water Conservation District office at Millard Road in St. Helens. $40 Are you a novice or seasoned hunter looking to improve your butchering and processing skills? Class includes hands-on butchery instruction, freezer wrapping, and a pressure canning demonstration. Preregister. Call 503 397-3462. Got food preservation questions? Give us a call at 503-397-3462. You can also get your pressure gauge tested for free at the Extension office. Food Preservation recipes and fact sheets can be accessed online at: https://extension.oregonstate. edu/food/preservation
Things to think about If you like garlic, get out there and plant some late this month or in October. Find a sunny, well-drained space, lime it with about 10 pounds per 100 square feet,
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add some compost and/or fertilizer and you are ready to plant. Go to a Farmer’s Market soon (they are about to end) and buy several varieties of garlic. Get the names and label them in bags. Get home and eat some and plant the rest. Space the rows about 12” apart and the garlic about 3” apart within the row and the cloves about 2” below the soil surface. Cover with compost or some other organic matter to keep rain from crusting the soil. Sit back and wait. You may not see tops until January but rest assured that the plants are doing just fine. Weed often. Harvest in July. That’s it. Winter gardens should be covered, either with mulch or a cover crop. Both add organic matter and improve soil tilth. Cover crop roots can break up soil “plow pans”. The roots and leaves trap and hold nutrients and legumes in the mix fix nitrogen. However, cover crops grow very lushly over the winter and often are 3-4’ tall by the midspring. You may have to wait for a dry spell before you can till the cover in and start gardening. Mulches may add as much organic matter, though they can’t trap nutrients and fix nitrogen. Worms are stimulated by a mulch blanket and do great work in aerating the soil profile under the mulch. The biggest advantage to mulches is that they can be pulled back in the spring and transplants put in with a minimum of fuss. If you work your garden area at all in the fall, add some lime. A good application rate is 100-150 pounds per 1000 square feet of vegetable garden. Lime takes about six months to fully react with the soil so the benefits will be ready when you start spring gardening. Gardens only need to be limed once every three years.
It is not too late to plant a lawn, but get right on it. Most grass seed mixtures are sown at the rate of 5 pounds per 1000 square feet. Add one pound of seed for each week past September 15th to ensure a solid stand. Don’t plant after October 15th. This would also be an excellent time to fertilize your lawn. Use lawn products with a mix of slow and quick release nitrogen. Copper is a great fall fun-
nervous and the predators happy. Try to collapse mole runways that the mice use. Trap or as a last resort, carefully use poison baits (call me for information on their proper use) labeled for home gardens. What are those large holes? One day, you notice some large holes in the ground that weren’t there before. You see nothing
Clatskanie Grows gicide for fruit and berry plants. There are several trade names commonly available and the list of diseases slowed by this treatment is impressive. Apples, pears, cherries, peaches, blueberries, Marion and Boysen berries, and other species benefit. The copper should be applied before the fall rains and prior to leaf drop. Voles, also known as meadow mice, can do a lot of damage in gardens. They will gnaw and girdle young trees, eat bulbs and chew the roots of herbaceous plants. Holes about the size of a quarter indicate a problem. Keep the grass mowed around young trees to make the mice
coming out of them or going in. But it isn’t comforting. So, what might be making these holes? There are several possibilities, two more likely than the others.
Rats make holes that are 2.5 to 4 inches wide. The holes generally connect to a modest tunnel system (sometimes old mole runs are used)
Forms Clinics every Tuesday from 4 p.m. – 8 p.m. (weather permitting). Get help filling our court forms commonly used in the Columbia County courthouse. The forms are free and the clinic is free. Sign up is required and is available at the courthouse Mon. – Fri. from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. or at the Law Library Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. 270 S. First St., St. Helens. Questions: 503-3965344 or ccll@columbiacll.org or davis12000@aol.com. Wednesdays: • Rotary Club of Columbia County – St. Helens meeting is held at the Warren Country Inn at 12 p.m. For more information, call 503-397-2341. • Columbia SWCD meets the third Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m., 35285 Millard Rd., St. Helens. December’s meeting will be held at 6 p.m. • Lawyer in the Law Library is a series of talks about common legal problems.
Meeting are on the second Wednesday of each month from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. A lawyer will provide basic information and answer your questions about the topic of the evening. Columbia County Law Library, 270 S. First St., St. Helens. Call 503-396-5344 with questions. • Port of Columbia County Board of Commissioners hold meetings at 8:30 a.m. on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month at the Port of Columbia County office, 100 E St., Columbia City. Thursdays: • The Veterans breakfast is held the first Thursday of the month at 10 a.m. at the Legion Hall, 930 SE 5th St., Clatskanie. • The regular monthly Rainier Chamber of Commerce meeting is held on the second Thursday of every month at 12 p.m. at the United Methodist Church. Lunch is provided for a suggested $6 donation.
Fridays: • Veteran’s Breakfast at the Village Inn in the Banquet Room the first Friday of every month. Doors open at 7 a.m. and the meeting starts at 8 a.m. Guest speakers will discuss topics that are important to local Veterans and their families. All veterans are welcome to attend.
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The Oregon State University Extension office in Columbia County publishes a monthly newsletter on gardening and farming topics (called County Living) written/edited by yours truly. All you need to do is ask for it and it will be mailed or emailed to you. Call 503 397-3462 to be put on the list. Alternatively, you can find it on the web at http://extension. oregonstate.edu/columbia/ and click on newsletters. Many Extension publications available online Are you putting up salsa, saving seeds, or thinking about planting grapes? OSU has a large number of its publications available for free download. Just go to https:// catalog.extension.oregonstate. edu/ . Click on publications and start exploring. The Extension Service offers its programs and materials equally to all people. Contact information for the Extension office Oregon State University Extension Service – Columbia County. 505 N. Columbia River Highway. St. Helens, OR 97051. 503 397-3462 Email: chip.bubl@oregonstate.edu
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homeowners, control measures are basically the same as for rats, i.e. appropriate baits and traps with proper safety measures. Two other possibilities are rabbits and mountain beaver. Rabbits seem to be increasing and do make holes but the holes are commonly hidden in dense brush. Mountain beaver (also known as “boomers” and they are not true beavers) are only found on properties nestled next to forests.
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or end under a protective concrete slab. Rats need three things in life: food, water, and shelter. But these items don’t need to be on the same property. Since rats are active at night, you might never see them. I advise my clients to look carefully for food sources, first on your property and then to adjacent properties. Rat project success often involves good neighborhood communication. Compost piles with fruit and vegetable waste and bird feeders are often their dinner table. When food is removed, rats may leave on their own. If not, trapping or baiting are really the only options and you have to be so careful not to injure wildlife, humans, or pets. Call me for more information on how to do either or both safely. The next possibility is ground squirrels. These squirrels live in the ground though they can climb trees. But tree climbing is not generally how they find food which includes succulent vegetation, fruit, seeds, insects, carrion, and other odd things. Their populations have increased dramatically over the last 15 years. They make holes similar in size and location as rats. You may see them, if you observe stealthily, going in and out of the holes during the day. Their tunnels are more extensive that rats and have been known to undermine house supports and especially concrete blocks that hold deck posts. This is a native species (unlike the rat) and used to be common in Columbia County. But since they can affect crops, farmers (with the help of the Extension office from the 1940s to the late 60s) baited them aggressively and knocked the population back to almost nothing. For the first 15 years I was here, I rarely saw them. But they are back with a vengeance. Their main control now are coyotes. For
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CLATSKANIE PEOPLE’S UTILITY DISTRICT MEETING NOTICE The Clatskanie People’s Utility District Board of Directors has scheduled the next regular Board meeting for Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 7:00 pm in the community room of the District’s administration building located at 495 E Columbia River Highway, Clatskanie. A Board Workshop will be held at 5:30 pm. An executive session may be called at the workshop and/or meeting, pursuant to: ORS 192.660 (2) (f) information or records that are exempt by law from public inspection. AGENDA CLATSKANIE PEOPLE’S UTILITY DISTRICT BOARD WORKSHOP Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 5:30 P.M. I. RATE CHANGE SUMMARY PRESENTATION & PUBLIC HEARING: Paul Dockery Public Comment – Regarding Rate Increase Presentation/Proposal II. PERS RATE RELIEF – EMPLOYER INCENTIVE FUND: Barb Haas III.
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TRUSTEE’S NOTICE SALE (ORS 86.771) WHEREAS, on 08/18/2017, a certain Deed of Trust was executed by Nicholas Clark and Nicole A. Clark, as Grantor, in Favor of Sortis and Collier Smith Opportunity Fund I LLC, a Nevada limited liability company, as Beneficiary, and was recorded on 08/24/2017, as Document Number 2017-07776, in the Office of the Recorder of Columbia County, Oregon, which covers the real property situated in the County of Columbia and State of Oregon commonly known as 955 E. Columbia River Highway, Clatskanie, Oregon 97016 and as more particularly described as: Beginning at the Northeast corner of Lot 2, of the Subdivision of the E.G. Bryant Estate, in the Isaac Waggoner Donation Land Claim in Section 8, Township 7 North, Range 4 West, Willamette Meridian, Columbia County, Oregon; thence Westerly along the North line of said Lot 2, 179 feet to the Southeast corner of that tract of land conveyed to Loretta P. Mallory, et al by deed recorded April 29, 1966 in Book 161, Page 543, Deed Records of Columbia County, Oregon; thence South 23º05’ West, 66.07 feet; thence South 8º57’ West, 45.57 feet, more or less, to a point which is South 69º35’ East, 148.50 feet and North 20º25’ East, 114.50 feet from the true point of beginning of that tract conveyed to John R. Johnson, et ux by deed recorded August 23, 1984 in Book 253, Page 616, Deed Records of Columbia County, Oregon; thence South 69º35’ East, 210 feet, more or less, to the centerline of the Clatskanie River; thence following up said centerline Northeasterly to the East line of Lot 2, of the Subdivision of the E.G. Bryant Estate; thence North along said
East line to the point of beginning. EXCEPTING THEREFROM that portion lying Southeasterly of the West dike of the Clatskanie River. ALSO EXCEPTING THEREFROM any portion within boundaries of QuitClaim Deed recorded in Fee Number 95-04217 as conveyed to Russell L. Fry on May 17, 1995, Columbia County Deed Records. Together with an Easement for ingress, egress and parking as reserved in Fee Number 00-07607, on August 4, 2000 by John R. Johnson and Judith E. Johnson. Sortis and Collier Smith Opportunity Fund I LLC (the “Beneficiary”) appointed Lotus Law Group, LLC as the Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”), to the Trust Deed. The Trustee’s mailing address is: 5200 SW Macadam Ave., Suite 500, Portland, Oregon 97239. Grantor executed a Bargain and Sale Deed on April 13, 2019, deeding the Property to Smith Leu Family Holdings, LLC, an Oregon limited liability company, which was recorded in the Columbia County Recorder’s Office on April 18, 2019 as instrument number 2019-02692. There is a default by the Grantor or other persons owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by the successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize a sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made by Grantor’s failure to pay when due, the following sums: Final payment of all outstanding principal and accrued interest due September 30, 2018, plus unpaid taxes, insurance, interest, and penalties, if any. By reason of said default, the Beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the
obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable, said sums being the following: UNPAID PRINCIPAL BALANCE OF $200,000.00 PLUS interest thereon at 28% per annum (accruing on the basis of a 360-day year) from August 1, 2018, plus unpaid taxes with interest and penalties, if any, together with escrow advances, foreclosure costs, Trustee fees, attorney’s fees, sums required for the protection of the property, and additional sums secured by the Trust Deed. Notice is hereby given that the Beneficiary and current Trustee by reason of said default, have elected and do hereby elect to foreclose said Trust Deed by advertisement and sale pursuant to ORS 86.705 to 86.815, and to cause to be sold at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the said described property which the Grantor had, or had the power to convey, at the time of the execution by the Grantor of the Trust Deed, together with any interest Grantor or Grantor’s successors in interest acquired after the execution of the Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations secured by said Trust Deed and the expenses of the sale, including the compensation of the Trustee as provided by law, and the reasonable fees of Trustee’s attorneys. In accord with the standard of time established by ORS 187.110, the sale will be held at the hour of 11:00 a.m., on November 13, 2019 at the following place: Main Entrance of the Columbia County Courthouse, 230 Strand Street in the City of St. Helens, County of Columbia, State of Oregon. Notice is further given that any person named in ORS 86.778 has the right, at any time not later than to five
(5) days before the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Trust Deed reinstated by doing all of the following: paying the entire amount then due to the Beneficiary (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred); curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation under the Trust Deed; and paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Trust Deed, together with Trustee’s and attorney’s fees not exceeding the amounts provided in ORS 86.778. Without limiting the Trustee’s disclaimer of representations or warranties, Oregon law requires the Trustee to state in this notice that some residential property sold at a trustee’s sale may have been used in manufacturing methamphetamines, the chemical components of which are known to be toxic. Prospective purchasers of residential property should be aware of this potential danger before deciding to place a bid for this Property at trustee’s sale. In construing this notice, the singular includes the plural, the word “Grantor” includes any successor in interest to the Grantor as well as any other person owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by the Trust Deed, and the words “Trustee” and “Beneficiary” include their respective successors in interest, if any. Dated: 09/10/2019. Lotus Law Group, LLC, c/o Allison C. Bizzano, OSB No. 052014, 5200 SW Macadam Ave., Suite 500, Portland, OR 97239. Phone: 503-606-8930. Running dates: September 13, 20, 27, 2019 & October 4, 2019.
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Offbeat Oregon History: The Cape Kiwanda dory fleet of Pacific City Chief guest column by FINN J.D. JOHN
If you get up early enough in the summertime in Pacific City, you might get to watch the Cape Kiwanda dory fleet launching for a day of fishing — launching right off the beach, into the teeth of the surf. There’s no fishing fleet quite like the Cape Kiwanda dories. On a good day, there can be dozens of them. These days, it’s a pretty slick operation to watch: a tow vehicle will rapidly back into the teeth of the surf to launch the boat between the waves, then hastily retreat. Two crew members will then expertly spin the boat to get its bow pointing into the waves and head off into the teeth of the surf, angling through the incoming breakers, outboard motor roaring, headed for wherever the fish are biting. Bringing the boat back in is even more fun to watch. The boat operator gets the dory into the crest of a wave and basically surfs ashore, pulling the outboard up as the beach nears so it won’t foul in the sand. If they get it just right, the boat ends up high and almost dry, ready to be winched onto the trailer. It looks like risky, fastpaced fun for skippers who have the skill and practice to pull it off. But it wasn’t always so quick and easy. The Cape Kiwanda dory fleet is one of the oldest fishing operations in the state. It dates back to the late 1800s. The Cape Kiwanda Dory has changed a lot over the last 120 years or so. The first ones were Grand Banks dories, of the type used in the cod fishery off Newfoundland: a doubleender high in the bow and stern, wide, with lots of rocker underneath, looking a lot like a modern McKenzie River driftboat. The Grand Banks dories were designed that way for very practical reasons: with a good hand at the oars they could handle virtually any sea, and they stacked together on the deck of a fishing schooner like plastic drinking glasses. The locals soon modified the design to suit their particular needs, and they’ve been continually modifying it ever since. Many of the dories that are hitting the beach today look almost nothing like the original double-end Grand Banks dories they’re descended from.
Photo: Winslow Homer
This painting, titled “The Fog Warning,” shows a Grand Banks fisherman making his way back to the mother ship with a couple big halibuts on board, while casting a worried glance at an incoming fog bank.
Photo: Linfield College
Paul Hanneman (left) and Craig Hanneman row the Ioka Queen in the 1972 Dory Derby double-ender rowing race. The Ioka Queen was built by the Hanneman family in 1969 and was owned by Barbara Hanneman of Salem.
“No one seems to know how the present Kiwanda dory evolved,” wrote Portland Oregonian wildlife editor Don Helm in his 1968 article, “but it revolutionized the sport and made Pacific City the dory capital of the world.” Compared with a Grand Banks dory, the early Cape Kiwanda model had more freeboard and taller ends, and even more rocker. By the 1910s Pacific City dorymen had just about settled on a design that was 18 to 20 feet long, with two sets of oars rather than just one. And they needed that extra freeboard and power. Unlike the Grand Banks, the Oregon Coast is a lee shore. That means the wind blows toward it rather than away from it. So the waves are bigger, and it’s
much harder to get through the surf. One of the reasons West Africa’s “Skeleton Coast” was so deadly to shipwrecked sailors, back in the days of sail, was that it was also a lee shore, and sailors stranded on it found it impossible to launch lifeboats and rafts through its breakers. What made it possible to launch dories in Pacific City was, the headland at Cape Kiwanda juts out into the sea at an angle. In the lee of that angle, during the summer when the winds are out of the northwest, the surf is calmer. On mild summer days, it’s actually calm enough to safely launch a rowboat off the beach. (Fishermen have also sometimes launched dories out of Port Orford, where
Photo: Tyrone Marshall/Linfield College
Third-generation dorymen, brothers Mark (at the helm) and Brett Lichtenthaler, launch the Cape Kiwanda dory Moby Dick in 2012.
the headland serves a similar sheltering function.) So they would push their dories out into the surf as far as they could, wait for a breaker to rush past, scramble into the dory while it lay in the trough and race to get into position at the oars before the next one arrived. Then, they’d laboriously row through the breakers and out into the open sea, making their way to the fishing grounds; catch what they could; and then head back in. If the wind was brisk, they might hang a piece of canvas from a pair of oars and let Mother Nature do some of the work for them. Once in a while, the dorymen would arrive at the “slot” between the cape and “Haystack Rock” (Chief Kiawanda Rock) to find the surf had
kicked up while they were out, and they’d have to stay out all night waiting for it to calm down. Over the years since, the Cape Kiwanda dory continued to evolve. When outboard motors became available, dorymen started building motor wells into their boats; they didn’t use the motors at launch time, but it sure was nice not to have to row for hours to get to wherever the fish were running. Then, around 1960, somebody decided to try something different — and built a square-ended dory. It was an incongruous-looking thing, like someone had glued the front end of a dory to the back end of a utility scow. The locals looked at it and shook their heads. But
after they saw how it worked, most of them started making plans to get one like it. With a powerful outboard on that square stern, the launch was a breeze — you didn’t even need the oars. And the hull, with a big enough motor, would lift out of the water and skim like a speedboat. Whoever did this should have patented the design, because it set Pacific City’s dory fleet on its ear. From a fleet of a dozen or so old-school double-enders in the 1950s, the dory fleet exploded in the 1960s. In 1968, one out of every three new boats licensed in Oregon was a Cape Kiwanda Dory. Today, the fleet includes about 250 dories, according to the Pacific City Dorymen’s Association. The fleet’s fortunes have risen and fallen with the fishery — salmon conservation measures adopted in the 1990s hit the fleet hard, especially the commercial operators — but it’s still one of the most productive fishing operations in the state. Several charter-fishing operations also offer guided fishing trips in dories launched from the beach, and a number of members of today’s dory fleet bought a dory and joined the happy throng after taking one. But anyone who does that would be well advised to get as much help and advice as possible before trying a beach launch for the first time. The old hands make it look easy but it’s not. “There’s nothing like a greenhorn,” Capt. Dave Stiles told Chris Forrer of Linfield College in a 2011 interview. “I go down there every time I know a greenhorn’s going out. I’ve seen ‘em almost kill themselves. I had to go out and rescue ‘em.” (Sources: “The Dory Comes to Oregon,” an article by Don Helm published in the July 14, 1968, issue of the Portland Oregonian; “Launching Through the Surf: The Dory Fleet of Pacific City,” an oral-history project by Linfield College, digitalcommons. linfield.edu/dory; pcdorymen. com) Finn J.D. John teaches at Oregon State University and writes about odd tidbits of Oregon history. His book, Heroes and Rascals of Old Oregon, was recently published by Ouragan House Publishers. To contact him or suggest a topic: finn@offbeatoregon. com or 541-357-2222.
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ism Initiative, said the funds will help the initiative grow, and continue for at least another year. “I think we’ve made a lot of progress,” Daughtry said about the initiative. “We’ve got private interests as well as government entities and we’re all working to improve the tourism economy in Columbia County.” Heimuller wanted to clarify that his not seconding the motion at the earlier meeting was not a denial of funds. “It was making sure all the ‘T’s were crossed and ‘I’s were dotted before approving the request,” Heimuller said. “The Tourism Initiative is something we’ve always been supportive of.” Tardif said he was excited about the county’s support of the initiative. “I think this is a very exciting opportunity for the county to be a leader and participate in this and I look forward to the community benefitting from an opportunity like this,” Tardif said.
The next step for the initiative is to gather more funds, according to Daughtry. Their budget is a little over $80,000 a year, and they have already secured funds from Travel Oregon, the Columbia County Board of Commissioners and the City of Scappoose. They will be seeking out more funds from the City of Vernonia, the Port of Columbia County, the City of St. Helens, the City of Rainier and Columbia City. “We have to come up with the rest of the money, and that allows us to keep the committee together as well as produce some marketing materials,” Daughtry said. Daughtry said he hopes the initiative will help drive tourism in the county. “We’re really underperforming relative to other counties in the state. We’ve got all these beautiful spots and we’ve got to market them and make them more attractive and that’s what we’re working on,” Daughtry said.
front, although the exact locaThe Columbia County tion is still to be determined. Board of Commissioners Once completed, the has granted the Columbia sculpture will be 10 feet County Tourism Initiative tall, and will appear as a tall its requested $10,000. The rolling wave from a distance, request was granted at the with the sea in the eye of the Wednesday, Sept. 4 Columrolling wave, which will be bia County Board of Coman 18-inch diameter cast glass missioners meeting. disk. Inside the glass will be The initiative also rethe sailing ship to represent ceived $5,000 from the City the return of the Alaskan fishof Scappoose. ing fleet. The wave will beAt the county commiscome the river and the shore. sioners’ Aug. 28 meeting, Layered on top of the wave Alison Hart, representative will be details of the Regatta for the Columbia County as it appears over time. Tourism Initiative, original“It will be a historical ly presented on the initiatimeline, hand forged out of tive and requested $10,000 stainless steel and bronze,” to support their future Furnish said. efforts. Commissioner Alex Working on the Regatta Tardif motioned to approve monument will take more the request, but Commisthan artistic skill. Furnish sioner Henry Heimuller did plans on doing a lot of hisnot second the motion, saytorical research through the ing he needed to see more Clatsop County Historical documentation. Society. Chuck Daughtry, Execu“I’m going to be as accutive Director of the Columrate as I can with important bia County Economic Team events happening over the Photo: Jeremy Furnish (CCET), which spearheads last 100 years and lay those the Columbia County Tourout with a visual story board The concept proposal drawing for the Regatta Monument. as it travels down the river,” Furnish said. To promote his artwork ALL LONGVIEW, and to encourage more peoCLATSKANIE, & BURIAL ple in Clatskanie to support RAINIER’S ONLY INSURANCE creative work, Furnish plans INDEPENDENT & POLICIES LOCALLY OWNED to invite as many people “OFFERING OVER 125 YEARS OF COMPASSIONATE EXPERIENCE” FACILITIES as he can to the opening in ACCEPTED Astoria on Oct. 12, and the unveiling of the artwork for the maritime museum next year. “They can come see what I’ve been making and hopefully that inspires them to be MIKE NISBET PRICING & creative themselves,” Furnish ALAN NISBET said. PREARRANGEMENT Furnish said he hopes DAVID GRAVETT COMPARISON INVITED people will be inspired to RECOMMENDED BY follow their own passions as AVAILABLE 24 HOURS well. MALCOLM GROULX “I want people to know that you can do that, you can dream and you can achieve your dreams,” he said.
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For the love of the game: Memories of Clatskanie “Town Team” ball LARRY HERMO Chief guest column
Baseball originated in the early 1800s and came to be known as “America’s pastime” — a sport that millions continue to enjoy throughout the spring and into the fall. The purists will tell you that compared to other major sports, baseball has maintained the closest resemblance from its beginning to how the game is played today. The spirit to play the game had entered in the lives of young American boys since the first diamonds were carved out of pastures on rural farmland and along the sidewalks of urban streets. For players of my generation, to be the next Tris Speaker, Cy Young, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron or Willie Mays was always in the hearts of young, enthusiastic kids from coast to coast. Up until the 1940s, many wide-eyed farm boys throughout our great nation either could not find time for organized baseball or youth baseball programs did not exist. Between farm chores, the annual church picnic may have been as organized as many rural kids had to
develop their skills for the game they learned to love. Aside from that, most farms kids would find an open area on the farm and establish their special neighborhood rules of the game. City youths would find an area on the street or an open area between buildings for their special “choose ‘em up” or “work-up” games, which in turn led to the origin of “sandlot” baseball where it all started for the youngest of American’s youth. Most working families did not have money for bats, a ball, or gloves. So, broom handles or sticks often simulated a bat. A ball might be anything that could be thrown and hit. One part of the game that I cherished growing up in Clatskanie is something we called “Town Team” baseball. Family entertainment In the early 1900s, almost every small town in America had a baseball team. The city park in the summertime was a place where families gathered to watch baseball prior to the advent of television. This was pure, unadulterated baseball at its best. Contests with neighboring communities were always heated, competitive affairs.
Rivalries between neighboring town teams brought about the famous phrase “Who’s the ringer?” With pitching often the controlling factor in baseball games, many teams frequently brought in a “ringer” to pitch. The murmur around the park was: “Who’s the pitcher?” Answer: “He just moved into town this week.” Winning earned teams local bragging rights and often brought players from hundreds of miles away. And there were no age restrictions for participation. Managing the local team was generally done by someone who didn’t want his career fading into the sunset without some local claim to fame. Workers in mining towns, industrial towns, farm towns, cattle towns, and lumber towns somehow found enough time off the job to gather on Sundays and holidays to play a game or two. Most participants found very little recreational time other than the time they made for town team baseball. It also was one of the few forms of spectator sport during the spring and summer in many communities. Local fields were generally constructed to make sure the locals had a “home-field advantage.” The pitcher’s
mound would be designed to fit the number one pitcher on the local team and pitching off a level surface was also common. In the early days of town team ball and spectators would encircle the field with their vehicles and farm equipment. All accomplishments of the home team would trigger in-unison horn honking and many visiting teams headed home with ringing ears if the home team won. Play ball
Most teams did not have a major sponsor. Instead, each team had a different local business name on the back of the uniform and the local city’s name on the front. Many of the uniforms did not match as they were purchased to fill in. And without purchasing a full set of uniforms, many lettering styles and colors could be seen on the field in any given game. Washing and mending was difficult in the days of flannel uniforms, and with many of the players being laborers, washing uniforms was not part of the program. Practicing and preparing for the weekend or holiday games normally would take place a few minutes prior to
game time. To start a game, each team needed a lineup with nine players. (What’s a designated hitter?) Proficiency in a position was a major plus for a team, but that was a rarity. The umpire typically would be a friend of the local manager, a local policeman, a local pastor, or in some cases, the town drunk. Many games were delayed waiting for someone to head uptown seeking an umpire and book rules and interpretations were left to the umpire’s judgment. The cliché “We got homered” was truly applicable for most “Town Team” games. Many too-close-to-call plays would invariably favor the local boys. Passing the hat for a collection among the spectators was the umpire’s pay. And game results might determine if the umpire had a good payday or a poor one. As a participant in “Town Team” baseball in the early 1950s in Clatskanie, I saw the beginning, middle, and end of an era than many told their grandkids about. Living on a farm in Oregon during and after WWII in the late 1940s, our father took us boys to the city park to see “Town Team” ball. Serving as a batboy and chasing foul balls was a great day in our summertime Sundays. Those who participated in
the true era of “Town Team” baseball are at least 80 and most are in the 90s or older. Anyone with information, old photos, or stories to tell, please don’t let this history fade into obscurity. As seen in baseball history, we’ve tried to preserve information about the old Negro Leagues and barnstorming teams such as the bewhiskered House of David teams. We also need to make sure that “Town Team” baseball retains a vivid chapter in baseball history. About the author: Larry Hermo graduated from Clatskanie High School in 1954. He earned 12 letters in high school and six in basketball and baseball while at Linfield College in McMinnville. In the summer of 1961, Hermo joined the U.S. Army and served in Korea where he was a player/ coach on a baseball team in Seoul. Hermo, 83, played “Town Team” baseball for teams in Clatskanie and McMinnville from 1962-66, and also coached high school baseball for more for 30 seasons with stints at Yamhill-Carlton (1962-67) and Rex Putnam (1967-1991). He was inducted into the Clatskanie Sports Hall of Fame in 1990 and the Oregon High School Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame in 1998.)
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September 19 • Oregon Fallen Fire Fighters Memorial Ceremony will be held at 1 p.m. at the Oregon Pubic Safety Academy, 4190 Aumsville Highway SE, Salem, OR 97317. Protocol: Uniform (Class A or B preferred). Memorial bands should be worn over badges. For additional information please contact: Julie Olsen at (503) 378-2297. • Rainier Oregon Historical Museum will hold its annual meeting at 1 p.m. in the museum on the third floor of the City Hall.
• Columbia County Out of the Darkness community walk will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Heritage Park in Scappoose, Oregon. The walk supports the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention education and support programs. Registration is scheduled for 7:30 a.m. September 23 – November 27 • Free GED classes from 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. Monday’s and Wednesday’s at the Clatskanie High School, Room 107. You
must be at least 16 years old. College scholarship opportunities. Call 503-3382347 with questions or email vgarner@clatsopcc.edu. September 28 • Clatskanie Health & Safety Fair from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the Clatskanie Middle/High School. This is a free community event. Come by for free bike helmets, free food and ice cream, emergency simulation, health and safety information, music and fun. For more information contact clatskaniepud.com.
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