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143rd YEAR, No. 42
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2015
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takes several windows at
a time from Astoria to
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restores them in
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cast from boat and from shore.
Edward Stratton
The Daily Astorian
See CAPE D, Page 10A
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ACROSS
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Street vacation
request gives Seaside
City Council pause
By KATHERINE LACAZE
EO Media Group
See GUSTAFSON, Page 10A
Sea stars rebound after wasting away
still low and, because they are
slow-growing animals, it will
likely be a decade or longer be-
CANNON BEACH — Sea fore numbers return to pre wast-
stars are making a comeback af- ing syndrome levels.
ter a mysterious wasting disease
“There’s always this desire
killed off more than 90 percent to be optimistic about it, but the
of the population.
sea stars were impacted a lot,”
In July, Haystack Rock Miner said. “It’ll be a while be-
Awareness Program staff found fore they recover.”
82 sea stars, mostly ochre and
No one is worried about the
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boulders location. Of those, only
Melissa Keyser, interim co-
one had signs of wasting and ordinator of the Haystack Rock
it was a lesion restricted to one Awareness Program, said the
area. But it will take a long time VXQÀRZHU DQG RFKUH VHD VWDUV
before the species fully recovers. are considered keystone species
Melissa Miner, a research as major intertidal predators.
associate at the University of Because of their impact on the
California, Santa Cruz, with ecosystem, if they ever died
MARINe, the Multi-Agency off, “it could be catastrophic for
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Rock Intertidal Network that Haystack Rock,” she said.
A Haystack Rock Awareness Program member
surveys sea stars along the entire
See SEA STARS, Page 5A holds a deteriorating sea star in 2014.
West Coast, said populations are
By DANI PALMER
EO Media Group
SEASIDE — A swimming pool is
already in place and owners are eager
to sell their property on Holladay Drive
in Seaside.
But before they can, members of
the Poole family seek a street vacation
from the city to rectify construction by
original owner Bob Poole.
“Dad got over the line a little bit in
a few places and we’re trying to clean
it up,” Wayne Poole said at Monday’s
meeting of the Seaside City Council.
Councilors withheld a decision, cit-
ing public utilities on the property and
the risk of setting a precedent.
“What will you do for the next per-
son who comes in here and wants a
street vacated because of an improve-
ment that was erroneously, or for what-
ever means, placed in a public right of
way?” asked City Attorney Dave Van
Thiel.
Crossing the line
On behalf of the Marianne Poole
Trust, land surveyor Dale Barrett of
Otak Inc. submitted a request in July
asking the city to vacate a portion of
21st Avenue encroached by the Poole’s
property at 2025 N. Holladay Drive.
When the property was developed,
areas crossed into the western stub of
21st Avenue. The street section under
consideration is 15 feet by 43 feet and
contains part of a swimming pool in-
stalled by the family in 1976.
See COUNCIL, Page 5A