143rd YEAR, No. 50
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2015
ONE DOLLAR
Gearhart
Councilor
Duncan
dies at 67
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Soldiers let out a rebel yell during Monday’s battle.
Ready. Aim. Re-create!
Civil War
re-enactment
blasts off
Photos By
GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
A
fter a ban on battles and camp-
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Northwest Civil War Council
was able to present its annual re-enact-
ment over Labor Day Weekend.
Re-enactors provided a living histo-
ry as if it were 1861-1865.
CLOCKWISE FROM RIGHT: A Confederate
cannon fires away at the enemy in
Monday’s battle. A Union soldier takes care
of her horse following Monday’s battle.
Soldiers of all ages fought in the Civil War.
GEARHART — Gearhart City
Councilor John Duncan died early
Monday morning at his home. He
was 67.
On Labor Day, Duncan was re-
membered by shocked local resi-
dents who said
Duncan
had
attended Satur-
day’s Gearhart
Homeowners
picnic and sat
at a City Coun-
cil
meeting
earlier in the
week. He had
worked Friday
on a pet proj-
John
ect, cleaning
Duncan
and restoring
the Gearhart Ridge Path, a walking
trail favored by residents and visi-
tors.
Duncan was a professional engi-
neer and land surveyor who has lived
at least partially in Gearhart for more
than 20 years.
Last November, Duncan took
over Position 3 after claiming about
68 percent of the vote. Duncan was
formerly a member of the Gearhart
Planning Commission.
“I think that I’ve been fortunate,”
he said at the time about being elect-
ed as city councilor. “It’s kind of a
big responsibility that the voters put
on me, but I thank them and I want to
do a good job for the city.”
During recent council sessions he
provided input on a local street va-
cation request, short-term vacation
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the Ridge Path Trail.
He was an advocate for better
emergency preparedness and citizen
involvement.
“For all of our citizens, we all
have value to this community and
I think we can all do more than we
know to help our community,” he
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ing the things you are interested in
and how you can use that interest to
make the community better for all of
us.”
Duncan is survived by his wife,
Sandy.
Downtown
Sears store
changes
ownership
From hired hand
to head honcho
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Bears breaking bad in Lake Tahoe wilderness
Third problem bear from
same litter euthanized
By SCOTT SONNER
Associated Press
RENO, Nev. — Are some bears just born to be bad?
Or do they learn from other bears that raid garbage
cans, break into cars and homes and eventually have
to be killed because they’ve lost their fear of humans?
Scientists have researched this classic debate
over “nature” and “nurture” among black bears for
decades, from Yosemite National Park in the Sier-
ra to central Florida and the Adirondacks in upstate
New York.
Now, a notorious 19-year-old female bear at
Lake Tahoe with a rap sheet a mile long has become
a poster child of sorts for the kind of generational
Carl Lackey/Nevada Department of Wildlife
cycle that experts say her young will be hard pressed
to break as long as humans continue to leave gar- A female black bear known as Green 108 in the mountains
above Lake Tahoe near Stateline, Nev., has had three cubs
bage in their reach.
from the same litter euthanized after biologists say she taught
See BEARS, Page 10A them to break into homes to get food.
When Jim and Susan Montgom-
ery looked to retire from the Sears
store they had owned for more than a
decade, they looked locally.
The Mongomerys found Thea
Dyal, an employee at Sears since
2003, and her husband Rick Fried,
who took over one of downtown’s
last major retailers in August.
Fried, an information technology
specialist with the 116th Air Con-
trol Squadron at Camp Rilea, said
he was transitioning away from that
position, went over the numbers at
Sears and determined it would be
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to a customer service career also ap-
pealed to Fried, who still works at
Camp Rilea part time.
“To me, it’s kind of a progres-
sion,” said Dyal, who started at Sears
shortly after graduating from Ore-
gon State University with a degree
in Spanish, which she believes also
helps her owning the store.
Since the beginning of this year,
Jim Montgomery, 69, said he had been
reaching out and looking to leave the
store. He had been living in Vancou-
ver, Wash., when the previous owners,
Sandra and Howard Fuller, advertised
the store in The Oregonian.
See SEARS, Page 7A