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8A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2015 Memorial: Small towns have helped the project the most Continued from Page 1A She is seeking anyone who is related to or a friend or class- mate of the men on the list. Any- one who knows where the men went to high school would also Any photograph will work, and the higher resolution, the better, she said. To send a photograph or in- PHOTOS STILL NEEDED Clatsop County: • Ronald S. Anderson, Astoria — 1951-1972 • Alan L. Barnett, Astoria — 1947-1965 • Francis D. Campbell, Gearhart — 1934-1969 • Dan T. Klindt, Astoria — 1948-1967 • Gondon L. Zimmerle, Seaside — 1948-1970 Pacific County: • James W. Emerson, South Bend — 1944-1966 For more information on the Wall of Faces, visit www.vvmf.org/thewall. Contact Janna Hoehn at neverforgotten2014@gmail.com neverforgotten2014@gmail.com quests to numerous newspapers around the Northwest, including 60 in California, with great suc- cess, she said. Small towns have helped her the most. “I do quite well with these articles. You never know who is going to pick up the paper,” nities, the whole town gets in- it. I feel like I have friends in a lot of counties and states now.” that military records and local memorials don’t always match. The 12 names from Clatsop County are men who enlisted in the county and may not have grown up in the area. Clatsop County is their “home of re- cord” designation. Anyone who may know of a veteran who grew up in Clatsop County, but enlisted elsewhere A few of the pictures at www.vvmf.org. Across the Columbia River Vietnam casualties are listed: Thierry T. Maxim, of Ocean Park, and James W. Emerson, of South Bend. Volunteers still need a photograph of Emerson. None BPA: Project estimated LaMear: to cost up to $7 million would have taken the posi- Arline is up to the challenge.” Van Dusen, who endorsed LaMear in the election, said the one thing he would stress 202, adjacent to the project area. Rudy Salakory, aquat- ic restoration manager for the Cowlitz Tribe, said that while the partners are still in negotiation with the Or- egon Department of Trans- portation, they’re proposing to build a sheet pile struc- “And sitting up here in front is just not conducive to discussion. And so the work session process al- lows you to sit around and kind of brainstorm like we did today.” One of the early work sessions could be on the divisive question of wheth- er the city should continue to assign drunken-driving cases to Municipal Court instead of Circuit Court, like the rest of Clatsop County does. The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled last year that the city has the discretion over where to send DUII cases, but Clatsop Coun- ty District Attorney Josh Marquis and others contin- ue to believe that the cases are more properly handled by Circuit Court. LaMear described the debate as an issue of home rule, and cited the potential for higher costs on city police who would have to follow Circuit Court schedules, yet she appears open to a fresh look. “The more you get into it the more you realize home rule is really import- ant,” she said. The new mayor has received early praise for publicly inviting appli- cations for vacancies on city boards and commis- sions and for her decision to hold Meet the Mayor the project area to protect it from wind, water and waves. Jason Karnezis, BPA’s manager on the project, said ODOT had suggested the sheet pile wall after seeing potential effects of wave ac- tion after the land is flooded. Several other comments during the scoping period requested public access to the land if turned over to conservation. Karnezis said that discussion would hap- pen after the project is com- plete. “There’s been a percep- tion in the past that it was a closed process,” LaMear said of mayoral appoint- ments. “I don’t believe it was, but that’s the percep- tion.” Under the city charter, the mayor has the author- ity to make appointments to boards and commis- sions, but some councilors have suggested that the appointees should be sub- helps develop the environ- mental assessment. Understanding BPA is preparing an en- vironmental assessment following the National En- vironmental Policy Act to assess anticipated impacts and include mitigation mea- ia Rive r 30 Astoria 101 Youngs Bay You owned dams provide about 60 percent of hydroelectric pow- er in the region. The agency runs an Environment, Fish & Wildlife program to promote restoration of salmon habitat as an offset. Astoria Wetlands, LLC, an environmental resources com- pany, owns the property and would conduct the restoration work. The Cowlitz Indian Tribe would assist in imple- mentation, take possession of the property after completion and provide long-term stew- ardship to ensure permanent protection. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the per- mitting agency for levee mod- b Colum Clark Road stand the new tidal regime. Structures on the property — a house, barn and outbuild- ings — would be removed to return the upland area to its natural condition. BPA proposes to provide funding for the project, esti- mated at $5 million to $7 mil- lion by its representatives, to help meet its obligations under the Endangered Species Act to mitigate the impact of the Federal Columbia River Pow- 101 L e wis & The project restores his- toric tidal inlets and native vegetation, enhancing estuary rearing habitat for juvenile salmon and steelhead, as well as provide habitat for wildlife such as deer, elk and river ot- ter. An existing BPA trans- mission line and access road Site of flooding project L Tucker Ck . CLATSOP STATE FOREST Wallooskee River d Source: Bonneville Power Administration Alan Kenaga/EO Media Group sures that would help avoid or minimize them. During this process, BPA will work with landowners, tribes, fed- eral, state and local agencies and interest groups. During the scoping peri- od of the project last year, BPA received 19 comments, which it used to help cre- ate its draft environmental assessment. Several of the comments showed concerns over the effect of erosion Wellville: Communities will Continued from Page 1A “The idea is for the two eve- ning sessions is that they are re- ally listening sessions. (Dyson and the advisers) want to hear what the whole county thinks,” Thompson said. “We need to know what the community’s priorities are and this is a great opportunity for us to hear that.” “Way to Wellville,” spon- Initiative Coordinating Council, is aimed at communities under 100,000 in population. The oth- er four communities selected out of 42 applicants are Greater Muskegon, Mich., Lake Coun- ty, Calif., Niagara Falls, NY and Spartanburg, S.C. ordinated Care Organization — established in 2012 to coor- dinate health services for Or- Clatsop, Columbia, Tillamook and coastal Douglas counties — spearheaded Clatsop County’s application. Members of the CPCCO re- tears doing this.” Continued from Page 1A Continued from Page 1A area, through the passage of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 are listed in Wahkiakum County. “The families are so grate- IF YOU GO Seaside High School library: 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday 1901 North Holladay Drive Warrenton High School library: 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday 1700 S.E. Main Court cently helped create a 12-person Strategic Advisory Council to lead the challenge for the next a wide range of people in busi- ness, boating, social services, ed- Warrenton Mayor Mark Kujala. “We are making sure we had people from different sectors of the community,” Thompson said. “It’s a nice cross section of people.” The council will take local ideas and match them with in- terested investors. All ideas that work and fail will be shared among the participants and across the nation. communities will be judged on pacts, social concepts, sustain- ability and a local priority decid- ed by the community. The measures will be tracked by collecting data from a wide range of sources such as grocery store receipts, miles walked or the number of bicycles owned. community will be awarded $5 million. Dyson plans to visit each of Nancy Knopf, advisory council coordinator, said the two town hall meetings will give locals an overview of what the challenge means for Clatsop County, and let Dyson know what plans are in place. “The goal of their visit is to assess and get a better under- standing of what is going on lo- cally,” Knopf said. not treat critical public feed- back as negative. “People care about this town,” he said. “They care about Astoria. “And there’s many commu- nities our size or much bigger where the city council or elect- JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Former Astoria Mayor Willis Van Dusen shakes hands with Mayor Arline LaMear after LaMear’s swearing-in ceremo- ny at the City Council meeting Jan 5. ject to the advice and consent of the council. LaMear wants to develop council rules that could cov- er topics such as advice and consent on mayoral appoint- ments, decorum at council meetings, and time limits on public testimony. “I think part of it is that our mayor had been mayor for 24 years. It worked, and so why make a change?” she said. “But I work a lot better if I have some kind of structure.” Willis Van Dusen, the city’s longest-serving mayor, was LaMear’s initial choices will inevitably be cast in contrast to his approach to governing. director of the Astoria-War- renton Area Chamber of Com- merce, said Van Dusen’s suc- cessor would have “big shoes great mayor for 24 years. “And so it’s going to be a challenge for anybody who they think is correct without any response or any feedback. “That is not the case here.” Stylistically, the more re- served LaMear will preside over the City Council and tackle ceremonial responsi- bilities in a distinctly different fashion than the gregarious Van Dusen. and comes back with these quips that kind of diffuse sit- uations, which is a wonderful gift,” LaMear said. “It isn’t one I happen to have. I don’t think of these quips until two hours later. “But I think that I can get along with most people and try to listen to both sides of any confrontation.”
