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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2015
Memorial: Small towns have helped the project the most
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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
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Youngs
Bay
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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-
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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
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flooding
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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
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“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-
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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
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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.”