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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2015
142nd YEAR, No. 154
ONE DOLLAR
Fishers get
a hearing
Judge extends
temporary restraining
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Seafood Group
By DERRICK DePLEDGE
The Daily Astorian
POISE,
TALENT,
BEAUTY
JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
Alexis Mather, Astoria, waves to the crowd after being crowned Miss Clatsop County 2015 after the Miss Clatsop County Scholarship
pageant at the Seaside Civic and Convention Center Saturday.
Alexis Mather and Hannah Garhofer take
top titles at Miss Clatsop County pageant
S
EASIDE — More than
500 people watched as four
local young women took
home pageant titles at the Miss
Clatsop County Scholarship
Program Saturday at the Seaside
Civic and Convention Center, ad-
vancing them to the state compe-
tition in June.
Alexis Mather, 19, of Astoria,
swept the awards in interview,
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on her way to being named Miss
Clatsop County 2015, as well
as receiving the Service Above
Self Award for Miss contestants.
She walked away with $1,525 in
scholarships. Her platform was
mentoring and she performed an
operatic vocal to “Nessun Dor-
ma” from Giacomo Puccini’s
opera “Turandot.” Mather is a
graduate of Astoria High School
and attends Clatsop Community
College. She was also Miss Clat-
sop County in 2013.
Crowned Miss North Coast
2015 was 18-year-old Han-
nah Garhofer of Seaside. Gar-
hofer’s platform is celiac disease
awareness and she performed
an energetic tap dance routine
to “Blame it on the Boogie” by
Michael Jackson. She also split
the Platform Presentation Speech
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Anderson, 20, of Seaside, who
received $575 in scholarships.
Garhofer is a senior at Seaside
High School and received $1,075
in scholarships. She was Miss
Clatsop County’s Outstanding
Teen 2013.
See PAGEANT, Page 10A
JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
Bridgette Wallace, of Portland, rushes to congratulate Hannah Garhofer, Miss North Coast
2015, left, and Alexis Mather, Miss Clatsop County 2015, right, after the Miss Clatsop County
Scholarship pageant at the Seaside Civic and Convention Center Saturday.
FINAL AWARDS 2015
Miss Clatsop County ($1,025): Alexis
Mather, Astoria
Miss North Coast ($1,025): Hannah Gar-
hofer, Seaside
Runner-up Miss Division ($525): Abi
Anderson, Seaside
Miss Clatsop County’s Outstanding
Teen ($525): Libby Olsen, Warrenton
Miss North Coast’s Outstanding Teen
($525): Hayliehe Bell, Seaside
Runner-up Teen Division ($275): Anna
Kaim, Seaside
Platform Presentation Award ($50 each
- TIE): Hannah Garhofer, Seaside, and Abi
Anderson, Seaside
Service Above Self Award (Miss) ($200):
Alexis Mather, Astoria
Service Above Self Award (Teen) ($50):
Hayliehe Bell, Seaside
Overall Miss Interview Award ($100):
Alexis Mather, Astoria
Overall Teen Interview Award ($50):
Hayliehe Bell, Seaside
Overall Miss Talent Award ($100): Alexis
Mather, Astoria
Overall Teen Talent Award ($50): Libby
Olsen, Warrenton
Overall Miss Evening Gown Award
($50): Alexis Mather, Astoria
Overall Teen Evening Gown Award ($25
each): Libby Olsen, Warrenton
Overall Miss Lifestyle & Fitness ($50):
Alexis Mather, Astoria
Overall Teen Lifestyle & Fitness ($25):
Libby Olsen, Warrenton
All Non-Finalists ($125 each): Moira Ferry,
Astoria, Kayla Worwood, Astoria, Stacey
Aho, Knappa, Jessica Knehr, Warrenton,
Tennaya Carr, Seaside, Lindsay Grant, As-
toria, Bailee Neahring, Warrenton, Emma
Graham, Astoria, Taryn Miller, Scappoose,
Audrey Colburn, Gearhart, Samantha
Wozniak, Gearhart, Nikkole Sasso, Astoria
Miss Clatsop County’s Princess: Halle
Moore, Warrenton
Miss North Coast’s Princess: Amara
Ames, Warrenton
Miss Congeniality for Miss contestants:
Hannah Garhofer, Seaside
Miss Congeniality for Teen contestants:
Samantha Wozniak, Gearhart
TOTAL: $6,450
A federal judge has extended a
temporary restraining order blocking
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acquisition of Ocean Gold Seafoods
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disclose all documents related to a
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Dennis Rankin of Rankin Fish in Asto-
ria — obtained the temporary restrain-
ing order after alleging that the purchase
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whiting and coldwater shrimp markets.
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Thursday that the purchase of Ocean
Gold was canceled and moved to
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ermen have pressed forward with the
federal antitrust challenge.
Judge Owen Panner of U.S. Dis-
trict Court in Medford on Friday
extended the temporary restraining
See TRO, Page 10A
Kitzhaber
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lady will no
longer have
policy role
By HILLARY BORRUD
EO Media Group/Pamplin Media
Group
PORTLAND — Oregon Gov.
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lady Cylvia Hayes will have no poli-
cy role in his administration moving
forward.
Kitzhaber made the announce-
ment in reaction to news reports
early this week that Hayes may have
failed to report $118,000 on her tax
returns that she received for work for
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organization.
During a press conference Fri-
day, Kitzhaber said some of the
questions raised in news reports
about Hayes’ paid work were legit-
imate. “Questions have also been
raised concerning my own roles
and responsibilities that also de-
serve a response, or a pathway to an
answer, and I will try to do that as
well,” Kitzhaber said.
However, there were still many
questions Kitzhaber did not answer.
See KITZHABER, Page 10A
AHS senior is Oregon’s top migrant student
Gema Garcia
translates at
the Migrant
Summer School
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — When Gema
Garcia’s principal at Astoria
High School, Lynn Jackson,
told her he needed help Jan.
23 with a presentation in Sea-
side, she had no clue she’d
end up the center of attention.
The 17-year-old senior at
AHS was named the Oregon
State Migrant Student of the
Year, largely for her work as a
teaching assistant and transla-
tor with the English Language
Learner/Migrant
Summer
School in Astoria.
“I didn’t even think this was
going to happen, so thank you
very much,” said Garcia, who
didn’t have anything prepared
when called on stage in front
of a packed room at the Seaside
Civic and Convention Center
for the Oregon Association for
Comprehensive Education’s
annual winter conference. The
association annually announces
the migrant student, parent and
advocate of the year.
Garcia, one of six children,
said that at age 4, she didn’t
know any English when she
and her family moved in 2001
from the Michoacán state of
Mexico to Astoria, following
her parents’ search for better
employment and living con-
ditions. “I was in a program
where they were teaching me
English for a couple of years.”
See GARCIA, Page 10A
Gema Gar-
cia, a senior
at Astoria
High School,
speaks to
the crowd
after accept-
ing the Or-
egon State
Migrant Stu-
dent of the
Year award
at the Sea-
side Civic
and Conven-
tion Center
Friday.
JOSHUA
BESSEX
The Daily
Astorian