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Orange on blue Historic slides coming soon COAST WEEKEND NORTH COAST • 3A THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2015 142nd YEAR, No. 157 ONE DOLLAR OPB TELLS THE STORY OF ASTORIA Gearhart Council says no to annex )HQFHPDULMXDQD ordinances OK’d By NANCY MCCARTHY 7KH'DLO\$VWRULDQ Donated by Steve Forrester of the Daily Astorian — Clatsop County Historical Society *($5+$57 ² $ SURSRVDO WR DQQH[DFUHVQRUWKRI*HDUKDUWLQWR the Gearhart city limits was turned down by the Gearhart City Council Wednesday night. The council also approved ordi- nances regulating fences and mari- MXDQDGLVSHQVDULHV$WKLUGRUGLQDQFH that regulates how many days recre- ational vehicles can be parked at a residence was tabled temporarily. The annexation was requested by Michael R. Fraser on behalf of his mother, Barbara R. Fraser. The three parcels are bounded by Del Rey Photographic print mounted on card stock. View of Astoria looking east. ca. 1890 from about Fourth and Exchange streets. Flavel House is in the foreground. See GEARHART, Page 10A Free public screening Friday $UH/1* plants doomed? By KYLE SPURR 7KH'DLO\$VWRULDQ Energy supply, need questioned F itting in the highs and lows of Astoria’s two century-old history into a half-hour doc- umentary posed a challenge for Or- egon Public Broadcasting producer Eric Cain. Cain decided last fall he was up WR WKH WHVW DQG VSHQW WKH QH[W ¿YH PRQWKVUHVHDUFKLQJWKHROGHVW86 settlement west of the Rockies. The result is OPB’s latest “Or- egon Experience” documentary, “Astoria.” It will air at 9 p.m. Mon- day on OBP TV. In advance of the premiere, the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria will host a free, public screening at 7 p.m. Friday. Cain, who wrote and produced the documentary, will an- swer questions after the screening Friday. “It’s our treatment of the Astoria story,” Cain said. “It’s an overview, granted, but we tried to stick as much stuff as we could and have a story that makes sense.” The new documentary begins By CHELSEA DAVIS 7KH:RUOG Courtesy of Clatsop County Historical Society Courtesy of Columbia River Maritime Museum A logger family. with the establishment of Astoria LQ E\ VHWWOHUV VHQW E\ 1HZ York City businessman John Jacob Astor, the namesake of the coastal town. $XWKRU 3HWHU 6WDUN ZKR SXE- lished “Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pa- FL¿F (PSLUH $ 6WRU\ RI :HDOWK $PELWLRQDQG6XUYLYDO´ODVW\HDU is interviewed in the documentary and details Astor’s failed plans for a fur trading empire. Cain said he couldn’t spent too much time on the founding of As- toria because there are not many photographs that could be used in the broadcast. Overall, Cain said he was able to collect more than 600 photographs and some video from the Clatsop County Histor- LFDO 6RFLHW\ &ROXPELD 0DULWLPH Museum and museums in Port- land, which resulted in quite a few images for a half hour show, he said. Liisa Penner, Clatsop County +LVWRULFDO 6RFLHW\ DUFKLYLVW VDLG Cain spent a great deal of time in the Heritage Museum collecting photographs and information. 3HQQHUUHFDOOV¿QGLQJVRPHUDUH John Jacob lithograph. Astor portrait photographs of a donkey engine, a steam-powered logging engine used in the mid-1800s that caught Cain’s attention. “He was in here to get photos and he got a lot on a huge variety RIVXEMHFWV´3HQQHUVDLG From the founding of Asto- ULD WKH GRFXPHQWDU\ MXPSV WR WKH WRZQ¶V¿UVWVDZPLOOEXLOWLQ which set off a logging boom. As- toria shipped logs and lumber from the lower Columbia region to mar- kets around the world. See ASTORIA, Page 10A &226 %$< ² :KLOH &RRV %D\ waits for Jordan Cove to get the green light or the ax, there’s a larger dilemma KDQJLQJRYHUWKH8QLWHG6WDWHV¶HQHUJ\ LQGXVWU\+RZZLOOWKH86VKDOHERRP LPSDFW /1* SULFHV DQG VXSSO\ RQ D global scale, and what if export termi- nals are doomed before they’re even built? 7KH 86 (QHUJ\ ,QIRUPDWLRQ $G- ministration says the nation’s shale gas plays will continue to produce enough natural gas to meet American need and SURYLGH VXI¿FLHQW VXSSO\ IRU H[SRUW through 2040 and beyond. Veresen Inc., Jordan Cove’s parent company based in Calgary, Alberta, holds the same foresight. “I get asked a lot nowadays if the low crude (oil) prices will have an impact RQRXUSURMHFW´VDLG9HUHVHQSUHVLGHQW See LNG, Page 10A The Blob: 7DVWHRIWKLQJVWRFRPHIRUPLJUDWRU\¿VK 7KLVLVWKH¿UVWRIWZRVWR- ULHV WKDW ORRN DW KRZ VFLHQ- WLVWV DUH LQWHUSUHWLQJ VWUDQJH ZHDWKHU DQG ZDWHU SDWWHUQV DQGXQXVXDODQLPDOVLJKWLQJV LQ DQG ZKDW LW FRXOG PHDQ IRU VDOPRQ ¿VKHUPHQ DQGWKHHFRQRP\ By KATIE WILSON (20HGLD*URXS Pygmy killer whales and tropical birds spotted off the coast of California; massive squid, rarely seen farther north than Oregon, cruising through water in Alaska along ZLWK VXQ¿VK DQG VNLSMDFN tuna; sea turtles washing up on the Long Beach (Wash.) Peninsula before Christmas, disoriented and too cold. The planet’s hottest year on record was also a year of strange sightings on the West Coast. Though the sightings have more to do with wind patterns and a surge of warm water moving through the area than with climate change, scien- tists say 2014 was a taste of what is likely to come as cli- mate change reshapes the Pa- FL¿F1RUWKZHVWLWVSHRSOHLWV animals, its salmon. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration %XW¿UVWWKHUHLVDEORE² “The Blob” is a giant pool of warm water that formed in the North Pacific and had a par- the Blob, actually. In hot water ticularly noticeable influence on Pacific Northwest weather last year. Out in the ocean, warmer-water species are being observed. Cold-water species like salmon are likely to be negatively impacted as this warming becomes a long-term issue. “It’s a very technical term,” MRNHG :DVKLQJWRQ 6WDWH &OL- PDWRORJLVW 1LFN %RQG ZKR Bizarre wind patterns named “the blob.” helped form this thick mass of warm water off the West Coast back in 2013. When winter hit, the blob persisted, along with its associated wind patterns, warming nearby waters, drawing warm water species to the area and even affecting the weather. Com- munities at the mouth of the &ROXPELD5LYHUHQMR\HGDKRW summer and a mild winter. Temperatures in the blob were approximately 3 degrees C warmer than normal. A re- cent study by Canadian scien- tist Frank A. Whitney, not yet published, found lower pro- ductivity of plankton in the blob’s hot waters last spring and summer. These micro- scopic plants are an important indicator of ocean health, “This is basically bad news IRU 3DFL¿F 1RUWKZHVW VDOP- on,” Bond said about the blob. “In particular, the class that would be going to sea next spring.” Right now, those salmon are MXVW OLWWOH JX\V KDQJLQJ RXW LQ their freshwater habitat. But the conditions they encounter in WKHLU¿UVWIHZPRQWKVDWVHDDUH crucial when it comes to deter- mining how many will survive and come back to be caught by ¿VKHUPHQ RU WR HVFDSH XS ID- miliar streams to spawn. See BLOB, Page 7A