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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2015
142nd YEAR, No. 161
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By DERRICK DePLEDGE
The Daily Astorian
WARRENTON — Warning of a
potentially substantial disruption, the
state Department of Fish and Wild-
life has recommended that Oregon
LNG perform a thorough analysis of
the impact of its proposed terminal
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ing in the Columbia River.
The department, in comments
on the project in January to the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, found
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terminal on 96 acres along the Ski-
panon Peninsula.
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access to the Skipanon Marina, pop-
ular recreational chinook and coho
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Skipanon River known as Buoy 10
and recreational crabbing in the es-
tuary near the proposed terminal’s
berthing dock and outside the mouth
of Youngs Bay.
The department suggests that Or-
egon LNG “avoid unreasonably in-
terfering, now or in the future, with
recreational angling, commercial
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the Columbia River or any of the
other waterways associated with the
project.”
The department recommended
that Oregon LNG complete a thor-
ough analysis of the potential impact
of the terminal, including how safe-
ty and security zones around LNG
tankers might hinder access. Oregon
SEASIDE HITS THE DANCE FLOOR
Seaside Jazz
Festival
can’t be
beat
BY ANDREW TONRY
For EO Media Group
Those
attending
the Seaside
Jazz Festi-
val in 2014
dressed up in
their jazziest
outfits and
danced the
days — and
nights —
away.
S
EASIDE — The Seaside
Jazz Festival is becoming
one of the longer-running
events in the city’s history.
Originally dubbed the Oregon
Dixieland Jubilee, it’s 32 years
old and draws nearly 2,000 at-
tendees each February.
Most of those — about 98
percent — are from outside the
North Coast, and at least 80 per-
cent are repeat customers, say
the festival’s coordinators, Ruth
Johnson and Judy Shook.
“There’s quite a friendly
group that just meet up at jazz
festivals and share what’s hap-
IF YOU GO
WHAT: Seaside Jazz Festival
WHEN: Feb. 19 through 22
WHERE: Seaside Civic and
Convention Center, Shilo Inn
Oceanfront, Elks Lodge
(shuttle bus provided)
COST: $10 to $95
FOR INFO: 866-345-6257;
www.jazzseaside.com
Photos by
NANCY
McCARTHY
The Daily
Astorian
pened to them in the last year,”
Johnson said.
A sense of return and reunion
permeates performers this year
as well. Of the 12 groups sched-
uled for this year’s festival Feb.
19 through 22, 11 have played the
festival in years past.
The lone newcomer to the
Seaside Jazz Festival is Port-
land’s Mardi Gras All-Star Band,
which is also the only act from
the region (with the exception
of the Seaside High School jazz
band).
Led by drummer and vocal-
ist Gary Smith, the Mardi Gras
All-Stars play traditional Dix-
ieland jazz. Another scheduled
group, High Sierra, performs
a similar brand.
“They’re
traditional
jazz,” said Johnson of High
Sierra. “They play a lot of
the Dixieland-style music,
and they’re very good at
it. Most of the traditional
bands have seven mem-
bers. They have piano,
banjo, tuba, a reed-
man, trumpet, trom-
bone and drums.”
Early jazz
So, too, are acts at the Seaside
Jazz Festival whose inspiration
comes from outside the traditional
sphere of early jazz (although only
by a few decades — nothing here
is sourced from the 21st century).
“Tom Ridney does some blues,”
said Johnson. “His band will also
play a waltz. He does Cajun,
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There’s guitar, bass and a piano
player — and she’s a boogie-woo-
gie champion on the piano.”
Johnson highlighted Dave Ben-
nett and the Memphis Speed Kings
as another group performing out-
side the purview of traditional jazz.
“Dave Bennett is just an awe-
some young man,” Johnson said.
“I’ve seen him playing in jazz
bands since he was about 13 years
old. He played the clarinet.”
“But he not only plays the clar-
inet,” added Johnson. “He rein-
vented himself as an old-time fan
of Jerry Lee Lewis. So when he’s
playing with the Memphis Speed
Kings, they do Jerry Lee Lewis,
See JAZZ, Page 9A
Dave Ben-
nett, of Dave
Bennett and
the Memphis
Boys, played
a rollicking
piano during
the Seaside
Jazz Festival
in 2014. He will
be back again
at this year’s
festival Feb. 19
through 22.
LNG, the department maintains,
“should then identify the steps and
actions that will be taken to account
for the loss of these recreational and
commercial opportunities.”
Oregon LNG did not respond to
telephone and email messages seek-
ing comment on the state’s concerns
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A place
to call
home
Jewish community
meets to plan new
congregation
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
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half century, the Jewish community
in the lower Columbia region is mak-
ing plans for a new congregation.
A permanent location has not
been decided, but the congregation
has a name, Beit Salmon Congre-
gation, and plans for upcoming
holidays, including Passover in
April.
Its mission
is to enhance
the
cultural,
educational and
spiritual life of
its participants
and to foster a
vibrant, diverse
and intergen-
erational co-
hesive Jewish
Ann Goldeen
community.
Beit Salmon is a play on words to
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the region, but also Jewish heritage
with “Beit,” which means house in
Hebrew.
Beit Salmon President Ann Gol-
deen said there used to be a syna-
gogue in Astoria in the early 1960s,
but it disappeared and nothing took
its place.
See BEIT SALMON, Page 9A
coast
weekend
THURSDAY
Festival of Dark Arts
Criminal inquiry may supersede ethics probe
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
SALEM — The Oregon Ethics
Commission will likely have to place
its investigation of ethics complaints
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lady Cylvia Hayes on hold, now that
Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum
launched a criminal investigation of
the couple’s activities .
Ron Bersin, executive director of
the commission, said Tuesday that
state law calls for the commission
to halt its civil inquiry if prosecutors
launch a criminal investigation.
“If there is a criminal investigation,
statute requires that we suspend our
inquiry,” Bersin said.
Kristina Edmunson, a spokeswom-
an for Rosenblum, said the investiga-
tion opened by the attorney general
Friday is criminal in nature.
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That means details of the overlap
between Hayes’ paid contracts and
her unpaid work as a state energy and
economic development adviser could
remain under wraps for a longer pe-
riod.
The ethics commission was expect-
ed to decide at a March 13 meeting
whether to proceed with a full-blown
investigation of Kitzhaber and Hayes.
At that point, ethics investigators’ re-
ports and other records would become
public, regardless of whether commis-
sioners decided to pursue the investi-
gation.
AP Photo/Don Ryan, file
See INQUIRY, Page 9A
Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber makes a statement before his gubernatorial
debate with Republican challenger Dennis Richardson in Portland, Oct. 10.