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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MARCH 16, 2015
Conference: One key topic focused on how the
Republican Party can stay relevant in Oregon
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the spirit of
freedom and
the will of
the American
people
to move
forward
and win.’
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that candidate. She expressed
the desire to once again make
Oregon a swing state that will
induce presidential candidates
to make campaign stops.
Discussing the issues
How the Republican Party
can stay relevant in Oregon was
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complicated topics discussed
by the group.
As of February, 37.7 percent
of Oregon voters were regis-
tered Democrats; 32.5 percent
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independent or minority par-
ties; and 29.8 percent were
registered Republicans, accord-
ing to the Oregon Secretary of
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Party hasn’t nabbed the gover-
norship since Vic Atiyeh led the
state in the 1980s.
Small groups of people were
separated around tables. Each
table generated a few ideas that
then were presented to the en-
tire group. Some of those ideas
included marketing the party as
being full-spectrum and social-
ly diverse.
A few attendees suggested
the party is out of touch with
mainstream views and some-
times isolates individuals who
don’t believe in all components
of the general party platform.
Marshall Kosloff, of Lake
Oswego, said the party needs
to more appropriately address
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gonians, such as health care
costs, tax increases and mak-
ing post-secondary education
accessible to all people. Those
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must be elevated above the
main issues targeted by the na-
tional Republican Party.
“The voters have moved
away from our core positions,”
said attendee Jim Parker. The
party must be willing to repo-
sition itself to be aligned closer
to voters’ ideals and concerns,
he said.
Other attendees suggested
it’s not Republican ideologies
that have strayed from popular
opinion but rather how they’re
— Rep. Greg
Walden, R-Ore.,
2nd District
KATHERINE LACAZE — EO Media Group
Attendees line up at a microphone to share their thoughts with the entire group of attendees at the 51st annual Dorches-
ter Conference in Seaside, held Friday through Sunday. Throughout the conference, the group discussed how to keep
the Republican Party relevant, economic sanctions, government interference in public transportation and terrorism
and counterterrorism.
communicated to the general
public or the candidates select-
ed to represent the party. Rather
than shifting to the center, they
said, the center must be shifted
to the right.
Kathy Lamberg, of Lane
County, and several others said
the Republican Party must work
harder to show it is genuinely
concerned with the welfare of
constituents. Lamberg, who ran
for state representative of the
14th district last year, said that
can be accomplished by “bring-
ing a personal relationship to
people” and expressing “the
idea that we really care.”
Other suggestions included:
• Expanding the party’s so-
cial media presence;
• Marketing the party in a
more appealing way and with
better commercials;
• Communicating how the
Oregon Republican party is dif-
ferent from the national party
and George W. Bush’s regime;
• Reaching out to new vot-
ers as soon as they register;
• Broadening the party’s po-
KATHERINE LACAZE — EO Media Group
Attendees at the 51st annual Dorchester Conference in
Seaside discuss how the Republican Party can stay rele-
vant in Oregon, one of the four issue discussions featured
at the conference. About 300 people, primarily from the
Republican Party, attended the conference, this weekend.
sitions and policies; and
• Behaving more like Dem-
ocrats, by being less rude and
unpleasant.
Saturday also featured a
debate on the issue of Uber,
taxis and town cars as forms
of transportation and what ac-
tions a government should take
to ensure the public is safe and
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companies try to circumvent
the rules.
Terrorism and counterter-
rorism was the topic for Sun-
day’s issue discussion and the
debate focused on the utility of
economic sanctions.
After the debate, attendees
voted on a resolution posing the
question: Was President Barack
Obama premature in lifting the
Boatyard: ‘Having a boatyard adjacent
to a log yard isn’t working too well’
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that could maintain the boat-
yard’s operations,” Knight said,
adding that he’ll be meeting,
hopefully today, with represen-
tatives from DEQ, Division of
State Lands, Business Oregon
and the Oregon Department of
Transportation.
If DEQ assures him the boat-
yard can operate, with illicit dis-
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Knight said, that would change
the Port’s direction.
A DEQ representative has
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would come from not installing
a treatment system by June 30,
2016, as mandated in August. In
late December, the Port submit-
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ted a treatment plan for a bio-
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edge of Pier 3, on land leased to back to the Port of Astoria’s Pier 3 boatyard. Kurt Englund has said the close proximity
the Port by DSL. A spokeswom- of the boatyard to his store is one of its advantages.
an from the DSL said it has had
no communication from the Port
about siting a treatment center
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there.
The Port of Astoria
Not following the plan
The Port’s 2001 and 2010
master plans both envisioned
a marine-industrial cluster, in-
cluding a 300-ton boat haul-out
and indoor working space. The
concept helped draw compa-
nies like Englund Marine &
Industrial Supply and Bornstein
Seafoods to the Port’s central
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Marine Works literally moved
its 10,000-square foot mechan-
ics workshop to a new plot of
leased land near the boatyard.
Pier 3 was used as collateral
on a $10.5 million loan to relo-
cate Bornstein Seafoods onto
Port property, the stipulation
being that the Port would fol-
low its master plan. The plan
was amended in 2010 to include
the potential for log exports on
piers 1 and 3, to accommodate
Westerlund Log Handlers. The
state accepted the amendment in
exchange for 10 percent of the
gross revenues from logs being
put into the infrastructure of Pier
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The 88-ton Travelift haul-out machine transports a 27-foot
sloop into one of 40 work spaces at the Pier 3 boatyard. The
machine was purchased by the Port of Astoria in August 2004.
3 to make it a deep-draft ship-
ping port, partially to take pres-
sure off surrounding tenants.
In April, Astoria Forest Prod-
uct took over for Westerlund,
immersed in litigation with Chi-
na National Building Materials,
and placed a debarker on Pier 3
last summer. In August, its yard
manager, Dave Daggett, said the
company would need the entire
pier, and that it was in the Port’s
plans to move the boatyard.
The Port has allowed AFP to
Commission meets at
6 p.m. Tuesday. Discus-
sion includes the Pier
3 boatyard, the Port’s
financial statements,
sea lions at the East
End Mooring Basin
and a public relations
campaign. The meet-
ing takes place in the
Port’s old offices at 422
Gateway Ave.
crowded,” he said of the current
arrangement. “Having a boat-
yard adjacent to a log yard isn’t
use the boatyard as a one-way working too well.”
lane for trucks coming and going
And the issues won’t abate
from Pier 3. Tenants have com- any time soon. The Port’s seen
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making it hard to paint boats. ships since early February, when
Before assigning Columbia Pa- the Bunun Fortune spent two
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the Port to Englund Marine late of labor-shipper disputes on the
last year, co-owner Bob Zakrze- West Coast. The Zambesi left
wski said his kind of work with the Port over the weekend; the
engines wasn’t compatible with Maren Bulker’s pulled in to be
all the debris coming from logs. loaded; and Knight said another
Knight seems to agree.
vessel is already scheduled for
“I just don’t like it; it’s far too March 22.
economic sanctions against
Cuba and should the policy be
reversed and the sanctions re-
imposed to try to bring regime
change for the good of the Cu-
ban people? A majority of con-
ference attendees voted “no,”
although a few spoke against
the way in which the sanctions
were lifted and felt the U.S.
didn’t get any concessions in
the process.
On Saturday afternoon, the
group broke into subgroups to
discuss immigration reform,
the police state and, again, ter-
rorism and counterterrorism.
Making a change
next year
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden,
R-Ore., gave the keynote
speech expressing disappoint-
ment in the current federal
administration and touting the
importance of the 2016 election
for the Republican Party.
Many leading Democrats,
Walden said, including Obama
and former U.S. Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton, are lack-
ing in transparency, violating
the law and U.S. Constitution,
isolating allies and cozying up
to countries that pose a threat
to U.S. interests. He also ex-
pressed distaste for former
Speaker of the House Nancy
Pelosi, saying he and Rep.
Pete Sessions, R-Texas, had
made it a mutual goal to “get
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Walden spoke about what
he believes are some recent
Republican victories, such as
electing the country’s young-
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ida’s 26th Congressional Dis-
trict with Carlos Curbelo; and
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lican woman in Congress, Rep.
Mia Love, of Utah.
“As we get ready for 2016,”
Walden said, “you got to real-
ize (the Democrats) may have
the elites and they may have
the liberal press and all the
bureaucracy in Washington on
their side, and they’ll use every
lever — this administration is
all about Chicago-style pol-
itics — but we have the spirit
of freedom and the will of the
American people to move
forward and win. We have to
prevail. ... You know what the
consequences are if we don’t.
Can you imagine a third term
of Barack Obama headed up by
Hillary Clinton? That is what
we will get, and it’s not what
we can afford.”
Counselor: ‘One of the
biggest needs ... in the
district is comprehensive
mental health services’
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“When you have a critical
mass of 750 kids, and many
receiving services, it makes
sense to make it convenient,”
WGS Principal Tom Rogoz-
inski said.
Anderson covers Asto-
ria, where one of her chil-
dren and many of her CBH
clients already attended. A
fellow CBH counselor Me-
gan Stallter splits her week
between WGS, Knappa and
eventually Jewell. Seaside
will soon start a similar ser-
vice through CBH.
After the Astoria School
District voted 3-2 to not
research the concept of a
school-based health center
in May 2013, it created a
health and wellness goal to
investigate the issues facing
students.
“One of the biggest needs
we’ve had in the district
is comprehensive mental
health services,” Astoria Su-
perintendent Craig Hoppes
said. He added that super-
intendents talk about it at
a countywide level in their
meetings. “It’s a big prob-
lem, especially in rural ar-
eas.”
The only costs to the
districts is the space they
provide for the counseling.
Although people invariably
see who is coming out of
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privacy screens on the win-
dows, doesn’t keep patients
waiting outside and instead
has them called from class.
Anderson said she didn’t
think the effect of coun-
seling in the school would
be so substantial, but even
Greater Oregon Behavioral
Healthcare, which recently
provided a yearlong grant to
fund a mental health coun-
selor at Warrenton High
School, has taken notice of
the initiative.
“There’s no research on
it yet,” said Anderson. “This
could be huge for me. This
might be great research ma-
terial for my doctorate.”
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