Knappa, Astoria
take home wins
A spring break
of the mind
SPORTS • 7A
COAST WEEKEND
THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2015
142nd YEAR, No. 187
ONE DOLLAR
It’s all
in the
data
Advocates use
mapping to save
Newport Coast
Guard helicopter
By DERRICK DePLEDGE
The Daily Astorian
JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
Clatsop Community College’s Small Business Development Center, headed by Kevin Leahy, won the Small Business Development Center
Excellence and Innovation Award from the Small Business Association.
‘We’re really all one here’
Partnerships, innovation, service lauded at business awards
represented by Superintendent
Craig Hoppes; the city of Asto-
ria, represented by Mayor Arline
EASIDE — Economic devel- LaMear; and Recology Western
opment is about more than Oregon, represented by Communi-
individual companies, Clat- ty Liaison Debbie Hamel.
sop Community College President
The four entities all partnered
Lawrence Galizio said Wednesday and gained in an effort to develop
night.
the Astoria Sports Complex, the
“It’s about communities work- new 1,300-seat, multiuse sports
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dard of living,” he said, speaking the hospital’s $7.5 million invest-
to a crowd of businesspeople, local ment.
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In exchange, CMH received
others gathered for Clatsop Eco- Warren Field to eventually devel-
nomic Development Resources’ op; the school district got a new
annual business awards reception arena; the city found a suitable way
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tion Center.
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Leahy, the leader of CEDR and got utilities extended to its transfer
CCC’s Small Business Develop- station next to the sports complex.
ment Center. The SBDC recently
“I’m a Warrenton graduate, so I
won the Small Business Associ- never thought I would be building
ation’s Small Business Develop- DIRRWEDOO¿HOGIRU$VWRULD´7KRUV-
ment Center Excellence and Inno- en said, adding the partnership will
vation Award, naming it the best allow CMH, the second largest
center out of 19 in the state and employer in the county, to expand
eligible for a national award.
even more and provide new ser-
“What happens in Arch Cape vices and partnerships with Oregon
impacts Westport (Wash.),” Leahy Health & Science University.
said about the interconnectedness
Business awards
of the coast. “And you look at the
CEDR lauded six businesses for
winners here, we’re really all one
their accomplishments and service
here.”
to the community, including:
Community Partnership
• Warrenton Fiber-Nygaard
A new honor this year was the Logging for Economic Impact:
Community Partnership Award, The fourth-generation, fami-
which went to Columbia Memo- ly-owned company was started in
rial Hospital, represented by Eric
See AWARDS, Page 10A
Thorsen; Astoria School District,
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
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Photo courtesy of Scott Holmstedt
Partners in the Astoria Sports Complex, including Columbia Memorial
Hospital, Astoria School District, the city of Astoria and Recology West-
ern Oregon, each received a Community Partnership Award Wednes-
day from Clatsop Economic Development Resources at the Seaside
Civic and Convention Center.
Warrenton Fiber
Co. founder Martin
Nygaard describes
some of its opera-
tions at the Tansy
Point location in
Warrenton they have
leased since 1986.
The company, linked
with Nygaard Log-
ging, is one of the
largest employers in
Clatsop County, with
more than 140 em-
ployees, and received
the CEDR Econom-
ic Impact Award
Wednesday.
The Surfrider Foundation has
turned to data mapping in the quest
to help save a U.S. Coast Guard
search and rescue helicopter in New-
port.
A cartographer working with the
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mental group used seven years of in-
cident response data from the Coast
Guard to demonstrate the value of
a rescue helicopter in Newport to
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boaters and surfers on the central Or-
egon Coast.
Last year, the Coast Guard want-
ed to withdraw a MH-65 Dolphin
helicopter from Newport because of
budget constraints. Search and res-
cue operations would have been han-
dled by crews at Air Station North
See DATA, Page 10A
There is
an app
for this
Wellville app
offers way to cut
calories, donate to
local food bank
By The Daily Astorian
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prove health, is offering a free phone
app, called foodtweeks, to Clatsop
County residents.
The free app helps the user learn
how to trim calories and improve
nutrition. It also offers a chance to
donate healthy food to the Clatsop
Community Action Regional Food
Bank.
The app helps raise awareness of
the calories eaten every day and how
to donate extra food to feed hungry
in Clatsop County, according to the
Daily Astorian file
See WELLVILLE, Page 10A
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Kate Brown became governor
Feb. 18. A page was added to the new
edition noting her assumption of the
SALEM — Eight elementary and governorship and her appointment of
middle-school students from across Jeanne Atkins to succeed her as sec-
Oregon were recognized for their es- retary of state.
says about the state in the newest edi-
One new feature in this edition
tion of the Oregon Blue Book, which is an essay contest that Brown, then
was released Tuesday. Third-grader secretary of state, patterned after
Jaxon Dietrichs from MaryAnn Han- student writing and artwork samples
sen’s class at Hilda Lahti Elementary featured in a photo exhibit about rural
in Knappa was a runner-up in the es- schools more than a century ago.
say contest and is featured in the book.
Elementary school students were
7KH VWDWH¶V RI¿FLDO GLUHFWRU\ DQG asked to write about why they like
XQRI¿FLDO DOPDQDF KDV EHHQ SXE- to live in Oregon. Middle school stu-
lished every other year since its debut dents were asked to write about their
in 1911. The cost is $18, and can be favorite place in Oregon and why.
obtained online from the Secretary
The winning essays and three run-
RI6WDWH¶VRI¿FHRULQVHOHFWHGERRN- ners-up were reproduced in the Blue
stores.
Book. Two are illustrated by draw-
Peter Wong/Pamplin Media Group
An electronic version also is ings.
Jaxon Dietrichs, a third-grader at Knappa’s Hilda Lahti Elementary School,
maintained by the Archives Division
See BLUE BOOK, Page 10A wrote an essay featured in this year’s Oregon Blue Book.
of the secretary of state.
By PETER WONG
Capital Bureau