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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2015
Citizen Police Academy
applications online now
The Astoria Police De-
partment is hosting the eighth
Citizen Police Academy,
starting in June. Classes will
be held from 6 to 9 p.m. every
Wednesday, beginning June
24 and ending July 15. The
Citizen Police Academy is
open to community members
who are interested in how the
Astoria Police Department
works.
The goal of the Citizen
Police Academy is to form
and maintain partnerships be-
tween the community and the
police, by educating commu-
nity residents about the role of
law enforcement and encour-
aging citizens and the police
to work together.
Participants have the op-
portunity to learn about and
experience the day-to-day
operations of the department,
and they will tour the depart-
ment, learn about criminal
investigations, the functions
of patrol, see basic defensive
tactics, tour the jail and have
the option to shoot various de-
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cants, who must be age 18 or
older, are subject to a criminal
background investigation.
An application packed can
be downloaded from http://
bit.ly/CPAApp, or by email-
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arandall@astoria.or.us
Applications need to be
turned into the Astoria Police
Department no later than 5
p.m. May 25.
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opportunities in the Columbia
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ously instead of being divid-
ed between an early and late
season.
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portunity in the Columbia
River area, where the catch
has been below the quota in
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board their boats in the near-
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every two years through the
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Seaside moves closer to allowing
medical marijuana dispensaries
By KATHERINE
LACAZE
EO Media Group
SEASIDE — The city
of Seaside is moving
ahead with its planning
for where, how and when
medical marijuana dispen-
saries will be able to oper-
ate within city limits and
the Urban Growth Bound-
ary.
The Seaside City Coun-
cil and Seaside Planning
Commission met Monday
night for a joint work ses-
sion on the topic.
The Planning Commis-
sion, which received public
input at its March 3 meet-
ing, is not recommending
to add any zoning restric-
tions to those placed by the
Oregon Health Authority’s
Medical Marijuana Dis-
pensary Program, which
state a dispensary must be
more than 1,000 feet from
a school and from another
dispensary. Seaside’s Zon-
ing Ordinance allows drug
stores as a permissible
use in a commercial zone,
which is where dispensa-
ries could be operated.
“We felt it would be un-
reasonably burdensome”
to add more restrictions or
regulations than those pro-
vided by the state, Plan-
ning Commission Chair-
man Ray Romine said,
adding they felt “no desire
or great need for other re-
strictions.” The commis-
sion reached a consensus,
he said, that, in all fair-
ness, the city should treat
dispensaries like pharma-
cies in regard to zoning.
Given the existing restric-
tions, there are only about
four places a dispensary
could operate.
Mayor Don Larson did
not agree. He feels other
restrictions should be con-
sidered.
“Otherwise I think this
could get totally, totally
out of line,” he said. He
suggested adding restric-
tions to a dispensary’s dis-
tance from a park or day
care center and its hours of
operation.
City Manager Mark
Winstanley said the city’s
parks are not in commer-
cial zones. He cautioned
that, if more restrictions
are placed, they could
work in reverse: Someone
wanting to operate a day
care, for instance, could
not do so within 800 or
900 feet of an existing dis-
Thursday is sneak peek for ‘The
Real Lewis and Clark Story’
There is a free sneak peek
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of “The Real Lewis and Clark
Story or How Finns Discovered
Astoria” Thursday at the Astor
Street Opry Company, 129 W.
Bond St. The doors open at
6:30 p.m., and show time at is
at 7 p.m. There are no reserva-
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Saloon will be open.
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Friday, and runs Friday and
Saturday nights, plus two Sun-
day matinées, through April
19. Tickets can be purchased at
the door one hour before each
show time, but reservations are
recommended by calling 503-
325-6104 or going to www.as-
torstreetoprycompany.com
Public health open house April 7
A public health open house
event will be held from 2 p.m. to
5 p.m. April 7 at the Judge Guy
Boyington Building in Astoria for
residents to learn more about local
health programs.
Oregon Public Health Director
Lillian Shirley will attend the event
along with Clatsop County Public
Health staff. In addition, more than
a dozen services and programs
covering disease control, nutrition,
environmental health and other ar-
eas will be in attendance.
Stakeholders from hospitals
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cation and social service agencies
and others have also been invited
to participate in the event.
The list of topics and schedule
of presentations are as follows
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2:15 p.m. — Status of public
health in Clatsop County
2:30 p.m. — Onsite septic sys-
tems and environmental health
2:45 p.m. — Health promo-
tion and tobacco prevention pro-
grams
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3 p.m. — Americorps/Vista
and Worksite Wellness
3:15 p.m. — Maternal case man-
agement, Babies First and CaCoon
3:30 p.m. — Women, Infants
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gram
3:45 p.m. — Food, pool and
lodging inspections
4 p.m. — Immunizations
4:15 p.m. — Family planning
4:30 p.m. — Communicable
disease
The public will have an oppor-
tunity to ask questions.
pensary, which would limit
the community’s access to
day care.
City staff will develop
a draft ordinance and revi-
sion to the business license
ordinance to bring before
City Council at its April 13
meeting. The traditional
time line, Winstanley said,
would be for a first and
second reading to occur
at that meeting and then
a third reading and adop-
tion to occur at the second
April meeting.
The city is not address-
ing recreational marijuana
until the Oregon Liquor
Control Commission, the
state agency selected to
implement the recreational
marijuana law passed by
voters in November, has
announced its proposed re-
strictions and regulations.
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A Big Thank You to all the businesses who
donated to the Seaside Heights Elementary
School Bingo Night Fund Raiser. We raised
over $3800 for extra-curricular programs for
our kids. Thank you for all of your support…
The Wayfarer Restaurant
Nike Golf
Bruce’s Candy Kitchen
Crabby Oyster
Ocean Lodge
Purple Moon
Linda Newell
Seaside Subway
Patrick A. Clyde Construction
Tate’s Window Service
Selah Custom Signs
Cannon Beach Cookie co.
Tsunami Sandwich
Sam’s Seaside Cafe
Pizza Harbor
Sunset Empire
Beach Books
Sea Soles
Sheer Pleasures
Joy Massage
Under The Big Top Toys
Maggie and Henry
Cannon Beach Books
Fultanos Pizza
Bistro Restaurant
Britney Drumheller
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Portland Fudge Co.
The Driftwood Restaurant
Bagels by The Sea
T hank Y ou!
If we have missed your name, we are truly sorry. Each and every one of you
is appreciated. Thank you again one and all for your continued support!