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Warriors wow Willamina Testing the tablet SPORTS • 4A PAGE 7A 142nd YEAR, No. 199 MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2015 ONE DOLLAR Suspect From Congress to Cannon Beach ID’d in assault St. Helens man still at large after manhunt By KYLE SPURR The Daily Astorian ERICK BENGEL — EO Media Group Astoria Police are searching for Anthony Victor Lane, 30, St. Helens, in connection with the assault at gun- SRLQWDQGUREEHU\)ULGD\PRUQLQJRQ the 300 block of Alameda Av- enue. Lane was LGHQWL¿HG DV D suspect after many sources of informa- tion developed during the in- vestigation )ULGD\ SROLFH Anthony said. Victor Lane “We have been continu- ing to pursue it throughout the day,” Astoria Police Chief Brad Johnston VDLG)ULGD\³:HWDONHGZLWKGR]HQV of people.” U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., left, and Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., take turns responding to audience questions at the joint town hall forum, held Friday morning at the Cannon Beach Community Hall. See SUSPECT, Page 10A 6HQ0HUNOH\5HS%RQDPLFLOLVWHQWRORFDOVDW)ULGD\WRZQKDOO By ERICK BENGEL EO Media Group C ANNON BEACH — The social and political issues that matter most to North Coast citizens came before two of Oregon’s prominent political ¿JXUHV )ULGD\ PRUQLQJ ZKHQ U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., held a joint town hall meet- ing at the Cannon Beach Commu- nity Hall. “This is the part of the job we really enjoy — getting up here, WDONLQJ WR RXU FRQVWLWXHQWV ¿QG- ing out what’s on their minds,” Bonamici said. The discussion made for a packed hour and touched on fa- miliar local topics: from LNG to funding the Land and Water &RQVHUYDWLRQ )XQG IURP JHWWLQJ federal recognition for the Clat- sop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes ERICK BENGEL — EO Media Group to establishing a charter school in Astorian Josie Peper asks whether the Lower Columbia River Estuary could qualify for federal protection Cannon Beach. LNG The controversial Oregon LNG project, involving the company’s plan to construct a terminal and pipeline for exporting the fossil fuel on the Skipanon Peninsula, became an urgent theme among the audience members. By allowing Oregon LNG — which is controlled by a U.S. con- glomerate headquartered in New York — to create a facility near the mouth of the Columbia River, “we would be throwing away this beau- as a National Scenic Area, like the Columbia River Gorge. The question came during a town hall meeting with Sen. Jeff Merkley and Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, held Friday at the Cannon Beach Community Hall. tiful place that we have for the gain of someone else, somewhere else,” said Roger Rocka, of Astoria. Given that many scientists ex- pect a massive Cascadia Subduc- tion Zone earthquake to occur at an unknown future date — which may FDXVHDWVXQDPLWRÀRRGWKH3DFL¿F Northwest coastline — LNG termi- nals “just don’t belong in this haz- ardous area,” Jan Mitchell, of As- toria said. “I just can’t say enough about how much this area opposes those operations.” Bonamici acknowledged that the LNG issue is often framed as a trade-off between creating jobs and protecting the environment. “I understand there is a need to build the economy, especially rural economies. There are many ways we can do that without jeopardiz- ing the safety of our residents,” the congresswoman said. “And the more I learn about the Cascadia Subduction Zone and the resilience issues, and what would happen on the coast ‘when’ — not ‘if’ (the earthquake occurs) — the more concerned I am.” Merkley said the “evolving sci- ence on natural gas” has changed the public’s understanding of the LNG issue. See TOWN HALL, Page 10A STAY AWAY! City puts up warning signs after sea lion spotted on Riverwalk By DERRICK DePLEDGE The Daily Astorian A Steller sea lion, perhaps inter- ested in a nice pilsner to pair with VPHOW ZDV VSRWWHG HDUO\ )ULGD\ morning on the Astoria Riverwalk near Buoy Beer Co. %LOO)RUQDVDUHDOHVWDWHEURNHUDW Pete Anderson Realty, came across ZKDW KH GHVFULEHG RQ )DFHERRN DV “one big fat” Steller “laying smack dab between the trolley tracks by Buoy Beer” at about 6 a.m. during his morning run. A photograph of the wayward sea lion taken by another witness was shared with the city’s Parks and Rec- reation Department. )RUQDVVDLGODWHUWKDWKHZDVQRW surprised, since the sea lions appear to be getting bolder. “There was one other fellow that was out there. , MXVW FKDWWHG ZLWK KLP EULHÀ\ :H both concurred it was best not to ap- proach,” he said. The city responded by posting yellow-and-black signs along the Riverwalk warning people to avoid sea lions. See SEA LIONS, Page 10A Chaplain aims to bring light to ‘shadow population’ Cynthia Livar hopes to empower North Coast Hispanics Cynthia Livar, who moved to Seaside from San Antonio four months ago, wondered why Hispanics were not more visible. Clatsop County is predom- inantly white, yet Hispanics make up about 8 percent of the population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, so Livar expected to see more of a pres- ence. The new clinical chaplain at Providence Seaside Hospi- tal said she discovered through her work, her activity with Our Lady of Victory Church and her teaching at Clatsop Communi- ty College that many Hispanics hold more than one job to make ends meet. “Granted, in San Antonio, we’re poor, too. But it seems like you have to work a lot harder to be just as poor,” Livar said during a “Latinos in Oregon” panel discus- sion sponsored by the Lower Columbia Diversity Project Thursday evening at the Judge Guy Boyington Building. Work pressures, language barriers, cultural unfamiliarity and other obstacles can dis- courage Hispanics from being more active in civic life, Livar said, a distance that creates a kind of “shadow population.” Many transplants to the North Coast who come from multicultural regions of the country — 63 percent of the See LIVAR, Page 10A Cynthia Li- var, a hospi- tal chaplain, is active with the Lower Columbia Diversity Project. DERRICK DePLEDGE The Daily Astorian