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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-
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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.
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social and political issues
that matter most to North
Coast citizens came before two
of Oregon’s prominent political
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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morning on the Astoria Riverwalk
near Buoy Beer Co.
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Pete Anderson Realty, came across
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“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.
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surprised, since the sea lions appear
to be getting bolder. “There was
one other fellow that was out there.
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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