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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2015 JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian The Main Street Tappers greet Judith Maddox Bigby, middle, and Jeanne Maddox Peterson, back, after performing at the Lady Liberty Award Luncheon in the McTavish Room of the Liberty Theater Thursday. Awards: Both women share a great fondness for the Liberty Theater Continued from Page 1A her to the coxswain memo- rialized in “The Boys in the Boat,” the best-selling book about the determined young crew from the University of Washington who won the gold medal in rowing during the 1936 Olympics in Adolf Hitler’s Berlin. “She was the principal of the school. She was the CEO, if you will,” he said. “But she was also a member of the team and a good friend to all of us. “She wouldn’t expect any of us to do anything that she wouldn’t do. So there she was: one day on the play- ground, one day — every day — in the cafeteria at lunch, at the bus stop, at the corner with WKHWUDI¿FSDWUROLQRXUFODVV- rooms, in the library.” Atkinson recalls once ask- ing Maddox Bigby whether he could have her desk chair, be- cause, he told her, “You nev- er use it. You never sit down. She didn’t give me the chair.” JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Judith Maddox Bigby, a recipient of the Lady Liberty award, hugs Nancy Kennell, a former colleague at the Warrenton-Hammond School District, at the Lady Liberty Award Luncheon JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Rosemary Baker-Monaghan, executive director of the Liberty Theater, speaks at the Lady Liberty Award Luncheon. in Warrenton for the past two decades. “The building has never lost its magic for me,” she said of the Liberty. “After be- ing here 30 years, it’s still a Love the Liberty home away from home. And Both women have great every time I come into this fondness for the Liberty The- building, I have a wonderful ater, which this year is cele- nostalgic feeling and a won- brating its 90th anniversary derful feeling of just being at and the 10th anniversary of its home. grand reopening. “I know that all of you here Maddox Peterson, the el- today share the love and the dest of the “Three J’s,” had pride in what has happened to a dance studio at the Liberty this building. And the magic for 30 years until the furnace of this building will live on gave out one winter and the forever — for decades — in- RZQHU ZRXOG QRW ¿[ LW XQWLO stilling the love of the arts, of spring. After a few years at an music, of dance, in our citi- old church in Astoria, she has zens, young and older.” had the Maddox Dance Studio Maddox Bigby said the JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian ABOVE: Eija Hellen Stevenson, middle, and Ramona Hunt- er, left, and others from the Main Street Tappers perform during the Lady Liberty Award Luncheon. LEFT: Baked Alaska catered the Lady Liberty Award Luncheon serving pan-seared ling cod for lunch. Liberty is the “gem of our com- munity, the jewel of downtown Astoria, the cornerstone and treasured anchor at the corner of 12th and Commercial. It is the heart in our arts.” Mats: ‘Sea lions average about seven to eight seconds on the platform before they leave’ Continued from Page 1A twitch in the arm touching the electrodes. Bock said the pad irritates, rather than hurts, the sea lions. “Sea lions average about seven to eight seconds on the platform before they leave,” Bock said, showing a video from 2012 (http://tinyurl.com/ orgpzez) of a section of a long dock in Moss Landing, Calif., covered with California sea lions. A section of the dock be- tween two sets of pilings in- cludes plywood laced with electrodes. It’s activated, and sea lions empty off the section of dock. The electrodes run- ning down the pad create a low-voltage, direct current pulse that Bock said doesn’t hurt, but rather annoys sea lions. Another video shows a platform on an Exxon Mobil Corp. offshore oil-drilling rig near Santa Barbara Calif., covered in the charged pads. One sea lion after another jumps on the platform, appar- ently notices the pulses and hops off. Bock said Exxon Mobil approached Smith-Root with a problem: construction on an ex- isting oil platform was going to damage the hearing of sea lions, who had populated the lower portions of the rig. Smith-Root successfully deployed the mats on the rig in July. Still in progress “They’re just still trying to develop something that would work for us,” Port of Astoria Marina Manager Janice Burke said, adding that the Port has been in contact with Smith- Root since it developed the pads for the offshore rig. But the tests of Smith- Root’s technology performed Tuesday and Wednesday at the East End Mooring Basin didn’t work so well. Burke said nothing happened Tues- day, although the sea lions were hesitant to get on the pad. The next day, she added, a sea lion was laying on the pad, al- though it might have been too dry for the electrical pulse to have a noticeable effect. Bock said Smith-Root hopes to test the technology again at the East End Moor- ing Basin within the next few weeks. He estimated about $50 to $90 per square foot of matting, although the compa- ny is trying to come up with a less expensive variant for ports. But how the technology ZLOO EH ¿QDQFHG LV XQFHUWDLQ Bock said Smith-Root is a small company that often uses JUDQW¿QDQFLQJIRUZRUNZLWK public entities. Burke said the Port hasn’t found any grant funding for the system, as of yet, adding that Bock has also taken the technology to West- port, Wash., for testing. ,I 6PLWK5RRW FDQ ¿QG D way to make the technology work for one port, Bock said, it can duplicate it at others. The sisters had known for months they would be honored, but organizers still managed a surprise. Some of Maddox Peter- son’s adult tap dance stu- dents, who dance with Maddox Bigby, appeared in black sequins and gold top hats to perform “One,” the finale from the musical “A Chorus Line.” Johnson-Monaghan asked the sisters whether they were surprised. “Totally,” Mad- dox Bigby said. “I would have brought my tap shoes if I had known.” For online updates: www.dailyastorian.com GRAND OP E NI NG R ib b on C u tting, S a tu rd a y , A p ril 11th a t N oon Jo in us o n Sa turd a y fro m N o o n - 2 pm fo r FR EE D ra w ings ! O w ners T ra cy a nd M a rgot N ye invite you to com e ta ste th eir d eliciou s, fresh G ela to a nd Sorb etto O ver 40 Fla vors M a d e Fresh D a iry Free/Vega n O p tions • P a nini • S p ecia lty C offee A s pa rt of the gra nd opening c elebra tion they w ill dona te 10% of this w eek’s proc eeds to F ood 4 K ids S ea s ide. S a tu rda y, A pril 11th a t N oon is their offic ia l R ibbon C u tting hos ted by the S ea s ide C ha m ber A m ba s s a dors . 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