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WEEKEND
EDITION
FRIDAY EXTRA • 3C
142nd YEAR, No. 218
FRIDAY EXTRA • 1C
FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2015
ONE DOLLAR
Veteran on mission to save outdoor spaces
wanted to come home to Ore-
gon. It’s so incredibly beautiful
here and it’s home,” Zedwick
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his family back in Oregon.
who now lives in Astoria, make fend and swore to maintain, and
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to hike Saddle Mountain, climb with the Oregon Army Nation- our future generations.”
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Now back home in Astoria,
trout in a secluded lake in the Infantry during a yearlong de- Zedwick, 34, co-owns the Co-
Cascades with his uncles.
ployment in Iraq in 2004.
lumbia Veterinary Hospital with
Thoughts of home helped
“When I was in the desert, I his wife, Kristin Zedwick, and
Matthew Zedwick served his country and now protects his home
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
On days when his Army uni-
form was saturated in sweat from
the nearly 120-degree temperature
in Iraq, Matthew Zedwick would
reminisce about the times he spent
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with the Oregon Army National
Guard at Camp Withycombe in
Clackamas.
Vet Voice
He recently found a way to
assist his fellow soldiers by join-
ing the Vet Voice Foundation, a
See VETERAN, Page 8A
Matthew Zedwick
‘We
can’t
Sneak a peek at cruising to Astoria
hide our
head in
the sand’
Radio journalist
discusses her work
covering Hanford at
Columbia Forum
By DERRICK DePLEDGE
The Daily Astorian
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The Crown Princess visited Astoria Thursday. Passengers enter the cruise ship through the fifth deck into the Piazza, an opulent, three-sto-
ry lobby reminiscent of a grand hotel. View a photo gallery online at http://bit.ly/1bjDHi6
And so it begins, visitors by the
thousands explore our place
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
S
tanding in the bridge of the
Crown Princess Thursday, near-
ly 200 feet above the Columbia
River, was British Capt. Justin Lawes.
Lawes is the master of the
Crown Princess and its crew of
about 1,200, from an estimated 40-
plus countries, who keep the ship
moving safely and more than 3,000
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and most populous of the cruise
‘Beautiful stories’
ships visiting Astoria this year.
“It’s almost like managing a
small city,” Lawes said, adding that
he started his captain’s career on a
banana boat with 12 passengers,
making runs between the Caribbe-
an and the United Kingdom.
Lawes worked his way up
through several years of cargo
vessels to Princes Cruises, where
he’s captained at least seven other
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See CRUISE, Page 8A
Anna King found beautiful sto-
ries in a dangerous, ugly place.
In “Daughters of Hanford,” a 12-
part radio series for the Northwest
News Network, the Richland, Wash.,
correspondent documents some of
the women whose lives have inter-
sected with the Hanford nuclear site.
The World War II and Cold War-
era plutonium production source
for atomic weapons is among the
world’s most complicated toxic
stews, posing severe environmental
hazards not far from the banks of
the Columbia River in southeastern
Washington state.
In the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission’s glossary, “Daughter
products” is the term used to describe
isotopes formed by the radioactive de-
cay of other isotopes. King’s radio se-
ries explores how women helped form
— and were formed — by Hanford.
“I just think these are beautiful
stories,” King said during a Columbia
Forum talk Thursday night in Astoria.
There is Sue Olson, a former
executive secretary with top-secret
clearance who opens a window into
the urgency behind Hanford’s work
to win World War II and the Cold
War.
There is Natalie Swan of the Ya-
kama Nation, a biologist who helps
protect an 1855 treaty with the feder-
al government.
Passengers wander into Astoria from the Crown Princess.
See KING, Page 8A
Health center project sways Astoria School Board race
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
An Astoria School Board race is be-
coming unexpectedly charged by resi-
due from the failed attempt nearly two
years ago to establish a school-based
health center in Astoria High School.
The race for two years of an unex-
pired term at Position 5 on the School
Board, vacated by Laurie Choate in
March 2014, pits her appointed suc-
cessor Jenna Rickenbach against chal-
lenger Janice Horning in the May 19
special district election, which fea-
tures few contested races, and none
with the same gravity.
Health center
On May 8, 2013, the Astoria
School Board voted 3-2 against fur-
ther pursuit of a school-based health
center. Board members Martin Dursse,
Jeanette Sampson and Shawn Helligso
voted against. Choate and Brad Pope
voted for.
The health center, like more than
70 located in more than 20 counties
around Oregon, would have provid-
ed primary care services to students
on campus, in Astoria’s case through
medical sponsor Coastal Family
Health Center. But it ran into opposi-
tion from groups concerned over the
potential loss in parental rights and
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Jenna
Rickenbach
Janice
Horning
lack of accountability resulting from
the center. Rickenbach was one of
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“My only hang-up was, as a parent,
I feel like parents have a responsibility
for their children and need to be includ-
ed,” Rickenbach said. She added she
isn’t against students receiving health
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parental involvement, she could sup-
port a school-based health center, al-
though the issue isn’t on the table.
“The big reason why I’m running is
because of the friends I have and rela-
tionships are around public health and
education,” said Horning, who last ran
for the school board in May 2013 and
lost to Grace Laman by 18 votes. “The
school-based health center that didn’t
get through was such a big disappoint-
ment to so many people who have a
background in mental and physical
health.”
School board races are nonparti-
san, but Horning, a registered Demo-
crat, has received support from Clat-
sop County Democrats. A fundraising
page, “Elect Jan Horning” on Demo-
cratic fundraising site ActBlue said the
election will determine the balance of
power on the Astoria School Board.
See RACE, Page 8A