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COAST WEEKEND
SPORTS • 7A
THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2015
142nd YEAR, No. 232
ONE DOLLAR
Coastal
nursing
gains new
partner
Students can get a
bachelor’s in nursing,
without leaving
the North Coast
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
The Astoria Regional Airport is seen surrounded by Youngs Bay and the Lewis and Clark River in April. New federal flood maps could
influence future development at the airport and other locations.
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lot more expensive
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The Daily Astorian
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two powerful windstorms whipped up the Oregon
Coast, leaving several people dead and causing
millions of dollars in damage.
The day, memorable in weather
lore, could soon take on new signif-
icance.
Warrenton, Astoria and Clatsop
County argue that modeling used
by the Federal Emergency Man-
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maps for the Columbia River estu-
ary produced an inaccurate water
level for Nov. 14, 1981. The mis-
take, the cities and county believe,
has skewed the water elevation by
one foot.
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stacles to building projects near the
water, and levees could have to be
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risk.
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tain that FEMA overstated wave
height and wave runup, which help
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es shore, expanding the projected
See FLOOD MAPS, Page 10A
JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
Warrenton Mayor Mark Kujala has sought to resolve a dispute with
the Federal Emergency Management Agency over new flood maps.
Nursing graduates from Clatsop
Community College will soon be able
to earn a bachelor’s degree from Ore-
gon Health & Science University, with-
out leaving the North Coast.
The college’s nursing program re-
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Oregon Consortium for Nursing Edu-
cation, an effort sponsored by Oregon
Health & Science University to align
the curriculum of colleges statewide
with the state’s primary medical insti-
tute.
Allison Sansom, director of the
college’s nursing and allied health pro-
gram, said the Institute of Medicine
has recommended that 80 percent of
nurses by 2020 have a bachelor’s de-
gree.
“The profession remains well be-
low that goal,” Sansom said, adding
the consortium helps streamline her
student’s efforts to get their bachelor’s
degrees by allowing them to study on-
line after earning their associate degree
and nursing credentials.
She said the nursing faculty at the
college are given the outcomes their
classes should meet, but left the au-
tonomy to craft courses to meet those
outcomes. Starting in fall term 2016,
students admitted to the college’s nurs-
ing program can dual enroll at OHSU
without a competitive application pro-
cess. Those students will earn their pre-
requisites starting this fall.
“Because we share the same curric-
ulum, students electing to transition to
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assured only three additional (full-time)
terms are required to achieve” a bache-
lor’s degree, Sansom said.
The college offers a two-year as-
sociate degree in nursing, after which
students take the state licensing exam
to become practicing, registered nurs-
es.
See NURSING, Page 10A
Tongue
Point redux
Deep-water port
back in Port’s sights
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
The Port of Astoria is once again
talking about buying North Tongue
Point, the deep-water port east of Asto-
ria coveted for its potential but in need
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The subject did not appear on the
agenda for the Port Commission’s
Tuesday meeting. But Commissioner
Bill Hunsinger, who has continually
west end mooring basins it
other people’s pleasures.”
could be charging for. He
The group recommended talked about buying the property over
recommended a $10 daily
installing electronic parking the years, added it at the beginning of
parking fee, with exceptions
meters to collect fees, im- the meeting.
“The future of the Port of Astoria is
for local residents and ten-
proving safety by not using
ants of the Port.
cash for parking fees and Tongue Point,” Hunsinger said, adding
In December 2012, Fick
lowering the Port’s labor that the Port has spent $1.5 million on
suggested charging an ad-
costs in collecting the cash rent there and should instead make an
ditional 20 cents on every
fees. The Port’s proposed offer to buy it from Washington Devel-
gallon of gas and $20 a day
budget, approved by the opment Company.
The former naval base includes
for out-of-town, recreation-
budget committee Tuesday
Kurt Englund
al fishermen. In August
and now headed for a hear- about 30 acres of paved industrial land,
2013, the Port enacted the $20-a-day ing June 16 with the Port Commission, 80 acres of submerged land, 140,000
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a week under withering public crit- at $15,000 each, with a $10,000 con- piers and access to rail and a Columbia
River channel.
icism.
tingency.
Washington Development Com-
“When you start doing the math,
The Port would be lucky to break
you have a potential revenue base HYHQLQWKH¿UVW\HDU(QJOXQGVDLGEXW pany wanted more than $7 million for
of $150,000 to $200,000,” Fick said by putting the right equipment in the North Tongue Point in 2008, but the
Tuesday. “That is money that is sorely ¿UVWWLPHWKHSODQFRXOGSD\RIILQWKH price has been quoted as low as $5 mil-
lion. In 2014, the appraised land value
needed … to sustain the parking.
long run.
“You simply don’t have the money
See PARKING, Page 10A
See TONGUE POINT, Page 10A
right now … to continue to subsidize
A U.S. Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter flies over the Astoria Mitigation Bank near the Astoria Region-
al AirportFriday. The Coast Guard’s Sector Columbia River and Air Station Astoria are based at the airport.
Port parking could provide big revenue
Group thinks visitors
should pay to play
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Another blockbuster salmon-fish-
ing season is approaching, and a
group of volunteers is hoping the
Port of Astoria will make some mon-
ey while providing out-of-towners
parking.
A group consisting of Coast Guard
Sector Columbia River commander
Capt. Doug Kaup, Englund Marine &
Industrial Supply President Kurt En-
glund and Fishhawk Fisheries owner
Steve Fick came to the Tuesday Port
Commission meeting to discuss the be-
ginnings of a parking plan.
Fick said the Port has about 500
parking spots between the east and