THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 2015
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Man pleads not
guilty to sexually
exploiting teenager
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
Bloom
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leged crimes occurred from
April 1 to his arrest.
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believes there are no other
victims in the case.
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tive Ryan Humphrey said
the relationship between
Bloom and the girl was dis-
covered by the girl’s par-
ents and the parents of one
of the girl’s friends.
The parents’ involve-
ment and intervention was
a key factor in the case,
Humphrey said.
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is encouraging parents to
monitor their children’s use
of social media and oth-
er online activities. When
examining a child’s online
activities and contacts on
social media, the Sheriff’s
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guardians ask, “Does this
make sense?”
Bloom is due back in
court for an early resolu-
tion conference at 9 a.m.
June 24.
Columbia River sport
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NEWPORT — Because of
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in the Columbia River Subar-
ea will close effective 11:59
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agers announced Tuesday.
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Leadbetter Point in Washing-
ton state to Cape Falcon in
Oregon opened May 1 and
was scheduled to be open ev-
ery Thursday-Sunday through
Sept. 30 or the harvest of
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scheduled to open again
Thursday, but preliminary es-
timates indicate that landings
are nearing the quota and not
enough remains for any addi-
tional open days. The season
is now closed until the end of
the year.
Effort in the Columbia
River Subarea in 2015 was
higher than in recent years
and catch rates were good, en-
abling anglers to harvest the
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The Columbia River
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40-fathom line off of Ore-
gon) remains open Mondays
through Wednesdays until
Sept. 30 or until the quota of
500 pounds is reached, which-
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other areas of Oregon:
Off central Oregon be-
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Manzanita) and Humbug
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inside the 40-fathom line be-
ginning July 1, seven days a
week through Oct. 31 or at-
tainment of the harvest quota
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egon is scheduled to be open
June 11-13 and June 25-27.
A second summer season is
scheduled to begin in August.
The high-relief area of Stone-
wall Bank, west of Newport,
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ing.
The area between Hum-
bug Mountain and the Ore-
gon-California border is open
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seven days a week through
Oct. 31 or until the quota of
7,318 pounds has been met,
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nounced on the NOAA Fish-
eries hotline, 800-662-9825,
and posted on the ODFW Ma-
rine Resources Program Web
site.
Alzheimer’s task force
offers memory cafe
The Daily Astorian
Visiting cutter offers look at
Coast Guard’s future force
two are planned for Hawaii
and Kodiak, Alaska.
As a high endurance cut-
ter meant for the open ocean,
the Waesche has a range of
12,000 nautical miles at 28
knots, with an endurance of
two months or more. Com-
pare that to the offshore, me-
dium endurance cutters Alert
and Steadfast based in Astoria
and patrolling the U.S. Ex-
clusive Economic Zone, with
ranges of 5,000 nautical miles
at 15 knots and an endurance
of one month.
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longest,” said Ensign Thomas
Ashley, a public affairs offers
on board.
The ship carries with it
more than 120 crew, about 20
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room for two HH-65 Dolphin
helicopters and a range of ad-
vanced weapons and naviga-
tion systems.
The ship is built to serve as
operational-level headquarters
for law enforcement, defense
and national security missions
involving Coast Guard and
multiple partner agencies.
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
The future of the U.S.
Coast Guard’s cutter forces
visited Astoria Tuesday.
The 418-foot, high endur-
ance cutter Waesche stopped
at the Port of Astoria’s Pier
1 Tuesday and Wednesday
morning on its way to the
Portland Rose Festival.
The cutting-edge ship,
launched in 2008 and named
after former Coast Guard
Commandant Adm. Russell
Waesche, is based on Coast
Guard Island in Alameda,
Calif. It is the second of eight
planned Legend-class na-
tional security cutters, part
of an acquisition program to
replace aging 378-foot high
endurance cutters in service
since the 1960s. The average
price tag for a national secu-
rity cutter is more than $600
million.
Two other national securi-
ty cutters are based on Coast
Guard Island. Two more are
based in Charleston, S.C.,
with a third coming. The last
“We do a lot of drug and
migrant interdiction,” Ashley
said of the Waesche’s mission.
While the national secu-
rity cutters like Waesche re-
place the 378-footers built in
the 1960s, the Coast Guard
recently began an acquisition
program to replace 270- and
210-foot medium endurance
cutters, like Astoria’s Alert
and Steadfast built in the late
1960s, with offshore patrol
cutters.
Coast Guard Comman-
dant Adm. Paul Zukunft said
in testimony Feb. 25 to the
U.S. House Subcommittee
on Coast Guard and Maritime
Transportation that his high-
est investment priority for
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2016 budget is recapitalizing
the aging medium endurance
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patrol cutter.
“The offshore patrol cut-
ter will be the backbone of
Coast Guard offshore pres-
ence and the manifestation
of our at-sea authorities,”
Zukunft said in his testimo-
ny. “The offshore patrol cut-
ter is essential to stopping
smugglers at sea, interdict-
ing undocumented migrants,
rescuing people, enforcing
fisheries laws, responding to
disasters and protecting our
ports.”
The offshore and medium
endurance cutters provide a
bridge in capabilities between
the larger high endurance or
national security cutters and
the smaller fast response cut-
ters. Astoria or Newport are in
the running for two 154-foot
Sentinel-class fast response
cutters, which are replacing
the 1980s-era 110-foot Is-
land-class patrol boats.
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Children’s teeth are very
important to the health of the
child and the development of
the dental jaw and forming permanent
teeth. Baby teeth not only give the
child chewing function, cute esthetics,
but also serve an important role in the
jaw formation. Premature loss of
primary teeth can adversely affect the
jaw growth, position and timing of the
eruption of permanent teeth, and if
badly decayed or infected be a source
of pain, sickness, and risk to other
teeth. Please have your dentist
evaluate your child’s “baby teeth”.
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membership?
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The Clatsop County Alz-
heimer’s Task Force is of-
fering its second Neighbor
Memory Café from 1 to 3 p.m.
Saturday at Columbia Hall,
Clatsop Community College,
1651 Lexington Ave. There
is no cost for this Hawai-
ian-themed event, which has
live guitar music provided by
Dave Drury.
The Neighborhood Mem-
ory Café welcomes people
with a diagnosis of dementia
or a related disease and their
family members or care part-
ners, people with mild cog-
nitive impairment and people
who are concerned about their
memory loss. The Neighbor-
hood Memory Café is open to
anyone without formal refer-
ral or assessment. However,
the café would not be appro-
priate for individuals who of-
ten have aggressive or disrup-
tive behaviors.
The Memory Café con-
cept is being used worldwide
to offer support to families
dealing with dementia-related
disease. Social engagement is
essential for both the person
dealing with dementia as well
as family members and care
partners. The task force is ac-
tively seeking other agencies
and organizations that would
be willing to host Memory
Cafés throughout the county.
For information, or to reg-
ister to attend the Café, call
Michelle Lewis at 503-861-
4202.
JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Waesche is shown docked along Pier 1 in Astoria Tuesday. The 418-foot-long National Se-
curity Cutter is from Coast Guard Island in Alameda, Calif.
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The 26-year-old War-
renton man accused of sex-
ually exploiting a 16-year-
old girl pleaded not guilty
Monday in Clatsop County
Circuit Court.
Kyle Meyer Bloom
pleaded not guilty to using
a child in a display of sex-
ually explicit conduct for
compelling the girl to send
nude images of herself, lur-
ing a minor and two counts
of third-degree sex abuse.
Bloom appeared via
video link from Clatsop
County Jail, where he is
being held on $250,000
bail. His appointed defense
attorney Kris Kaino intends
to ask the court for a bail
hearing to decide if bail
should be lowered.
The charges against
Bloom stem from a six-
week investigation by the
Clatsop County Sheriff’s
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Sheriff’s deputies ar-
rested Bloom May 20 on
the 500 block of West Main
Street in Warrenton.
Bloom initiated con-
tact with the girl at a local
school bus stop, where he
befriended her before us-
ing social media to start
a secretive relationship,
according to the Sheriff’s
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During a two-week
long relationship, Bloom
allegedly met the girl in
several public locations to
engage in sexual activities.
According to an indict-
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