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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2015 Goonies:+HOODFLRXVFRDVWDOZHDWKHUKDPSHUHG¿OPSURGXFWLRQ — was originally slated to be shot at Indian Beach, less than two miles north of Ecola Lines suggested to the Goonies crew State Park. that they should lay rock down to make the But, after the crew’s experience at Ecola road easier to drive on; the crew disagreed, — where shoots scheduled for a day turned saying they were going for a grassy, rustic, into three days because of the hellacious untended look. coastal weather — they packed up and took :KDWWKHFUHZGLGQ¶WWDNHLQWRDFFRXQW their fancy equipment to Goat Rock State was the Ecola State Park landslide of 1961, %HDFKLQ6RQRPD&RXQW\&DOLI which damaged 125 acres and closed the ³7KHZHDWKHUZDVVREDGWKDWWKH\MXVW park for 10 months, according to the state VDLGµ:H¶UHGRQH¶$QGWKH\KHDGHGEDFN parks website. to Hollywood,” Lines said, adding with a Beneath the grass and thin layer of grin, “They weren’t as hardy as us North- topsoil is an awful lot of clay. And with west folks, you know what I’m saying?” so many vehicles coming and going on so Haunted terrain PDQ\ ZHW GD\V WKH DUWL¿FLDO URDG WXUQHG Many of the Goonies fans assembled into a quagmire, and the crew needed tow for Lines’ presentations strolled through trucks to extricate their cars, Lines said. At last, the Goonies approach the restau- the park in a state of fond reverence, as if rant, and it looks convincingly dilapidated the Goonies’ lively spirits haunted the ter- and weather-beaten — clearly a sanctuary rain. Though the Lighthouse Lounge and the road leading to it disappeared soon after for miscreants and nefarious deeds. But inside the building, it was an “emp- ¿OPLQJZUDSSHGLWLVHDV\WRSLFWXUHWKHP ty shell,” Lines said — except for the spot still taking up space on the shaggy lawn. Brothers Blain Stone, 7, and Lucian on the interior wall surrounding the win- dow that the kids peer through, which was 6WRQHRI%UHPHUWRQ:DVKVDZ³7KH painted and crowded with cobwebs and *RRQLHV´ IRU WKH ¿UVW WLPH WKUHH PRQWKV dusty furniture. DJRDQGDOUHDG\WKH¿OP¶VYLYLGLPDJHU\ :KHQWKHNLGV¿QDOO\HQWHUWKH)UDWHOOLV¶ is seared into their memories. Even at their den and the audience sees the full interior, ages, and after a single viewing, they knew the actors are on a soundstage in Holly- right where the Fratellis’ hideaway had wood. stood 30 years prior. 7KH¿OP¶V¿QDOH²ZKHQWKH*RRQLHV “They’ve seen it once, believe it or not,” their parents and Sloth cheer as One-Eyed &KULV6WRQHWKHLUIDWKHUVDLG³DQGWKH\UH- :LOO\¶VSLUDWHVKLSVDLOVRIILQWRWKHVXQVHW member more about it than I do.” Continued from Page 1A ERICK BENGEL — EO Media Group Retired Oregon Park Ranger Patrick Lines, right, holds up a replica of the Spanish doubloon from “The Goonies” while Ava Waity, 8, of Sammamish, Wash., follows his lead. Lines regaled tourists with his stories of the film’s fall 1984 production at Ecola State Park during the four-day celebration of the film’s 30th anniversary. Marijuana: Final vote is expected at the June 22 council meeting Continued from Page 1A Owning or operating a downtown core medical to pay the rents that we have PDULMXDQD GLVSHQVDU\ ZRXOG LQWKHGRZQWRZQFRUH´&RXQ- not be a “wise business deci- cilor Tita Montero said in dis- sion,” she added. cussion prior to the council Highway 420’s Geiger vote. “And people who come asked the council to embrace to our city and the people who coming legislative chang- live here, I don’t know why es brought by Measure 91, they would want to search for which allows recreational parking in the downtown area PDULMXDQD IRU SHRSOH RYHU WR¿QGVRPHSODFHWREX\WKHLU 21. PHGLFDO PDULMXDQD , EHOLHYH “Right now in Portland that people who need medical hotels are sold out for the PDULMXDQD WKH\ NQRZ ZKDW next six months,” he said. works for them, they want “You cannot get a room be- places easy to park.” cause of the boom in mari- MXDQD , ZRXOG MXVW UHPLQG this council that the future of some of these tourist cities lies with which communi- ties embrace that, and which FRPPXQLWLHVUHMHFWLW “If you care about this city and the sustainability of its future, it’s time to put some of those old ways behind and begin to look at this in a new way and understand this as an opportunity for growth for the businesses here,” he FRQWLQXHG³,I\RXUHMHFWFDQ- nabis and make this a fearful place to go, they’ll go some- where else. And there’s a lot of people out there.” State law provides legal GHILQLWLRQV IRU PDULMXDQD dispensary, cardholders and license and requires all dis- pensaries to be registered in accordance with the law and applicable administrative rules. Registration by the Oregon Health Authority, however, does not guarantee a dispensary is permitted to operate under local munici- pal regulations. The Oregon Health Au- WKRULW\¶V 0HGLFDO 0DULMXDQD Program prohibits dispensa- ries from being located less than 1,000 feet from a school or one another. Some of the operational requirements in- clude: a new license must be obtained each year; no sale or other distribution of mar- LMXDQDVKDOORFFXUEHWZHHQ p.m. and 8 a.m.; and dispen- saries cannot distribute mar- LMXDQD RU PDULMXDQDLQIXVHG products free of charge. Dis- pensaries only can locate in areas zoned commercial. 0D\RU'RQ/DUVRQ&RXQ- cilors Jay Barber, Seth Mor- risey, Randy Frank, Montero and Dana Phillips all voted in support of the amendment. &LW\ 0DQDJHU :LQVWDQOH\ said he expected the coun- FLOWRWDNHD¿QDOYRWHRQWKH downtown core dispensary exclusion at the next coun- cil meeting on June 22. “The council could make chang- es, but based on their vote, I wouldn’t expect them to,” he said. After its expected passage, the ordinance would have a 30-day enactment period in the event of an appeal. Agency: The department has a two-year budget of $14.7 million Continued from Page 1A The Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral In- dustries has a two-year bud- get of $14.7 million, which translates to an average monthly budget of $612,500. Matt Shelby, a spokesman for the agency, said at least two factors contributed to the shortfall: the agency’s reli- ance on federal money and other non-state funds to pay for much of its work; and an overestimate of the revenue it would raise from fees to re- view permit applications for surface mining, and oil, gas and geothermal well drilling. The agency struggled to accurately forecast the rev- enue stream from federal grants and other sources, and it has not raised the appli- cation fees for resource ex- traction in a decade. A draft report by the ac- counting team also attributed WKH SUREOHPV WR D ODFN RI ¿- nancial management exper- tise necessary to manage the complex grants the agency receives, as well as outmod- ed accounting and budget processes and the failure to ¿OONH\MREVZLWKLQWKHDJHQ- cy due to budget constraints. According to the report, the accounting team also asked the state’s chief infor- PDWLRQ RI¿FHU WR FRQVLGHU conducting a review of the Oregon Department of Ge- ology and Mineral Indus- tries’ information technology needs, since the agency stores and shares a large amount of GIS data and might require better computer systems. Larry Givens, chair of the geology department’s gov- erning board, said he was not completely surprised to learn the agency was $800,000 VKRUW RI IXQGLQJ LQ WKH ¿QDO weeks of its two-year budget. “I was and I was not,” Givens said Monday. Giv- ens said he suspected there would be a shortfall since Interim State Geologist Ian P. Madin informed the gov- erning board earlier this year WKDW WKH DJHQF\ KDG ¿QDQ- cial problems. In the past, employees who briefed the board on the agency’s bud- get said the outlook would improve after they received payments expected under various contracts. “Long story short, when ZH ZRXOG JHW ¿QDQFLDO UH- ports, we were told we were waiting, the agency was waiting on funding to come in from contracts that were in place and were being worked on,” Givens said. “So at that point the board said, ‘OK, we understand,’ and we went with the information we had.” The Department of Ad- ministrative Services will now set up a new account- ing system that “modernizes what (Department of Geolo- J\ DQG 0LQHUDO ,QGXVWULHV¶ business processes are like,” Givens said. Shelby said the account- LQJ WHDP DOVR YHUL¿HG WKDW the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Indus- tries has enough money in a fund where the agency keeps money provided by small surface mining operations as a security to ensure they will perform the required recla- Surplus: Scope of contract was beyond the reach of many buyers as well as on the coast. And they will need to be able to do ,Q3DFL¿F&RXQW\WKH:DVK- this at a moment’s notice. After ington Department of Fish and DOOGHDG¿VKZLOORQO\JHWPRUH :LOGOLIH RSHUDWHV )RUNV &UHHN ³¿VK\´ WKH ORQJHU WKH\ VLW DW D Hatchery, Nemah Hatchery, hatchery. Naselle Hatchery and Grays Hatchery debates 5LYHU +DWFKHU\ &RPELQHG DOO .HUE\ &RXFK D ZKROHVDOH \LHOG WKRXVDQGV RI VXUSOXV ¿VK each year, according to numbers buyer based out of Ilwaco who EX\VGLUHFWO\IURP¿VKHUPHQDW UHFHLYHGIRU:'): The money the state receives the dock, received the invitation, IURPWKHVDOHRIWKH¿VKWRELG- WKH¿UVWVXFKLQYLWDWLRQKHVDLG GHUV OLNH $PHULFDQ &DQDGLDQ he’s seen before. He was suspi- Fisheries goes back to fund cious of it and views it primarily Regional Fishery Enhancement as a way for the state to recover the money it spends on hatchery Groups programs. Recently, the state brain- operations — operations that are stormed ways to get more not without their share of con- competition for the contract. troversy. Debates swirl around hatch- Managers decided to send out QRWL¿FDWLRQV ³IDU DQG ZLGH´ ery salmon. Various groups are FRQFHUQHG DERXW KRZ WKH ¿VK Kimbel said. Still, for many of the buyers interact with or impact wild who received the state’s invita- VDOPRQUXQVKRZPDQ\¿VKDUH tion to bid, the scope of the con- reared and released, and how few or how many commercial tract is beyond their reach. :KRHYHU ODQGV WKH FRQWUDFW DQG VSRUW ¿VKHUPHQ HQG XS DQG EX\V WKH ¿VK ZLOO QHHG WR catching. Lawsuits have been KDYHDODUJHÀHHWRIWUXFNVDEOH ¿OHGRYHUVXFKTXHVWLRQV 0DQ\ FRPPHUFLDO ¿VKHU- to transport thousands of dead salmon, Kimbel said. They will men are frustrated by what they QHHGWREHDEOHWRSLFNXS¿VKDV see as a waste of salmon. They IDUHDVWDV:DOOD:DOOD:DVK and others also see huge runs of Continued from Page 1A KDWFKHU\¿VKDVDWKUHDWWRQDWLYH runs of salmon, where those oc- cur. 5HFHQWO\ WZR À\¿VKLQJ groups sought a court order to OLPLW WKH QXPEHU RI MXYHQLOH salmon released on Oregon’s McKenzie River from a nearby hatchery, arguing that too many KDWFKHU\ ¿VK HQGHG XS VZLP- ming upstream to spawn with ZLOG¿VK ,Q0DUFKDIHGHUDOMXGJHGH- clined to set the limit requested but ordered the Oregon Depart- PHQWRI)LVKDQG:LOGOLIHWRVHW a deadline for when it will limit WKHQXPEHURIKDWFKHU\¿VKWKDW escape to spawn with wild na- tive salmon. The bid to buy the surplus VDOPRQFORVHV:HGQHVGD\.LP- bel says the department hopes to open the bids the next day and the contract is set to go into ef- fect July 1. To date, the department has QHYHU IDLOHG WR ¿QG D VXLWDEOH bid, Kimbel said. “Thank god, because then ,¶GKDYHWR¿QGRXWZKDWWRGR with between half a million and 750,000 dead adult salmon,” he said. mation. Questions had aris- en about whether the surface mining funds were misspent, because the agency did not separate the security money from other funds. “So the money’s all there,” Shelby said, although he added that the accounting team continues to verify each individual deposit. The Capital Bureau is a collaboration between EO Media Group and Pamplin Media Group. with The Daily Astorian Keepsake Newspapers Ea ch da y du rin g the Goon ies 30 th A n n iversa ry celebra tion , the Da ily A storia n w ill prom in en tly fea tu re fron t-pa ge stories a bou t the even ts a n d people w ho a re a pa rt of this piece of A storia history. Plu s, the Thu rsda y issu e w ill a lso con ta in Coa st W eek en d w hich w ill ha ve a specia l fron t pa ge dedica ted to the Goon ies celebra tion . Don ’t m iss you r cha n ce to collect a ll these specia l issu es of the Da ily A storia n w ith ou r Goon ies 30 th A n n iversa ry pa ck a ge. 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