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Former Gulls go to bat for Gizdavich Beethoven scores hit at Music Fest SPORTS • 4A PAGE 7A 142nd YEAR, No. 249 MONDAY, JUNE 15, 2015 ONE DOLLAR Gov. Brown stays course to abolish gillnetting *LOOQHW¿VKLQJZRXOGHQGRQWKH&ROXPELD5LYHUE\ By DERRICK DePLEDGE The Daily Astorian Gov. Kate Brown Gov. Kate Brown said she would be open to listening to fishermen and oth- ers who want to preserve gillnetting on the Columbia River, but the governor has no plans to change a policy direc- tive to phase out gillnets on the main stem by 2017. “I’m open to hearing folks’ con- cerns, but at this point we’re moving forward,” Brown said Friday during an interview with The Daily Astorian. Oregon and Washington have com- mitted to end gillnetting on the river to protect salmon fisheries, a policy outlined by Gov. John Kitzhaber in 2012. Last year, Kitzhaber indicated he would consider adapting the policy or other options to reduce the econom- ic harm to fishing communities. But Kitzhaber resigned in February over an influence-peddling scandal involving his fiancee, Cylvia Hayes. Kitzhaber’s position on gillnetting had cost the Democrat Clatsop County in his No- vember re-election campaign, and there was VRPHKRSHDPRQJFRPPHUFLDO¿VKLQJLQWHU- ests that Brown — the former secretary of state who became governor when Kitzhaber resigned — might change course. See GILLNETTING, Page 10A Unsung sailors may get their due Neighbors tend Grave of the Unknown Sailor By KATHERINE LACAZE EO Media Group JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Graduates make their way to their seats before the Clatsop Community College graduation ceremony at the Liberty Theater Friday. College graduates take the stage Gov. Brown salutes students By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian A t Clatsop Community Col- lege’s graduation Friday night, Oregon’s 38th gov- ernor, Kate Brown, was wedged inconspicuously among faculty and staff gathered on stage at the Liberty Theater. In early February, the then-sec- retary of state was asked to speak at the college’s graduation. Two weeks later, she replaced John Kitzhaber and became possibly the FROOHJH¶V KLJKHVWSUR¿OH JUDGXD- tion speaker ever. Brown kept her appointment in Astoria, and Friday personally congratulated the college’s class of 2015. “I have learned some inter- esting facts about the graduating class; 125 of you, of the 168 grads, are from Clatsop County,” Gov. Brown said to a roar of applause. “The oldest is 61; the youngest is workers. Fifteen of the graduates were pinned as nurses earlier and will soon take their state licensing exams. Service to community Biology instructor Michael Bunch opened the event with sto- ries about former Gov. Tom McCall helping to create public beaches; college board member Tessa James Scheller promoting local public trails and how 2015 nursing grad- uate Rachel Ward and her husband, Marc, help rehabilitate the sea tur- tle population in Central America WKURXJKWKHLUQRQSUR¿W6HD7XUWOHV Forever. JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian “All of us need to follow that Gov. Kate Brown speaks during the Clatsop Community College lead and take the second step,” graduation ceremony at the Liberty Theater Friday. Bunch said. Many of the graduates Friday 17. Today, a husband and wife are President Lawrence Galizio, in graduating together … and a fa- earned two-year transfer degrees his last commencement address and will continue on to universi- before leaving to lead the Com- ther and son. “One graduate is a Clatsop ties. But many of the college’s de- munity College League of Cali- Community College employee. JUHHVDQGRQH\HDUFHUWL¿FDWHVZLOO fornia, asked graduates to support And one of you was described by help students enter the workforce open-access institutions not graced your instructor as a ‘badass girl DVZHOGHUVPHGLFDODVVLVWDQWV¿UH- by the large endowments of private who wears Carhartt overalls to ¿JKWHUVHQWUHSUHQHXUVGHFNKDQGV research universities. class and plans to open her own historic preservationists, mechan- LFVDFFRXQWDQWVGUDIWHUVDQGRI¿FH welding shop.’” See GRADUATES, Page 10A SEASIDE — About 150 years ago, the tale goes, a Seaside resi- dent named John Hobson met three anonymous sailors on the beach in the cove near Tillamook Head. They were looking for fresh water and wanted to get back to their small sailing ship, anchored off the Head, before dark. Hobson, feeling the sailors might be in trouble as the wind picked up and the ocean got rough, “built a big ERQ¿UHRQWKHEHDFKDQGNHSWLWJRLQJ most of the night in case it could help them keep their bearing, but it was no use,” according to Inez Stafford Han- son in her book “Life on Clatsop.” The next day, their bodies were found washed ashore, and Hobson “buried them on the rise above high tide line” in the cove, Hanson wrote. This incident supposedly took place April 25, 1865, becoming the origin of Seaside’s monument know as the Grave of the Unknown Sailor. That retelling — where the sailors were searching for water and met Hobson shortly before their demise — is the one Sarah Gearhart Byrd shared for Hanson’s book and which now is the most consistent and pop- ular belief. A different story Further research, however, shows WKHUH PD\ EH FRQÀLFWLQJ VWRULHV UH- garding the origin of the grave, said Robin Montero, who lives near the PHPRULDODQGLVSDUWRIDQXQRI¿FLDO neighborhood group that serves as the site’s collective caretaker. In a correspondence to the Sac- ramento Daily Union from Aug. 19, 1871, a man named S.A. Clarke wrote, the solitary grave is “sup- posed to be that of the Captain of the bark Industry, then wrecked on Co- lumbia bar.” He doesn’t say where he got the information, but includes a poem written about the memorial that reinforces the story. See GRAVE, Page 10A Family traditions drive AHS graduate’s path F resh from donning his cap and gown June 6, Astoria High School graduate Mikko Jaakola is ready to escape his hometown for awhile and don his heavy rain gear. Mikko, a second-gener- ation American, graduated from Astoria and heads off June 17 to work in the Alas- NDQ ¿VKLQJ LQGXVWU\ OLNH KLV father Petri did as a young man. “I think it would be cool to get away from Astoria a little bit,” Jaakola said, adding it is less about the money than about experiencing something new. He plans on taking at least a year off from school, working for a month this summer in Bristol Bay, Alas- ka, on a barge supplying ice to fishing boats. If he can get his name out and land a bet- ter job, Mikko said, he might stay longer than a month. But it is not something Mik- ko said he wants to make a career of. “My dad’s all, ‘You can’t do what I did anymore; you have to have an education,’” said Mikko, whose father dropped out of high school to JR FUDEELQJ DQG ¿VKLQJ LQWR his mid-20s, until Mikko was conceived. Like his father did, “I wasn’t making the right choices in life,” Petri said of his path after high school, adding his adolescence was still part of the era when you could still make a decent liv- ing without a high school di- ploma. Coming to America EDWARD STRATTON — The Daily Astorian Mikko Jaakola, a second-generation Finnish-American with the tattoo to prove it, graduated from Astoria High School and soon heads to the Alaskan fishing industry. Mikko wants to move from ¿VKLQJWRZHOGLQJ Petri said he is trying to push his son toward a trade program like the college’s Marine and Environmental Research and Training Station (MERTS) campus or the feder- al training program at Tongue Point Job Corps Center. Mikko’s grandmother, Marju Jaakola, immigrated to the U.S. from Kalajoki, Finland, at age 17 in 1971 with her parents and six oth- er siblings in the Vedenoja family. “The plywood mill was why my parents moved here,” she said, adding the women would work in canneries. See JAAKOLA, Page 10A