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Zone: ‘I don’t think we’re
selling ourselves out here’
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DAMIAN MULINIX — EO Media Group
Once aboard, passengers can choose to stay in their cars or walk around on the ferry, including an enclosed viewing area.
Ferry: It was named after operator of original ferry
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The Oscar B, which went
into service earlier this
year, is named for Oscar
Bergseng, who operated the
original ferry seven days a
week, 365 days a year for 17
years. A plaque in his honor
on the new boat reads, “Os-
car was instrumental in the
county taking over operation
of the ferry in 1961 and con-
tinued on as manager until
his death in 1985.”
Another constant aboard
the ferry has been Capt. Ray
Peek, who has been pilot-
ing the boat back and forth
across the Columbia for
32 years. An average shift
has him making the run 18
times per day. That is less
than he used to with the
smaller Wahkiakum, where,
if they could not fit every-
DAMIAN MULINIX — EO Media Group
Ferry Capt. Ray Peek pilots the Oscar B back out onto the
Columbia River after picking up passengers in Westport.
one onboard, they would
have to go back and make a
second trip during the same
hour — something that has
yet to happen with the larg-
er Oscar B. The ferry leaves
Puget Island at the top of
each hour from 5 a.m. to 10
p.m. daily.
“It made it rough, but it
was OK. I like the work,”
said Scott Tomlinson, a part-
time deckhand. “This (ferry)
is so much nicer. So much
more accommodations for
the patrons and all that.”
Tomlinson has been
working on the ferries for a
year and a half.
“I love working on here.
It’s the best thing I’ve done
since I’ve been out of the
Navy. I like working with
this guy. We keep each other
entertained,” Tomlinson said
of Peek, who simply replied,
“Yup.”
As the ferry pulled back
into the dock at the Puget
Island terminal, the two
men prepared to end their
shift after offloading all the
passengers. But just like the
boat, they’ll be back again
tomorrow.
“We tease each other all
the time. We do what we
gotta do, but we still have
a good time,” Tomlinson
said.
Sandcastle: Wabi Sabi found redemption in win
In Oregon, and across the na-
tion, enterprise zones have had a
“An enterprise zone gives us mixed record. Some economists
another tool to boost economic have questioned whether prop-
development in our
erty tax incentives
local communities,”
produce meaningful
Clatsop County Man-
job growth and have
ager Scott Somers
likened the tax breaks
said in a statement.
to corporate welfare.
“It can help drive new
An
enterprise
investment in our in-
zone for the Geor-
dustrial properties and
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increase private-sector
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economic activity.”
protracted tax battle
The state designa-
that ended in a $2.5
tion is a policy victo- Stephen C. Fulton million settlement
ry for Somers, who
with Clatsop County
steered the enterprise
and other taxing dis-
zone application and
tricts in 2012.
stuck with the con-
But economic de-
cept after Astoria, the
velopment advisers
county’s largest city,
believe enterprise
pulled back.
zones can help re-
Port Commission-
gions stand out when
er Stephen Fulton,
competing for new
who had been an ad-
business.
vocate for Astoria’s
Warrenton City
participation,
said Henry Balensifer Commissioner Hen-
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there are opportunities that may enterprise zone is a tool for eco-
look elsewhere because Astoria nomic growth, not “a solve-all.”
chose to go a different way on
Balensifer stressed that prop-
this enterprise zone.”
erty taxes make up only a frac-
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voted 2-2 in March against the porary tax breaks to help attract
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has called the decision to reject them back,” Balensifer said.
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“I don’t think we’re selling
cautious not to oversell the value
ourselves out here.”
of an enterprise zone.
Culling: Island also acts as a
nesting ground for a massive
colony of Caspian terns
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Winters and Echols said
there is “no particular expec-
tation for this season and no
speculation on how it will end
either.”
There are no weekly goals
or limits, and, Echols said,
there is still time for contrac-
tors to shoot adult birds before
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and leaves.
The Audubon Society of
Portland tried to put an im-
mediate stop to this year’s
shooting in May. This injunc-
tion was denied, but a lawsuit
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the Corps, Fish and Wildlife
Service and APHIS is still
moving forward.
East Sand Island also acts
as a nesting ground for a mas-
sive colony of Caspian terns,
which are managed by the
Corps under a separate man-
agement plan.
In the depredation permit
more of family time. We don’t record of decision by USFWS
get a whole lot of time to just there is a stipulation that states,
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off. So it’s special.”
cease temporarily if dispersal
depths,” said Wabi Sabi’s Eric
This year the Jessop team of double-crested cormorants
Hawley.
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members from across Washing-
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15-feet-high, their castle was
sion.
threshold yet, Winters said.
the tallest of the day. It was
“Mom was looking for The pause now is due entirely
accompanied by an octopus, a
something to keep us busy to nesting birds.
mermaid and a shell cupping
a couple years ago,” Jessop
Given the Corps’ late start,
the earth, and fronted by a trea-
said. “Me and my next young- already deep in the nesting
sure chest bearing the theme:
er brother were just moving season, the Audubon Society
“The World is Your Oyster.
ANDREW R. TONRY — For EO Media Group
Treasure It.”
Wabi Sabi’s sandcastle project took first-place in the Mas- out of the house, so she was of Portland had worried that
Against the six others in the ters contest. More photos online at www.dailyastorian.com also looking for something contractors would kill parents
to get us to come back home with chicks and that those
Masters division, Wabi Sabi’s
entry was a crowd-pleaser, as
offered an added buzz as they occasionally. So this was her chicks would later die from
‘No lost kids’
visitors gathered close to watch
“Everything went really were being followed by tele- idea. It’s worked so far. It’s starvation and exposure, thus
the team at work. The builders smooth, actually,” Sandcastle vision cameras from Oregon got us back every single year increasing the impact of the
take.
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manship, at one point breaking Nelson said.
for an upcoming episode of Or-
from sand-shaping into dance.
“Turnout was less than egon Field Guide on the Sand-
“Our motto is: if you’re not last year,” she added. “Last castle Contest.
here to have fun then, why are year was our 50th anniversa-
“It’s been interesting,” said
you here?” Hawley said. “We ry and we expected a massive son Raymond Jessop of being
want the people to have fun. We crowd. We’re guesstimating trailed by the cameras. “They
want everyone here to come about 10,000 in attendance this came up and followed us on a
year. Last year it was close to practice in April for one day.”
back and see us. “
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“Everything fell down that
Rather than disappointment,
vorite — and the team took that
award as well — so too were the dip in attendance made for a day,” Jessop said. “And then
they came up and interviewed
the judges enamored with Wabi more tranquil event.
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“I’m a little disappointed
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work, crowd excitement, the
energy that they created — that against the 50th anniversary’s about the arches falling,” Jes-
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overwhelming crush of specta- sop said. “But that’s kind of just
was the one!”
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tors, the 2015 contest was rela- the way it goes.”
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while the crowds may have “We did one practice sculpture
found a bit of redemption.
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the one that fell, and it held for
said. “We brought some orga- seven Masters division plots.
about nine hours. Today it was
nization back to our group and
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worked a lot of things out, and
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