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Welcome to Hipstoria! Musical moments WEEKEND EDITION FRIDAY EXTRA • 1C 142nd YEAR, No. 258 FRIDAY EXTRA • 2C FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2015 ONE DOLLAR For globe-trotting opera singer, the Northwest feels like home Meade took unconventional path to stardom think how did this happen?” she said. Meade did not take the most con- ventional path to opera stardom. After Moments before taking the stage at graduating from high school in Centra- major venues in New York, London or lia, Wash., in 1995, she found her voice Spain, opera singer Angela Meade sits in in music classes at Centralia College, a KHUGUHVVLQJURRPDQGUHÀHFWVRQKRZIDU community college where she intended she has come in her career. to pursue medicine. “Sometimes I still pinch myself and I 6KH¿QLVKHGKHUEDFKHORU¶VGHJUHHLQ By KYLE SPURR The Daily Astorian PXVLF DQG YRFDO SHUIRUPDQFH DW 3DFL¿F Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash. Following a brief stint in New York, she continued her music education in Los Angeles and Philadelphia. She made her professional opera de- but in 2008 at the famed Metropolitan JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Opera House, or the Met, in New York Angela Meade will be portraying Mary, Queen of Scots, in City. a performance of Donizetti’s “Maria Stuarda” this Sunday at the Liberty Theater. See MEADE, Page 8A FRACTURED FRAMEWORK Local bridges in need of a fi x Our aging infrastructure Several Clatsop County bridges are VWUXFWXUDOO\GH¿FLHQW By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian M Functionally obsolete any of Clatsop County’s bridges are in need of signif- icant maintenance and repair, a new report shows, and federal and state transportation spending has not kept up with the demand for improvements. In “The Fix We’re in For: The State of Oregon’s Bridges,” Transportation for America, a Washington, D.C. -based infra- structure advocacy group, found that 17 of Clatsop County’s EULGJHV ZHUH VWUXFWXUDOO\ GH¿FLHQW WKH VHFRQGKLJKHVW countywide share in the state. 6WUXFWXUDOO\ GH¿FLHQW EULGJHV LQ &ODWVRS &RXQW\ LQFOXGH four major crossings — the Irving Avenue Bridge over 19th Street in Astoria, Old Youngs Bay Bridge on U.S. Highway 101 Business, Broadway Bridge over the Necanicum River and the Highway 101 crossing over Ecola Creek — that handle thou- sands of cars a day and are an average of 79 years old . 7KH VWUXFWXUDOO\ GH¿FLHQW GHVLJQDWLRQ GRHV QRW PHDQ WKH EULGJHVDUHXQVDIHEXWWKH\GRUHTXLUHVLJQL¿FDQWPDLQWHQDQFH and repair to decks, superstructures or substructures. Meanwhile, more than 20 other major bridges, most on fed- eral highways, are listed as functionally obsolete, not unsafe PACIFIC 101 FORT STEVENS STATE PARK Co TON HING WAS GON E R O lum Astoria Read the reports at www.dailyastorian.com Page 2A: Fight over fuel standard kills state transportation plan JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian River 25 1 24 Pacific What it means: Functionally obsolete – Does not meet current design standards due to volumes of traffic greater than originally anticipated during construction and/or the relevant design standards have been revised. Structurally deficient – A bridge rated 4 or less (poor condition or worse) on a scale of 0-9. The term does not imply it is unsafe, but such bridges typically require significant maintenance and repair. On the Web: t4america.org/maps-tools/bridges 101 O cea n 5 6 27 7 8 Seaside 9 10 11 SADDLE MOUNTAIN STATE PARK 12 13 28 22 23 30 Westport 4 3. Fort Stevens Hwy. spur over Skipanon River – Cars per day: 2,289; Built: 1929 4. U.S. Hwy. 101 over Turlay Road – Cars per day: 16,900; Built: 1930 5. U.S. Hwy. 101 over Neawanna Creek – Cars per day: 15,900; Built: 1930 6. 12th Avenue over Necani- cum River – Cars per day: 3,862; Built: 2003 7. Avenue G over Necanicum River – Cars per day: 3,310; Built: 1952 8. First Avenue over Necani- cum River – Cars per day: 5,518; Built: 2001 9. U.S. Hwy. 101 over Shangri La Creek – Cars per day: 10,500; Built: 1960 10. Avenue U over Necanicum River – Cars per day: 3,750; Built: 1957 11. East Broadway over Neawanna Creek – Cars per day: 5,076; Built: 2002 12. U.S. Hwy. 101 over Necanicum River – Cars per day: 10,500; Built: 1930 13. U.S. Hwy. 101 at inter- change with U.S. Hwy. 26 – Cars per day: 4,200; Built: 1987 14. U.S. Hwy. 101 over Arch Cape Creek – Cars per day: 3,300; Built: 1937 15. U.S. Hwy. 26 over Necanicum River – Cars per day: 6,200; Built: 1939 16. U.S. Hwy. 26 over Lindsley 26 2 3 2. U.S. Hwy. 101 Business over Lewis and Clark River – Cars per day: 3,400; Built: 1924 ONLINE AND INSIDE WAHKIAKUM Chinook 1. U.S. Hwy. 101 Business over Fifth Street – Cars per day: 4,600; Built: 1921 See BRIDGES, Page 7A From left, Dave Embree, Rodney Wendel, and Frank Berg, pour concrete on the Irving Avenue Bridge Tuesday. The $5.8 million replacement of the bridge is 90 percent fed- erally funded with the last 10 percent paid for by the city. Bridges of concern in Clatsop County * Ilwaco Many of the County’s bridges are in need of repair 202 202 CLATSOP 26 Cannon Beach 15 16 17 Jewell 26 18 19 103 Tolovana Park 20 21 14 26 53 2 miles TILLAMOOK Creek – Cars per day: 6,200; Built: 1955 17. U.S. Hwy. 26 over Little Humbug Creek – Cars per day: 6,200; Built: 1956 18. U.S. Hwy. 26 over West Humbug Creek – Cars per day: 6,500; Built: 1934 19. U.S. Hwy. 26 over East Fork Humbug Creek – Cars per day: 6,500; Built: 1934 20. U.S. Hwy. 26 at intersection with Oregon Hwy. 103 – Cars Sources: Federal Highway Administration; Transportation for America Phillips to pass Miss Oregon reins Longtime director retires, but will stay involved *Structurally deficient and functionally obsolete bridges handling thousands of cars per day. per day: 7,300; Built: 1939 25. Irving Avenue over a ravine in Astoria – Cars per day: 1,732; Built: 1946 22. U.S. Hwy. 30 over Gnat Creek – Cars per day: 5,500; Built: 1929 26. U.S. Hwy. 101 Business over Youngs River in Astoria – Cars per day: 4,600; Built: 1921 23. U.S. Hwy. 30 over Big Creek – Cars per day: 7,600; Built: 1951 27. West Broadway over Necanicum River in Seaside – Cars per day: 6,622; Built: 1924 24. U.S. Hwy. 30 over John Day River – Cars per day: 8,800; Built: 1990 28. U.S. Hwy. 101 over Ecola Creek in Cannon Beach – Cars per day: 4,300; Built: 1952 Research by Edward Stratton, Illustration by Alan Kenaga/EO Media Group Lack of power Energy tax credit program yielded untaxed gains By KATHERINE LACAZE EO Media Group SEASIDE — Miss Oregon. Those WZR ZRUGV DUH H[WUHPHO\ VLJQL¿FDQW to Dana Phillips. They represent a longtime source of pride, passion and, at times, stress for Phillips, who has served as executive director of the Miss Oregon Scholarship Program since 1986 and seen many young women she holds dear to her heart succeed . That will change Monday — after this year’s Miss Oregon is crowned Saturday — when the 65-year-old KATHERINE LACAZE — EO Media Group Phillips retires her post and hands the baton to three former Miss Oregon Dana Phillips, executive director of the Miss Oregon Scholarship Program, is retiring. She winners who together will take over. has been executive director since 1986 and in- See PHILLIPS, Page 8A volved in the program since 1979. Structurally deficient 21. U.S. Hwy. 26 over North Fork Quartz Creek – Cars per day: 7,500; Built: 1939 count to raise capital. Those sales produced a capital gain for the purchaser. Auditors discovered pur- chasers were not paying tax- es on those gains, which for By HILLARY BORRUD some taxpayers amounted to Capital Bureau more than $1 million. Audi- tors wanted to put energy tax SALEM — Auditors at credits under a microscope, the Oregon Department of ZLWKDVSHFL¿FSURMHFWWRORRN Revenue in 2012 were told to at tax returns of individuals ignore problems they found and corporations that claimed with the state’s business en- the credits. Instead, Oregon Depart- ergy tax credit, or at a mini- mum not to scrutinize them ment of Revenue director Jim Bucholz told auditors to hold too closely. The state issued the tax off because the Kitzhaber ad- credits to owners of renew- ministration planned to push DEOH HQHUJ\ DQG HI¿FLHQF\ for a bill in the 2013 legisla- projects. Project owners could tive session to retroactively use the credits to offset their See PROGRAM, Page 7A taxes, or sell them at a dis-