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FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2015
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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
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she has come in her career.
to pursue medicine.
“Sometimes I still pinch myself and I
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The Daily Astorian
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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
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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
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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 .
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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
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Page 2A: Fight over fuel standard kills state transportation plan
JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
River
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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
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Westport
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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
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3
2. U.S. Hwy. 101 Business
over Lewis and Clark River –
Cars per day: 3,400; Built: 1924
ONLINE AND INSIDE
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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 *
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Many of the
County’s
bridges are in
need of repair
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26
Cannon Beach
15
16
17
Jewell
26
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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
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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
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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
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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-