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Relay for Life lights up the night All-Stars in the championship NORTH COAST • 3A SPORTS • 7A MONDAY, JULY 13, 2015 143rd YEAR, No. 9 ONE DOLLAR Astoria ferry may return home next month Community challenged to ¿nd future for a piece of its past By ERICK BENGEL The Daily Astorian A 91-year-old piece of As- toria’s maritime history — the Tourist No. 2 ferry — will return home sometime next month for the community to behold and possibly board at the 17th Street Dock. And, if Robert “Jake” Ja- cob, the man who arranged the vintage vessel’s home- coming, has his way, Astoria won’t let it go. Ideally, he said, the community will ¿nd Pictured is Tourist No. 2, a small ferry that transports tour- ists and their cars. Aboard the ship are old cars and peo- ple taking in the view. Courtesy of Clatsop County Historical Society a way to take ownership of the ferry and turn it into some- thing grand. “All I’m trying to do is get it here and let the commu- nity look at it and see if we can come up with an idea (to keep it),” said Jacob, the ma- jor owner of the Cannery Pier Hotel. Upon recently learning that the Tourist No. 2 resides in Bremerton, Wash., Jacob contacted the owner, Capt. Christian Lint. The men agreed that the ferry belongs in Astoria. Now Lint is per- sonally preparing to sail the ferry southward, though he said he doesn’t know when he will embark on the cruise. “We’ll see what kind of re- ception ... it gets,” said Lint, the managing director of Bare Boat Charters who bought the vessel from Ferry Kirkland about ¿ve years ago. See FERRY, Page 10A A matter of life and death Kitz leaker lied to police By HILLARY BORRUD Capital Bureau Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Lewis and Clark volunteer firefighters work to remove volunteer Meisha Boettcher from a car during a mass-casualty training exercise simulating a collision between a bus and a car at the Lewis and Clark dry-sort yard Saturday. About 20 people volunteered to act wounded in the simulation. Fire¿ghters test their skills in crash simulation The Daily Astorian 9olunteer ¿re¿ghters from the Lewis and Clark Fire Department honed their skills during a mass-casualty simulation Saturday at the See SIMULATION, Page 10A Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Dan Bunnage, a Lewis and Clark volunteer firefighter, carries Haylee Herndon during a training exercise at the Lewis and Clark dry-sort yard Saturday. Volunteer Pat Keefe sports a fake head wound during the training exercise. SALEM — A state employee who leaked former Gov. John Kitzhaber’s emails to the Willamette Week news- paper lied to State Police who inves- tigated the incident this spring. When Oregon State Police asked Michael Rodgers how the newspaper obtained the emails, Rodgers said he suspected the leaker was someone in the Kitzhaber administration, accord- ing to a state police report released on Friday. Rodgers, the interim director of the state data center where Kitzhaber’s emails are stored, admitted in a May 26 Willamette Week article that he leaked Kitzhaber’s emails, and also said he was the source who alerted the newspaper when a staffer in the Kitzhaber administration asked state information technology employees who worked with Rodgers to delete the emails. Rodgers released roughly 6,000 emails to the newspaper. Among the 1,500 pages of in- vestigatory records the state police released Friday was an email from Rodgers’ attorney to police, in which the lawyer explained that Rodgers “at all times acted in good faith” and was concerned he would have obstructed justice if he complied with the request to delete Kitzhaber’s emails. District attorneys in Marion and Yamhill counties announced in ear- ly June they would not ¿le criminal charges against Rodgers. Kitzhaber used a Gmail account for state business and the state set up a system to archive those emails on government computer servers. However, state employees realized earlier this year they had also been archiving emails from a separate ac- count which Kitzhaber considered personal. Employees discovered the situation after The Oregonian and Willamette Week newspapers ¿led public records requests on Feb. 2 for emails from Kitzhaber’s various email accounts. See KITZHABER, Page 10A Newcomer ¿lls out community college board T he only newbie to the Clatsop Community Col- lege Board of Directors in May was Anne Teaford-Can- tor, who replaced long-stand- ing member Paul Gillum who served from 1999, but felt it was time to pass the torch. Teaford-Cantor takes her oath of office Tuesday night during the college’s board meeting. Teaford-Cantor attend- ed the University of Cal- ifornia, Los Angeles from 1976 to 1987 for her bach- elor’s in communication, paralegal certificate and master’s in business ad- ministrations. Her house is filled with memorabilia from UCLA and her soror- ity, Alpha Chi Omega, and she remains heavily in- volved in it at the national level. But with the increased costs of higher education, Teaford-Cantor said com- munity colleges provide a increasingly vital avenue for students. “I think that the college is an extremely important part of this community,” said Teaford-Cantor, who started attending board meetings a year ago as her interest in serving grew. “It offers opportunities to a broad segment of this pop- ulation.” She believes the college can do a better job of market- ing itself, saying that retaining students and helping them get the skills businesses want is of the utmost importance. Work in California Teaford-Cantor worked as a litigation paralegal in Los An- geles for eight years and as an information systems consultant for the Arthur Andersen & Co. accounting ¿rm for one, be- fore working for Toyota Motor Sales from 1989 to 2000. “I made sure every bit of information put out to the consumer complied with truth in advertising laws,” Tea- ford-Cantor said, adding she reviewed one of the ¿rst Àop- py disks used for advertising, along with the development of the Toyota Prius. For her last job, Tea- ford-Cantor owned and operat- ed a home-based Àoral design company. See NEWCOMER, Page 10A Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian Anne Teaford-Cantor, the newest member of the Clatsop Community College Board of Directors, said her first nine years in Astoria was spent mostly fixing up her house. She was told the 1906 structure is the second-oldest standing house designed by locally famed architect John Wicks.