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MONDAY, JULY 13, 2015
143rd YEAR, No. 9
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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.