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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2015
Fair: 4-H teaches children responsibility, how to deal with failure
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leadership club and is a cham-
pionship poultry showman
this year.
Interest in art
Jimenez doesn’t only show
animals. He also submitted sev-
eral pieces of artwork, a pair of
soccer-themed pajamas he’d
made and a horticulture project
featuring three succulents. Many
of his pieces received purple rib-
bons.
He uses different mediums
to create art. One of his friends
went to Washington, D.C.,
brought back a style of spray
paint art and shared it with
Jimenez and their other friends.
Jimenez creates planetary art-
work this way, vivid planets on
a black background spotted with
stars.
He also does pen art. One
such piece depicts a blue Lam-
borghini – the car, not the sheep.
Another piece shows his favorite
soccer player, Cristiano Ronaldo
of Real Madrid.
Jimenez enjoys his projects,
but his favorite part of the fair is
spending time with his friends. It
is the time of year he gets to see
his friends the most.
Goats can be
hard to walk
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showing animals. The Warrenton
Grade School student showed
dairy goats.
While waiting for her show-
manship competition Friday,
Rasmussen witnessed a goat give
birth at the fairgrounds. As she
watched, she made sure a little
girl next to her could see.
She takes care of Jacob, Beth-
any and Gretchen. Gretchen is her
favorite, even if she’s hard to walk.
“I love her and I love how she
acts,” Rasmussen said.
Her favorite part is spending
time with the goats.
Rasmussen leased the trio
from her 4-H leader, Gina Jasper.
Rasmussen is really good
with the animals and willing to
spend a lot of time with them,
Jasper said. She is always willing
to clean the pen.
Rasmussen lives in the city,
so taking care of Jasper’s animals
helps her see what farm life is all
about.
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
Juan Jimenez, left, talks with John Clement, right, while
working with his sheep at the Clatsop County Fair.
If Rasmussen is new to the
game, Jasper is a seasoned ex-
pert. She has been leading 4-H
for about 25 years.
“I love it, it’s the best thing,”
Jasper said.
Dealing with failure,
death
Through 4-H, Jasper said,
children learn about responsibil-
ity and dealing with failure.
Sometimes they do not match
the judge’s preference, some-
times their animals do not behave
Port: ‘I’ve never seen anything like this’
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Extraordinary twists
Over the past few months,
the dispute between the Port and
Smithart over control of the Riv-
erwalk Inn has taken several ex-
traordinary twists, with a revolv-
ing cast elbowing for position.
“I’ve never seen anything
like this,” Smithart said after
a court appearance in the case
Friday.
Smithart, who had fallen be-
hind on payments to the Port,
the city and county, said he is
still prepared to hand over man-
agement of the hotel. He would
like the new operator to keep his
staff of workers, who have been
running the hotel during the
controversy.
Both the Port Commission
and Smithart had agreed in
June to assign the remaining
two years of Smithart’s lease to
Ganesh Sonpatki, of the Param
Hotel Group in Portland, who
intended to operate the proper-
ty as a budget hotel. Sonpatki
prevented from now evicting”
Smithart.
Any losses or damages, Hen-
rie contends, are the result of the
Port’s negligence in failing to
execute the Port Commission’s
directive to assign the lease to
Sonpatki.
Along with Sonpatki, two
other suitors are interested in
taking over the Riverwalk Inn.
William Orr, a Seattle busi-
nessman who grew up in As-
toria, has formed a partnership
with Chester Trabucco — the
developer behind the Hotel El-
liott — and others to upgrade the
hotel as part of a marina village
redevelopment.
Mark Hollander, the presi-
dent of Hollander Hospitality
of Bellingham, Wash., is inter-
‘Unclean hands’
ested in bringing a Marriott to
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eviction case, Damon Henrie, a about a short-term manage-
Beaverton attorney for Smithart, ment agreement with the Port
argues that the Port’s failure to operate the hotel while nego-
to assign the lease to Sonpatki tiating a long-term deal to rede-
shows the Port has “acted with velop 6 acres the Port holds in
unclean hands and should be Uniontown.
had agreed to pay off more than
$350,000 of Smithart’s public
debts.
But the lease was not as-
signed to Sonpatki before it was
terminated by the Port. Colin
Hunter, a Portland attorney for
Sonpatki, said the holdup was
because the assignment did not
include a provision of the lease
that would have given Sonpatki
the option to renew for another
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tained in the lease,” Hunter said.
“That’s what the Port promised
and that’s what we think the Port
should be held to.”
— whatever the challenge, they
still do their best.
Then there is the market ele-
ment.
Jasper starts out by informing
the 4-H students that many of the
animals they have will go to mar-
ket. Sometimes, children want to
keep their animals, but she shows
them how big those animals can
get.
“It’s really emotional for
them because they spend a lot of
quality time with their animals,
especially at fair,” Jasper said.
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
Emily Rasmussen competes in the goat showmanship
competition at the Clatsop County Fair.
LNG: Oregon LNG has brushed
off other adverse rulings
brushed off other adverse
rulings against the project,
At an interagency meet- which involves an 87-mile
ing in 2009, the Army Corps pipeline from Washington
raised concerns that the proj- state through Columbia, Til-
ect could intersect with dikes lamook and Clatsop counties
and levees on the easement to an export terminal in War-
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al of dredge spoils. Oregon
In April, the state Land
LNG, in a declaration to the Use Board of Appeals up-
court, said the company had held Clatsop County’s 2013
not been aware prior to that decision to deny a permit
meeting that the Army Corps for a portion of the pipeline.
would assert any interest in Oregon LNG responded by
the land.
saying the company would
Oregon LNG sued the continue to pursue the proj-
Army Corps over the issue ect, downplaying the impor-
last August.
tance of local review.
An attorney for Oregon
Local, state and federal
LNG could not be reached for agencies are examining dif-
comment on the magistrate ferent aspects of the project.
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impact statement could be
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Critics celebrate
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ermen and many residents in
Warrenton and Astoria have
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ect, warning that the pipeline
and terminal could pose safety
and environmental risks.
Critics have celebrated
every potential setback for
Oregon LNG as victories that
could doom the project.
“The corps vigorously de-
fended this lawsuit to protect a
valuable public property right
and the court got it right,”
Miles Johnson, a clean water
attorney for Columbia River-
keeper, a Hood River-based
environmental group, said in
a statement.
Johnson said the ruling
“could spell the end to Oregon
LNG’s 10-year effort to site one
of the most destructive, danger-
ous projects we’ve ever seen pro-
posed on the Columbia River.”
Miethe: Her 2015 softball season began
back in March at Warrenton High School
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As it turned out, Miethe was
the team’s leading hitter in Ten-
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and three RBIs.
For the summer season,
Miethe was second on the
Stealth in batting average
(.500) and runs scored.
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she had a run-scoring triple
and scored on a wild pitch.
“I adjusted really well to
the pitching,” Miethe said.
“There were a few girls who
threw a ton of rise balls. We
got a few hits off them.
“We got a lot better during
the season,” she said. “It was
hard for me going from a small
community like Warrenton to a
large community. But it was a
lot of fun, I got a lot better and
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in March, at Warrenton High
School. Miethe was the start-
ing catcher for the Warriors,
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league team as a sophomore.
She was also honorable
mention all-state.
Watched college
softball World Series
From there, she joined up
with the Stealth — but not be-
fore making a trip to Oklaho-
ma City to watch the NCAA
college softball World Series.
Once there, “I loved it. I
had so much fun,” she said. “I
met one of my favorite play-
ers (Louisiana State Univer-
sity’s Bailey Landry),” and
also touched base with former
University of Arizona and
USA national team pitcher
Jennie Finch.
“She was real sweet and
very nice,” Miethe said.
Miethe then took up some
odd jobs to raise funds for her
trip to nationals, then arrived
in Tennessee a few days be-
fore the tournament, so her
mom — Warrenton coach
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can throw people out. We had
a couple girls who are really
good at catching, and they de-
served that spot.
“Our pitcher was injured,
but we fought through and
played hard.”
And now, it’s on to more
softball, of course.
In addition to playing var-
sity volleyball for the War-
riors, Miethe will compete in
fall softball.
“It keeps me in shape,”
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“I played pretty good,” want to continue playing, be-
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— Gary Henley
Staci Miethe — could visit
Graceland in Memphis.
“She had a great time,” she
said. “She’s a big Elvis Pres-
ley fan.”
The Stealth lost to the In-
diana Dreams last Wednesday
night — which was more of a
nightmare for the Stealth, who
committed nine errors; and
the Birmingham, Ala., Mus-
tangs knocked the Stealth out
of the tournament Thursday
afternoon, 10-2.
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