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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2015 Regatta: ‘7he kids always like the boat parade’ Continued from Page 1A Local and regional groups took part in the parade, from costumed players in the salty melodrama musical “Shang- haied in Astoria” to the Portland Royal Rosarians, dressed to the nines. Dancers representing Provi- dence Seaside Hospital moved to the beat of “Stayin’ Alive,” a song used to set the rhythm for a CPR technique. “CPR saves lives, man,” one of the dancers called out, attired in blue scrubs with medical boo- ties. Pageant winners from all over waved from elaborate Àoats, including 0iss Clatsop County and 0iss 2regon fourth runner-up Ale[is 0ather. 7he Regatta court also made an ap- pearance, riding on their spar- kling Àoat. 7ashi *remar, a substitute teacher in the Knappa School District, attended the parade with her children Nadia, 7, and Kaden, 10. *remar had ties to many of the groups in the parade, point- ing out those she knew or wav- ing to familiar faces. “Since I’m a teacher, half of them will try to avoid contact,” she said as the state champion Knappa Loggers baseball team cruised by on their Àoat. Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian The Beat Goes On marching band from Portland marches down Exchange Street during the Grand Land Parade. Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Thousands gathered for the Astoria Grand Land Parade Saturday. Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian People wave and cheer from the Columbia Maritime Muse- um during the Highwater Boat Parade Saturday. Parading on the river 7he *rand Land Parade wasn’t the only parade Satur- day. 7he Highwater %oat Parade took the festivities to the Colum- bia River. People gathered at the 17th Street Dock to watch the parade of 17 registered boats, with a few unregistered party crashers thrown in. 7he gray sky sent a few mists of rain down, but the weather didn’t impede the mar- itime procession. “7his odd wind is keeping the river Àat,” said Hal Nauman, from the Regatta committee. “7he water is comfortable for these boats.” Leading the boats was the bright yellow Columbia River Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Willis Van Dusen waves to the crowd as the grand marshal of the Grand Land Parade. %ar Pilot ship Astoria, which carried the Regatta court. 7he boats came in at about knots, a little faster as they rode the Àood tide, according to Nau- man. Sea lions kept the attention of many parade watchers before and even during the parade, breaching the water with loud snorts before diving back under in groups. ‘Out of the soup’ As the Clatsop County Sher- iff’s 0arine Patrol boat went by, Nauman, who announced for the parade, followed up with commentary. “I say *od bless them, they pull you out of the soup more often than they write tickets,” he said. 7he water ta[i 0iss 0olly did a donut on the river for the boat-watchers on the dock be- fore returning to the route. 7he Port of Astoria 7rident shot Mets of water up in the air, and the shrimper Capt. Ryan sprayed water from a hose on deck. “7his is a really good pa- rade, I think one of the better ones we’ve seen,” said Astoria resident Angie Cereghino. “7he Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Sailboats race through the Columbia River Saturday. kids always like the boat pa- rade.” Her favorite was the Capt. Ryan, which came in close to the dock, while some of the children she was with liked the 0iss 0olly and the Astoria, but mostly because that’s where the Regatta court was. “7hey know the queen, so they were pretty excited to see her out there,” Cereghino said. )ireworks ¿lled the sky over the river after dusk on Saturday night. 7he Regatta celebrations came to a close Sunday with the Summer Pops Concert at Astoria High School, ending another year of the long-run- ning festival. Curtis: She started out making boxes, then graduated to canning Continued from Page 1A %etty Curtis ² who start- ed out making boxes and, upon turning 1, graduated to canning ² worked summers for %umble %ee during high school and college from the mid- to late 1960s. While enrolled at 2regon State University, where she studied math, science and ed- ucation, she earned enough money each summer to pay for a full year of tuition, which, at the time, was about $330, she said. 2ne August, she worked in the Elmore cannery and made more than $600. “I guess I didn’t realize how spoiled I was with all the good Mobs,” she said. “7oday, where can a college kid get a Mob and make enough mon- ey) in a summer to pay their tuition and board at a univer- sity" 7hey can’t.” ‘I worked here, dammit!’ Smell aside, Curtis and her %umble %ee brethren have fond memories of the canner- ies. Astoria resident Ron Larsen remembers the friendships he formed as a 17-year-old cold storage worker during the summer of 190. “Working here was one of the funnest Mobs I ever had,” he said. “We worked hard ... but it was interesting work. And, of course, you get guys of the same age together, there’s) always a little goof- ing off and stuff. %ut you still did the Mob.” Larsen walked over to a stretch of wall where hun- dreds of cannery workers, including Larsen, from %umble %ee and elsewhere signed their names with felt- tip pens and recorded their cannery Mobs and years of employment. A tradition begun at the first reunion by Peter 0arsh, the museum director, the wall of names allows the workers to claim ownership of a place where they spent a significant part of their lives ² to memorialize their contribution to the canning trade. “It’s a way to say, ‘Hey, I worked here, dammit! I put in good time, and my name’s on the wall,’” 0arsh said. Slowing down Naturally, things are slowing down for the peo- ple who worked at the can- neries, 0arsh said. “Sad but true, we’re going to have less people here as time goes by,” he said. Every year, a greater per- centage of the wall’s sig- natures are those of the de- parted. Curtis’ father passed away in 001, four years be- fore he had the chance to add his name to the collection. “A lot of these people are no longer around,” Larsen said, perusing the names. “So how long this reunion will go on" I don’t know. %ut for now it’s nice to see it going on.” — Erick Bengel Seaside: 7here’s concern over how future tsunamis could impact the Southeast Hills Continued from Page 1A While a Seaside School Dis- trict 10 campus is not planned for the site, at earlier meetings commission members said a potential new school campus could be readily accessible to Southeast Hills. 2f the proposed 00. acres of Southeast Hills, the city is proposing to designate 61.3 acres as residential low density; . acres as residential medium density; 33. acres as residential high density; .3 acres as resort residential; 16.1 acres as indus- trial; 1. acres as institutional; and 10.6 acres as park. “We’re not proposing or sug- gesting that any property owner has to change their current use,” Commission Chair Ray Romine said. “All we’re doing is mak- ing a proposed urban growth boundary expansion for some future development to occur. 7hat doesn’t mean that it will, it Must means that it can.” 7he city is working with consultants from HL% 2tak Inc. 7he local engineering and consulting ¿rm was hired for the city by Weyerhaeuser, which owns much of the land under consideration. Future tsunami During the meeting, the commissioners brought up con- cerns over how future tsunami events of various sizes might impact the Southeast Hills area and how to factor that into ur- banization decisions. Don Hanson, a principal and director for HL% 2tak, provided a map of the Southeast Hills area overlayed with a tsunami mod- eling graphic, developed by the 2regon Department of *eology and 0ineral Industries. 7he map showed the probable impact on the area in case of ¿ve differ- ent tsunami event %ecause a large scenarios, labeled as or medium event “7-shirt sizes,” or S, is considered “very 0, L, ;L and ;;L. probable” in the fu- “We went through ture, commissioners the acreage by zone, focused on those by proposed land use scenarios. Under a in the area and pro- large disaster sce- vided a summary so nario, 1 percent you could see which of both residential land uses end up in high-density and 1 Don which 7-shirt size percent of industri- Hanson tsunami event,” Han- al land in Southeast son said. Hills would be impacted, which 7he Southeast Hills provides concerned members of the com- relative safety in the case of mission. a small- or medium-size seis- 7he proposed expansion mic event. If a small tsunami doesn’t get buildable lands com- occurred, only 3 percent of the pletely out of the inundation land would be affected. zone, but it lessens their risk If an extremely large event and in some cases takes future occurred, all of the Southeast residents completely out of risk Hills industrial and parklands categories, Seaside Planning Di- would be impacted. A large por- rector Kevin Cupples said. tion of residential land would be Think ahead affected, including 0 percent of Commissioners 7om Horn- high density residential lands. ing and Richard Ridout sug- gested it might be best to think ahead and start encouraging population growth further up- hill through the urban growth boundary expansion process. 7he decision to put the area with a higher-densi- ty designation on the low- er slopes, and subsequently more at-risk in case of tsuna- mi events, is because the area would provide better access to the public transportation sys- tem or pedestrian pathways, which many residents rely on, Hanson said. “We’re always weighing one thing against another,” he said. During the two public hear- ings on the topic, landowners in the Southeast Hills area voiced concerns about how the boundary expansion could af- fect their neighborhood. 7hey said they are worried about tax increases, overdevelopment, environmental impacts and higher traf¿c volume, espe- cially on Wahanna Road. 2ther residents have stressed the need for more af- fordable housing to maintain seasonal and resort employ- ees. Expanding the boundary means providing additional land that can be developed at urban-level densities, which could help with the city’s housing issue. Planning Commission members said they are seek- ing input from the state on the zone changes. Seaside resident Angela Fairless suggested the city also seek input from the North Coast Land Conservancy and Necanicum Watershed Coun- cil. 7he public hearing was continued to the Planning Commission’s Sept. 1 meet- ing. Lopez: He was disciplined in 006 for having a sexual relationship with a patient Continued from Page 1A ‘Nightmares, anxiety’ In the civil lawsuit, the woman sought ,7 in economic damages for medi- cal expenses and 10,000 in non-economic damages relat- ed to her emotional distress. She has nightmares, anxiety, panic attacks, fear and mis- trust of all medical profes- sionals, according to the law- suit. “His only intent was to gratify his sexual desires by touching her private parts with no intent to provide proper chiropractic care,” Jerry Widawski, the woman’s attorney, wrote in the lawsuit. During an appointment in September 013, she reported that while Lopez was stretch- ing her legs out by pushing on her inner thigh and knees, his hands moved from the inner thigh across her vagina and then up the other thigh. 7ouching an intimate part of the female body is not a medically recognized method of chiropractic treatment, and the woman did not consent to any of the acts, the lawsuit states. She reported the incident to the Clatsop County Sher- iff’s 2f¿ce. In an attempt to get an admission, a deputy urged the woman to send a text message to Lopez ask- ing him to sexually touch her again. He responded, “I will. I did it at ¿rst by accident but second time it was not an ac- cident. I liked it.” Clatsop County Circuit Court Judge Paula %rown- hill Wednesday awarded the woman 30,00 in econom- ic damages and $10,000 in non-economic damages, total- ing $0,00. “After she met with law enforcement in the days after the incident, she became fear- ful and anxious,” %rowhill wrote. “I conclude there is a reasonable probability that defendant’s medical negli- gence caused plaintiff’s emo- tional distress.” %rownhill ruled in favor of Lopez on one point related to his intent to inÀict emotional distress, which the woman had claimed. Lopez did not intend to cause the woman distress, %rownhill ruled, he touched her for his own sexual grati¿cation. New charges Four more women have accused Lopez of similar sex abuse during the same time period as the previous vic- tims. 7he new victims claim Lo- pez touched them and made them touch him sexually, ac- cording to a complaint ¿led in April. He is charged with 11 counts of third-degree sexual abuse, a class A misdemeanor. A trial is scheduled in Sep- tember on the new charges. Lopez, who worked at North Coast Chiropractic Center in Warrenton, was arrested in September 013 and is currently on electronic monitoring. In December, he signed a document surrendering his chiropractic license and agreeing to never apply again. He is unable to practice any- where in the United States. Lopez had held his chiro- practic license since 1990. He was disciplined in 006 for having an intimate sexu- al relationship with a patient and was suspended for 30 days. He was required to pay a $,000 civil penalty and at- tend an ethics program.