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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2015
Regatta: ‘7he kids always like the boat parade’
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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.
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The Beat Goes On marching band from Portland marches
down Exchange Street during the Grand Land Parade.
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Thousands gathered for the Astoria Grand Land Parade Saturday.
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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
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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
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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
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%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
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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
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‘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.