THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2015
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‘They shared a common bond. A bond with the sea’
Seamen’s
Memorial
honored fallen
mariners
By McKINLEY SMITH
The Daily Astorian
With the Astoria Bridge and
the rhythmic constancy of the
Columbia River as the backdrop,
civilians and the military gath-
ered to honor those whose lives
were lost to the river and ocean.
The Seamen’s Memorial
— part of the Astoria Regatta
— took place Friday morning
at the Maritime Memorial,
where the names of military
men and women, cannery
workers, ¿shermen and others
are immortalized in granite.
“They shared a common
bond. A bond with the sea,” said
Curt Nehring, a Columbia River
bar pilot.
As two bouquets of Àowers
were thrown into the river, sev-
eral boats assembled near the
memorial blasted their horns.
After the ceremony, U.S.
Coast Guard Chief Petty Of-
¿cer Chris Sheppard searched
the memorial for the plaque of
his wife’s grandfather, Kenneth
Berg, who had ties to the Paci¿c
Shrimp Cannery.
Sheppard had never met
him, but they shared a connec-
tion to the Coast Guard. It was
important for the family that he
saw the plaque today, he said.
“Everyone kept telling me,
‘Oh, you would have loved the
guy,’” Sheppard said.
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
Capt. Daniel Travers speaks during Seamen’s Memorial
event Friday.
Capt. Daniel Travers, left, and Curt Nehring, right, toss a wreath and a bouquet of flowers into the Columbia River during
the Seamen’s Memorial event Friday.
Public hearings set
for Tsunami Hazard
Overlay project
The Daily Astorian
Clatsop County’s pro-
posed Tsunami Hazard
Overlay project is com-
plete and scheduled for
review at two public hear-
ings.
The goal of the project
is to develop a comprehen-
sive plan through a public
involvement process to in-
crease resilience to a Cas-
cadia event tsunami.
The Planning Commis-
sion will conduct a hearing
at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug.
18.
The Board of Commis-
sioners will open a hearing
6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept.
23.
Both hearings will be
held at the Judge Guy Boy-
ington Building in Astoria.
The project is designed
to reduce the threat to life
and property and increase
the community’s ability
to respond to and recover
from an offshore Cascadia
Subduction Zone earth-
quake and tsunami using
new requirements, incen-
tives and other measures
covering the review and
authorization of develop-
ment within the tsunami
hazard area, according to
the county.
For more information,
visit the county’s Tsunami
Hazard Overlay website
at www.co.clatsop.or.us.
Written comments may
be submitted by 5 p.m.
the day prior to each hear-
ing by letter to: Board of
Commissioners, 800 Ex-
change St., Suite 410, As-
toria, OR 97103; by email
to comdev@co.clatsop.
or.us; or by fax to (503)
338-3606.
Researchers study home
weatherization, good bacteria
Associated Press
EUGENE — Research-
ers from the University of
Oregon are studying how
to keep beneficial bacteria
in the home while weath-
erizing to keep out the
cold.
The
Register-Guard
newspaper reported that UO
architect Charlie Brown,
microbiologist
Jessica
Green and others recently
won a $1 million U.S. Envi-
ronmental Protection Agen-
cy grant to study 72 houses
in Portland and Bend as
they are weatherized over
the next two years.
Their theory is that
heavily filtered, closed-off
indoor air supplies are un-
healthy because they de-
prive occupants of good
bacteria.
The pair’s work corre-
sponds with research into
the role of bacteria in the
human gut, which has re-
cently been shown to affect
weight and mood.
Brown and Green have
previously published on the
microbiology of campus
buildings and hospitals.
Event revisits Tillamook burn
The Daily Astorian
Eighty-two years ago
Friday, a steel cable drag-
ging a Douglas fir rubbed
against a snag and sparked a
fire in Gales Creek Canyon.
Thus began the Tillamook
Burn, a series of wildfires
that destroyed more than
350,000 acres of old-growth
timber.
The Tillamook Forest
Center steps back in his-
tory Friday, Saturday and
Sunday with “Return from
the Burn,” an interactive
look into how the Tillamook
Burn affected what is now
Tillamook State Forest be-
fore, during and after the
fires.
Each day runs from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m., with recur-
ring activities:
• Get a hug from Smokey
Bear and receive a free
goody bag from 11 a.m. to
2 p.m.
• Meet forest firefight-
ers, if available during fire
season, and spray a fire hose
from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
• Create arts and crafts.
• See a 1930 Ford Model
AA pumper truck.
A walkability tour and panel
discussion tonight will explore
issues of aging and mobility.
The “roll and stroll” starts at
5 p.m. at the Garden of Surging
Waves. The panel discussion
begins at 7 p.m. at the Judge
Guy Boyington Building.
Alan DeLaTorre of the Port-
land State University’s Institute
on Aging, Noel Mickelberry
of Oregon Walks and Elaine
Friesen-Strang of AARP Ore-
gon will guide the walkability
tour.
Along with DeLaTorre,
Mickelberry and Friesen-
Strang, the panel discussion
will include Kevin Cronin,
the city’s Community Devel-
opment director; Michelle
Lewis, of NorthWest Senior
& Disability Services; Brian
Mahoney, Clatsop County’s
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leys, interurban lines and
private railroads, primarily
for logging.
Kamholz also tells peo-
ple about the Oregon His-
torical Railroads Project,
which will map all of Ore-
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The Tillamook Forest
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Wilson River Highway,
at milepost 22 on Oregon
Highway 6.
Army Corps seeks comment on dredge spoils
The Daily Astorian
PORTLAND — The U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers
seeks public comments on the
handling of dredge spoils in the
Columbia River near Astoria.
The request concerns a draft
environmental assessment of
continued maintenance of the
Columbia River federal navi-
gation channel. The proposed
maintenance includes putting
dredge spoils on the eastern
shoreline of Rice Island and re-
handling material at an in-water
site near Howard Island.
The public comment period
ends Sept. 7.
Shoreline placement at
Rice Island, located near river
mile 22 next to the Lewis and
Clark National Wildlife Ref-
uge, would rebuild and protect
the existing upland placement
site. It would also allow de-
velopment of a forage area for
streaked horned larks, which
were listed as threatened under
the Endangered Species Act in
2013.
In-water re-handling of
dredged material is required
near Howard Island, near
where the Cowlitz and Colum-
bia rivers meet, because shoal-
ing is consistently forming too
far away from the island for a
dredge to directly pump that
material to the existing upland
placement site.
Find the Corps’ draft envi-
ronmental assessment at http://
tinyurl.com/p8rz45q
Comments and questions
regarding the draft document
should be directed to Kate
Michie at 503-808-4664 or
Kathleen.Michie@usace.
army.mil. Mailed comments to
Michie must be postmarked by
Sept. 7 and sent to: District En-
gineer, U.S. Army Corps of En-
gineer District, Portland, Attn:
CENWP-PM-E/ Kate Michie,
P.O. Box 2946, Portland, Ore-
gon 97208-2946.
In responses, refer to the
public notice number (CEN-
WP-PM-E-15-05), title and
date. If no response is received
and postmarked by the closing
date, a “no comment” response
will be assumed.
SeYeraO ¿shermen taNe diSs in CoOXmbia
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
The U.S. Coast Guard
and other authorities on the
Columbia River had a busy
weekend with the Buoy 10
salmon fishery, along with
the Oregon Tuna Classic
tournament.
The Coast Guard han-
dled 19 cases over the
weekend, most minor and
none resulting in any inju-
ries.
“Probably the most no-
table one was the capsized
vessel out by the North
Jetty that put five people
in the water,” Coast Guard
watch stander John Dodd
said about a capsizing Sat-
urday afternoon near Buoy
3 off of Peacock Spit.
All the fishermen had
on life jackets, he said, and
several had personal loca-
tor beacons activate when
they hit the water, pinging
their location as far away
Walk, panel discussion to focus on age-friendly communities
The Daily Astorian
• Complete in the Tilla-
mook Forest Center trea-
sure hunt or Wheel of Forest
game and win prizes.
At 1 p.m. Saturday, na-
ture educator Bruce Rottink
offers a glimpse into log-
ging before the chainsaw
and the tools used to bring
down giants, like oil bottles,
falling wedges, cat chokers
and a “Tillamook Diving
Board.”
At 1 p.m. Sunday, histo-
rian Ed Kamholz provides
a pictorial overview of the
railroad development of Or-
egon, including main line
Public Health director; and
Scott Tucker, superintendent
of Lewis and Clark National
Historical Park.
The events, promoted by
the Lower Columbia Diver-
sity Project, are sponsored by
AARP Oregon, the Oregon
Gerontological Association and
Oregon Walks.
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The Washington Depart-
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The Coast Guard reported
that several other boats were
reported sinking or disabled
in dangerous conditions.
The wind picked up
above 10 mph between
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day, according to the Na-
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The weather gets cloudier
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