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Photo courtesy of the Columbia River Maritime Museum
Students from Tongue Point Job Corps Center scoured and repainted the pilot vessel Peacock at the Columbia River Maritime Museum.
EDUCATION
IN ACTION
Tongue Point Job Corps students
get real life lessons as interns
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randon Sadornas, a 21-year-
old Job Corps plastering stu-
dent, said he knew nothing
about John Jacob Astor when he came
to Astoria several months ago to join
Job Corps. But on Wednesday, Sador-
nas found himself more than 60 feet
in the air on the side of the Astoria
Column, painting primer onto a frame
around a portrait of Astor, the multi-
millionaire namesake of Astoria.
Sadornas is one of many Job
Corps students putting their skills
learned at the federal job-train-
ing program to use in assignments
around the community.
He is joined by Schuyler Lelake
and Lucero Garcia, two other plas-
tering students at Job Corps who are
helping ready the Column’s spiral,
pictoral frieze telling the stories of
the Corps of Discovery and Capt.
Robert Gray’s discovery of the Co-
lumbia River. The stories are etched
using the sgraf¿to technique, an
application of multiple layers of dif-
ferent-colored plasters,
“We’re repairing the substrates
so they can paint,” Lelake said.
The students are applying coats
of grob paint used to equalize tex-
tures and ¿ll cracks, while painting
medallions of the column and other
portions with primer before the de-
tail artists come in.
They are part of a team of ap-
proximately 13 artists and preser-
vationists working on the Column
under Marie C. Laibinis of MCL
Preservation LLC, which last re-
stored the Column in 1995.
“They’ve been a great help,” said
Laibinis, adding she had graduate stu-
dents helping in 1995. “And they’re
just excellent at what they do.”
John Goodenberger, a local res-
toration expert and project lead
for the Column, said Job Corps
students had helped him on resto-
rations at the Flavel House Museum
and at the Grace Episcopal Church.
Goodenberger said plastering in-
structor Brian Peterson met him on
the scaffolding one day, told him he
had three students and asked where
they could be put to work.
“They put us on schedule,”
Goodenberger said.
Laibinis said the Column resto-
ration was originally slated to start
in May, but was held back until af-
ter Memorial Day. The Job Corps
students have helped make up three
weeks worth of prep work for the
detail artists, she said.
See INTERNS, Page 8A
Astoria Mayor Arline LaMear
urged the state Department of En-
vironmental Quality Thursday to
block Oregon LNG from building
an export terminal in Warrenton,
warning
the
project
has
the potential
to
threaten
the health and
safety of resi-
dents.
The may-
or said Clat-
sop
County
has rejected
Arline
a pipeline for
LaMear
the project and
the department
is well positioned to deny wa-
ter-quality certification, like the
state did for the Bradwood Landing
LNG project east of Astoria several
years ago.
“Please help us keep Astoria and
our beautiful Columbia River safe
and healthy,” LaMear told the Envi-
ronmental Quality Commission, the
department’s policy and rulemaking
board, which held its August meet-
ing at the Hampton Inn and Suites in
Astoria.
See LNG, Page 8A
Lunch
for free
Government to
pick up tab for
Astoria lunches
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Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
Brandon Sadornas paints grob, used to equalize textures and fill
in small cracks, on the side of the Astoria Column beneath a por-
trait of namesake John Jacob Astor.
Contamination threatens shipyard’s future
Astoria Marine Construction Co.
facing expensive cleanup options
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Managing chemical contamination at the Astoria Marine
Construction Co. has complicated the shipyard’s future.
AMCCO, located on the Lewis and Clark River, is in the
process of developing a feasibility study to address contami-
nation and meet the requirements of the state Department of
Environmental Quality.
The study, conducted by AMCCO’s contractor GSI Water Solu-
tions Inc., does not include an option that would allow the shipyard
to remain open either during or after the cleanup of the site.
“Because of the contamination cleanup and the work that
needs to be done near AMCCO, there’s no economically fea-
sible way for AMCCO to continue its current business opera-
tions,” said Carson Bowler, AMCCO’s lawyer. “It’s too expen-
sive to replace the equipment AMCCO would need to use to
continue its business.”
See SHIPYARD, Page 8A
Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
Representatives from the Oregon Department of
Environmental Quality, its governing body the En-
vironmental Quality Commission and Gov. Kate
Brown’s office met in Astoria Wednesday to see
the progress on the environmental cleanup of As-
toria Marine Construction Co. The company’s large,
covered work space could have to be torn down to
reach contaminated soils underneath.
There will be such a thing as a
free lunch and breakfast at John Ja-
cob Astor and Lewis and Clark ele-
mentary schools this year, courtesy
of the National School Lunch Pro-
gram.
The Astoria School Board on
Wednesday OK’d participation in
the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
Community Eligibility Provision,
which will provide federal reim-
bursements for meals for at least
the next four years because of the
schools’ high poverty rate.
The provision arose from the
Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of
2010, allowing schools with high
poverty rates to provide free break-
fast and lunch to all students. It also
eliminates the administrative burden
of collecting applications for free
and reduced meals.
Astor and Lewis and Clark be-
came eligible because at least 40 per-
cent of their students are eligible for
the Supplemental Nutrition Assis-
tance Program and/or are considered
homeless runaways, migrants or fos-
ter students. Heidi Dupuis, program
manager for Oregon Department of
Education’s School Nutrition Pro-
gram, said there are 340 such stu-
dents — or 40.77 percent — iden-
ti¿ed at Astor and Lewis and Clark
elementary schools, which count as
a single group.
See LUNCHES, Page 8A
