UG YEAR, No. 75 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2015 ONE DOLLAR Two PoUH yHDUV &it\ oI 6easide +ood to &oast get EaFk on traFk B\ 5- 0$5; The Daily Astorian 6E$6,DE — The Fit\ oI 6easide and +ood to &oast reaFhed an agree- Pent 0onda\ night to Fontinue their -\ear relationship Ior two Pore \ears 6easide is the ¿nal leg oI the -Pile rela\ whiFh originates in 0ount +ood and draws up to Yisitors to 6easide eaFh \ear The FounFil unaniPousl\ Yoted to grant +ood to &oast perPission to Ee held the weekend EeIore LaEor Da\ — the traditional date for the race — for two Pore \ears ³:e’re reall\ reall\ e[cited 6ea- side is such a Eig part of this race :e’re puPped´ said +ood to &oast &hief Operating Of¿cer Dan )lo\d after the Peeting ³, think this was all reall\ iPportant 6easide’s e[cit- ed we’re e[cited :e’re going to Ee Eack ne[t \ear´ Young and old share Yiews on end-of-life CKDQJH RI GDWH VRXJKW The rapprochePent occurred onl\ a few weeks after Eusiness owners presented a petition seeking a date change for the eYent ³$lthough the 6easide &haPEer of &oPPerce and Pan\ of the area’s lodging facilities Eene¿t ¿nancial- l\ Pan\ of us \ear-round Eusiness owners feel that the oYerall iPpact of hosting this PassiYe eYent during the Eus\ suPPer tourist season is neg- atiYe´ wrote Eusiness owners in a letter deliYered to the council at a workshop in 6eptePEer That nuPEer reached signa- tures E\ 0onda\’s Peeting Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Andrea Cano, a facilitator from the nonprofit Oregon Humanities, asks people around the room to say a word they think of when they think about death during the “Talking About Dying” event at the Astoria Library Friday. By ERICK BENGEL The Daily Astorian D eath and d\ing are not eas\ topiFs Ior eYer\one to dis- Fuss and the\ don’t alwa\s EeFoPe easier with age and e[perienFe :hen $ndrea &ano a IaFilitator IroP the nonpro¿t Oregon +uPan- ities asked a group oI aEout Post- l\ senior attendees to naPe a word or phrase that the\ assoFiate with d\ing Pan\ answers Pade this IaFt appar- ent ³long´ ³depressing´ ³worr\ing´ ³terriI\ing´ ³not read\ \et´ But Must as Pan\ answers were either neutral or positiYe ³peaFe´ ³painless´ ³Flosing´ ³leaYing´ ³PePories´ ³uni- Yersal´ ³ineYitaEle´ 6eYeral answers — ³Ee\ond´ ³reEirth´ ³ne[t liIe´ — had a spiritual ring and others — ³sad and glorious´ — Eespoke aPEiYalenFe This striking arra\ oI attitudes to- ward the realit\ oI iPperPanenFe — one’s own that oI Iriends and IaPil\ eYen oI pets — FoPPingled )rida\ eYening at the $storia PuEliF LiErar\ whiFh hosted the Oregon +uPanities eYent ³Talking aEout D\ing´ a Fon- Yersation the nonpro¿t is taking to FoPPunities aFross the state )or Pinutes the partiFipants reÀeFted on d\ing the inÀuenFes that shaped their EelieIs and Yalues aEout it and the an[ieties that FoPe with preparing Ior it See HOOD TO COAST, Page 7A Local schools short on suEs ³, liYed in a IaPil\ where \ou didn’t talk aEout ePotions and \ou Fertainl\ didn’t talk aEout death 0\ Iather was told he had a \ear to liYe so we danFed all around that´ one woPan said ³There are so Pan\ things , wished we’d had a FoPIort leYel a sFript soPething that would’Ye helped us haYe soPe FonYersations that would haYe Pade it eas\ Ior eYer\Eod\ in- Fluding P\ Iather´ 6he wasn’t alone in laFking the aEil- it\ or perPission to speak oI Portalit\ when a loYed one stood on the Erink — a de¿Fit that leIt Pan\ ill-eTuipped to Fope with the loss ³:e haYe patterns perhaps oI not talking aEout Fertain things eYen to the Yer\ end´ said &ano who guid- ed the disFussion Eut let attendees do Post oI the talking North Coast faces dearth of ¿ll-in teachers staff 7KH GHDG $Pong the group were people still reeling IroP the death oI a parent or partner Though soPe Fould speak Ireel\ iI soPEerl\ oI the deFeased By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian See DYING, Page 7A ,QYDVLYH JROG¿VK KDYH WR JR WR VDYH WURXW )LVKDQG:LOGOLIHNLOO¿VK in Eastern Oregon ponds By GEORGE PLAVEN East Oregonian PENDLETON — Bill Duke doesn’t know how sFhools oI gold¿sh FaPe to inYade Boundar\ Pond on the 8Patilla National )orest ,t’s possiEle the\ were pets soPeone released into the wild or liYe Eait that slipped oII a ¿sherPan’s hook ³:h\ \ou take \our gold¿sh out here , haYe no idea´ said Duke distriFt ¿sh Eiologist Ior the Oregon DepartPent oI )ish and :ildliIe in Pendleton :hat’s Flear Duke said is the FolorIul intruders don’t Eelong OD): routinel\ stoFks rainEow trout Ior anglers in tin\ Boundar\ Pond oII 6uPPit 5oad near 0ount EPil\ See GOLDFISH, Page 10A E.J. Harris/East Oregonian Kevin Drake, with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wild- life, puts on protective gear before using a drift boat to spray pesticide on a pond to kill illegally introduced spe- cies Oct. 7 in the Umatilla National Forest east of Meacham. Local school districts are running thin on suEstitute teachers and staff to ¿ll in for illnesses and tiPe awa\ and the rush is on to reinforce Eefore Àu season hits Cascade Technolog\ $lliance which proYides suEstitutes for school districts across seYen north- west Oregon counties including Clatsop is tr\ing to Euild a corps of reserYes Eefore Àu season hits 6teffanie )rost the suEstitute ser- Yices coordinator for Cascade Tech- nolog\ $lliance said out of aEout suEstitutes the alliance has in reserYe aEout percent are soPe- tiPes aYailaEle to work on the North Coast $n urEan-rural diYide coPes into pla\ )rost said the