UG YEAR, No. 75
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2015
ONE DOLLAR
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6E$6,DE — The Fit\ oI 6easide
and +ood to &oast reaFhed an agree-
Pent 0onda\ night to Fontinue their
-\ear relationship Ior two Pore
\ears
6easide is the ¿nal leg oI the
-Pile rela\ whiFh originates in
0ount +ood and draws up to
Yisitors to 6easide eaFh \ear The
FounFil unaniPousl\ Yoted to grant
+ood to &oast perPission to Ee held
the weekend EeIore LaEor Da\ —
the traditional date for the race — for
two Pore \ears
³:e’re reall\ reall\ e[cited 6ea-
side is such a Eig part of this race
:e’re puPped´ said +ood to &oast
&hief Operating Of¿cer Dan )lo\d
after the Peeting ³, think this was
all reall\ iPportant 6easide’s e[cit-
ed we’re e[cited :e’re going to Ee
Eack ne[t \ear´
Young and old share
Yiews on end-of-life
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The rapprochePent occurred onl\
a few weeks after Eusiness owners
presented a petition seeking a date
change for the eYent
³$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 $storia PuEliF LiErar\
whiFh hosted the Oregon +uPanities
eYent ³Talking aEout D\ing´ a Fon-
Yersation the nonpro¿t is taking to
FoPPunities aFross the state
)or Pinutes the partiFipants
reÀeFted on d\ing the inÀuenFes that
shaped their EelieIs and Yalues aEout
it and the an[ieties that FoPe with
preparing Ior it
See HOOD TO COAST, Page 7A
Local
schools
short
on suEs
³, liYed in a IaPil\ where \ou didn’t
talk aEout ePotions and \ou Fertainl\
didn’t talk aEout death 0\ Iather was
told he had a \ear to liYe so we danFed
all around that´ one woPan said
³There are so Pan\ things , wished
we’d had a FoPIort leYel a sFript
soPething that would’Ye helped us
haYe soPe FonYersations that would
haYe Pade it eas\ Ior eYer\Eod\ in-
Fluding P\ Iather´
6he wasn’t alone in laFking the aEil-
it\ or perPission to speak oI Portalit\
when a loYed one stood on the Erink
— a de¿Fit that leIt Pan\ ill-eTuipped
to Fope with the loss
³:e haYe patterns perhaps oI not
talking aEout Fertain things eYen to
the Yer\ end´ said &ano who guid-
ed the disFussion Eut let attendees do
Post oI the talking
North Coast faces
dearth of ¿ll-in
teachers staff
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$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
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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 <aPhill-Carlton
6chool District less than Piles
froP the center of Portland and coP-
paraEle in si]e to $storia has Pore
than suEstitutes aEout twice as
Pan\ as $storia $storia 6uperinten-
dent Craig +oppes said the district
has to suEstitutes working at
an\ giYen tiPe
See SUBS, Page 10A