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Astoria scoops up Clash win Salute to ¿UH¿JKWHUV SPORTS • 4A PAGE 7A 143rd YEAR, No. 76 110 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2015 ONE DOLLAR DIE EVERY DAY Astoria senior stages die-in to raise awareness of metastatic breast cancer New docs are in town OHSU provides stability to local emergency room By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Oregon Health & Science Uni- versity has taken over staf¿ ng at Co- lumbia Memorial Hospital’s emer- gency care. The hospital’s contract with North Coast Emergency Physicians, which had provided staf¿ ng for more than 20 years, ended Sept. 30, and OHSU’s doctors took over the next day. The hospital’s leaders stressed the change in ER operators wasn’t about quality, but rather about OHSU’s ability to recruit physicians. “The real decision around that was the leader of the physicians group saying he was stepping back,” Trece Gurrad, the vice president of clinical services . “We kept it going as long as we could,” the former director of the doctor’s group, Dr. Larry Zagata, Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Libby Di Bartolomeo, a senior at Astoria High School and one of the organizers of the die-in, asks for a moment of silence. By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Fired Port manager wants to add Raichl to lawsuit C ancer victims lined the À oor of Astoria High School’s commons Tuesday evening . Ninety people of all ages were divided in two rows and assigned a number for their chests. Student Libby Di Bartolomeo organized the siz able display for her senior project, but still fell 20 short of the estimated 110 people who die in the U.S. every day of metastatic breast cancer. Di Bartolomeo said the dif¿ culty in ¿ nding enough vol- unteers to play dead was a testament in itself to the impact of the fatal, yet often overlooked, ¿ nal stage for breast cancer patients. As many people do, Di Bar- tolomeo has a familial connection to breast cancer. Her uncle Denny Adams was one of the actors lying down Tuesday. Holding back tears, Di Bartolomeo spoke of Adams’ late wife and her aunt, Judy Adams, who died three years ago of the dis- ease. “It’s the very least I could do with the lives she touched,” Di Bar- tolomeo said . Metavivor Di Bartolomeo has been col- lecting donations at the high school and local businesses for Metavivor www.metavivor.org , a nonpro¿ t See DOCTORS, Page 10A Photos by Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian LEFT: Participants lay on the floor as part of a die-in for metastatic breast cancer at Astoria High School Tuesday. The die-in symbolizes the number of people that die every day from metastatic breast cancer. RIGHT: Libby Di Bartolomeo hugs her uncle, Denny Adams, of Knappa, after the die-in. Di Bartolomeo’s aunt and Adams’ wife, Judy Adams , died of metastatic breast cancer in October 2012. Bartolomeo said her aunt was one of the reasons behind choosing to host the die-in for metastatic breast cancer. created by people with metastatic breast cancer to advocate on behalf of more stage 4 research and a via- ble cure. Thirty percent of breast cancer patients have the disease metasta- size and move into other organs, becoming terminal. An estimated 110 Americans and 1,430 people worldwide die each day of meta- static breast cancer. But according to the Metastatic Breast Cancer Alliance, only 7 percent of breast cancer fundraising, which peaks each October during the pink-tinged National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, goes toward metastatic-fo- cused breast cancer research. “We have to start talking about it,” Di Bartolomeo said . “As human beings, we don’t like to talk about things that are hard.” The die-in was the culmination of Di Bartolomeo’s senior project, but her efforts continue, with do- nation jars on campus and at local businesses such as Fultano’s, Dairy Queen and the Short Stop Food Mart. She is also accepting check s payable to Metavivor through her father’s of¿ ce Di Bartolomeo Law Of¿ ce at 113 Exchange St. in As- toria, 7103. An estimated 155,000 Ameri- cans live with metastatic breast can- cer, often calling themselves “met- sters.” One of those people is Di Bartolomeo’s adviser on the project, Laura Snyder, a former bookstore owner, triathlete and school board See DIE-IN, Page 10A /DWHVW6HDVLGHORGJLQJSODQLVIRUWKHELUGV Can a chicken tractor make city hens more palatable? By KATHERINE LACAZE EO Media Group SEASIDE — A local resi- dent believes there is a way to allow hens inside city limits without the smell, noise and neighborhood disputes. Jennifer Barrett, owner of Hens’ Lodging Inc., petitioned Seaside City Council to amend the city’s chicken ban to make an allowance for hens, provid- ed they are contained in chick- en tractors or similar structures. The tractor is a bottomless, movable chicken “run” and nesting construction designed for a few hens. “Incorporating this concept into the ordinance will solve any and all problems that may have been faced by the city,” she said at the Sept. 28 council meeting. A city ordinance regulating nuisances states residents can- not keep poultry — as well as livestock, bees and other an- imals, except household pets — within city limits, unless authorized by the City Council for educational or entertain- ment purposes. The ordinance has been on the books “since he See SEASIDE, Page 10A Katherine Lacaze/EO Media Group Jennifer Barrett, owner of Hens’ Lodging Inc., peti- tioned the Seaside City Council to allow residents to keep hens within city limits, an activity banned under the city’s nuisance ordinance. Barrett advo- cates for the city to incorporate chicken tractors, or other movable, bottomless structures, suitable for about four chickens, into the ordinance. Herman’s suit alleges chairman did not protect whistleblower By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian John Raichl, chairman of the Port of Astoria Commission, could be the newest defendant added to a lawsuit ¿ led earlier this year by ¿ red Port Facilities Manager Tami Herman . Last week, Herman’s lawyer, Anne Foster, ¿ led a motion for an amended complaint seek- ing to add Raic- hl to the list of defendants. The amended com- plaint also seeks to add a second post-employ- John ment retaliation Raichl claim, alleging Commissioner Bill Hunsinger yelled an obscenity at Herman last month at an intersection in downtown Astoria. Herman and the Port’s former ¿ nance m anager, Colleen Browne, were ¿ red from the Port in Novem- ber, shortly after Executive Director Jim .night was hired. Both ¿ led separate but similar lawsuits in Feb- ruary against the Port and Michael Weston, the Port’s director of busi- ness development and operations, while leaving open up to 10 spots to add additional defendants if nec- essary. See LAWSUIT, Page 10A