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Corduroy joy? It’s a revolution COAST WEEKEND THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2015 143rd YEAR, No. 97 ONE DOLLAR Cormorant culling ends as migration commences S N I A T P CA POSITIVE PIONSHIPS WIAA VOLLEYBALL STATE CHAM Wildlife Services reveals 2,346 birds and more than 5,000 nests destroyed By LAURA BERG NW Fishletter/Energy NewsData CHINOOK, Wash. — The federal gov- ernment stopped shooting cormorants and oiling their nests to reduce cormorant pre- dation on juvenile salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River estuary last month. Wildlife Services, a federal agency con- tracted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engi- neers, killed 2,346 double-crested cormo- rants and destroyed more than 5,000 nests on East Sand Island between May 28 and Oct. 1. The island is located in Baker Bay near Chinook and the gun¿ re could some- time be heard echoing around the bay. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gave the Corps a one-year permit in April 2015 to kill 3,489 double-crested cormorants and to oil 5,879 nests through the end of January 2016. The permit also includes destroying 105 Brandt’s cormorants and 10 pelagic cormorants. This year’s culling activities end once most of the birds begin to migrate south for warmer climates, which is usually by the end of October. See CULLING, Page 10A p Patrick Webb/For EO Media Grou 3-1 eyball trophy after an energetic land display the District IV voll Lee dra - Ken Com and the left, of n, re Eato fixtu a lor n Naselle captains Tay ool. The two have bee the t over Three Rivers Christian Sch is n nigh Eato rday re Satu whe , h., ball Was soft er, wat win in Tum will play basketball then rs. When volleyball is over, they ets’ sports program for four yea pitcher and Leeland the catcher. By KATIE WILSON For EO Media Group Senior duo leads Naselle girls to state tournament — by example By PATRICK WEBB | For EO Media Group N ASELLE, Wash. — Once upon a time, there were two little girls who were good at sports. Now they’re poised young women. And they will tell you, in their polite but plain-speaking way, that this story isn’t about them at all. It’s about their TEAM. Friday the Naselle High School volleyball will play in the state tournament in Yakima , after a regular season in which they have only lost twice. Leading them will be seniors Taylor Eaton and Kendra Leeland. Both take captaincy seriously. Whenever a player misses a point, one or both will offer their teammate a positive word before they regroup and win back the serve. “Taylor and I have been playing together for who knows how long,” said Leeland. “We feed off each other. A negative attitude is always contagious , and so is a positive attitude.” The girls also play basketball together and are pitcher and catch- er on the Naselle softball team. They were called up to the varsity volleyball squad as freshman and have been its leaders since they were juniors. See NASELLE, Page 7A To seine or not to seine? Questions remain for new ¿ shing method Kim Eaton/Courtes y Photo Kendra Leeland, left, and Taylor Eaton attend a cheer- leading camp in 2004. The girls have competed in sports from an early age, lead ing their teams while helping others. notforsale Under a plan by disgraced former Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, the beginning of the end of commercial gillnet ¿ shing on the main stem of the Columbia River is little more than a year away, but it is still not clear if gear banned on the river for decades will ultimate- ly replace gillnets. Oregon and Washington’s advisory group and ¿ shery managers in both states are wait- ing for new information to be released that could clarify what the impacts of the pro- posed replacement gear — beach and purse seines — are on Columbia River salmon. What that data shows could make a big dif- ference in whether or not seines stick around. “Overall, they didn’t seem to perform as well as people had hoped (this year ),” said Stuart Ellis, of the Columbia River In- ter-Tribal Fish Commission and chairman of the Washington and Oregon advisory group, the U.S. v. Oregon Technical Advisory Committee. But, Ellis clari¿ ed, as a smaller-than-pre- dicted run of coho ¿ nally arrived in the river this fall, many ¿ sheries were catching less than expected. See SEINE, Page 10A North Coast Christian School in session, celebrates veterans Students gather to honor those who served country By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian A Cub Scout troop, led by North Coast Christian School third-grader Jaxson Bargeron, retired the American flag near the end of a Veteran’s Day celebration Wednesday at Gate- way Community Church in Hammond. In the background is a makeshift American flag created by the hand prints of stu- dents showing why they are thankful for veterans. HAMMOND — While other students took Veteran’s Day off Wednesday, the student body of North Coast Christian School took to the nave of Gateway Community Church to honor those who have served. One by one, using red and white construc- tion paper hand prints with a message why they are thankful for veterans, more than 100 stu- dents built a makeshift American À ag near the pulpit. Each student had something different to be thankful for. They ran the gamut from family members surviving cancer to having food on the table. With most schools closed for the day, third- and fourth-grade teacher Kirstin Salmi said the church and school wanted give veterans a place to be honored by youths. Chris Schau- ermann, principal of North Coast Christian and pastor of Gateway Community Church, made the rounds in the audience of family and friends Wednesday, letting kids give a shout- out to their veteran family members, some- times somber and other times akin an episode “Kids Say the Darndest Things.” See VETERANS, Page 10A
