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See otters on the coast? Winter Sports Previews kickoff FRIDAY EXTRA • 1C SCHEDULE • 9A 143rd YEAR, No. 108 ONE DOLLAR FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2015 • WEEKEND EDITION Shelter from the storms Long Beach Peninsula team seeks churches to host homeless By KATHERYN HOUGHTON EO Media Group Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian Thankful Hearts volunteer Andy Pittard finishes off a Thanksgiving plate with a roll Thursday at the Warrenton Community Center. Thankful Hearts feed all Friends serve free Thanksgiving feast in Warrenton By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian W ARRENTON — “It’s such a happy surprise,” said 81-year-old Elise Chubins- ki, waiting outside her home in War- renton Thursday afternoon. Chubinski was approached by Thankful Hearts volunteers Vern Lamping and Carl Burkhart, out de- livering about 25 Thanksgiving meals to local residents. Chubinski’s family is in California, and she and a friend planned to take their meals and some seed out for a picnic and bird-watch- ing by the water. “That’s the best offer I’ve had all month,” Chubinski said after Bur- khart urged her to instead join the festivities at “A Community Day of Thanks,” the free Thanksgiving feast LQLWV¿IWK\HDUDWWKH:DUUHQWRQ&RP- munity Center. At the center Thursday, Burkhart and group of about 20 Thankful Hearts volunteers served hundreds of dinners to all comers in one of the region’s sev- eral free Thanksgiving feasts. Lisa Lamping and longtime friends, Dianne Burkhart and Kel- lie Clark, organized the event after talking to friends who make meals on the Long Beach (Wash.) Peninsula. “Dianne was talking to us about how cool that was, and we were all sitting around one day and said ‘why not?’ Let’s do this’,” Lamping said With volunteers largely culled from friends and family, Dianne Bur- khart said Thankful Hearts has fed 225 Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian Thankful Hearts volunteer Lavaudus Scott welcomes diners to “A Community Day of Thanks,” the free Thanksgiving feast at the War- renton Community Center. to 250 people a year on about $1,000 worth of groceries, paid for through donations. The dinner includes all the most ubiquitous Thanksgiving staples, such as turkey, ham, stuff- ing, mashed potatoes, spiced yams, green beans, corn, cranberry sauce and ambrosia. Many of the desserts are donated by community members, including award-winning baker Muri- el Dunn, who Lamping said has sold pies at auction for $800. The volunteers cook much of the food the day before, then gather on Thanksgiving to heat it up, mash po- tatoes, set tables and sit down for their own bite to eat before opening the doors. “They don’t have to be homeless or needy,” Lamping said. “If you don’t want to be around your rela- tives, come be with us.” Bud Haskell, 87, sat eating his dinner Thursday, a photo of him and his late wife, Ruth, propped up on the table in front of him. “She wasn’t with me for Christ- mas, but she’s here with me today,” Haskell said, adding he is thankful just to have a place to go be with peo- ple, get off the street have a Thanks- giving meal. Noble Benson, who traveled from West Virginia to enroll in the seaman- ship program at Tongue Point Job Corps Center, said he was one of only about 40 students left on campus. A family he befriended at the First Bap- tist Church in Astoria invited him to the event, and he said he would have been sleeping in his dorm if not for the Day of Thanks. Friends and family Many of the volunteers are drawn through their friendships. Lavaudus Scott, a transplant from South Carolina who had visited the coast before mov- ing a little over a year ago, said Lamp- ing paid for his ticket to come out, and her family put him up while he got on his feet on the other side of the country. “She helped me understand that actions speak louder than words,” Scott said Thursday, while greeting guests to the community center. Another grateful volunteer Thurs- day was Lisa Lamping’s daughter Katie, who two weeks ago narrowly escaped with her life. Katie, a nurse’s assistant at Provi- dence Seaside Hospital, laid down for a nap on her mother’s couch earlier this month after the two had gone out to lunch. “She came in and found me in var- ious stages of cardiac arrest,” Katie Lamping said of her ordeal. “I was still breathing, but I didn’t have a pulse.” .DWLH /DPSLQJ ZDV UXVKHG ¿UVW to Columbia Memorial Hospital then to Oregon Health & Science Univer- sity, where she said doctors planned to purposely put her into a coma and cool her body down to slow the loss of brain cells. She said members from her church came to pray for her, and by the next morning, she had woken up and started a quick and full recovery. Only about 10 percent of people who suffer cardiac arrest survive, according to the American Heart As- sociation, and 30 percent when a by- stander quickly notices. Katie Lamping has tubular scle- rosis complex, a rare genetic disease that causes benign tumors to grow on the brain and vital organs. She said GRFWRUV LQVWDOOHG D GH¿EULOODWRU WR kick-start her heart if necessary and soon cleared her to resume her vol- unteer activities, which range from medical work in developing nations to serving Thanksgiving dinners each year at the Day of Thanks. “I’m thankful for being alive,” she said. “I’m thankful for my family and friends.” LONG BEACH, Wash. — Those ZKRDUHKRPHOHVVLQ3DFL¿F&RXQW\ may have access to public shelter for WKH¿UVWWLPH+RZHYHUPDQ\SHRSOH on the Long Beach Peninsula have said they’re unsure if the community is prepared to take on the responsi- bility. Peninsula Poverty Response an- nounced they have been preparing with the county to host people with- out a place to live. The program, Overnight Winter Lodging, would rotate between host churches until spring, Chairwoman Adrienne Stre- hlow said. See SHELTER, Page 7A The Blob is not a laughing matter Fishing, clamming seasons are slammed By DANI PALMER EO Media Group CANNON BEACH — This \HDU¶V¿VKLQJDQGFODPPLQJVHDVRQV have been poor or nonexistent with DQRPDOLHVVWULNLQJWKH3DFL¿F2FHDQ Bill Peterson, a senior scientist for the National Oceanic and At- mospheric Administration Fisher- ies, spoke to a group of roughly 25 about the impact “the Blob” and a record-setting algae bloom have had RQ WKH VDOPRQ DQG FUDE ¿VKHULHV along with other animals, during a Haystack Rock Awareness Program talk at the Cannon Beach Library last week. The Blob is a large mass of warm water sitting off the West Coast, with potential long-term con- sequences to marine life. Peterson has been live sampling off the coast of Newport every two weeks for the last 20 years and has See THE BLOB, Page 7A Cannon Beach wants to evaluate all trees before taking them out Only unsafe, dying trees may be removed By DANI PALMER EO Media Group Cannon Beach is tak- ing another gander at its tree ordinance, working to better protect the piece of nature that allows it to lay claim to a Tree City USA status. Planning Commission members discussed the ordi- nance during a work session earlier this week, but made no decisions. Instead, they plan to seek public input. Those who wish to cut down trees in Cannon Beach must demonstrate a safety hazard or show the tree is dying and receive a permit. One idea suggested at the commission meeting was requiring tree-remov- al-permit applicants to sub- mit to an inspection by the city’s arborist. Cannon Beach has an arborist who examines city trees’ health, but in order to inspect trees on residential property, he needs permis- VLRQ¿UVW See TREES, Page 3A “ L ight up yo ur H o lid a y Sea s o n” L E D L I GH TI NG S AL E P r ic es Sta r tin g a t $79.95 H A L F O F F IN S TA L L A TIO N W ITH PU R CH A S E. G R EA T G IF T IDEA S F O R TH E S PECIA L G U Y IN YO U R L IF E. Rex Amos/For EO Media Group Spruce trees on Fifth Street near Larch Street in Cannon Beach had been slated for re- moval, but were saved due to community outcry. G ift Certifica tes Ava ila b le 503-738 -5342 • 8 00-8 8 9 -5342 1125 N . HOL L ADAY DRIV E S EAS IDE, OREGON w w w .S ea sideM u fflerO ffRo a d.c o m
