143rd YEAR, No. 124
MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2015
ONE DOLLAR
Dredge spoil site could change Oregon LNG dispute
Corps not
looking for new
site, however,
spokesman says
By ERICK BENGEL
The Daily Astorian
WARRENTON — The U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers is unlikely
to give up an easement on a portion
of the Skipanon Peninsula voluntari-
ly so that Oregon LNG can build a
OLTXH¿HG QDWXUDO JDV IDFLOLW\ WKHUH
— unless, perhaps, the city of War-
UHQWRQ FDQ ¿QG DQRWKHU VLWH IRU WKH
Corps to deposit dredge spoils, an
Army Corps spokesman said Friday.
The land has been the subject of an
ongoing legal squabble between the
Army Corps and the energy company .
In September, Mike Connors, a
Portland attorney representing Ore-
gon LNG, said at a public hearing on
the company’s land use permit appli-
cations in Warrenton that he suspects
the Army Corps may want some-
thing in return for the easement.
He said that the dispute may get re-
solved outside of litigation if the two
parties can reach an agreement.
But Matt Rabe, Army Corps chief
of public affairs, said he doesn’t be-
lieve that outcome is very probable.
“I don’t think it’s feasible that
the Corps and Oregon LNG would
be able to work out a deal between
the two parties,” Rabe said. “Where
things stand right now, we have an
easement with the city of Warrenton
to use the property for a disposal site
for our navigation activities there on
the lower river, and that’s a piece of
property that we need in our invento-
ry in order to maintain the channel.”
He added, however: “I don’t see
anything moving off from there unless
the city of Warrenton were to bring us
a proposal for an alternative site.”
No need for an alternative
The city has spoken about the
easement issue with Oregon LNG
and the Army Corps, which has not
asked for an alternative site, City
Manager Kurt Fritsch said.
“It’s just sort of out there as an
idea,” he said. “It’s not something that,
at this point, we’re taking any actions
on. If somebody proposes something
to us, then we’ll take a look at it.”
See LNG, Page 10A
A BRIGHT SPOT Fire
ON ANOTHER TOUGH SUNDAY
alarm
Volunteer-heavy
¿UHGHSDUWPHQWV
cope with changing
training standards
Second of Two Parts
By KATHERINE LACAZE
EO Media Group
7DPPLH 0D\¿HOG RI 5DLQLHU
lived in Astoria when Poyer played
in high school and led the Fisher-
men to a state title in 2008.
She watched him grow up and
play sports with her children. To
VKRZ KHU VXSSRUW 0D\¿HOG PDGH
signs for the game Sunday, includ-
ing one that read: “The loud and
proud Astoria crowd!”
“This was huge. He’s not home
very often,” she said. “We used to
VHHKLPSOD\RQWKH¿HOGHYHU\)UL
day night.”
6($6,'( ² 9ROXQWHHU ¿UH GH
partments, in the past, were a lit-
tle loose. “ Drill nights were beer
and poker,” Hamlet Fire Chief Bill
Boone says. T hose days are long
gone.
As state requirements and restric-
tions for volunteers have changed,
departments have stepped to a higher
level of professionalism, but some-
times at the cost of muddling through
time-consuming bureaucracy.
“What’s changed is that (volun-
teers) have to reach a certain level
RIWUDLQLQJSULRUWRDFWXDOO\¿JKWLQJ
¿UHVQRZ´*HDUKDUW)LUH&KLHI%LOO
Eddy said. “Years ago, when you
¿UVW MRLQHG D ¿UH GHSDUWPHQW \RX
walked in, they gave you a pager,
a set of turnout gear and said, ‘ OK,
\RXFDQJR¿JKW¿UH¶1RZ\RXMRLQ
and you get training.”
The changes over the past three
decades mean volunteers have to
possess an increased commitment
and dedication to serve their com-
munities. Upon joining a depart-
ment, volunteers can look forward
to at least six months — or, more
realistically, about a year — of train-
ing and taking classes to obtain their
)LUH¿JKWHU,FHUWL¿FDWLRQDSUHUHTXL
VLWH WR ¿JKWLQJ ¿UHV 0RUH WUDLQLQJ
is needed for different specialties,
VXFK DV VXUI UHVFXH RU ZLOGODQG ¿UH
suppression . If they want to operate
D VSHFL¿F DSSDUDWXV OLNH D ODGGHU
truck or a pumper, there is additional
training and practice drives.
“Each piece of equipment, you
have to be at a different level to run,”
Seaside Fire Chief Joey Daniels said.
$VLGH IURP ¿UH¿JKWLQJ UH
quirements, there is the world of
Emergency Medical Service . The
Occupational Safety and Health Ad-
ministration mandates volunteers get
VWDQGDUG&35¿UVWDLGDQGDXWRPDW
HGH[WHUQDOGH¿EULOODWRU FHUWL¿FD
WLRQ)LUH¿JKWHUVDOVRDUHHQFRXUDJHG
to become EMTs or emergency med-
ical responders, a training offered
through the Clatsop County Fire-
¿JKWHUV $VVRFLDWLRQ RU SDUWQHUVKLSV
EHWZHHQ GHSDUWPHQWV )LUH¿JKWHUV
See POYER, Page 7A
See FIREFIGHTERS, Page 10A
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
Jordan Poyer lets out a laugh as he takes the field to start the game against the Seahawks at CenturyL ink Field in Seattle Sunday.
Poyer returns to Northwest in Browns’ loss to Seahawks
when Seattle played the Miami
Dolphins, his mother’s favorite
team at the time.
Now all of Poyer’s family are
Browns fans.
“I saw a lot of familiar faces in
the stands,” Poyer said. “Whether
they are Seahawks fans or Browns
fans, yelling my name, “Poyer.” It
was super cool.”
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
S
EATTLE — The Cleveland
Browns may have suffered
through another lopsided
loss on Sunday, but when Jordan
Poyer emerged from the visiting
team’s locker room at Centu-
ryL ink Field , he was immediately
embraced by his friends and fam-
ily.
7KH %URZQV¶ VDIHW\ ¿QLVKHG
SOD\LQJ KLV ¿UVW SURIHVVLRQDO IRRW
EDOOJDPHLQWKH3DFL¿F1RUWKZHVW
after making a name for himself at
Astoria High School and Oregon
State University.
Waiting for him was his father,
mother, younger brother, high
school football coach, teammate
in college and dozens of other sup-
porters who made the trip from the
Astoria area.
“He was so excited to play
here,” Julie Poyer, Poyer’s moth-
er, said. “This has been his dream
from when he was little.”
Loud and proud
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
Jordan Poyer blocks Seahawks’ Marcus Burley, No. 28, during a
kick return in the first quarter of the football game against the Sea-
hawks at CenturyLink Field in Seattle Sunday.
Poyer, 24, played football at
CenturyL ink Field a couple of
times in college against the Univer-
sity of Washington and Washington
State University.
6XQGD\ PDUNHG KLV ¿UVW SUR
fessional outing playing against
the Seattle Seahawks, a team he
grew up rooting for. He went to a
Seahawks game as a fan years ago
Job Corps student tackles the U.S. Senate
C
atherine Sautner, a glaz-
ing student at Tongue
Point Job Corps Center, has a
busy holiday break ahead of
her.
In early January, Sautner
heads from her hometown
of Hillsboro to Washington,
D.C., where she will intern
for U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden,
D-Ore ., for 12 weeks.
“It’s an extremely good
opportunity that I didn’t ex-
pect to get,” the 25-year-old
Sautner said. “I didn’t go to
college, so I didn’t expect to
be a real contender for an in-
ternship with a senator.”
Sautner has never been to
the nation’s Capitol before.
She graduated from Westview
High School in Portland and
attended Le Cordon Bleu Col-
lege of Culinary Arts in 2011.
At Tongue Point, she stud-
ies glazing windows and has
served on campus as an art
technician, a staff aid in a res-
idence hall and as a member
of a peer -intervention panel.
As to why she was chosen,
Sautner said it might have to
do with the platinum National
&DUHHU 5HDGLQHVV &HUWL¿FDWH
she received through college
and career testing company
$&7 $ SODWLQXP FHUWL¿FDWH
means Sautner’s employabil-
ity skills match 99 percent of
the 16,000 occupations ACT
researched .
Her acceptance letter for
the internship came from
Wayne Binkley, a director
of scheduling and staff for
Wyden.
“You will be responsible
for a broad range of constit-
uent services, as well as as-
VLVWLQJVWDIIZLWKWKHLURI¿FLDO
duties,” Binkley wrote . “Your
assignments will include, but
Submitted Photos
not be limited to, assisting
with incoming constituent Catherine Sautner, a glazing student at Tongue Point Job
See SAUTNER, Page 10A
Corps Center, secured an internship this winter with U.S.
Sen. Ron Wyden.