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Music keeps writer in tune Opinion • 4A 143rd YEAR, No. 127 A madcap kind of year Extra • 1C ONE DOLLAR FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 2016 • WEEKEND EDITION Marchers stand with candles outside the Liberty Theater before taking part in a candlelight walk to honor Martin Luther King Jr. in January. More than 75 people participated in the event. Attendees watch as hundreds of kites take flight into the fog during the fourth and final Mass As- cension event at the Washington State Internation- al Kite Festival in Long Beach, Wash., in August. YEAR IN IMAGES Photos by Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Mike Campbell, left, and Paul Gascoigne, right, are pursued by two other boats as they prepare to round a buoy on the course during a fall series race on the Columbia River in Astoria in September. City wary of building on unstable Uppertown hillside Worries triggered by previous landslides on neighborhood slope By DERRICK DePLEDGE The Daily Astorian The city scraPbled in DecePber when a coPPercial developer asked about build- ing on an Uppertown slope with a history of landslides. The property, Must south of nd 6treet and Marine Drive, was the subject of a three-year legal ¿ght after e[cavation work in caused land PovePent that dis- turbed nearby hoPes. A rock buttress has since stabili]ed the slope and slowed if not eliPinated what .en Cook, the city¶s 3ub- lic Works director, describes as the “histor- ic creep´ in the neighborhood. %ut city engineers and planners reali]ed in DecePber that if a coPPercial develop- er provides geological expertise that build- ing on the slope is safe, there is little the city can do under the developPent code to stop another project. AlarPed, city staff brieÀy Àirted with asking the City Council for a PoratoriuP, an ePergency stopgap that would have bought the city tiPe. The situation was dif- fused before it reached the council because the coPPercial developer did not iPPedi- ately Pove forward with a purchase. “We need to be looking out for the health and welfare of all the folks who live on that hillside,´ City Manager %rett (stes said. The Daily Astorian Geologic hazards oshua %esse[, The Daily Astorian¶s photographer, pored through Pore than 1, photos froP the past year to coPe up with his favorite iPages. ³6oPe, like the Martin /uther .ing Jr. Candlelight :alk, were froP quiet PoPents, of- ten the hardest but Post powerful photographs to take,´ he said. ³2thers, such as the capsi]ing of the fake orca, were spectacles that brought national attention to our coastal city. ³)inally, there were those that were siPply serendipitous, a result of walking around and Paking conversation.´ City engineers and planners are now drafting an ordinance for the City Council that would address potential developPent on property with geologic ha]ards such as landslides. In hilly Astoria, where there are several hot spots for slides, unPistakable risks pre- vent new building. But in gray areas, where the earth Pight be sculpted to brace a proj- ect, the city could need greater regulatory tools to protect property owners. J See more photos from 2015, page 8A The Lady Washington sails up the Columbia River on its way to the East End Mooring Basin in June. See SLOPE, Page 7A Marika Cowan hugs CeCe, a 10-year-old purebred Jersey cow, as cows make their way back to the milking parlor from the field at the Cowan Dairy Farm in March. Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian The land across from 32nd Street and Marine Drive is prone to landslides. :est Coast transplants ¿nd rooP to grow Doe + Arrow proprietors brew new life in Astoria By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Austen Conn and Chelsea Johnsen are co-owners of Doe + Arrow in Astoria. Chelsea Johnsen and Aus- ten Conn both ¿nd theP- selves at the forefront of both young entrepreneurship and craft brewing in downtown Astoria. 2riginally froP 6an Diego and the Twin Cities, Minneso- ta, region, Johnsen and Conn transplanted froP 3ortland to Astoria in May to open their TuirNy Pen¶s and woPen¶s clothing and accessory bou- tique, Doe + Arrow, in the cor- OUR NEW NEIGHBORS HIGHLIGHTING PEOPLE WHO ARE NEW TO THE COMMUNITY ner of the Astor Hotel building. Conn said they were both looking for personal growth, he in brewing and she in their business. After working in retail since age 16, Johnsen said she was tired of Must being an eP- ployee. ³, was Paking other people successful, and , wasn¶t getting ful¿lled,´ she said. 6everal years ago, Johnsen started plotting Doe + Ar- row, a play on fePininity and See NEIGHBORS, Page 7A