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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2016
Senior center: The total Department of State Lands comes to Astoria
Dec. 31 to Sunday after land created by placement of general fund to create two
cost of the project was
concerns about a lack of arti¿cial ¿ll or deposit atop positions.
The Department of State
state-owned submerged or
The Oregon Department of notice.
roughly $1.7 million
Chris Castelli, a policy submersible land prior to May Lands administers natural
State Lands will hold a public
The Daily Astorian
meeting tonight regarding
waterways, including histor-
ically ¿lled lands, waterway
leasing, navigational access
maintenance dredging and
ocean renewable energy.
The meeting is scheduled
from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Judge
Guy Boyington Building, 857
Commercial St., in Astoria.
State staff will provide
information and answer
questions.
Late last month, the
department extended the
deadline for comments on
rulemaking
surrounding
historically ¿lled lands from
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Before the makeover,
“it was a very deplorable
building,” Project Director
Al Jaques said. The center’s
interior mainly consisted of
a large open space with a
small craft area. The heating
and electric systems were
ineffective, and there wasn’t
a separate area to treat
members dealing with medical
conditions.
In addition to the dance
hall and pool room, seniors
can now enjoy a craft room,
a well-furnished reception
area and more natural light.
The remodel also comes with
a classroom for ENCORE
(Exploring New Concepts in
Retirement Education) classes,
a health room (complete with a
hospital bed), new bathrooms
and a full commercial kitchen,
where the nonpro¿t Columbia
Senior Diners will cook
regularly, John Ryan, the
center’s board president, said.
All the old services and
activities — crafts, card
games, board games, billiards,
mahjong, pinochle, shopping
trips, exercise classes and
bingo — remain on offer.
“The senior center is
‘coming home’ I like to say,”
Executive Director Larry
Miller said. “This is the center
of some folks’ activity.”
‘The senior
center is
‘coming
home’ I like
to say. This is
the center of
some folks’
activity.’
Larry Miller
Erick Bengel/The Daily Astorian
The new Astoria Senior
Center sign glows neon
on a recent morning as
construction on the center
nears completion.
analyst for the department,
said attendees at hearings
in Astoria and Coos Bay
expressed the need for more
time to consider the proposed
addition of a new adminis-
trative rule division covering
historically ¿lled lands.
A new state law distin-
guishes historically ¿lled lands
and new lands for purposes of
determining ownership and
transfer of ownership of lands
created upon submersible or
submerged lands by arti¿cial
¿ll or deposit.
+istorically ¿lled lands
are de¿ned by the state as
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and ¿scal resources such as
state-owned rangelands and
timberlands, waterway leases,
estates for which no will or heirs
exist and unclaimed property.
Twice a year, the agency
distributes fund investment
earnings to generate revenue
for the Common School Fund.
The agency also administers the
state’s removal-¿ll law, which
requires people removing
or ¿lling certain amounts of
material in waters of the state to
obtain a permit.
All rulemaking information
is available at www.oregon-
statelands.us
28, 1963. The department
convened an advisory group
representing broad interests
to recommend changes and
streamline efforts for how
the agency handles clarifying
ownership of such lands.
The law establishes a
process for the State Land
Board to identify and declare
the state’s interest in histori-
cally ¿lled lands and to provide
notice of declaration. It directs
the Department of State Lands
to provide a progress report to
the Legislature on or before
Sept. 15, 2017, and appropri-
ates $328,228 from the state’s
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executive director
‘Quite fabulous’
A nonpro¿t organi]a-
tion housed in a city-owned
building, the senior center
originally closed in January
2014, with the expectation that
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we had left here.”
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former members have rejoined
the center, Miller said.
“Honestly,
with
the
building the way it is, and
being back in town, I’m sure
our numbers are going to grow
real fast,” he said.
Rolls will even include
people who weren’t senior
center members when it
occupied the building last time.
Ron Danen, of Astoria,
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construction team was still
remodeling it and now plans to
show up with his wife, Chong,
quite often.
Thumbing through a
National Geographic in the
reception area, Danen took
a look around and said, “It
seems to be quite fabulous.”
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