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143rd YEAR, No. 147
FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2016 • WEEKEND EDITION
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Distiller
faces new
copyright
challenge
Pilot House Spirits
changed name last year
after legal threat
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Photos by Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
Holly Shepherd, from Salon Boheme, cuts Roger McMoubrey’s hair at a station during the Project Homeless Connect event at the
Seaside Civic and Convention Center Thursday.
‘FACE OF HOMELESSNESS
IS CHANGING’
About 1,000 people in
Clatsop County are homeless
See DISTILLER, Page 9A
Historic
ferry’s
return
still a go
By KATHERINE LACAZE
EO Media Group
S
EASIDE — In recent years, Clatsop
County’s homeless population has
remained at about 1,000 people ,
indicating a systemic issue Clatsop Community
Action and other local agencies, organizations
and businesses are trying to address.
Clatsop Community Action partners with
other agencies to gather a census of people
who are homeless in the county during the last
10 days of January. It is held in conjunction
with the annual Project Homeless Connect
Jessica Maclay Memorial, which took place
for the seventh year Thursday at the Seaside
Civic and Convention Center.
During the event, more than 0 nonpro¿ t,
governmental and faith-based agencies
provided services on site — including medical
screenings, immunizations, haircuts, personal
care items, clothing vouchers and a hot meal
— and connected participants to housing, mail
service, food stamps, identi¿ cation, Social
Security, mental health services, employment,
education and legal aid.
Clatsop County Community Action
Director Elaine Bruce stressed the importance
of collecting data on the countywide homeless
population according to state and federal
standards. The information is reported to
the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development and other agencies and affects
legislative budgets, Bruce said.
In 2013, the county’s homeless population
jumped to 1,038 — up 62 percent from the
previous year. The number then stabilized.
The count was 1,047 in 2014 and 1,005 in
2015. The agency expects the number will be
about 1,000 this year, as well.
Larry Cary is once again facing claims
of copyright infringement over the name of
his growing Astoria distillery .
Cary switched his label to Pilot House
Spirits in October after North Coast
Brewing, a Fort Bragg, California, brewery,
threatened legal action over Cary’s use of
North Coast Distilling since he opened in
2014.
This week, House Spirits Distillery, a
Portland-based craft distillery founded in
2004, ¿ led suit claiming Cary’s new name
violates “established valuable trademark
rights and goodwill throughout the United
States.”
The distillery, known for Aviation
American Gin, has registered “House
Spirits” and “House Spirits Distillery” with
the U.S. Patent and Trademark Of¿ ce.
Kathleen Idzal, right, a nursing student at Clatsop Community College, takes Maria
Adams’ blood pressure during Project Homeless Connect at the Seaside Civic and
Convention Center.
Boxes of clothing sit
on a table for people to
take during the Project
Homeless Connect
event .
See HOMELESSNESS, Page 9A
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
and ERIC MORTENSON
Capital Press
The showdown between federal
agents and armed militants in s outheast
Oregon will likely further polarize the
public over the management of federal
lands, experts say.
For some, the recent killing of an
armed protester and arrests of other
occupiers will buttress the view
they were extremist militants with
unrealistic goals.
For others, the government’s
actions and its siege of remaining
By ERICK BENGEL
The Daily Astorian
This summer marks the 50th anniversary
of two big moments in Astoria’s history:
the opening of the Astoria Bridge and the
¿ nal run of the iconic Tourist No. 2 ferry
that, in the pre-bridge era, carried riders and
vehicles between the city and Washington
state for more than four decades.
As the city prepares to celebrate the
bridge’s birthday, a movement is underway
to bring the ferry home from exile.
And a newly formed nonpro¿ t — The
Astoria Ferry — hopes the events will go
hand-in-hand.
See FERRY, Page 9A
Showdown polarizes federal land debate
Experts say incident
likely to reinforce
opinions on both sides
Organizers hope
homecoming coincides
with bridge celebration
protesters occupying the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge will
con¿ rm fears of persecution by
federal agencies.
Whether the standoff will
ultimately lead to changes in the
federal government’s oversight of
the West’s vast public lands is also
subject to varying interpretations.
Char Miller, an environmental
analysis professor at Pomona
College, said that Ammon Bundy
and the other armed protesters
miscalculated the public’s reaction
to the occupation.
The national attention may have
boosted the protester’s egos, but it
also created a backlash against using
the threat of violence to inÀ uence
federal land policy, Miller said.
“What they’ve done is really hurt
those with legitimate beefs with the
federal government about how the
land should be managed,” he said.
In the public’s mind, the
protesters’ hostile tactics have been
conÀ ated with the goal of increasing
local control over federal property,
which weakens their case in the
political arena, he said.
“If they wanted an uprising in
Congress, they just made it that
much harder,” Miller said.
The protesters’ actions won’t
bolster attempts to transfer federal
land to the states, which already
had legitimacy among conservative
lawmakers in multiple state legis-
latures before the refuge takeover,
said Martin Nie, a natural resource
policy professor at the University of
Montana.
See LAND, Page 9A
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