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2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2016 ‘The city of Astoria wants to spend a lot of money on the former Safeway lot, including building a new library. What do you think?’ “If they want to invest in a great library, add a law library. It would help a lot of people who don’t have access to the books that are necessary for court, like ‘Jurisprudence.’ It’s needed for common people, like you and I, who can’t afford an attorney.” THE DAILY ASTORIAN // QUESTION OF THE WEEK “I think instead of building a library, throw that money at the existing library’s book collection.” “I think they should consider put- ting the library in one of the existing buildings that’s not being used instead of building a new one.” Jeff Frane, Astoria Anna Weber, Astoria Brandie Litts, Scappoose College hopes to build maritime up at MERTS below the Royal Nebeker Art Gallery and a second-story addition to the Alder Hall student services building. By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Graphic by SRG Partnership Inc. Clatsop Community College will request state funding to add a second story to the main building at the Marine and Environmental Research and Training Station, a vocational campus east of Astoria. ® ACCUWEATHER FORECAST FOR ASTORIA Astoria 5-Day Forecast Tonight Cloudy with a couple of showers 45° Thursday Oregon Weather Shown is tomorrow’s weather. Temperatures are tonight’s lows and tomorrow’s highs The Dalles 41/52 Astoria 45/52 Portland 43/50 Corvallis 42/51 Eugene 43/52 Pendleton 43/55 Salem 42/52 Albany 42/51 Friday Burns 28/41 Medford 41/53 Variable clouds, showers; breezy, cooler 52° 45° Saturday 42° Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 52° 40° Cloudy with a bit of rain 54° 42° Almanac Sun and Moon Astoria through Tuesday. Temperatures High ........................................... 56° Low ............................................ 49° Normal high ............................... 52° Normal low ................................. 37° Precipitation Yesterday ................................ 0.63" Month to date .......................... 4.82" Normal month to date ............. 4.21" Year to date ........................... 18.57" Normal year to date .............. 14.41" Sunset tonight .................. 5:43 p.m. Sunrise Thursday ............. 7:15 a.m. Moonrise today ................. 1:11 p.m. Moonset today ................. 3:29 a.m. Regional Cities City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newport North Bend Today Hi Lo W 52 37 c 59 34 c 55 45 r 60 43 r 56 46 sh 53 31 sh 60 41 r 57 45 r 57 45 r Full Last New First Feb 22 Mar 1 Mar 8 Mar 15 Hi 44 44 53 52 52 42 53 53 55 Hi 60 35 40 71 57 33 84 2 80 44 72 67 67 67 75 59 70 37 81 39 59 50 61 51 40 Thu. Lo W 39 s 22 pc 38 c 39 s 48 pc 29 pc 53 s -12 s 70 pc 38 pc 57 s 46 sh 48 sh 51 s 64 s 46 s 55 s 25 s 57 s 23 s 53 pc 33 sh 51 sh 43 sh 25 s City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Vancouver Yakima Today Hi Lo W 57 40 sh 62 43 c 61 43 r 60 43 r 61 42 r 57 47 r 52 39 c 60 41 r 61 40 c Hi 51 55 50 54 52 52 47 49 53 Thu. Lo W 40 sh 42 sh 45 sh 45 sh 45 sh 48 sh 34 sh 43 sh 37 pc Tonight's Sky: In the evening, the galaxy M31 in Andromeda is visible high in the west. Source: Jim Todd, OMSI Tomorrow’s Tides Astoria / Port Docks Time High 9:35 a.m. 8.9 ft. 11:05 p.m. 7.6 ft. Time 3:30 a.m. 4:47 p.m. Low 3.2 ft. 0.1 ft. Tomorrow’s National Weather Greater investment Hamilton said the com- mittee agreed it was time to ask for more investment in the vocational campus. The second-story addition would double the classroom and of¿ ce space at the maritime science building to more than 26,000 square feet, with- out increasing the building’s footprint. SRG has estimated construction would cost 8.65 million, with another .66 million in indirect costs. The proposal by SRG also includes an option for the col- lege to buy the 7 acres it leases from the Oregon Department of State Lands for the campus for 500,000 . Duffy said the state would want the college to either own the land or have a long-term lease. The college has 1 years left on a 20-year lease. Hamilton said the col- lege’s proposal will be blind- ranked by a select group of college presidents overseen by Community College and Workforce Development, along with projects from the other 16 Oregon commu- nity colleges. In 2017, the state Legislature will decide whether and how much to fund in bonding for capital construction at community colleges. Center of excellence “If we become a (mari- time) center of excellence, there could be enormous Servino appointed to transit board The Daily Astorian Under the Sky Thu. Lo W 32 sh 37 c 47 r 44 sh 47 sh 33 sh 42 sh 46 sh 47 sh National Cities Today City Hi Lo W Atlanta 56 34 pc Boston 44 27 pc Chicago 30 18 pc Denver 68 45 pc Des Moines 38 33 sf Detroit 33 11 pc El Paso 82 50 s Fairbanks 9 -14 s Honolulu 79 71 c Indianapolis 37 24 c Kansas City 58 43 pc Las Vegas 82 58 pc Los Angeles 73 57 pc Memphis 54 38 s Miami 78 60 s Nashville 45 30 c New Orleans 69 48 s New York 45 27 c Oklahoma City 69 49 s Philadelphia 44 27 c St. Louis 45 36 c Salt Lake City 58 48 pc San Francisco 64 52 sh Seattle 59 43 sh Washington, DC 45 28 pc Klamath Falls 31/42 Breezy with rain Sunday An a.m. shower; otherwise, variably cloudy 52° Ontario 43/54 Bend 34/44 As Clatsop Community College tries to become a national center of maritime excellence, it will request state funding to add a sec- ond story onto the maritime science and administrative building at the Marine and Environmental Research and Training Station. The college board approved the request to the state last week . College staff are creating a proposal to send next month to the state Of¿ ce of Community College and Workforce Development. “Anything you’d do today wouldn’t be funded until 2017,” said Interim President Gerald Hamilton, adding the college would have seven years afterward to raise the matching funds and have the addition built. The request will be for state bonds like the college received in 2013 and used to ¿ nance 8 million of the 16 million redevelopment at Patriot Hall , which was matched locally by a general obligation bond. Kent Duffy, a princi- pal architect with SRG Part- nership Inc., which has worked with the college on Patriot Hall and the overall Jerome Campus Redevelop- ment Project, presented the MERTS project and several alternatives reviewed by a master-planning committee of college representatives, including the expansion of the Dora Badollet Library, a two-story parking garage growth,” Hamilton said. The college could become one of the centers under federal legislation intro- duced in September by U.S. Rep. Gene Green, D- Texas, and co-sponsored by U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D- Oregon . The bill would establish a maritime and energy technical training grant program to sup- port workforce training at com- munity colleges, along with up to 10 Centers of Excellence around the country focusing on expanding workforce train- ing opportunities and assisting with job placement. Donna Larson, the college’s vice president of academics and student affairs, said the designation would lead to new maritime science programs such as maritime and diesel engineering. She said the col- lege would also need space to expand its Electronic Chart Display and Information Sys- tem, a ship bridge simulator for operating anything from a ¿ shing boat to a lique¿ ed natu- ral gas tanker. In 201, s tate Sen. Betsy Johnson sponsored legisla- tion naming the college Ore- gon’s Maritime Training College. It is the only com- munity college in the nation with a U.S. Coast Guard-ap- proved Training Ship Pro- gram authorized to pro- vide a student with all the sea service credit required for an Able Seaman-Special endorsement. The program and its yellow training vessel, the Forerunner, was recently featured in Professional Mar- iner, a national maritime industry magazine. Sunset Empire Transpor- tation District’s Board of Commissioners approved the appointment of Jim Servino to the district board at the January meeting, ¿ lling the district’s Commissioner No. 7 vacancy. He is currently the mem- bership and assistant exec- utive director at the Asto- ria Warrenton Chamber of Commerce. Servino is very active in the community, serving on several committees, includ- ing being chairman of the Friends of Astoria Aquatic Center and chairman of the Committee to Promote Asto- ria. He has recently returned to the Astoria area, where he raised his family and was the owner and general manager of several radio stations. The Commissioner No. 7 position expires in June 2017 . BIRTH Feb. 7, 2016 SCARBOROUGH, Brianna, and FRETS, Walter, of Astoria, a boy, Silas Robert Frets, born at Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria. Grand- parents are Jon and Trish Scarborough of Astoria and Steve and Sophie Frets of Kodiak, Alaska. Fronts Cold MEMORIAL Warm Stationary Showers T-Storms -10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s Rain Flurries Snow Ice Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. Forecast high/low temperatures are given for selected cities. Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. Need a Lift? Roby’s can help. Lift chairs starting at $599. 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For more information, call 503- 325-3211, ext. 257. Friday, Feb. 19 BIRKENFELD, Louise — Visitation from 3 to 5 p.m., Hughes-Ransom Mortuary, 220 N. Holladay Drive in Seaside. Birken- feld, 87, of Seaside, died Monday, Feb. 15, 2016, in Portland. To share memories and sign the guest book, go to www.hughes-ran- som.com PUBLIC MEETINGS WEDNESDAY Sunset Empire Parks and Rec District, 5 p.m., 1225 Ave. A, Seaside. THURSDAY Cannon Beach Design Review Board, 6 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. Seaside Transportation Advisory Commis- sion, 6 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway. DEATHS Feb. 9, 2016 OLSON, Herbert, 69, of Asto- ria, died Portland. Hughes-Ran- som Mortuary in Astoria is in charge of the arrangements. Feb. 15, 2016 FAUVER, Robert. M., 88, of Deep River, Washington, died in Longview, Washing- ton. Dowling Funeral Home in Cathlamet, Washington, is in charge of the arrangements. 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