DailyAstorian.com // WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2016
143RD YEAR, NO. 180
ONE DOLLAR
Ocean salmon seasons may be shuttered
‘Fishing is our lifeblood. Fishing is our Boeing and our Microsoft.’
By CASSANDRA PROFITA
Oregon Public Broadcasting
To protect fragile runs of coho,
regional ¿shery managers are consider-
ing a rare total closure of Oregon and
:ashington ocean salmon ¿sheries
north of Cape Falcon, near Manzanita.
State, tribal and federal ¿shery man-
agers have three options for non-treaty
ocean salmon ¿sheries north of Cape
Falcon. Two options would permit
some salmon ¿shing this year, but one
would close both recreational and com-
mercial ocean ¿sheries for chinook and
coho salmon.
Managers are not considering a
total closure option for salmon ¿sheries
south of Cape Falcon.
Butch Smith, owner of Coho Char-
ters in Ilwaco, Washington, said a
no-¿shing option would be devastating
to coastal communities on the Washing-
ton and northern Oregon coasts.
“Fishing is our lifeblood,´ he
said. “Fishing is our Boeing and our
Microsoft.´
He said his recreational ¿shing char-
ter depends on ocean salmon ¿shing for
about 85 percent of its business, and a
lot of other coastal businesses depend
on salmon ¿sheries in one way or
another.
Smith, who sits on an advisory panel
that helps managers set salmon seasons
coastwide, said the last total ¿shing clo-
sure he can recall off Washington was
in 14 in 2008, ocean salmon ¿sh-
ing was severely restricted and resulted
in a disaster declaration. That allowed
¿shing-dependent businesses to apply
for disaster relief funds. He’s hoping
that won’t be the outcome of this year’s
season.
See SALMON, Page 7A
‘This
Creeping casualty of climate change woman
is the
devil’
SHRINKING GLACIERS
Woman gets 30
years for stealing
$214,000 from
Seaside business
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
Jon Riedel, a National Park Service geologist at North Cascades National Park in Washington state, discusses the velocity of glacial
movement around Mount Rainier during the Columbia Forum on Tuesday.
Washington state geologist points to warming, carbon emissions
By ERICK BENGEL
The Daily Astorian
he shrinking of glaciers in the Paci¿c 1orthwest is
reducing the summer water supply in regional water-
sheds, according to a geologist for the 1ational Park
Service.
Jon Riedel, a researcher with 1orth Cascades 1ational
Park, delivered the alarming news at the Columbia Forum,
held Tuesday evening at the Columbia Memorial Hospital
Community Center.
Using data from his glacier-monitoring studies and the
work of other scientists, Riedel discussed how higher global
temperatures impact glaciers in Washington state’s national
parks and what it means for the wider ecology.
So what happens when a watershed loses its glaciers? Rie-
del pointed to the Skagit watershed, the largest valley draining
into the Puget Sound, as a case study.
In 1959, the summer glacial runoff in the Skagit Basin pro-
vided about 171 billion gallons of cold freshwater to the Skagit
River and surrounding waterways. By 2013, the amount was 129
billion — a 24 percent decrease. The loss equals about a 100-year
supply of water at the current annual use rate in Skagit County.
“That is a pretty dramatic amount of loss,´ Riedel said.
Though glaciers cover only 2 percent of the Skagit water-
shed, they provide 6 to 12 percent of total summer runoff in
the valley; it’s twice that amount — between 12 and 24 per-
cent — in August and September.
T
See FORUM, Page 12A
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
National Park Service geologist Jon Riedel points out points of data that show
the gain and loss of ice each year at the North Klawatti Glacier in North Cas-
cades National Park.
A former employee at Diamond
Heating in Seaside was sentenced
Tuesday to 30 years in prison for
stealing more than $214,000 from the
local business.
Deana
Lynn
Freauff, 52, was
found guilty last week
of ¿rst-degree theft,
six counts of aggra-
vated
¿rst-degree
theft and seven counts
of aggravated identity
Deana Lynn
theft after a trial in
Freauff
Clatsop County Cir-
cuit Court.
Judge Philip 1elson said the
amount she embezzled is close to
the most he has ever seen as the lon-
gest serving public of¿cial in Clatsop
County.
“I’ve seen some minor ones,
candy bar money from Little League
teams,´ 1elson said. “In your case, if
it’s not the most I’ve seen in 24 years,
it’s close to it.´
Seaside Police arrested Freauff
in October 2014 after a six-month
investigation. The charges date
back to January 2011. The company
caught on to the theft in April 2014.
Dan 1elson, owner of Diamond
Heating, said Freauff started scam-
ming his company from day one.
When she was hired as a ¿nancial
manager, she was on probation from a
2009 conviction for embezzling more
than $300,000 from two title compa-
nies in the Portland-metro area.
Her probation of¿cer should have
stopped her from being hired, but she
fraudulently wrote a letter to the of¿-
cer that appeared to be written by
Dan 1elson claiming he wanted to
hire her even though she stole the
money from the title companies.
1elson never wrote the letter, and
wished the probation of¿cer would
have followed up with him to con-
¿rm. He said he was unaware of her
criminal past.
See FREAUFF, Page 9A
Principal Roley to take top Seaside schools post
Board approves
11th-hour
application
By NANCY McCARTHY
For The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — Sheila Roley
is the new Seaside School Dis-
trict superintendent.
Although the deadline
to receive applications from
potential candidates was Fri-
day, the Seaside School Board
unanimously approved Roley’s
appointment at a board meet-
ing Tuesday night.
Roley will begin her new
job July 1, following the retire-
ment of Superinten-
Roley, 64, has been
dent Doug Dougherty.
with the district for 26
A salary hasn’t been
years, eight as a teacher
determined, but the job
and 18 as a principal of
description calls for a
Cannon Beach Elemen-
range of $118,000 to
tary, Broadway Mid-
$128,000.
dle and Seaside High
Sheila
³The Tuali¿cations
schools. She recently
Roley
for the superinten-
announced her retire-
dent ¿t Sheila to a T,´
ment as Seaside High
said board member Tom Malt- principal, effective June 30.
man, who noted that 125 com-
But last Thursday, Roley
munity members had told the contacted school board Chair-
school board what they wanted man Steve Phillips and told
in a district superintendent.
him she had “re-evaluated her
³There was a de¿nite con- retirement and put her hat in
cern by teachers, students and the ring for Doug’s job,´ Phil-
the community about a super- lips said.
intendent who would not know
Phillips said his ¿rst reac-
the district. This made sense to tion to Roley’s application was
me.´
excitement about the “oppor-
tunity´ her experience pre-
sented to the district.
“But I was genuinely con-
cerned that we had started a
process (to search for candi-
dates) and what it would look
like to the community,´ he
said. He also wondered why
she hadn’t applied sooner.
Phillips decided to put the
board members in two groups
to interview Roley. By hav-
ing the groups meet sepa-
rately, they wouldn’t have a
quorum and would be com-
plying with Oregon’s open
meeting laws.
The process was similar to
the way the board had inter-
viewed Dougherty when he
was appointed superintendent
after serving as a principal,
Phillips said.
The two groups had not
discussed the interviews until
Tuesday’s board meeting, he
said.
“My decision was to put
this on the agenda,´ he said.
“I don’t want to waste the dis-
trict’s money to continue the
search and the stakeholders’
time.´
Board member Lynn
Ulbricht noted that Seaside
Heights Elementary School
Principal Sande Brown also
planned to retire June 30 and
that Roley would provide con-
tinuity in the district.
See ROLEY, Page 9A