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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2016
Rescued Gearhart turtle dies
Despite medical
treatment, turtle
dies during rehab
By LYRA FONTAINE
The Daily Astorian
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
A view of one of the storefronts in the M&N Building.
Price reduced
for decaying
Flavel building
Submitted Photo
By EDWARD
STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Thunder, an olive ridley turtle, died despite rehabilitation efforts.
Submitted Photo
Despite intensive care, Thunder failed to survive her or-
deal.
“Either the turtle will wash
up dead, or if it’s recovered
alive, it’s a toss-up.”
It can be a “guessing
game” to get the best care
for the animal, Todd said.
Thunder’s death is “a learn-
ing opportunity, not only
to help this particular tur-
tle, but other turtles in the
future. If we have any oil
spills or another catastro-
phe, we’ll be able to manage
those animals a lot better.”
Park workers are optimis-
tic that Lightning, who is in
stable condition and con-
tinuing to receive care, will
be released into the ocean
this summer as planned.
Municipal Court judge
Ronald Woltjer has raised
more than $10,500 for his
campaign for Clatsop County
Circuit Court judge, with
most of the money coming
from his own ¿nances.
State campaign-¿nance
records show Woltjer directly
contrib-
uted more
than $9,900
to
his
campaign.
Wo l t -
jer’s dona-
tions put
his fund-
Ronald Woltjer r a i s i n g
total close
to Dawn
McIntosh, a Gearhart law-
yer who has raised more than
$11,800, including more than
$7,200 in cash contributions.
Some of McIntosh’s larg-
est contributors include
Blair Henningsgaard, the
Astoria city attorney, who
gave more than $1,000;
the law office of Kristo-
pher Kaino, a defense attor-
ney and Astoria Municipal
Court judge, which contrib-
uted $1,000; the law office
of Joe DiBartolomeo, which
donated $1,000; and Mary
Ann Murk, a defense attor-
ney who gave $500.
Deputy District Attor-
ney David Goldthorpe has
collected more than $4,200,
campaign-finance
reports
show, with more than
$3,000 coming from cash
contributions.
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buttress the sinking foun-
dation and work to reattach
the cracked brick facade. He
estimated back then at least
$75,000 was needed to make
the ¿[es.
Caroline Evans, Flavel’s
conservator, did not respond
to a request for comment.
Last year, Flavel, the
granddaughter of Capt.
George C. Flavel, sold her
family’s mansion on 15th
Street to Greg Newenhof,
the co-owner of City Lum-
ber, for $221,901. She has
an agreement with the city
on a timeline to sell the
M&N Building and either
sell or improve property
on the south side of Com-
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the city agreed not to
enforce ¿nes on the derelict
properties.
“We continue to work
with Caroline,” said Kevin
Cronin, Astoria’s community
development director. “We
are both rowing in the same
direction.”
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licly give a deadline for Fla-
vel to sell the M&N Build-
ing, but he said she intends to
invest the proceeds from the
sale into the other Commer-
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The M&N Building, one
of Mary Louise Flavel’s two
vacant commercial proper-
ties in downtown Astoria, has
been listed by Pete Anderson
Realty for a marked-down
$149,900.
The building, at the cor-
ner of Ninth and Commer-
cial streets, had been up
for sealed-bid auction with
Realty
Marketing/North-
west, but none of the offers
met the minimum reserve
price of $180,000. The prop-
erty had previously been
advertised at $324,400.
The structure — named
for Mary and Nellie Fla-
vel — was built in 1924
and includes more than
8,000 square feet spread out
between ¿ve storefronts and
an equally sized basement.
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also had stopped eating for
some time, which may have
been a symptom of a larger
issue, Todd said. An official
necropsy report is not yet
complete.
Oregon Coast Aquar-
ium, where Thunder was
cared for and rehabilitated,
is “very upset” about the tur-
tle’s death, Todd said.
“They care for these ani-
mals because they want to
help our native species,” she
said. “This goes above and
beyond, and really does help
animals they wouldn’t other-
wise be able to help.”
Olive ridley sea turtles
are considered endangered
along Me[ico’s coast and
are vulnerable in other areas,
which is why their rescues
are important.
“The success rate of
rehabbing these stranded tur-
tles is pretty much 50-50,”
said Peter Pearsall, of the
Oregon Coast Aquarium.
Woltjer ¿nances his campaign for judge
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The Daily Astorian
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SEASIDE — A rescued
olive ridley sea turtle, found
comatose and hypothermic
near Gearhart in Decem-
ber, died while complet-
ing her final rehabilitation
stage before summer release
into the wild, the Oregon
Coast Aquarium reported
Wednesday.
Marine life e[perts at
SeaWorld’s Animal Rescue
Center discovered the tur-
tle in her rehabilitation pool
Tuesday morning.
The turtle, named “Thun-
der” and known for being
particularly large and strong,
was rescued after washing
ashore on Del Rey Beach
after severe storms.
Thunder and another
rehabilitated sea turtle
named “Lightning,” found
in Pacific City, were flown
to SeaWorld in March from
the Oregon Coast Aquarium,
which initially cared for the
turtles after their December
strandings and rescues.
“Thunder didn’t appear to
be in that bad of shape, but
you never know what causes
them to strand until they’ve
been treated,” said Laura
Todd, a U.S. Fish & Wildlife
field supervisor in Newport,
adding that several olive rid-
ley turtles have been suc-
cessfully returned to the wild
after treatment in Newport.
“In this case, we thought she
was going to make it.”
However,
Thunder’s
problems became more
apparent after the move to
SeaWorld.
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initial
necropsy
showed that Thunder may
have had internal organ
injuries, including in the
liver and heart, that con-
tributed to her death. She
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