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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2016
Ceremony to honor
fallen police offi cers
the ceremony and his name
will be added to the Oregon
Fallen Law Enforcement
Offi cer Memorial during the
2017 ceremony.
Gov. Kate Brown and
Dianne Bernhard, e xecutive
d irector of the Concerns of
Police Survivors, will both
speak at the ceremony, held
at the Oregon Public Safety
Academy.
The ceremony is hosted
by the state Department of
Public Safety Standards
and Training in partner-
ship with the Oregon Law
Enforcement
Memorial
Trust Fund, Oregon Con-
cerns of Police Survivors,
Oregon Fallen Badge Foun-
dation and Oregon’s vari-
ous statewide law enforce-
ment associations.
Goodding will
be mentioned
The Daily Astorian
The Oregon Fallen Law
Enforcement Offi cer Memo-
rial Ceremony is being held
Tuesday at 1 p.m. in Salem
to honor the more than 180
fallen offi cers in the state who
died in the line of duty since
the 1880s, including Seaside
Police Sgt. Jason Goodding.
Goodding was shot and
killed in the line of duty in
February. He is the 183rd
Oregon law enforcement
offi cer to have died since the
fi rst was recorded two centu-
ries ago.
His death will be included
in comments made during
Hops production rises to
meet craft brewer needs
Associated Press
YAKIMA, Wash. — A
new report says production
of hops is up this year, put-
ting the Washington-centered
industry in a better posi-
tion to respond to continu-
ing growth of the craft beer
industry.
The recent report from
the Hop Growers of Amer-
ica says total U.S. hop acre-
age in production this year
is projected to increase by
about 6,000 acres, or about
13 percent.
The Yakima Herald-Re-
public says the vast major-
ity of those new acres are
expected to be in the Pacifi c
Northwest, including the
Yakima Valley, where about
75 percent of the nation’s
hops are grown.
The report was prepared
for the International Hop
Growers Convention in Paris
last month.
Hops are used primarily
to fl avor beer, and demand
for the plant has grown as
craft beers have become
more popular.
County receives $55,000 for
emergency planning projects
The Daily Astorian
Clatsop County recently
received $55,000 from the
state Offi ce of Emergency
Management to fund two
local emergency planning
projects.
The funds are part
of more than $3 million
in awards to local proj-
ects statewide from the
State Homeland Security
Program.
A $30,000 portion of
the county’s funds will go
toward a countywide shelter
and open area assessment
to further develop tsunami
assembly and evacuation
sites.
For the assessment, every
city and the county will par-
ticipate with a consultant to
examine high ground areas
identifi ed on maps and in
planning documents to use
the information for future
site development.
The remaining $25,000
will be used by Cannon
Beach to develop a response
and recovery fi eld oper-
ations guide. The guide
will enhance response and
recovery capabilities for
Cannon Beach city staff and
emergency volunteer per-
sonnel, many of whom live
more than 20 miles outside
the city boundaries, accord-
ing to the county.
Burglary, arson investigated
at Warrenton restaurant
rant wrote. The smoke damage
is extensive, according to the
fi re department. The restaurant
remains closed.
The police and fi re depart-
ments are conducting simulta-
neous investigations to deter-
mine how the fi re started and if
it is connected to the burglary.
Warrenton Police Chief
Mathew Workman said there
was defi nitely forced entry
into the building and a theft
occurred, leading police to
believe the burglary is related
to the fi re. “Until we get the
offi cial word from the fi re
investigation, we can’t really
make that call,” Workman said.
There is no timetable for the
length of the investigations.
Fire discovered
after break-in
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
Authorities are investigat-
ing a possible burglary and
arson at El Compadre Restau-
rant in Warrenton.
Warrenton
Police
responded to a break-in at the
restaurant Friday morning and
discovered smoke in every
corner of the building. Warren-
ton Fire arrived and was able
to contain the fi re.
Nobody was in the restau-
rant, and no injuries were
reported.
Courtesy of El Compadre Facebook page
Fire damaged a Mexican restaurant in Warrenton Friday
after a break-in.
El Compadre Restaurant
wrote on its Facebook page
Friday that someone broke
into the restaurant and a fi re
was started in a storage
room.
“Luckily our Warrenton
Police Department was noti-
fi ed soon enough and them
together with our fi refi ght-
ers were there and everything
was under control,” the restau-
City Council approves property sale
Previous sales
have been
controversial
By DERRICK DePLEDGE
The Daily Astorian
The Astoria City Council
agreed Monday night to sell
a slice of city land to Bruce
Conner, a travel agency owner
and cruise ship marketer, who
wants to build his retirement
home on the property.
The 0.32-acre parcel sits
behind Conner’s home off Ala-
meda Avenue. Steven Weed, an
appraiser hired by the city, put
the value at $47,000.
Weed’s appraisals have been
criticized by some residents
who believe the city has sold off
property to the well-connected
in sweetheart deals. In April,
before a 3-2 council vote to hold
a hearing on the sale to Con-
ner, Shel Cantor, a retired engi-
neer, claimed Weed based his
appraisals on the prospective
buyer rather than the property.
In a letter to The Daily Asto-
rian, Weed said he had been
“unfairly, publicly slandered by
self-appointed value experts.”
City Manager Brett Estes
said he and Ken Cook, the
city’s public works director,
spoke with Weed after the April
meeting and concluded that the
$47,000 appraisal for the Ala-
meda
Ave-
nue land was
fair. The prop-
erty
would
need
water,
sewer and road
improvements
to develop.
Russ Warr
“I
do
believe that he provided us
with a good appraisal,” Estes
said. “And I trust the work that
he put into this and would say,
‘Yes, it is a good fee.’”
City Councilor Drew Her-
zig said the city should use
“extreme discretion” when
considering city land for sale
and should ensure the best price
and best possible use.
“I don’t feel that the city has
demonstrated that we are abso-
lutely getting the best price for
this property and it will be put
to the best possible use,” Her-
zig said.
Mayor Arline LaMear, who
visited the Alameda Avenue
parcel, said the property is not
suitable for affordable hous-
ing or other city needs. The
only access, she said, is through
Conner’s property.
“To try to open this up
for any other kind of housing
doesn’t make any sense to me,”
the mayor said.
The City Council voted
3-1 in favor of the sale to Con-
ner, with LaMear, City Coun-
cilor Zetty Nemlowill and City
Councilor Russ Warr voting for
Mayor LaMear appoints
board directors to the nonprofi t,
so Herzig questioned whether
the board is a public body sub-
ject to the state’s open meetings
law.
Councilor Warr cited what
he describes as the “wonderful
relationship” between the city
and the Friends, which man-
ages the Column and has raised
private money for restoration.
The Column is a city park.
“I don’t think that we
should be nitpicky with them,”
Warr said. “If we need to make
a change, let’s make it next
year.”
In a 3-1 vote, Warr, LeMear
and Nemlowill approved the
management agreement with
the Friends, while Herzig voted
against the contract.
Jordan Schnitzer, the Port-
land real estate magnate and
philanthropist who leads the
Friends, told the City Council
Monday night that the Column
had gross income of $385,128
last year, down 29 percent from
the prior year.
The decline was because the
Column was closed to visitors
from May until October for a
$1 million restoration project.
the sale and
Herzig vot-
ing against.
City Councilor
Cindy Price,
who had voted
in April against
Drew Herzig holding a pub-
lic hearing on
the sale, was excused.
Earlier in the meeting, Warr,
referring to Weed’s letter to the
newspaper, chastised Cantor,
who was not in attendance.
“If you don’t have a pretty
good indication that some-
body’s done something wrong,
I think it’s pretty bad to accuse
them,” Warr said. “And that’s
what happened in this case and
I hope it stops.”
In other business Monday
night, the City Council:
• Approved an amended
management agreement with
Friends of the Astoria Col-
umn for the Coxcomb Hill
landmark.
Councilor Herzig had
sought to delay the vote until
City Attorney Blair Hennings-
gaard, who was not at the meet-
ing, could clarify whether the
nonprofi t Friends group is a
city commission.
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