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DailyAstorian.com // TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016 143RD YEAR, NO. 229 ONE DOLLAR Donation honors ‘amazing’ Goodding response AND BREWERY MAKES SIX Seaside gives $10,000 to Fallen Badge Foundation By R.J. MARX The Daily Astorian SEASIDE — Seaside Police Chief Dave Ham requested a $5,000 donation from the city to the Oregon Fallen Badge Foundation for their response in the aftermath of the Feb- ruary shooting death of Sgt. Jason Goodding. The City Council responded by doubling it. “This is something they do from the heart,” City Manager Mark Winstanley said. “We think it would be appropriate at this point to make some kind of gesture back. There’s no way to put a price on that gesture.” Ham’s request began with a May letter to Winstanley in which he extolled the founda- tion’s volunteers for their expertise in plan- ning and coordinating the memorial service for Goodding at the Seaside Civic and Con- vention Center in February. Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian From left are Reach Break Brewing’s co-owners, brothers Jared and Josh Allison, and friend Finn Parker. The partners want to specialize in sour beers. Sour beer to join Astoria’s impressive brewing lineup By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian A storia’s newest brewery just got its brewhouse. Reach Break Brewing’s 7-barrel system arrived in wooden crates Monday morning, as the three co-owners — brothers Josh and Jared Allison, along with friend Finn Parker — continue setting up shop inside the former Astoria Indoor Gar- den Supply, dubbed the Astoria Sta- tion by the building’s owner, Warren Williams. Reach Break will be Astoria’s sixth brewery, after Wet Dog Cafe & Brew- ery, Astoria Brewing Co., Fort George Brewery, Buoy Beer Co. and Hondo’s Brew & Cork. But it will be the only sour beer brewery in the county, the next closest being De Garde Brewing in Tillamook. See DONATION, Page 3A “We have an established beer scene already,” Josh Allison said of Astoria. “We’ll be bringing something in that really is unique to the area and adding to it rather than, like, competing with other breweries.” He said the next step before brew- ing is getting permits from the federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. Three weeks into the brew- ery’s build-out, Reach Break’s owners are hesitant to give an opening date. If everything falls into place, the brewery is at least a couple months out. ANALYSIS Tax hike could raise $6 billion, ‘dampen’ growth Big plans People walking along the north side of Exchange Street will have a bird’s- eye view into the progress in the main brewery, reminiscent of the view into Fort George’s production brewery in Levy would apply to large businesses See BREWERY, Page 10A By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau SALEM — A proposed corporate tax would generate more than $6 billion in biennial state revenue starting in 2017-19, but it also would slow income, employment and population growth during the next fi ve years, according to a state analysis of the initiative. The report projects that the tax, which likely will be on the November ballot, would amount to a $600 per capita increase in state taxes each year. The tax would reduce pri- vate-sector employment from what other- wise would occur, while it would increase the number of government jobs. The net reduction in employment — private and public — would be about 20,000 statewide by 2022, according to the analysis. Graphic courtesy of Warren Williams Warren Williams, who owns Astoria Station at the corner of 13th and Duane streets, wants to create a food cart pod and beer garden in front of Reach Break Brewing. See ANALYSIS, Page 10A Landslide severs road to idyllic Willapa Hills valley Torrential rains the culprit in collapse By NATALIE ST. JOHN EO Media Group NASELLE, Wash. — Ever since a landslide buried an 80-foot-long section of Upper Naselle Road in December, the two couples who live above the slide have had to choose between two equally unsuitable alternative routes to their homes. From State Route 4, they can follow Salmon Creek and Alanen roads north, and then head west along the Deep River Mainline. It’s a bone-rattling 9 -mile drive, much of it on pri- vate dirt logging roads that are clearly marked with “Emer- gency Vehicles Only” signs. This is the route Barbara Tallman, 62, took earlier this month when her husband, Bob Tallman, 73, began having heart pain and breathing diffi culties at 2 a.m., and she decided to drive him to the hospital. “There is no way an ambu- lance could have fi gured out how to get here,” Barbara Tall- man said . “I was just thinking, ‘We’ve got to get there.’” Alternately, the couples can follow Upper Naselle Road four miles east from SR4, park where the road terminates at a massive pile of dirt and uprooted trees, and then walk the rest of the way. Randy Lewis, 66, prefers to hike the quarter mile to the 84-acre riverside farm he shares with his wife, Christin. From the top of the slide, there’s a stun- ning, unexpected glimpse of the emerald green Naselle River sparkling in the bottom of the canyon. It’s a long, long way down. When it rains, it pours At the site of the slide, Upper Naselle Road is situated mid- way up a steep canyon wall that is gradually being undercut by a See LANDSLIDE, Page 10A Natalie St. John/EO Media Group Randy Lewis, 62, and his dog, Maddy, hiked over the top of a landslide that has blocked Upper Naselle Road since December. Lewis uses this narrow trail, sandwiched be- tween the unstable slope on the right, and a precipice on the left, to reach his home, which is above the slide.