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.