DailyAstorian.com // TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2016
143RD YEAR, NO. 254
THE CANNON IS
BACK AT THE BEACH
ONE DOLLAR
Water
district
to block
dam road
Liability at issue as
debate on Warrenton
dam’s future continues
By ERICK BENGEL and
DERRICK DePLEDGE
The Daily Astorian
WARRENTON — The Skipanon Water
Control District will barricade a gravel road
over the Eighth Street Dam to reduce liabil-
ity while hoping to close the dam by the end
of 2018.
Within several days, drivers will encoun-
ter a barrier made of two concrete blocks
joined by a chain and padlock, along with
refl ective signage to warn them off.
The city of Warrenton will be given a
key to the padlock for emergency access and
offi cial city use.
Bruce Francis, the vice chairman of the
water district’s board, was reluctant to give
the city the key, but decided to do so as an
olive branch.
See DAM ROAD, Page 12A
Submitted Photo
Elaine Trucke and Clatsop County Historical Society member Matt Powers unveil the historic cannon, from which Cannon Beach
got its name.
Town’s symbol
will be displayed
at city’s museum
Elementary
school kids
eat for free
in Seaside
Older students will see
slight increase in costs
By NANCY McCARTHY
For EO Media Group
By LYRA FONTAINE
The Daily Astorian
annon Beach’s namesake artifact is
back .
In coming weeks, the Cannon Beach
History Center and Museum will swivel the
cannon, which weigh s about 2,000 pounds,
and have a permanent exhibit up in time for a
mid-summer opening.
For Elaine Trucke, the museum’s execu-
tive director, the cannon’s return has been a
long time coming. The cannon spent about
four years being restored in Texas and then
was stored at the Columbia River Maritime
Museum
C
See CANNON, Page 8A
Lyra Fontaine/The Daily Astorian
The iron carronade and capstan, thought to be from a naval schooner that went
down in the Columbia River in 1846, have returned to the Cannon Beach History
Center and Museum. An exhibit will be ready mid-summer.
SEASIDE — There’s a saying that
there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but for
Seaside students in kindergarten through
fi fth grade, both breakfast and lunch will be
free next year.
Students at Broadway Middle and Sea-
side High schools, however, will see a
slight increase for meals. Breakfast prices
will rise by 5 cents, and lunch will be 10
cents more, unless the meals are purchased
by students in the federal free and reduced
meal program.
The Seaside School Board voted unan-
imously last week to participate in a new
provision offered by the federal School
See LUNCHES, Page 4A
Gun views fractious even as fewer bear arms
This story is part of Divided America,
AP’s ongoing exploration of the economic,
social and political divisions in American
society.
By MATT SEDENSKY
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Wherever you look in
this nation born of a bloody revolution of
musket fi re, chances are there’s sharp dis-
agreement over fi rearms.
Democrats war with Republicans, and
small towns are against cities. Women and
men are at odds, as are blacks and whites and
old and young. North clashes with South,
East with West.
“The current gun debate is more polar-
ized and sour than any time before in Amer-
ican history,” said Adam Winkler, a constitu-
tional law professor at UCLA and author of
the 2011 book, “Gunfi ght: The Battle Over
the Right to Bear Arms in America.”
In the midst of debate over the latest mass
shooting, in Orlando, it’s easy to imagine that
guns have always divided us this way. But a
close look at survey data over decades shows
they haven’t.
There was a time, not that long ago, when
most citizens favored banning handguns, the
chief gun lobbyists supported fi rearm restric-
tions, and courts hadn’t yet interpreted the
Second Amendment as guaranteeing a per-
sonal right to bear arms for self-defense at
home.
Today, in a country of hundreds of
millions of guns, public opinion and
See GUNS, Page 12A
Jimmie Johnson
fires blanks from
a pair of revolvers
as he celebrates
his win in Victory
Lane following the
NASCAR Sprint
Cup Series auto
race at the Texas
Motor Speedway,
in Fort Worth,
Texas, in 2012. The
National Rifle As-
sociation became
the title sponsor
of the 2013 Sprint
Cup race at Texas
Motor Speedway
in Fort Worth.
AP Photo
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