INSIDE: COAST WEEKEND AND THE CLATSOP COUNTY FAIR GUIDE
144TH YEAR, NO. 20
DailyAstorian.com // THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2016
ONE DOLLAR
Many
in
CAMPUS SPROUTS NEW
LOOK WITH PATRIOT HALL favor of
vacation
rentals
Unlike Gearhart owners,
Cannon Beach residents
defend the town’s rules
By LYRA FONTAINE
The Daily Astorian
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Peri Vaughn, exterior maintenance employee at Clatsop Community College, works to maintain the landscaping .
College plans to pretty
up the grounds after
construction ends
See RENTALS, Page 10A
Bald eagle
counts soar
as murrelets
dwindle
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
C
rews installed the last beam in the skeleton of the new
Patriot Hall at Clatsop Community College Wednes-
day. They “topped off” the structure with an American
fl ag and a tree, a throwback to a Scandinavian religious rite
honoring the tree-dwelling spirits displaced by construction .
The $16 million r edevelopment project has transformed
the c ollege into an active construction zone and staging area
this spring and summer. When work is complete next spring,
the project will permanently alter the college’s campus, from
the new academic hall to the deferred maintenance on the
grounds below.
By KATIE WILSON
For EO Media Group
Construction zone
Construction has squeezed access at the main campus.
Building a new academic hall on a compact hillside, the col-
lege has had to stage materials in parking lots and the lawn
outside the northern end of Towler Hall, the college’s front
yard to the community. Surrounding Patriot Hall is a large,
fenced-off pit excavated down to the foundation covered in
black tarpaulins that started taking shape last spring into the
skeleton of the new h all.
Greg Dorcheus, who is in charge of the college’s mainte-
nance staff and helping oversee the Patriot Hall project, said
the next step after the steelwork is installing utilities and pour-
ing the concrete fl oors. He said much of the outside work and
backfi lling of soil around the building will be complete by the
start of the fall term in September, reopening parking lots and
both lanes of Lexington Avenue to the infl ux of students.
The completion of outside work on the building will
also put pressure on the college to refurbish the landscap-
ing on the main campus, which has largely gone to pot amid
construction.
See COLLEGE, Page 10A
CANNON BEACH — A dozen people
have spoken out against potential changes to
Cannon Beach’s short-term rental ordinance
— including a temporary freeze on tran-
sient rental permits — before the Planning
Commission .
“I think the council couldn’t consider
suspending anything unless they spend time
thinking about it and listening to public com-
ment,” short-term rental owner Joe Petrina
said at a public hearing this month.
The Cannon Beach City Council is con-
sidering a major overhaul of the short-term
rental program . Proposed changes are sus-
pending new transient rental fi ve-year per-
mits while the council reviews the program,
and moving short-term rental regulations
from the zoning ordinance to a stand-alone
ordinance.
“There is a vital and really historical shar-
ing of our blessings of Cannon Beach by
owning a home and renting it out to friends
and family,” resident Les Wierson said, add-
ing that Seaside and Gearhart have more
Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
Crews with REFA Erection Inc. “topped off” the new Patriot Hall Wednes-
day with the last truss of the roof. The term refers to a rite of builders
putting the last beam into a building. The tree next to the American flag
is a throwback to a Scandinavian religious rite honoring the tree-dwell-
ing spirits displaced by new construction.
OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington
Department of Fish and Wildlife is propos-
ing to take one bird species off Washing-
ton’s list of endangered and threatened spe-
cies — and upgrade the status of another to
“endangered.”
Wildlife offi cials say marbled murrelets
— small seabirds native to coastal Oregon
and Washington and other states in the West
— are doing worse now in Washington than
when they were fi rst listed by Washington’s
Fish and Wildlife Commission in 1993. Bald
eagles, however, have made a huge come-
back and are on track to hit strong popula-
tion numbers in the years to come.
Washington has 45 species of fi sh and
wildlife listed for protection as endangered,
threatened or sensitive species. The state
reviews these species regularly every fi ve
See WILDLIFE, Page 5A
Take a peek at a unique
’50s Victorian cottage
‘The house that Jerry built’ is on the market
By LYRA FONTAINE
The Daily Astorian
TOLOVANA PARK — Jerry Bosco
was interested in preserving historic pieces
from a young age.
“He used to bring home door frames
and windows on his bicycle,” said Bonnie
Schein, remembering her late brother as a
child.
The Tolovana Park cottage Bosco built,
which started as one room in the 1950s and
expanded throughout the years, demon-
strates his lifelong dedication to historic
preservation, as co-founder of the Architec-
tural Heritage Center in Portland.
The historic house, located at 3678
Pacifi c, will be open for the public to view
from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday .
Schein and Bosco’s family grew up
spending summers in a cabin next door to
the cottage.
Created using parts of old Victorian
houses torn down in the Portland area to
make room for developments like the Lloyd
Center, the house has a unique collection of
details, including marble fl oors, cast -iron
pieces, quirky stencils of seahorses and a
See CABIN, Page 10A
Bonnie Schein
stands outside
the cottage her
late brother,
Jerry Bosco,
built. The words
on the home
state “This is
the house that
Jerry built.”
Lyra Fontaine
The Daily Astorian