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DailyAstorian.com // WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016
144TH YEAR, NO. 24
ONE DOLLAR
Mo’s
is
A camp full of fi rsts on its
way to
Astoria
Chowder plant on the
river at 15th Street
By DERRICK DePLEDGE
The Daily Astorian
Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
Counselors at Camp Rosenbaum surprised their children Friday, revealing themselves as military personnel, police officers and
firefighters. Housing, law enforcement and military agencies send volunteers to man the camp each summer, teaching kids good
citizenship skills.
Low-income children,
law enforcement, spend
a week at the beach
See MO’S, Page 10A
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
W
Mo’s Restaurants
ARRENTON — The rows of young campers stood on their tiptoes and
craned their necks toward the back of Warrior Hall Friday at the Camp Rilea
Armed Forces Training Center. A look of surprise plastered on their faces,
they watched as the counselors they had bonded with the past week fi led in, their Camp
Rosenbaum T-shirts replaced by military fatigues, police and fi re uniforms.
Photo courtesy of Camp Rosenbaum
Fred Rosenbaum started Camp Rosen-
baum in 1970, offering low-income kids
the opportunity to enjoy summer camp
and learn how to be good citizens.
Camp Rosenbaum, a unique summer
camp experience doubling as a crash course
in good citizenship, wrapped up its 46th year
Friday. Amid a chorus of hugs, well-wishes
and high-fi ves, the corps of volunteers sent
home 160 low-income youth with lasting
childhood memories and a new respect for
those in uniform.
Camp Rosenbaum is named after the late
Fred Rosenbaum, a Holocaust refugee and
Oregon luminary. The camp is now orga-
nized by the Oregon National Guard, Port-
land Police Bureau and housing agency
Home Forward. Housing authorities around
the Portland metro area, central, southern and
coastal Oregon fi nd kids age 9 to 11 to attend.
Police, fi re and housing agencies provide the
volunteers, who outnumber campers, provid-
ing around-the-clock activities and life les-
sons in being good citizens.
Mo’s, based in Newport, plans a new
restaurant and chowder production
plant on the Columbia River at 15th
Street in Astoria.
Port looks
for benzene
in old offi ces
Air quality fears
prompt move to Pier 1
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
All about the kids
Doran Gritton, a 10-year-old from Inde-
pendence, laid on Sunset Beach Thursday
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
See CAMP ROSENBAUM, Page 10A
Mo’s is coming to Astoria.
The Newport-based seafood chain will
build a restaurant and a clam chowder pro-
duction plant on the Columbia River at
15th Street. The company will purchase the
downtown space — now leased by Astoria
Vintage Hardware — from Englund Marine
& Supply Co.
“Although some might consider Mo’s a
chain restaurant, I feel that we are far from
that,” Jolee Bancroft, the owner of Newport
Pacifi c Corp., which operates Mo’s restau-
rants on the Oregon Coast and at Portland
International Airport. “We are a family busi-
ness that cares about our guests, the well-be-
ing of our crew, and the success in the cities
where we reside in.”
The Port of Astoria is studying whether
its old offi ces on Gateway Avenue contain
harmful amounts of benzene in the air.
The Port Commission voted on Tuesday
to spend nearly $46,000 to have the agen-
cy’s environmental consultants, Maul Fos-
ter & Alongi Inc., study the air quality of the
Port’s old offi ces and nearby maintenance
shop, along with the potential pollution from
historic fuel leaks underneath.
Camp Rosenbaum campers compete in a sandcastle -building competition .
See PORT, Page 5A
Not just piglets and corn dogs at the fair
Clatsop County
Fair kicks off with
intriguing options for
fun, entertainment
By ELI STILLMAN
The Daily Astorian
Showing off farm animals has long
been a customary part of American fairs,
but this year’s Clatsop County Fair fea-
tures some nontraditional options.
A shade tent designated for tortoises
was part of the Reptile Man’s Mobile
Reptile Zoo.
Paulette Ritchey and her daugh-
ter, Hannah, stood in front of the rep-
tile zoo on opening day Tuesday. Along
with keeping an eye on the wandering
tortoises, they welcomed visitors into
their walk-through reptile house. The
trailer has been outfi tted with tanks and
holds 22 reptiles including a rattlesnake
and poisonous lizards.
This is the second year the mobile
zoo has come to the Clatsop County
Fair and its main attraction is a live
2-foot alligator that visitors are allowed
hold for a picture. The alligator is
accustomed to being handled, but still
has its mouth taped for safety.
“All of the poisonous animals have
been devenomized because our insur-
ance wouldn’t cover us,” said Ritchey,
who also assured that none of the other
reptiles would be coming out of their
locked tanks this week.
See FAIR, Page 10A
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Carson Cowan takes a look at a rattlesnake inside Reptile Man’s Mobile
Reptile Zoo during the opening day of the Clatsop County Fair on Tues-
day at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds in Astoria.