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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016
Riverwalk Inn hoteliers get two more years
Developers
have made
improvements
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
The Port of Astoria Commis-
sion on Tuesday extended Asto-
ria Hospitality Venture’s lease
on the Astoria Riverwalk Inn
through October 2018.
The company, headed by
developer Chester Trabucco and
ish processor William Orr, had
been operating on a month-to-
month lease since being chosen
as the short-term operator nearly
a year ago. Port Executive
Director Jim Knight said noth-
ing about the lease will change,
except for the term.
Orr and Trabucco’s work on
the inn has been lauded by Port
commissioners and administra-
tion. But Orr said the company
needs more certainty to ix big-
ger-ticket items at the hotel.
“I think it’s only fair we let
them work on a lease to con-
tinue that effort,” Commissioner
James Campbell said.
Pointing down at the hotel
rooms overlooking the West
End Mooring Basin from the
Port’s second-loor meeting
space during the meeting Tues-
day, Orr said the company is
replacing many of the railings
and sliding glass doors. He has
The Daily Astorian
William Orr and Chester Trabucco, who operate the Astoria
Riverwalk Inn through Astoria Hospitality Ventures, received
an extension on their month-to-month lease through Octo-
ber 2018.
said it will take $40,000 alone to
replace an aging laundry facility
in the hotel.
Through another of his
companies, Marina Village
LLC, Orr is in negotiations
with the Port to take over oper-
ation of the Chinook Building,
a commercial structure near
the hotel. The agreement could
include an option to lease the
former Seafare Restaurant, a
run-down building in between
the hotel and Chinook Build-
ing Orr has expressed inter-
est in redeveloping as part of
a larger, uniied tourist desti-
nation around the West End
Mooring Basin.
Emergency preparedness
focus of Bonamici visit
By LYRA FONTAINE
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — For a second
time in two weeks, U.S. Rep.
Suzanne Bonamici was on the
North Coast, this time for a town
hall meeting Tuesday in Seaside
and a visit to the Cannon Beach
Fire Department.
The congresswoman’s hour-
long town hall attended by about
40 people at the South County
Campus of Clatsop Commu-
nity College followed a visit
to the ire department earlier in
the afternoon. While Bonamici
touched on a variety of hot-but-
ton issues, including education,
housing, seniors, jobs and health
care, improving emergency
warning systems on the North
Coast was the primary focus.
Bonamici and Cannon Beach
public oficials met to discuss
tsunami early warning systems
and how to best communicate
emergencies to residents.
“Cannon Beach is a great
example,” Bonamici, D-Ore-
gon, said. “I really like the cre-
ative solution of having people
store their things out of the tsu-
nami zone. I appreciate the part-
nerships and the local, state and
federal folks working together
because we want people to be
prepared and we don’t want to
discourage people from coming
over to the coast.”
Leland O’Driscoll, Univer-
sity of Oregon earthquake proj-
ect manager and seismic ield
technician, explained the early
warning system used to detect
earthquakes’ size and magni-
tude through a network of seis-
mic sensors. This system would
be more available by 2018,
O’Driscoll said.
The group also listened to the
“mooing cows” emergency test
warning system, spearheaded by
former Cannon Beach ire board
president Al Aya.
“We turned it into a market-
ing tool rather than fear,” Pub-
lic Works Director Dan Grassick
said. “Our next phase is to take a
serious look at survival and where
we will put people post-tsunami.”
Bonamici said she is still
working to get the Tsunami Warn-
ing, Education and Research Act
“over the inish line.”
Cannon Beach has eight
sirens, but the ire board even-
tually hopes to install more
alarms in the southern end of
town and Arch Cape.
“It took us a long time to con-
vince people, don’t be scared,”
said Cannon Beach Mayor Sam
Steidel, “be educated.”
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Still in court
Until now, the Port has kept
the agreement short term until
the resolution of a lawsuit
filed by spurned rival suitor
Param Hotel Group. After
Hospitality Ventures was cho-
sen, Param filed suit against
the Port, claiming their rival’s
personal connections to the
Port gained them favorable
treatment. Orr is the brother-
in-law of Commissioner Ste-
phen Fulton, and purported by
Param to be a friend of Com-
missioner Bill Hunsinger. A
trial is scheduled to start in
January.
Orr and Trabucco were
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A 38-year-old Astoria man was arrested this week for
luring a minor.
Thomas Joshua Hayes thought he was messaging an
underage girl online, but was actually communicating
with an Oregon City Police oficer.
The oficer, who had set up the
fake proile online, notiied Astoria
Police. The case was not a coordi-
nated effort, according to police,
but simply a suspect that happened
to be from Astoria.
Hayes was arrested on a felony
warrant Sunday in Warrenton. He
is charged with luring a minor, a
class C felony. According to the
state statute, a person commits the
Thomas
crime of luring a minor by sending
Joshua Hayes
messages or photographs of sexual
conduct to a minor or a police ofi-
cer posing as a minor with the intent to engage in sex-
ual conduct.
It is common practice for oficers to set up proiles and
wait for a suspect to make contact, according to police.
Oficers do not usually go out looking for suspects online.
While messaging the fake proile, Hayes apparently
wanted to meet the underage girl in Astoria.
He pleaded not guilty Monday in Circuit Court. He
remains in custody on $50,000 bail.
Hayes’ criminal history includes previous convictions
for burglary, theft, criminal trespass and drug possession.
He is due back in court next month for an early reso-
lution conference.
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named as co-defendants on
the claim they intentionally
interfered in Param’s business
by lobbying the Port Commis-
sion. Clatsop County Circuit
Court Judge Philip Nelson
ruled the lobbying of a pub-
lic body, even for commercial
interest, is protected. A court
hearing on attorney fees is set
for later this month.
In other news:
• The Port Commission
voted to award the contract
for stormwater improvements
to Conway Construction of
Ridgefield, Washington. The
commission had voted late
last month to go with Con-
way. Port Permit and Project
Manager Robert Evert said
the company will use about
six local subcontractors for
much of the work.
• Knight said he has a ten-
tative agreement between the
International Longshore and
Warehouse Union and log
exporter Astoria Forest Prod-
ucts regarding a labor dispute.
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ucts company have been sub-
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