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144TH YEAR, NO. 26 WEEKEND EDITION // FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2016 ONE DOLLAR COUNTRY MUSIC HITS THE CLATSOP COUNTY FAIR PAGE 3A COAST RIVER BUSINESS JOURNAL • INSIDE Cancer SPECIALTY CROPS center ARE SPECIAL GUESTS gets off the ground Patients can get treatment locally through partnership By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian Volunteer server and Oregon Health & Science University graduate student Makena Whitaker, right, serves an appetizer to a table of dinner attendees during the Crop-Up Dinner Series on Thursday at Oregon State University Seafood Lab in Astoria. OSU crop-up dinner showcases local grub By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian or farmers like Anne and Lau- rel Berblinger, much of the challenge is getting Oregon’s specialty crops into the hands of consumers. The family grows about 300 varieties of vegetables, fruits and herbs at Gales Meadow Farm in Gales Creek near Tillamook . “Once they try it, they like it,” Anne Berblinger said, adding her farm is starting an on-site tasting event to initiate potential customers. The Berblingers and other local farmers got some help Thursday, when Oregon State University and the state Department of Agriculture held a “crop-up” farmers market and dinner at the university’s Seafood Lab in Astoria, part of an effort to promote Oregon’s bounty. The “USDA is trying to get more of these specialty crops out into the public,” said Julia Turner, an interna- tional trade manager with the Depart- ment of Agriculture. Turner said Oregon ranks fi fth in specialty crop production, includ- ing vegetables, fruits, tree nuts and F nursery crops. Along with Oregon State, her department received a s pe- cialty c rop b lock g rant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which they used to fund the crop-up din- ners and markets for the next two summers. The grant will also fund a showcase of Oregon’s specialty crops to foreign food writers at Feast, a culi- nary event in Portland. See CANCER CENTER, Page 8A Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian Food is prepared during the Crop Up Dinner Series on Thursday at Oregon State University Seafood Lab in Astoria. Farm to fork Diners at the event Thursday feasted on an eight-course dinner overseen by Jason Ball, a research chef with the university, and Exec- utive Chef Jeff Graham from Fort George Brewery. “The idea was that we work with farms as local as possible, and we do all the cooking,” Ball said, adding the two chefs fi rst fi gured out what they were getting, then designed the menu. The dinner Thursday included produce from several of the farms at the pop-up market earlier, along with local seafood. Dishes ranged from confi t beet salad and raw sablefi sh crudo to smoked salmon served with See DINNER, Page 8A Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian Jason Ball, Oregon State University research chef, works to prepare meals for the Crop Up Dinner Series on Thursday at Oregon State University Seafood Lab . By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau vital bed near the mouth of Cedar River, racing to move them before they smother and die in loose muck churned up by the prolifi c shrimp. See SHRIMP, Page 8A See TAX PLAN, Page 8A Willapa By growers await permit to fi ght for fi scal survival By MATT WINTERS EO Media Group Damian Mulinix/For EO Media Group Goose Point Farm Manager Francisco Meliton sinks to his knees in a swath of tideland infested with burrowing shrimp near Tokeland. ing shrimp for moles, and you have some idea of the anxiety gripping local oyster growers. Last week, prominent Willapa oysterman Dave Nisbet’s crew hur- ried to evacuate oysters from a Brown endorses Oregon corporate tax plan SALEM — Gov. Kate Brown has announced she is endorsing a controversial corporate sales tax measure on November’s ballot . Initiative Petition 28, on track to be called Measure 97 on the ballot, levies a 2.5 percent tax on certain corpora- tions’ Oregon gross receipts exceeding $25 million. “I have spent my career fi ghting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive, Brown said in a statement Thursday. “I support Measure 97 because there is a Gov. basic unfairness in our Kate Brown tax system that makes working families pay an increasing share for state and local services, including public schools, senior services, and health care. By some measures, Oregon is among the lowest in corporate taxes, and Oregon ians expect everyone to pay their fair share.” Inedible shrimp take over key oyster bed WILLAPA BAY, Wash. — Imagine your once-profi table farm is now covered with tens of thou- sands of mole burrows, a desert of holes and naked dirt. Now imag- ine needing a government permit to control this population explo- sion — a permit issued and then withdrawn last year, and now once again creeping through the bureaucracy. Transfer this scenario to Wil- lapa Bay and substitute burrow- Gathering with partners, Columbia Memorial Hospital offi cially broke ground Thursday on the Knight Cancer Collabora- tive, the hospital’s partnership with Oregon Health & Science University to bring com- prehensive cancer treatment to the North Coast. The 19,000 -square -foot cancer center, built on the former John Warren Field, will offer radiation therapy and imaging services, saving many local cancer patients trips to Longview, Washington, and the Portland metro area for treatment. In 2010, Columbia Memorial CEO Erik Thorsen said, OHSU had no presence in Clatsop County, and Columbia Memo- rial and Dr. Sangkun “Sonny” Park’s offi ce across Exchange Street were often compet- ing rather than working with one another. Thorsen credits former Mayor Willis Van Dusen for creating the energy to put aside differences and partner, a requirement of get- ting the help of OHSU. When he was thinking of establishing a cancer center, Park said, he went around
