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RIO 2016: US OLYMPIANS TAKE LEAD IN MEDAL COUNT SPORTS • 7A DailyAstorian.com // MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2016 144TH YEAR, NO. 27 Port’s ish gut crusade puzzling CLATSOP COUNTY FAIR Photos by Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian Kids hold their ears during the loud chainsaw competition at the Clatsop County Logging Show on Saturday at the Clatsop County Fair. More photos online at DailyAstorian.com ONE DOLLAR Jeff Fetter from Buckley, Washington, competes in the modi- fied chainsaw competition during the Clatsop County Logging Show on Saturday at the Clatsop County Fair. Fetter won first place in the competition with a time of 7.01 seconds. THEY CAME, SAWED AND CONQUERED Regulators say carcasses are allowed in river By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian The Port of Astoria has taken a surprising crusade against ish remains being dumped into the Columbia River. The agency on Thursday shut down ish-cleaning stations at the East and West mooring basins over environmental con- cerns of waste being dumped directly into the Columbia River. On Friday, it reopened ish cleaning at the East End Mooring Basin after installing a portable sewage tank to col- lect ish remains. The closures came three days after the start of the popular Buoy 10 summer salmon ishery, which brings thousands of ishermen to the Lower Columbia River. While per- turbing ishermen, the move also surprised state regulators. See PORT, Page 10A Devin Corey Gerou Dillon Jackson from Sweet Home hurdles a log during the choker-setting competition Saturday during the Clatsop County Log- ging Show at the county fair. Jackson won second place in this competition. John Michael Lafreniere Spinning wheels of justice Accused bike thieves preyed on park visitors Clatsop County Fair ends run with logging, mutton bustin’ By KYLE SPURR The Daily Astorian The Daily Astorian o for the Blue” at the Clatsop County Fair has come to an end, and numbers are starting to show that it may have been one of the most popular years in recent history. While total attendance is still being tallied, irst year fair- ground General Manager Kathi Mattinen said, “I know it’s more than it has been in years past.” The large turnout could be, in part, due to the Craig Morgan concert which brought in more than 1,900 attendees Thursday night. “We will continue on the trend that we started this year, want to thank everyone for coming and we will try to make it even better next year,” Mattinen said. ‘G CHECK OUT MORE PHOTOS FROM THE FAIR ON PAGE 10A Jacob Martin Kitzman Jacob Wolfe, 8, from Astoria, hangs on a sheep during a mutton bustin’ event on Saturday at the Clatsop County Fair. Three Warrenton men are accused of stealing more than a dozen bicycles from visitors at Fort Stevens State Park and the KOA campground. Devin Corey Gerou, 19; Jacob Martin Kitzman, 24; and John Michael Lafreniere, 26, were arrested after the alleged crime spree. Warrenton Police began receiving multi- ple reports in July of stolen bicycles from the local campgrounds. Oficers increased patrols in the area at night and, following a tip, recovered ive of the bicycles. Police were able to identify the three sus- pects, who were arrested and booked July 31. See STOLEN BIKES, Page 10A Cooking up a whole new school lunch New Astoria food chief wants to entice more campus dining S ince starting in July, Michael Kelly is cook- ing up a food service pro- gram from scratch for Astoria School District. A 27-year U.S. Coast Guard veteran, Kelly was hired by the district to run its newly auton- omous food-service program. Kelly is busy this sum- mer creating menus, secur- ing food contracts and making sure it all meets federal and state standards. Meanwhile, he’s overseeing the district’s sites in the Summer Food Ser- vice Program, which provides a federally funded lunch to any minor ive days a week at sev- eral locations throughout Asto- ria. The program is feeding 70 to 75 people a day, he said, similar to the crew he led as a senior chief petty oficer on the cutter Steadfast for the past three years. Kelly has spent the last 15 years on the North Coast, including four years on the Steadfast, four years at Cape Disappointment, four years on the cutter Alert and a inal three- year tour back on the Steadfast. Kelly considers himself lucky that his eldest daugh- ter, Heather, was able to start kindergarten in Warrenton and graduate from Warrenton High School 12 years later. He and his wife, Samantha, also have a younger daughter, Rebecca, entering the sixth grade. Food service is often an unstable job, so you have to take opportunities when they arise. See KELLY, Page 10A Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian The director of Astoria’s food service program, Michael Kelly, center, stops by the summer lunch program at Tapi- ola Park recently in Astoria.