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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.
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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.