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144TH YEAR, NO. 50 DailyAstorian.com // THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2016 ONE DOLLAR TIME FOR THE HARVEST: ALL ABOUT APPLES COAST WEEKEND Gearhart gives new lodging rules a go Short-term rental owners say city isn’t listening By R.J. MARX The Daily Astorian Photos by Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian Sean Barrow, left, and Dawn Stetzel, artists in residency with Recology Western Oregon, wade into a pile of trash at the Astoria Transfer Station Wednesday in search for materials for their art exhibition in the basement of Imogen Gallery in October. ‘FROM THE PILE’ Artists create treasure from Recology’s trash By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian See GEARHART, Page 10A Woman missing in the surf at Long Beach stream of garbage trucks and pick- ups drove into the bays of the Asto- ria Transfer Station Wednesday. Their drivers deposited pile after pile of garbage into the concrete fl oor, before bulldozers pushed them into the ever-growing mountain of life’s detritus. Waiting in the wings were Dawn Stetzel and Sean Barrow, artists in residency with Recology Western Oregon. Like the copi- ous seagulls searching for food, the artists swooped in once the trucks cleared out. Much of what they harvest during their three-month residency with Recology will be on display in “From the Pile,” an exhibit the two are organizing for October’s Second Sat- urday Artwalk in downtown Astoria. A Extensive search can’t locate body By NATALIE ST. JOHN EO Media Group See TRASH, Page 10A Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian Two of Sean Barrow’s art pieces can be seen here at the Recology Western Oregon Warrenton depot. Dawn Stetzel GEARHART — Ten minutes into Wednesday night’s Gearhart City Coun- cil meeting, Councilor Sue Lorain put Ordi- nance 901 regulating short-term rentals to a motion. The vote, after a multi year process that fi lled public hear- ings and divided the MORE community, passed unanimously without INSIDE discussion. Cannon Beach “It’s been a great ponders short- process, a long pro- term rental cess,” Mayor Dianne change. Widdop said after the Page 3A. meeting. “It’s wonder- ful that the fi ve of us are all in total agreement. We feel it’s import- ant and something we wanted to do. I feel darn good about it.” The rules go into effect in 30 days, City Administrator Chad Sweet said, followed by a one-time 60-day period in which prop- erty owners may apply for short-term rental Sean Barrow shows one of his pieces of art that is a sledge- hammer created from recycled plastic wa- ter bottles filled with cement . Sean Barrow FROM THE PILE “From the Pile,” an exhibit by Dawn Stetzel and Sean Barrow of reclaimed art from the Recol- ogy Western Oregon’s Astoria Transfer Station, will open during Astoria’s Second Saturday Artwalk Oct. 8 underneath Imogen Gallery at 1125 Marine Drive. LONG BEACH, Wash. — Rescuers spent more than two hours Wednesday night search- ing for a woman who disappeared in the surf roughly 100 yards north of the Sid Snyder beach approach on the Long Beach Peninsula. Police, fi re, medical and surf rescue responders from a variety of local agencies used boats, a helicopter, vehicles and foot patrols to search from Seaview north to Long Beach from roughly 10:40 p.m. Wednesday until 12:40 a.m. Thursday but did not recover her body. The woman, who will not be pub- licly identifi ed until next of kin are notifi ed, was the second person to drown on a penin- sula beach this summer. Pacifi c County emergency dispatchers fi rst alerted rescuers of a report of “a woman with no clothing on” in the water at about 10:30 p.m. The dispatchers said she went into the water near the site of a small camp- fi re on the beach. See MISSING, Page 10A Fishermen exploited in Hawaiian paradise Foreign crews confi ned to boats to catch most seafood By MARTHA MENDOZA and MARGIE MASON Associated Press HONOLULU — Hawaii’s high-quality seafood is sold with the promise that it’s caught by local, hard-work- ing fi shermen. But the people who haul in the prized catch are almost all undocumented foreign workers, confi ned to American boats for years at a time without basic rights or protections. About 700 men from impoverished Southeast Asian and Pacifi c Island nations make up the bulk of the work- force in this unique U.S. fi sh- ing fl eet. A federal loophole allows them to take the dan- gerous jobs without proper work permits, just as long as they don’t set foot on shore. Americans buying Hawai- ian seafood are almost cer- tainly eating fi sh caught by one of these workers. A six-month Associated Press investigation found fi sh- ing crews living in squalor on some boats, forced to use buckets instead of toilets and suffering running sores from bed bugs. There have been instances of human traffi cking, active tuberculosis and low food supplies. “We want the same stan- dards as the other workers in America, but we are just small people working there,” said fi sherman Syamsul Maarif, who didn’t get paid for four months. He was sent back to his Indonesian village after nearly dying at sea when his Hawaiian boat sank earlier this year. Because they have no visas, the men can’t fl y into Hawaii, so they’re brought by boat. See FISHING, Page 9A AP Photo/Caleb Jones Foreign fishermen aboard an American fishing boat un- load a moonfish at Pier 38 in Honolulu in March. Around 700 foreign men work in a unique Hawaii fishing fleet with- out visas, thanks to a federal loophole written specifically for their ship owners. With no legal standing on U.S. soil, the men are at the mercy of their American captains on American-flagged, American-owned vessels.
