144TH YEAR, NO. 50
DailyAstorian.com // THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
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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.