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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
Missing: Wet fog, low
clouds hindered search
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Within about ive min-
utes, responders from the
South Paciic County Tech-
nical Rescue (surf rescue),
local ire departments, Medix
ambulance and the U.S. Coast
Guard were in route. A dis-
patcher said police were with
the missing woman’s boy-
friend at the scene. The other
responders arrived at about
10:40 p.m. At about the same
time, a responder asked a dis-
patcher to notify emergency
responders that they should
send more trucks to the beach,
if possible.
“We need all the spotters
we can get,” the man said.
Around 10:45 p.m., a res-
cuer asked the Coast Guard to
dispatch a search helicopter.
Responders then switched to
communicating on a tactical
channel, and only brief snip-
pets of conversation could be
heard on the common public
safety scanner channel for the
remainder of the search effort.
At 10:50 p.m., a rescuer,
relaying information to the
Coast Guard through dis-
patch, said the woman had
already been in the water for
a minimum of 25 minutes.
The Coast Guard helicopter
arrived at about 11 p.m. and
swept back and forth over the
water in widening circles for
the remainder of the search
effort. As the evening wore on,
the helicopter began venturing
further north and south, a pos-
sible indication that respond-
ers were shifting from rescue
to recovery.
Radio
communications
between the various parties
hinted at the challenges of con-
ducting a search at night, when
reduced visibility and cooler
temperatures increase the risks
for both the victim and the res-
cuers. The incident started
roughly two hours before low
high tide. At the time, the air
and water temperature were
both between about 55 and 60
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Dawn Stetzel searches for materials for her upcoming art exhibition at the Astoria Trans-
fer Station. More photos online at DailyAstorian.com
Trash: ‘One person’s trash
is another person’s treasure’
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Picking permission
As the saying goes, one per-
son’s trash is another’s treasure.
For Barrow and Stetzel, free
trash-picking rights came at a
premium. Since July, the art-
ists receive unfettered access to
the transfer station, along with
a monthly stipend and studio
space.
“As a sculptor and a builder,
material cost is the biggest part,”
Barrow said.
Many of Barrow’s works are
for private clients. But instead
of focusing on what his clients
want, he said, the residency with
Recology has allowed him to
go where his inds at the trans-
fer station take him. He has been
based in Astoria for more than a
year, saying the small-town life
is better for his art.
Stetzel came to the Oregon
Coast as an artist in residency
for the Sitka Center for Art and
Ecology in Otis. She made her
way north as the irst artist in res-
idence hosted by the Sou’wester
Lodge in Seaview, Washington.
“For me, this is not a new
way of making,” Stetzel said.
“This is the way I’ve always
made … or the process of my
making. I usually look at what
people throw away.
“Coming to a place where
I have permission to dig in the
trash, it’s just glorious.”
Big City Art
Recology, which started in
San Francisco, held its irst art-
ist in residency program there in
1990. Similar programs are in
Portland, Seattle and other large
cities.
Fred Stemmler, general man-
ager for Recology Western Ore-
gon, said he was admiring the
chalk art at Fort George Brew-
ery one day. He got in touch
with artist and Astoria Visual
Arts board member Darren
Orange over a beer and hatched
the plan for Astoria’s artist in
residency program.
“The idea behind the pro-
gram is to promote the arts, but
also to kind of highlight that one
person’s trash is another per-
son’s treasure,” Stemmler said.
Astoria Visual Arts helped
ind the artists and the space for
their exhibit underneath Imo-
gen Gallery. Recology provided
the source material and studio
space.
Creations from the pile
After picking through the
transfer station, Barrow and
Stetzel load their inds in a red
pickup truck and drive it back
to their studio, a paint booth in
Recology’s maintenance depot
at the Astoria Regional Airport.
The room is littered with vari-
ous tools — most of which they
found at the transfer station —
and their creations for the art
exhibit.
Stetzel has laid out a ire-es-
cape ladder made from the arms
of dumped canvas camping
chairs. Broom, rake and other
handles provide the steps. On
the wall hangs a life jacket made
of canvas chairs and found
foam. “In beach communities,
I see so many of these thrown
away,” Stetzel said of her fabric.
In her previous residencies,
Stetzel scavenged to make a
houseboat, ski cart, life raft and
other reclaimed artwork, focus-
ing on mobility, survival and a
connection to her surroundings.
Visualizing her exhibit next
month, Stetzel said she plans
on wearing a survival suit made
from tent fabric while riding on
a raft made from coolers.
Outside, Barrow wielded
a 40-pound maul made from
a plastic bottle skin illed with
concrete. Farther away stood a
tower of more than 1 ton worth
of stacked pier supports he will
carve into an exhibit on the uses
of wood.
Spinning on a boat bearing
nailed to a work bench was a
mandala Barrow made from dis-
carded oak looring. Plastic cases
from a small parts company with
purple, green and orange bottoms
formed the design of the man-
dala, centered on a TV projector
lens. Emanating from the spin-
ning mandala like rays of the sun
will be a collection of golf clubs
Barrow found.
Stetzel and Barrow have
been surprised by some of the
things people throw away, from
a working TV projector and
a one-wheeled hoverboard to
boxed doll sets, other childhood
mementos and items that might
have come from the recently
deceased.
When looking at the things
people throw away, Stetzel
said, “there’s a lot of emotional
baggage.”
Damian Mulinix/For EO Media Group
A Coast Guard helicopter circles over the shoreline near
the Sid Snyder approach early Thursday morning during
the search for a woman who disappeared in the surf ear-
lier in the night.
degrees. According to various
internet sources, a healthy per-
son who is in 50 to 60-degree
water typically reaches the
point of exhaustion or uncon-
sciousness in one to two hours,
but can sometimes survive for
as long as six hours. Histori-
cally, most of the Peninsula’s
dozens of drowning victims
have succumbed to the water
in far less than six hours.
When a Chinook Observer
reporter and photojournalist
arrived at the beach at roughly
11:45 p.m., about eight vehi-
cles from local agencies were
on the beach. Several volun-
teer ireighters from the Long
Beach Fire Department were
cruising the beach, while a
Coast Guard vessel used pow-
erful lights to search in the
water near shore, and “spot-
ters” onshore searched for any
hint of the woman. Around
midnight, rescuers began ir-
ing a lare gun every few min-
utes to cast a brighter, bigger
pool of light over the water. A
low cloud cover turned into a
wet fog, further hindering the
search effort.
With little chance of ind-
ing the woman amid worsen-
ing conditions, rescuers sus-
pended the search at about
12:40 a.m., and a convoy of
emergency vehicles left the
beach.
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Gearhart City Council approved a new short-term rental ordinance Wednesday night.
Gearhart: ‘Everyone has had
the opportunity to be heard’
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status. Those applying for per-
mits must pay a $600 fee and
show proof they have paid city
taxes.
There are about 90 short-
term rentals in Gearhart, Sweet
said. Ninety-nine additional
condos in higher-density zones
would not be affected by the
new rules.
Registration is open to “any-
one who can prove to me they’ve
rented by the time the application
period is over,” he added.
No new permits will be
issued after the 60-day period.
Rules include parking
requirements and occupancy
limits, among other conditions.
Permit ownership may be
transferred only by inheritance.
“It is the intent that the sale of
homes with a rental permit will
result in gradual attrition of the
total number of dwellings with a
vacation rental permit,” the ordi-
nance states.
Alternate proposal
That clause, among oth-
ers, led some short-term prop-
erty owners early this week to
announce their intention to bring
an alternate proposal before
Gearhart voters in the form of an
election initiative.
While recognizing the
need for registration, their plan
enables transfer of permits,
increases the number of permits
issued and calls for changes in
parking and occupancy limits
for short-term rental properties.
According to City Attorney
Peter Watts, an initiative to send
the measure to voters would be
too late for November’s election
but could be on the ballot next
year.
Residents could also choose
to ask for a referendum to “erase
what we did,” Watts said, with
30 days to give notice to the city
and another 90 days to gather
signatures.
In public comment period
Wednesday night, some audi-
ence members decried the coun-
cil’s vote.
Kathy Schroeder said the
council stymied the concerns of
short-term property owners “the
whole way through.”
Gearhart resident Shannon
Smith, in opposing the new
rules, said the city’s priorities
were “out of whack.”
“We have to listen to our citi-
zens,” Smith said. “There seems
to be some disregard from that
happening.”
“Everyone has had the
opportunity to be heard,” Wid-
dop said after the meeting. “I
don’t go for the ‘I didn’t have
the chance to be heard.’”
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