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DailyAstorian.com // MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 144TH YEAR, NO. 77 PACIFIC STORM FIZZLES AFTER DIRE WARNINGS ONE DOLLAR Vintage Hardware celebrates new space By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Co-founders Becky Johnson and Paul Tuter reopened Vintage Hardware over the weekend in their new location along Marine Drive in downtown Astoria. At the end of June, Johnson and Tuter were given 90 days notice to vacate the former Englund Marine & Industrial Supply building at the foot of 15th Street. A new Mo’s Restaurant is going into the space. George Brugh, owner of Bargains Galore near 12th Becky Street and Marine Johnson Drive, contacted John- son and Tuter to offer space. Tuter said the new space is about 10,000-square feet, compared to 18,000 at the Englund Marine building. “Our previous loca- tions, like the Astor Hotel, had (their) own character — so did Paul Englund Marine,” Tuter Johnson said. “This location was a blank slate, a big box.” The building most recently housed Bar- gains Galore, and before that a Jeep dealer- ship, a lumber shop and a feed store. John- son, Tuter and a small crew spent a month, painting, reworking utilities and moving over inventory. Local artist Darren Orange painted the outside a combination of dark gray with paprika trim. Tornado leaves damage in its wake See STORE, Page 7A ‘It surprises me there wasn’t more damage’ By R.J. MARX The Daily Astorian MANZANITA — Manzanita Avenue homeowner Mark Brennan was in Tigard when he saw his house on TV. “I was watching Chan- nel 6 and I saw my house in the background,” he said Sunday. “There were four trees on it.” The tornado that tore through Manza- nita Friday morning sliced through town, past the main street of Laneda Avenue and across Fourth and Fifth streets to Manzanita Avenue. The funnel left damage in its wake and on Sun- day, contractors, utility crews, and home- and business-owners were equipped with chain- saws and chippers clearing out debris from the storm. Brennan came down to the coast and spent until 11 p.m. Friday night trying to clear brush before Saturday’s threatened second round of storms. On Sunday, he, like other neigh- bors, cleared logs, stacked brush and boarded windows. In the aftermath, tourists in Manzanita were few, but the buzz of chainsaws sounded steadily through the city. See TORNADO, Page 4A Photos by Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian TOP: A man battles weather conditions walking past storm damage along Laneda Avenue on Friday morning in Manzanita. ABOVE: A park visitor battles stormy conditions on Saturday at Fort Stevens State Park in Hammond. Many still without power By GENE JOHNSON and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press S EATTLE — Trees and power lines snapped as a powerful storm bearing the remnants of a Paciic typhoon hit the Northwest. Thousands of people were still without power in Oregon and Washington on Sun- day as the remnants of what was billed as a potentially apocalyptic typhoon began to izzle. Emergency crews in Oregon and Wash- ington worked through the night to restore power lines and remove dozens of downed trees to clear roads that the storm had dam- aged over the past two days. Feds press Oregon on ID standards Real ID Act in response to 9/11 terrorist attacks Associated Press The National Weather Service said winds gusted above 50 mph Saturday in at the Astoria Regional Airport, with the high- est gust at 58 mph on Friday.. The storm brought heavy rain and wind from Northern California to Washington state. At the Astoria airport, 4.64 inches were recorded Friday through Sunday. Dispatchers took at least 20 calls Friday and Saturday about trees leaning on power lines, blocking roads and being struck by lightning. The weekend also included three calls about high water on Oregon Highway 202 just east of Astoria, and U.S. Highway 30 at 39th Street. PORTLAND — Oregon is facing increas- ing pressure to adopt federal standards for its driver’s licenses and state-issued IDs before residents face additional scrutiny at secured areas, including airports. The U.S. Department of Homeland Secu- rity has granted the state another extension of its deadline to comply with the Real ID Act of 2005, which laid out a series of stan- dards for state-issued ID cards. The Oregonian reports though previous extensions have been in effect for a year at a time, the latest will last through June — just long enough for the Legislature to convene. Alaska, California and Virginia all received similar limited extensions, while several other states received an entire year. See STORM, Page 4A See IDs, Page 7A Tennis shares passion for beekeeping S EASIDE — A childhood incident that traumatized Julie Tennis stimulated a life- long passion for bees and beekeeping. “My experience as a bee- keeper has shown me that the more people care about some- thing living, other than them- selves, the more they will care about nature as a whole,” said Julie Tennis, a naturalist and beekeeper from Naselle, Washington. The art of beekeeping is an exacting and work-intensive yet rewarding way to estab- lish a connection with nature, promote pollination and con- tribute positively to the overall health of the environment. She gave a presentation, “What Beekeepers Do” at the Seaside Public Library last month. Tennis maintains an oscil- lating number of hives, between 20 and 40, depending on what is happening in the environment, but she has not always been a bee lover. During her childhood, she and a friend got stung more than a dozen times each, which gave her fear and hatred of stinging insects that she har- bored for a long time. How- ever, she also respected them, especially as she came to understand the insects did not sting until they feel threatened. When Tennis was in col- lege, her father started keep- ing bees. At irst, she was hes- itant to go to his house, but she eventually she found them intriguing. “My curiosity started to overcome my fear,” she said. In 2005, she realized she was allergic to sugar, and her father became her honey sup- plier. When she and her hus- band got their own house in See TENNIS, Page 7A Katherine Lacaze/For The Daily Astorian Julie Tennis explains the different components of a Lang- stroth beehive during her presentation, “What Beekeep- ers Do,” at the Seaside Public Library.
