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.