HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
DailyAstorian.com // MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2016
144TH YEAR, NO. 87
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The Daily Astorian
rom the haunted house at Astoria High
School to the fundraiser for the Seaside
Rotary, many North Coast residents
dressed up in costume and partied on a fright-
ful Halloween weekend.
Trick or treaters will likely have to brave
soggy and windy conditions if they go out
tonight on Halloween.
The Halloween carnival at Astoria High
School Saturday was organized by Sophia
King for her senior project, which featured
games, food, a haunted house and a movie.
The proceeds from the carnival were donated
to the local nonprofi t Filling Empty Bellies,
which provides lunches for the homeless.
At the Ghoulish Gala for the Seaside
Rotary Foundation, Colonel Sanders was in
the house . So was Uncle Fester, a handful of
hippie chicks, gladiators and a bevy of toga-
clad goddesses.
The festivities at the Seaside Civic and
Convention Center benefi ted community
and international projects, including a Rotary
Youth Exchange, Seaside High School and
the Christmas Wishing Tree Program for
needy children. International efforts seek to
eradicate polio worldwide and provide clean
drinking water in Africa.
The event is the foundation’s largest fund-
raiser of the year, gala chairwoman Raven
Brown said, and the fi rst one with a Hallow-
een theme.
“First of all, I’m a Rotarian, and so mak-
ing common cause with fellow Rotarians is
always high on my list,” said state Sen. Betsy
Johnson, D-Scappoose . “We’re really here
living out the Rotarian motto, ‘Service before
self.’ and we’re going to raise some money so
some kids can have a great holiday season.”
Ryan
Lampi
Warrenton
candidates
support new
development
Ackley, Lampi in
only contested race
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By ERICK BENGEL
The Daily Astorian
Photos by Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Isaac Gray, junior at Astoria High School, scares visitors entering the haunt-
ed house during the Halloween c arnival on Saturday at Astoria High School.
Astoria High School
senior Sophia King
poses for a portrait
in one of the haunt-
ed house hallways
during a Halloween
Carnival on Satur-
day at Astoria High
School. King orga-
nized and ran the
carnival for her senior
project. The proceeds
from the carnival
were donated to the
local non profit Filling
Empty Bellies.
WARRENTON — The Warrenton City
Commission’s only competitive race this year
is between incumbent Pam Ackley and chal-
lenger Ryan Lampi .
Both candidates have deep family ties to
Warrenton, recognize the city is growing and
want to play a role in that growth.
Ackley, 55, a real-estate broker with Wind-
ermere Stellar, was appointed to the commis-
sion in 2015 to fi ll a vacancy left when Mark
Kujala was elected mayor. She had lost to
Commissioner Rick Newton in 2014 and was
the only person who applied for Kujala’s seat.
A mentor at Seaside and Gearhart schools,
Ackley represents the City Commission with
Way to Wellville Clatsop County and is co-di-
rector of Warrenton-Hammond Healthy Kids.
See WARRENTON, Page 9A
Good
neighbor
saves a life
Woman trapped in
trailer alone for
nearly 60 hours
By DAVID PLECHL
EO Media Group
Astoria High School junior Maggie O’Connor scares visitors walking
through the haunted house during the Halloween c arnival on Satur-
day at Astoria High School.
Ethan Peterson, 4, tries on a H alloween mask with
his dad Ian Peterson, left, during the Halloween
c arnival on Saturday at Astoria High School. More
photos online at DailyAstorian.com
OCEAN PARK, Wash. — Almost every
time Ivan Rone, 45, drove home to the sin-
gle-wide he purchased a few months back in
the Rushlight Manor subdivision near Ocean
Park, he would see the same friendly look-
ing elderly woman sitting under the worn
awning of her fi fth-wheel trailer reading a
book.
He didn’t often see anyone with her and
decided one day to do something neigh-
borly — he introduced himself, asked how
she was, and shared some freshly smoked
salmon.
See NEIGHBOR, Page 9A
Writer dives deep into ocean exploration
Grace looks to
intertidal zone
for inspiration
C
ANNON BEACH — For
Stephen Grace, life in the
intertidal zone is “stranger
than science fi ction.”
“I think going to the
ocean’s edge or into the ocean
is as close as we can get on this
planet to going into another
world,” said Grace, an author,
fi lmmaker and Haystack Rock
Awareness Program volunteer.
“It is otherworldly.”
Grace’s fascination with the
ocean and its creatures is evi-
dent in his blog (tidesandtrails.
org). Colorful photos of sea
creatures and the unique Can-
non Beach landscape accom-
pany his posts on the intertidal
zone, geologic time and other
subjects.
Eventually, he hopes to
write a book that could focus
on global issues affecting
oceans and North Coast local
people and organizations, like
the Haystack Rock Awareness
Program and Sea Turtles For-
ever, that are making a differ-
ence. He is trying to hone in on
a subject, which he calls “the
curse of a curious person.”
Since moving to Cannon
Beach last fall, Grace has spent
the year absorbing informa-
tion and gathering inspiration
from local activists, beach vis-
itors and independent research.
As his wife, Amy, relocated
her nursing career to Astoria,
Grace sought to do something
different after years of living in
Colorado.
“I wanted to challenge
myself to learn something
completely new,” Grace said.
“I specialize in water and food
issues and water confl icts in
the intermountain west, but
realized I knew very little
about the world’s oceans.”
Grace has written about
subjects as varied as history
and science to the human and
environmental cost of urban
development in China.
While writing “Grow,” an
award-winning book on the
urban food movement, Grace
“looked at those specifi c proj-
ects in my own backyard and
looked at how they tied into
global issues.” He hopes to
do something similar with his
upcoming book by getting to
See GRACE, Page 9A
Lyra Fontaine/The Daily Astorian
Stephen Grace is an author,
filmmaker and Haystack
Rock Awareness Program
volunteer.