FISHERMEN ARE UNSTOPPABLE
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144TH YEAR, NO. 92
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DailyAstorian.com // MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2016
Network
connects
growers,
buyers
By ERIC MORTENSON
Capital Press
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Students, community members and voters in support of the Seaside schools bond measure march around downtown Sunday
reminding voters to turn in their ballots in Seaside.
SEASIDE PEP RALLY
HAS SURVIVAL IN MIND
Students bring
attention to
school safety
By R.J. MARX
The Daily Astorian
EASIDE — “Vote ‘Yes’ for
Seaside schools!”
The voices rang out as
students, families and bond sup-
porters joined in a pep rally march
Sunday from the Seaside Civic
and Convention Center to U.S.
Highway 101, back to Broadway
and onto the Prom. Seaside High
School sophomore Mason Craw-
ford ran through the crowd wav-
ing the school’s fl ag as shouts
S
By KATHRYN SCHULZ
The New Yorker
By their nature, coastal towns
are seldom at the center of things.
The little boardwalk city of Sea-
side is in the far northwest corner
of the state, 4 square miles that
are not square, bisected by a river
and fl ush against the ocean. In the
See NETWORK, Page 7A
Judge
revives
salmon
dam plan
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and cheers erupted from the gath-
ering, which included more than
200 participants of all ages. The
rally culminated at the Turn-
around before students headed
back to the convention center.
The sunny November morn-
ing belied the dire message of
students, faculty, friends and sup-
porters of the Seaside School
District’s $99.7 million 30-year
bond to move three schools out
of the tsunami hazard zone.
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
See PEP RALLY, Page 9A
A woman carries a sign in support of the Seaside schools bond
measure while marching with others on Sunday in Seaside.
Could breach four
Snake River dams
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
Associated Press
summer months, nearly everyone
there is from elsewhere; given a
little sunshine, well over half a
million tourists spread their tow-
els along the town’s long shore-
line. After Labor Day, though, the
candy stores and kite shops close
their shutters, the “vacancy”
signs blink on, and the beach,
gone brown with rain, thins
out to seagulls and bundled-up
locals walking their dogs. Year-
round, some 6,500 people live in
Seaside.
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
SPOKANE, Wash. — Conservationists
and others have renewed a push to remove four
giant dams from the Snake River to save wild
salmon runs, after a federal judge criticized the
government for failing to consider whether
breaching the dams would save the fi sh.
The judge earlier this year rejected the
government’s fi fth and latest plan for protect-
ing threatened and endangered salmon in the
Columbia River system.
Agencies must take a new look at all
approaches to managing the southeast Wash-
ington dams, including breaching, said U.S.
District Court Judge Michael Simon in Port-
land, Oregon.
“This is an action that (government agen-
cies) have done their utmost to avoid consid-
ering for decades,” he wrote.
See SCHOOLS, Page 9A
Seaside High School students brave rainy conditions while
practicing a tsunami evacuation drill.
See DAM PLAN, Page 4A
The really small ones
South County
voters to decide
fate of schools
Forty organizations, including Oregon
State University and the Oregon Food Bank,
have teamed up to strengthen local food sys-
tems and connect growers who struggle to
fi nd markets with buyers who struggle to
obtain healthful food.
People involved with the new entity,
which is called the Oregon Community
Food Systems Network believe strong local
and regional food systems can improve eco-
nomic, social, health and environmental con-
ditions throughout the state.
The network formed from the realiza-
tion that many nonprofi t organizations were
working on aspects of food, farming, health,
poverty and economic development issues,
but were coming at it in a disconnected way.
They would benefi t by collaborating, said
Lauren Gwin, associate director of OSU’s
Center for Small Farms and Community
Food Systems and a member of the new net-
work’s leadership team.
Jump-started with funding from the
Meyer Memorial Trust, network members
settled on four primary initiatives:
Washington spent $119,500 to shoot seven wolves
Offi cial: Money
not reason for
suspending hunt
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
Area in
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Approximate
site of Profanity
Peak wolfpack
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Washington spent more
than $119,500 to kill seven
wolves, according to Depart-
ment of Fish and Wild-
life wolf policy coordinator
Donny Martorello, who said
the agency will look at culling
wolfpacks in the future in “the
most frugal way we can.”
“We know that lethal
removal is part of wolf man-
agement. It’s something that
Fish and Wildlife spent
the money during an opera-
tion that began in August and
ended Oct. 19 in northeast-
ern Washington. Expenses
included renting a helicop-
ter, hiring a trapper, and pay-
ing the salaries and benefi ts of
WDFW employees.
Public disclosure
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will occur again in Washing-
ton,” he said. “I do think that
as an agency we have to think
about cost-savings.”
A preliminary fi gure,
$119,577.92, was tallied in
response to public disclosure
requests and was posted by an
advocacy group, Protect the
Wolves. Martorello said a fi nal
fi gure may be higher.
Fish and Wildlife had
See WOLVES, Page 7A
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
A wolf rests in Washington state. The Washington Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife says it spent more than $119,000
to kill seven wolves from the Profanity Peak wolfpack.