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Veterans: ‘I feel like it was our honor to serve’ Teen: Collection goes
on sale in December
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With those connections, Jes-
sica Preston contacted veterans,
who were escorted by students
into the high school’s audi-
torium, followed by the flags
from each branch of the mili-
tary. Preston’s father recounted
the history of African-Amer-
ican solders, from the 9,000
who served in the Revolu-
tionary War to the Gulf War,
when Gen. Colin Powell was
appointed as the first black
chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, overseeing a military
force that was almost one-fifth
black.
The high school’s choir and
band played each branch’s mil-
itary hymn, ending with the
Star-Spangled Banner.
For Wes Whittle, the event
was a stark contrast to when
he returned from war. He
served multiple tours in Viet-
nam between 1968 and 1972
as a crew chief on Bell UH-1
Iroquois “Huey” helicopters in
the U.S. Army’s 1st Aviation
Brigade
“I got spit on,” he said. “I
got called a baby killer … for
serving my country. If I had to,
I’d do it all over again.”
Lady vets
In organizing the event,
Preston said she wanted to
make sure women’s contribu-
tions were honored as well.
Johnson is part of a local wom-
en’s veteran’s group of more
than 20 members. Among
those are Marvel Dahlen, Mar-
ian Lee, Juanita Price and
Karen Radich, all in their mid-
90s, who each served in support
roles during World War II.
Lee, 94, was a chief yeoman
in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to
1945.
“I wanted to see other parts
of the world,” said Lee. “I
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gave him a unique chance to
give something back.
Swearingen was invited
to be a guest designer for
Nike. The 14-year-old’s
apparel line, part of the
Doernbecher Freestyle col-
lection, goes on sale Dec. 17.
Photos by Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
World War II veterans, left to right, Juanita Price, Marvel Dahlen, Marian Lee, and Karen
Radich pose for a photo after a Veterans Day assembly Thursday at Astoria High School.
was our honor to serve.”
Day of service
Maurie Hendrickson, a U.S. Army veteran, salutes with
other veterans as the colors are presented during a Vet-
erans Day assembly on Thursday at Astoria High School.
wanted to go to sea.”
Her role during the war was
to replace male office workers
as part of the Women Accepted
for Volunteer Emergency
Service.
“This was such a wonderful
experience to be with all these
high school people,” Lee said.
Radich, 94, said she joined
the service to see the world. But
besides traveling to Bremerton,
Washington, for training, she
was stationed during her ser-
vice in the Navy from 1943 to
1946 at a military hospital in
Astoria as a pharmacist’s mate
2nd class.
Price, 95, served in the
U.S. Marine Corps Wom-
en’s Reserves from 1944 to
1946, training combat photog-
raphers in Quantico, Virginia,
and retiring as a corporal. Fel-
low Marine reservist Dahlen,
96, was a secretary in San Fran-
cisco for the Selective Service
System, ensuring men between
the ages of 21 and 36 signed up
for the draft.
“People say thank you for
serving,” she said. “I feel like it
During the assembly, Prin-
cipal Lynn Jackson said he
would commemorate his father
today on Veterans Day. His dad
served as the gunner in a ball
turret of an Army B-24 bomber
in Korea and died this year.
His father never mentioned a
branch of the military, Jackson
said, but said he served in “the
service.”
“I ask you to reflect on
that generational terminology
tomorrow and offer service,”
Jackson said, calling on stu-
dents to actively commemorate
Veterans Day during their day
off from school. “That service
may be very simple, or some-
thing that may be a little more
grand, but for me or at least on
behalf of my father, that would
mean a great deal for him.
“We have the opportunity to
serve in our families, to serve
in our communities, to serve
in our country — because that
is what those before us have
done.”
College: CCC is working with Columbia Land Trust
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“It’s not comfortable to me
to have so many valuable assets
on property we don’t own,”
Breitmeyer said at a Tuesday
college board meeting.
The college, which has
already been designated the
state’s official maritime col-
lege, has requested state fund-
ing to add a second story onto
the administrative building as it
tries to become a national cen-
ter for maritime excellence and
expand its maritime science
programs. The funding would
not become available until next
year.
Divided property
South Tongue Point is
divided into four parcels. The
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
owns a square-shaped piece
of land and a dock at the end
of Liberty Lane. Parked there
is the Salvage Chief, a retired
marine salvage vessel being
refurbished by a local nonprofit
into a training platform, and
the college’s maritime science
training vessel, the Forerunner.
The Department of State Lands
owns two parcels in a horse-
shoe shape around the Corps
of Engineers’ holdings, along
with a parcel on the southern
tip of South Tongue Point. The
entire property is more than
130 acres.
JoAnn Zahn, the college’s
vice president of finance and
operations, said she was going
to meet with the Astoria city
planner and a representative
from the Department of State
Lands to discuss dividing the
property outside the Corps of
Engineers’ holdings into two
parcels. One parcel would be
the 37 acres north of Liberty
Lane.
The second parcel would
be the 90 acres zoned marine
industrial to the south of the
roadway. The site includes 32
acres of upland and 58 acres
of wetlands. The Department
of State Lands has valued the
parcel at slightly more than $1
million.
The college is working with
Columbia Land Trust, which
hopes to raise grant funding to
purchase the southern portion
of South Tongue Point, turning
it into salmon habitat and trans-
ferring it to the college as a liv-
ing laboratory in support of an
environmental sciences major.
Breitmeyer said the land trust’s
purchase could happen in 2018.
The college originally
applied in October 2015 to pur-
chase South Tongue Point. Jim
Paul, director of the Depart-
ment of State Lands, said the
state’s due diligence phase will
last several months into next
year, if not longer, before the
department could come to the
State Land Board with a rec-
ommendation on whether to
sell.
could be used as a training plat-
form. Representatives from the
Corps of Engineers and Joint
Base Lewis-McChord were not
available for comment.
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During discussion Tuesday,
Zahn said the Corps of Engi-
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on South Tongue Point to
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transfer is directly connected
to the Salvage Chief, which
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creating future com-
example,
becom-
petition. Having more
ing intimately famil-
appraisers in a region
iar with the local mar-
is desirable when the
ket — it should not
market is hot. But
require three years of
when the market is
education, she said.
sluggish, there are
Sims said she
Pam
fewer appraisal jobs
hears these grumbles,
Ackley
to go around.
too, and she knows
And though some
real estate agents and
outside appraisers come to borrowers are frustrated with
the county for work — which the turn times of appraisals.
relieves some pressure on
“I can’t speak for anybody
local appraisers — this is not else. I’m doing the best I can,”
the best-case scenario because she said. “I’ll tell you the
they are not familiar with the truth: I’m tired, I’m ready for
local market, Morrow said.
it to slow down a little bit.”
But there is reason for
hope, Sims said.
Slow down
“History shows that there’s
Pam Ackley, a real estate
broker with Windermere the ebb and flow,” she said.
Stellar, recently reached out “Right now we’re in a high-
to state Sen. Betsy John- paced, large-volume cycle,
son about the issue. Ackley and history shows us it will
said she would like to see slow down. It just does.”
The
slowdown
may
some reforms in the appraisal
already be happening now
business.
“I’ve just absolutely had it, that the summer is over,
up to my earlobes,” she said, according to McCleary.
Recent appraisals are coming
with an exasperated laugh.
For example, she believes in faster overall.
“The ones that we’re see-
there should be a way to
ing most recently are being
enforce appraisal deadlines.
And, though there’s value done in a much more timely
in apprenticeships — for manner,” she said.
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One
local
appraiser
recently had surgery, for
example, and another has
been ill. These dropouts create
more work for the remaining
appraisers, which increases
turn-around time.
“There’s times when I hav-
en’t had any work, either,”
Sims said. “So there’s times
when there’s too many
appraisers. And at this time,
there happens to be more
work than appraisers.”
The solution to the short-
age, it would seem, would be
to encourage more apprais-
ers to become established in
the area. But getting trained
and licensed is a costly and
time-consuming undertaking.
Aspiring appraisers must
be apprenticed to a licensed
appraiser for about three
years before they can venture
out on their own. But local
appraisers are often too busy
doing their jobs to spend time
mentoring.
In addition, appraisers
may not have a strong incen-
tive to take on an apprentice
because they are essentially
Giving back
During an auction late
last month revealing the
apparel collections, Swear-
ingen’s line went for
Freestyle
Swearingen found out in $21,000, purchased by Nike
February that he was nom- Chief Operating Officer Eric
inated by the medical staff Sprunk and his wife, Blair.
during his stay at Doernbe- In all, six patient apparel
collections raised
cher’s to participate
in the Nike initia-
$1.2 million.
tive. Since 2003, the
Swearingen was
program has raised
given a large Lego
more than $16 mil-
replica of his shoe
lion for Doernbe-
design, along with
cher
Children’s
a pair of his shoes
Hospital Founda-
signed by Seattle
Chase
tion, which receives Swearingen Seahawks quarter-
the proceeds from
back Russell Wilson.
patient-created designs.
He was given a copy of the
From March to June, the book “Shoe Dog: A Mem-
teen oversaw the creation of oir by the Creator of Nike”
a short-sleeve shirt, baseball signed by Phil Knight, and a
cap and a pair of running lunch date with Tinker Hat-
shoes.
field, original designer of the
“I was pretty much the Nike Air Max Zero Swearin-
leader of it, and they made gen had customized.
it happen,” Swearingen said.
Aside from some sei-
The shoes and apparel, zures caused by dehydra-
inspired by Swearingen’s tion and other external fac-
interests, all sport a blue- tors, Swearingen said his life
and-green color scheme, since the surgery has mark-
representing the intersec- edly improved.
tion of land and water on the
Now he’s waiting for the
coast. On the back of each Christmas shopping season,
shoe is a patch depicting a when his apparel becomes
lighthouse made from build- available globally through
ing blocks. On either side of Nike.com and retailers. “I
the shirt and baseball cap are know I have a lot of peo-
a lighthouse and a biplane, a ple that are going to buy my
nod to his interest in World apparel,” he said.
War I.
His mother, Tami Swear-
Swearingen even incor- ingen, said the entire experi-
porated part of his history as ence has been amazing, from
a patient into his shoes and the surgery that relieved
hat. Surrounding his signa- her son of his seizures, to
ture on the tongue of each the Nike program that has
shoe is a shunt, a passage helped him give back.
used to drain liquid from
“The doctors have com-
around the brain. Swearin- pletely changed his life,” she
gen, diagnosed at birth with said. “It’s so hard to thank
hydrocephalus, has become someone for improving his
all too familiar with the tool quality of life. It’s great to
used to relieve the pressure help bring some money into
in his skull.
the hospital.”
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“The shunt is on the out-
side of the shoe, and then
the whole sock liner is the
brain,” he said. “On the
inside of my hat, there was
also a brain.”
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