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IS THE PET DOCTOR IN?
RURAL COMMUNITIES SEE LIMITATIONS IN PET CARE
Portland area offers
nearest 24-hour clinics
By ERICK BENGEL
The Daily Astorian
A
few weeks ago, shortly before 11
p.m., Patti Brockhoff’s 3-year-old pug,
Babette, started behaving oddly, as if
she was having a prolonged seizure, so
she called her regular veterinarian.
But her vet wasn’t on call that night, and the
on-call vet couldn’t be reached, either.
Brockhoff, of Astoria, fi nally called Tanas-
bourne Veterinary Emergency in Beaverton.
Over the phone, the staff recognized the symp-
toms: Babette had ingested some of Brock-
hoff’s medical marijuana.
“It was funny afterwards, but not then,” she
said.
Brockhoff confronted a familiar predica-
ment of pet owners in small, rural communities:
the imperfect, hit-or-miss nature of local after-
hour emergency services.
Five regional veterinary clinics — Astoria
Animal Hospital, Columbia Veterinary Hos-
pital, Bayshore Animal Hospital, Seaside Pet
Clinic and Oceanside Animal Clinic in Seaview,
Washington — participate in an on-call rotation
that serves Clatsop and Pacifi c counties out-of-
hours, including on weekends and holidays.
On-call hours vary; some vets take calls
until 10 p.m., others through the night. Usually,
the clinics themselves don’t remain open.
“Even though we have this common sched-
ule that we follow, everybody kind of does it
their own way,” Dr. Brad Pope, founder and
hospital director at Bayshore, said.
Each clinic leaves an outgoing message for
clients announcing who is on duty and how to
reach that person.
“If Seaside was on call tonight, we’d have
the doctor’s number available to contact so he
can triage what’s going on,” said Tricia Kro-
czynski, veterinary assistant at Seaside Pet
Clinic.
Depending on the vet and the circumstances
— perhaps a more urgent pet crisis is taking
place — it may not be possible to get emer-
gency pet care locally till morning.
A clinic in the Portland metro area may be
the only recourse.
Army
ponders
Tongue
Point
Land, dock may be
used for training area
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Photos by Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
ABOVE: Dr. Brad Pope, hospital director at Bayshore Animal Hospital, spays on a
dog Friday at Bayshore Animal Hospital in Warrenton. BELOW: Jillian Woolley, a cer-
tified veterinary technician, takes care of a cat at Bayshore Animal Hospital .
The dock at South Tongue Point has long
been a staging ground for Clatsop Commu-
nity College’s mariners in training. It could
soon became a training ground for the U.S.
Army, as well.
The Army’s Joint Base Lewis-McChord
in Washington has inquired about acquiring
a square of land and the dock owned by the
Corps.
Joe Kubistek, a spokesman for the base,
said there is interest in using the property for
“infi ltration and exfi ltration training, as well
as other unconventional warfare scenario
training.” He said negotiations on the transfer
could take eight to 12 months.
The land includes several older buildings,
a parking lot and a roadway at the end of Lib-
erty Lane running out to a dock along the John
Day Channel of the Columbia River. The col-
lege uses at least one of the buildings as a mar-
itime classroom, and bases the training vessel
Forerunner along the dock. The county also
has salmon net pens along the dock.
Jeffrey Henon, a spokesman for the Corps’
Portland District, said the agency is in the
process of renewing existing agreements with
users of the land. The base “expressed inter-
est to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Port-
land District, about transferring the property,”
he said.
“If the Corps transfers the property to (the
base), which the Corps is not actively pursu-
ing at this time, the land and dock would con-
tinue to be used by the existing tenants of the
property for access to the fi sh p ens, fl oating
dock, storage space, classrooms and a training
facility,” Henon said.
See PET CARE, Page 8A
See TONGUE POINT, Page 2A
Easy retirement? Only for a few
This is part of Divided
America, AP’s ongoing explo-
ration of the economic, social
and political divisions in
American society.
By STAN CHOE
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK — The
American dream of a blissful
retirement, free of fi nancial
worries, is dying.
Most U.S. households are
heading for a worse lifestyle in
retirement than they had while
they were working, because
they simply aren’t saving
enough, experts say. Thir-
ty-fi ve percent of households
in their prime earning years
or later have nothing saved in
a retirement account and no
access to a traditional pension,
according to an AP analysis of
savings data from the Federal
Reserve.
Among households that do
have some savings, the typi-
cal amount is $73,200. That’s
about 15 months of the median
household’s income.
One group doesn’t have
to worry as much: the rich-
est 10 percent of households.
They typically have more
than $413,000 in a retirement
account, according to the anal-
ysis of the Fed’s latest data,
which is from 2013.
See DIVIDED, Page 7A
Seaside schools
look to future
School board
sets priorities
By KATHERINE
LACAZE
For EO Media Group
AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez
Nancy
Harvey, owner
of Lil’ Nancy’s Primary
Schoolhouse, poses for
a portrait outside of her
home, which has she has
converted into a child care
center, in Oakland, Calif.
SEASIDE —Even before a
bond measure that will provide
funds to move three of Seaside
School District’s schools out
of the tsunami inundation zone
was approved by local voters,
the district’s leadership team
worked to home in on priori-
ties for the upcoming years.
INSIDE
Seaside looks at new
campus timeline.
Page 3A
Superintendent
Sheila
Roley shared a summary of
the team’s work, which started
in August, during a November
meeting of the district’s Board
of Directors.
Although it is likely the
relocation project will not
See SEASIDE, Page 7A