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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2016
Artists, organizations
converge at awards
By R.J MARX
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — Edward James
left Astoria “a zillion years ago”
to pursue his theatrical passion
in New York, the Midwest and
eventually Portland.
“I came here about 10 years
ago to retire, and I discov-
ered something significantly
different than when I left,”
James said. “There were few
artistic galleries in the ’70s.
When I came back, ‘Caba-
ret’ was on the front page,
there was music in every bar,
there were community music
organizations developing. It
was vastly different. The cul-
tural coalition can take a little
credit for that.”
James, a director, was in
attendance Tuesday night at
Clatsop Community College’s
South Campus to accept $1,235
for “All in the Timing,” a live
production at the Performing
Arts Center. The play will be
staged in January and features a
cast of North Coast actors.
“It’s smart theater,” James
said. “PAC is providing us a
place to do that.”
The arts center was among
10 local organizations to ben-
efit from $11,240 in Clatsop
County Cultural Coalition
grants funded by the Oregon
Cultural Trust and from a
small arts and culture grant
from the Oregon Commu-
nity Foundation.
James, like other award
recipients, shared not only the
passion for their own organiza-
tions, but passion for the arts in
the community.
Liberty Theater Execu-
tive Director Jennifer Crock-
ett accepted a grant for $1,000
to fund a workshop and per-
formance for kids, “Rhythm
Takes Three.”
Seaside’s library direc-
tor Esther Moberg received
$2,000 on behalf of a summer
reading program for children
in communities underserved
by public libraries.
Nettie-Lee Calog, site man-
ager of the Warrenton Com-
munity Library, accepted $600
for the library’s “Libros” pro-
gram for Hispanic readers.
Program coordinator Dan-
iel Keesler accepted $2,000 on
behalf of the Lower Colum-
bia Hispanic Council for the
Teatro Milagro bilingual arts
residency.
Carol Lambert of the Clat-
sop County Historical Soci-
ety spoke about John Andrew
Buchanan, founder of the Clat-
sop County Chapter of the
Daughters of the American
Revolution in 1920 and the
Clatsop County Historical Soci-
ety in 1921. Lambert’s mater-
nal grandfather, Buchanan is
best remembered as the lyri-
cist for the state song, “Oregon,
My Oregon,” chosen among
200 entries. The historical soci-
ety’s grant of $750 will provide
a monument for Buchanan at
Ocean View Cemetery.
Tita Montero accepted
$1,500 on behalf of the Seaside
Museum and Historical Soci-
ety for updating the Clatsop
Nehalem Peoples social studies
curriculum, in use for 390 stu-
dents in 15 fourth-grade classes
throughout the county.
Jane Brumfield received
$600 for Cannon Beach Arts
Association “Artists Talk.”
Andrew Tonry accepted $500
on behalf of the Tolovana Arts
Colony’s upcoming Cannon
Beach Comedy Festival.
Katherine Lacaze accepted
a grant of $1,055 on behalf of
the Sunset Parks and Recre-
ation Department for the Chil-
dren’s Theater Summer Work-
shop presentation of “Alice in
Wonderland.”
Astoria seeks input on
bridge replacement project
Open house
on Dec. 14
The Daily Astorian
Astoria will host a public
open house to discuss plans
to replace the six bridges that
connect downtown6th, 7th,
8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th streets
to the waterfront.
The event is scheduled for 6
to 8 p.m. Dec. 14 at City Hall.
People are invited to drop in
anytime during that two-hour
period.
The Sixth through 11th
street bridges provide access
to businesses and attractions
on the waterfront pier. But the
bridges rest on aging timber
foundations that cannot safely
carry heavy truck loads.
The city is well into the
design phase of the replace-
ment project, which will
accommodate modern loads
and maintain safe access to the
piers.
At the open house, attend-
ees will be invited to review
proposed bridge surface fea-
tures. The city is seeking input
on the visual impacts of the
new bridges after concerns
were raised about the design.
According to the project
schedule, the city expects to
complete project designs in the
spring and begin construction
in late 2017. Construction is
anticipated to be complete in
2019.
The city, which received 90
percent of the funding for the
Waterfront Bridges Replace-
ment Project from the state
Department of Transportation,
is providing the remaining 10
percent of the project cost.
For more information visit
www.astoria.or.us/Waterfront_
Bridges_Replacement.aspx
Trial over failed log export deal
has been pushed back indefinitely
By EDWARD
STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
A trial scheduled for April
in the case between Wester-
lund Log Handlers, the for-
mer log exporter at the Port
of Astoria, and its successor,
Astoria Forest Products, has
been pushed back indefinitely
as the two sides hash out what
should be revealed from their
failed partnership.
The case involves Roger
Nance and David Westerlund,
co-owners of Westerlund Log
Handlers, which returned log
exports to the Port for the first
time in more than a decade
in 2010. On the other side is
Dennis Murphy, a member
of a prominent Oregon tim-
ber family and owner of Mur-
phy Overseas USA Hold-
ings, along with its subsidiary
Astoria Forest Products. The
parties filed suit against each
other on the same day in July
2015. U.S. District Court
Judge Michael H. Simon later
consolidated the cases.
Th ank you
to our fr iends and
family for the cards,
fl owers and kindness you
have extended toward our
family during this time.
We are grateful for each
and every one of you.
The
Burnard Family
cut out of a 30 percent own-
ership in Astoria Forest Prod-
ucts in exchange for their pro-
viding equipment, expertise
and ending the agreement
with China National. Mur-
phy’s lawyers filed suit the
same day, claiming Murphy’s
company had paid for West-
erlund’s past operational and
legal expenses, and that Asto-
ria Forest Products acquired the
Astoria operation as a means to
cover the resulting debts.
Getting answers
Lawyers for Murphy have
claimed difficulty in get-
ting Nance and Westerlund
to answer certain questions
during depositions, and have
filed motions to compel the
two to testify.
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The complaints stem from
a partnership the two sides
entered in January 2014. Mur-
phy paid for Westerlund’s oper-
ational and legal expenses after
the company in 2013 broke
ties with state-owned China
National Building Materials
Corp., which had been purchas-
ing logs exported from the Port.
In the partnership, Wester-
lund Log Handlers was to han-
dle logs procured by Astoria
Forest Products for export to
Asia. The partnership dissolved
in December 2014. Astoria
Forest Products still operates a
log-processing yard on Pier 3
and exports logs to Asia from
Pier 1.
Nance and Westerlund
filed suit, claiming they were
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The trial in a case between the current and former log export-
ers at the Port of Astoria has been pushed back indefinitely.
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Westerlund and Nance’s
attorneys have argued that
certain
communications
being asked for have nothing
to do with the partnership. In
May, the two filed suit against
Murphy’s attorneys, Michael
Esler and Kim Buckley, for
malpractice and breach of
fiduciary duty. Westerlund
and Nance claim Esler’s and
Buckley’s firm failed to dis-
close a conflict of interest in
their operating solely to pro-
tect the interests of Murphy.
A judge ruled late last
month that if Westerlund and
Nance’s lawyers want to with-
hold certain information from
the malpractice or contract lit-
igation, they would need to
provide documentation, which
the court would review pri-
vately on a case-by-case basis.
Murphy’s attorneys also
argued they will be tied up
helping the state of Oregon pre-
pare for a major price-fixing
antitrust case. Pretrial filings
and conferences will occupy
this month, they said, and a trial
starting in January could take
up to two months. Discovery in
and any alternative resolution
to the case between Westerlund
Log Handlers and Murphy are
now due in late March, with no
date set for a trial.
Westerlund and
Astoria Forest
Products at odds
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