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Newspaper Page Text2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2016 Knappa native takes over Port ﬁ nances he said. “We oversee the bud- improve and improve and take get process, and then also we’re on more responsibilities,” responsible for all the audit-re- Knight said. lated items.” Isom, 33, isn’t Isom, who has a far from home. He bachelor’s in busi- graduated from ness administration Knappa High from Oregon State School, and after his University, recently time in Corvallis, took his last exam came back to work to become a certi- for Georgia-Pacif- ﬁ ed public accoun- ic’s Wauna Mill, tant. Jim Knight, where his wife, the Port’s execu- Jaime, is a payroll Will Isom tive director, said he accountant. The two has often seen Isom have four children. spending late nights He started nearly at the Port studying for his two years ago as a staff accoun- CPA exams, part of the growth tant at the Port after being he said went into the decision recruited by Grey. The two to promote from within. had both worked in ﬁ nance at “It was a team effort of Columbia Memorial Hospital simply watching him improve, before joining the Port. A promotion after CPA exams By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Knappa native Will Isom has been promoted to the Port of Astoria’s director of ﬁ nance, the agency’s highest ﬁ nancial position. He oversees the Port’s ﬁ nance department, which now includes Accounting Manager Jim Grey, Accounts Receivable Specialist Kate Almeida and Administrative Assistant Erin McDonnell. “As a ﬁ nance team here, we’re responsible for everything from billing to cash collections, to all of our ﬁ nancial reporting,” Vacation rental sign-ups fall short in Gearhart One-time application deadline days ahead By R.J. MARX The Daily Astorian GEARHART — With only a few days to go until the end of the one-time appli- cation period for a short-term rental permit in Gearhart, the number of applications is fall- ing short of expectations. “So far we’ve received 43 applications,” City Admin- istrator Chad Sweet said Wednesday at a City Council meeting. “I’m guessing that we will still get quite a few more.” The city has estimated 90 short-term rental prop- erties in the city will apply for permits under the new ordinance, which has an application deadline of Dec. 16. Rental property owner Kathy Schroeder, among those who has ﬁ led a Land Use Board of Appeals chal- lenge to the city’s short-term rental ordinance, said many owners are waiting for the results of the appeal. “I don’t think it’s a horse that’s left the barn,” Schroeder said. “Right now the city’s spending a lot of money on legal fees and that will con- tinue as long as this goes on. I don’t think there’s going to be a ﬂ oodgate in the next 10 days.” Without more applicants, Schroeder said, the city will be unable to meet adminis- trative costs. Property owners who have not applied for a permit and continue to rent will be in violation of Gearhart’s zon- ing ordinance and subject to a $500 ﬁ ne for each day of offense. If the city’s ordinance is upheld, short-term rental property owners will not have an option of applying for a permit, Sweet said. “If they miss the window, and the appeal is not success- ful, they will lose their rights to rent their house with the ordinance and the current council that we have, ” he said. SATURDAY By KAILEY FISICARO Bend Bulletin The state appeal was delayed after a records objec- tion on behalf of property owners to request additional materials or replace records too light or hard to read. After the land use board rules on the new records sub- missions, the city will ﬁ le a supplemental record — add- ing to almost 2,500 pages of testimony. “There’s plenty for peo- ple to review,” City Attorney Peter Watts said. “It was a very thorough process.” As the clock ticks for the one-time application, Sweet said he hopes to get the word out for those yet to apply, including those who provided testimony at earlier public hearings or those who adver- tise their homes for rent on the i nternet but have yet to apply. The number of permit applicants is still lower than expected, he said. “There’s many people who have stated they do not intend to go ahead with this. They’re dropping off a little bit. I have no esti- mates where we’ll end up, but it’s a little bit lower than what I thought it would be.” SUNDAY 50 43 41 ALMANAC Chilly with partial sunshine Last Salem 39/48 Newport 43/49 Dec 20 First Dec 28 MEDFORD — A ﬂ ock of wild turkeys, long considered menaces to the city of Med- ford, have sparked new ire after causing power outages in the eastern part of the city. The Mail Tribune reported that wild turkeys ﬂ ying into Paciﬁ c Power Lines have been Baker 23/34 Burns 27/37 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 Tonight's Sky: The Milky Way arches from the Northern Cross to W-shaped Cassiopeia high over- head to near the face of Taurus. Source: Jim Todd, OMSI TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 3:20 a.m. 4:33 p.m. Low 2.0 ft. 0.4 ft. REGIONAL CITIES City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend Hi 32 41 52 49 49 44 49 43 51 53 Today Lo 23 31 46 40 45 34 42 36 43 45 W sn c r r r pc r r r r Hi 34 38 50 49 50 42 47 46 49 51 Sat. Lo 16 30 42 40 44 26 39 40 42 44 W sn sn r r c r c r r r City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Springfi eld Vancouver Yakima Hi 41 26 40 51 47 50 23 50 42 29 Today Lo 33 24 36 44 39 44 21 42 37 16 W r sn r r r r sn r r sn Hi 43 35 47 51 48 50 30 48 46 34 Sat. Lo 36 31 41 42 41 44 28 42 42 23 W r sf r r r r sn sh r pc TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER NATIONAL CITIES W s pc pc pc pc sf s s sh pc s pc pc s c pc s s s s s sh sh r s Hi 48 32 23 52 29 30 62 -5 79 32 38 62 67 46 76 41 54 38 50 38 38 46 60 46 41 Sat. Lo 31 23 20 30 27 23 40 -11 67 25 32 50 60 35 71 28 46 28 40 25 32 33 47 40 28 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W s s sn pc sn c pc s c pc pc pc c pc c s s s pc s pc r sh r s Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. children, Thomas-Beck said. “Dyslexia by deﬁ nition is not a difﬁ culty with vision — they see print just like anybody else,” Thomas-Beck said. “It’s a language disability.” Although some might have believed dyslexic individuals see letters reversed, that’s not the case, according to Thom- as-Beck. Individuals with dys- lexia have difﬁ culty hearing and isolating sounds in spoken words, she said. “Listening comprehension is often a strength,” Thom- as-Beck said. “Often they are quite articulate and have great vocabulary, but might have trouble with word-ﬁ nd- ing, or they’ll store a word inaccurately.” Thomas-Beck said academ- ics sometimes use this exam- ple: A student may want to share a thought about volca- noes, and know its meaning, but might say “tornadoes.” “It goes back to word-ﬁ nd- ing,” she said. Dyslexia is generally obvi- ous in a person’s spelling and writing, according to Thom- as-Beck. A person might also have trouble organizing ideas, and lack punctuation, as well as connecting words. Students get so bogged down in just trying to ﬁ gure out how to spell a word or use basic writing conventions that they can’t get sophisticated ideas to ﬂ ow out on paper, Thom- as-Beck said. “Orally they could share it in a way that makes perfect sense, but written, they might do it simply,” she said. Still, she added, it’s dif- ferent from person to person. Dyslexia can occur as com- responsible for four morn- ing outages in the last month, each time cutting off power for more than 1,600 residents and businesses. Paciﬁ c Power spokesman Monte Mendenhall says the outages are deﬁ nitely caused by the turkeys, though it’s unclear how the utility will resolve the issue. ON THE RECORD Lakeview 33/38 Ashland 39/45 BEND — Legislation passed in Oregon is shining a new light on dyslexia, an often misunderstood learning disability. The law, which went into effect in July 2015, requires that every kindergarten and ﬁ rst- grade public school student be screened for risk factors of dys- lexia, a learning disability that can make it difﬁ cult to learn to read and write. Looking for signs a student may be likely to have dyslexia can allow for early intervention, something that can make a huge difference in how it affects a child, accord- ing to dyslexia experts. Much of what the law mandates falls on the Oregon Department of Education to administer. The law requires the state Education Department to hire a dyslexia specialist to support school districts in their new role in screening for risk factors. Carrie Thomas-Beck, a for- mer special education teacher from the Midwest who co-di- rected the Oregon Reading First Center, which sought to improve reading among ele- mentary school children, became the state dyslexia spe- cialist in January. She calls dys- lexia a “learning difference” for the children who have it. Dys- lexia is genetic, she said. “So they are born with it,” said Thomas-Beck in a call from Portland. “Where chil- dren experience it has to do with early intervention.” Dyslexia isn’t a one-size- ﬁ ts-all learning difference. It can be different for different Associated Press La Grande 32/38 Ontario 28/38 Klamath Falls 34/42 ﬁ nancial reporting. Isom said Kimball is now coming in once a month, and focusing on more specialized assignments as the in-house staff takes over audit and budgeting preparation. “Over the past couple years, the ﬁ nance team at the Port has worked diligently to develop and implement poli- cies and procedures to ensure accurate reporting, enhanced compliance, better controls over assets and added trans- parency,” he said. “I look for- ward to leading our team going forward and building upon the foundation that has been built .” Isom’s next big presenta- tion will be the agency’s 2014- 15 audit at a Port Commission meeting later this month. monly as 1 in 5 people, Thom- as-Beck said. Other estimates show about 85 percent of stu- dents with learning disabilities have a disability in reading and language processing, according to the International Dyslexia Association. A lot of times, kids with dyslexia don’t qualify for spe- cial education because they do so well in other areas. They might dedicate hours after school to assignments that may only take a half-hour for their peers to complete, Thom- as-Beck explained. Through legislation, the state is building aware- ness, Thomas-Beck said. Another piece of legislation, which went into effect Jan. 1, addresses how teachers are trained for dyslexia education. Decoding Dyslexia, a grass- roots parent organization, was the main group pushing for legislation in Oregon, Thom- as-Beck said. Part of the law requires that school districts have at least one teacher in each K-5 or K-8 school who has received train- ing related to dyslexia by Jan. 1, 2018. That teacher will act as a resource who can help fellow teachers carry out the screening of risk factors. Thomas-Beck worked with stakeholders, including the Oregon Education Associa- tion and Oregon School Boards Association, to draft a plan for universal screening. The draft- ing took about six months, and was submitted to the interim legislative committee on edu- cation by September. That committee will decide whether to approve the plan. Turkeys cause power outages in east Medford Roseburg 44/51 Brookings 45/50 Jan 5 John Day 35/40 Bend 31/38 Medford 42/47 UNDER THE SKY Today Hi Lo 43 25 36 22 24 14 45 23 25 16 33 22 53 33 -14 -21 77 67 29 16 27 17 57 45 67 58 38 23 75 67 35 20 48 36 40 28 39 25 40 28 31 20 45 40 62 56 41 36 42 28 Prineville 29/40 Lebanon 41/47 Eugene 40/49 New Pendleton 24/35 The Dalles 24/37 Portland 36/47 Sunset tonight ........................... 4:30 p.m. Sunrise Saturday ........................ 7:47 a.m. Coos Bay Moonrise today .......................... 2:02 p.m. 45/51 Moonset today ............................ 2:07 a.m. City Atlanta Boston Chicago Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Honolulu Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Memphis Miami Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Philadelphia St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Washington, DC 43 29 Mostly cloudy with a touch of rain Rain at times Tillamook 41/47 SUN AND MOON High 9.5 ft. 7.6 ft. 47 32 Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 41/50 Precipitation Thursday .......................................... 0.30" Month to date ................................... 2.45" Normal month to date ....................... 2.78" Year to date .................................... 78.95" Normal year to date ........................ 60.40" Time 9:39 a.m. 10:41 p.m. TUESDAY REGIONAL WEATHER Astoria through Thursday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 40°/34° Normal high/low ........................... 49°/37° Record high ............................ 63° in 1939 Record low ............................... 6° in 1972 Dec 13 48 41 Breezy with occasional rain Periods of rain Full MONDAY Fixing ﬁ nances Isom joined a fairly new ﬁ nance staff at the Port, which had recently ﬁ red for- mer Finance Manager Col- leen Browne and Facilities Manager Tammi Herman. The agency was late on submitting its 2013-14 audit to the state, after Port commissioners and Knight had expressed doubt in the accuracy of the agency’s ﬁ nances. The Port contracted with Barbara Blue of Bussert Law & Associates to check the agency’s ﬁ nances back to June 2013, and with Moss Adams to perform the agency’s 2013-14 and subsequent audits. Addi- tionally, the Port brought in Todd Kimball from ﬁ nancial consulting ﬁ rm CFO Selec- tions around the same time as Isom to help the agency pre- pare for audits. “When I started, Todd was coming out once a week,” Isom said. “We were doing a lot of cleanup work.” Isom said Kimball has helped mentor him as he has studied over the past year to become a CPA. The Port has since caught up on its audits and drastically improved its New Oregon law requires screening students for dyslexia FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT “This was my ﬁ rst expe- rience working for a govern- mental agency, so it was a good opportunity for me to learn and, I guess, expand my knowledge, because govern- ment accounting is sort of a different animal unto its own,” Isom said. DUII arrests • At 10:38 p.m. Wednesday, the Warrenton Police Depart- ment arrested Eugene Barrow, 55, of Warrenton, for driving under the inﬂ uence of intoxi- cants and reckless driving on the 900 block of Northwest Warrenton Drive. His blood LOTTERIES alcohol level was measured at 0.13, according to the police report. • At 9:33 p.m. Thurs- day, Clatsop County Sheriff’s Ofﬁ ce arrested Jeffrey Mar- tini, 54, of Astoria, for driving under the inﬂ uence of intoxi- cants on U.S. Highway 30. PUBLIC MEETINGS MONDAY Warrenton-Hammond School District Finance Committee, noon, district oﬃ ce, 820 S.W. Cedar Ave. Knappa School Board, 5:30 p.m., Knappa High School library, Unlike in rural areas, it is illegal to shoot or hunt within Medford’s city limits. Trap- ping turkeys is thought to be difﬁ cult and time consuming. State wildlife biologists say the power outages are a new symptom of the old prob- lem of people feeding turkeys well enough to establish urban ﬂ ocks. 41535 Old U.S. Highway 30. Cannon Beach Rural Fire Protection District, 6 p.m., Fire-Rescue Main Station, 188 Sunset Ave. Seaside City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway. The Daily Astorian Established July 1, 1873 (USPS 035-000) Published daily, except Saturday and Sunday, by EO Media Group, 949 Exchange St., PO Box 210, Astoria, OR 97103 Telephone 503- 325-3211, 800-781-3211 or Fax 503-325-6573. 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