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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2016 Cannon Beach redoubles emergency efforts City creates new crisis team By LYRA FONTAINE The Daily Astorian CANNON BEACH — Cannon Beach now has both an emergency preparedness cit- izens advisory committee and an emergency management team that allows staff to discuss preparedness efforts. In its first meeting this month, the emergency man- agement team identified the group’s goals and took questions. “I think the group is really excited because of the ability to communicate with each other much better,” City Manager Brant Kucera said. “It’s really just an information-sharing ses- sion in a lot of ways, and I think that’s what some of the volun- teer groups have been looking for. It went really well.” Lyra Fontaine/The Daily Astorian Lyra Fontaine/The Daily Astorain Paula Vetter, left, with Les Wierson, Police Chief Jason Schermerhorn and Karolyn Adamson. The team includes Kucera, Police Chief Jason Schermer- horn, Fire Chief Matt Bene- dict, Public Works Director Dan Grassick, the Commu- nity Emergency Response Team lead, the Medical Reserve Corps lead, a vulner- able populations lead, a Red Cross lead and a Chamber of Recapturing the stories of dory boat fishermen Arts association presents grant to storyteller Commerce representative. The group does not yet have a vulnerable populations leader permanent voting members. Committee members voted to maintain the current citizen advisory committee structure in September, while support- ing the formation of a separate emergency management group. “E-Prep fully supports the concept of a Cannon Beach Emergency Management Team and the continuation of a sep- arate emergency preparedness citizen advisory committee,” Karolyn Adamson, committee chairwoman, wrote in an Octo- ber letter. “It’s extremely important to keep this citizen advisory com- mittee in effect as it is now,” Adamson said at an August meeting. “I think citizen com- mittees are the bedrock of democracy.” The committee provides evacuation planning, pub- lic education and other emer- gency functions as directed by council. Part of coast will open to crabbing the southern end of the state. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife and Depart- ment of Agriculture said the recreational bay and ocean crab fishery from Tillamook Head south to Cape Lookout opens on Saturday. All recreational harvest from Tillamook Head north to, and including, the Colum- Associated Press NEWPORT — Oregon officials plan to open the commercial crab season on December 18 for a portion of coast that runs from Cape Blanco to the Oregon-Cali- fornia border. Officials say tests have shown low biotoxin results on bia River remains open. Dungeness crabbing from Cape Lookout to Cape Blanco remains closed due to elevated levels of domoic acid. Other areas along the cen- tral section of the Oregon Coast remain closed to crab- bing due to concerns about domoic acid levels. Feds decline to reconsider Oregon pipeline By LYRA FONTAINE The Daily Astorian CANNON BEACH — Local storyteller and former commercial fisherman Peter Lindsey remembers when Can- non Beach had an active dory fishing fleet. “It was a significant feature of our little coastal commu- nity,” he said. “Over the years, we had some rather interesting experiences … Sometimes we would battle with sharks that would get on the lines and chew off the fish we were catching.” Now, Lindsey is embarking on a project to collect the his- tories and tales about dory fish- ing off the Cannon Beach coast, which will culminate in a his- torical document. To help facilitate his work, Lindsey received a grant from the Cannon Beach Arts Associ- ation. The $3,000 grant, funded by the Mike Clark Foundation, was presented this month by Lila Wickham, president of the art association’s board. “The more projects we can do or facilitate in this way, we definitely want to be involved in,” said Jane Brumfield, the art association’s program director. “We are looking for- ward to reading the finished publication.” An active dory fleet oper- ated in Cannon Beach during the late 1960s and early ’70s, Lindsey said. The boats have a flat bottom and are about 20 feet long. “Like loggers, fishermen as a subculture have very inter- esting goings-on in their lives, the way they rig their gear or the stories they tell, the legends and the general high jinks,” he said. “I thought it would be fun to try to recapture some of those moments. This will give me a chance to do that, and I’m really excited about it.” With subgroups such as log- gers, weavers or fishermen, “the techniques don’t necessar- ily die, but sometimes they do, and along with them, the sto- ries die,” Lindsey said, which is why he hopes to capture the stories. Many signed an evacua- tion map to say goodbye to Les Wierson, longtime emergency preparedness advocate and retiring emer- gency preparedness com- mittee member, during his last meeting this month. lead dedicated to the elderly, children and disadvantaged, or a Red Cross representa- tive. Paula Vetter coordinates CERT and Lila Wickham heads the Medical Reserve Corps. Kucera said the meeting was not public since the group is comprised primarily of staff and no elected officials. Instead of an advisory com- mittee, the emergency man- agement team meetings are for sharing information, he said. The group will meet every other month, and each meeting will produce a written report to be included in the City Coun- cil packet. This summer, an emer- gency preparedness commit- tee restructure was proposed that would make the city’s emergency manager, police chief, public works director, fire chief, Community Emer- gency Response Team leader and Medical Reserve Corps Associated Press Lyra Fontaine/The Daily Astorian Local storyteller Peter Lindsey received a grant from the Cannon Beach Arts Association for his project on Cannon Beach’s formerly thriving dory fishing fleet. Board presi- dent Lila Wickham presented him with a check Dec. 2. Dory boats were used in Cannon Beach for commer- cially harvesting salmon, as well as other fish like cod, Lindsey said. Though the earli- est dory boats were often built by the fisherman himself, peo- ple began to build and manu- facture them, most notably in Pacific City, which continues to have a substantial fleet today, he said. Lindsey recalled the excite- ments and challenges of dory fishing in Cannon Beach. They would launch the boats at the needles by Haystack Rock and on a good day, he said, they might catch 65 fish. “Rather than go across a bar like you would in the Colum- bia in a big boat, these boats would take you off the beach and almost instantaneously you could fish, once you got past the surf line,” Lindsey said. “We would go on the south side of Haystack early in the morn- ing and a pickup truck would launch the boat into the water. You had to be careful because you didn’t want too big of a wave to swamp your boat. … It was often done with a sole fish- erman. You had to have your wits about you.” COOS BAY — Federal regulators are refusing to reconsider a natural gas pipeline that would have linked to a new terminal in Coos Bay. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commis- sion on Friday denied requests from the Jor- dan Cove Energy Project, the state of Wyo- ming and the Wyoming Pipeline Authority to reopen the case. The ruling reaffirmed FERC’s March deci- sion which said there was little evidence to support the need for a pipeline and not enough public benefit. The 230-mile pipeline route from the town of Malin, just north of the California border, to Coos Bay was opposed by private landowners and environmentalists. It crosses rivers, mountain ranges and pri- vate and public lands. Wyoming argued that FERC should also have considered the economic bene- fit to its residents from increased natural gas production. Jordan Cove was one of two LNG proj- ects that had been proposed for the Oregon Coast. In April, Oregon LNG backed out of a $6 billion pipeline and terminal project in Warrenton. 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