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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.”
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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
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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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