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COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT TEACHES GIFT OF ART COAST WEEKEND • INSIDE DailyAstorian.com // THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2016 144TH YEAR, NO. 120 LEKTRO 5,000 ONE DOLLAR County listens to timber suit opposition Commission urged to opt out of lawsuit By KATIE FRANKOWICZ For The Daily Astorian David Hobbs, ground support equipment fleet management specialist at American Airlines, smiles after completing an inspec- tion of the 5,000th tug manufactured by Lektro on Wednesday at Lektro in Warrenton. The tug will be shipped to Los Angeles International Airport for use by American Airlines. Fishing guide Bob Reese asked for a show of hands. He asked the dozens of people packed tightly into the meeting room at the Judge Guy Boyington Building in Astoria: Who wants the county to opt out? Nearly everyone raised their hands. On Wednesday night, at a special public comment period, an overwhelming major- ity urged the Clat- sop County Board of Commissioners to withdraw from a $1.4 billion class action lawsuit filed by Linn County against the state on behalf of 15 timber counties. County commis- sioners were not required to hold the Scott Lee public comment ses- sion, but Scott Lee, the board chairman, and the other commissioners wanted to hear the community’s opinions. See TIMBER, Page 9A Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian Deadline calls for retiring publisher Warrenton weekly changes hands Submitted Photo NOAA Fisheries has an ambitious new recovery plan for Oregon Coast coho. By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian WARRENTON — After put- ting out nearly 1,500 weekly issues without fail, Gary Nevan can soon stop worrying about deadlines. The publisher and owner of the Columbia Press since his 32nd birthday in 1988, Nevan, now 60, is handing the keys to the news- paper in January to Cindy Yingst, a veteran former reporter and edi- tor from Southern California who once served as managing editor of The Daily Astorian, and her hus- band D.B. Lewis. Nevan, who studied journalism at Western Washington Univer- sity, first cut his teeth as an intern at the small community newspa- per Voice of the Valley in Maple Valley, Washington. “It was run by this old guy who had had it for probably 25, 30 years or so,” Nevan said. “It was just a little paper, and he ran it out of his house, and I did every- thing there. I wrote feature stories, did layout, sold ads. And it was pretty cool. I thought, ‘You know; I could maybe do this one day.’” Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian The Columbia Press, Warren- ton’s community newspaper since 1978, changes hands at the end of the year from Gary Nevan to Cindy Yingst. Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian Gary Nevan, the publisher of the Columbia Press communi- ty newspaper in Warrenton, poses for a portrait in his office on Wednesday in Warrenton. Nevan is retiring from the paper in Jan- uary. “I never missed a deadline in 28 years,” says Nevan. Nevan worked a number of odd jobs, from construction on the North Slope of Alaska to commu- nications at a software company in Vancouver, British Columbia. Dissatisfied with working in the corporate world, Nevan said, he began to think back on his time at the Voice of the Valley, along with the freedom his par- ents and grandparents enjoyed as entrepreneurs. “That really appealed to me, to have that kind of independence,” he said. “I didn’t really want to answer to anybody else. I didn’t want to be on a 9-to-5 time clock. I just wanted to do my own thing.” Looking for a community Nevan said he wrote to all the small newspapers of Oregon and Washington state in places he might like to live. ‘We’re just going to take a little breather. It’s been a long haul for us, week after week. Weekly deadlines, it kind of takes its toll after a while.’ Massive new recovery plan set for coho salmon Delisting target for coastal fish is 10 years By KATIE FRANKOWICZ For The Daily Astorian The federal government finalized a mas- sive recovery plan Wednesday with an ambi- tious goal: get Oregon Coast coho salmon off the threatened species list in a mere 10 years. If the plan is successful, these fish could be the first of the 28 threatened or endan- gered species of salmon on the West Coast to recover to the point of being delisted. The strategies the plan outlines are vol- untary, and success will rely heavily on Gary Nevan See PUBLISHER, Page 4A See SALMON, Page 9A retiring puiblisher Warrenton searches for new Warrior logo Several options still on the table By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian WARRENTON — Faced with creating new, non-Native American imagery for schools, sports teams and merchandise, officials with Warren- ton-Hammond School District have turned to a more general symbolism. “On a philosophical level, it is my view that we have no mascot,” Super- intendent Mark Jeffery said at Wednes- day’s board meeting. “We are the War- riors. To me, a mascot is that thing that runs around with a costume.” Warrenton High School Principal Rod Heyen passed out a packet with ‘On a philosophical level, it is my view that we have no mascot.’ Superintendent Mark Jeffery a number of Warriors logos created by students in art instructor Brian Voll- ner’s class. Heyen said he’s been run- ning the artwork by coaches and the school’s band. “What I was hopeful (for) is that we’d have … kind of an organic movement,” Heyen said. “As an old basketball coach, every year I would design a T-shirt for the kids with a dif- ferent logo or a different design on it.” Heyen said part of the push to decide comes from merchandisers who sell Warrenton gear at stores like Walgreens and Rite Aid and want the district to submit designs by the spring. The high school’s current logo includes a sword, shield and a metal- lic letter W, with a purple banner read- ing “Warrenton Warriors.” Heyen said he’s received positive and negative responses to the logo, which he added is not set in stone. Heyen said he’s taking submis- sions for logos, with Vollner and his students helping process them into workable graphics. See LOGO, Page 4A Warrenton-Hammond School District Warrenton-Hammond School District has been using a logo with a sword, shield and a “Warrenton Warriors” banner. The district is taking sugges- tions for different logos, focusing on the letter W and the name Warriors.