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4A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2016 Publisher: Yingst’s first edition of paper publishes Jan. 6 Continued from Page 1A He heard back from Hal and Edla Allen, who bought the Columbia Press in 1962 and moved it from Astoria to Warren- ton in 1978. Nevan said the paper started as a Finnish-language publication in 1922, becoming a countywide English weekly in the 1940s. Nevan said taking over the newspaper so young and green was like being a deer in the headlights, involving 10- to 12-hour days, six days a week, manually cutting and pasting the content each week on large typesetting machines. Nevan credited his wife of 18 years, Trish, with helping modern- ize the paper. Nevan is editor and publisher, while she does adver- tisements and layout. The newspa- per includes a collection of regu- lar contributors from senior lunch columnist Emma Edwards, who writes a senior column, to Warren- ton Mayor Mark Kujala. In sickness and in health, and even during power outages amid the Great Coastal Gale of 2007, Nevan said, he always met his deadlines. “We’re just going to take a little breather,” he said of stopping. “It’s been a long haul for us, week after week. Weekly deadlines, it kind of takes its toll after a while.” Nevan’s last edition is Dec. 30. Kujala, at a City Commission meeting Tuesday night, recognized Nevan as a “voice for this commu- nity through the Columbia Press.” Nevan’s work, the mayor said, “has been very important to give the community information on what’s going on.” Back to the paper Yingst, who co-owns the UPS store in Warrenton’s Premarq Center with her husband, isn’t new to news. Originally from east of Los Angeles, she studied com- munications at California State University Dominguez Hills, and after graduation worked nearly 18 years for the San Bernardino Sun, first as a reporter and later as bureau chief and eventually dep- uty metro editor. Yingst and her husband moved north in 2000 after visiting Asto- ria on vacation. She spent her first year in town as the managing edi- tor of The Daily Astorian, learn- ing to create budgets and laying out pages for the first time since college. Yingst joined The Olym- pian in Olympia, Washington, as a night editor from 2001 to 2006, still living on the North Coast, renting an apartment for work and coming home on the weekends. Before opening her UPS store in Warrenton 10 years ago, Yingst said, she approached Nevan about buying the Columbia Press, but he wasn’t ready to retire. Nevan recently approached her about buying the paper. “It took some soul-search- ing, you know,” she said. “News- papers aren’t exactly a growing business, but I think there’s still plenty of life” in them. Yingst said she wants to increase the amount of local news coverage. Like Nevan, Yingst said she’ll put together most of the paper herself, with her hus- band running circulation and helping with technology. She’s developing a revamped version of www.thecolumbiapress.com, including more online content, and is reaching out to potential freelancers. Her first edition of Columbia Press publishes Jan. 6. Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian Former newswoman Cindy Yingst’s first edition of the Columbia Press will be Jan. 6. The Columbia Press’ coverage of the 2007 storm is pinned to Publisher Gary Ne- van’s office wall. Danny Miller The Daily Astorian Logo: The word warrior ‘itself is our unifying, universal symbol’ Continued from Page 1A Board member Greg Mor- rill said it would be nice to have a similar logo through- out, and asked why there hasn’t been much community involvement. Heyen said the district can do that if the board wants, but that there are chal- lenges in reaching consensus. “I’m really in favor of the coaches being able to put together what they like to have on a uniform, within rea- son,” he said. For right now, I’m really overseeing that, to say, ‘Hey, bounce it off me to make sure we can talk about what’s going on.’ But I’ve had some great input on some of the stuff that we’ve had. Somewhere along the line, something that one of these guys comes up with is going to really resonate within the community.” Jeffery said that in his six years as superintendent, there have been several variations of logos for different teams and schools in the district. “My position has been … you can be whatever kind of warrior you want to be in your heart, but we are the Warriors, and that doesn’t really change. 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