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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2016
Publisher: Yingst’s first edition of paper publishes Jan. 6
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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’
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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.
The word itself is our unify-
ing, universal symbol.”
In other news:
• The district approved a
new contract with Jeffery, a
retiree in the Public Employ-
ees Retirement System who
can only work 1,039 hours a
year without having to repay
retirement benefits. Jeffery,
who started with the district
in 2011, will be paid $250,300
over three years. He has said
that using a part-time super-
intendent saves the district
approximately $250,000 over
the life of his contract.
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