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144TH YEAR, NO. 135
DailyAstorian.com // THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2017
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New Warrenton Warming Center Guard
needs more helping hands, hearts Auxiliary
disbands
Flotilla 64 needed more
members to stay afl oat
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
After more than 30 years of helping to
keep boaters safe, the U.S. Coast Guard
Auxiliary’s Flotilla 64 in Astoria has dis-
banded because of declining membership.
Vice Flotilla Cmdr. Corey Deck said that
in the past couple of months, membership
dipped as low as fi ve, as people moved on,
died and transferred to other fl otillas.
“We took a vote and said, ‘Why don’t we
just close the doors,’” he said.
Flotilla 64, one of several on the Lower
Columbia River, was primarily focused
on supporting the Coast Guard’s mis-
sions and encouraging boater safety. The
group’s primary presence was meeting boat-
ers in the Buoy 10 salmon fi shery before
they launched, performing voluntary ves-
sel inspections and making sure fi shers had
all the necessary safety equipment. Deck
said auxiliarists from other fl otillas will still
travel to the Lower Columbia for the event.
See COAST GUARD, Page 9A
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Kathleen Hudson, a volunteer, helps serve hot soup to homeless people eating and sleeping at the Warrenton Warming Center
on Tuesday at the Warrenton Calvary Assembly of God church. The center opened in mid-November.
Money, winter clothing
donations also needed
By ERICK BENGEL
The Daily Astorian
W
ARRENTON — The
Warrenton Warming
Center, a new emer-
gency overnight shelter at the
Calvary Assembly of God, opens
to the homeless population when
the winter weather turns nasty or
the temperature hits 38 degrees
and below.
But only if the center has
enough manpower to staff it.
The facility, which opened
mid-November and will oper-
ate through the cold season, has
about 40 volunteers on call, but
only a dozen show up regularly,
according to Heather Warren, a
shelter worker who coordinates
them.
“We’re getting the same vol-
unteers volunteering every night,
but that’s hard, because we don’t
want to wear our volunteers out,”
she said.
Not many people know that
Warrenton even has a warming
center, let alone its location on
Main Avenue, according to the
staff.
The founders, Beverly Jack-
son-Shumaker and Darlene War-
A man named John sips on hot cocoa while eating a hot meal
at the Warrenton Warming Center on Tuesday at the Warrenton
Calvary Assembly of God church.
Beverly Jackson -Shumaker
is one of the founders of the
Warrenton Warming Center.
She volunteers her time or-
ganizing volunteers and pro-
viding hot meals and beds for
those in need.
ren (Heather Warren’s mother-in-
law), based the mission statement
on sentiments expressed in scrip-
ture: “Showing the love of Jesus
through our actions by provid-
ing a warm/safe place with food,
love, and support.”
But the non profi t is not a
‘We don’t know why they’re
(homeless), but I just think we
need to show ’em we care.
And that’s why we’re here, is
to provide that to them.’
Lopez received credit
for time served
By DERRICK DePLEDGE
The Daily Astorian
Though the center has 12
available mattresses in the
church gymnasium — and extra
mats and sleeping bags if needed
— the number of visitors hasn’t
exceeded 10 per night; the
Adam Lopez, a for-
mer chiropractor, was
sentenced in Decem-
ber to a minimum of
80 days in jail for the
sexual abuse of four of
his patients.
In a letter to Judge
Philip Nelson, Lopez,
who had pleaded
guilty in 2014 and
Adam Lopez
served time for sex-
ually harassing eight
other patients, had asked to be spared any
more jail time. If sentenced, Lopez wrote, he
requested he start his time in January so he
could spend the holidays with his family.
See WARRENTON, Page 5A
See LOPEZ, Page 5A
Beverly Jackson -Shumaker
one of the founders of the Warrenton Warming Center
religious organization.
Operating from 6:30 p.m.
to 8 a.m., the Warrenton shelter
has no barriers to entry, except
that staff will turn away peo-
ple who cannot, as a result of
drug and alcohol use, walk in by
themselves.
Convicted,
sentenced
to jail, but
released
Craft3 lender extends roots on waterfront
Lender moving to
Fisher Bros. building
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Regional lender Craft3 will consol-
idate its Ilwaco, Washington, and Asto-
ria offi ces at the Fisher Bros. building in
Astoria in February.
Carl Seip, a spokesman for Craft3,
said the move is about locating in a
regional economic center . The lender
will house 12 to 15 staff as the sole tenant
of the Fisher Bros. building, located at
the corner of Astor and Seventh streets
near the waterfront. Craft3 is currently
building out its offi ces in the building.
Seip said there are also plans to refurbish
the historic Fisher Bros. mural outside.
“We’re excited to move down there,”
he said. “It gives us a lot more visibil-
ity in a community we’ve lent in for well
over two decades now.”
Since its inception, Craft3 has lent
nearly $33 million in Clatsop County
and nearly $20 million in Pacifi c County,
Washington.
Craft3 was founded as ShoreBank
Enterprise Pacifi c in 1994 inside a for-
mer cannery in Ilwaco by John Berdes,
who died last year. Berdes was suc-
ceeded by Adam Zimmerman. In Asto-
ria, the lender has operated out of offi ces
on Pier 39 since 2010. Seip said the
enterprise has simply outgrown its old
spaces. The move to the Fisher Bros.
building will be complete by the end of
February.
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
The Fisher Bros. building is pictured here at Astor and Seventh streets
in Astoria. Craft3 will house 12 to 15 staff as the building’s sole tenant.