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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2017
Coast Guard: Auxiliary largely pays for its own operations
Continued from Page 1A
Based at the Coast Guard’s
Aids to Navigation Team at
North Tongue Point, Flo-
tilla 64 also helped create
day boards, which help boat-
ers navigate off-channel areas
of the Columbia. Deck said
he and another volunteer will
continue making the naviga-
tional aids.
Flotilla 62, created in 1999,
is still based out of the Coast
Guard’s Station Cape Disap-
pointment in Washington state.
Part
of
the
issue,
Deck said, is that the
auxiliary largely pays for its
own operations. Many of the
volunteers are older than 55,
he said, and looking to retire,
spend more time with their
families or join flotillas closer
to home.
“The best way to drum up
volunteers right now would be
to involve younger people,”
Deck said. “We need younger
people who are willing to
make the commitment to come
out and participate.”
Members of Flotillas 64 out
of Tongue Point and 62 out
of Cape Disappointment,
two local branches of the
U.S. Coast Guard Auxilia-
ry, gathered outside the
Columbia River Maritime
Museum to celebrate 75
years of service by auxilia-
rists in 2014. Flotilla 64 has
voted to close because of
declining membership.
Submitted Photo
New Yellowstone dam challenged over sturgeon worries
By MATTHEW BROWN
Associated Press
BILLINGS, Mont. —
Wildlife advocates plan to
challenge the approval of a
new Yellowstone River dam
aimed at benefiting Montana
and North Dakota farmers
that critics say could kill off
a dwindling population of a
fish species dating to the time
of dinosaurs.
A bypass channel would
be built alongside the con-
crete irrigation dam near the
Montana-North Dakota bor-
der to let endangered pal-
lid sturgeon reach upstream
spawning grounds.
But scientists don’t know
if the fish would use the
channel. Advocates for the
few remaining wild sturgeon
say betting they would is an
unacceptable risk because
they could die off altogether
if the channel plan does not
work.
Pallid sturgeon are one
of the rarest native fish in
the Missouri and Mississippi
River basins, have a distinc-
tive, shark-like snout and can
live 50 years, reaching 6 feet
in length.
Court filing
Defenders of Wildlife
and the Natural Resources
Defense Council said in a
court filing Friday they are
negotiating with officials on
how to proceed following
AP Photo/Matthew Brown
The Yellowstone River flows over the Intake Diversion Dam, a rock structure that captures water for agriculture, north-
east of Glendive, Mont., near the North Dakota border.
last month’s dam construc-
tion approval by the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers and
Bureau of Reclamation.
The groups have a lawsuit
pending over the $57 million
project, which U.S. District
Judge Brian Morris tempo-
rarily blocked in 2015.
Morris must give his
approval before construction
can begin on the dam that
would supply water to about
400 farms that produce sugar
beets, wheat, barley, alfalfa
and other crops.
Bypasses to circumvent
dams have been used with
mixed success for salmon and
other fish populations in the
Pacific Northwest and New
England, but never for pallid
sturgeon.
Montana Fish, Wildlife
and Parks biologists have
said the best option for stur-
geon would be to remove an
existing rock weir so the fish
could pass freely up the river.
A government-sponsored
peer review panel that exam-
ined the Yellowstone dam
proposal expressed doubts
that the bypass channel would
help the fish make their way
upstream and beyond the
dam.
Removing the weir has
been rejected by federal offi-
cials as too costly. It would
require the installation of
pumps to provide water to
farmers.
Sturgeon release
Tens of thousands of
hatchery-raised
sturgeon
have been released into the
Yellowstone River to prevent
the species from dying off,
but it’s still unknown if those
fish will migrate and breed in
the same manner as wild fish.
Female pallid sturgeon do not
reproduce until they are 15 to
20 years old.
Meanwhile, fewer than
125 wild pallid sturgeon
remain. They are all decades-
old animals that biologists
have warned could soon dis-
appear entirely unless they
are able to reach their spawn-
ing grounds farther up the
river and beyond the pro-
posed dam construction site.
About 55,000 acres of
cropland in the two states are
dependent on an irrigation
system already in place at
the proposed dam site. That
system uses the rock weir
to divert water into canals
tapped by the farmers for
their fields.
The Congressionally-au-
thorized irrigation system
was built in 1909.
James Brower, the man-
ager for the irrigation proj-
ect, said federal wildlife offi-
cials already have said the
rock weir can be maintained,
meaning there’s no immedi-
ate worry that farmers who
rely on it will run out of water.
But Brower said a pro-
tracted court fight over the
dam would end up hurting
pallid sturgeon.
“People need to realize
court delays are defiantly
going to hurt the fish. We’re
just talking about theoretical
problems beyond that,” he
said.
James Woodcock/Billings Gazette
A 3-inch pallid sturgeon swims with hundreds of others in a tank in the Miles City State
Fish Hatchery in Miles City, Mont.
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CB6092
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SCLE
On January 31, 2017, at the hour
of 10:00 AM at the Clatsop
County Sheriff's Office, 1190 SE
19th Street in the City of
Warrenton, Oregon, the
defendant's interest will be sold,
subject to redemption, in the
real property commonly known
as: 313 8th Ave.Hammond,
OREGON. The court case
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NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE
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KIEPKE; CHRISTOPHER J.
KIEPKE; BANK OF AMERICA,
N.A.; AND PERSONS OR
PARTIES UNKNOWN
CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE,
LIEN, OR INTEREST IN THE
PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN
THE COMPLAINT HEREIN is
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A sub-adult pallid sturgeon in Neosho National Fish Hatchery’s visitor center.
L EGAL N OTICES
CB6103
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SCLE
Reference is made to that certain Trust Deed made by FLOYD BREITMEYER, as Grantor, to TICOR TITLE, as
Trustee, in favor of DONALD JESTER and ARLENE JESTER, as Beneficiary, dated April 3, 2008, and
recorded on April 3, 2008 as Instrument #200803120 of the Records of Clatsop County, Oregon, covering the
following described real property situated in said county and state, to-wit:
Lot 4, except the West 25 feet thereof; and all of Lots 5 and 6, Block 4, MATIER'S ADDITION TO
WARRENTON, in the City of Warrenton, County of Clatsop, State of Oregon.
Situs: 719 S. Main Cvenue, Warrenton, OR 97146
Cccount No.: 30826
Map No.: 8101DC02900
Both the Beneficiary and the Trustee have elected to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligations
secured by the Trust Deed and notice has been recorded pursuant to ORS 86.752(3). The default consists of
nonpayment of monthly payments of $596.21 from May 27,2016 to October 27, 2016 for a total of $3,577.26;
and real property taxes that have been paid by the Beneficiary, as follows: the sum of $2,084.15 paid on
November 9, 2010; $3,318.42 paid on October 15, 2013; $37.15 paid on October 24,2013; $1,025.84 paid on
October 22,2014 and $1,061.92 paid on November 6, 2015, for a total of $7,527.48.
By reason of said default, the Beneficiary has declared all obligations secured by the Trust Deed to be
immediately due and payable, said sums being the following, to-wit:
(1) Unpaid monthly payments of $596.21 for May, June, July, August, September and October 2016 for a total
of $3,577.26;
(2) Real propety taxes paid by Beneficiary totalling $7,527.48;
(3) The remaining balance of $38,794.04 together with interest thereon at 7% per annum from October 27,
2016 until paid;
(4) Costs incurred in the sum of $1,680.00; and
(5) Attorney fees in the sum of $2,000.00.
Notice: The Trustee, Steven D. Gerttula, will on May 25,2017 at 11:00 o'clock a.m., Pacific Daylight time, at the
Clatsop County Courthouse, main floor, Astoria, Oregon, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash
the interest in the real property which the Grantor had or had power to convey at the time he executed the
deed of trust, together with any interest Grantor or its successors acquired after execution of the Trust Deed
to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale.
Notice is further given that any person named in Section 86.753 of Oregon Revised Statutes has the right, at
any time prior to five days before the Trustee conducts the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding
dismissed and the Trust Deed reinstated by payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other
than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other
default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the
obligation or Trust Deed, and in addition to paying said sums or tendering the performance necessary to cure
the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Trust Deed,
together with Trustee's and attorney's fees not exceeding the amount provided by said Section 86.753 of
Oregon Revised Statutes.
In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular includes the
plural, the word "grantor" includes any successor in interest to the Grantor as well as any other person owing
an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, and the words "Trustee" and
"Beneficiary" include their respective successors in interest, if any.
STEVEN D. GERTTULA
Attorney at Law
416 Bond Street
Astoria, OR 97103
(503)325-5434
Published: January 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th, 2017