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DailyAstorian.com // MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2017 144TH YEAR, NO. 157 ONE DOLLAR Winter wonderland blankets North Coast Some braved the elements, area schools affected By ERICK BENGEL The Daily Astorian Sharon Collyer, a server at Bridge- water Bistro, could have driven her truck to work Sunday. Instead, she chose to walk the entire mile-and- a-half distance in the freshly fallen snow — and, in Astoria, enjoy a cli- matological rarity. “That’s how awesome this is to me,” Collyer said. On her way, she stopped beneath the eaves of the Arc Arcade at 10th Snow falls on the Peter Iredale shipwreck at Fort Stevens State Park Sunday. and Commercial streets and chatted with two friends, Amy Denny and Jesse Bateman. Denny, of Astoria, said she also decided to venture outside on foot so Samantha Hollo Submitted Photo See SNOW, Page 7A A look at county’s timber decision Clatsop only county out of 15 to opt out of class-action suit By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian Dave and Kerry Strickland hold a photograph of their son, Jordan, on Wednesday in their home in Knappa. Jordan died in Los Angeles in July 2015 from a heroin overdose. Knappa mom looks to help others after son’s overdose death Clatsop County contains nearly one-quar- ter of state-run forestlands involved in a law- suit brought by Linn County against the state over timber revenue. But Clatsop was the only one of the 15 counties covered by class action to opt out . Linn County’s lawsuit claims the state violated a contract to maximize sustainable harvests on land deeded by counties in the 1930s and ’40s. The lawsuit claims state polices from emphasizing recreation and conservation have cost the counties a total of $35 million a year in timber revenue since 2000. It also seeks future payments of $35 million a year to account for the lost revenue. Deemed a class action by a Linn County Circuit Court j udge, the lawsuit grew to include 15 counties and approximately 130 taxing districts, all of which stood to gain siz- able settlements were the lawsuit successful. The governing bodies of the affected counties and taxing districts had until Jan. 25 to let the court know if they wanted out. Most did nothing, by default staying in the lawsuit. An outlier By JACK HEFFERNAN The Daily Astorian ntering his senior year at Knappa High School in 2007, Jordan Strickland had a goal in mind. A multi sport athlete, he had earned awards as a running back on the football team as a junior . For his fi nal season with the Loggers, he was aiming for a Player of the Year honor. But during the fi rst game , he dislocated his elbow, side- HELP OR lining him for most of the season and end- GET HELP ing any hope of more awards. “He lived and breathed sports, so the jordanshope.org injury was devastating,” Kerry Strickland, provides informa- tion about recovery his mother, said. With sports no longer consuming as and is accepting much of his time, Jordan attended a party donations. later that same school year, where he was introduced to prescription drugs like O xyC ontin. As he devel- oped an addiction , he soon began using the drug that would kill him six years later: heroin. Kerry Strickland Photo See JORDAN’S HOPE, Page 7A Jordan Strickland was a multisport athlete at Knappa High School. According to a fi ling last week by law- yers for Linn County, fi ve of the nine tax- ing districts that opted out were in Clatsop County. Four — County Rural Law Enforce- ment, Road District No. 1, the county affi l- iate of Oregon State University’s 4-H and Extension Service programs and the Clatsop County Fair — were automatically removed as plaintiffs by the county Board of Commis- sioners’ decision. The board of directors for Sunset Empire Parks and Recreation District voted last month to opt out. Michael Hinton, chairman of Sunset Empire’s board, said the group didn’t agree with the change in forest practices that might result from the lawsuit, and that the district’s budget doesn’t rely on timber revenue. “I think we made the right decision,” Board of Commissioners Chairman Scott Lee said about the county’s decision last month to opt out. “And of course I’m disap- pointed other taxing districts didn’t opt out. I still think I made a right decision.” See LAWSUIT, Page 7A Shipwreck hunters of the Oregon Coast Combing through history’s wreckage EASIDE — Ever have a fascination with ship- wrecks? Did you ever wonder about the mysteries surround- ing their demise, stories of lost treasures, or about claim- ing the rights to abandoned wrecks? Maritime archaeologist Christopher Dewey does and during the Seaside Museum and Historical Society’s His- S tory and Hops lecture at Sea- side Brewing Co. in Janu- ary , he answered questions to unravel a few mysteries and myths . Dewey is a retired naval offi cer, an adjunct instructor at Clatsop Community College and founder of the Maritime Archeology Society in Asto- ria. He is listed on the Regis- ter of Professional Archaeolo- gists and is a secretary of the interior and Oregon qualifi ed archaeologist. If that wasn’t enough, he is a modern-day shipwreck hunter in Oregon and Washington state. Unlike treasure hunters, he searches for, investigates and documents shipwrecks and maritime archaeologi- cal sites. He and a team of volunteers search sites using side-scan sonars, a magne- tometer and a remote operat- ing vehicle much like Robert Ballard used to fi nd the Titanic, the Bismarck and the U S S Yorktown wrecks, but smaller. See HUNTERS, Page 7A Christopher Dewey at “History and Hops” discusses shipwrecks off the Oregon C oast. Rebecca Herren The Daily Astorian
