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“It kind of brings the art
community together, and I’m
lucky to be a part of it,” said
sophomore Jordan Walter, who
contributed two pieces — a
graphite puppy and watercolor
fish — to the silent auction.
Her brother, a kindergart-
ner, contributed to a class
thumbprint painting up for auc-
tion. Walter said she expects to
leave for college and pursue
her career, but one day return
to help raise money for her
younger sibling. “Definitely by
the time he’s … a senior in high
school, I’ll definitely be back
here and involved,” she said.
Foundation success
Homegrown business mogul
and philanthropist Shawn
Teevin, founder of Teevin Bros.
Land & Timber, got emotional
after being honored with flow-
ers and champagne from long-
time foundation president Sara
Rohne-Tanner for his part in
forming the foundation 20
years ago.
When Knappa School Dis-
trict split from neighboring
Clatskanie in 1997, Teevin
partnered with other alumni to
create a foundation and raise
money for scholarships and
school programs. Helping the
group was the late philanthro-
pist Michael Foster, who helped
grow Astoria High School
Scholarship Inc. into a multi-
million-dollar scholarship fund
aiding the majority of Astoria’s
graduates each year.
“He hooked us up early on
and gave us a lot of ideas …
and also with our investment
side,” Teevin said of Foster,
who was also honored Saturday
along with Sen. Johnson.
In the audience Satur-
day were former board mem-
bers such as Eileen Cheuvront,
who retired recently from help-
ing organize the auction. Being
honored in front was a new
guard of alumni in their mid-
20s to early 40s with children
now in the school district who
have been added to the board
More than 300 attendees at the Knappa Schools Foundation’s 20th-annual dinner and auction Saturday raised more
than $109,000 for scholarships and school programs including $40,000 in an appeal from state Sen. Betsy Johnson.
Shawn Teevin, a local busi-
ness mogul and philan-
thropist, gets emotional
accepting
flowers
and
champagne in honor of his
co-founding the Knappa
Schools Foundation, which
for 20 years has been rais-
ing money for scholarships
and school grants.
over the past several years,
including Blake Gerttula from
the class of 2005, Brian Mont-
gomery from 2006, Tonya
Lempea from 2003 and Steph-
anie Sievers from 1994.
Gerttula, who has been
involved with the foundation
for three years, said the new
board members, most of whom
received scholarships from the
foundation, felt the basic drive
upon returning home and start-
ing their families to help the
community that helped them.
”For me, it’s not enjoyable
going door to door,” said Gert-
tula, who approaches about 150
businesses and individuals each
year seeking donated items and
experiences for the auction.
“But I know the more I get, the
more it supports students.”
Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
Photos by Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
Funding education
Superintendent
Paulette
Johnson, hired less then two
years ago from Rainier High
School in Washington state,
said her former school had its
own fundraisers, but even with
more students raised about half
as much as Knappa.
“I’m actually humbled by
the amount of support there
is here,” she said. “It’s really
incredible what they do for
their school.”
Last year, she said, the
foundation bought math
curriculum for kindergar-
ten through second grade,
swim lessons for fourth-grad-
ers, several field trips, 3-D
printers and forestry equip-
ment, among other equip-
ment and the tens of thousands
of dollars in scholarships the
foundation awards each year to
graduating seniors.
“We don’t have to ask,”
Johnson said of the support
from the foundation. “They just
do it.”
The Knappa Schools Foundation’s board has taken on a younger tone, with graduates
and past foundation scholarship recipients (from left) Blake Gerttula from 2005, trea-
surer Brian Montgomery from 2006 and secretary Tonya Lempea from 2003. Assistant
treasurer Stephanie Sievers, right, graduated in 1994.
Turtle: Third to wash ashore this year
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Seaside Aquarium/For The Daily Astorian
Seaside Aquarium’s Tiffany Boothe helped rescue a logger-
head turtle after it washed near shore in Cannon Beach.
Boothe said she and
Schmidt lifted the turtle into
the bed of her truck and trans-
ferred it to the aquarium,
arriving by 6:30 p.m., the tur-
tle still alive.
“Everything was working
in our favor,” Boothe said.
“The tide was on its way out,
otherwise I would have never
gone through the little cave.
The light stayed with us for
the most part. By the time
we got back to the aquarium
it was dark. Just barely made
it!”
Boothe contacted the Ore-
gon Coast Aquarium, and
by 7:30 a.m., she was on the
road. They met just north of
Depoe Bay, where the transfer
was made.
This was the third turtle to
wash ashore this year, but the
first to be found alive, Boothe
said.
According to the Sea Tur-
tle Conservancy, logger-
heads are known for their
exceptionally large heads
and heavy, strong jaws. They
can weigh up to 375 pounds.
They are listed as a threat-
ened species due to coastal
development.
During the winter, cold-
shocked sea turtles can
become stranded on beaches.
Reports of stranded turtles can
begin as early as mid-October
and can continue through Jan-
uary, Boothe said.
Last winter, Thunder, a
rescued olive ridley sea tur-
tle, found comatose and hypo-
thermic near Gearhart in
December, died while com-
pleting her final rehabilitation
stage before summer release
into the wild.
Thunder and another reha-
bilitated sea turtle found in
Pacific City, dubbed “Light-
ning,” were flown to Sea-
World in March from the
Oregon Coast Aquarium.
Lightning continues rehabili-
tation at SeaWorld.
Rules: Law requires ‘orderly fishery management’ Women: 12 bands will
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take the stage this year
The commission, by a 4-3
vote, adopted a plan in Janu-
ary to maintain some gillnet-
ting along the main channel of
the river.
The move diverged from
the expectation that the state
would phase out the method
altogether, as part of an agree-
ment with Washington state ini-
tiated several years ago by for-
mer Gov. John Kitzhaber.
Oregon’s neighbor to the
north, through its Fish and
Wildlife Commission, decided
last month to phase out the use
of gillnets along the Lower
Columbia in two years.
In a letter to Commis-
sion Chairman Michael Fin-
ley, Brown said Thursday
that the Oregon commission’s
decision to diverge from the
bistate agreement was “not
acceptable.”
“It will make enforcement
complicated, confusing and
untenable,” Brown wrote, “and
put at risk ongoing funding and
bi-state cooperation necessary
for fishery reforms.”
Heed state law
Fish and Wildlife Commis-
sioners Holly Akenson and
Bruce Buckmaster, who both
voted for the rules passed last
month, said in separate phone
interviews Friday that, in pass-
ing the rules, they wanted to
heed state law, which requires
that rules adopted by the com-
mission regarding Columbia
River fish management reform
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Mike
Finley
Holly
Akenson
must optimize overall eco-
nomic benefits to the state and
enhance the “economic viabil-
ity” of both commercial and
recreational fishermen.
The law also requires
“orderly fishery management”
with Washington state.
It’s difficult to meet both
the economic requirements and
reach agreement with Wash-
ington state if Washington says
there can be no gillnets alto-
gether, Akenson said.
Tom Wolf, executive direc-
tor of the Oregon Council of
Trout Unlimited — a coldwa-
ter conservation organization
— told commissioners Friday,
as an aside during a hearing on
sturgeon, that he lobbied leg-
islators after he heard a rumor
that certain commissioners
would be asked to resign.
“I just want to commend all
the commissioners for, frankly,
for the way you’ve taken the
crap that has been hurled on
you lately concerning the deci-
sion that you reached on Jan.
20,” Wolf said. “Even though
the members of my organiza-
tion opposed the decision that
you made, I have nothing but
respect for you.”
Brown’s office addressed
Submitted Photo
Astoria resident Bruce Buckmaster shows a salmon be-
fore its release in Alaskan waters in 2011.
Johnson said. “It was a flash
in the pan for a lot of those,
but the fans were there. It’s
amazing how far people will
travel to hear OKOM — ‘our
kind of music.’”
Fans tend to be prebaby
boomers, but younger audi-
ences are discovering the fes-
tival, Johnson said.
Twelve bands
the rumor circulating Thursday
that two commissioners would
be removed. A spokesman for
Brown wrote in an email Fri-
day that “membership changes
are not being considered at this
time.”
‘Disturbing’
Jim Wells, of Salmon for
All, an association of gillnetters
and other fishing-related busi-
nesses based in Astoria, called
the governor’s letter “disturb-
ing” and asserted Brown had
broken a promise to “stay
out of the process and let the
appointed commissioners do
their work.”
However,
commissions
such as the Fish and Wild-
life Commission are gener-
ally expected to comply with
gubernatorial policy, says Jim
Moore, director of the Tom
McCall Center for Policy Inno-
vation at Pacific University.
“It is fairly common that
governors kind of lay down
the law like this,” Moore said
Friday.
Commissions are a place
where people with interest in a
particular area — forestry, for
example, or transportation —
can go to help the state imple-
ment rules, McCall says.
“Unless there is something
really remarkable going on,”
said Moore, the commissions
are, as part of the executive
branch, “supposed to go along
with whatever the executive
has in mind.”
In early 2015, then-Gov.
Kitzhaber removed Cather-
ine Mater from her position
as chairwoman of the Oregon
Transportation Commission
after she voted against an appli-
cation from the Port of St. Hel-
ens for a $2 million subsidy for
an energy company pursuing a
coal export project.
The Capital Bureau is a col-
laboration between EO Media
Group and Pamplin Media
Group.
This year, 12 bands will
take the stage at three ven-
ues, the Seaside Civic and
Convention Center, the Elks
Lodge and the Best Western
in Seaside. Musicians hail
from throughout the coun-
try, as well as the Pacific
Northwest. A shuttle will
take attendees to concerts
throughout the weekend, and
a badge provides entry to all
concerts.
Johnson
recommends
prepurchasing
tickets,
especially for the Thurs-
day night kickoff concert
with Dave Bennett and the
Memphis Speed Kings, a
rockabilly-jazz group with
echoes of Jerry Lee Lewis
and Johnny Cash — “the
music I grew up listening to,”
Johnson said.
As in years past, the Sea-
side High School jazz band
will be taking the stage
under the direction of Terry
Dahlgren.
Jacob Miller and the
Bridge City Crooners will
be among the standouts.
“They’re just a bunch of kids
— they’re probably in their
30s,” Johnson said.
— R.J. Marx
Submitted Photo
Jacob Miller and the Bridge City Crooners will take the
stage at the Seaside Jazz Festival.