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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 2017
Transit district chooses
to opt out of timber suit
Board voted
in January
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
The governing board of the
Sunset Empire Transit District
voted 5-2 in January to opt out
of a timber lawsuit brought by
Linn County against the state.
The transit district was not
included in a list of entities
opting out, filed last month
by Linn County’s lawyers.
Mary Parker, the transit dis-
trict’s executive director, sent
a press release on the board’s
decision.
Commissioners
Kathy
Kleczek, Carol Gearin, Lylla
Gaebel, Tracy MacDonald
and Pamela Alegria voted to
opt out. Commissioners Jim
Servino and Kevin Widener
opted to stay in.
“It was a long process,”
Kleczek, chairwoman of the
transit district, said. “We didn’t
just jump to any conclusions.”
The board discussed the
lawsuit by phone with attor-
neys
representing
Linn
County, and heard from rep-
resentatives with the state For-
estry Department about timber
management.
At the meeting in Janu-
ary before their votes, com-
missioners Gearin, Alegria
and Gaebel shared their con-
cerns over the potential effects
of the lawsuit in timber poli-
cies, the forest and watersheds.
Servino and Widener cited
their fiduciary responsibilities
to the district in not turning
down potential revenue. Klec-
zek said a majority of the tran-
sit district’s constituents sup-
ported leaving the lawsuit.
The lawsuit claims the state
violated a contract to maxi-
mize sustainable timber har-
vests on state land since chang-
ing management priorities in
1998 to include more recre-
ation and conservation efforts.
It was certified a class action,
growing to include more than
15 counties and around 130
taxing districts.
The counties and taxing
districts, each of which stands
to gain a sizable settlement if
the lawsuit is successful, had
until Jan. 25 to notify Linn
County Circuit Court of the
intent to opt out as plaintiffs.
Most took no action, remain-
ing as plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
Clatsop County was the
only timber county to opt out
of the lawsuit, taking with it
four county-controlled taxing
districts. Sunset Empire Trans-
portation District joins Sun-
set Empire Parks and Recre-
ation District as the only other
local county taxing districts to
opt out.
Clatsop Community Col-
lege’s Board voted to opt out
Jan. 24. But one board mem-
ber’s vote, submitted via
email, was deemed invalid,
resulting in a 3-3 tie and the
college remaining in the law-
suit. The college has sent a let-
ter to the Linn County Circuit
Court in an effort to leave the
lawsuit.
The Port of Portland, Ben-
ton Soil and Water Conserva-
tion District, Clackamas Soil
and Water Conservation Dis-
trict and Washington County
Rural Fire Protection District
No. 2. also opted out.
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Lindstrom’s, which since
1986 had been owned and
operated by the Lindstrom
family, closed in September
2015 after John Lindstrom, the
sole baker, had his leg ampu-
tated following an infection.
Lindstrom died in October.
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Lindstrom, who’s been mov-
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“It’s going to be a to-go
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Downtown Spexarth building welcomes new tenants
Some new neighbors are
coming to the downtown Asto-
ria Spexarth Building between
11th and 12th streets, includ-
ing a new restaurant to replace
Lindstrom’s Danish Maid
Bakery.
Vicki and David McAfee,
owners of A Gypsy’s Whimsy
Herbal Apothecary, purchased
the building from Marie
Mitchum, widow of down-
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Heidi and Daniel Dlubac are opening Good to Go, a grab-and-
go lunch spot, in the former Lindstrom’s Danish Maid Bakery.
ing on Commercial Street in
the apothecary’s current loca-
tion, from which educational
nonprofit Butterflies For-
ever had moved. Now the two
face a short, albeit compli-
cated, move across Commer-
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mid-April.
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dreds of thousands of pieces,”
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shops wide-ranging collection
of herbalist items and gift sec-
tion in the front of the store.
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Vicki McAfee said, the gifts
were put up front to help draw
in customers and sustain the
business. Now that herbalism
has become more established,
she said, the herbs will go in
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