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DailyAstorian.com // MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2017
144TH YEAR, NO. 192
ONE DOLLAR
Warrenton looks to dust off emergency plan
Staff wants to resume required response training
By ERICK BENGEL
The Daily Astorian
WARRENTON — Police
Chief Mathew Workman
believes the city needs to step
up disaster readiness, includ-
ing fleshing out an emer-
gency response plan that has
not been updated since its
2010 adoption.
Warrenton’s
emergency
operations plan, prepared under
a U.S. Department of Home-
land Security grant, considers
a range of crises the city could
face: from terrorism to chemi-
cal hazards, severe windstorms
to a Cascadia Subduction Zone
earthquake and tsunami.
The document states it “will
be reviewed and approved on
an annual basis or after an inci-
dent or exercise to improve
effectiveness.”
But the city has not revisited
the plan since it was drafted,
so the plan does not reflect
seven years’ worth of changes,
such as new development,
shifts in population centers and
upgrades in technology.
In addition, many city staff
and government officials —
people expected to take on lead-
ership roles during catastro-
phes — have not undergone
the required incident command
system and national incident
management system training
courses.
Warrenton High
School student
Macen Fritz tends
to Seaside High
School student
Eli McShirley,
playing a victim,
at the Warren-
ton High School
end-of-year CERT
exercise last year.
See WARRENTON, Page 7A
Submitted Photo
DARK AND STORMY
Wet winter washes away
The Daily Astorian
W
ith spring — hopefully — in bloom,
it is fitting to look back at what felt
like a winter that was wetter and
grayer than usual.
It rains in Astoria. A lot. But the season’s
rainfall left a soggier impression. Astoria
saw more than 12 inches of rain in February
and has had more than 12 inches so far in
March, according to the National Weather
Service. The rainfall represents the high-
est totals for the two months in the past five
years. The previous highs in that time frame
both occurred last year.
Spring officially began March 20.
Photos by Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Afternoon rain drizzles in Astoria. Zipliners cruise over
a lake at High Life Adventures in Warrenton. A lone tree stands bare on an outcrop-
ping of coastal rocks near Hug Point State Recreation Site near Arch Cape. Foot-
steps can be seen after a dusting of snow in downtown Astoria. Tom Bearman sur-
veys an older section of Ocean View Cemetery where he and his wife, Judy, will be
working next to archive and photograph headstones for their Find A Grave project.
Baritone sings praises of
an overseas education
Couple suspected of
murder denied bail
Goldberg studies
abroad at Oxford
Trials set for
later this year
S
Patrick Webb/
For The Daily Astorian
Baritone Tevan Goldberg of
Astoria, left, is pictured in-
side St. Paul’s Church Cov-
ent Garden in London this
month with his well-trav-
eled international conduc-
tor James Burton.
t. Paul’s Covent Garden
is known as the “actors’
church.” In the heart of Lon-
don’s theater district, its
Etruscan-inspired pillars are
interspersed with plaques high-
lighting Noel Coward, Charlie
Chaplin and Boris Karloff.
Outside, the fictional Eliza
Doolittle sold flowers in “My
Fair Lady” amid gravelly
voiced market traders.
Inside the 1633 church ear-
lier this month, Tevan Gold-
berg of Astoria added his
By JACK HEFFERNAN
The Daily Astorian
trained voice to a sacred choral
concert by the Oxford-based
Schola Cantorum.
Goldberg is studying envi-
ronmental policy, music, Ger-
man and philosophy at Mid-
dlebury College in Vermont.
Its Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies arranged
for him to spend a semester at
See GOLDBERG, Page 7A
A couple accused of mur-
dering a Newport man in
Clatsop County last year
will not be allowed to post
bail and leave the county jail
prior to their trials.
Circuit Court Judge Cin-
dee Matyas ruled at a pretrial
release hearing Friday that
there was sufficient evidence
Christian Wilkins, 37, and
Adeena
Copell
Christian
Wilkins
Adeena Copell, 40, may have
murdered Howard Vinge, 71,
last September.
An autopsy indicated
Vinge suffered skull fractures
from being hit with an object
See COUPLE, Page 7A