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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2017 ELECTION 5A Stokes edges Burke for Clatsop Care board Aho beats Devaney By JACK HEFFERNAN The Daily Astorian Mindy Stokes narrowly edged Karen Burke, the incumbent Clatsop Care Cen- ter Health District Board of Directors chairwoman, in Tuesday’s election. Stokes defeated Burke 50 percent to 49 percent, or by just 24 votes. Stokes was the social services director at Clat- sop Care Center and, later, the administrator at Clatsop Care Memory Community. After initial election returns Tuesday night had Stokes trailing Burke by 87 votes, she went to bed feeling disappointed. But she woke up this morning to find 12 emails congratulating her. “I’m grateful and humbled and just overwhelmed,” she said. Stokes said a combination of her experience working in the district along with a num- ber of volunteers who helped promote her campaign gave her the slight edge Tuesday. Burke is a retired nurse and educator from Astoria as well as the vice chairwoman of the Clatsop Community College Board. “Mindy ran a good cam- paign,” Burke said. “She worked hard to win the elec- tion, and I think she’ll do a good job.” The district manages the Clatsop Care Center, Clatsop Care Retirement Village and Clatsop Care Memory Com- munity. It also offers in-home MORE ONLINE Mindy Stokes care throughout the county with the exceptions of Gear- hart, Seaside and Cannon Beach. Michael Aho, of Warren- ton, earned 57 percent of the vote to defeat challenger Jac- queline Devaney, who totaled 42 percent. He ran as an incumbent after co-owning a grocery store for 25 years and was appointed to fill a vacancy last year. DeVaney, of Astoria, View the vote count: https://tinyurl.com/mtk65pk is a nurse who works home health care. Roy J. Little, of Astoria, ran unopposed and will con- tinue to serve in the position he’s held since 1995. A private practitioner and former chief of staff at Columbia Memorial Hospital, Little is a physician at the Clatsop County Jail. He also conducts child abuse assessments for nonprofit The Lighthouse for Kids. Incumbents hold sway for college board Duehmig ran unopposed. Sampson, Lum win Astoria, Seaside school board slots By KATIE FRANKOWICZ The Daily Astorian Incumbents held the day in the races for seats on the Clat- sop Community College Board Tuesday. Incumbent and former state land use planner Patrick Wing- ard defeated newcomer Pamela Mattson McDonald 55 per- Astoria School Board MORE ONLINE View the vote count: https://tinyurl.com/mtk65pk cent to 45 percent. Rosemary Baker-Monaghan, who has served on the college board since 2000, beat out newcomer and former K-12 teacher Mary Beth Cottle 54 percent to 46 percent. Board member Robert In the Astoria School Dis- trict, incumbent Jeanette Samp- son held off newcomer Andrew Davis 51 percent to 49 percent. Incumbent Jenna Ricken- bach held on to her seat with a 56 percent to 43 percent vic- tory over former teacher Bob Goldberg. Incumbents David Oser and Grace Laman ran unopposed. South County school boards The only contested race in the Jewell School District was between Michael Wam- mack and incumbent Melissa Cokley, with Wammack win- ning 52 percent to 48 percent. Incumbent Bryan Swearingen ran unopposed. In Seaside, Lori Lum from Lum’s Auto Center beat Andrea Wahl, a test scorer and attor- ney, to fill departing incumbent Lynn Ulbricht’s seat. Lum won with 75 percent of the vote. Michelle Wunderlich ran unopposed to fill depart- ing incumbent Tom Malt- man’s seat. Retired physician and incumbent Hugh Stel- son defeated Karen Custer, a retired teacher, 58 percent to 42 percent. Incumbent Brian Tay- lor ran unopposed. SOUTH COUNTY Russell wins Park and Rec vote; fire levy passes The Daily Astorian In Seaside’s Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District, Veronica Russell defeated Kindwyn Hoge with 74 per- cent of the vote for Position 1. Hoge had said before the elec- tion she would decline the role if elected due to a threatening letter sent to her opponent. With a combination of vacancies, a death and a retirement, each of the five board position seats was open. Other directors in the district, Michael Hinton in Position 3, Jeremy Mills in Position 2; Edward Hassan in Position 4 and Alan Evans in Position 5 all won seats unopposed. District board members serve four-year terms. Has- san and Evans, who filled unexpired terms, will serve two years and could run for re-election in 2019. Local Option 4-186, approv- ing $2 million over five years for fire equipment and per- sonnel, to be split three ways: for self-contained breathing apparatus; a new ladder truck; and funding for the depart- ment’s training and safety officer. The measure passed by 72 percent. Seaside Fire District Cannon Beach Rural Fire and Protection Dis- Seaside voters endorsed THE DAILY ASTORIAN W EDNESDAY E VENING A (2) (-) (-) (6) (-) (8) (9) (10) (12) (13) (-) (20) (-) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) L KATU KOMO KING KOIN KIRO KGW KRCW KOPB KPTV KPDX KCPQ TBS KZJO ESPN ESPN2 NICK DISN FAM FMC LIFE ROOT FS1 SPIKE COM HIST A&E TLC DISC NGEO TNT AMC USA FOOD HGTV FX CNN FNC CNBC BRAV TCM SYFY RFD (2) (4) (5) (-) (7) (-) (3) (10) (12) (-) (13) (20) (22) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) 6 Cannon Beach Fire District trict incumbents Garry Smith and Mark Mekenas both ran unopposed and will remain on the board. Smith and Mekenas will serve two- year terms. Smith, a firefighter with 35 years experience and six years on the board of directors, won with 258 votes. Mekenas, owner of Can- non Beach Surf and the Beach Store since 1998, filled a vacant board seat in 2015 and won with 259 votes. Allison Samson, an Asto- ria resident and director of nursing at Clatsop Commu- nity College, ran unopposed for a two-year unexpired term. She is a former admin- istrator at Clatsop Care Center and Clatsop Care Retirement Village. The board will oversee a new management firm that replaced former CEO Nicole Williams in April. Aidan Health Services, Inc., based in Salem, received a 26-month contract earlier this year and will seek to salvage the Clat- sop Care Center. The nursing home, Astoria’s oldest, will likely face a $600,000 budget deficit by the end of the year due to reductions in census, staff and public funding. Some people, including Samson, have expressed con- cern with the partnership over Voters pass Portland schools bond, reject pipeline ban Associated Press PORTLAND — Portland voters Tuesday approved the largest school bond in state history, which would raise taxes to address high levels of lead in drinking water at nearly every school and pay for modernizing schools. According to partial returns, 61 percent voted for the $790 million Port- land Public Schools spend- ing package while 39 percent were opposed, The Oregonian reported. The bond is part of a yearslong strategy of mea- sures to modernize all 90-plus of its school buildings, which are on average roughly 70 years old. District officials say broad overhauls and rebuilds are the best way to pre- pare schools to withstand an earthquake. The win comes days after a flurry of district news including the resignation of the human resources direc- tor, a $1 million jury verdict against the district for racial harassment and the implosion of a superintendent search. Coos County In Coos County, voters rejected a ballot measure that would have blocked a $7.5 million natural gas export ter- LISTINGS A - Charter Astoria/ Seaside - L - Charter Long Beach issues such as the contract’s length and what some see as a partial privatization of the district. Stokes said she is looking forward to working with Sam- son to oversee the firm. “Did they look at other options?” Stokes said. “It’s troubling to have a for-profit management company com- ing in. People have already been laid off, which affects the quality of care.” Burke said the board’s decision to hire the firm likely played a role in the election outcome. “I think there was a lot of misunderstanding about what it means to hire a management firm,” Burke said. “It’s one of the reasons it didn’t surprise me that Mindy won.” Directors will assume their positions beginning in July. minal and pipeline, the news- paper reported based on par- tial returns. The Jordan Cove LNG project envisions a 230-mile pipeline running from Malin, a town on the California bor- der, to Coos Bay. The measure would have banned the transportation of fossil fuels within the county that weren’t intended for local use. Jordan Cove and its par- ent company, Calgary-based Veresen Inc., have spent more than a decade and hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to win approval for the project. Federal regulators rejected their application last year, but the company reapplied in Jan- uary hoping that a fossil-fuel friendly President Donald Trump administration could help them get a green light. Jordan Cove spent an unprecedented $600,000 on the campaign to defeat the ballot measure, with televi- sion, radio and newspaper ads against the initiative. In an effort to win over the county’s 41,000 registered voters, they spent 50 times as much as the yes campaign’s $12,000. The ballot measure was broadly written, and in the opinion of many observers, likely unconstitutional. Evening listings WEDNESDAY M AY 17 PM 6:30 7 PM 7:30 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30 KATU News at 6 Jeopardy! Wheel of Fortune Goldberg (SF) (N) Speechless (SF) (N) Modern (SF) (N) Downward (P) (N) Designated "Brace for Impact" (SF) (N) KATU News at 11 (:35) Jimmy Kimmel KOMO 4 News Wheel of Fortune Jeopardy! 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