THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2017
ELECTION
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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Cannon Beach
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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-
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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.
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