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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 2017 Seaside center reaches its fund goals Commission name change Community building to get upgrades By R.J. MARX The Daily Astorian SEASIDE — The city’s Bob Chisholm Community Center moved closer to reno- vation, meeting funding goals for the three-stage building refresh. Construction could begin in the fall. “Several years ago, we had a dream,” Lou Neubecker, chairman of the Community Center and Senior Commis- sion, told the City Council Monday. Now, the dream is a reality, he said. Through fundraising efforts, the commission raised more than $51,000. “Since the original project was estimated at $175,000 combined with the city’s project budget of $200,000, we have enough to start the funds and start going out for bids,” Neubecker said. Honoring volunteer The Bob Chisholm Com- munity Center at 1225 Ave- nue A was originally property of the Catholic Church before acquisition of the building by the city as a community rental space. In the mid-1990s, under the direction of then-Public Works Director Chisholm, the building underwent a major Submitted Drawing Rendering of proposed upgrade at the community center. renovation, adding a front office and two large meeting rooms to the north end of the building. The main hall was converted from a gymnasium into a large gathering space. Chisholm, a volunteer fire- fighter, died in 1997 attempt- ing to save a man drowning in the surf just off the beach. The building was subsequently named in his honor. The project The refresh project was conceived in 2015 by the city and the Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District. A pledge drive launched last spring. In the first week of May, the commission got approval from the city to meet with RESOLVE Architecture and Planning, the firm that ini- tially designed the reno- vation, and start preparing the bid process to select a Warrenton chooses Portland firm for its legal counsel By KATIE FRANKOWICZ The Daily Astorian WARRENTON — War- renton has selected a Portland firm for legal advice. Former City Attorney Hal Snow, of Snow & Snow in Astoria, died in December. City Manager Linda Engbret- son said the city received two responses to a request for pro- posals for Snow’s replace- ment, one from a Portland firm the city has worked with before and the second from a Seaside firm. The commissioners voted to go with staff’s recommen- dation, choosing Beery Elsner & Hammond from Portland. The firm employs eight attor- neys, specializing in every- thing from land use law to labor law, Engbretson said. “I think we’re getting a lot for the price of one,” she said. Mayor Henry Balensifer said the city faces some “dicey and complicated issues,” refer- encing the contentious Eighth Street Dam and upcoming con- tracts with Pacific Coast Sea- food as the company begins its return to Warrenton following a fire that destroyed a process- ing facility in 2013. “It would be better to hire a known best,” Balensifer concluded. In other business: • The City Commission declared a property off Alter- nate U.S. Highway 101 a nui- sance. The property owner is dead and the property itself is being foreclosed on, staff reported. The city is working with several other properties but there are no other declared nui- sance properties at this time. The commissioners discussed other properties for consid- eration. Balensifer suggested holding a work session at a future meeting to discuss the policy. • The commission held a hearing on a rezoning request by Michael Johnson for approximately 1.91 acres of undeveloped property he owns on the west side of S.W. Juni- per Avenue. Johnson asked that the property be rezoned from Res- idential Growth Management/ Intermediate Density Resi- dential to Medium Density Residential. The city received some comments from neighbors concerned Johnson might build a duplex on the site, a use not allowed under the current zoning but which would be allowed under the new zoning. Jennifer Bunch of Wickiup Consulting LLC, represent- ing Johnson, said there were no concrete plans at this time to develop the property, but that the rezoning would make it consistent with neighboring properties. No one commented against the project during the public hearing and the commission held a first reading of the ordi- nance approving Johnson’s application. general contractor. Refurbishing the main hall is the first of three phases. “Window treatments, the flooring, wall covering, and lighting are the main parts of it,” Darren Gooch, marketing and information technology manager for the district, said after the meeting. “But all of that is going to work together to dampen the sound a little bit and put it in a little better acoustic environment. Right now if you have a hearing aid, you can’t hear what’s going on.” Renovations to the center’s entryway and the classrooms will follow. Gooch said the commis- sion will now solicit archi- tects for bids, which will then be presented to the City Coun- cil for review. “Hopefully we could get started as a soon as October,” Gooch said. Along with seeking approval to launch the bid process, Neubecker asked city councilors to consider a formal name change for the commission. Members want to change the commission’s name to the Bob Chisholm Community Center Commission, dropping the word “senior” in order to encourage more diverse audiences. “The reason we’re asking for the ‘senior’ to be dropped is a lot of people are saying, ‘Well, I don’t want to hold it (an event) at the senior cen- ter,’” Neubecker said. Commissioners have con- sidered the change for a cou- ple of years, Gooch said. “We serve a very broad group,” he said. “The center already serves senior lunches during the day. In the afternoon and evening, we have kids from the preschool come over. It’s not just an exclusively senior population — it’s a diverse population.” Mayor Jay Barber said the commission name change would be considered at the July 18 council work session. “I know you are investing a lot of great resources to make the facility more attractive, and you want it to be seen as something more than a senior center,” Barber said. “But we don’t want the seniors to feel like we’re kicking them out either. So it’s a bit of a tight- rope walk.” Project Updates The Oregon Department of Transportation invites you to provide input on amendments to projects in the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program. On the 1st and 16th of each month, ODOT will post for review changes made in the previous 15 days \to projects in the STIP; we invite you to check in regularly and provide comments. Please visit: www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/STIP/Pages/STIPDocs.aspx Clatskanie man gets sentenced to five years for sexual corruption Victims were in Clatsop County By JACK HEFFERNAN The Daily Astorian A Clatskanie man will serve up to five years in prison for online sexual cor- ruption of three girls in Clat- sop County. Theron Joseph Manley, 19, was sentenced June 30 after reaching a plea agree- ment with the Clatsop County District Attorney’s Office. He pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree online sex- ual corruption of a child, two counts of luring a minor and one count of third-degree sod- omy. If he demonstrates good behavior in prison, his sen- tence could be shortened to four years. He originally faced 24 charges that also included third-degree rape, third-de- gree sexual abuse, attempt- ing to use a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct, unlawful delivery of mari- juana within 1,000 feet of a school and attempt to commit a Class A felony. All of the incidents for which he was charged allegedly took place in October. Manley allegedly con- tacted several girls on Face- book and received responses from at least the three girls Theron Joseph Manley who live in Clatsop County. He sent sexually explicit mes- sages to all three of the girls and had sexual intercourse with at least one of them. Two of the girls were 14 years old at the time while another was 15 years old. Soon after the incidents, a mother of one of the teen- agers found requests for nude images from Man- ley on her Facebook profile, leading to an investigation by the Clatsop County Sher- iff’s Office. In January, Man- ley was arrested while attend- ing a separate court case at the Pacific County Courthouse in South Bend, Washington. 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