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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.”
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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.
As teenagers become
more savvy with social media
applications, parents are hav-
ing a harder time monitoring
the safety of their children,
Deputy District Attorney
Dawn Buzzard said. “This is
the kind of issue that we’re
going to see more and more,”
she said.
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