DailyAstorian.com // WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2017
145TH YEAR, NO. 13
ONE DOLLAR
Wanted:
Long-term
rentals in
Seaside
City could develop
downtown buildings
By R.J. MARX
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — Members of the Planning
Commission and City Council agree there is
a shortage of long-term and workforce rent-
als in the city. They convened Tuesday night
in a joint workshop to discuss ways to make
rentals more available.
“The scarcity is driving people who
want a two-bed-
room into a one-bed-
room, and people into
a one-bedroom into
a hotel room,” Plan-
ning Commissioner
David Posalski said.
“It’s people in all areas
from professionals to minimum -wage work-
ers who can’t fi nd a place to live.”
Planning Commission Vice Chairman
Bill Carpenter suggested modifi cations to
off-street parking, with a reduction of park-
ing requirements for certain apartment
units.
See SEASIDE, Page 4A
A HELPING HAND
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Hundreds of pounds of mulch was shoveled by volunteers into wheelbarrows before being transported down a hill at
Tapiola Park in Astoria on Tuesday to expand the footprint of the playground to include a playhouse .
Hispanic community volunteers to
clean up Tapiola Park playground
By COLIN MURPHEY
The Daily Astorian
T
he playground at Tap-
iola Park received a
makeover on Tuesday.
Volunteers organized by
the Lower Columbia Hispanic
Council and the Astoria Parks
and Recreation Department
cleaned up debris around the
park and expanded the foot-
print of the playground.
The new landscaping con-
nects a playhouse that was
separated from the rest of the
playground.
Jorge Gutierrez, the coun-
cil’s executive director, said
the effort came about after the
Astoria City Council adopted
an inclusivity resolution in
March recognizing the con-
tributions of the Hispanic
community.
See VOLUNTEERS, Page 4A
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Volunteers in Astoria on Tuesday, seen through the windows of a playhouse, spread mulch
on a new patch of the playground at Tapiola Park . The event was a joint venture between
the Astoria Parks and Recreation Department and the Lower Columbia Hispanic Council.
Charter crews
suspected of
‘high-grading’
prized halibut
Disposing of small
ones can harm fi shery
By NATALIE ST. JOHN
EO Media Group
ILWACO, Wash. — Pacifi c Salmon Char-
ters got an unexpected publicity boost ear-
lier this month, when the crew of the Pacifi c
Dream rescued passengers from a sunken
boat. Last week, the company received not-
so-welcome attention from state and federal
game wardens.
O ffi cers from the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration and Washing-
ton Department of Fish and
Wildlife served a search
MORE
warrant Thursday at the
c Salmon offi ce at the
INSIDE Pacifi
Port of Ilwaco.
Steelhead
According to the war-
runs hit lowest
rant,
Pacifi c Salmon crews
number in
are
suspected
of habitually
decades.
“high-grading,” or catch-
Page 3A
ing more than the legal
limit of fi sh, and keeping
only the most desirable specimens. Inves-
tigators say they have evidence that Pacifi c
Salmon crews high-graded on at least two
trips during the short spring halibut season.
Pacifi c Salmon Charters is owned by
Milton Gudgell, of Ilwaco, a veteran fi sher-
man who has often been active on fi sheries
See CHARTER, Page 4A
Republicans stumble on Obamacare repeal
Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday dropped leg-
islation to repeal and replace the federal Affordable Care
Act, known as Obamacare, throwing the future of health
care into uncertainty. The GOP drafts of the bill had been
unpopular nationally. Demonstrators from the group, In-
divisible North Coast Oregon, gathered in downtown As-
toria Tuesday afternoon for a rally to protest the Trump
administration on health care.