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Park: Lifetime passes for seniors will Day care: Council to mull appeal
a playground.”
increase from $10 to $80 on Aug. 28
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Pearson and the other com-
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and educational projects. At
the end of the summer, interns
from across the county gather
in Washington, D.C., to pres-
ent their work and learn about
federal job opportunities.
Youth apply for the pro-
grams throughout the year,
while park rangers visit local
schools to recruit for the
upcoming summer. Rangers
pitch the idea of an exciting
summer job and a glimpse at a
possible career choice. In turn,
the park benefi ts immediately
from the additional manpower
and long term from the possi-
bility of more job applications.
Burpee credits his staff for
their ability to imagine oppor-
tunities for growth and in
youth programs.
“It”s a great opportunity to
reach as many youth as pos-
sible but also get some great
stuff done,” he said. “ It’s a
neat program to allows the
park to do much more than it
otherwise could.”
Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Kelsey Hunter with the Youth Conservation Corps re-
moves Scotch broom, a non-native invasive species, from
an area in the Lewis and Clark National Historical Park.
Practical incentives
More practical incentives
have drawn seniors to the park
lately.
Lifetime passes for seniors
will increase from $10 — the
price established in 1994 — to
$80 on Aug. 28. Seniors also
can buy $20 annual passes
that can be redeemed for life-
time passes after four years.
Fee changes were mandated
by Congress in December.
The number of $10 senior
passes sold in June and July
approached 2,000, easily
more than double the num-
ber sold in that time last year.
Though Lewis and Clark has
run out of passes, it is offering
rain checks for people who
wish to purchase them before
the deadline.
“The demand has been
incredibly high,” Burpee said.
The estimated $37.6
million in national reve-
nue from the increased pass
fees will fund deferred
maintenance
projects,
improved visitor facilities and
A recently cut branch of
the invasive Scotch broom
plant in Lewis and Clark
National Historical Park
shows signs of having
been treated with herbi-
cide. Youth groups were
working recently in the
area to rid the park of the
non-native plant species.
trail maintenance.
Fee revenues are required
by law to be used solely for
park up keeping . At least 80
percent of fees collected at
each park must remain within
that specifi c park. Some large
parks are required to share as
much as 20 percent of fee rev-
enue with other parks around
the country.
Lewis and Clark, a rela-
tively small park, keeps all of
its revenue and also competes
for a slice of national profi ts.
With more people, young and
old, fl ocking to the historic
and natural areas east of War-
renton, fees will be funneled
toward educational programs
and a restructured, larger vis-
itor’s center sometime in the
future.
“It creates a long-term
fund to allow the parks to
address the unique needs they
have,” Burpee said. “Access
to national parks is something
that’s really cherished.”
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“Never once were the
words safety, liability, tsu-
nami inundation zone or
insurance spoken. Just
immediate action. This was
a mockery of the entire
process.”
The Astoria City Coun-
cil will hold a public hear-
ing on Sept. 25 to consider
his appeal of the Planning
Commission’s decision.
In his appeal, Connaway
cites sections of the city’s
development code and
development
standards,
arguing that Shooting Stars
is not an appropriate use
for the area. He also says
he was not given adequate
public notice.
Planning commission-
ers had been split on the
decision, with four voting
in favor of approving the
permit, and three voting
against it. Those who voted
against the permit said they
believed Shooting Stars
was an important organi-
zation, but that the building
on Gateway Avenue was
not the right location. Plan-
ning Commission President
David Pearson, however,
said the P ort identifi ed that
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Shooting Stars Child De-
velopment Center wants
to move into the former Or-
egon State Police station
near the Port of Astoria.
building as a good candidate
for “adaptive reuse,” and the
street is already home to vari-
ety of businesses.
Connaway argued that an
industrial area with heavy traf-
fi c is not suitable for a facility
like Shooting Stars.
“This is an extremely bad
idea,” he told the Planning
Commission in July. “This
is an industrial area. It’s not
missioners who approved
the permit concluded that
Shooting Stars would be an
“unusual use” given the area,
but believed Denise Giliga, the
center’s owner, and city staff
had presented a case for how it
could work.
Giliga said relocating to
the Gateway building would
allow the center to expand its
services and increase the num-
ber of slots available for new
students. The center was based
at St. Mary’s Star of the Sea
Catholic Church on Grand
Avenue. The church decided
not to renew the center’s lease
and Giliga said there are multi-
ple infrastructure issues at that
location.
The P ort has had diffi culty
fi nding people interested in
leasing the building since the
Oregon State Police left . Giliga
and her staff said they planned
to spend the month of August
setting up the space and hoped
to open in September.
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