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state Sen. Betsy Johnson, two
of the most well-known pol-
iticians in the county, led a
political action committee for
the airport bond. But the vote
was called on relatively short
notice, the amount of the
bond was reduced for techni-
cal reasons just weeks before
the election, and the merits of
the infrastructure investment
became trapped within the
bitter infighting at the Port.
Knight believes several
factors doomed the vote,
from the unexpected oppo-
sition from some on the Port
Commission to the lack of
a voters’ pamphlet. He also
thinks some voters in South
County were apprehensive
about making another finan-
cial commitment so soon
after the $99.7 million in
bonds they approved last
November to move three
schools out of the tsunami
inundation zone.
Port commissioners all
said they supported Life
Flight Network, but Com-
missioner Bill Hunsinger
attacked the airport bond as a
giveaway to special interests,
while Commissioner Stephen
Fulton, who was running for
a second term in the May
election, called it speculative
development that should be
rejected. Fulton and his slate
of Port candidates lost the
election, but they may have
influenced the narrow 51 per-
cent to 49 percent defeat of
the bond.
“I don’t think any of us
were really prepared for the
negative position, or the anti-
bond measure information
that was being put out there,”
Knight said.
The airport bond and the
Port Commission elections
received extensive coverage
in The Daily Astorian, but
Knight and others believe
a voters’ pamphlet would
have helped educate vot-
ers about the issues at stake.
The county does not typically
publish voters’ pamphlets
for special district elections
because candidates have
balked at paying fees for the
service.
“In this particular case,
I think the voters’ pamphlet
could have been one of the
more helpful documents for
the bond measure,” Knight
said.
Unity
Warrenton Mayor Henry
Balensifer, who works at
Lektro, the aircraft tug maker
at the airport, and who is a
former chairman of the Port’s
Airport Advisory Committee,
said the lesson from the air-
port bond is unity.
Subversion from within
the Port Commission, the
mayor said, likely confused
and distracted voters. He said
county commissioners, if
they decide to pursue a bond
for a jail, will need to get fully
behind a bond campaign.
“I think the real lesson
here is the bond became an
election issue more so than a
bond issue,” Balensifer said.
Sheila Roley, the superin-
tendent of the Seaside School
District, said she heard from
people before the elec-
tion who did not understand
exactly why the Port was ask-
ing for the bond money.
Life Flight Network,
which provides emergency
medical flights, wanted finan-
cial help for a new hangar,
while the other infrastructure
improvements at the south
end of the airport could have
enabled future development
at the regional hub. Taxpay-
ers would have paid an esti-
mated $12.35 a year for prop-
erty assessed at $100,000 as
the bond matured over four
years.
“I did hear quite a few
people mention their misun-
derstanding of what it was
and why would we be voting
for something that’s going to
benefit Astoria,” Roley said.
Three of the four precincts
in Seaside rejected the air-
port bond, as did precincts in
Gearhart and Cannon Beach.
Roley said there is always
a little bit of South County
versus North County senti-
ment, but she believes the
failure of the airport bond
does not cloud a potential
bond for a jail. She said it is
easier for voters to see how a
jail would benefit the entire
county.
“I think that was fairly
issue specific,” she said of the
May vote.
‘Messaging is
really important’
Clatsop County could
place a bond for a jail on
the ballot as soon as next
year, when there are primary
and general elections that
typically draw more voter
interest.
Voters in May 2012
turned down a $14 million
bond measure to expand the
jail in Astoria. The measure
failed 56 percent to 44 per-
cent despite evidence of jail
overcrowding and appeals
from law enforcement, led
by Sheriff Tom Bergin. Voter
turnout was 52.6 percent, sig-
nificantly higher than the 35
percent for the airport bond
in May.
Scott Lee, the chairman of
the county Board of Commis-
sioners, favors putting bond
measures on general election
ballots where a broader slice
of the electorate can decide.
More importantly, the
county would need to craft a
compelling rationale to con-
vince enough voters from
Astoria to Cannon Beach to
pay more in property taxes.
“I think messaging is really
important,” Lee said.
People have yet to go out
and dig their limit, however
— the tides have not been low
enough. These low tides will
occur next week.
The areas that are open are
not as popular for clam dig-
ging as Washington’s Long
Beach Peninsula or Clatsop
County’s wide, open beaches
near Fort Stevens State Park.
The beds are much smaller —
some are only 50-yards wide
— and not as productive, said
Matt Hunter, shellfish and phy-
toplankton project leader with
the Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife.
“They’re nothing compared
to what we find on the Clatsop
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“So the good news is the
clams you’re going to find are
big,” Hunter said. “The bad
news is” — in the areas open
now — “there aren’t very
many of them.”
Though the population
shift appears particularly
drastic this year, fishery man-
agers have seen these kinds
of dips before. They seem to
coincide with the ebb and flow
of large climate cycles like El
Nino.
The Oregon Department
of Agriculture plans to con-
tinue testing for shellfish tox-
ins weekly as tides permit. The
department requires two con-
secutive clean tests to reopen
any area closed due to high
domoic acid levels.
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“It’s a reflection of the gen-
eral population,” Preston said.
“Those who want to work are
working.”
Career fair
The effects of low unem-
ployment among veterans
were on display Tuesday in
Astoria.
After seeing other organiza-
tions take action a few months
ago, Lower Columbia Human
Resources Management Asso-
ciation board members tossed
around ideas for an event to
help veterans. The association,
comprised of human resources
professionals, decided to orga-
nize something it had plenty of
experience with: a career fair.
From 3 to 5 p.m. Tues-
day, 16 local businesses and
labor groups — including Fred
Meyer, Lektro, Providence
Seaside Hospital, Tongue
Point Job Corps Center, Work-
Source Oregon and Wauna
Federal Credit Union — gath-
ered in the Fort George Brew-
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
A career fair held specifically for veterans was held at Fort
George Brewery’s Lovell Showroom in Astoria on Tuesday.
ery’s Lovell Showroom to
connect with veterans looking
for jobs. The problem: only a
handful of veterans attended.
“It was really shocking,
actually,” said Stacey Brown,
the communications director
for the association.
Brown said while fac-
tors such as seasonal employ-
ment — higher in the summer
— and the event’s timing —
a weekday afternoon — may
have played a role, she dis-
covered Tuesday the situation
for veterans seeking work is
relatively healthy.
Vietnam era
Roughly half of the veter-
ans living in Clatsop County
from 2011 to 2015 had served
during the Vietnam War era.
As those veterans hit retire-
ment age, veterans of the first
Gulf War are progressively
becoming the largest demo-
graphic in the veteran work-
force, Preston said. Younger
veterans, due to lack of expe-
rience and a shorter transition
time from war to civilian life
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graphics resemble a pyramid.
Massive numbers of young
clams form the wide base of
the pyramid, but as you go up
through the age classes, the
number of clams starts to drop.
A tiny collection of very old
clams will form the pointed tip
of the pyramid.
This season, those demo-
graphics resemble a diamond,
Hunter said. The usual huge
base of young clams isn’t pres-
ent at all, nor are there many
old clams. Instead, 3- and
4-year-old clams make up the
bulk of the population.
Washington shellfish man-
agers have noted a similar
drop in young clams in cer-
tain beaches along that state’s
coast.
Vendors await attendees at a career fair for veterans in Astoria on Tuesday sponsored by the Lower Columbia Human
Resources Management Association.
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beaches, but there are razor
clams out there,” Hunter said.
Harvest remains closed
from Cascade Head south
to the California border and
from Tillamook Head north
to the Columbia River. This
last area, known as the Clatsop
beach area, is always closed
from July 15 through Sept. 30
for razor clam conservation
regardless of whether or not
biotoxins are present. The ear-
liest that razor clamming could
open there is Oct. 1, depending
on domoic acid levels in clams.
Now the main concern is
the lack of recruitment — or
young clams — fishery man-
agers are seeing up and down
Oregon’s beaches.
Often razor clam demo-
than other soldiers, typically
have the hardest time finding
employment.
U.S. National Guard Capt.
Matthew Zedwick earned
combat awards such as the
Purple Heart and Silver Star
from a deployment to Iraq.
After a Land Rover SUV
exploded, he jumped on top
of his squad leader, saving the
man’s life and injuring himself
in the process.
He met with local businesses
at the career fair and pitched
some of the employable traits
veterans possess: leadership
and teamwork abilities, work
ethic, punctuality and the abil-
ity to operate under pressure.
Throughout his career,
Zedwick has also offered tips
to fellow soldiers seeking
employment. His main piece
of advice is to learn skills that
set job seekers apart.
“People already have the
expectation and stereotype of
what a soldier is,” Zedwick
said. “What kind of attributes,
skills and talents are you bring-
ing to the table?”
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