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Cannon
Beach is
popular for
Labor Day
ONE DOLLAR
FAMILY TRADITION
THREE GENERATIONS SERVE THE LEWIS AND CLARK FIRE DEPARTMENT
Study by vacation
rental company
By BRENNA VISSER
The Daily Astorian
CANNON BEACH — Vacation rentals
are a sensitive subject on the North Coast,
where some residents worry that catering to
tourists drives up housing costs and erodes
the quality of life in neighborhoods.
For Cannon Beach, though, short-term
rentals are a regional and national draw.
A study by TurnKey Vacation Rentals,
a property management company, ranked
Cannon Beach fi rst in the state and fourth
nationally as the most popular travel destina-
tion for Labor Day weekend.
The study used Google search data to
identify the 250 top vacation rental destina-
tions over the past year.
To determine which locations would be
popular for L abor D ay weekend travel, Turn-
Key looked at travel keyword search trends
— basically, how often people searched
“Cannon Beach” in conjunction with other
See CANNON BEACH, Page 9A
Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Interior
chief will
not rescind
monuments
Lewis and Clark Fire Department cadet Emily Herndon, second from the left, finishes putting out a vehicle fire in this file
photo. Herndon is the youngest in a family that has three generations represented at the f ire d epartment.
By JACK HEFFERNAN
The Daily Astorian
A
s family members often do, Emily
Herndon began telling a story that
slightly embarrassed her mother,
Christina. Seated inside a fi re truck at the
Lewis and Clark Fire Department station
on Logan Road, they recalled a particu-
larly memorable medical call.
Emily and her mother, grandfather —
Capt. Kevin Miller — and uncle — Adam
Miller — are volunteer fi refi ghters . A few
weeks ago, they received a pager noti-
fi cation. A medical help button at an
elderly woman’s house had been tapped
in the middle of the night, so the family
responded.
When they arrived on the scene,
Kevin, Christina and Emily — unsure if
those inside were either unconscious or
asleep — banged on the walls and yelled
out .
They entered the home and began
walking down a hallway, still banging
May reduce size of
Cascade-Siskiyou
By MATTHEW BROWN
and BRADY McCOMBS
Associated Press
BILLINGS, Mont. — Interior Secretary
Ryan Zinke announced Thursday he won’t
seek to rescind any national monuments
carved from the wilderness and oceans by
past presidents. But he said he will press for
some boundary changes and left open the
possibility of allowing drilling, mining or
other industries on the sites.
Twenty-seven monuments were put
under review in April by President Donald
Trump, who has charged that the millions of
acres designated for protection by President
Barack Obama were part of a “massive fed-
eral land grab.”
If Trump adopts Zinke’s recommenda-
tions, it could ease some of the worst fears of
Kevin Miller holds up a photo depicting three generations of the Herndon and
Miller family that serve on the Lewis and Clark Fire Department.
See TRADITION, Page 9A
‘AS A CHRISTIAN, I BELIEVE WE’RE ALL GIVEN SPECIALTIES.
I BELIEVE THE L ORD MADE ME FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES.
THE DESIRE WAS THERE TO HELP PEOPLE IN NEED.’
Capt. Kevin Miller | member of a family that has served the Lewis and Clark Fire Department over three generations
See MONUMENTS, Page 9A
Truck crashes into Doughboy Monument
Driver taken
to hospital
By JACK HEFFERNAN
The Daily Astorian
An Astoria man crashed a
gray Chevrolet Silverado truck
into the Doughboy Monu-
ment in Uniontown late Thurs-
day afternoon, damaging the
west side of the World War I
memorial.
“This has been hit before, but
not to this extent,” said Astoria
Fire Lt. Terry Corbit, a 27-year
veteran of the department.
Kent Johnson, 77, was
taken to Columbia Memorial
Hospital and fl own by Life
Flight Network to a hospital
in Portland. He was conscious
but unable to give many details
at the scene, Corbit said.
Preliminary information
indicates Johnson suffered a
medical emergency prior to the
crash just before 4 p.m., Asto-
ria Police Deputy Chief Eric
Halverson said.
Police responded to a report
of a driver who had hit a curb
and sideswiped another car
before striking the monument
on the corner of Marine Drive
and Columbia Avenue. Angela
Cosby, the director of the
Submitted Photo
See CRASH, Page 9A
A truck crashed into the Doughboy Monument Thursday afternoon in Uniontown.