145TH YEAR, NO. 68
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DailyAstorian.com // WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2017
KNIGHT CANCER COLLABORATIVE
Art and nature blend
at new cancer center
Driver in fatal
Seaside crash
drank heavily
tion estimates a 160-pound
man would need to consume
seven alcoholic drinks in one
hour to reach a blood alco-
hol content of 0.15 percent.
That level of intoxication for
By JACK HEFFERNAN
a driver, the CDC has found,
The Daily Astorian
can lead to substantial impair-
ment in vehicle control.
Corrissa Barnett’s blood
Barnett
weighs
103
alcohol content was more than pounds, according to court
three times the legal limit Sat- documents.
In a 2014 drunken-driv-
urday night when she allegedly
ing arrest, Buzzard
crashed an SUV into a
said, she recorded a
Seaside bus stop shel-
blood alcohol content
ter, which killed one
of 0.31 percent. The
man and critically
misdemeanor charge
injured another.
was dismissed after
The legal alcohol
she completed a DUII
limit for drivers in
diversion program.
Oregon is 0.08 per-
Barnett was taken
cent. Roughly fi ve
Corrissa
to a hospital after
hours after her arrest,
Barnett
the Saturday night
Barnett recorded a
blood alcohol content of 0.26 crash prior to being booked
percent, Clatsop County Dep- in Clatsop County Jail. Peo-
uty District Attorney Dawn ple arrested in the county with
Buzzard said in court. The a blood alcohol content of
measurement indicates that 0.25 percent or greater must
she likely had a higher blood be medically cleared before
alcohol content at the time of being taken to jail. These sit-
uations occur several times
the crash.
The federal Centers for
See BARNETT, Page 7A
Disease Control and Preven-
Three times over
the legal limit,
prosecutor says
Photos by Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
Crews with P&C Construction needed a crane to back in Richard Rowland’s 2-ton mosaic of a
plane tree to pins on the side of the radiation therapy chamber at the Knight Cancer Collaborative .
Local ceramicist created a 2-ton mosaic
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
L
ocally famed artist Richard
Rowland looked on Friday
as crews used a crane to back
his 2-ton mosaic into place on the
side of the radiation therapy cham-
ber at the Knight Cancer Collabo-
rative in Astoria.
With the help of Colum-
bia Memorial H ospital and a
small army of volunteers,
Rowland spent the p ast year
sculpting in clay a plane tree —
a genus of North American orna-
mental trees and a representation
of the hospital’s patient-centered
ethos.
Rowland’s mosaic was the
centerpiece among the works of
around 20 local and regional art-
ists the hospital incorporated into
the cancer center, a partnership
with Oregon Health & Science
University that has expanded che-
motherapy and brought the fi rst
radiation therapy center to the
North Coast.
Community center
“I try to be a member of the
community,” said Chris Laman,
director of the hospital’s pharmacy
and project manager on the can-
cer center. “Doing this project, I
wanted locals involved in making
the cancer center.”
Randy McClelland, the hos-
pital’s director of strategic ser-
vices, was in charge of gathering
artwork for the cancer center. He
had worked with Rowland in the
past and mined his connections to
come up with a diverse list of art-
ists and mediums .
See ARTWORK, Page 9A
ARTISTS
EXHIBITED AT
CANCER CENTER
• Christina Amri, crystal
• Rick Cassidy, acrylic
• Howard Clarke, anagama
ceramics
• Brand Dichter, anagama
ceramics
• Drea Rose Frost, mixed
media
• Lam Quang and Kestrel
Gates, paper and light
• Sam Hoffman, anagama
ceramics
Submitted Photo
Seabirds steer clear of bright bird-scaring lines intend-
ed to reduce the bycatch of endangered albatross in
West Coast longline fisheries.
• Kirsten Horning, monotype
• Terry Wakako Inokuma,
ceramics
• Randy McClelland, anag-
ama ceramics
• Roger McKay, oil on canvas
• David Lee Meyers, photog-
raphy
• Brad Mildrexler, stoneware
• Henk Pander, oil on canvas
• Lillian Pitt, mixed media
• Ray Propst, photography
• Greg A. Robinson, wood
• Richard Rowland, anagama
ceramics
• Jan Shield, acrylic on
canvas
• Miki’ala Souza, monotype
• Chris and Susan Spence,
photo collage
• John Stahl, watercolor
• Noel Thomas, w atercolor
Ceramicist Richard Rowland
said he spent about one year
designing and building a 2-ton
plane tree exhibit for Colum-
bia Memorial Hospital’s new
Knight Cancer Collaborative.
Lam Quang and Kestrel Gates
of HiiH Lights created plane
tree-inspired paper light fixtures
that hang over the lobby of Co-
lumbia Memorial Hospital’s new
Knight Cancer Collaborative.
Fishermen, researchers
collaborate to protect
West Coast seabirds
Research to
reduce threat
of fi shing gear
By KATIE
FRANKOWICZ
The Daily Astorian
Fishermen and research-
ers are working together to
zero in on ways to keep West
Coast fi sheries from threaten-
ing endangered seabirds.
A recent study found long-
line fi shermen for sable-
fi sh, or blackcod, can greatly
reduce their chances of tan-
gling with endangered short-
tailed albatross and other sea-
birds through a combination
of methods that fi shermen say
are easy to incorporate.
“The real hope is that we
have a thriving fi shery that
has fewer impacts on alba-
trosses and other sea birds
and that we have options and
tools for fi shermen to use that
are practical and help them
fi sh better,” said Amanda
Gladics, lead author of the
study and a coastal fi sher-
ies specialist based in Asto-
ria with Oregon State Uni-
versity’s Oregon Sea Grant
program.
See SEABIRDS, Page 7A
Fireworks fl ip-fl op unlikely on peninsula
Survey does not
sway elected leaders
By AMY NILE
EO Media Group
LONG BEACH, Wash. — A
recent survey that showed 80 per-
cent support for changing the rules
for Fourth of July fi reworks has not
swayed elected leaders, at least not
for now.
Almost 600 people answered an
informal questionnaire by the Not
a Ban, a Better Plan group. Prob-
lems during Independence Day cel-
ebrations in 2015 and the mess left
behind along p eninsula beaches
prompted the group to start its work,
member Vicki Vanneman said.
Two years later, survey results
from Ilwaco, Long Beach and
unincorporated Pacifi c County
show more than half of those who
responded — 53 percent — favor
allowing fi reworks on fewer days
around the July 4 holiday. More than
a quarter — 27 percent — want to
ban them entirely.
The fi ve-member group hopes to
see fi reworks restricted to no more
than three days around the holiday .
“Many communities in the state
have fi gured out how to regulate
and enforce this change,” Vanneman
said.
Almost two-thirds of Washing-
ton’s population lives in areas that
have limited or banned fi reworks,
according to Washington State Patrol
fi re prevention data. On the penin-
sula, people can light them on all
eight days allowed by the state, from
June 28 to July 5.
No new rules, for now
County leaders have considered
cutting the time for fi reworks but
are not planning to take any action,
Commissioner Frank Wolfe said.
The three commissioners want to
keep laws for fi reworks consistent
across the peninsula, in part, because
it makes them easier to understand
and enforce, he said. If the county
changes the days on which people
are allowed to light them in unin-
corporated areas, the cities of Long
Beach and Ilwaco would have follow
suit to keep rules the same.
See FIREWORKS, Page 7A
Natalie St. John/EO Media Group
A survey by Not a Ban, a Better Plan
found broad support for restricting
fireworks on the peninsula around the
Fourth of July.