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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2017
County commission meetings
will air live on TV, website
By JACK HEFFERNAN
The Daily Astorian
The Clatsop County Board
of Commissioners meeting will
be broadcast live Wednesday
night.
Charter Communications
recently installed the infrastruc-
ture for broadcasting, ending a
six-year process. Viewers can
access the meeting on public
access channel 190 and on the
county website.
Commissioners approved
a $90,000 contract in 2016
to upgrade audio and install
video capabilities in the Judge
Guy Boyington Building in
Astoria, where commission-
ers meet . Video cameras, a pro-
jector and retractable screen,
audio improvements and other
upgrades had already been
added to the building. Delayed
video footage of meetings has
Genna Martin/Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Fire crews work to protect Multnomah Falls and the Multnomah Falls Lodge, which
was built in 1925, from the Eagle Creek Fire in September.
Multnomah Falls closed
for the foreseeable future
Columbia River Gorge in
September.
Experts say the falls and
the old highway that leads
up to it are highly danger-
ous. And much of it has to do
with moss.
The moss has been burnt
away by the fi res — and that
used to be the glue holding
basalt cliffs together on these
steep slopes.
Rachel Pawlitz is with the
U.S. Forest Service that man-
ages the falls and the popular
hiking areas around it.
“One of the biggest risks
to the visitors here is the
combined effect of the moss
Damage from
massive fi res
By ANNA KING
Northwest News Network
Now that the fall rains
have begun, the fi re dan-
ger at Multnomah Falls has
declined. But Oregon’s pop-
ular gem still won’t open
anytime soon.
The famous landmark
sees more than 2 million
visitors per year according
to the U.S. Forest Service.
But it’s been closed since
the massive wildfi res hit the
having burned off which was
a glue holding it together,
and the freezing and thaw-
ing effect over the winter
which will just create cracks
in the rock,” Pawlitz said.
“Those two things together
will just cause rocks to peel
off the side of the cliff and
fall at intervals that we can’t
predict.”
Although cleared often,
fresh rocks — some the size
of basketballs — litter the
old highway up to the falls.
And Pawlitz said rocks could
also fall on the viewing plat-
forms and parts of the popu-
lar lodge.
WEDNESDAY
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ALMANAC
By KATIE
FRANKOWICZ
The Daily Astorian
Plenty of sunshine
Full
Nov 3
Coos Bay
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New
Nov 10
TILLAMOOK — U.S.
Highway 101 through Tilla-
mook has reopened after 5
inches of rain shut down part
of the road and caused fl ooding
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Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
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PUBLIC MEETINGS
TUESDAY
Astoria Library Board, 5:30 p.m., Astoria Library
Flag Room, 450 10th St.
Astoria Planning Commission, 6:30 p.m., City
Hall, 1095 Duane St.
Warrenton City Commission, 6 p.m., City Hall,
225 S. Main Ave.
APPLIANCE
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WEDNESDAY
Clatsop County Housing Authority Board, 5
p.m., Judge Guy Boyington Building, 857 Com-
mercial St.
Clatsop County Board of Commissioners, 6
p.m., Judge Guy Boyington Building, 857 Com-
mercial St.
LOTTERIES
PACKAGE DEALS
TSOP
C LA U
Y
C O NT
In her most recent years she enjoyed volun-
teering with Lighthouse Park and the Deep
Sea Fisherman’s Benefi t Fund in Warrenton,
Oregon.
Doris loved gardening, enjoyed reading,
and had a wonderful smile that could light up
a room.
She is survived by her two sons, fi ve grand-
sons and 11 great-grand children.
In lieu of fl owers, Doris wished for char-
itable donations to be made to the Deep Sea
Fisherman’s Fund, P.O. Box 1062, Warrenton,
OR 97146.
Doris will be laid to rest at Turner Twin
Oaks Cemetery in Turner, Oregon.
Oct. 22, 2017
PFEIL, Monte R. Sr., of Cannon Beach, died in Cannon Beach. Ocean View Funeral & Crema-
tion Service of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
APPLIANCE
YE
Doris (Webb) Thompson, beloved wife
and mother, passed away Oct. 16, 2017, in
Gleneden Beach, Oregon. She was born in
1926 in Centralia, Washington.
She married Charles Thompson in 1945,
and they raised two sons, Terry and Alan.
They spent the majority of their life together
in Newport, Warrenton and Astoria, Oregon.
Doris, when not busy raising the two boys,
worked as commercial fi sh and crab proces-
sor for the Columbia River Packers Associ-
ation and Depot Bay Fish Co. in Newport.
Doris later joined her husband, Charles, in the
administration of his commercial fi shing .
Doris was also active in the community.
DEATH
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy,
sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
sn-snow, i-ice.
IN
fl ood stage at the storm’s
height.
Flooding is common in the
area during heavy winter rains,
but authorities say events like
these typically don’t happen
this early in the season.
Gleneden Beach
Nov. 5, 1926 — Oct. 16, 2017
Lakeview
27/72
TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
that damaged cars and forced at
least one business to close.
KGW-TV reports that the
Tillamook County Sheriff’s
Offi ce says the mountains got
10 inches of rain and the Wil-
son River rose 5 feet above
Doris (Webb) Thompson
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
North Bend
fi rst time in more than a year in
Oregon at the end of Septem-
ber. Washington state continues
to have limited digs scheduled
throughout the fall months. The
next digging times on the Long
Beach Peninsula are scheduled
for the evenings of Nov. 3 and
Nov. 4.
Domoic acid has become
a familiar reality on the West
Coast in recent years, disrupt-
ing both crabbing and razor
clam digs at various times in
Washington state, Oregon and
California. In 2015, a massive
toxic algal bloom shut shellfi sh
fi sheries in all three states, and
Washington halted its Dunge-
ness crab fi shery.
OBITUARIES
Burns
24/66
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017
Tonight's Sky: Nearly overhead before midnight is
the constellation of Cygnus, the Swan, also known as
the Northern Cross.
Today
Hi Lo
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Roseburg
48/68
Brookings
55/74
Nov 18
John Day
40/70
Bend
41/71
Medford
42/74
UNDER THE SKY
High
6.8 ft.
7.8 ft.
Prineville
35/71
Lebanon
43/67
Eugene
42/66
Last
Pendleton
40/69
The Dalles
41/67
Salem
42/66
Newport
47/59
Elevated levels of a marine
toxin shut down recreational
and commercial crabbing off
of Oregon’s southern coast
Monday.
The closure runs from the
Coquille River’s north jetty,
and the bay in Bandon, to the
California border. It is an exten-
sion of a closure announced
last week that shut down crab-
bing from Cape Blanco to the
California border due to high
levels of the naturally-occur-
ring marine toxin domoic acid.
The rest of the state, from
the Bandon area north to the
Columbia River, remains open
for crab harvesting in bays
and estuaries, and on beaches,
docks, piers and jetties. The
recreational crabbing season in
the ocean closed on the coast
on Oct. 15.
Fishery managers say crab
and shellfi sh products for sale
in markets and at restaurants
are safe for consumers.
Razor clamming remains
open from the Columbia River
to Cascade Head, just north
of Lincoln City, but is closed
from Cascade Head south to
the California border due to
high domoic acid levels. Razor
clam digging opened for the
Highway reopens after heavy fl ooding in Tillamook
Portland
45/62
Sunset tonight ........................... 6:14 p.m.
Sunrise Wednesday .................... 7:47 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................ 12:18 p.m.
Moonset today ........................... 9:42 p.m.
City
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Miami
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New York
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Philadelphia
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Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington, DC
Beautiful with plenty of
sunshine
Sunshine
Tillamook
41/60
SUN AND MOON
Time
6:05 a.m.
4:55 p.m.
61
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Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs.
ASTORIA
46/58
Precipitation
Monday ............................................ 0.00"
Month to date ................................... 8.82"
Normal month to date ....................... 3.92"
Year to date .................................... 62.03"
Normal year to date ........................ 44.16"
Oct 27
SATURDAY
66
44
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Monday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 66°/44°
Normal high/low ........................... 59°/43°
Record high ............................ 79° in 1929
Record low ............................. 34° in 1991
First
FRIDAY
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channel, Moore said.
“It’s not something we’ve
done before. We want to do it
carefully,” he said. “We just
need to be clear and consistent.”
Commissioner
Lianne
Thompson has proposed allow-
ing organizations such as the
American Red Cross, Clat-
sop Community College, Clat-
sop County Public Health and a
number of environmental orga-
nizations to broadcast on the
channel.
“I want people to be able to
see what’s going on,” Thomp-
son said. “I want members of
the community to have this
tool.”
While county staff tested the
equipment last week, Moore
still expects early glitches.
“It will probably take a
week or two before we have
things running the way we want
them to,” he said.
Domoic acid shuts down
crabbing in southern Oregon
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
been posted on the county web-
site and YouTube since last
year.
Charter originally planned
to install the cable infrastruc-
ture in December. But the com-
pany was anticipating that the
broadcasts would take place
at the county’s nearby offi ce
building on 800 Exchange St.,
which already has cable capa-
bilities, Clatsop County Man-
ager Cameron Moore said.
Installation of other infrastruc-
ture also added to the delay.
County offi cials had already
reached a franchise agreement
with Charter in 2015 following
several years of negotiations.
Charter paid $39,000 to cover
the cost of the channel as part
of the agreement.
The county is in the early
stages of developing policies
for the types of programming
that will be allowed on the
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