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Classes: ‘It’s going to be an absolute nightmare’ Museum: ‘Is going to
be in good hands for
the foreseeable future’
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“I think each classification
should have a minimum of 40
schools,” said Astoria Athletic
Director Howard Rub.
Seaside Athletic Director
Jason Boyd is concerned with
the implications on playoffs.
“I am not a proponent
of putting 24 teams out of a
33-team classification into the
playoffs,” Boyd said. “That
doesn’t make any sense.”
Locally, Astoria and Sea-
side are now the big fish in a
smaller pond — longtime 4A
Cowapa League power Scap-
poose will be bumped up to
5A, to meet the school’s rising
enrollment.
The OSAA decided not
to replace Scappoose with
another school, so the Cowapa
League will be the only five-
team league at the 4A level.
As a result, scheduling
could be a problem for the
new-look Cowapa. Specifi-
cally, in football it creates a
bye week for one team each
week after the league season
begins.
“It’s going to be an absolute
nightmare,” said Rub, also the
Astoria football coach. “If you
look at everybody’s schedule
now, wherever you see Scap-
poose, you’d now have to put
a bye. So a year from now,
who are we going to find to
play in Week 8?
“In basketball and volley-
ball, we might end up play-
ing each other three or even
four times. It’s a major issue.
That’s why we as a league tes-
tified at the OSAA meeting
last month, to say, ‘let’s find a
way to fix this.’”
‘Doing backflips’
At the Class 3A level, the
current Lewis & Clark League
was cut in half, with private
schools going one way and the
rest joining two other schools
for the new Coastal Range
League, comprised of Clats-
kanie, Rainier, Taft, Warren-
ton and Willamina.
Catlin Gabel, De La Salle,
Horizon Christian, Oregon
Episcopal, Portland Adven-
tist, Riverdale and Westside
Christian will now comprise
the Lewis & Clark League.
“We are very excited to
move into the Coastal Range
League,” said Warrenton Ath-
letic Director Robert Hoepfl,
also the girls’ basketball
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Heather Perkins
The Astoria Fishermen defense swarms a player from Estacada during Friday’s play-in game.
coach. “All of the schools in
our new league participate in
the sports that we do, and that
will make for some great com-
petition and consistency to
our sports year.”
The Warriors should be
thrilled with the changes,
especially in basketball. Last
year’s standings in Lewis &
Clark League boys basket-
ball included first-place De La
Salle, second-place Oregon
Episcopal, third-place Cat-
lin Gabel and fifth-place Port-
land Adventist — all no lon-
ger there.
Chris Spencer, former
Warrenton girls basketball
coach and now the athletic
director and boys basket-
ball coach at Knappa, said, “I
think everybody in the new
Coastal league is doing back-
flips, because they got rid of
all the private schools in the
Portland area.
“I don’t how 3A and 4A are
going to schedule, with not
many teams in their leagues,”
he said. “They created some
travel nightmares, too. Rain-
ier to Taft on a Tuesday night
is going to be a very difficult
scenario.”
The Class 2A Northwest
League was left largely unaf-
fected. Former league mem-
ber Portland Christian —
which left the league a few
years ago to join the 3A Lewis
& Clark League — is moving
back, along with Open School
East, a small private school
(90 students) in Portland.
Playoff implications
Spencer said the 2A level,
with 49 teams, and 6A are the
only true classifications.
You look at 3A, 4A and
5A, they’re all in the low
30s,” he said. “In most states,
that’s not even enough to have
a state tournament.”
With almost 50 2A schools
in basketball and other sports,
“it’s going to mean something
when you win a state title or
even get into the playoffs,”
Spencer said. “All the leagues
will be very balanced, with
between seven and 10 teams,
and that creates a real compet-
itive level across the state.”
One of the main points
that athletic directors seem
to agree on is that the OSAA
erred when it went from four
classes to six classes to begin
with, following the 2005-06
school year.
“I was not a fan of the six-
class model — I wanted five,”
Spencer said. “The leagues
are weird, but everything is
driven by football at the 4A
and 5A level. As a whole,
the five-class model would
have made for a much more
even system for the number
of schools at each level. I just
have a problem with 30 or 34
teams competing for a state
title.”
Rub prefers fewer classifi-
cations. “When looking at it,
five really works very well in
Oregon, because of the dif-
ferent geographic regions. An
even number makes sense, but
there’s part of me that thinks
they should look at the old
four-class system, and possi-
bly create a better post-season
system.”
“From the Seaside stand-
point,” Boyd said, “we were
supporting the five-classifi-
cation system, because that
leaves all classes with at least
40-plus schools in their clas-
sification. You could have a
good playoff system, good-
sized leagues, and at least you
have an opportunity where
you’re going to get games.”
In general, Rub said,
“nobody’s real happy with
how it’s shaking out. The
Cowapa League is not happy
to lose Scappoose, and Scap-
poose — although they under-
stand the situation based on
their current (enrollment) —
really believe long-term they
still belong in the Cowapa
League.”
Boyd agrees. “The gen-
eral feeling for the Cowapa
League is that we kind of got
left out in the cold, right at the
end. Twenty proposals, and
the first 18 had the Cowapa
with a six-team league, and
the last two proposals, with
everything getting settled in,
they pull a team out and leave
us with five.”
Aarts: ‘There’s something about the feeling of the community’
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Taking the advice of a
friend, Aarts went back to
school in 2010 to earn a mas-
ter of public administration
degree in emergency manage-
ment from Portland State Uni-
versity. In three years there,
he made connections with fel-
low students that eventually
led to the Columbia County
job.
“Those Columbia County
commissioners have been
shaking their finger in my
face saying, ‘You poached
one of our really good guys,’”
Clatsop County Commis-
sioner Lianne Thompson told
Aarts at a recent commission-
ers meeting.
Now, Aarts, his wife,
two toddler sons and one
infant daughter live near
Astoria — a place the couple
has often frequented on week-
ends for its history and mari-
time atmosphere.
“We love it out here,”
Aarts said. “There’s some-
thing about the feeling of the
community, the friendliness.”
At work, Aarts will take
a number of projects off the
plate of his supervisor, County
Emergency Manager Tiffany
Brown. But they will still
keep tabs on what each other
is doing in order to ensure
leadership stability should
one of them become incapaci-
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Ames: Served as Warrenton fire
chief before taking Astoria job
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Ames, well aware of the
city’s situation, offered stay
on as interim fire chief after
retiring.
“He wanted to be able to
help bridge the gap,” Estes
said.
Ames served as Warren-
ton fire chief for 16 years
before taking the helm in
Astoria in 2013.
“The past five years with
the city of Astoria have been
the most challenging, yet
rewarding years I’ve spent
working as Fire Chief,”
Ames said in a statement.
“I leave with the incredi-
ble satisfaction of knowing
our work at the fire depart-
ment has made a positive and
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tated in an emergency.
“We try to build redun-
dancy into the program so
we don’t have a lack of lead-
ership in an incident,” Aarts
said.
He appears to be set for a
long career of doing just that.
“We’re looking forward
to the day when our kids go
to high school and become
Fighting Fishermen,” he said.
“We feel very much like we
have come home.”
museum,” Johnson said of
Jones.
The opportunity to hire
Jones was a no-brainer, with
his background in the Coast
Guard and experience in per-
sonnel management, John-
son said.
“He is absolutely one of
the finest individuals I think
I can name anywhere,” he
said.
Jones retired in Asto-
ria after more than 30 years
in the Coast Guard, the last
three spent as commander
of Sector Columbia River.
He oversaw air, sea and land
units along the Oregon and
Washington state coast and
up the river to Lewiston,
Idaho. Part of his job was as
captain of the port, with reg-
ulatory oversight of regional
maritime traffic. This will be
his first staff position with a
museum.
“I’m very knowledgeable
of the local maritime indus-
try,” Jones said. “I feel like
I have some expertise in our
subject matter.”
A career helicopter pilot,
Jones went to work for Brim
Aviation after leaving the
Coast Guard, transporting
Columbia River Bar Pilots
by air to and from ships. He
left in January after replac-
ing Russ Warr on the City
Council. The position at the
maritime museum was the
only one that would take him
out of semiretirement, Jones
said.
Johnson and outgo-
ing museum board Chair-
woman Helena Lankton
lauded Jones’ managerial
experience overseeing hun-
dreds of Coast Guard per-
sonnel and his knowledge of
the regional maritime indus-
try, and said he will be a
quick learner on how to run
a museum.
“He’s great on a lot
of issues,” Lankton said.
“Whatever he needs to learn,
he’s a great administrator.
He’s a smart cookie.”
Jones holds a bachelor’s
degree in East Asian stud-
ies and German from Wash-
ington and Lee University,
a master’s in public admin-
istration from Syracuse
University and training in
national security and foreign
policy from the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology.
Along with his trusteeship
with the museum, Jones
serves on the board of
the Friends of the Astoria
Armory.
Pearson became act-
ing director after the retire-
ment of Jerry Ostermiller
in 2008. When Johnson
was hired in 2009, Pearson
became the museum’s first
deputy director. Part of the
decision of whether to hire
a replacement was the time-
line of Johnson, who said he
will be with the museum a
maximum of five more
years.
“I’m 73, and Bruce is
57,” Johnson said. “If he
works out well, he could be
there a long time.”
The museum will hold its
annual membership meet-
ing Friday, when Lankton
will pass the gavel to attor-
ney and trustee Michael
Haglund. Lankton is con-
fident the museum’s late
founder, Rolf Klep, would
be pleased with their new
hire and the direction of the
55-year-old museum.
“Rolf Klep has got to be
looking down and going,
‘Yes,’” she said. “His
museum is going to be in
good hands for the foresee-
able future.”
at times dramatic impact on
the lives of the people being
served.”
“We are grateful to Ted
for his service and leadership
in the Astoria Fire Depart-
ment,” Estes said in a state-
ment. “He has done a great
job leading the Department
and has been a tremendous
asset to the city. The city of
Astoria wishes him the best
in his retirement.”
Ames said he isn’t sure
yet what he will do after his
time with the fire department
ends. He said he’s had two
occupations his entire adult
life: commercial fishing and
“playing fire chief.”
“How about something
where I’m not in charge?” he
joked.
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