VINE MAPLE IN THE AUTUMN LIGHT
145TH YEAR, NO. 90
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WEEKEND EDITION // FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2017
County
may revive
voters’
pamphlets
Guides are not required
in odd-year elections
By JACK HEFFERNAN
The Daily Astorian
V oters are entitled to receive a ballot for
Tuesday’s elections in Gearhart on vaca-
tion rentals and Warrenton on a library levy.
They are not, however, entitled to a vot-
er s’ pamphlet that explains what is on that
ballot.
S ome offi cials and voters have an appe-
tite to change that.
Clatsop C ounty provided voters’ pam-
phlets in odd-numbered election years,
which don’t include primaries or gen-
eral elections for state and federal candi-
dates, starting in 2001 at a cost of more than
$5,000. The county discontinued the prac-
tice two years later because many candi-
dates — leery of the fees and paperwork
— did not submit their information for
inclusion .
Due to recent public support for reviv-
ing the voters’ pamphlets , County Manager
Cameron Moore has directed Clerk Tra-
cie Krevanko to research potential ways
to include pamphlets in future odd-year
elections.
“This has been requested many times
over several different meetings through the
See PAMPHLETS, Page 3A
Wrestling
set to crash
the Armory
Shows moving from the
Astoria Event Center
Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Carolyn Stock of Salem looks at a display at the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria of a boat that washed
ashore near Cape Disappointment as a result of the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
SCATTERSHOT APPROACH
Planners make uneven choices for development in tsunami zones
Students at Seaside High School are reminded every time they enter the classroom of the danger of tsunamis in a com-
munity that is in such close proximity to the beach.
By KATIE FRANKOWICZ
The Daily Astorian
T
his fall a child care center moved
into a building in Astoria that Ore-
gon State Police had left because it
was in the tsunami inundation zone.
This summer, Patrick Corcoran, a
coastal hazards specialist with Oregon
State University’s Sea Grant program, cir-
cled articles in an issue of Warrenton’s
weekly newspaper about apartment com-
plexes planned in the inundation zone in
Warrenton.
One day, an event that hasn’t happened
since 1700 will shake much of the West
Coast. The “Big One” — the Cascadia
Subduction Zone earthquake and tsunami.
But the North Coast is already in
motion. Large apartment complexes are
going up, permits are in process. There’s
more development on the way.
City offi cials in Astoria and Warrenton
are working to answer questions about liva-
bility. What should the cities look like in 10
or 20 years? What needs to be preserved?
What needs to be built? What are the best
locations for certain types of businesses?
One question remains unanswered,
Corcoran said: What does and doesn’t
belong in the areas we know will be
underwater?
When communities attempt to answer
that question, it’s a “scattershot approach,”
he said. “This (Cascadia event) is some-
thing that will happen to everybody, but
until it does, nobody is in charge.”
‘A moving car’
Last year, 65 percent of voters in the
Seaside School District approved a $99.7
million bond to move three Seaside schools
out of the inundation zone.
See TSUNAMI ZONES, Page 7A
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Add professional wrestling to the lineup
of entertainment at the Astoria Armory.
Pacifi c Northwest Professional Wrestling
is moving into the community space after
the recent closure
of the Astoria Event
IF YOU GO
Center and will hold
shows the last Sun-
Shows will be held
the last Sunday of
day of each month,
each month at the
starting Nov. 26.
Astoria Armory,
Roger
Jaime,
beginning later this
who runs the wres-
month on Nov. 26.
tling league and
performs under the
glam-rocker persona C.C. Poison, said he
found out in The Daily Astorian about a
week before his last show that his venue for
the past decade would be closing. The event
center had been operated by Port of Call Bis-
tro & Bar owner Marvin James Sawyer, who
was ordered out at the end of October .
Seaside School District officials take a tour of the new site for three Seaside schools after a $99.7 million bond was
passed last year to move them out of the tsunami inundation zone.
‘WE WILL LEARN TO THRIVE HERE IN CASCADIA,
I AM CONFIDENT. BUT THE NEXT BIG ONE IS
GOING TO BE OUR BIG LEARNING CURVE.”
Patrick Corcoran | a coastal hazards specialist with Oregon State University’s Sea Grant program
See WRESTLING, Page 3A
Thai returns to Astoria
New food cart at
downtown pod
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
Sopa and Robert Burns recently opened Mai Tong
Thai Food at the corner of 13th and Duane streets.
For the fi rst time in several
years, Astoria has a Thai food
option.
Sopa and Robert Burns
recently opened Mai Tong Thai
Food, a new cart in the nascent
pod of Astoria Station at the cor-
ner of 13th and Duane streets.
The food cart is the fi rst
foray into business owner-
ship for the couple, who started
saving several years ago, and
the fi rst Thai option in Astoria
since Blue Ocean Thai Cuisine
closed a few years ago.
“It was my dream to have a
business,” Sopa Burns said of
Mai Tong, a nod to her family’s
name.
A native of northeastern
Thailand, she has been working
in the local food industry since
marrying her husband and mov-
ing to the North Coast a decade
ago. She most recently worked
at Nisa’s Thai Kitchen in War-
renton and does all the cooking
at Mai Tong.
“Everything we make is
fresh,” said Robert Burns, who
after retiring from nearly 30
years at Pig ’n Pancake largely
works for his wife .
See THAI, Page 7A
FALL BACK
Daylight Saving Time
ends on Sunday at 2 a.m.
when clocks are turned
back one hour to 1 a.m.
Sunrise and sunset will be
earlier, which means more
light in the morning.