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145TH YEAR, NO. 91
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The Western Skies partially sank this
summer at the Warrenton Marina and is
now listed as derelict.
Boats
for sale
Warrenton Marina deals
with abandoned vessels
By KATIE FRANKOWICZ
The Daily Astorian
Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Mike Rath, left, and Jack Dickey prepare the front entrance of Astor Elementary School in Astoria for new security measures.
Administrators want to improve security
WARRENTON — Derelict and aban-
doned boats left in the Warrenton Marina are
now for sale.
Marina staff went through a formal sei-
zure process for the boats in September and
October. Now, the time is up for owners to
step forward and claim their property. The
city is going to recoup what it can by sell-
ing the vessels.
It’s a new move for the marina, said
Harbormaster Jane Sweet, and an effort to
purge the docks of boats that have become
the responsibility of marina staff, taking up
space and swallowing resources.
See MARINA, Page 5A
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
K
ate Gohr, the principal at John
Jacob Astor Elementary School,
has mixed feelings about the build-
ing’s distinction as a main fi lming location
in the 1990 action-comedy “Kindergarten
Cop” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“We have kind of the unique situation
of having tourists want to come into our
building all the time, so
that’s very tricky,” she
said.
“In the summer,
it’s all the time, and it
continues through the
school year. People want
me to give them tours.”
Kate
A sign posted on the
Gohr
front door lets visitors
know the building is
for school business only. But Gohr and
other staff often struggle with unwanted
visitors.
Adding to the struggle is the location
of the school’s offi ce, down a hallway
from the main entrance — the only door
that has until recently remained unlocked
during the school day.
The Astoria School District recently
installed video intercom and buzz-in sys-
Pension task
force lists
options to
reduce liability
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
John Moeller, left, and Jack Dickey work to install new security measures at
Astor Elementary School in Astoria.
tems at Astor, Lewis and Clark Elemen-
tary School and Astoria Middle School in
an effort to improve security .
“By locking the doors throughout
the school day, we can assure that each
school building will only contain people
who have a need to be there,” Superinten-
dent Craig Hoppes wrote in a letter to par-
ents. “This safety measure is one assur-
ance that our schools will be safer and
more secure.”
Front doors will lock 25 minutes after
the start of each day and unlock 15 min-
utes before school ends. Each school
offi ce is equipped with a screen linked
to a camera outside the front entrance.
SALEM — A task force says it’s found
ways to reduce the Public Employee Pension
System’s $25.3 billion unfunded liability by
as much as $10.4 billion.
The options it outlined in a report last
week are wide ranging — increased taxes on
beer and wine, sweeping state reserve funds,
dedicating one-time fi nancial windfalls to
PERS, and selling one or more state univer-
sities to a private, not-for-profi t entity.
Gov. Kate Brown appointed the sev-
en-member task force, comprised of business
See SECURITY:, Page 5A
See PERS, Page 7A
Dogs, owners ‘work as a team’
Dog training
business opens
in Seaside
By EVE MARX
For The Daily Astorian
Is your dog your best friend
or your biggest headache?
If the answer isn’t ‘best
friend,’ it may be time to call
professional dog trainer Cati
Foss.
Foss is the owner of Arni-
cadia Dog Training, which
recently opened in Seaside.
Pet owners seek her help with
problems that make every-
one — including the dog
— miserable.
“Training is often a last-
ditch effort to keep the dog,”
Foss said.
The most common issues
are impulse control, timid-
ity, anxiety, jumping, bark-
ing, mouthing, and reactive
behavior.
“A reactive dog is a dog
who is hard to manage in pub-
lic,” Foss said. “The dog is
overexcited, or it has mild
aggression, or anxiety or fear.”
Her fi rst job is calming the
dog so it will be receptive to
training. Most dogs have the
emotional response and intelli-
gence of the average 2½-year-
old human.
“People either view their
dogs as their children or ani-
mals,” she said. “Dogs give us
signals we humans can learn to
read.”
Foss relocated from Des
Moines, Wash., to the coast in
2008. Her husband has family
in the area. The couple live in
Astoria and have two kids and
a Sheltie dog.
After working as a man-
ager at Safeway, Foss became
part of the new management
team building the then-new
Petco in Warrenton.
“After a while, I was
invited to move from manage-
ment into dog training,” Foss
said. “I quickly learned I had
Eve Marx/For The Daily Astorian
See DOGS, Page 7A
Cati Foss and her Sheltie, Lyra, are loving Arnicadia’s new
training and play space.
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