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2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2017 City engineer to lead public works By KATIE FRANKOWICZ The Daily Astorian Astoria’s city engineer will take over after Public Works Director Ken Cook retires at the end of the month. Jeff Harrington’s promo- tion was announced Thurs- day. His first day as Public Works director will be Dec. 1, overseeing the city’s largest department. “Jeff has been taking increased responsibility and leadership in the Public Works Department,” City Manager Brett Estes said. “I am confi- dent he has the talent, experi- ence and personality to fill this challenging role.” Harrington’s promotion leaves Estes with an open city engineer position to fill. The city also remains short two department heads, in the AP Photo/Elaine Thompson Sanderlings stand along the shore of the Pacific Ocean in Ocean Shores, Wash. Volunteers track dead birds as indicator of coast’s health By PHUONG LE Associated Press OCEAN SHORES, Wash. — Barbara Patton scans the expansive beach on Washing- ton’s outer coast looking for telltale signs of dead seabirds: a feather sticking straight up, dark colors in the sand, unusual seaweed clumps that could mask a carcass. Minutes into the nearly mile-long walk near her Ocean Shores home, she and her husband, Mike, encounter the first of three birds they’ll find that morning. Experience tells them it’s a common murre. But the retired volunteers work through a protocol to iden- tify the species: Eyes gone. Breast eaten. Feet pliable. They measure the wing, bill and other body parts, and photograph the bird, front and back. All of that information is entered into a massive data- base kept by the Coastal Observation and Seabird Sur- vey Team, or COASST. The long-running citizen monitor- ing program at the University of Washington tracks dead seabirds as an indicator of the coastal environment’s health. “The data that the partic- ipants collect is invaluable,” said Julia Parrish, associate dean of the university’s col- lege of environment and head of the program. “We can’t get it remotely, with satellites, with drones.” Lately, the data has pointed to bigger and more frequent seabird die-offs. “It’s causing us to step back and say, ‘Whoa, what’s going on here?’” Parrish said. “For four years run- ning, we’ve had unusual mor- tality events of marine birds from California to the Arctic Circle.” Seabirds spend most of their time feeding and living out at sea, coming to land to breed or nest. But more birds are dying and dying close to shore, Parrish said. Researchers think warm- er-than-usual ocean tempera- tures shook up the ecosystem, favoring warmer species and redistributing the seabirds’ food. SATURDAY SUNDAY 55 48 43 ALMANAC The Daily Astorian Portions of the Oregon Coast closed to mussel har- vest because of the presence of a dangerous toxin have reopened. The Oregon Department of Agriculture and the Ore- gon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Thursday that recreational and commer- Breezy with rain Tillamook 45/56 Windy with rain Salem 46/59 Newport 47/55 First Nov 18 Coos Bay 48/58 Full Nov 26 Source: Jim Todd, OMSI TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 1:01 a.m. 1:32 p.m. Low 0.4 ft. 2.8 ft. Hi 46 48 54 54 53 49 55 54 54 57 Today Lo 26 31 48 44 45 28 39 45 47 47 W sh sh r r r sh r r r r Hi 47 50 55 58 54 50 57 57 55 59 Sat. Lo 33 35 50 44 50 30 40 47 49 49 W pc pc c pc sh pc c pc c c City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Springfi eld Vancouver Yakima Hi 49 48 54 54 55 54 41 54 53 46 Today Lo 38 36 45 46 46 44 35 45 45 34 W c sh r r r r sh r r sh Hi 54 54 57 58 59 55 44 58 56 48 Sat. Lo 43 39 46 47 46 49 35 47 47 37 W r pc pc pc pc c pc pc pc c TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER NATIONAL CITIES Hi 65 39 32 58 35 30 75 19 87 36 38 77 71 55 87 51 69 39 59 39 41 56 66 51 46 REGIONAL CITIES City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend W s s pc pc pc s s c pc s pc pc pc s pc s s s pc s s pc pc c s Hi 56 39 39 57 42 38 79 12 86 42 46 74 72 62 84 61 73 38 60 41 51 55 64 54 42 Sat. Lo 40 26 34 29 32 30 51 7 75 32 37 52 57 46 76 42 61 30 46 30 41 35 51 46 33 The Arts Council of Clatsop County is seeking applications for two vacancies. Members must be county residents or own a property, business or rent studio space. One seat is currently vacant and expires at the end of 2019 while the other runs from the beginning of 2018 through the end of 2021. The committee, formed in 2014, conducts arts advocacy in the county. Its biggest proj- ect so far was a recent partic- ipation in a national study on arts’ impact on the economy. The study concluded that arts haul in more than $13 million to the county. Applications can be found online at www.co.clatsop.or.us, at the Clatsop County Manag- er’s Office at 800 Exchange St., Suite 410 or by calling 503- 325-1000. The county Board of Commissioners will make the final appointment. BIRTH Lakeview 28/47 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 Tonight's Sky: High in the northeast, Cassiopeia, the queen, looks more like the letter M or W. Today Lo 39 21 26 32 29 22 51 5 76 23 32 53 57 33 76 30 54 24 44 22 28 38 52 42 25 Baker 26/47 Burns 25/47 Ashland 38/55 The Daily Astorian Nov. 10, 2017 WALKER, Gloria Alice, 75, of Astoria, died in Astoria. Ocean View Funeral & Cremation Ser- vice of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements. Nov. 9, 2017 CARPENTER, Renee M. Odegard, 51, of Gearhart, died in Gearhart. Hughes-Ransom Mor- tuaries & Crematory of Astoria/Seaside is in charge of the arrangements. PALO, Vicki A., 57, of Astoria, died in Astoria. Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements. Ontario 33/51 Klamath Falls 28/50 open along the entire Oregon Coast again. Recreational har- vest of bay clams is also open. Razor clamming, however, only remains open from Cas- cade Head, north of Lincoln City, to the Columbia River. It remains closed south of Cas- cade Head to the Columbia Border due to elevated lev- els of the marine toxin domoic acid. DEATHS La Grande 35/49 Roseburg 46/58 Brookings 48/56 Dec 3 John Day 34/49 Bend 31/50 Medford 39/57 UNDER THE SKY High 7.8 ft. 7.4 ft. Prineville 30/52 Lebanon 46/58 Eugene 44/58 Sunset tonight ........................... 4:49 p.m. Sunrise Saturday ........................ 7:11 a.m. Moonrise today ........................ 11:44 p.m. Moonset today ........................... 1:25 p.m. New Pendleton 36/54 The Dalles 39/54 Portland 45/57 SUN AND MOON City Atlanta Boston Chicago Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Honolulu Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Memphis Miami Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Philadelphia St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Washington, DC Periods of rain 52 43 Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 43/55 Precipitation Thursday .......................................... 0.18" Month to date ................................... 1.97" Normal month to date ....................... 2.91" Year to date .................................... 64.12" Normal year to date ........................ 49.13" Time 7:39 a.m. 7:16 p.m. 52 45 cial mussel harvesting from the South Jetty of the Colum- bia River to the north jetty of Yaquina Bay at Newport is open once again. Samples taken in the area indicate lev- els of the paralytic shellfish toxin have dropped below the alert level. The stretch of coast has been closed to mussel har- vesting since mid-October. Mussel harvesting is now Arts Council in search of two to fill vacant seats TUESDAY REGIONAL WEATHER Astoria through Thursday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 56°/45° Normal high/low ........................... 55°/41° Record high ............................ 73° in 1907 Record low ............................. 29° in 1978 Nov 10 54 44 A thick cloud cover with a shower Mostly cloudy Last MONDAY Public Works staff are involved in a range of capi- tal improvement projects that include water, sewer, streets and stormwater. “Those are challenges, and I just like challenges,” Har- rington said. “I’ve been a city engineer for different cities, filled in for a lot of different public works directors over the years,” he added. “With what experience I have behind me, I have a lot to offer in the bigger picture things.” Harrington began his time in Astoria as the city’s interim city engineer in 2006 and again in 2008, before being hired on permanently in 2010. He also was a consulting engineer — and later a partner — at HLB and Associates in Gearhart, where he served as a contract city engineer for several cities in Clatsop County. Mussel harvest reopens as toxin levels drop FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT Community Development Department and the Police Department. Interim leaders currently fill these roles. A call for a first round of appli- cations for the Community Development Department director position closes today. Fire Chief Ted Ames retires at the end of the month but has offered to stay on as chief through March, provid- ing Estes more time to find his replacement. Harrington has been the city engineer for the past seven years and has stepped in as acting director of the department before. During his time with Astoria, he has led a variety of large proj- ects, including the 17th Street Dock replacement, bridge replacement projects, the clo- sure of the landfill and envi- ronmental cleanup at Heritage Square. Oct. 26, 2017 HARBAUGH, Johnnie, and HARRIS, William, of Long Beach, Washington, a boy, Kaydn William Harbaugh-Harris, born at Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria. Grandparents are Charity Harris and Roberta Hardy, both of Long Beach. PUBLIC MEETINGS MONDAY Youngs River Lewis & Clark Water District Board, 6 p.m., 34583 U.S. Highway 101 Business. Cannon Beach Rural Fire Department Board, 6 p.m., Fire-Rescue Main Station, 188 Sunset Ave. Seaside City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway. Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. 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