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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.
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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-
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Newport
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Coos Bay
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Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
TOMORROW'S TIDES
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TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
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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
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Tonight's Sky: High in the northeast, Cassiopeia, the
queen, looks more like the letter M or W.
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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
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Klamath Falls
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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
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Roseburg
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Brookings
48/56
Dec 3
John Day
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Bend
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Medford
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UNDER THE SKY
High
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Prineville
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Lebanon
46/58
Eugene
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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
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The Dalles
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Portland
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SUN AND MOON
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Detroit
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Indianapolis
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Memphis
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New York
Oklahoma City
Philadelphia
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Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Seattle
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ASTORIA
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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
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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
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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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