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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2018
Search narrows for Astoria development director
Applicant list
whittled down
By KATIE
FRANKOWICZ
The Daily Astorian
The search for a new com-
munity development director
in Astoria has narrowed.
City Manager Brett Estes
told the Astoria City Council
Tuesday night that he closed
the job posting and has whit-
tled the list of applicants
down to a group of just under
10 prospects. He will bring
that number down to three or
four people by the end of this
week. The applicants who
make the cut will then go
through a rigorous interview
process that includes a public
meet-and-greet, interviews
with city department heads
and with a citizen review
panel as well as an interview
with Estes.
Estes, who was formerly
the city’s community devel-
opment director and has been
serving as the interim direc-
tor since October, hopes to
begin scheduling interviews
over the next month or so.
The city has been without
a full-time community devel-
opment director since Kevin
Cronin left the job in Octo-
ber amid concerns about his
management of the depart-
ment. His departure came
amid a wave of department
head retirement announce-
ments starting with the sud-
den retirement of the former
police chief Brad Johnston
and ending with long antic-
ipated retirement announce-
ments from Public Works
Director Ken Cook and Fire
Chief Ted Ames.
City Engineer Jeff Har-
rington has since been pro-
moted to take over as pub-
lic works director, and Ames
announced he would be stay-
ing on in an interim capacity
to ease the process as the city
continues to search for a new
fire chief.
In other business Tuesday,
the City Council:
• Unanimously approved
a one-year agreement with
Jessica Schleif, a local art-
ist, gardener and landscape
designer, for the maintenance
and beautification of a long
neglected park on Marine
Drive.
Schleif and two other art-
ists plan to clean up Tide
Rock Park, tucked below a
small parking lot across the
Gov. Brown appoints first African-American
justice to the Oregon Supreme Court
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Multnomah
County Circuit Court Judge
Adrienne Nelson will be the
first African-American to
serve on the Oregon Supreme
Court.
Gov.
Kate
Brown
announced Tuesday that she
has appointed Nelson to suc-
ceed Justice Jack L. Landau,
who retired last year.
Nelson will be the second
woman of color to serve on the
state’s highest court, after Jus-
tice Lynn Nakamoto, who was
appointed in late 2015.
“Judge Nelson brings to
our highest court an import-
ant, new voice and wealth of
experience she has gained in
12 years on the trial bench,”
Brown said in a statement.
“In addition to her work in
the courtroom, she has made
extraordinary strides to make
the trial bench more receptive
Adrienne Nelson
to the needs and experiences of
diverse and underserved com-
munities in our state. Judge
Nelson is a widely respected
civil rights champion, whose
perspective on the bench
moves us closer to our shared
vision of justice for all.”
Nelson’s interest in law
began when she was prohib-
ited from serving as valedic-
torian at her high school in
Gurdon, Arkansas, because of
her race. Her mother sued the
school district, opening the
way for Nelson to be named
valedictorian, according to
Brown’s spokesman, Chris
Pair.
Nelson was appointed
to Multnomah County Cir-
cuit Court by former Gov.
Ted Kulongoski in 2006. She
worked as a senior attorney
and coordinator of Student
Legal and Mediation Ser-
vices at Portland State Uni-
versity from 2004 to 2006.
She joined Portland State
from a private Portland law
firm, Bennett, Hartman, Mor-
ris and Kaplan LLP, where
she practiced from 1999 to
2004. She launched her legal
career as a public defender at
Multnomah Defenders Inc. in
1996 before joining the pri-
vate firm.
Nelson grew up in Arkan-
sas, where she stayed to earn
her undergraduate degree
from the University of Arkan-
sas. She earned her law degree
from the University of Texas.
She has received the Mult-
nomah Bar Association’s
Award of Merit and the Ore-
gon State Bar’s Diversity and
Inclusion Award. She is active
in the American Bar Associ-
ation, where she is the Ore-
gon delegate and has served
on several state committees,
including the Commission
on Disability Rights and the
Committee on Public Educa-
tion. She is board chairperson
of Self Enhancement Inc. and
sits on the Oregon Community
Foundation Metropolitan Port-
land Leadership Council, the
Reed College Board of Trust-
ees and the Girl Scouts Beyond
Bars Advisory Board. She has
served as president of Queen’s
Bench, the Portland chapter
of Oregon Women Lawyers,
and as an adjunct professor at
Lewis and Clark Law School.
street from the Fort George
Brewery and Blue Scorcher
Bakery. They will create tem-
porary art installations over
the course of this year, a proj-
ect they hope will involve
community collaboration.
At a meeting in Decem-
ber, the council discussed
Schleif’s proposal after ques-
tions were raised about what
it means for the city to essen-
tially sponsor a public art
project. The council decided
a vetting process was not
required.
“It’s more of a beautifi-
cation and maintenance of a
historic park that I am really
C onsult
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture proposes to let the
cranberry industry withhold
15 percent of the 2017 crop
to halt a slide in prices paid
farmers and handlers.
Cranberries, whole and in
juice concentrate, would be
diverted to charities, animal
feed and other uses that won’t
add to a supply that’s roughly
twice the demand.
“With the laws of econom-
ics, it has to help. How much
it helps is another question,”
Bandon cranberry grower
Charlie Ruddell said.
The proposal, published
Tuesday in the Federal Reg-
ister, was based on a rec-
ommendation by the Cran-
berry Marketing Committee,
made up of growers and han-
dlers. The order would apply
to about 1,100 farmers and
65 handlers, mostly in Ore-
gon, Washington state, Mas-
sachusetts, New Jersey and
Wisconsin.
The marketing committee
also has asked the USDA to
mandate a 25 percent reduc-
tion in the 2018 crop. A USDA
spokesman said the agency is
still considering the request.
Since the 2017 crop has
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Cranberries harvested on the Long Beach Peninsula of
Washington state fill a bin.
been harvested, handlers
would be charged with dis-
posing of excess fruit. Han-
dlers would be able to meet
up to half their obligation by
diverting fruit concentrate, a
byproduct of making sweet-
ened, dried cranberries.
The marketing order would
not apply to organic cranber-
ries, a small percentage of
the market. Handlers who
receive fewer than 12.5 mil-
lion pounds of cranberries or
dispose of all their fruit also
would be exempt.
Cranberry farmers have
been producing record crops,
but demand has been fairly
flat. The cranberry surplus has
doubled in the past five years.
Without volume controls, the
2017 crop would swell the
inventory to 115 percent of
the yearly demand of approx-
imately 950 million pounds,
the committee estimated.
Some farmers who were
receiving 30 cents a pound in
2011 are now getting 10 cents
a pound, while the cost of pro-
duction has risen to 35 cents a
pound, according to the mar-
keting committee.
Neither the committee nor
the USDA projected how a 15
percent cut in the 2017 crop
would impact prices.
Long Beach, Washing-
ton, farmer Malcolm McPhail
said the reduction could boost
prices by $1 or $2 a barrel. A
barrel equals 100 pounds.
“I’m all for it. We’ve got
to do something to get things
under control,” he said. “It’ll
take doing something for next
year’s crop, too.”
Even with the a 15 percent
reduction in the 2017 crop, the
surplus would remain large.
The volume reduction would
not apply to about 210 million
pounds of foreign-grown cran-
berries expected to be imported.
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happy to see happen,” City
Councilor Cindy Price said.
• Approved a liquor
license for the new owners of
the Labor Temple Diner and
Bar on Duane Street. City
Councilor Zetty Nemlow-
ill did not vote, saying Todd
and Teresa Robinett’s busi-
ness is a client of her hus-
band’s business, Fort George
Brewery.
• Elected City Councilor
Tom Brownson council pres-
ident, with Councilor Bruce
Jones jokingly proclaim-
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Brownson will make Astoria
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cooks.