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DailyAstorian.com // WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2018 145TH YEAR, NO. 207 ONE DOLLAR Investment pool could help sustain fishing jobs Fisheries Trust aims to keep industry alive By MATT WINTERS Chinook Observer Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian Author and screenwriter Britta Lundin reacts to a reporter’s question during an interview while visiting Astoria. Steeped in fandom TV writer, author grew up in Astoria By ERICK BENGEL The Daily Astorian See PERMITS, Page 5A Seaside bond will head to voters this fall Multimillion-dollar expansion of aquatic facility planned A s a teenager, Britta Lundin was steeped in fan- doms surrounding films and TV shows, long before the subculture of obsession became visible. Now the 32-year-old Lundin, who graduated from Astoria High School in 2003, writes for the teen series “Riverdale” that recently got picked up for a third season on The CW. And on May 1, her debut young adult novel, “Ship It” — a story about how media-makers shape the cultural conversation — lands in bookstores. Lundin — whose first job, in the fifth grade, was deliv- ering The Daily Astorian — is in town this week help- ing her parents, Fred and Patricia, move out of the Asto- ria home she grew up in. She’s also stopping by the high school to chat with students about her journey to media- maker herself. “Astoria is a small town,” she said, “and because of that, I think, growing up here, you don’t always have examples of people going on to do things that you may want to do.” When she was younger, she knew no TV writers per- sonally, or anyone from her high school who became one, “so it took me a long time to even acknowledge that a TV writer was something I could be or something I wanted to pursue.” The most important thing she wants to impart to stu- dents: “‘I was you 15 years ago. I sat in these dumb By R.J. MARX The Daily Astorian Britta Lundin See LUNDIN, Page 5A LONG BEACH, Wash. — One of the knottiest problems confronting the Lower Columbia commercial fishing fleet is how to enable the next generation to begin the costly climb into owning their own permits. A new private $2 million investment pool aims to facilitate a “permit bank” — a kind of matchmaking service between will- ing sellers and qualified buyers who agree to keep their boats anchored in the economy of Ilwaco, Chinook and Nahcotta. Landlubbers may imagine the expense of boats and gear like crab pots or fishing nets is what keeps younger fishermen from tak- ing over the operations created by industry veterans. These physical items are indeed a daunting purchase. But boats are no good without the permits required to harvest fish and crab with them. A Washington state law prohibits com- mercial bank loans to buy permits, which can easily run $200,000 or more for local Dungeness crab. SEASIDE — The Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District Board of Directors voted unanimously Tuesday to support a November bond for expansion of the aquatic facility on Broadway. Plans for the $15 million to $18 mil- lion bond include indoor gym space, fitness rooms and enhanced youth programming areas. “The time has come that the district take action to serve the entire population and be able to offer a more robust fitness and well- ness program, through the creation or acqui- sition of more indoor recreation space,” Skyler Archibald, the district’s executive director, wrote in the district’s budget docu- ment, distributed at Tuesday’s meeting. The bond will be voted on by residents of the independent taxing district, who include The script of a ‘Riverdale’ episode with Britta Lundin’s byline. See REC, Page 5A IRS glitch gives Oregon tax filers extra day Delay should not impact state or federal refunds By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau AP Photo/Jenny Kane Tax day 2018 dawned with a technical glitch at the Internal Revenue Service. SALEM — You can submit your 2017 state and federal taxes without being penalized until midnight. Tax day 2018 dawned with a technical glitch at the Internal Revenue Service, and ended with the federal government pushing Tuesday’s filing deadline back by 24 hours. The state has also pushed back its filing deadline by 24 hours. Oregon’s Department of Revenue says the problem, which prevented the IRS from accept- ing electronic returns from popular tax prepa- ration services TurboTax and H&R Block, shouldn’t translate into significant delays for the department’s tax season work. Those services submit both federal and state tax returns to the IRS, which in turn sends states their file submis- sions, according to Derrick Gasperini, a spokes- man for the state revenue department. While the system was down on Tuesday, the revenue department was encouraging taxpay- ers using TurboTax or H&R Block to file their tax returns anyway because the tax preparation companies held the information until the IRS could accept them. It also shouldn’t affect when you get your refund. “Since this was resolved in a day, it should not impact the schedule for taxpayers to get their refunds,” Gasperini said in an email. You can check the status of your refund at http://www.oregon.gov/DOR, by clicking the “Where’s My Refund?” button. Nationwide, about 5 million people were expected to file their taxes on Tuesday. 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