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. On Tax
April 21st & 22nd
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