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Peterson: Helps with Alzheimer’s research
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Peterson’s mother was busy
caring for her own mother,
and so Peterson was frequently
left in the care of her paternal
grandmother. A self-described
“problem child,” Peterson said
her grandmother taught her to
knit because she “was trying
just anything she could to keep
me quiet and from climbing
the walls.”
“I’ve been knitting off and
on ever since, and it’s been
very much ‘on’ ever since I
retired,” she said. “I find great
joy in the feeling of the yarn
and the molding of a product.
To share these with people has
just been great.”
Peterson and her husband
moved to Portland about 20
years ago, and then transferred
to the coast six years later.
“It was the best move my
husband and I made,” she said,
adding they “fell in love with
the area.”
When the storm of 2007
took the roof off their house,
they interpreted the event as
a sign to move into Neawa-
nna by the Sea, a facility they
had been eyeing for a while.
When her husband became ill
and Peterson had to seek addi-
tional care for him, the couple
moved to a facility in Hood
River. Upon his death, Peter-
son was faced with the tough
decision of whether she would
stay or move back to Seaside.
That was when she talked to
the administrator at Neawa-
nna by the Sea and discov-
ered her old residence was
available.
“I said, ‘that’s it,’” and
moved back home to the coast
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Katherine Lacaze
Mary Peterson, a resident at Neawanna by the Sea, has turned her passion for knitting
into a way to raise money for Alzheimer’s research.
in March 2016, she said. “I’m
in the same cottage my hus-
band and I lived in.”
facility on Thursdays, offering
her assistance to anyone who
needs help. Sometimes a few
of the residents will “just get
together and knit,” she said.
While knitting only has two
primary stitches — the knit
stitch and the pearl stitch —
there’s a wide range of tech-
niques or ways to use those
stitches, Peterson said. Add in
the different weight, density
and texture of yarn, and the
craft offers even more variety
to its artisans.
Although Peterson prefers
softer, high-quality yarn, she
acknowledges “there’s a place
for everything.”
“We knitters try to keep the
whole world happy,” she said.
Knitting for a cause
It was upon her return
she started knitting with the
intent of donating proceeds
from her business to Alzhei-
mer’s research. Her mission
spread to a few other knitters
who also contribute items —
including scarves, cowls and
hats — to collectively put on
a few sales each year. Most of
their products sell for $10 to
$15, or what people can afford,
and all the proceeds go toward
the cause.
Peterson also hosts an
informal knitting class at the
She enjoys working on
projects that don’t take much
time to complete, such as hats
or scarves. However, she also
has a few long-term projects
— such as a lace shawl — on
which she’s gradually invest-
ing time. In general, she said,
she gears her knitting toward
what she believes people will
enjoy, or “what will tickle their
fancy.”
“I’m always on the lookout
for new patterns,” she said. “I
especially like it when some-
one will send off a piece to
somebody and they’ll send
back a note saying, ‘It’s so gor-
geous,’ and send a picture. It’s
always good to see, to know
it’s being used and enjoyed.”
Būsu: Booth hopes to open restaurant by end of May
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In addition to small plates
and specialty dishes, Būsu
will offer Japanese carbonated
drinks, beer and sake.
Booth recently moved back
from Kansas City, where he
was an executive chef at a
Commission: ‘Our problem
is that we are constrained by
Washington’s resistance’
and T. Paul’s Supper Club.
After getting married,
Booth said, he and his wife
missed the bounty of the
Pacific Northwest.
Booth plans to eventually
decorate the walk-up win-
dow, install a new awning with
drop-down walls to protect
farm-to-table restaurant, ran
Bun Bros. KC making steamed
pork and vegan curry Niku-
man buns and served high-
end pop-up dinners through
his company, Dojo Kenichi.
He spent 10 years in Oregon,
including two in Astoria work-
ing at the Silver Salmon Grille
from wind and rain and attach
a new bar and stools for people
wanting to hang out.
“It was really important
for me to have a small space
where I can interact with cus-
tomers,” he said.
Booth hopes to open Būsu
by the end of May.
again be forced to moderate
its stance, but he wanted to
make sure it was clear com-
missioners are open to the
possibility of allowing com-
mercial fishing on the river’s
main stem.
The policy to phase gill-
nets off the river — often
referred to as the Kitzhaber
plan for its champion, former
Gov. John Kitzhaber — was
passed in 2012. It was first
pitched as a way to protect
wild salmon and steelhead
runs by replacing gillnets
with more selective gear.
Oregon and Washington
state have experimented with
a variety of gear on the riv-
er’s main stem since 2012,
including purse and beach
seines. Data gathered over
the years — and specifically
last fall — appear to indicate
that gillnets do not impact
fish to the extent advocates of
the Kitzhaber plan claimed,
or that gear like seines pro-
vide a better option.
“We have seen some time
pass and we have seen the
results of our current man-
agement and it hasn’t gone
where we all had hoped it
would as far as successes on
both sides,” Commissioner
Holly Akenson said.
Akenson
encouraged
commercial
fishermen
to continue to “pressure
Washington.”
“As you know there is a
will within this commission
to allow more opportunities
on the Columbia main stem
for commercial fishermen,”
she told one fisherman who
spoke. “Our problem is that
we are constrained by Wash-
ington’s resistance.”
Gillnetters who spoke out
at Friday’s meeting at the
Clatsop County fairgrounds
— the first commission
meeting held in Astoria since
2012 — said the Kitzhaber
plan altered their ability to
make a living. They pointed
to lost income and oppor-
tunities as well as wear and
tear on their gear in off-chan-
nel waters like Youngs Bay,
where gillnetting is still
allowed.
Under the Kitzhaber plan,
gillnets were supposed to be
fully phased off the Colum-
bia River main stem last
year.
Several fishermen urged
commissioners to take
advantage of an adaptive
management option built into
the Kitzhaber plan, which
allows Oregon and Washing-
ton state to adjust the policy.
Jim Coleman, a commercial
fisherman out of St. Helens,
referenced former Commis-
sioner Laura Anderson, who
said at her last meeting in
March that the plan “looks
like a total failure.”
The policy has not yet
provided promised conser-
vation or economic benefits,
Anderson said. She hoped
commercial fishermen and
their advocates would con-
tinue to debate the policy.
“I truly believe the gill-
net is a selective gear when
used in the right place at the
right time, as a conservation
benefit,” she said. “There are
economic benefits and there
are hundreds of thousands of
consumers that benefit from
that fishery that we don’t talk
about often enough.”
Bob Oleson was in the
audience for Friday’s meet-
ing and left feeling discour-
aged. He is a sport fishing
advocate who also works as
a consultant with the Asso-
ciation of Northwest Steel-
headers, though he was not
representing the association
at the meeting.
“Oregon has moved
toward achieving a balance
between the sport fisheries
and the gillnetters,” he said
afterwards. “It now seems
like the commission is seri-
ously considering backtrack-
ing on that and reversing
course.”
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