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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2018
China’s new policy leads to
increase in Seaside trash rates
Astoria doctor
reprimanded by
state Medical Board
Pickup rates
rise 3.5 percent
By EDWARD
STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
By R.J. MARX
The Daily Astorian
Dr. Sangkun Park, a local
physician for more than
20 years, was reprimanded
by the state Medical Board
for unprofessional conduct
after entering into a property
transaction with a patient.
The Medical Board in
April fined Park $10,000,
required him to take courses
on professionalism and eth-
ics, and barred him from
entering business contracts
with current and recent
patients and their immediate
families.
A complaint was filed
alleging unprofessional con-
duct by Park in 2015 with
a patient suffering from
depression after the death
of his wife. After physically
examining the patient and
requesting further testing,
Park signed an agreement
to buy the patient’s house,
SEASIDE — Policies in
Asia are driving up costs for
Seaside Recology customers.
Carl Peters, a general man-
ager for the company, came to
Seaside Monday night with a
3.5 percent solid waste collec-
tion increase.
The hike is driven by deci-
sions by the Chinese govern-
ment to cut payments for recy-
cling deliveries, Peters said.
“It’s a problem, and it’s a
big problem,” he told the City
Council. “It was a commodity.
It had value. Now we’re pay-
ing over double what it costs
for disposing the trash.”
China has gone from
accepting 60 to 70 percent of
the world’s recycling down
to about 20 percent, he said.
Twenty-four items were
listed as no longer acceptable,
including unsorted mixed
paper, the largest component
of recycling. “Ultimately they
said, ‘We don’t want any of it
anymore,’” he said.
Trade disputes have further
limited the market. Chinese
officials may turn away an
entire cargo and charge ship-
pers fines of up to $50,000.
As a result, recyclers are
facing issues finding per-
sonnel to sort conveyor lines
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Rates for pickup in Seaside are increasing as a result of activity overseas.
and must slow down belts to
remove more trash. Inven-
tory that used to be accepted
is “not so easy to ship,” Peters
said.
Examples of the impact
for residential curbside ser-
vice show a 32-gallon weekly
cart at $16.27 per month will
increase to $16.54 per month,
a difference of 57 cents. A
90-gallon cart weekly cart
at $27.12 per month will
increase to $28.07 per month,
a difference of 95 cents.
While Seaside custom-
ers are seeing a rate hike,
it’s less onerous than some
changes instituted in cities
throughout the state, Peters
said. Some are passing sur-
charges on to customers, add-
ing price increases of 10 to 15
percent or suspending service
altogether. “That’s what they
needed to do, but I won’t pass
judgment on it,” he said. “We
aren’t going to do that, but it
is more difficult and it is more
expensive.”
City councilors asked
Peters for details on lawn
debris and glass recy-
cling. Currently, the options
are unavailable to Seaside
customers.
The city could designate
a recycling center, drop-off
capability in Astoria or home
recycling.
All come with a fee. “It
can be done,” he said. “I
would guess on the inexpen-
sive side, you can take it up
and dump it at the recycling
center in Astoria with a 3
percent increase — about 50
cents a month. But that’s not a
lot of service.”
Home lawn debris recy-
cling service might increase
between $2 or $3 a month, he
added. “We could have a con-
versation about that,” he said.
“The economy of scale makes
a lot of difference.”
The City Council unani-
mously approved a resolution
adjusting the solid waste col-
lection rates, effective July 1.
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Woman gets 11 years for home invasion
By NATALIE ST. JOHN
Chinook Observer
SOUTH BEND, Wash.
— A young woman who shot
up her grandmother’s house
will spend nearly 11 years in
prison.
Sincer-A Marie Nerton, 19,
of Naselle, pleaded guilty Fri-
day to first-degree robbery,
first-degree burglary, first-de-
gree kidnapping, theft of a fire-
arm and second-degree theft.
Her co-conspirator, Joshua
A. Turner, 26, of Naselle,
has pleaded not guilty and is
awaiting trial.
Pacific County Prosecu-
tor Mark McClain asked the
judge to give Nerton the max-
imum penalty despite her lack
of prior criminal history.
“To do otherwise would
simply place our community
in danger,” McClain said.
Nerton
and
Turner
allegedly raided her grand-
mother’s Bay Center home in
March. According to proba-
ble cause statements, the pair
burst into the 52-year-old
woman’s house around 4 a.m.,
armed with several guns. After
shooting a couple of rounds
into the ceiling, they allegedly
cuffed Nerton’s grandmother
to her girlfriend. They ordered
a male guest into the bedroom
at gunpoint before getting high
on meth and looting the house.
The pair reportedly took about
Doupé building
in Ilwaco OK’d
for apartments
By PATRICK WEBB
Chinook Observer
ILWACO, Wash. — Let the
renaissance begin!
That was the mood at the
Ilwaco City Council meeting
Monday night.
Councilors unanimously
approved a conditional-use
permit for Abigail Mack, an
investor from Ohio, to reno-
vate the long-vacant Doupé
Building at the center of
downtown.
The permit is needed
because the building at 102
First St. is zoned for commer-
cial use, which does not auto-
matically allow residential
units on the street level. Mack
plans to renovate the building
with five apartments down-
stairs and nine on the second
level. Half the lower level of
the former Aberdeen Pack-
ing Co. landmark will remain
commercial.
Sincer-A Marie Nerton
$2,000 in cash, firearms, jew-
elry, a Visa card and the vic-
tims’ phones.
No one was hurt, but
Turner and Nerton allegedly
left the house riddled with bul-
let holes and terrified the vic-
tims. The couple released the
women before driving away
in a car with swapped license
plates. The grandmother called
911 from a neighbor’s home.
Records obtained through a
public disclosure request show
that the first Pacific County
Sheriff’s deputies to respond
did not arrive until about 90
minutes after the incident,
because no one was on duty
when it occurred.
The couple fled to Coos
County in Oregon, where
they were arrested separately.
Police found Nerton after
she asked for a ride in a local
online community.
During the robbery, Nerton
was reportedly highly intox-
icated, with needle marks
all over her arms. Her Ore-
gon mugshot showed a thin,
disheveled-looking
young
woman, but in a recent court
appearance, she appeared to be
healthier. Nerton had gained
weight, her skin was clear, and
her demeanor was calm and
polite.
Nerton did not speak during
her sentencing, according to
McClain. However, he said,
her grandmother asked him to
let Nerton know that she still
loves her.
Nerton will be required to
undergo drug treatment and
three years of post-release
probation.
“Nerton also agreed to par-
ticipate in locating the firearms
in this case to ensure the fire-
arms don’t fall into the wrong
hands,” McClain said.
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according to a stipulated
order signed by Park and the
Medical Board. The patient’s
daughter later expressed
concerns about his possi-
ble dementia, lack of energy,
mood swings and anxiety
attacks, the order said.
Park “states that he never
wrote a payment check to
Patient A and asserts that
he had no genuine interest
in purchasing the property
— that he only signed the
agreement to give Patient A
peace of mind,” the order
said.
But the Medical Board
faulted Park for failing to
recognize a conflict of inter-
est and violating his posi-
tion of trust by “entering
into a financial transaction
with an elderly, emotionally
distraught patient suffering
from depression and possi-
bly early stage dementia.”
Park could not imme-
diately be reached for
comment.
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