HIGH ABOVE
Astoria’s Darian Hageman gets over the bar
on her third attempt at 10 feet and would go
on to finish third in the pole vault Saturday.
She also won the triple jump and placed
second in the long jump and high jump.
Hageman’s 32 points was the most of any
athlete in the 4A girls competition.
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Walmart
FIVE POINTS SHORT wetlands
Astoria girls rally,
lawsuit
finish just short of
fourth straight title
continues
OREGON TRACK & FIELD STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS
Store expected to open
in Warrenton in June
By DAVID BALL
For The Daily Astorian
E
UGENE — The Astoria girls track
and field team had a step up on the
competition to start the final session
of Saturday’s 4A state meet, but late in the
day the Lady Fishermen found themselves
with a mountain to climb and time was run-
ning thin.
The way the state meet schedule played
out, Astoria was left with a string of empty
events in Saturday’s session, suffering
through four-and-a-half hours without put-
ting a single point on the scoreboard.
That dry spell allowed Marshfield to
zoom up the leaderboard, overtaking the
Lady Fishermen that morning and growing
a 22-point margin late in the day. Astoria sat
in seventh place with six events remaining.
Cue senior Darian Hageman to start a
comeback.
Wrapping up a busy four-event week-
end, Hageman zipped to the top of the lead-
erboard in the triple jump with an effort of 37
feet, 3.25 inches on her second trip down the
runway. She fouled her first attempt.
“That allowed me to just focus on my
own jumps and not worry about everyone
else,” Hageman said.
She would lead the rest of the way, turn-
ing in the four best marks of the competition.
Hageman’s best hop, skip and a jump mea-
sured in at 18-2.5 on her final trip down a
Hayward Field runway.
“I feel relieved, like a huge weight has
been lifted off my shoulders,” Hageman
said. “I was feeling a lot of pressure com-
ing in, and I’m happy to have gotten as many
points as I did.”
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
ABOVE: Seaside’s Gretchen
Hoekstra stares into the pit
before making an attempt in
the shot put. She won the
event with four throws over
40 feet.
LEFT: Astoria’s Sophie
Long holds off a chase
pack to start the bell lap
of the 800-meter final. She
put on a late surge to finish
second in the race.
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For The Daily Astorian
For Latinos, a program for college readiness
Juntos helps
students, families
By KATHERINE LACAZE
For The Daily Astorian
nsuring students are prepared
for college can be daunting
for parents.
The Juntos program’s six-week
college readiness workshop —
taught entirely in Spanish — aims
to provide Latino families with the
right information to support that
process.
Ryan Stanley, the coast coordina-
tor for Juntos, offered through Ore-
gon State University, said the big-
gest benefit is showing students and
families “what’s possible, especially
living in a smaller community.”
E
Mari Mitchell, a longtime edu-
cator in the Seaside School District
who retired two years ago, and Leti-
cia Campos, a teacher at the Cannon
Beach Academy, facilitated a Juntos
workshop in Seaside that wrapped
up in late April. Over the course of
six weeks, participants learned about
preparing students for higher educa-
tion, from high school graduation
requirements and standardized test-
ing to the admissions process and
obtaining financial aid.
At its core, Mitchell said, the
Clatsop Residents Against Walmart, the
group formed in 2010 to battle the national
retailer’s move to Warrenton, continues
its legal battle over the wetlands filled for
the new location at the North Coast Retail
Center.
The group sued the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers in 2015 after the agency approved
a permit to fill 0.37 acres at the retail cen-
ter for the store. The case was dismissed in
2016, but the group challenged the ruling in
the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Karl Anuta, the group’s lawyer, argues
that the Army Corps failed to adequately
and independently review alternatives to
filling in the wetlands, namely an already
approved 17-acre site at Dolphin Avenue and
U.S. Highway 101. The lack of an analysis
violated requirements of the federal Clean
Water Act and National Environmental Pol-
icy Act, he said.
Mark Hague, a lawyer for the Corps,
argued the level of independent analy-
sis should be commensurate with the likely
impact of the project.
“There’s not much impact from filling .37
acres in a shopping center,” he said.
Anuta argued that the wetland complex
near the North Coast Retail Center has sur-
vived multiple depredations over the years
but still falls under the water laws.
See WALMART, Page 5A
Feds in Oregon
will target pot
trafficking
U.S. attorney issues
enforcement guidance
course is about giving parents and
students “the keys to be able to open
the door to higher education.”
When preparing students for col-
lege, many parents face a language
barrier, which is why the curriculum
is shared in Spanish, Mitchell said.
Another issue families face is uncer-
tainty about how legal documenta-
tion, or the lack thereof, affects stu-
dents’ opportunities.
In Oregon, there are multiple
options for all students to not only
attend a post-secondary institution
— whether it be community college
or a university — but also obtain
financial aid through the Oregon
Student Aid Application, institutions
themselves, or other sources, Stan-
ley said.
SALEM — Oregon’s chief federal prose-
cutor says his top priorities in enforcing can-
nabis laws will be threats to public safety
and interstate trafficking fueled by overpro-
duction of marijuana since the state legalized
medical and recreational use.
U.S. Attorney Billy Williams on Friday
provided slightly more detailed information
about the aspects of marijuana enforcement
his office will prioritize now that U.S. Attor-
ney General Jeff Sessions has given federal
prosecutors wide latitude on the issue.
Cannabis is legal for adult use or medic-
inal purposes in 29 states, including Oregon
and Washington, but it remains illegal under
federal law.
See EDP, Page 5A
See POT, Page 5A
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau