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Walmart: Store’s arrival has divided opinions Custard King:
Dates back to
early 1950s
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Customers can preorder
items through the retailer’s
smartphone application for
pickup at the store.
During the grand open-
ing, the store will give out
around $40,000 in grants to
local groups, along with other
prizes for customers. A pop-up
fair will feature food carts and
vendors from Astoria Sunday
Market. Visitors will get a tour
of the store and instruction on
how to use the app.
Grand opening celebra-
tions will continue for the
coming week.
Walmart’s arrival has
divided opinions locally.
Many people are excited
by the addition of another
national retailer, while others
lament the potential threat to
local business.
Clatsop Residents Against
Walmart, a group formed in
2010 to oppose the retail-
er’s move to Warrenton, had
sued the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers in federal court
after the agency granted a
permit for the store’s devel-
oper to fill in .37 acres of
wetland. The case and a sub-
sequent appeal were both
dismissed. Karl Anuta, the
group’s lawyer, said the group
is mulling whether to file a
petition and have the case
heard again.
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Walmart employees were busy in the kitchen producing baked goods ahead of Wednesday’s grand opening.
family learned the difficulty of creating new
signage in Astoria, along with the built-in
brand of Custard King.
“It’s really an iconic part of Astoria,”
Tara Gerlitz said. “Since we’ve been here
working, people are always stopping by, not
even from Astoria, that have heard about
the Custard King.”
The restaurant will still offer a simi-
lar lineup of burgers, fries and custard, she
said. The big change will be more seafood
items such as fish tacos, fish and chips and
chowder.
Custard King dates back to the early
1950s. Paul and Susan Brost operated
the restaurant from 2000 to 2015.
They sold the business to a partner-
ship including Greg Glover, owner of
Commercial Astoria; Franz Spielvo-
gel, owner of Laughing Planet Cafe; and
David Demers, a real estate agent in Port-
land. The partners restored the purple and
pink facade and sign to its current navy
blue, white, gray and antique yellow theme.
They added new menu items and a custom
custard recipe from Spielvogel’s chef at
Laughing Planet.
But managing the business from afar
while running other operations was chal-
lenging, Spielvogel said.
Connor and the Gerlitzes plan to mostly
run the restaurant themselves, with the help
of close family members and one or two
employees.
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and is regulated. Those bring-
ing lawsuits would be bet-
ter served addressing the root
causes, rather than trying to
redirect blame through litiga-
tion,” John Parker, senior vice
president of the Healthcare
Distribution Alliance, said in a
statement.
D’Amore Law Group has
agreed to pay all of the legal
costs on behalf of the coun-
ties in return for a 25 per-
cent fee on any financial dam-
ages awarded. Clatsop County
Counsel Heather Reynolds
told county commissioners
last month — prior to their
vote to enter the litigation —
that she does not see a “legal
negative.”
Plaintiffs are seeking mon-
etary damages as well as some
restrictions on how compa-
nies may sell the drugs. The
amount of damages available
to cities and counties will be
revealed in upcoming pretrial
hearings as evidence and data
are shared. Damages could be
based on local costs for law
enforcement, drug programs
and increased jail populations,
for example.
“It’s going to be very spe-
cific to each county,” Rose
said.
After the litigation’s dis-
covery phase, it could take
a number of turns. Due to its
complexity and the large vol-
ume of parties involved, the
federal judge may choose cer-
tain “bellwether cases.” These
cases — likely not the Oregon
counties — would return to
their local jurisdictions and be
resolved there, offering clarity
for settlement discussions in
Ohio, Rose said.
If no settlement is reached
in the main case, many juris-
dictions — including the Ore-
gon counties — may return
to resolve their specific com-
plaints in federal courts within
their home states.
“This is really just sort
of an early organizational
approach,” Rose said. “If there
is a national resolution, it’s
about making sure our coun-
ties have a seat at the table.”
‘Post to post’
Duncan, who has been
practicing medicine since the
mid-1970s, said prescription
levels have ebbed and flowed
throughout his career.
Beginning in the 1960s,
state medical officials would
suspend or revoke licenses for
doctors who prescribed rela-
tively small amounts of opi-
oids. A few decades later,
the state Legislature — con-
cerned that those with chronic
pain were not being prop-
erly treated — banned medi-
cal officials from sanctioning
doctors who prescribed ade-
quate opioid amounts.
“In the early ’90s, we were
beginning to get a handle on
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that curtailed marketing.
“When you think about the
tobacco lawsuit, and this is
really the same thing, it could
be a useful exercise,” Duncan
said.
He cautioned though,
against a repeat of the “moral
panic” he witnessed in the
early days of his career. He
hopes any legal decision
would recognize that chronic
pain is difficult to treat and
opioids have a role to play —
in the right doses.
“People need to understand
there is such a thing as chronic
pain,” Duncan said. “Peo-
ple have pain that cannot be
resolved by sitting around and
doing drum circles.”
Partnerships
Hitting the manufactur-
ers who profit from drug sales
is a “good first step,” said
Debbie Morrow, a member of
the Columbia Pacific Coor-
dinated Care Organization
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it. But we’ve seemed to have
swung from post to post, from
underprescribed to overpre-
scribed,” Duncan said.
Elevated prescription lev-
els followed during the past
two decades, and doctors
have absorbed criticism for
their part in the opioid cri-
sis. While some of the “boots
on the ground” doctors have
earned the blame, not enough
is directed at top medical offi-
cials, Duncan said.
“We were being pushed
into prescribing huge amounts
of narcotics through trainings
that were funded by the drug
companies,” he said. “It’s a
mare’s nest.”
Duncan likened the opioid
issue to problems surrounding
tobacco, in that both involve
potentially valuable, but
highly addictive, substances
used for profit. States and cig-
arette makers reached a mul-
tibillion-dollar settlement of
tobacco-related claims in 1998
Board of Directors.
More important, though,
will be partnerships between
public, private and nonprofit
interests on outreach such as
needle exchange programs
and mental health treatment.
That would require a compre-
hensive plan involving many
community groups, Morrow
said.
“Stemming the tide of this
is not going to be the result
of any policy change,” she
said. “There has to be a pre-
scribed way of dealing with
this. We’re trying to connect
the dots and collect the infra-
structure that is needed for
treatment.”
The complex litigation cur-
rently concentrated in Ohio
may, depending on damages
awarded and precedent set,
connect some of those dots.
“The lawsuit, wherever it’s
going, will demonstrate this
issue’s complexity,” Duncan
said.
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