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Research: ‘We need to extend our reach’ Bridges: Two-year
project is set to
begin in October
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elusive seabirds go in the win-
ter. Researchers also plan to
take blood and fecal samples,
which will be used to analyze
what the birds eat and whether
the colony on Haystack Rock
is genetically unique from
other tufted puffins.
Answering these questions
will bring the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service closer to fig-
uring out why the puffin pop-
ulation on Haystack Rock has
dropped from 368 in 2010 to
the just over 100 today.
Researchers are also hop-
ing this information can build
a case for listing the tufted
puffin as endangered in Ore-
gon. The listing would help the
bird qualify for more research
funding, which ultimately
could help save the dwindling
population, Stephensen said.
The Washington Department
of Fish and Wildlife voted to
put the puffin on the endan-
gered species list three years
ago.
With funding in place, the
next challenge will be physi-
cally attaching the transmitters
and collecting the samples.
This August, Stephensen and
his team will have a two-week
window to catch and sample
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Olivia Goward peers through a scope looking for puffins and other birds at Cannon Beach.
multiple puffins. Researchers
will have to do this by boat at
night, when puffins are often
rafting on the water near Hay-
stack Rock, by the light of a
spotlight and the grace of luck.
“That will be the tricky
part,” Stephensen said.
But it’s a labor of love Ste-
phensen is ready to take on, as
he is hoping this will be the
first of several projects.
“This will be instrumental
in getting the puffin listed,” he
said.
Future research will take
more money, however, a chal-
lenge the Friends of Haystack
Rock will continue to take on,
Board President Stacy Bene-
field said.
“This is something new for
us,” Benefield said. “We’ve
never funded research like this
before. We hope to keep partic-
ipating to protect our puffins.”
Underwood said the board
is working with the Audubon
Society and other environmen-
tal groups to try and sell more
sweatshirts outside of the local
area.
“I’m really happy this has
generated a lot of enthusiasm,”
Underwood said. “Now, we
need to extend our reach.”
PAC: ‘It’s more of a get out the vote campaign’
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A facilities committee
has recommended a $70 mil-
lion bond to build a new
three-story classroom wing
at Astoria Middle School, a
50-year-old campus relatively
untouched by the 2000 bond,
while modernizing infrastruc-
ture and enhancing campus
security throughout the school
district. The school board will
likely vote in July to go out
for the bond in the November
election.
Craig Hoppes, the superin-
tendent in Astoria, said the new
taxes from the bond would not
take effect until the district’s
previous bond expires. He
estimated the new bond could
increase the taxes of district
residents by $1 per $1,000 of
assessed property value.
Oser said there appears to
be support for the new bond,
but that boosters will focus on
winning over younger voters to
augment the older voters who
usually dominate elections.
“It’s more of a get out the
vote campaign than a go out
and change people’s minds
campaign,” Oser said.
The political action com-
mittee will look to raise
between $20,000 and $25,000
to fund advertisements and
other activities, he said, while
gathering a core group of
volunteers.
The school district recently
polled potential voters. While
they generally supported the
district and a bond, there was
a lack of understanding around
the issues facing the mid-
dle school, the district’s high-
est-priority need. The school,
built on filled-in land, has
faced settling and cracks in the
foundation. Staff have com-
plained of undersized, anti-
quated classrooms, many with-
out windows.
There will be tours, pho-
tos and video to publicize the
issues with the middle school,
and how a modernized class-
room wing with more natural
light and better ventilation can
help improve academic perfor-
mance, Oser said.
“A capital bond like this
is really the only mecha-
nism we have to improve the
learning environment and the
physical plant,” Oser said.
“There’s no money to do more
than the most ordinary sort of
maintenance.”
Wa r r e n t o n - H a m m o n d
School District is preparing for
a $32.4 million bond measure
in November. Mark Jeffery, the
superintendent in Warrenton,
said there have been conversa-
tions of a political action com-
mittee but no PAC has formed.
immediately, said Assistant
City Engineer Cindy Moore.
ODOT’s evaluation also
included a number of recom-
mended repairs and improve-
ments to keep the bridges
open.
The city is evaluating the
cost of doing these interim
fixes before a massive, two-
year bridge replacement proj-
ect begins in October, Moore
said.
The Seventh, Ninth and
11th Street bridges were
already set to be closed begin-
ning Oct. 1 for the replace-
ment project. The city had
planned to keep these bridges
open until that date to reduce
the impact on residents, visi-
tors and nearby businesses.
Construction on the
bridges at the end of the
even-numbered streets was
not going to begin until 2019,
but if ODOT sees more vio-
lations of the load limit, the
city might have to begin deal-
ing with those bridges sooner
than planned.
Moore said the city is
looking at ways to keep the
even-numbered bridges open
for another year even if they
have to close the other bridges
early. But, she wrote in a let-
ter to stakeholders, “load limit
violations will be a detriment
to this effort.”
For now, the Public Works
Department has asked Astoria
police to increase patrol and
enforcement for load limit
violations. Staff also alerted
stakeholders and businesses,
reminding them that deliv-
ery vans and trucks are not
legally allowed to drive over
the waterfront bridges.
Signs warning about the
load limit restrictions have
been in place for a long
time, but the city added
bright orange flags to one on
11th Street to make it even
more visible.
Moore and Public Works
Director Jeff Harrington plan
to discuss options and recom-
mendations with the Astoria
City Council next month.
The 11th Street waterfront
bridge — the natural deliv-
ery route to serve a number
of nearby businesses, includ-
ing Sears — has been an espe-
cially problematic site, and
where most load limit viola-
tions seem to occur. Delivery
vehicles with stops near the
base of the street don’t have
much room to turn around and
often will just make the right
turn across the bridge to go
up a narrow one-way street,
coming out at 12th Street to
make a right turn back onto
Marine Drive.
The businesses say they
have come up with differ-
ent ways to try to avoid hav-
ing delivery drivers cross the
bridge. JP Plumbing is con-
sidering asking the city to
remove several parking spots
on the street to give deliv-
ery drivers more room to
maneuver.
Since hearing from ODOT,
the city is looking at ways to
improve vehicle circulation,
Moore said. Each business
has its own unique scenario
for what the city says will be a
temporary situation. Once the
bridges are replaced, the load
limit will be high enough to
accommodate delivery vans
and trucks again.
The load limit restric-
tions do not affect the Asto-
ria Trolley, which runs on
tracks along the riverfront
and crosses all six waterfront
bridges. The trolley trestle is a
separate — yet connected —
structure, Moore said. A con-
sultant is evaluating the trestle
and will make recommen-
dations for improvements to
keep it operating.
Hannah Sievert contrib-
uted to this report.
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wife at that time, so I contin-
ued to look for her and stayed
in the building as people began
to realize the situation and run
out of the building.…
“It was at this point the gun-
man came past me, waving and
pointing his gun as he exited
the building. I followed care-
fully along with another citizen
carrying a firearm, unaware of
what the shooter would do next
or where he would do it. The
gunman attempted to get a car,
and when he failed, he moved
to another, screaming at the
driver. He then shot two times
into the driver’s side of the
vehicle. When the driver would
not or could not respond to his
threats, he began to travel in the
direction that I thought my fam-
ily to be.
“It was at this point that I left
cover and moved to intercept
the gunman. When the gun-
man began threatening another
person for the use of their car,
I moved in order to have a safe
shot at the gunman. He entered
the vehicle, which I considered
to be an even bigger threat, and
I fired to stop the shooter. After
being hit, the gunman tried to
exit the vehicle and fell to the
ground. I moved to clear the
gunman, yelling to him to drop
the gun and show me his hands.
I determined the gunman was
incapacitated and unable to
respond to me at that time.
“It was then that I heard
somebody associated with the
previous gunshot victim yelling
for help that her friend or hus-
band had been shot. I directed
the other armed citizen to
remain with the gunman and I
retrieved my jump-bag/first-aid
kit from my nearby vehicle in
order to render aid to the previ-
ous gunshot victim.”
George emphasized more
than once that he acted in as
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cautious and careful a manner
as circumstances allowed.
“I am proficient with use of
the firearm I carry and trained
appropriately to use it in a
defensive setting. I carry a fire-
arm for the same reason I carry
a first-aid bag — hoping never
having to use them but always
being prepared nonetheless. I
acted on Sunday to protect my
family and others from the gun-
man and his display of obvious
deadly intent,” he said.
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