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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2018
RV park: ‘It got to be
a very elaborate process
for a small parcel of land’
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Photos by Hannah Sievert/The Daily Astorian
Cole Biamont holds a piglet at the fair.
Fair: ‘I try to give them the best life I can’
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Isabella Clement, an Asto-
ria High School sophomore,
has been in 4-H since the
fourth grade, and helps raise
pigs and lambs on her leader’s
farm.
While Clement loves the
program, she and many other
competitors find it difficult
to say goodbye to their ani-
mals after the week at the fair.
Clement’s pig, born in Feb-
ruary, will be sent to market
after the fair is over for meat
production.
“It’s hard, but I try to think
that’s what they’re meant to
do,” Clement said. “They
wouldn’t do well as pets. It’s
sad but if I didn’t have them,
they’d be with someone else. I
try to give them the best life I
can.”
Some animals are brought
to the barn just to show off and
not to compete.
Siblings Cole and Cori
Biamont are showing several
animals, but brought their pig,
“Martha,” just to display her
nine piglets, born 2 1/2 weeks
ago. Martha was the grand
champion for the breeding
swine category last year.
“I like pigs because they’re
very smart,” Cole Biamont
said. “They recognize me and
my sister and they come to
their names. They’re pretty
much giant dogs.”
But some of the Biamont’s
pigs will be sent to market after
this week, too. They both con-
sider the pigs they’ve helped
raise to be like pets, since they
have worked with them since
their birth. But as the siblings
have now worked with pigs for
years, they realize it’s all part
of the job.
“It’s especially hard when
they go to market,” Cole
Biamont said. “It’s hard to lose
them. But it’s also part of it.
We’ve gotten use to it.”
Buoy 10: Bag limits
reduced to keep
season open longer
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The lower forecasts have led to a reduced bag
limit to keep the season open longer. Only one adult
Chinook, coho or steelhead may be caught per day
through Aug. 24, after which all retention of Chi-
nook in the Buoy 10 area closes. The lower bag limit
was part of a balance to keep the season open longer
based on expected catches, North said.
Starting Aug. 25, the catch limit expands to two
hatchery coho or steelhead per day. Only one hatch-
ery steelhead per day may be caught through Dec.
31 for all main stem recreational Columbia fisheries.
“All the fisheries up and down the river had to be
reduced, so we tried to make it proportional,” North
said.
Retention of one Chinook per day will be
allowed from Tongue Point upstream to Warrior
Rock near St. Helens through Sept. 2. Starting Sept.
3, up to two hatchery coho or steelhead per day can
be caught, including one hatchery steelhead.
One Chinook may be caught daily from Warrior
Rock upstream to Bonneville Dam through Sept.
14. Beginning Sept. 15, the daily limit is up to two
hatchery coho or steelhead, including one hatchery
steelhead.
During all fall Columbia fisheries this year
upstream to the Oregon-Washington state bor-
der near McNary Dam, each legal angler aboard a
vessel may continue to deploy gear until the daily
adult salmon limit for all anglers aboard has been
achieved.
A complete summary of regulations can be found
at tinyurl.com/Columbiafishing
A goat at the county fair.
Fishermen leave the Hammond
Marina during Buoy 10 in 2015.
Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
Piglets get an afternoon snack at the fair.
Measure: ‘I will be profiled by my race’
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“I don’t know what this
would look like,” Halverson
said. “I believe it would add
some complexity to that for
sure.”
Racial profiling
Whether or not police
change their methods, Gonza-
lez said a repeal would create
more fear of racial profiling.
“I think that’s the bigger
scare for the community as a
whole here,” Gonzalez said,
given that Astoria is over-
whelmingly white. “As some-
one who is brown, I will be
profiled by my race where other
people wouldn’t. I think that’s
true for a lot of rural communi-
ties. They don’t know what it’s
like to be racially profiled, so
they won’t notice, but people of
color will obviously.”
Oregonians for Immigration
Reform played a major role in
gathering signatures for the bal-
The RV park also encoun-
tered vocal local pushback.
Arch Cape residents and
environmental groups raised
concerns in September at a
public hearing about adding
traffic to an already popu-
lated stretch of Highway 101,
threats to water quality with
sewer infrastructure butting
up against nearby streams
and the property’s proximity
to threatened marbled mur-
relet habitat.
Although county plan-
ners were concerned with
the criticism, Waggoner said,
community concerns did not
sway Smejkal’s decision to
sell.
“There were a lot of
things not desirable with this
land from a development
standpoint,” Waggoner said.
“It got to be a very elaborate
process for a small parcel of
land.”
Now that the property
is off the table for develop-
ment, the North Coast Land
Conservancy has shown
interest in bringing what was
once state parkland back into
conservation.
Katie Voelke, the land
conservancy’s
executive
director, said in an email that
the property has conserva-
tion value, including the con-
nection to the state park and
beach and a forest with leg-
acy spruce and cedar that
provides nesting habitat for
the marbled murrelet.
While Waggoner said he
has had conversations with
the land conservancy, no
offer has been made and a
price has yet to be set.
The price will be deter-
mined by an Oregon Depart-
ment of Transportation for-
ester who will survey the
land for timber value. Wag-
goner said that if Smejkal
can’t find a buyer, they will
start the process to rezone the
land to allow harvesting the
timber.
“If an environmental
group wants it, we see that as
the best use,” Waggoner said.
lot measure.
In 2014, the group pushed
Measure 88, which overturned
a law passed by the state Legis-
lature that would have allowed
undocumented immigrants to
obtain driver’s cards.
“People are very upset
about how denigrated citizen-
ship has become in this coun-
try,” said Jim Ludwick, the
group’s communications direc-
tor. “Quite frankly, nobody
gave us a chance. Even I didn’t
think we had a chance.”
Due to the success of Mea-
sure 88, and with President
Donald Trump pressing immi-
gration reform as a national pri-
ority, the group is optimistic
about November.
“The fervor with which
people signed the initia-
tive was amazing,” Ludwick
said. “I believe we’ll win
overwhelmingly.”
Gonzalez agreed that the
measure may have legs. “I am
pretty concerned,” she said.
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