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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2018
Astoria discusses sale of County to reimburse gillnetters
Mill Pond Village lots
The Daily Astorian
Difficult to
develop
By KATIE
FRANKOWICZ
The Daily Astorian
Astoria leaders are look-
ing again at selling overwater
property the city can’t afford
to develop and has struggled
to sell.
City councilors voted
Monday to have staff hire a
real estate agent to list 12 city-
owned lots in Mill Pond Vil-
lage, which are located over
the pond.
Mayor Arline LaMear and
City Councilor Cindy Price
voted against the proposal,
preferring instead to talk first
with adjacent Mill Pond prop-
erty owners and the home-
owners association to gauge
any interest in purchasing the
lots.
While City Councilor Zetty
Nemlowill said she could sup-
port that option as well, she
felt the city would miss a big
opportunity by not giving out-
side buyers a chance to pur-
chase the lots. Councilors
Bruce Jones and Tom Brown-
son voted with Nemlowill to
bring on a real estate agent
and list the properties.
The city has paid more
than $50,000 in homeown-
ers association fees and
other expenses since Mill
Pond developer Art DeMuro
Clatsop County will soon
offer $500,000 in funding for
local gillnetters affected by
state regulations.
The state adopted a plan
to phase out gillnetting on the
Columbia River’s main stem
that required fishermen to either
move to off-channel sites or
She believes it would be
difficult, if not impossible,
for a developer to follow the
association’s
architectural
guidelines when building
homes on the pier lots. The
association itself is interested
in preserving views across
the pond.
“We’re interested in just
how to get rid of this issue,”
Storey said. The association
wants a “win-win” on both
sides, she added, saying it
doesn’t make sense for the
city to continue paying asso-
ciation fees.
“Make us an offer,” Nem-
lowill suggested.
In other business, the City
Council:
• Finalized an agreement
with a group in Alderbrook
to take over maintenance and
care of Birch Field. City coun-
cilors had considered selling
the underused ball field last
year, but neighbors rallied in
protest. They proposed caring
for the park themselves and
have since kept up on main-
tenance, made improvements
and held community events.
• Heard a presentation
from Craig Hoppes, superin-
tendent of the Astoria School
District, about a proposed
$70 million bond to mod-
ernize the district’s five cam-
puses. The bond will go to
voters in November. The city
councilors voiced their sup-
port of the school district’s
efforts.
donated the properties to the
city in 2012, City Manager
Brett Estes said. DeMuro,
who has since died, hoped the
lots would fund development
of Heritage Square, a city
block in the center of down-
town. The square is home to
a city triumph, the Garden of
Surging Waves, and another
city dilemma: a large, open pit
where a concrete pad caved in
after heavy rains in 2010.
The city last listed the Mill
Pond lots in 2013 as part of a
program to sell excess prop-
erties and didn’t receive any
offers.
Since the lots are based
overwater, they are tricky —
and expensive — to develop.
Any developer looking to
build on the lots would need
to construct piers first, an
undertaking that could cost
more than $3 million per pier,
according to some estimates.
“Individual construction
of homes, as is done on the
land portion of Mill Pond Vil-
lage, would be unlikely since
the entire pier would have to
be built prior to the first unit,”
noted Mike Morgan, a con-
tract planner for the city, in a
memo to the City Council.
The lots are just as much a
dilemma to the homeowners
association.
“We don’t know what to do
with them either,” Cheryl Sto-
rey, president of the of the Mill
Pond Village Owners Associa-
tion, told the City Council.
Associated Press
FLORENCE — The Coast
Guard says crews pulled an
unresponsive person from
the Pacific Ocean after a boat
capsized on Monday near the
THURSDAY
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FRIDAY
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Mostly sunny and
pleasant
Clear
Siuslaw River.
A helicopter crew was
flying from North Bend to
Newport whey they saw
an overturned boat outside
the river’s north jetty near
Florence.
Crews searched the area
for additional people who
may have been aboard the
vessel, but later confirmed
only one person was aboard.
The Coast Guard says the
person died.
Charlotte Ann Fitch
Astoria
Aug. 16, 1923 — June 23, 2018
Charlotte Fitch was born in Portland, Ore- continued to tour in the car with the Eugene
gon, to George and Marie Feyerabend. The Model A club all over the Northwest.
family, including her older sister, Virginia, spent
She worked for the Coos-Curry Council of
years in Portland; Dayton, Ohio; and
Governments, Weyerhaeuser Spring-
field, and the University of Oregon.
Southern California.
She was a student of Christian Sci-
Charlotte graduated from Grant
ence and of The Infinite Way.
High School, completed business
She is survived by her sons, Bill
classes in Portland, and then went
and David, of Astoria; daughter-in-
on to graduate in 1947 from Oregon
law, Beth Fitch; and grandchildren,
State College in secretarial science.
Amelia and Tristan.
She married Dale Fitch that same
A small family service was held at
year. They lived in Eugene, Santa
the Columbia River near Mill Pond,
Barbara, Salem and Coos Bay.
where she liked to sit. She was grate-
She enjoyed playing golf, sailing
Charlotte Fitch
ful to remain in her apartment for the
at the Coos Bay Yacht club, and trav-
eling in the 1931 Model A with the
six years she lived in Astoria, and to
local Model A club. After their divorce, she watch the ships on the river.
MEMORIAL
WEDNESDAY
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receive up to $8,750 in one-
time payments. Reimburse-
ment amounts will be based on
landing data provided by the
state Department of Fish and
Wildlife or the cost of replacing
equipment.
Eligible fishermen will
receive letters informing them
of their individual compensa-
tion amounts.
Boater pulled from water near Florence dies
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
switch to alternative gear such
as seine nets. The state estab-
lished a fund in 2013 to com-
pensate fishermen for direct
economic losses and reimburse
for equipment purchased to
comply with the new policy.
Clatsop County applied for
the funds, and 129 commer-
cial salmon permit holders are
eligible. Those eligible could
Mostly sunny and
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Intervals of clouds and
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Thursday, Aug. 9
ORAND,
Marjo-
rie “Marge” L. (Jones) —
Memorial at 11 a.m., Groulx
Family Mortuary, 25381
Wonderly Road in Rain-
ier, followed by a proces-
sion to, and brief committal
service at Fishhawk Cem-
etery in Birkenfeld. Orand,
72, of Clatskanie, died Sat-
urday, Aug. 4, 2018, in Ham-
mond. Groulx Family Mortu-
ary in Rainier is in charge of
the arrangements.
DEATHS
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Tillamook
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Salem
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Newport
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TOMORROW'S TIDES
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p.m., Seaside Library, 1131
Broadway.
Miles Crossing Sanitary
Sewer District Board, 6
p.m., 34583 U.S. Highway 101
Business.
Gearhart City Council, 6 p.m.,
special meeting on marijuana
tax, 698 Pacific Way.
Astoria Planning Commis-
sion, 6:30 p.m., City Hall, 1095
Duane St.
Warrenton-Hammond
School Board, 7 p.m., Warren-
ton High School library, 1800
S. Main Ave.
Seaside Planning Commis-
sion, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989
Broadway.
Cannon Beach City Council,
7 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower
St.
WEDNESDAY
Clatsop County Board of
Commissioners, 6 p.m., Judge
Guy Boyington Building, 857
Commercial St.
Astoria School Board, 6:15
p.m., Capt. Robert Gray School
third-floor boardroom, 785
Alameda Ave.
Wickiup Water District Board,
6:30 p.m., 92648 Svensen Mar-
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OBITUARY POLICY
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not his while a 16-year-old boy, whom Myers
knows, was sitting in the passenger seat. He then
allegedly drove the car around the block and
crashed into the back of El Compadre Restau-
rant. During the drive, the boy — who sustained
minor injuries from the crash — allegedly tried
to stop Myers from driving. Myers’ blood alco-
hol content was 0.21 percent.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
OREGON
Monday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 3-4-9-7
4 p.m.: 4-6-9-3
7 p.m.: 2-9-1-8
10 p.m.: 7-2-5-4
Monday’s Lucky Lines: 03-08-
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• At 1:39 a.m. Tuesday, Jonathan Cody
Myers, 32, of Warrenton, was arrested by War-
renton police on the 110 block of Main Ave-
nue and charged with driving under the influ-
ence of intoxicants, unauthorized use of a motor
vehicle, reckless driving and reckless endanger-
ment. Myers allegedly entered a car that was
LOTTERIES
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sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
sn-snow, i-ice.
Over
Hospital in Astoria. Grandparents are Patti and
Michael Aven of South Ogden, Utah, and Charles
and Susan Linford of Mountain Green, Utah.
Burns
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July 27, 2018
AVEN, Addy and Brandon, of Astoria, a boy,
Jack Andre Aven, born at Columbia Memorial
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Tonight's Sky: Delphinus is a moderately small and
faint constellation near the star Altair in Aquila.
Aug. 3, 2018
LARSON, Dennis Arne, 77, of Astoria, died
in Astoria. Ocean View Funeral & Cremation Ser-
vice of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
BIRTH
Baker
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Ontario
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Bend
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Medford
66/103
Sep 2
John Day
63/104
La Grande
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Roseburg
62/99
Brookings
55/65
UNDER THE SKY
Time
12:09 p.m.
11:24 p.m.
Prineville
57/106
Lebanon
61/98
Eugene
57/97
SUN AND MOON
Sunset tonight ........................... 8:37 p.m.
Sunrise Wednesday .................... 6:06 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................... 1:59 a.m.
Moonset today ........................... 5:28 p.m.
Pendleton
64/107
The Dalles
68/109
Portland
66/99
Precipitation
Monday ............................................ 0.00"
Month to date ................................... 0.18"
Normal month to date ....................... 0.14"
Year to date .................................... 35.92"
Normal year to date ........................ 37.08"
New
Aug. 5, 2018
WILSON, James, 99, of Seaside, died in
Seaside. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary is in charge
of the arrangements.
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Monday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 69°/58°
Normal high/low ........................... 68°/54°
Record high ............................ 92° in 1940
Record low ............................. 44° in 1959
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