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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Camps: ‘It’s time for the city to act’ Jacob: Tourist
Astoria Police
Department
Officer Kenny
Hansen writes
up a notice to
vacate for a
camp resident.
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“They’re exiling a class
of people from the city,” he
said as he watched police offi-
cers make their way to his
tent. “Because we can’t sleep
in town. We can’t sleep in the
woods. Where do we go?”
A small protest downtown
in October, led by homeless
advocates and the homeless,
asked the same question.
Nordquist and others in his
situation say Astoria police
have been respectful and com-
municative. In a procedure out-
lined by the City Council and
groups that helped the city fine-
tune and amend its “no camp-
ing” ordinance, Kenny Hansen,
the police department’s home-
less liaison officer, handed out
packets of information about
the different resources avail-
able to people along with the
cleanup notice.
But many in the woods
doubt groups like Clatsop
Community Action or Helping
Hands will be able to get them
into housing anytime soon, cer-
tainly not in time to comply
with the city’s timeline.
A process
Helping Hand’s new re-en-
try facility in Uniontown is still
under construction and partic-
ipation in its programs comes
with restrictions. Clatsop Com-
munity Action offers a variety
of programs, but it is often a
longer-term process to connect
people with services and hous-
ing, especially when people
come in without any sort of doc-
umentation or identification.
Colin Murphey
The Daily
Astorian
In some cases, the agency
has been able to shelter peo-
ple very quickly. But more
often, it’s a process. “We can’t
help people right away.” said
Elaine Bruce, the agency’s
executive director. “We can’t
get them housed today, but we
can help them get started on the
process.”
For the agency, the key
piece is engagement.
“They have to feel comfort-
able with us,” Bruce said. “A lot
of people feel very uncomfort-
able or feel bad. There’s a lot of
embarrassment sometimes with
people who are homeless and
we want to make them feel OK
about seeking services.”
Vernon Hall, an advocate
for the homeless who is home-
less himself, has been working
with Hansen and other police
officers to communicate with
the homeless people camp-
ing in the woods. He watched
while Hansen and Nordquist
talked Friday.
“I’m glad they’re tak-
ing time and talking to people
about their needs,” he said. “It’s
a hard day.”
Tuesday is a deadline most
people probably won’t be
able to hit, he said. Recology
Western Oregon, which han-
dles trash pickup in Astoria, is
donating dumpsters so people
can get rid of trash at their sites,
but finding housing will remain
difficult.
Some people, knowing the
police notices were imminent,
decided to relocate and set up
camp deeper in the woods —
something advocates predicted
would happen. Others have
told Hall they won’t leave their
campsites. Others still don’t
know what they’re going to do.
Decision to act
In October, Police Chief
Geoff Spalding and the City
Council did not seem in a
hurry to move people out of
the woods. Spalding had told
a homelessness solutions task
force organized by Mayor
Arline LaMear that it was
unlikely anyone would be asked
to move on this winter. But
after the City Council amended
the “no camping” ordinance
and after a meeting with a sub-
committee of task force mem-
bers dedicated to discussing the
issue further, police decided to
proceed Friday.
Police did have concerns
about safety and health haz-
ards in the woods. The camps,
located away from roads and
street lighting, could be diffi-
cult to respond to if there were
any kind of emergency.
For now, Spalding plans to
only address the roughly one
dozen camps identified in Sep-
tember. He and his officers do
not plan to go out looking for
more camps.
City Councilor Cindy Price
volunteered to contact peo-
ple who receive police notices
and ensure they have the infor-
mation they need. She said she
plans to reach out to people on
Monday or Tuesday.
“(The homelessness task
force) has a well-considered
plan being carried out thought-
fully and compassionately by
(police),” Price said, “and assis-
tance is available for all posted
campers who are willing to
accept it.
“It’s time for the city to act
and time for campers to make
sustainable choices.”
According to a camp-
ing operations plan provided
by Spalding, police plan to
notify social service organi-
zations as campers are given
notice. When police return to
the camps on Tuesday, they
will invite social service part-
ners to assist with cleanup and
help remaining campers get in
touch with Clatsop Community
Action. Police will collect any
personal property left at camps
and hold it at the department for
30 days.
In the future, the city plans
to post “no camping” signs
in the forestland areas where
camps have been found.
Brewery: Looking for a location to open a local tap house
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“It’s always been my thought
that there’s a lot of underutilized
capacity,” Lederfine said. “I get
to, A, be ‘green,’ not adding to
the carbon footprint by adding a
new brewery, and also give the
host brewery an additional rev-
enue stream.”
Lederfine and Parker are
both veterans of the brewery
scene, having owned pubs and
bars and brewed for other com-
panies around the Pacific North-
west and Colorado.
Parker was the director of
the Oregon Brewers Guild for
six years. The two were orig-
inally introduced in 1997 at a
craft beer conference in Seat-
tle by mutual friend Jack Har-
ris, a co-owner of Fort George
Brewery.
Lederfine had run Awesome
Ales solo, brewing, selling and
delivering all his own beers.
When Parker came on board,
the two decided to rebrand and
expand their focus from the
more common beer varieties
into more farmhouse and bar-
rel-aged beers, while leasing the
space at Astoria Brewing to con-
trol their production schedule.
Asher David hopes to be
licensed as a brewery by the
first of the year, Parker said.
Until then, its beers are made on
contract for Astoria Brewing, a
practice colloquially known as
“gypsy brewing.”
Lederfine previously brewed
at Astoria Brewing in the early
2000s, when it was Pacific Rim
Brewing, then the only brewery
in town. Astoria Brewing now
produces most of its beer on a
15-barrel system built inside
the former Andrew & Steve’s
Cafe on 12th Street and Marine
Drive.
Stephen Allen, co-owner
of Astoria Brewing and a local
accountant, said the arrange-
ment is a good way to support
an old friend and make some
extra money on an unused asset.
“I didn’t see any harm in it,” he
said.
Asher David’s beers pro-
duced outside Astoria can
already be found locally at
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“I’ve got a lot of people
going, ‘As soon as you have
something you’ve made here, I
want it,’” Parker said.
Asher David’s beers are
mostly named after lyrics, song
titles and other musical refer-
ences. Its John Henry Amer-
ican Strong Ale, named after
the classic folk song, and Sup-
ple Wrist Pale Ale, a reference
to The Who’s “Pinball Wizard,”
hit the streets today.
While they rent a brewhouse
and buy supplies from Astoria
Brewing, Asher David still has
to send beer to the Portland area
for cold storage.
“We want to have a cooler
locally, and if you’re going to
have a cooler locally, you may
as well throw some taps out,
because people say, ‘Where can
I come try your beer?,’” Parker
said.
Lederfine and Parker are
looking for a location to open a
local tap house sometime in the
first quarter of 2019, before the
FisherPoets Gathering or Fort
George’s Festival of the Dark
Arts beer fest in February.
No. 2 ferry offered
a final loud salute
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His life was a testament
to the fact that despite a per-
son’s flaws, “we can still do
things,” said Donna Quinn,
director of marketing for the
Cannery Pier Hotel, who
called Jacob her longtime
friend.
“So much respect to him
for showing us how to be
brave and foolish,” she said.
Artist Sarah Goodnough,
Jacob’s friend and former
partner, said Jacob taught her
“what it was to be generous
and to be a friend to people.”
“He always took care of
his partners, he always took
care of his friends,” agreed
Terry Rosenau, Jacob’s per-
sonal representative as well
as a longtime friend and
early investor in the Cannery
Pier Hotel.
As part of the celebra-
tion, the Tourist No. 2 ferry
board opened the ferry to the
community at Pier 39 on Sat-
urday and Sunday. Jacob’s
family has asked people to
donate to ferry restoration to
honor Jacob’s memory, and
the ferry itself offered a final
salute.
Right before 5 p.m.
on Saturday, the vessel’s
horn boomed across the
river, reverberating through
the decks and joined by a
cacophony of car horns, air
horns and other boat horns.
It was Jacob’s dream to
welcome people onto the
ferry for a party. As the res-
toration work he champi-
oned comes to fruition, John-
son said, “You may someday
find yourself dancing on the
Columbia River. Have fun
and drink a toast to Jake.”
Tucker: Doesn’t take her
degree of stability for granted
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Mary Docherty, a home-
less advocate who founded
Riverfolk to help people get
their state identification and
recover birth certificates,
said Tucker is one of the
most tenacious people she
knows.
“She had an endgame in
mind,” Docherty said.
Tucker worked with Riv-
erfolk to deal with an expired
state identification and
replace a missing birth cer-
tificate — two crucial doc-
uments that, once obtained,
enabled her to apply for jobs
and housing and access other
resources.
Now she has a degree of
stability, but she doesn’t take
it for granted. She is pretty
much able to take care of
everything herself now, but
might have to ask friends for
help this winter. She wor-
ries often about others in the
same tenuous position. But
she plans to stay in Astoria.
“It still feels good to stay
here,” Tucker said. “I’ll
deal with the earthquakes
and tsunamis.” Besides, she
loves storms.
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