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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2018
Bus carrying U of Washington
band rolls onto side on highway
GEORGE, Wash. — One
of three charter buses carry-
ing members of the Univer-
sity of Washington marching
band to a football showdown
at Washington State Univer-
sity rolled onto its side Thurs-
day on Interstate 90, the
Washington State Patrol said.
No serious injuries had
been reported from the acci-
dent that was called in to
authorities at 5:26 p.m.,
Trooper John Bryant told
the Seattle Times. A total of
25 students were treated for
injuries that were not seri-
ous or life-threatening, Bry-
ant said. The bus carried 56
people.
Troopers,
paramedics
and deputies from the Grant
County Sheriff’s Office
responded to the accident, he
said.
The accident took place
on eastbound I-90 at mile
post 146, about 3 miles west
of George, Bryant said. Road
conditions were extremely
slippery and icy in spots.
The charter buses were
headed to the Apple Cup,
which is scheduled for today
in Pullman.
School officials were
attempting to load students
and equipment from the
crashed bus onto the two
other charter buses traveling
together to continue the trip
to Pullman, Bryant said.
City of Astoria seeks applicants
for volunteer boards, commissions
The Daily Astorian
The city of Astoria is
looking to fill numerous
positions on city boards and
commissions.
Terms on boards such as
the Planning Commission,
the Budget Committee, the
Historic Landmarks Com-
mission, the Design Review
Committee, the Hospi-
tal Authority Board and the
Parks and Recreation Board
are either vacant or set to
expire. The mayor, often in
discussion with city council-
ors, appoints interested peo-
ple to these positions.
“These volunteer posi-
tions offer citizens the oppor-
tunity to play significant
roles in the community in a
number of ways,” according
to a news release from the
city manager’s office.
Anyone interested in
applying can fill submit an
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Sand blows across a dune in Cannon Beach.
application to the city man-
ager’s office online or in
person by 5 p.m., Dec. 17.
Appointments will be made
at a City Council meeting
Jan. 7.
Anyone who has ques-
tions or needs more informa-
tion can contact the mayor’s
office at 503-325-5824 or
e-mail jbenoit@astoria.or.us.
The city welcomes appli-
cations at any time for future
vacancies.
MEMORIAL
Saturday, Nov. 24
AIKEN, Ernest William — Funeral service at noon, First Baptist Church, 349 Seventh St.
Interment is at Greenwood Cemetery. Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary in Astoria is in charge
of the arrangements. An online guest book is available at caldwellsmortuary.com
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
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A little rain early, then a
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ALMANAC
Tillamook
40/52
Rain
New
First
Dec 6
Newport
40/53
Coos Bay
41/53
Dec 22
Ontario
35/48
Bend
25/45
Burns
16/39
Klamath Falls
23/44
Lakeview
23/42
Ashland
36/50
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Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
TOMORROW'S TIDES
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
7:35 a.m.
8:28 p.m.
Low
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NATIONAL CITIES
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Tonight's Sky: Vega, Deneb, and Altair, the stars of
the Summer Triangle, drop down the western sky
this evening.
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Lebanon
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Medford
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UNDER THE SKY
High
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La Grande
32/41
Salem
37/53
Full
Dec 15
Pendleton
33/47
The Dalles
36/50
Portland
39/51
Eugene
36/51
Sunset tonight ........................... 4:36 p.m.
Sunrise Saturday ........................ 7:28 a.m.
Moonrise today .......................... 5:28 p.m.
Moonset today ............................ 7:43 a.m.
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Cloudy and breezy with
showers
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ASTORIA
39/53
SUN AND MOON
Time
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1:20 p.m.
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REGIONAL WEATHER
Precipitation
Thursday .......................................... 0.89"
Month to date ................................... 3.71"
Normal month to date ....................... 7.96"
Year to date .................................... 50.44"
Normal year to date ........................ 54.18"
Nov 29
TUESDAY
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in the p.m.
Mostly cloudy
Astoria through Thursday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 52°/47°
Normal high/low ........................... 52°/39°
Record high ............................ 64° in 2017
Record low ............................. 22° in 1985
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Dune grading rules
are recommended
Dune height,
vegetation and
other factors
considered
By BRENNA VISSER
The Daily Astorian
CANNON BEACH —
The planning commission has
unanimously voted to recom-
mend a new foredune manage-
ment plan to the City Council.
The updated plan, approved
Tuesday, is the product of more
than a year of work sessions
and public testimony, guides
how and where dunes can be
graded for views, as well as
how they should be monitored
after the work is done.
The revision of the plan
was in part prompted by
requests made in recent years
by residents to remove large
amounts of sand, citing issues
of sand inundating their prop-
erty and lost ocean views.
An unprecedented request
to remove 73,400 cubic yards
in 2014 from a dune north of
Ecola Creek made the city
consider taking another look
at the science and policies
of sand removal that had not
been updated since the late
1990s.
Substantial
changes
include allowing the use of
native grasses in some areas
to restabilize the dune after it
has been graded and prohibit-
ing all mowing and pruning of
vegetation. Language requires
permit holders to consider the
impacts on clams and other
shellfish when pushing sand
out into the surf. Studies show
native grasses tend to create a
flatter dune — which would
help with views — in com-
parison with European beach
grass, which has been used
since the 1950s and produces
more vertical and stable dunes.
The commission also
increased the dune height
requirement to account for
projected sea level rise. Cur-
rently, the city requires dunes
be graded no lower than 4 feet
above the Federal Emergency
Management Agency’s 100-
year base flood elevation rec-
ommendation, which adds up
to between 27 and 29 feet.
The commission added an
extra foot after learning FEMA
does not account for climate
change when calculating these
guidelines, and based the
change on the National Oce-
anic and Atmospheric Admin-
istration’s estimate that sea
level could rise by 1 ½ feet in
the most extreme climate sce-
nario by 2040.
But the commission rec-
ommended these changes with
one significant condition: the
City Council should question
whether grading for views
should be done at all.
“Dune grading has always
kind of been this foregone
conclusion,” commissioner
Lisa Kerr said. “I’ve never
been comfortable with this
goal, and I feel like we’ve
been just working around this
for the past year.”
Commissioners have tan-
gled with this idea for months,
even considering at some
points to recommend the issue
be put out to a vote in a ballot
measure to reach a conclusion.
Commissioner Joe Bernt
joined Kerr in her concerns,
saying he felt part of the rea-
son it has taken more than a
year to come up with a recom-
mended plan stems from the
commission’s base hesitancy
about whether they support
grading for views at all.
“We’ve been lobbied to
death,” Bernt said, referring
to Breakers Point residents in
favor of dune grading. “And
we still have never gotten to
the main issue of this conflict.”
The condition, which was
introduced at Tuesday’s meet-
ing for the first time, would
require a major change in the
comprehensive plan if the City
Council chooses to consider it.
It could come as a pleas-
ant surprise for groups like
Friends of the Dunes, who
have long argued grading for
views compromises a critical
bulwark against storm-dam-
age and damages plants and
habitat. It could also come as
a blow to the Breakers Point
Homeowners Association —
the area in Cannon Beach most
disproportionately affected by
sand accretion.
Dozens of homeowners tes-
tified for months to the plan-
ning commission about the
effects of sand inundation, and
how those who bought homes
at Breakers Point were sold
property under the idea code
allowed the ability to maintain
beach access and view.
Public hearings on the sub-
ject will be reopened when
the City Council chooses to
review the recommendation.
DEATHS
Nov. 21, 2018
CARMICKLE, Kenneth, 25, of Eugene, died in Astoria. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary & Cre-
matory in Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
CUDIAMAT, Jody Laine, 64, of Seaside, died in Seaside. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary & Cre-
matory in Seaside is in charge of the arrangements.
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