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A3 THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2019 Warrenton approves homestay lodging rules By KATIE FRANKOWICZ The Daily Astorian WARRENTON — It is now legal in Warrenton for people to rent rooms in their homes to visitors. The City Commission held the fi rst reading of an ordinance Tuesday that out- lines a new homestay lodg- ing program. The program includes a permit applica- tion process and safety reg- ulations people must com- ply with if they want to offer short-term rentals to visitors. The safety regulations will go into effect Jan. 22, and peo- ple who are already offering this type of short-term rental will be given a grace period to make sure what they offer meets the new requirements. The ordinance allows peo- ple to rent up to fi ve bedrooms in their primary residence. Other cities in Oregon have struggled to collect lodg- Jewell School Board chooses superintendent ing taxes from rentals or have seen the rentals — especially of entire houses — impact long-term housing stock and prices. In Astoria, the short- term rental of entire homes is illegal, but code enforcers still see advertisements on popular websites like Airbnb. Astoria adopted a homestay lodging license in December in an effort to curb illegal rentals and provide a clear process for people who want to rent out rooms legally. Warrenton has not seen issues related to Airbnb-type rentals yet, Mayor Henry Balensifer has said. The safety regulations passed Tuesday are a proac- tive step. The city is still working on regulations around vacation rentals, where an entire hous- ing unit is rented on a short- term basis, Balensifer noted after the meeting. By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Stephen Phillips has been chosen as the new superintendent of Jewell School District beginning next year. The Jewell School Board voted unanimously during a special meet- ing Monday to hire Phil- lips. He had been brought in this school year as an executive administra- tor as part of an audition to replace Superintendent Alice Hunsaker, who is retiring at the end of the year along with Principal Terrence Smyth, her sig- nifi cant other. “I think the board felt that Mr. Phillips was a good fi t for Jew- ell School,” said Bryan Swearingen, the school Stephen Phillips has been chosen as the new superin- tendent in the Jewell School District starting next year. board’s chairman . After six months on the job, Phillips was reviewed by most of the staff and many high school stu- dents, with overwhelm- ingly positive feedback, Swearingen said. Phillips came to Jew- ell from Beaverton School District, where he was deputy superintendent until resigning last year after reposting an anti-im- migrant tweet. He was recruited to Beaverton from the Malheur Edu- cation Service District , where he was superinten- dent for four years and director of secondary edu- cation for four years prior. He also spent fi ve years as a middle school vice principal and two as a math teacher in Nyssa near the Oregon-Idaho border. His fi rst teaching job was in the Burnt River School District, which he said served about 100 students during his time there. Jewell School is mostly funded by timber tax rev- enue and averages about 150 students K-12. Hunsaker was hired in 2013 out of the Lake County Education Service District. She arrived in Jewell after a tumultuous three years under former superintendent-principal Brian Gander, followed by a school year that included three interim leaders. “I think with our dif- fi culties we’ve had in the past, when Alice Hunsa- ker came in, she was what the school district needed at the time,” Swearingen said. “She’s done a real good job at rebuilding staff morale and confi dence.” Phillips has indicated he would like to be in Jewell for a while. He, his wife and fi ve children have all relocated to cam- pus housing and enrolled in the school district. Jew- ell hopes to have his con- tract prepared by a board meeting later this month. Commercial boat had sought Coast Guard escort before capsizing Three fi shermen dead off Newport By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press A commercial crab- bing boat that capsized in rough waters off the Oregon Coast, killing the three men aboard, sent a shock wave through a seafaring com- munity already struggling from a monthlong delay to the annual crabbing season. The Coast Guard said the vessel, the Mary B. II, over- turned about 10 p.m. Tues- day as it crossed Yaquina Bay bar in Newport. The bar is one of the most notorious off the coast, and authori- ties said crews faced 12- to 14-foot waves as they tried to rescue the fi shermen. The men had called for an escort across the bar and Coast Guard a responding Coast Guard boat was nearby when the A Coast Guard boat crew responds to three fi shermen in the water after the commercial fi shing vessel Mary B II capsized while crossing Yaquina Bay bar off the crabbing boat capsized coast of Newport. “without warning,” the Coast Guard said Wednes- show about commercial pound, depending on loca- day evening in a news fi shermen that aired on the tion, and they are a staple of the holidays for many on the release. The Coast Guard is Discovery channel. investigating the incident. “The fi shermen and their West Coast. The crabs are James Lacey, 48, of families know all too well, also fi shed in California and South Toms River, New unfortunately ... that that Washington. Crabbing permits are Jersey, was pulled from the danger is real. They accept ocean by helicopter and the challenge because they capped at 424 vessels fl own to a local hospital, love what they do,” Novotny spread over six major ports where he was pronounced said. “It’s part of who they running the length of the Oregon Coast, from Astoria dead. The body of Joshua are and what they do.” Porter, 50, of Toledo, The appeal also lies in in the north to Brookings washed up on a beach early the money that the succu- near the California border. Three-quarters of the har- Wednesday. lent crabs can bring. The body of the boat’s Oregon State Police Live Oregon Dunge- vest is brought in during skipper, Stephen Biernacki, Authorities in Newport examine the wreckage of the Mary B. II, a commercial crabbing boat ness crabs are currently sell- the fi rst eight weeks of the 50, of Barnegat Township, that capsized. ing for anywhere between season, which usually runs New Jersey, was found on $5.99 a pound and $11.99 a from December to August. But those in the industry the hull of the boat after it, “When they did get out, reports showed waves 16 said the loss hit particularly some of them had to stay feet tall there. too, washed up on a jetty. The tragedy was nothing hard this year, when crabbers out a little longer because of It’s so treacherous that new for Newport, a work- were rushing to sea to try to the weather. The diffi culty is the dangers of crossing it ing fi shing port on the cen- catch up after the Dungeness once you’re out at sea, they with a fully loaded crab Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber tral coast. The small town crab season was delayed can handle a lot of condi- boat were the premise of a Northwest Hardwoods • Longview, WA hosts a granite memo- more than a month. The sea- tions. But the trouble is try- spinoff of the “The Dead- Contact: John Anderson • 360-269-2500 rial at Yaquina Bay etched son usually begins Dec. 1, ing to get back across those liest Catch,” a reality TV with more than 100 names but this year it only began bars,” Novotny said. of local fi shermen lost at last week because the crabs A bar is an area near the sea over the past century were too small and didn’t coast where a river — in and shared tragedies are have enough meat to harvest. this case the Yaquina River woven into the fabric of the Then, a series of bad — meets the sea. The force community. storms in the fi rst week of of the river water collid- “It happens frequently the season prevented many ing with the ocean can cre- enough that we actually crabbers from recovering ate hazardous currents and have funds that help fam- their pots on Friday, the fi rst swells, particularly during ilies during this time. We day they could do so, said a storm. The Yaquina Bay fundraise all year long, Tim Novotny, spokesman bar is considered one of the and we try to help them for Oregon Dungeness Crab more dangerous ones along as much as we can,” said Commission. the coast. On Wednesday, Taunette Dixon, president of the nonprofi t Newport Fishermen’s Wives, which supports families who have lost a breadwinner to the waves. WANTED Cutest Lutefisk oh Lutefisk Baby PHOTO CONTEST Saturday Clatsop Post 12 Brats , German Sauerkraut Potato Salad “Oktober Fest” Friday Jan. 11 th 4 pm until gone $ 00 8. 6PM “Karaoke Dave” ASTORIA AMERICAN LEGION Clatsop Post 12 1132 Exchange Street 325-5771 , 2019 January 12 1pm-3pm th Adults $25 Seniors $20 Babies born between 1/1/18 - 12/31/18 Children 12 & under $15 Dinner includes Lutefisk, Meatballs, Potatoes, Vegetable, Coffee, Bread, & Dessert. Suomi Hall 244 West Marine Dr., Astoria, Oregon Entertainment Raffles, Silent Auction, Entertainment. 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