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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
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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.
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