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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2019
Tiny homes on tap in Warrenton
The Daily Astorian
A developer of tiny
homes will make a pre-
sentation to the Warrenton
Planning Commission on
Thursday.
The presentation by
Nathan Light Watson, CEO
of Tiny SMART House, an
Albany-based company that
builds custom tiny homes
and trailers, is intended to
be an informational session.
Warrenton is assessing
the land it has available for
development and will be
evaluating the results of a
county wide housing study
in the coming months. City
leaders will be looking at
ways to encourage different
housing types as the city’s
population and regional
housing needs continue to
grow.
“Is it tiny homes, and if
not what is it we’re going
to support by policy and by
code?” said Kevin Cronin,
Warrenton’s
community
development director.
“We’re just going to
begin the conversation, and
take the temperature of the
community and see where
people’s interest is.”
Under Warrenton’s devel-
opment code , tiny homes are
treated as accessory dwell-
ing units, but there is no spe-
cifi c codes that address tiny
homes or city standards for
tiny homes on their own.
Cronin says he has not
seen much interest from
developers or property own-
ers to build neighborhoods
of tiny homes. However,
there has been interest in
providing additional hous-
ing on property that might
already include more stan-
dard-sized housing.
The tiny home presenta-
tion will follow an update
on a housing needs assess-
ment by the state Depart-
ment of Land Conservation
and Development .
The meeting begins at
5 p.m. at City Hall, 225 S.
Main Ave.
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Razor clamming on Clatsop County beaches has been closed.
Driver crashes into Hamlet Quick Stop
Razor clamming closed on Clatsop
beaches due to domoic acid threat
The Daily Astorian
Razor clamming is
closed from the Columbia
River to Tillamook Head
after the state detected
unsafe levels of domoic
acid in the clams.
The state will not
reopen clamming until
two consecutive tests, at
least one week apart, show
levels of the marine bio-
toxin below the state’s clo-
sure limit of 20 parts per
million.
Testing
last
week
revealed levels of domoic
acid in razor clams at Clat-
sop Beach and Sunset
Beach were at 22 parts per
million. In early February,
domoic acid levels in the
same area registered at 14
ppm. Farther south, razor
clams tested at Port Orford
had 62 ppm as of Feb. 22.
The closure of recre-
ational and commercial
clamming was announced
Friday evening by the state
Department of Agriculture
and the state Department
of Fish and Wildlife.
Elsewhere in Oregon,
razor clamming is closed
at Cape Blanco to the Cal-
ifornia border for elevated
levels of domoic acid.
Razor clamming remains
open from Tillamook Head
in Seaside to Cape Blanco.
The Clatsop Beach and
the Sunset Beach areas
are home to popular and
highly productive razor
clam beds. The 18-mile
stretch of beach accounts
for 95 percent of Ore-
gon’s razor clam harvest,
according to the state.
On March 1, when the
beaches fi rst reopened to
harvest after an extended
closure to give small
clams more time to grow,
approximately 600 har-
vesters were on Clatsop
Beach. The turnout was
n ot too bad considering
the opening was mid day
on a Friday with high surf
and a weak low tide, said
Matt Hunter, state shellfi sh
biologist.
People were eager to
dig for clams even though
most of the clams they
were fi nding were still
smaller than usual, just
The Daily Astorian
A driver crashed into the
Hamlet Quick Stop on Fri-
day night.
A bout 9 p.m., a driver
lost control of his vehicle
and crashed into the conve-
nience store that sits at the
over 3.5 inches. Clatsop
Beach is usually closed
seasonally from mid-July
through September. Last
year, the beach closed to
digging in July and stayed
closed through the winter.
Beaches outside the
closure area, such as
Indian Beach, near Can-
non Beach, and Short Sand
Beach, north of Manzanita,
also have clams but are not
as productive. Clamming
areas there can be harder
to access depending on
how low the low tide gets.
Domoic acid is a nat-
urally occurring marine
toxin that can cause amne-
si c shellfi sh poisoning. It
is produced by diatoms
that bloom occasionally
off the West Coast.
In recent years, these
blooms have become an
almost constant consider-
ation in fi shery manage-
ment decisions, at times
delaying the opening
of valuable commercial
Dungeness crab fi sheries
and causing fi shery clo-
sures in both Oregon and
Washington state.
TUESDAY
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ALMANAC
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
SALEM — Oregon’s
elections director and a
political action committee
that disenfranchised nearly
100 voters by turning their
ballots in late have come to
an agreement in which most
of its fi ne will be suspended
and the group will detail its
procedures.
The incident revealed a
possible election vulnera-
bility in Oregon, the fi rst
state to adopt an all-mail
vote.
DUII
• At 2:45 a.m. on Satur-
day, Tyler William Albright,
26, of Rainier, was arrested
by Astoria p olice for driving
under the infl uence of intox-
Salem
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Newport
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Last
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New
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Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
TOMORROW'S TIDES
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sn-snow, i-ice.
March 8, 2019
HICKS, Linda Dorene, 72, of Astoria, died in Seaside. Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary
of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
OJA, Georgia F., 83, of Knappa, died in Astoria. Ocean View Funeral & Cremation Ser-
vice of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
TUESDAY
Clatsop County Planning
Commission, 10 a.m., Judge
Guy Boyington Building, 857
Commercial St., Astoria.
Cannon Beach City Council,
5:30 p.m., work session, City
Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Clatsop Community College
Board, 5:30 p.m., workshop,
6:30 p.m., regular meeting,
Columbia Hall Room 219, 1651
Lexington Ave., Astoria.
Warrenton City Commission,
6 p.m., City Hall, 225 S. Main
Ave.
Lewis & Clark Fire Depart-
ment Board, 7 p.m., main fi re
station, 34571 U.S. Highway
101 Business.
Saturday’s Powerball: 5-6-45-
55-59, Powerball: 14
Estimated jackpot: $448
million
Friday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 6-3-1-6
4 p.m.: 1-9-0-3
7 p.m.: 1-9-8-1
10 p.m.: 7-3-4-3
Friday’s Lucky Lines: 4-6-11-
16-18-21-25-32
Estimated jackpot: $16,000
Friday’s Mega Millions: 4-9-
42-62-68, Mega Ball: 7
Estimated jackpot: $50 million
52-55-58-66-67-73-75
Sunday’s Match 4: 03-04-07-
08
Saturday’s Daily Game: 8-1-5
Saturday’s Hit 5: 05-08-09-
10-13
Estimated jackpot: $160,000
Saturday’s Keno: 02-10-18-
27-28-30-33-36-44-46-47-48-
53-56-59-66-71-74-75-78
Saturday’s Lotto: 13-15-27-
28-33-47
Estimated jackpot: $5.3 million
Saturday’s Match 4: 03-14-
17-23
Friday’s Daily Game: 9-8-8
Friday’s Keno: 01-03-06-09-
12-13-21-24-34-37-39-50-51-
57-60-61-63-64-72-74
Friday’s Match 4: 06-07-12-24
LOTTERIES
Klamath Falls
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TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
North Bend
percent.
• At 3:30 p.m. on Satur-
day, Jasmine Carlie Jenkins,
25, of Astoria, was arrested
by Astoria p olice on Olney
Avenue for DUII .
DEATHS
MONDAY
Youngs River-Lewis & Clark Wa-
ter District Board, 6 p.m., 34583
U.S. Highway 101 Business.
Cannon Beach Rural Fire Pro-
tection District Board, 6 p.m.,
Fire-Rescue Main Station, 188
Sunset Ave.
Seaside City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 989 Broadway.
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2019
Tonight's Sky: The waxing crescent moon and Mars
with 6 degrees.
icants. Albright allegedly
reported he had been a vic-
tim of a hit-and-run when the
offi cer noticed he appeared
to be intoxicated. His blood
alcohol content was 0.13
PUBLIC MEETINGS
Roseburg
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Brookings
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Apr 5
John Day
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Bend
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Medford
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UNDER THE SKY
High
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Prineville
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Lebanon
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Eugene
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Sunset tonight ........................... 7:15 p.m.
Sunrise Tuesday .......................... 7:35 a.m. Coos Bay
Moonrise today ......................... 10:13 a.m. 42/48
Moonset today ................................... none
Full
Pendleton
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The Dalles
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Portland
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SUN AND MOON
Time
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ASTORIA
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Precipitation
Sunday ............................................. 0.00"
Month to date ................................... 0.44"
Normal month to date ....................... 2.52"
Year to date .................................... 13.03"
Normal year to date ........................ 19.91"
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Tillamook
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In addition the group will
detail the training the people
receive, the signs they use,
and the process employed
to gather and deliver ballots.
The group must also
describe its procedures to
track and count ballots, and
how they are stored, secured
and prepared for delivery.
More attention is being
paid to voting by mail as
doubts arise in the nation
about the security of elec-
tion systems that can be
hacked and about reliance
on aging or inadequate vot-
ing machines.
FRIDAY
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Clouds and sun
No one knows how many
groups in Oregon collect
fi lled-in ballots from voters
in November because state
offi cials in charge of elec-
tions have not tracked the
activities.
In the agreement pro-
vided Friday by the sec-
retary of state’s offi ce, the
directors of the Defend
Oregon PAC agreed to dis-
close whether people tak-
ing completed ballots to the
U.S. mail or to offi cial elec-
tion drop boxes are volun-
teers, employees or paid
canvassers.
ON THE RECORD
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Sunday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 51°/27°
Normal high/low ........................... 53°/38°
Record high ............................ 75° in 1905
Record low ............................. 25° in 1969
First
THURSDAY
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severe injuries, Verley said,
and was sent to Colum-
bia Memorial Hospital in
Astoria.
The building was dam-
aged, Verley said, but in a
section that did not impact
the store itself. The store
was closed at the time .
State, political action committee settle voting case
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
junction of U.S. Highway
26 and Highway 53, Ham-
let Fire Chief Matt Verley
said.
Firefi ghters had to winch
the vehicle out of the build-
ing and cut the driver out of
the car.
The driver suffered
OREGON
Sunday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 8-6-6-0
4 p.m.: 5-2-8-6
7 p.m.: 3-2-7-6
10 p.m.: 8-5-4-0
Sunday’s Lucky Lines: 3-5-10-
14-19-22-28-30
Estimated jackpot: $19,000
Saturday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m: 6-7-6-3
4 p.m.: 7-8-2-3
7 p.m.: 7-8-5-3
10 p.m.: 8-5-5-1
Saturday’s Lucky Lines: 4-5-
10-13-18-21-25-31
Estimated jackpot: $17,000
Saturday’s Megabucks: 3-9-
10-30-36-46
Estimated jackpot: $9.2 million
WASHINGTON
Sunday’s Daily Game: 7-6-9
Sunday’s Keno: 03-06-07-14-
16-21-24-32-33-42-43-47-48-
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