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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MARcH 18, 2019
Tim: GoFundMe will support performing arts, athletics Gibson:
‘I have
a good
outlook
on life’
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projector overhead. His
friends and family, still raw
with emotion a week after
his death, came forth one
by one to pay tribute. Hun-
dreds had also gathered for
a vigil at the Gateway Com-
munity Church the night of
his death.
“He was magnetic,” said
Aaron Cole, the former pas-
tor at Calvary Assembly of
God and a lifelong family
friend. “If you were around
him, you were laughing and
having a good time.”
Pior participated in wres-
tling, football and soccer,
along with the high school’s
choir and drama programs.
Outside of school, he also
acted with the Peninsula
Association of Performing
Artists. Pictures of his parts
as Lumiere from “Beauty
and the Beast” and Tevye in
“Fiddler on the Roof” min-
gled with jerseys.
Brooke Lilley, a church
youth leader of Pior’s, said
“Tim loved life” and “left us
with something to remember
every time we came in con-
tact with him.”
Ian O’Brien, the ath-
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Memories of the late Timothy Pior, such as a photo of his part as Lumiere in ‘Beauty and the
Beast’ and his football jersey, were on display during his memorial Sunday.
letic director at Warrenton,
remembered Pior’s exuber-
ance as an actor and his will-
ingness to put himself into
uncomfortable
situations
with confidence, challenging
others to do the same.
Pior is survived by his
parents, Jonathan and Candy
Prior; siblings, Elizabeth,
Nicolas, Victoria, Alexan-
dria and Josiah; and grand-
parents, Weldon and Doro-
thy Pior.
His father took the stage
last in full Indian headdress
— a costume in honor of the
Warriors’ former mascot his
son once donned at a football
game to pump up the crowd
— to thank the community
for the outpouring of support
since his son’s death.
“It’s incredible to hear
people saying the same thing
over and over about my
son,” he said. “That means
it wasn’t just something that
I saw. It was something that
everybody saw. One thing
he would say if he was here
… he would look at you
guys and say, ‘Wow, mom
and dad; I told you I was big
stuff.’”
He described his son
as reckless and frustrat-
ing but talented, passionate
and loyal, tearing up as he
thanked the community for
their part in his upbringing.
“Many of you spent time
pouring into his life in so
many ways,” he said. “He
not only had us as a fam-
ily, but all of you were his
extended family.”
After the memorial,
attendees spread out on John
Mattila Field. Jonathan Pior
led the crowd in the high
school’s fight song before
they released about 400 bal-
loons in Timothy Pior’s
honor.
A GoFundMe Page —
tinyurl.com/timpior — has
raised more than $4,800,
which will go to support
Timothy Pior’s passions in
performing arts and athletics.
Inn: A consensus has formed to possibly sell some buildings
Glenn Taggart, out of fore-
closure more than a decade
ago with a $1.7 million loan.
The agency moved into
the building several years
ago, leasing out portions
of the Gateway building. A
recent profit-and-loss state-
ment showed the Port losing
nearly $35,000 a year on the
Taggart building.
Moving back to the Gate-
way building would have its
own costs and could hurt the
morale of Port staff, Knight
said. He suggested selling
the Pier 1 offices, but still
leasing.
When the finance com-
mittee was formed, it was
agreed nothing was off
the table, Postlewait said.
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“I think that’s kind of
the direction we’re head-
ing right now, particularly
with the Riverwalk Inn, Sea-
fare Restaurant and Chinook
Building,” Jim Knight, the
Port’s executive director,
said.
John Lansing, a former
banker who serves on the
finance committee, brought
up selling the Taggart build-
ing, which houses the Port’s
offices on Pier 1, and mov-
ing staff into the agen-
cy’s old offices on Gateway
Avenue.
The Port purchased
the Taggart building, built
by former Commissioner
“When you’re almost $30
million in deferred mainte-
nance, and you’re getting
threats of closing down truck
traffic to Pier 2, I’m really
not too concerned about
hurting feelings with mov-
ing,” he said.
Maintenance costs
The Port has posted posi-
tive cash flow after subtract-
ing daily expenses from rev-
enue. But Kevin LaCoste,
a regional president with
U.S. Bank who serves on
the finance committee, has
taken issue with the Port not
accounting for long-term
maintenance.
“It’s pretty reactive,” he
said of the Port’s account-
ing. “It’s not proactive, like
we’re setting aside money
for the roof. It’s brand new
today, but we’re setting aside
X dollars for 20 years later.”
Over the years, the Port
has faced criticism for not
paying enough attention to
long-term maintenance of
infrastructure. A causeway at
the East Mooring Basin, for
example, was recently shut
down after a state bridge
inspection found much of
the support structure rotting.
The state similarly recom-
mended the shutdown of the
east side of Pier 2 in April if
the agency does not make
significant repairs.
LaCoste called on the
Port to better account for
the depreciation and long-
term maintenance needs of
assets, saying some might be
more of a liability because
of deferred maintenance.
Knight acknowledged the
Port has not been putting
aside money into a preven-
tative maintenance fund,
but cautioned against look-
ing at mere profitability in
the Port’s assets rather than
the community benefit they
provide.
The Port needs to under-
stand the long-term main-
tenance costs of properties
when negotiating leases,
LaCoste said. Postlewait also
suggested a percentage of
revenue from leases go into
a maintenance reserve fund.
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at OHSU, which had
become a leader in offer-
ing replacement of mitral
valves carrying blood
between the left atrium
and ventricle of the heart
using a catheter.
In January, Gibson
again went under the
knife. Dr. Firas Zahr and
a team of physicians cut
a small hole in Gibson’s
groin and inserted a cathe-
ter through her torso to her
heart, where they placed a
small pin to allow blood
to flow out and stop it
from leaking back in.
“It’s almost like night
and day,” she said of her
improving health. “I can
actually walk and not
have to stop and catch my
breath.
Gibson worked as a
lab tech at Legacy Eman-
uel Medical Center in
Portland and Columbia
Memorial after moving to
the North Coast.
After retiring, she
began volunteering with
the local hospital’s auxil-
iary, becoming president
of the group the past two
years.
In cardiac rehab for
at least a couple of more
months, she hopes to
return to the auxiliary next
month, while again taking
up hobbies like garden-
ing and biking with her
husband, Terry Wilkins,
around Fort Stevens State
Park.
“I have a good outlook
on life,” Gibson said. “I
just try to enjoy things as
they happen and don’t let
things get to me.”
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