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A2 THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2019 Neal Wallace Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian The fi shing vessel Coastwise has been rusting away for some time at the Port of Astoria’s East Mooring Basin. Boat owner responds to Port suit By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian A boat owner being sued by the Port of Astoria for abandoning his vessel shot back recently, arguing the agency jacked up his moor- age at the East Mooring Basin while conditions at the marina worsened . The Port sued Nick Mathias, a California resi- dent and owner of the Coast- wise , claiming he fell behind on moorage before sending a letter in September notify- ing the agency he would be abandoning the vessel. Mathias claims the Port in 2014 was charging him $2,000 annually for moorage fees, raising it to $3,000 the next year, $9,600 the third year and fi nally $37,000 . The Port has closed all access to the East Mooring Basin causeway because of a rotting substructure, leav- ing a dwindling group of boat owners to reach their vessels by skiff. “My contract with them provided access and a rea- sonable rate to house my boat there so that I could make my repairs, but since they knew I couldn’t move the boat they knew I had no choice but to keep pay- ing,” Mathias wrote in his response to the Port’s law- suit. “There was no way I could continue to pay this amount so I had no choice but to abandon the boat along with all of the money I had spent fi xing it up.” The Port seeks more than $112,000 from Mathias in back-due moor- age and abandonment fees. Mathias wrote that he has people ready to take the boat away, eliminat- ing the need for the Port to deal with the abandoned vessel. FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT SATURDAY SUNDAY 56 45 43 Mostly cloudy with a little rain MONDAY 57 44 Breezy with occasional rain Chamber orchestra, high school choir present two concerts The Daily Astorian The North Coast Cham- ber Orchestra and Neah- Kah-Nie High School Choir present two concerts today and Saturday. The fi rst concert is 7 p.m. today at the North County Recreation District Performing Arts Center, 36155 9th St., Nehalem. It is assisted by a grant from the Tillamook County Cul- tural Coalition. The second concert is 3 p.m. Saturday at Astoria Elks Lodge Ballroom, 453 11th St., Astoria. Admission to the con- certs is $10 adults, $5 students, free for chil- 57 42 Mostly cloudy, chance of a little rain Mostly cloudy with a couple of showers ALMANAC REGIONAL WEATHER Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 43/56 Tillamook 45/55 Precipitation Thursday .......................................... 0.08" Month to date ................................... 0.29" Normal month to date ....................... 0.83" Year to date .................................... 15.34" Normal year to date ........................ 25.67" Salem 44/58 Newport 45/55 Sunset tonight ........................... 7:49 p.m. Sunrise Saturday ........................ 6:47 a.m. Moonrise today ........................... 7:26 a.m. Moonset today ........................... 8:20 p.m. First Apr 5 Full Apr 12 Coos Bay 46/57 Last Apr 19 Source: Jim Todd, OMSI TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 9:12 a.m. 9:09 p.m. Low 0.3 ft. 1.3 ft. 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Lo W 39 r 46 sh 49 r 54 r 51 r 47 r 42 sh 51 r 49 r 41 c TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER NATIONAL CITIES Today Lo 59 39 44 42 47 44 54 22 66 49 51 56 53 56 74 52 65 43 56 48 49 45 54 44 52 Baker 31/56 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2019 Tonight's Sky: Saturday (06:43 a.m. PDT) before sunrise, Mercury will reach its highest point in the sky above east-southeast horizon to the lower left of brilliant Venus. High 8.6 ft. 7.8 ft. La Grande 33/54 Roseburg 45/63 Brookings 48/58 Apr 26 John Day 34/55 Bend 33/56 Medford 42/61 UNDER THE SKY Time 2:42 a.m. 3:15 p.m. Prineville 33/59 Lebanon 43/56 Eugene 41/58 SUN AND MOON New Pendleton 36/59 The Dalles 38/57 Portland 44/58 W sh pc pc pc pc sh s s s c pc pc c sh pc c t r pc r c t r r r Hi 75 65 66 63 72 65 73 43 86 69 72 77 67 80 85 80 83 68 69 70 72 58 65 56 67 Sat. Lo 63 46 52 38 54 43 55 24 67 55 54 59 54 65 76 63 66 49 57 50 58 44 54 47 51 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc pc pc pc c pc pc c s pc t s c t pc c c pc t pc c r c r pc one in this city that has ever received a permit should run. Buyer beware. You can’t trust the city.” Wing then shared a pre- diction that has, at least in light of the rulings so far, turned out to be true. “If this goes to court, the city will lose. I guarantee it,” Wing said. “And the pub- lic needs to be made aware that we are the ones that are going to pay for it.” Attorneys representing Rockaway Beach, John Put- man and Gerald Warren, didn’t respond Thursday to a request for comment or a question about whether the city would appeal the judge’s award. Dang still has a pending federal lawsuit against the city for the cost of damages to his home and lost rental income. His suit, which seeks at least $1.8 million, claims that the city discrim- inated against him based on his race. Dang immigrated from from Vietnam when he was 14. The judge’s order that Rockaway Beach pay $213,000 doesn’t include what Dang has spent so far on his federal lawsuit. April 3, 2019 KAN, Irene Tanaka, 83, of Seaside, died in Seaside. Caldwell’s Funeral & Cremation Arrangement Center of Seaside is in charge of the arrangements. PUBLIC MEETINGS MONDAY Cannon Beach Rural Fire Protection District Board, 6 p.m., Fire-Rescue Main Station, 188 Sunset Ave. Seaside City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway. Enter to PAIR KEENS! In a stunning loss for Rockaway Beach, a judge has ruled that the Ore- gon C oast town must pay $213,000 to a beachfront property owner who has fought for years to stop his vacation home from get- ting washed away by win- ter storms. In an order Wednes- day, Tillamook County Cir- cuit Judge Jonathan Hill cited a state law that allows him to award legal costs to homeowner Tai Dang if the city acted in ways that were “reckless, willful, malicious, in bad faith or illegal.” The judge found that the city wasn’t “objectively reasonable” in its pro- longed fi ght against Dang. He awarded Dang about $201,000 in fees for his attorneys and $12,000 in other litigation costs. The judge cited glar- ing problems with the way Rockaway Beach han- dled Dang’s case — fi rst by granting Dang permits to build the house on that precise spot of beachfront property in 2008, then years later fl ipping its position and saying Dang couldn’t repair damage to the home from winter storms because the city now believed he built too close to the ocean. The judge noted the city brushed off the impassioned warnings of then-City Council member Mardi Wing, who in 2016 emailed the city manager at the time, Lars Gare, that the continu- ing battle was wrong. “(F)rankly I am shocked that it has even gotten as far as it did,” Wing wrote. “ ... The real issue is that the city issued a permit and then refused to stand behind it.” By then, Dang had already been trying for a year to install a permanent wall of riprap to form a pro- tective buffer between the ocean and his home. But because the city wouldn’t sign off on the barrier, the state — which has the fi nal word on riprap installation — said “no.” Wing wrote: “If he loses his home, no one is going to want to invest in RB. There will be a negative impact on the surrounding prop- erty owners’ value and any- DEATH Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. WIN O A F ber Orchestra, under the direction of conductor Cory Pederson, is an all-vol- unteer ensemble of North Coast musicians dedicated to providing local audi- ences with the opportunity to hear live classical music. The Chamber Orchestra will perform two selections separate from the choir: Johannes Brahms’ “Sere- nade No. 1, Op 11 (move- ment 1)” and Pietro Mass- cagni’s “Selections from Cavalleria Rusticana.” For more information about the orchestra, and to view the full 2019 concert schedule, visit northoregon- coastsymphony.org and the orchestra’s Facebook page. Rockaway Beach must pay $213K in fi ght with beachfront owner By AIMEE GREEN The Oregonian Astoria through Thursday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 61°/44° Normal high/low ........................... 55°/40° Record high ............................ 78° in 1966 Record low ............................. 30° in 2009 dren under 12 (with adult supervision). The program, titled “Spring Voices,” features performances by the Neah- Kah-Nie choir alone and alongside the North Coast Chamber Orchestra. The show — which blends voices, strings, winds and percussion — captures the arrival of spring and evokes the hope and promise of the season. The Neah-Kah-Nie High Choir, directed by Michael Simpson, consists of 25 stu- dents who will present sev- eral choral selections alone to showcase their spirited arrangements. The North Coast Cham- TUESDAY 59 41 Rain at times The North Coast Chamber Orchestra. 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