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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
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Mostly cloudy with a
little rain
MONDAY
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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-
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Mostly cloudy, chance of
a little rain
Mostly cloudy with a
couple of showers
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ASTORIA
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Tillamook
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Precipitation
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Month to date ................................... 0.29"
Normal month to date ....................... 0.83"
Year to date .................................... 15.34"
Normal year to date ........................ 25.67"
Salem
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Newport
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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
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Last
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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
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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
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The North Coast Chamber Orchestra.
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