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A7 THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2019 Port Commission fi xes security truck snafu By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian The Daily Astorian Crabbing boats unload on the west side of Pier 2 in 2016. Port: An ODOT inspection last year found 48 bents Continued from Page A1 Several years ago, the Port received a $1.5 million state Department of Transpor- tation grant to replace a large area of the deteriorated dock on the west side of Pier 2. Knight recently gave up the grant after the Port was unable to raise the local match of $660,000, and after the agency realized the issues underneath the pier would make any dock work ineffective. While Pier 2 west is the worst side, much of the structure under the east side is also in need of dire repair. A Department of Trans- portation inspection late last year found 48 bents “with minimal or no bearing under the timber posts or on top of the timber piles.” The state recommended an immediate 3-ton weight limit and a complete closure of the east side of the pier beginning this month if the repairs were not completed. The P ort has enacted the weight limit and repaired several of the bents in-house, but has not shut the pier down. A similar state recommendation led the Port to shut down a causeway over the East Mooring Basin last year. It will take months before the Port can fi n- ish enough of the repairs to remove the weight restrictions on Pier 2, Knight said, but the east side of the pier is not as bad as the west. “We’re not in trouble with ODOT,” he said. The Port of Astoria Commission on Tuesday retroactively approved the pur- chase of a new Ford security truck by staff that had violated the agency’s rules on spending. Jim Knight, the Port’s executive direc- tor , said staff knew about a $25,000 spending limit but forgot to secure com- mission approval before buying the truck for nearly $29,700. The Port had previously budgeted $20,000 for a new security truck. To avoid a future audit fi nding, the c ommis- sion needed to retroactively approve the purchase, Knight said. Commissioner Bill Hunsinger, who was not at the meeting Tuesday, had taken issue with the Port buying the truck from a dealer in the Portland area instead of from a local company. Local dealers did not have the kind of truck the Port was looking for at a low enough mileage, Knight said, and so the Port expanded its search to Portland and found a suitable vehicle. The Port used local companies to install security fea- tures on the truck, he said. Commissioner Dirk Rohne, after cred- iting Hunsinger with bringing the issues around the security truck to light, said the Port could have gone to local dealers with its requirements and been accommodated, even if the truck came from elsewhere. “I think that was a missing step that could have supported our local car deal- ers,” Rohne said. Forum: App can help people track appearances of moles over time Continued from Page A1 encourage people to exam- ine their skin and seek treat- ment if things seem off — to increase their “melanoma literacy” —will launch in Portland in May. It’s an experiment, an attempt to replicate some- thing that happened in a northern German city, which offered free skin cancer screenings and saw a dra- matic decline in the death rate due to melanoma. All because people were look- ing at their skin. Oregon has a simi- lar population: The pale- skinned descendants of northern Europeans who are more likely to get skin can- cers like melanoma in the fi rst place. “We’re going to repeat the experiment, but we’re going to set it up right,” Leachman said. If they get it right, she believes they could change how early detection is under- stood and pursued for other types of deadly cancers. “Melanoma is the perfect model for early detection,” she said. “It’s the one that you can see. It’s the really lethal, fairly common can- cer in Oregon that you can actually see.” “So,” she added, “we start with melanoma but then we move to other can- cers, too, because there are other cancers that can ben- efi t from early detection but you don’t know how to really do it until you’ve done it. So we’re creating a model as we go.” But the researchers are also going to ask them- selves a series of questions : Did they increase literacy? Did they save lives? Was it cost-effective? “Because you can imag- ine that if I’m successful and I’m able to tell every single person in the state, ‘Just look at your skin and if you see something, do something,’ and I do that and it fl oods the system with all these people who think that they may have a melanoma and a lot of biopsies get done, a lot of those may not need to be done,” Leachman said. For Clatsop County res- idents and other rural Ore- gonians, there is often a disconnect between the medical care they need and what’s available locally. In the audience for Leachman’s talk, most of the people who saw dermatologists regu- larly went to urban areas for screenings and treatment. Through the w ar on m el- anoma, however, Leachman is working with family doc- tors as a starting point for understanding what might be changing on a person’s skin. A growing or changing mole doesn’t need to look like the textbook pictures for someone to take action. Just being “body aware,” aware of changes to the skin, and seeking out information and treatment is enough to lead to the better outcome, she said. There are technologi- cal changes for early detec- tion in the works, as well. E-visits could be one way to bridge the gap between rural needs and urban med- ical facilities. There is a new app — MoleMapper — that helps people track the appearance of moles over time. F or Leachman, the big step is for individuals to start paying attention to their own skin. 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