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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2019
Homeless: ‘Some
people act completely
different once you get
alcohol on board’
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Kent Larson, of DLR Group, looks over a section of the deteriorating exterior of the youth facility in Warrenton.
Jail: County still hopes to have the
state pay the $1.5 million in repairs
“It doesn’t mean, ‘W e’ll
have this kind of addiction
program.’ It’s fundamen-
tally, ‘W hat do we need to
do in this building?’” Phil-
lips said. “What is it going
to look like to process new
(people into) custody?
What is it going take to
do the laundry? What is it
going to look like to do the
food service? If you have
120 inmates, how much
space do you need to store
their property?”
Doing this work also
gives the sheriff’s offi ce,
which oversees the jail,
the opportunity to think
about ways to make the jail
more effi cient. For exam-
ple, it’s important to think
about how inmates travel
within the jail, Phillips
said. A dedicated hallway
between where people are
held and the visiting room,
for instance , would elimi-
nate the need for deputies
to escort them .
Thinking about how
many holding rooms and
where they are placed could
also address problems offi -
cers sometimes face trying
to conduct drunken-driv-
ing investigations, Phillips
said. With only one holding
room in the Duane Street
jail, it is often a chaotic
environment .
After getting a sense
of what should go where,
engineers can get a better
idea of the size and needs
of the jail and check it
against the project’s bud-
get, said Kent Larson, the
project manager from DLR
Group.
“We’re getting the puz-
zle pieces stated at the right
size, and then conceptually
studying where those puz-
zle pieces go,” he said.
Through this process,
architects will also rec-
ommend what aspects of
the building should be
replaced versus what can
be remodeled .
There is about $1.5 mil-
lion in deferred mainte-
nance left by the state from
when the youth facility
closed in 2017, including
water intrusion issues, roofs
that need to be replaced and
fl ooring problems .
“It’s the idea of ‘now’
Transit: ‘This is a game-changer’
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route would run between
Knappa and Astoria. Another
would run between Jewell
and Seaside.
“I’m excited about that
one,” Hazen said of the Jew-
ell-to-Seaside route. “We’re
not serving Jewell, but
they’re paying taxes into our
system.”
Sunset Empire has also
proposed several additional
projects in case tax revenue
comes in above estimates.
They include local match
money for the electric bus;
adding additional weekend
hours in Astoria, Warrenton
and Seaside; and later eve-
ning service on Highway
101.
“This is a game-changer
for the state of Oregon, hav-
ing this funding,” Hazen said.
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The transit district’s top
priority for the new fund-
ing will be purchasing eight
replacement buses. They
include one electric bus
paid for in part by the Fed-
eral Transit Administration’s
l ow or n o e mission grant
program. The district has
applied to receive an electric
bus for the past three years.
The agency is also looking
to invest in several new bus
shelters and signs .
Sunset Empire is looking
to expand weekend service
between the Emerald Heights
Apartments and central Asto-
ria to help residents reach
shopping centers and con-
nections at the Astoria Tran-
sit Center, Hazen said.
The agency also hopes to
add two dedicated circula-
tor routes, one through the
Warrenton-Hammond region
and another through Seaside;
twice-daily service to Clat-
sop Community College’s
Marine and Environmental
Research and Training Sta-
tion; longer service hours
on its U.S. Highway 101
route; and a shopping shuttle
between the Knappa-Svensen
area and Astoria-Warrenton.
Of the new funding, Sun-
set Empire has to spend 1
percent on improving service
for high schoolers, Hazen
said. The agency proposes
two new limited bus routes
open to the public but specif-
ically timed to help students
in the Clatsop Works sum-
mer internship program. One
versus what you could do
later,” Larson said.
The cost of the repairs
has been factored into the
bond, but the county still
hopes to have the state
pay the $1.5 million bill,
Monica Steele, the interim
county manager, said.
Moving ahead, the
county will conduct inter-
views on Monday to fi nd
the project’s construction
management general con-
tractor, who will oversee
the construction.
In May , the county will
also recommend candidates
for an advisory commit-
tee comprised of citizens
and other community lead-
ers who will provide public
input and oversight as the
project progresses.
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Riley said it can include
actions like cussing at or
berating police or not com-
plying with an offi cer’s
requests.
She also pointed to one
example recently where
she responded to reports
of a fi ght near the Ameri-
can Legion on Exchange
Street, an area where
police frequently have
reports of problems tied to
the homeless.
Riley asked the groups
to split up and went to
talk to one person who
was very intoxicated. She
didn’t feel the need to do
much more when all of
a sudden one of the men
who had been involved in
the fi ght walked up and
punched another man in
the face right in front of
her. She had to arrest him
for his violent behavior.
Spalding has not done
a deep dive into how often
police are dealing with
“repeat customers” or
the types of calls they are
responding to across the
city. But he said the calls
involve a diverse group of
the homeless population
and there seem to be par-
ticular problem areas.
The empty lot next to
the American Legion and
the Garden of Surging
Waves is one such spot.
Riley sees many of
the same people congre-
gate peacefully for daily
lunches served by the non-
profi t Filling Empty Bel-
lies at Peoples Park off
Marine Drive.
Police are rarely, if
ever, called to Peoples
Park to deal with any kinds
of problems, she said.
“You go down there
you see a big large group
of people, all of them just
acting completely appro-
priate, really nice, friendly,
helpful to each other,”
Riley said. “That is not
what we’re seeing in other
locations. We are seeing
a difference, a different
behavior.”
But, she added, “some
people act completely dif-
ferent once you get alcohol
on board and in these other
locations.”
It’s
an
important
distinction.
“I appreciate you point-
ing that out, thank you,”
Erin Carlsen, the director
of Filling Empty Bellies,
told Riley at the task force
meeting.
“We don’t want to lump
individuals who are expe-
riencing homelessness in
the same category as peo-
ple who are having poor
behavior in our commu-
nity because it’s not about
the homeless,” Spalding
said.
“Although,” he added,
“I will say a lot of the peo-
ple who are homeless are
part of this problem. B ut
again this is about behav-
ior that’s impacting our
community, that we’re get-
ting complaints on and that
we’re responding to calls
for service.”
Still, anyone can cause
problems in the city, he
said.
When it comes to pub-
lic questions of safety or
suspicious circumstances
and the homeless, police
are often juggling per-
ception versus reality, the
police chief said.
Crandall: Scored 1,248 points at Oregon State
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Basketball was big in
Astoria in those days, George
Crandall said.
“Did we ever play,” he
said. “Then we both played
(at Oregon State) for Slats
Gill. The basketball at Asto-
ria was going strong back
then. And I’ll tell ya, we won
the ball games.”
After high school, like
many of his teammates, Cliff
Crandall enlisted in the mili-
tary for the duration of World
War II, serving in the Army
Air Corps. He enrolled at
Oregon State in 1945.
And his basketball career
picked up just where he left
off.
In fact, Crandall’s scoring
average actually increased
with the Beavers — to the
point where he would fi n-
ish his college career as Ore-
gon State’s all-time leading
scorer.
As a four-year letterman
(and twice a team captain),
Crandall became the fi rst
player in Oregon State his-
tory to top 1,000 points. He
eventually earned all-Pa-
cifi c Coast Conference and
All-American honors (1948
and ‘49), and fi nished his
college career with 1,248
points.
The record stood until it
was passed by Dave Gambee
(1956-58), who fi nished with
1,468, and Crandall slipped
to third when Mel Counts
(1962-64) became the Bea-
vers’ all-time scoring leader
with 1,973.
Crandall is No. 17 on
Oregon State’s all-time scor-
ing list, just ahead of former
Knappa Logger Brian Jack-
son’s 1,236.
And Crandall is still on
a few other career top 10
lists in Oregon State history,
including sixth in games
played (126) and eighth in
free throws made (388).
His other career highlights
included a 29-point outburst
against Oregon (the most at
the time by an Oregon State
player vs. Oregon), and in a
1949 Final Four game, Cran-
dall led the Beavers with
18 points in the third-place
game, a 57-53 loss to Illinois
in Seattle.
Crandall was inducted
into the State of Oregon Hall
of Fame in 1981, and the
Oregon State athletic Hall
of Fame in 1990 (followed
by Palmberg’s induction in
1991).
He was drafted by the
Minneapolis Lakers in 1948,
in the NBA’s second-ever
draft, and the fi rst draft for
the Lakers.
Crandall’s obituary states,
“he was drafted by the fl edg-
ling NBA but couldn’t raise
his new family on the low
wages. Times have changed.”
Crandall
eventually
joined the San Francis-
co-based Stewart Chevro-
let AAU club, which won
the national {span}Amateur
Athletic Union{/span} title
in 1951 under head coach
and national College Hall of
Famer Hank Luisetti.
Crandall and his fam-
ily moved back to Oregon,
where he began a long career
in life insurance.
“He was an extraordinary
athlete that never bragged,”
his obituary states, and “a
caring father that was always
there, and a loving husband
with a passion for his wife of
43 years.”
Crandall is survived by
his wife, Linda; sister, Jane;
brother, George; daughter,
Shari; son, Doug; grandchil-
dren, Brett, June, Kevin and
Matthew; and great-grand-
children , Mei Lien, Kai Li
and Cody.
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