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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2019
IN BRIEF
Warrenton considers plans
for Spur 104 development
WARRENTON — People interested in how a wedge
of properties in Warrenton near Home Depot are devel-
oped can provide feedback during open house events
this week.
The 19-acre Spur 104 site underwent a zone change
earlier this year to allow mixed-use commercial and
high-density residential development. Up to 500 units of
housing could be built in the new neighborhood.
City leaders are requiring a master plan to guide
future development and design at Spur 104. Commu-
nity Development Director Kevin Cronin will host open
house events and workshops beginning Tuesday and
running through Thursday to develop the master plan.
The workshops and open houses begin at 4 p.m.
each day and will be held in the historic Fenton Grocery
Building at 60 S. Main Ave. On Thursday, the Planning
Commission will meet for a presentation about the mas-
ter plan and public discussions at 5 p.m.
Volunteers tackle Scotch broom
CANNON BEACH — Volunteers can help the Ecola
Creek Watershed Council pull, cut and otherwise “bust”
Scotch broom plants in Cannon Beach on Saturday.
The annual Ecola Creek Broom Buster work party
begins at Les Shirley Park at 10 a.m. and continues
through noon. Volunteers will clear plants at NeCus Park
once work is done at Les Shirley.
Scotch broom is an invasive shrub that can quickly
establish itself and displace native plants. Its yellow
fl owers produce a signifi cant source of pollen and the
shrub’s seeds are able to persist in soil banks for years.
Uniontown Reborn event set
The public event will be held on May 22 at the Hol-
iday Inn Express, 204 W. Marine Drive, from 4:30 p.m.
to 6:30 p.m. An introductory presentation will begin
at 5 p.m. Representatives from the city and the Ore-
gon Department of Transportation will be available to
answer questions.
The event is the third meeting city leaders have hosted
to gather input from the community, specifi cally from
Uniontown residents and business and property owners.
The input will inform the Astoria Uniontown Reborn
Master Plan, which will direct future planning decisions
and improvements in the historic neighborhood at the
city’s western gateway.
— The Astorian
DEATH
May 2, 2019
THOMPSON, Hubert Carl Jr., 57 of Warrenton, died
in Warrenton. Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary of
Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
MEMORIALS
Saturday, May 11
REDMOND, John S.
— Memorial and cele-
bration of life at Camp 18
Restaurant, 42362 U.S.
Highway 26 in Elsie . The
loggers’ names are being
read starting at 10 a.m.;
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
share memories in the
downstairs banquet room.
Redmond, 68, of Seaside,
died Friday, April 5, 2019,
in Lincoln City.
HOWE, Gordon —
Celebration of life at 2 p.m.,
39th Street Pier behind
Rogue Ales Public House.
ON THE RECORD
DUII
• Around 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dawn Wojick, 47,
of Hillsboro, was arrested by Astoria police near Irving
Avenue and 12th S treet for driving under the infl uence
of intoxicants. Her blood alcohol content was 0.13%.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
TUESDAY
Seaside Community Center
Commission, 10:30 a.m.,
Bob Chisholm Center, 1225
Avenue A.
Port of Astoria Commis-
sion, 4 p.m., workshop, Port
offi ces, 10 Pier 1, Suite 209.
Seaside Library Board,
4:30 p.m., Seaside Public
Library, 1131 Broadway.
Clatsop Care Health District
Board, 5 p.m., Clatsop Retire-
ment Village, 947 Olney Ave.
Miles Crossing Sanitary
Sewer District Board, 6 p.m.,
34583 U.S. Highway 101
Business.
Astoria Planning Commis-
sion, 6:30 p.m., City Hall, 1095
Duane St.
Cannon Beach City Council,
Off-road bikepacking
event kicks off in Astoria
A race down
logging and
forest roads
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Astorian
Seven riders on Satur-
day kicked off the inaugural
Oregon Emerald Outback, a
bicycle race down logging
and forest roads from Asto-
ria to Brookings.
Starting at the Astoria
Column, they are riding 570
miles to Harris Beach State
Park in Brookings.
The Emerald Outback
is part of what’s known as
bikepacking, a style of bicy-
cle touring on dirt and gravel
roads in remote locales.
Ben Colwill, who splits
his years panning for gold
in Arizona and building tiny
homes in The Dalles, races
in other bikepacking events,
including an 1,100-mile
retracing of the historic Santa
Fe Trail from New Mexico
to Franklin, Missouri.
The appeal of bikepack-
ing for Colwill is “the adven-
ture, not going to work,
spending the week on your
bike cruising around the for-
est,” he said. “It is pretty
enjoyable to be out there.”
He routed the Emerald
Outback online, connecting
disparate forest and logging
roads with the occasional
trail. The route climbs a
cumulative 53,000 feet, with
road grades reaching more
than 17% in some places.
“This course is not going
to allow riders to ride through
all day,” Colwill said. “The
t errain makes it too much of
a physical challenge.”
By Monday morning,
Colwill was in the mountains
east of Tillamook, more than
110 miles into the course. A
fi ve-man peloton of riders,
including Zac Conklin from
Santa Fe, New Mexico, were
140 miles into the trek, east
of Pacifi c City.
“It’s less of a race,
more of a week out in the
woods,” Conklin said of the
experience .
For the seventh rider, Dan
Thrush, a marine engineer
from Seattle who also runs
ultramarathons, the Emer-
ald Outback is training for
a ride this summer down
the Great Divide Route, the
world’s longest off-pave-
ment cycling route.
Thrush consumes 6,000
calories a day while riding,
and stops mostly for sleep.
Photos by Edward Stratton/The Astorian
Riders in the Oregon Emerald Outback started at the Astoria Column on Saturday morning and
will ride 570 miles through the Oregon Coast Range to Brookings.
MORE ONLINE
Follow the racers on the
Oregon Emerald Outback
at trackleaders.com
Seven trail riders are racing through the mountains from
Astoria to Brookings, including, from left, Quinlan Pfi ff er,
organizer Ben Colwill, Zac Conklin, Sean MacMinn, Casey
Taylor, Dan Thrush and Spencer Parise.
His front wheel includes
a generator to power his
lights and GPS. He is the
clear favorite to win, already
more than 200 miles into the
course.
“I’m really riding more
on time than on speed,”
Thrush said. “I’m just trying
to, for multiple days, keep
going for 14 to 16 hours a
day.”
The riders carry all their
camping and mechanical
gear, along with two to three
days worth of food. They fi l-
ter water from streams and
stop wherever they can to
restock on food.
“I won’t be cooking at
all,” Colwill said. “Every-
thing will pretty much be
processed food, sub sand-
wiches, whatever the gas sta-
tions can supply.”
He’d like the Emerald
Outback to be an expanded,
annual race, similar to the
Steens Mazama, a 1,000-
mile bikepacking event
from Portland to the fault-
block mountain in southeast
Oregon.
Driver gets car stuck in the Necanicum River
7 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower
St.
Seaside Planning Commis-
sion, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989
Broadway.
WEDNESDAY
Wickiup Water District
Board, 6:30 p.m., 92648
Svensen Market Road,
Svensen.
THURSDAY
Seaside Convention Center
Commission, 10:30 a.m., 415
First Ave.
Cannon Beach Academy,
5:30 p.m., 3781 S. Hemlock.
Gearhart Planning Com-
mission, 6 p.m., City Hall, 698
Pacifi c Way.
Gearhart Planning Com-
mission, 6 p.m., City Hall, 698
Pacifi c Way.
By BRENNA VISSER
The Astorian
A man who was report-
edly driving erratically and
at a high rate of speed got his
car stuck in the Necanicum
River estuary between Sea-
side and Gearhart on Sunday
morning.
Around 10:45 a.m., Gear-
hart police and fi re received
a report of a Honda Accord
that had driven into the river .
The driver was apparently
on the southern half of Gear-
hart’s beach, which does not
permit cars.
After getting stuck, t he
driver was able to walk
out of the car on his own.
A passenger was escorted
by Gearhart Fire Chief Bill
Eddy through the river,
which at the time was about
3 feet deep.
Gearhart police are
still investigating , but said
the incident appears to be
caused by “speed and bad
decisions.” The driver and
passenger were not local.
Emergency
personnel
and the Sons of Beaches —
a 4x4 club that often helps
motorists who get stuck on
the beach — worked to get
the car out of the water.
Brenna Visser/The Astorian
A driver got stuck in the Necanicum River estuary on Sunday.
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