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THE ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 2019
IN BRIEF
New candidates in running for
Astoria community development job
Astorians will have a chance to vet two candidates for
the city’s community development director job.
The city will host a public meet and greet at 6 p.m. on
July 8 at Clatsop Community College. The candidates’
names have not been released, but will be announced at
the event.
The community development director position has
been open since October 2017, when former director
Kevin Cronin resigned.
City Manager Brett Estes, who has served as the
interim director, posted the job multiple times and
offered the position to candidates only to have the offers
fall through for a variety of reasons.
The candidate meet and greet will be held in Clatsop
Community College’s Columbia Hall, Room 219, 1651
Lexington Ave.
— The Astorian
Port of Vancouver says ‘no’
to new fossil fuel projects
Port of Vancouver commissioners passed a signifi -
cant energy policy shift that shuts the door on any future
bulk fossil fuel terminals.
By a vote of 2-1, commissioners laid out a new state-
ment: “the port chooses not to pursue new bulk fossil
fuel terminals on port-owned industrial property.”
For the past several weeks, dozens of environmen-
tal activists have crowded board meetings, urging com-
missioners to pass a new policy taking a stance against
future fossil fuel projects.
“I want to thank you for giving the necessary due dil-
igence to the proposed resolution of the renewable and
clean energy policy and most importantly for listening
to all concerns, including those of the community,” Fruit
Valley neighborhood resident and recent Goldman Envi-
ronmental Prize winner Linda Garcia said before the
vote.
“This is your chance to put Vancouver and the port on
the map to show the rest of the region and the world that
clean and renewable energy projects are sustainable,”
she added.
— Oregon Public Broadcasting
BIRTH
June 8, 2019
GONZALES, Alyssia and WEST, Frederick, of
Seaside, a boy, Ruben Isaiah Gonzales, born at Colum-
bia Memorial Hospital in Astoria. Grandparents are
Heather and Ruben Gonzales, of Seaside.
DEATHS
June 26, 2019
IVERSON, Thomas
Andrew, 72, of Astoria,
died in Astoria. Ocean
View Funeral & Cre-
mation Service of Asto-
ria is in charge of the
arrangements.
June 21, 2019
SALGADO, Juliana,
81, of Seaside, died in
Seaside. Hughes-Ransom
Mortuary is in charge of
the arrangements.
For Miss Oregon contestants,
it’s about beating their best
By KATHERINE LACAZE
For The Astorian
SEASIDE — When the
contestants step onstage
during the Miss Oregon p ag-
eant, they are encouraged to
stay focused on one primary
goal: Beating their own best.
“I’ve personally never felt
in competition with my sis-
ters,” said 16-year-old Lilly
Boothe, Miss Clatsop Coun-
ty’s Outstanding Teen, from
Clatskanie. “I truly believe
it’s a battle against yourself.
… I think we’ll all be happy
and supportive of whoever
wins.”
The Miss Oregon and
Miss Oregon’s Outstanding
Teen c ompetitions kick off
with a variety of preliminary
events Wednesday, Thursday,
and Friday. The fi nal com-
petition and crowning takes
place Saturday night at the
Seaside Civic and Conven-
tion Center.
Twenty-fi ve titleholders
from across the state are in
the running to win the Miss
Oregon crown and advance
to the Miss America competi-
tion, while 20 younger candi-
dates compete for Miss Ore-
gon’s Outstanding Teen.
The areas of competition
for the Miss Oregon candi-
dates include personal inter-
view, on stage interview, eve-
ning wear and social impact
and talent. The top fi ve fi nal-
ists also participate in a fi nal
conversation with judges,
where they express why they
are best for the job of Miss
Oregon and how serving in
the role will set the stage for
becoming a future leader.
The Outstanding Teen cat-
egories also include private
interview and talent, along
Saturday, June 29
JOHNS, Lawrence Dan “Bud” — Mass will be cel-
ebrated at 4 p.m., Our Lady of Victory Roman Catho-
lic Church, 120 Oceanway in Seaside.
ON THE RECORD
DUII
•
David
Charles
Anderegg, 64, of Damas-
cus, was arrested on Mon-
day for driving under the
infl uence of intoxicants
and reckless driving on
U.S. Highway 26 in the
U.S. Highway 101 inter-
change. The vehicle trav-
eled up an embankment,
hit a tree and slid back
down, landing on the
right side. Police said the
driver climbed out of the
car and fl ed. Law enforce-
ment found him nearby
hiding in tree debris. He
was treated for minimal
injuries. His blood alco-
hol content was 0.04%
more than four hours
after the crash.
• Vincent Lindley
Evans, 59, was arrested
on Saturday on U.S.
Highway 101 in Warren-
ton for DUII. His blood
alcohol content was
0.19%.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
THURSDAY
Sunset Empire
Transportation District
Board, 9 a.m., Astoria
Transit Center, 900 Marine
Drive.
Cannon Beach Parks and
Community Services,
9:30 a.m., work session, City
Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Clatsop County Recre-
ational Lands Planning
and Advisory Committee,
1 to 3 p.m., fourth fl oor, 800
Exchange St.
Clatsop County Human
Services Advisory Coun-
cil, 4 p.m., 800 Exchange
St., Room 430.
Cannon Beach Planning
Commission, 6 p.m., City
Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Making a difference
Sydney Rapp
Lilly Boothe, left, Miss Clatsop County’s Outstanding Teen;
Ranisha Speed, Miss Clatsop County; and Sydney Rapp, Miss
North Coast’s Outstanding Teen, are competing in the Miss
Oregon Scholarship Program.
with lifestyle and fi tness in
active wear, onstage ques-
tions in evening wear, and
scholastic achievement.
‘Practice, practice,
practice’
Miss North Coast’s Out-
standing Teen Sydney Rapp,
of Gearhart, has prepared rig-
orously for the state competi-
tion over the past few weeks .
“I take a section of the
competition every day and
practice, practice, practice,”
she said.
Not only has she reviewed
her tumbling routine for the
talent portion and the group
choreography, but she has
also honed her public speak-
ing and interviewing skills
by having her friends or
mom ask her random ques-
tions, mostly pertaining to
her platform of fi nancial lit-
eracy for kids. She is tying
Ocean salmon fi shing season
opens with mother lode of coho
By LUKE WHITTAKER
Chinook Observer
MEMORIAL
Boothe, who has been
competing in the pro-
gram since she was 12 and
advanced to state for the fi rst
time this year, agreed she has
never felt animosity toward
the winners in the past.
“They’ve always been the
most deserving young ladies
I’ve ever seen,” she said.
Pageant concludes
on Saturday
ILWACO, Wash. —
The ocean recreational
salmon fi shing season
opened Saturday with
local charter fl eets report-
ing aggressive fi sh and
frequent limits, often well
before lunchtime.
Coho salmon, also
known as silvers, are
accounting for a vast
majority of the promising
early-season catch, with a
few Chinook mixed in.
“It’s probably the best
opener we’ve had since
2014,” said Coho Charters
owner and skipper Butch
Smith moments after
returning to port with a
load of customers Monday
morning, each with their
two salmon daily limit.
“I think the million
(returning coho) predic-
tion was pretty close this
year. I think it’s going to
be an excellent year.”
The fi shing has been
fast and furious .
“We got our last fi sh
by 11 a.m.,” said West-
wind deckhand Clark Von
Essen upon returning to
port Sunday. “We limited
out quick.”
Von Essen estimated
that 95% of the catch was
coho and 5% Chinook,
which typically show up
in greater numbers later in
the summer.
“Hopefully it stays
open longer than it did last
year and we have a chance
to have a good season,”
Von Essen said.
The bounty brought in
by recreational fi shermen
has been a boon to local
canneries.
“Everybody was lim-
ited by noon all weekend
and that usually doesn’t
happen on opening day,”
said Sportsmen’s Cannery
co-owner Kevin Ward.
“It’s been very good, lots
of fi sh. It reminds of years
past, when we fi rst started
in the business and had
huge salmon years.”
The early-season catch
has matched what fi shery
managers predicted would
be a strong coho return.
An estimated 905,800
coho are projected to
return to the Colum-
bia River this year, an
increase of 619,600 fi sh
from the 2018 forecast.
About 147,000 coho actu-
ally returned to the r iver
last year.
SPIRIT OF
ADVENTURE
NORTH
COAST
her platform into her upcom-
ing senior project at Seaside
High School.
Rapp’s favorite part of the
competition is the talent cate-
gory, as she’s been tumbling
since she was 8 and fi nds it
exciting to share her love for
the activity with the audience.
Although she is focused
on the state competition at
hand, the Outstanding Teen
candidates also are aware of
the Miss America’s Outstand-
ing Teen competition coming
up in July in Florida.
“Whoever is going to be
Miss Oregon’s Outstanding
Teen has to go to the national
level right away,” Rapp said.
Although she hopes to be
that person, she reminds her-
self, “If you don’t get Miss
Oregon’s Outstanding Teen,
someone else will get it, and
they’ve also worked their
hardest.”
Miss Clatsop County Ran-
isha Speed, of Tillamook,
who is competing in the
scholarship program for the
fi rst time, said the workshop
held in May was especially
useful for familiarizing the
candidates with everything
entailed in the state compe-
tition. The candidates also
receive ample support from
their local directors and other
participants, who are touted
as a sisterhood by the Miss
Oregon Scholarship Program.
“Because a lot of these
girls have competed before,
they really offer support for
us fi rst-timers,” she said.
Although Speed and the
other two dozen contestants
are all vying to be Miss Ore-
gon, she feels staying devoted
to her own improvement and
self-empowerment enables
her not to feel “the pressure
of competitiveness.”
“All I can do is focus on
myself and appreciate the
women next to me at the
same time,” Speed said. “I
don’t think any person who
doesn’t take away the crown
of Miss Oregon is at a loss,
because we still have our
local title.”
She will continue to rep-
resent Clatsop, Tillamook
and Columbia counties and
advance her social impact
platform, The Better Me, a
nonprofi t she helped establish
that is “designed to bridge the
gap between young adults
and reality.”
Astoria planners reject
vacation rental project
By DERRICK DePLEDGE
The Astorian
A developer who wants to
convert an apartment build-
ing on Commercial Street
into an Airbnb-style rental
was turned down by the
Astoria Planning Commis-
sion on Tuesday night.
Stewardship
Homes
LLC, of Tigard, sought to
rent out fi ve units in the two-
story property in a central
commercial zone near First
Baptist Church. But city
staff recommended denial
of a conditional use request,
citing concerns over parking
and the conversion of resi-
dential apartments to short-
term rentals.
Staff found the lack of
parking would place pres-
sure on parking for resi-
dents, and noted the city is
considering a ban on con-
verting residential units to
short-term rentals.
The Planning Commis-
sion voted unanimously to
deny the request.
Daryl Moore, the com-
mission’s vice president,
said the city’s comprehen-
sive plan emphasizes main-
taining the community’s
housing stock. “Approv-
ing this application would
reduce existing housing
stock. And, for that reason, I
would be against it,” he said.
Matt Gillis, of Steward-
ship Homes, said afterward
he would likely appeal to the
City Council.
Astoria man now faces
more sex abuse charges
child sexual abuse in the fi rst
degree, 13 counts of using
An Astoria man
a child in display of
arrested in May for
sexually explicit con-
sexual abuse of a pre-
duct, nine counts of
teen girl is facing
sexual abuse in the
more charges.
fi rst degree, four
After further inves-
counts of unlawful
tigation of Doug-
sexual penetration in
las Trent Davis’ elec-
the fi rst degree, two
tronics, his charges Douglas Davis counts of sodomy in
have increased to
the fi rst degree, incest
seven counts of encouraging and luring a minor.
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