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THE ASTORIAN • SATuRdAy, JuNE 29, 2019
Folk: ‘Cheri touched so
many lives in so many ways’
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The state plans a new round of water testing at Cannon Beach.
Waters: Oregon has some of the
cleanest beaches in the nation overall
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Whether the cause for
a spike is cow, elk, bird,
human or dog excrement,
the new test “doesn’t tell
you how much, it only tells
you if,” said Aaron Boris-
enko, water quality monitor-
ing manager for the Depart-
ment of Environmental
Quality.
“It starts to give you
some idea of what the more
likely sources are, and then
you can tailor any sort of
actions,” he said, adding,
“It could help refine what’s
going on there.”
The city weathered a
one-day health advisory for
ocean waters earlier this
month.
Last year, after high read-
ings and a health advisory
during the summer, city
leaders said they had ruled
out human sources infiltrat-
ing from wastewater treat-
ment infrastructure.
Engineers started to look
at whether installing ultra-
violet light filters at out-
falls or opening up the pipes
and exposing runoff to sun-
light could be viable options
to kill off bacteria before it
hits the beach. But the city
is not proceeding aggres-
sively with either option at
this point.
There are costs to con-
sider. Open pipes would
likely require a reconfigura-
tion and usher in other moni-
toring challenges. City Man-
ager Bruce St. Denis said an
ultraviolet light filter sys-
tem could cost the city half a
million to a million dollars.
And there’s the fact that the
high readings of fecal bacte-
ria seem to come and go at
random.
“You’d be spending a
great deal of money, but
most of the time there’s
nothing to treat,” St. Denis
said.
Oregon has some of
the cleanest beaches in the
nation overall, Borisenko
said, but Cannon Beach con-
sistently ranks high on the
list of concerns.
The nonprofit Surfrider
Foundation has tested water
at outfalls around Cannon
Beach for the past decade
and says 25% to 50% of
readings have exceeded state
standards, depending on the
year. The state’s beach mon-
itoring program recorded
a handful of high readings
since 2016.
“We just have a few spots
here and there where trouble
crops up,” Borisenko said.
“(Cannon Beach) is high on
our ranking and always will
be because of the amount
of beach use and because
we do get these periodic
(bacteria levels above state
thresholds).”
Ingesting infected water
can result in illness, accord-
ing to the Oregon Health
Authority.
the Astoria Plywood Mill,
which has since become the
Mill Pond neighborhood.
“Wherever good things
happened in Astoria, you
could find Cheri Folk,”
Van Dusen said. “I will
miss her dearly.”
Folk started as a loan
officer,
graduated
to
branch manager and in
1981 became president
and CEO of the bank. She
held the position until her
retirement in 2009.
As a woman with-
out a college degree,
Folk said in a 2008 inter-
view, “I never in my wild-
est dreams thought that
I would be the president
and CEO of a community
bank.”
Folk became the first
woman elected chair-
woman of the Oregon
Bankers Association and
also served on the boards
for the Independent Com-
munity Banks of Oregon
and American Bankers
Association Government
Relations Council in
Washington, D.C. For-
mer Gov. Barbara Roberts
appointed Folk to the state
Banking Board.
Wa s h i n g t o n - b a s e d
Columbia Bank acquired
Bank of Astoria in 2004.
Heather Seppa replaced
Folk after her retirement
and served as president
until 2013, when Bank
of Astoria rebranded as
Columbia Bank and she
became senior vice presi-
dent and regional manager.
“Cheri touched so many
lives in so many ways,”
Seppa said. “Not only was
she a professional mentor
to me, but she was like my
second mother. I literally
grew up at the bank, start-
dation and the Clatsop
County Historical Society.
Folk and Janet Niemi,
the former executive
director of the hospital’s
foundation, founded Asto-
ria Women Executives in
2001 as a networking sup-
port group for local female
professionals.
“She had very high mor-
als and ideals, but she was
never judgmental,” Niemi
said. “She was a guiding
light to women and a won-
derful role model for me.”
In 1990, Folk won the
George Award, Astoria’s
citizen-of-the-year honor
presented by the Asto-
ria-Warrenton Area Cham-
ber of Commerce.
Folk, along with for-
mer Astoria Mayor Edith
Henningsgaard
Miller,
received the inaugural
Lady Liberty Award in
2012 for her exemplary
local volunteerism and
professional accomplish-
ments. Folk served on the
board of Liberty Resto-
ration, Inc., for more than
a decade and helped spear-
head the restoration of the
Liberty Theatre.
Steve Forrester, the
president and CEO of
EO Media Group, pre-
ceded Folk as president
of Liberty Restoration,
Inc. He described her as
central to the theater’s
resurgence.
“In promoting the cause
of the theater’s restoration
and in raising money,
Cheri was undaunted and
tireless,” Forrester said.
Cheri Folk, former president
of the Bank of Astoria, died
Wednesday.
ing when I was 18.
“As a teller, I remem-
ber her being so approach-
able and encouraging. I’ll
never forget when she
walked in our downtown
Astoria branch and called
me a ‘super teller.’ She
had a way of building your
confidence and inspiring
you as an employee.”
Seppa credited Folk
with helping to move
the Clatsop County Fair-
grounds from Astoria
to land off state High-
way 202, and for help-
ing to fund the construc-
tion of the Astoria Aquatic
Center.
Folk’s volunteer efforts
touched tens of local
groups, including the
Columbia River Mari-
time Museum, Lewis &
Clark National Park Asso-
ciation, Columbia Memo-
rial Hospital Foundation,
Clatsop Community Col-
lege Foundation, United
Way of Clatsop County,
Assistance League of the
Columbia Pacific, Astoria
Rotary Club, Astoria High
School Scholarship, Inc.,
Oregon Community Foun-
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Seattle
67 51
69 54
66 55
Partly sunny Clouds and sun Mostly cloudy
65 55
A shower
possible
66 54
68 54
A few morning
Mostly cloudy
showers
68 54
Partly sunny
Aberdeen
Olympia
68/51
75/55
Wenatchee
Tacoma
Moses
Lake
74/49
ALMANAC
UNDER THE SKY
TODAY'S TIDES
Astoria through Thursday
Tonight’s Sky: Emerging in from
the east, Delphinus, the Dolphin,
is the smallest constellation of
the night sky.
Astoria / Port Docks
Temperatures
High/low ................................ 65/53
Normal high/low .................. 65/51
Record high .................. 87 in 1995
Record low .................... 42 in 1965
Precipitation
Thursday ................................. Trace
Month to date ........................ 0.65”
Normal month to date ......... 2.38”
Year to date .......................... 22.66”
Normal year to date ........... 35.74”
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Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
Sunrise today .................. 5:27 a.m.
Sunset tonight ............... 9:11 p.m.
Moonrise today .............. 3:15 a.m.
Moonset today .............. 6:00 p.m.
First
Full
12:01 p.m. 5.9 5:49 a.m.
11:20 p.m. 8.2 5:21 p.m.
Cape Disappointment
11:36 a.m. 5.4 5:02 a.m.
11:00 p.m. 8.0 4:34 p.m.
Last
11:49 a.m. 6.0 5:23 a.m.
11:11 p.m. 8.5 4:57 p.m.
Warrenton
11:56 a.m. 6.3 5:33 a.m.
11:15 p.m. 8.6 5:05 p.m.
Knappa
12:38 p.m. 6.2 6:50 a.m.
11:57 p.m. 8.4 6:22 p.m.
Depoe Bay
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80/51
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78/56
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77/56
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77/49
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78/50
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79/48
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79/43
86/53
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84/53
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