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Newspaper Page TextA2 THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2019 Osprey chick dies in Seaside nest IN BRIEF Teenager involved in fatal motorcycle crash Birds featured in livestream A teenager was driving a vehicle down a logging road on Saturday night when a motorcyclist struck the vehicle head on, authorities said. The motorcyclist, Andrew Nick Glegor, 30, of Asto- ria, turned onto a logging road to escape a police pursuit. The Clatsop County Sheriff’s Ofﬁ ce said they got a report of a crash on Pipeline Road 25 minutes after the pursuit ended. The sheriff’s ofﬁ ce said Glegor died as a result of the crash. In a press release Thursday, the sheriff’s ofﬁ ce initially said three teenagers were in the vehicle. But the sheriff’s ofﬁ ce corrected the information to say one teenager was in the vehicle and the other two teens were witnesses in separate vehicles. The sheriff’s ofﬁ ce said alcohol or drugs are not believed to be factors in the crash and that “the teens were out enjoying the forest.” Seaside defers to state on plastic bag ban SEASIDE — The city had the opportunity to get the jump on the state in enacting a single-use plastic bag ban. Ultimately, the City Council decided the environmen- tal mantle they might have received was outweighed by complications of an ordinance that could compete with a new state law that takes effect in January. Laura Allen, a longtime local advocate for a ban, said she hoped the city would pass the ordinance as a state- ment. “We never know what’s going to go on at the state level,” she said at a meeting on Monday. But city councilors decided the distinction was not per- suasive enough to move forward. “From my perspective the state law does cover what we worked hard to cover in the community,” Mayor Jay Barber said. County wants to ﬁ ll position on transportation commission By KATIE FRANKOWICZ The Astorian SEASIDE — The last of three osprey chicks in a Sea- side nest that is the subject of a popular online livestream died sometime Wednesday night. The chicks lived in a nest above Broadway Park that has been monitored by cam- era since 2013, providing online viewers with around- the-clock opportunities to see ospreys in the wild. An osprey pair — nicknamed “Bob and Betty” by viewers — were raising three chicks this year. But the ﬁ rst two chicks died soon after the disap- pearance of the adult male osprey at the end of June. Despite some hope that the third chick would survive, the female osprey struggled to bring sufﬁ cient food back and appeared to be absent from the nest entirely for at least 24 hours earlier this week. Some viewers reported that she showed up Wednes- day afternoon with a ﬁ sh, but after hours alone in the nest, Seaside Osprey Nestcam An osprey chick, center, in a nest in Seaside’s Broadway Park rests near its mother on Monday. The chick died on Wednesday. Two other siblings had died earlier in the month, soon after the disappearance of the adult male osprey in late June. exposed to rain and chilly weather, the chick was not in any shape to eat . Wildlife rescue groups and the Necanicum Water- shed Council, which main- tains the nest camera, could not intervene after the male osprey disappeared. Federal regulations protect migratory bird nests and forbid anyone from disturbing a nest while chicks are present. “We are heartbroken of the passing of all three chicks in the osprey nest and the dis- appearance of the male this year,” the Necanicum Water- shed Council wrote in a Face- book post Thursday morning, Coast Guard buoy tender arrives Monday The Clatsop County Board of Commissioners is accepting applications for a position on the Northwest Oregon Area Commission on Transportation. The commission is an advisory group to the Oregon Transportation Commission and provides a local forum for transportation issues. The commission covers Clatsop, Columbia, Tillamook and western Washington counties. To apply, go to www.co.clatsop.or.us. Deadline to apply is Aug 9. — The Astorian The Coast Guard cutter Elm is scheduled to arrive around 10 a.m. Monday in Astoria, where it will be homeported at North Tongue Point. The 225-foot buoy tender Quake rattles Seattle area Alameda apartments sell to California couple EVERETT, Wash. — Two earthquakes shook the Puget Sound region in Washington state early Friday morning, with the temblors felt into British Columbia and across the Cascade Mountains into the eastern part of the state. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The U.S. Geological Survey reported that a 4.6 mag- nitude earthquake rattled the Three Lakes area, about 40 miles northeast of Seattle. That was followed minutes later by a 3.5 magnitude aftershock near the city of Mon- roe, some 30 miles northeast of Seattle. — Associated Press DEATHS July 10, 2019 GINN, Rita Teresa Mary, 90, of Astoria, died in Astoria. Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements. BIRTH July 2, 2019 PAYTON, Meredith, and FAGERLAND, Jon, of Astoria, a girl, Bente Elaine Fagerland, born at Colum- bia Memorial Hospital in Astoria. Grandparents are Mark and Diane Payton, of Moscow, Idaho, and Erik and Patricia Fagerland, of Long Beach, Washington. PUBLIC MEETINGS MONDAY Cannon Beach Rural Fire Protection District Board, 6 p.m., Fire-Rescue Main Station, 188 Sunset Ave. Jewell School Board, 6 p.m., Jewell School library, 83874 Oregon Highway 103. Astoria City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 1095 Duane St. TUESDAY Astoria Historic Landmarks Commission, 5:15 p.m., City Hall, 1095 Duane St. Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District, 5:15 p.m., Bob Chisholm Community Center, 1225 Avenue A, Seaside. Lewis & Clark Fire De- partment Board, 6 p.m., main ﬁ re station, 34571 U.S. Highway 101 Business. Shoreline Sanitary District Board, 7 p.m., Gearhart Hertig Station, 33496 West Lake Lane, Warrenton. Seaside Planning Commis- sion, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway. Established July 1, 1873 Circulation phone number: 503-325-3211 Periodicals postage paid at Astoria, OR (USPS 035-000) Published Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday by EO Media Group, 949 Exchange St., PO Box 210, Astoria, OR 97103 Telephone 503-325-3211, 800-781-3211 or Fax 503-325-6573. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Astorian, PO Box 210, Astoria, OR 97103-0210 DailyAstorian.com ADVERTISING OWNERSHIP All advertising copy and illustrations prepared by The Astorian become the property of The Astorian and may not be reproduced for any use without explicit prior approval. COPYRIGHT © Entire contents © Copyright, 2019 by The Astorian. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEMBER CERTIFIED AUDIT OF CIRCULATIONS, INC. Printed on recycled paper Subscription rates Eﬀ ective May 1, 2019 MAIL (IN COUNTY) EZpay (per month) ...............................................................................................................$11.25 13 weeks in advance ...........................................................................................................$37.00 26 weeks in advance ...........................................................................................................$71.00 52 weeks in advance ........................................................................................................ $135.00 Out of County Rates available at 800-781-3214 DIGITAL EZpay (per month) .................................................................................................................$8.00 and explained they were shut- ting down the livestream for the season. Angie Reseland, execu- tive director for the watershed council, ﬁ rst shut down the camera at 3 a.m. Thursday. The night before, she heard from the Wildlife Center of the North Coast that the last chick appeared to be dying. “I woke up thinking about it,” she said. She thought: “If I shut the camera down now early in the morning, nobody will have to wake up and see this.” The feed came back on a couple of more times, but was completely shut down by mid morning. “Thank you for pro- viding the camera,” one woman wrote in response to the watershed council’s announcement. “It’s interest- ing to watch nature, the good, bad and ugly.” Osprey begin breeding activities in the spring and can lay up to four eggs. M ale osprey typically take on the role of provider and bring food to the female while she sits on the eggs, according to information provided by the watershed council. Chicks begin to ﬂ y about 52 days after they hatch, often in late July or early August, but continue to return to their nest for food and rest between practice ﬂ ights. Mature osprey head south for the winter and return to the North Coast to breed in the spring. Osprey live on a diet of ﬁ sh and it is believed the chicks in the Broadway Park nest starved to death. Last year, Bob and Betty successfully reared three chicks to maturity. “So now it’s like the oppo- site, the swinging pendulum,” Reseland said. She sighed, paused and added, “Next year, it’s going to go great.” The Astorian is operated by the same crew from the cutter Fir, which left Astoria for maintenance at the Coast Guard Yard in Balti- more, Maryland, last year as part of a Coast Guard-wide hull swap. The Elm comes to Asto- ria from its own midlife over- By EDWARD STRATTON The Astorian A 12-unit apartment complex on Alameda Ave- nue, formerly used as a sober-living facility for Klean Treatment Centers, will become market-rate apartments after being sold. Sean Fitzpatrick and Anne Carpenter recently sold the three-building complex to Bill and Sha- ron Hamblin from Southern California for $1.5 million. “It was time,” Fitzpat- rick said. “We’ve owned them for 15 years, and we’ve done everything we can do with the property.” The Hamblins plan to rent the apartments out at market rate using Paciﬁ c Capital Management, par- tially owned by Fitzpat- rick’s brother, Shannon. The apartments were adver- tised in April for between $1,200 and $1,300 a month and have mostly ﬁ lled up. Klean Treatment Cen- ters rented the apartment complex for $13,000 but allegedly fell behind by more than $44,000 before emptying out and being sued by Fitzpatrick and Carpenter’s company, Wecoma Partners, for non- payment of rent. They also sued the company for back- due rent at ofﬁ ces Fitzpat- rick owns and rented to the company at 12th and Exchange streets. The two received default judg ments against Klean at the apartments and ofﬁ ces, where Fitzpatrick will hold haul at the Coast Guard Yard, before which it spent 20 years maintaining more than 250 navigational aids from central New Jersey to South Carolina. Like the Fir, the Elm will maintain more than 100 nav- igational aids up the Colum- bia River to Longview, Wash- State selects Port pollution cleanup plan By EDWARD STRATTON The Astorian Edward Stratton/The Astorian A 12-unit apartment complex on Alameda Avenue has been sold. an estate sale next month. “We’re preparing the property for a new occu- pant,” he said. Fitzpatrick and Carpen- ter also own the Illahee Apartments. Fitzpatrick is developing the Astoria Oregon Market- place, an indoor food court and taproom, in the former J.C. Penney store down- town in partnership with Baked Alaska co-owner Christopher Holen. The two originally hoped to open in October but have not started any signiﬁ cant buildout, blaming delays related to permitting and contractors. Fitzpatrick said h e is now trying to get an engi- neer for the project and ﬁ n- ish some of the building’s infrastructure . “With the economy as strong as it is, it’s hard to ﬁ nd qualiﬁ ed people, craftspeople and engi- neers,” he said. ington, and along the Oregon and Washington state coast- lines from the border with California to the Strait of Juan d e Fuca. The aids play an essential role facilitating shipping to ports in Coos Bay, Newport, Astoria, Portland, Longview and Seattle. State regulators have set- tled on excavation of con- taminated soil and a pro- tective cap to clean up and contain the worst of the petro- leum pollution on the Port of Astoria’s central waterfront. “This is a major milestone in a long-term effort to clean up historical contamination that poses a threat to peo- ple, ﬁ sh and wildlife,” Laura Gleim, a spokeswoman for the state D epartment of Envi- ronmental Quality, said of the state’s ﬁ nal decision. “The selected cleanup plan is a cul- mination of 25 years of inves- tigation and 10 years of rem- edy development, negotiation and public involvement.” Since the early 1900s, bulk fuel storage and distri- bution facilities, manufactur- ers, auto service stations and other industrial ﬁ rms lined the Port’s central waterfront. The operations left behind underground pipes, tanks and pockets of pollution under the Port’s docks. The heavi- est stretch of pollution runs beneath a commercial com- plex at the corner of Gate- way and Hamburg avenues and the Port’s former ofﬁ ces to the southeastern base of a slip between piers 2 and 3. In the late 1990s, an underground pipe leaked near the Port’s old ofﬁ ces and released a sheen of oil into the Columbia River between piers 2 and 3. The state began negotiations with the Port, Niemi Oil, Harris Industries and McCall Oil & Chemical Corp. to investigate the cause and plan a cleanup. The chosen remedy involves excavating contam- inated soil between piers 2 and 3, ﬁ lling the area with a sloped layer of clay, silt, sand and absorbent material to stop pollution from reach- ing the river. How the barrier will be protected from waves and rough weather will be determined during design. A soil venting system would reduce vapor from reaching buildings above the pollu- tion. Monitoring wells would track effectiveness of the barrier. Over the years, contam- inants have been pumped out, pipelines decommis- sioned, underground storage tanks removed and the Port’s stormwater system rerouted to avoid the main areas of pollution around the cen- tral waterfront. Booms were placed at the base of Pier 1 to catch fuel leaching into the river. The measures have led to a general decrease of petro- leum in the groundwater. The excavation and cap would be a ﬁ nal step in the decadeslong cleanup. The state identiﬁ ed the Port, as the landlord, and three oil companies — McCall, Exx- onMobil and Niemi — as responsible parties . “DEQ will continue working with these parties to design and implement the proposed remedy in the next few years,” Gleim said. The cost of the cleanup depends on the design. Pre- vious sediment cap proposals topped $3.5 million. Lawyers for the Port will detail the chosen cleanup plan at a Port Commission meeting Tuesday. Please ADOPT A PET! 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