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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.
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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.
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