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THE ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 2019
Sky high at the county fair
IN BRIEF
Town hall planned on
immigration enforcement
A town hall meeting to discuss immigration
enforcement is planned for Wednesday night at First
Presbyterian Church in Astoria.
“The meeting will give the community an oppor-
tunity to identify possible rights violations ... as well
as potential actions we could take if the attendees
decided they were in order,” Larry Taylor, a meeting
organizer, said in a news release.
Topics will include the federal detention of Fabian
Alberto Zamora-Rodriguez on July 18 at the Clat-
sop County Courthouse. There will also be discus-
sion about the circumstances of Zamora-Rodriguez’s
arrest for encouraging child sexual abuse and other
charges in February.
“The issue is more broad than the rights of Mr.
Zamora-Rodriguez,” Taylor said.
The meeting will start at 7 p.m. at the church’s Fel-
lowship Hall.
Fort George to receive
electric vehicle charging port
Fort George Brewery will install a new electric
vehicle charging station funded by Pacifi c Power.
The charging port will be located in a parking
lot across Duane Street from the brewery’s main
pub, where the company keeps a bicycle shelter
for employees. Fort George hopes to have the port
installed by spring, said Jack Harris, co-owner of the
brewery.
Pacifi c Power’s grant program will cover up to 100
percent of the project cost.
Launched last year, the electric charging station
grant program has awarded more than $700,000 to 25
nonprofi ts, local governments and businesses around
the state. This round of grant funding gave nearly
$300,000 to fund 27 ports at Oregon-based work-
place charging and publicly accessible charging sta-
tions that advance transportation electrifi cation.
Rocka holds meet and greet Saturday
Astoria City Councilor Roger Rocka will hold a
“meet your councilor” event at 10 a.m. Saturday.
The informal chat is being held at Three Cups Cof-
fee House, 279 W. Marine Drive, where Rocka wel-
comes residents’ thoughts, ideas and concerns about
any city issues.
Columbia Pacifi c CCO seeks
proposals for community wellness
Columbia Pacifi c Coordinated Care Organization
is seeking projects within Clatsop, Columbia and
Tillamook counties that improve the health of the
community.
The Community Wellness Investment Fund sup-
ports local solutions that address health equity and
social determinants of health in one or more of the
eight improvement priorities identifi ed in the Regional
Health Improvement Plan.
The eight priority areas include: community resil-
ience and trauma informed care; access to primary
care; access to behavioral health; access to oral health
and dental care; access to a social safety net; chronic
disease prevention; suicide prevention; and housing.
Proposals can be submitted until Aug. 31.
For more information and applications, visit bit.
ly/wellness-fund
— The Astorian
DEATH
July 26, 2019
BROWN, Calvin, 85, of Astoria, died in Port-
land. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary is in charge of the
arrangements.
Hailey Hoff man/The Astorian
Cousins Stela Flukinger, 7, right, and Cullen Haglund, 8, fl y high on the chair swing ride at the Clatsop County Fair, which
opened on Tuesday.
Coast Guard cutter seizes record cocaine haul
The Astorian
The Coast Guard cutter
Steadfast returned Tuesday
after a nearly two-month
drug patrol along the West
Coast of the Pacifi c Ocean
and a record seizure of
cocaine.
The crew of the 210-foot
medium endurance cutter
intercepted fi ve suspected
smuggling boats and seized
more than 23,000 pounds of
cocaine, a record for a ves-
sel of its size on a single
deployment, according to
the Coast Guard.
The 154-foot Coast
Guard fast-response cutter
Robert Ward took in about
3,000 pounds, bringing the
value of the drugs seized by
the two ships on the deploy-
ment to an estimated $350
million. It was the fi rst drug
seizure by a smaller fast-re-
sponse cutter in the eastern
Pacifi c Ocean.
“This was 26,000 pounds
of cocaine that will not
make it to the main streets of
the (U.S.), and it also gives
us the opportunity to make
sure we can continue to
combat transnational crimi-
nal organizations who trans-
port this cocaine deep in the
Pacifi c every single day,”
Rear Adm. Peter Gautier,
the 11th Coast Guard Dis-
trict commander, said in a
news release. “Because we
know that with a supply
chain of illegal narcotics,
at every single step there’s
Coast Guard photos
Steadfast crew members stand in front of pallets of some of the 23,000 pounds of cocaine they
seized while on patrol in the eastern Pacifi c Ocean.
violence, instability and
despair.”
The
Coast
Guard
increased U.S. and allied
presence in the eastern
Pacifi c and Caribbean Sea,
known as drug transit zones
off of Central and South
America, as part of its West-
ern Hemisphere Strategy.
During at-sea interdictions,
a suspect vessel is initially
detected and monitored
by allied, military or law
enforcement personnel. The
11th Coast Guard District
headquartered in Alameda,
California, oversees count-
er-smuggling operations.
The crew of the Coast Guard cutter Steadfast, homeported
in Astoria, intercepted fi ve suspected smuggling vessels,
including three skiff s, a fi shing vessel and a sailboat, taking in
more than 23,000 pounds of cocaine.
MEMORIAL
Saturday, Aug. 3
PARONEN, Betty Ella — Celebration of life at
11 a.m., Wickiup Grange, 92683 Svensen Market
Road in Astoria.
ON THE RECORD
DUII
• David Michael Easley, 29, was arrested Tuesday
on U.S. Highway 26 for driving under the infl uence of
intoxicants.
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A new generation of chiropractors in Astoria
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Astorian
Astoria has a new gener-
ation of chiropractors.
Alicia Smith, a Port-
land transplant with roots in
Astoria, took over Astoria
Chiropractic in Uppertown
from recently retired Barry
Sears . Smith joins Camille
Beers, a Seaside native who
earlier this year opened
Youngs Bay Chiropractic at
the foot of the South Slope.
Smith originally earned
a degree in marketing from
Portland State University as
a pragmatic way to get a job.
But she found a new calling
after being badly injured in
a car crash in 2002.
“I lost use of half of my
right hand, so that was pretty
traumatizing,” she said. “I
had neck pain and head-
aches and migraines, and
someone said you should
go to the chiropractor. And
when I did, I started getting
use of my right hand back.”
Smith worked at Dis-
cover Chiropractic to dip
her toe in the fi eld, went
back to Portland State for a
bachelor’s in human biology
and trained as a chiropractor
at the University of West-
ern States, a health sciences
school in Portland attended
by many chiropractors.
“We just came here
Photos by Edward Stratton/The Astorian
LEFT: Alicia Smith recently took over as a provider at Astoria
Chiropractic in Uppertown. RIGHT: Camille Beers, a Seaside
native, earlier this year opened Youngs Bay Chiropractic near
the Old Youngs Bay Bridge.
because there was an
opportunity to start a new
practice,” Sears said of
how Astoria Chiroprac-
tic started. “Bank of Asto-
ria was willing to loan us
some money, it seemed like
a good opportunity.”
Sears had relocated with
his wife, Ann Goldeen,
from the Bay Area to open
the practice in 1981. Gol-
deen died of cancer in 2016.
When he turned 66, Sears
decided to retire and adver-
tised the practice.
Smith saw an opportu-
nity to branch out and be
closer to family. Her parents
own Gulley’s Butcher Shop,
and her grandparents own
rental company KD Proper-
ties. Members of her family
have been treated by Sears
and Goldeen.
“I’m proud to be step-
ping into their practice,”
Smith said.
Smith
splits
time
between Astoria and Bea-
verton, where she still owns
part of Discover Chiroprac-
tic and is opening another
practice. B ut she hopes to
go full time on the Oregon
Coast.
Beers, a Seaside High
School graduate, recently
opened Youngs Bay Chiro-
practic in a former optom-
etry shop near the Old
Youngs Bay Bridge.
“I’ve been doing body
work for quite a while, since
my 20s,” she said. “It was
just the next step in further-
ing my knowledge of the
body and helping it heal.”
Like
Smith,
Beers
attended Portland State,
earning a bachelor’s in
Spanish. She planned on
going back to school, and
eventually into the medi-
cal fi eld. After moving to
Hawaii, she attended mas-
sage school, and later stud-
ied structural integration
body work in Colorado. She
trained as a chiropractor at
Western States.
Beers and Smith join
newer Warrenton additions
Jesse Brockey, a Knappa
High School graduate who
started Columbia Pacifi c
Chiropractic on Harbor
Drive, and Robert James,
a Chicago transplant who
runs James Chiropractic
Spine and Joint Center on
Main Avenue.