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A6 THE ASTORIAN • TuESdAy, SEpTEmbER 17, 2019 Quests: Are best done with families, couples, classes Port: Other ports on river have objected to the fee Continued from page A1 tsunami flood maps and cre- ate a plan prior to enjoying the beach. “One thing it does do is actually have you walk the evacuation route,” she said, adding, “it’s good to actually practice your plan.” Quests are best done with families, couples or classes split up into groups of six, Goodwin said. Blue Anderson, direc- tor of visitor services for the Columbia River Mari- time Museum, said the quest book is sold at the muse- um’s gift shop and has been popular, especially among teachers. Goodwin said chil- dren are not afraid of fire drills because they do them so often. She hopes tsu- nami quests can normalize evacuation. ”It’s been a fun way to kind of get those conversa- tions going and having peo- ple think about where they would go if the ground were to start shaking,” she said. Continued from page A1 “Ultimately, this just comes down to a legal ques- tion, so I don’t see why this can’t move quickly through the legal” process, he said. “It just comes down to the question of our legal ability to assess the fee.” Boyajian claims the Port has been charging most oceangoing ships, while not assessing the fee to commercial barges that surpass the 250 foot minimum. The Port only assesses the fee to ocean- going ships because of their higher level of risk, Isom said. The shipping asso- ciation has cited a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that shot down a property tax imposed on oil tankers by Valdez, Alaska, because the Constitution bars states from enacting tonnage fees without an act of Congress. Michael Haglund, a maritime attorney for the Hailey Hoffman/The Astorian The quest includes educational stops at historical sites as participants walk up the hill to higher ground out of the tsunami evacuation zone. ‘IT’S bEEN A FuN WAy TO KINd OF GET THOSE CONVERSATIONS GOING ANd HAVING pEOpLE THINK AbOuT WHERE THEy WOuLd GO IF THE GROuNd WERE TO START SHAKING.’ Cait Goodwin | Oregon Sea Grant quest program coordinator Port, has couched the fee’s legitimacy in a previous Supreme Court case, where the Alabama State Docks Commission was allowed to charge passing ships near Mobile a fee for policing. The association’s suit — first reported by The Oregonian — seeks a per- manent injunction and dec- laration barring the Port from imposing, collecting or using the fee. Other ports on the river, including the Port of Longview, have objected to the fee. The shipping associa- tion, in a statement, said it is “prepared to work with our river partners to help evaluate options for the Port of Astoria. We want to be a helpful trade part- ner. The Port has to want the help, and be prepared to set up a healthy process that considers the inter- ests of the Port of Astoria and the Columbia River stakeholders.” Tonkin: Plus-size clothing is a real need in the fashion industry Continued from page A1 “My whole goal from the beginning was to make sure that I always had plus sizes because I’m a plus size and I wasn’t going to sell stuff that I couldn’t wear,” she said. “I really wanted to serve that community.” Plus-size clothing is a real need in the fashion industry, Tonkin said. “You never go to a craft show expecting to find plus sizes,” she said. “My very, very favorite part is when a plus-sized woman emails me, or I see her at a show, and she’s like, ‘People never make stuff for me.’ To have people be excited about that is really, really the best thing that could ever happen.” Tonkin’s quest to produce clothes that easily adjust to body sizes led her to design what she calls the “suspender dress,” which has become her most popular product. The suspender straps allow the length of the dress to adjust to torso lengths and waist placement, and the open bib means chest size “isn’t really a concern,” according to Shift’s social media. The dress is made of dura- ble material and comes in a variety of colors and sizes. The simple design has no buttons or zippers, which was all intentional. “My clothes are not complicated, and that’s not because I can’t design a complicated thing,” she said. “Because the clothes are simple, you can imprint your own personality on them, so they’re kind of a blank slate.” Which is exactly what people have done. Custom- ers in Astoria wear dresses to work, to dinner, to the beach. A couple of local farmers even garden in their dress, according to Tonkin. People joke that “it’s kind of like the Astoria uniform,” she said. The dress acted as her springboard, and its success allowed her to commit to the business full time. Shift is featured at craft markets throughout the state in areas like Portland, Corvallis and Eugene, as well as the Asto- ria Sunday Market. Tonkin takes orders online and produces all her clothes in a small studio on 14th Street, a long, narrow room covered with fabric clip- pings, hanging artwork and fragments of dresses. Her off-white sewing machine sits at a desk near the win- dow, and a wide table takes up the majority of the room where Tonkin and a friend cut fabric. Up until now, Shift has relied solely on maker’s mar- kets, craft shows and word of mouth to spread business. But that’s all changing next year. Tonkin and her friend, Nick Wheeler, of Wheeler Bag Co., have secured a storefront in the heart of downtown. The pair has worked alongside one another for years and own similar companies – both featuring handmade, locally sewn products – so a shared storefront felt natural. “The new space is going to be beautiful,” Tonkin said. “It’s going to be a really huge change.” “She’s so inspiring and I really admire how she turned her personal passion into a business,” Wheeler said. “We’re super excited to com- bine forces a little bit.” Throughout the expan- sion, Tonkin plans to con- tinue emphasizing inclusiv- ity and conservation in her designs. She wants to cre- ate something that will last, something more accessible than how she sees stereotypi- cal fashion. “Fashion — to me it implies something fancy, and I don’t want this stuff to be fancy at all,” she said. “I want it to be dirty and usable and tough.” ‘I would say almost every day I wear something that I made,’ Becky Tonkin, owner of Shift, said. ‘It’s kind of satisfying.’ battery power. made by stihl. ƒ double your run times. 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