DailyAstorian.com // TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2019
147TH YEAR, NO. 55
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Reveille
Ciderworks
expands
wholesale,
pauses retail
New distribution agreement
with Fort George Brewery
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Astorian
Reveille Ciderworks is pausing devel-
opment of a new taproom and theater as
it expands its wholesale business with the
help of a state grant and a new distribution
agreement with Fort George Brewery.
Reveille opened a small taproom and
cidery along Duane Street next to Reach
Break Brewing two years ago. Founder
Jeremy Towsey-French said the cidery
has grown quickly. In April, he announced
a new taproom, restaurant and theater in
the corner suite of the Norblad Building.
His original space would fill up with more
tanks and convert mostly to production.
The expansion announcement brought
Reveille to the attention of Business Ore-
gon, an economic development agency,
which reached out and offered a $37,500
grant through its small manufacturing
business expansion program. Nathan
Buehler, a spokesman for the agency,
said the program is an effort to help small
businesses that need a bump to expand.
Reveille promised to expand produc-
tion over the next two years with new
equipment for fermentation, condition-
ing, pasteurization and packaging, while
creating the equivalent of at least one full-
time job. If it doesn’t, the grant becomes
a loan.
Towsey-French expects to create the
equivalent of three or four new jobs.
The expansion will allow Reveille to up
the production of its most popular ciders
and introduce new seasonal, nonalco-
holic ciders he hopes to start serving by
Christmas.
See Reveille, Page A6
McIntosh
is the new
presiding
judge
Moves into role after
Brownhill’s retirement
By NICOLE BALES
The Astorian
Judge Dawn McIntosh is the new pre-
siding judge at Clatsop County Circuit
Court.
McIntosh moved up to Courtroom 300
over the weekend, which was previously
held by Paula Brownhill,
who retired at the end of
October after 25 years on
the bench.
“It’s bittersweet com-
ing up here because I love
the courtroom, I love the
view, but I would have
Dawn
stayed in the basement
McIntosh
forever if I could have
kept her around,” McIn-
tosh said. “But she earned it, she worked
so hard for 25 years.”
As presiding judge, McIntosh will
take on additional administrative duties,
including supervising the new trial court
administrator, Julie Vredeveld.
Among her priorities are to continue
Brownhill’s work in meeting the Oregon
Supreme Court standards for timely dis-
positions of cases.
Photos by Emily Lindblom/For The Astorian
Roger Warren, left, and Tod Jones pose for a photo inside their Redd Zone hatchery.
INSTANT HATCHERY
THE FIRST OF ITS KIND
Built inside a
shipping container
By EMILY LINDBLOM
For The Astorian
F
rom the outside, the shipping
container might not look like
anything special. But inside,
more than 5 million chum salmon
eggs will incubate and hatch next
year.
This is the vision of Tod Jones and
Roger Warren, owners of Redd Zone
LLC and creators of the first instant
hatchery of this kind. They handed
over the keys to the portable hatch-
ery to representatives of the Skokom-
ish Indian Tribe of Washington state
in late October.
Jones said he and Warren designed
the hatchery to grow healthy,
high-quality fish without handling
them. A controlled amount of water
can flow in and out of the incubators,
and when the fish are ready to leave
they can swim or be flushed out of the
shipping container safely, without the
human touch.
The hatchery was built inside a shipping container.
“It takes so much labor out of it
and you don’t have to handle the fish,”
Jones said. “That’s one of the big
problems at most hatcheries, the own-
ers handle their fry and those stressors
build up over time to the point where
you get hatchery fish that don’t per-
form well.”
See Hatchery, Page A6
‘IT TAKES SO MUCH LABOR OUT OF IT AND YOU DON’T HAVE
TO HANDLE THE FISH. THAT’S ONE OF THE BIG PROBLEMS AT
MOST HATCHERIES, THE OWNERS HANDLE THEIR FRY AND
THOSE STRESSORS BUILD UP OVER TIME TO THE POINT WHERE
YOU GET HATCHERY FISH THAT DON’T PERFORM WELL.’
Tod Jones | co-owner of Redd Zone LLC and creators of the first instant hatchery of this kind
Former homeless vet donates pottery to shelter
Giving back through art
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Astorian
amlet native David Cornes
found himself out of work
and a home a decade ago in Col-
orado’s Vail Valley. After living
in a motor home at rest stops and
pullouts, he eventually found
some stability with the help of a
nearby homeless shelter.
Now back home, Cornes wants
to give back, donating his pottery
to a silent auction supporting the
Astoria Warming Center during
this month’s Second Saturday Art
Walk. The shelter starts operating
again Nov. 15 in the basement of
H
See McIntosh, Page A6
Astoria Warming Center
David Cornes has donated his pottery to a silent auction supporting
the Astoria Warming Center.
First United Methodist Church.
Cornes, 47, first started study-
ing pottery at Seaside High
School and joined the U.S. Army
after graduating. He became a
heavy equipment operator, serv-
ing over the next decade in Ken-
tucky, Germany, Colorado and
in the Reserve at Camp Rilea
Armed Forces Training Center in
Warrenton.
See Cornes, Page A6