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McIntosh: Judge has
worked as a prosecutor
and defense attorney
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“People deserve to have
decisions and their cases
handled timely. And in a
manner that is respectful
and gets all sides of the dis-
pute heard,” McIntosh said.
She will also lead the
court’s security committee.
“We face a number of
the same issues that other
rural communities face
with a lack of security in
the courthouse,” McIntosh
said. “We know what good
security looks like, but we
don’t have it here. And it is
something we’re going to
continue to work on.”
‘WE FACE A
NUMBER OF
THE SAME
ISSUES THAT
OTHER RURAL
COMMUNITIES
FACE WITH A
LACK OF
SECURITY
IN THE
COURTHOUSE.’
Dawn McIntosh |
new presiding judge at
Clatsop County Circuit Court
McIntosh was elected
in 2016 to a six-year term,
replacing J udge Philip Nel-
son, who retired.
She began her career
interning for the sex crimes
unit in Multnomah County
District Attorney’s offi ce
after dropping out of law
school.
“I was there a week and
said, ‘T his is what I want to
do.’ So, I went back to law
school the next term and I
worked at the DA’s offi ce
throughout law school,
started trying cases when
I was a third-year and I
stayed there,” McIntosh
said.
She graduated from
Lewis & Clark Law School
in 1992 and was hired as an
assistant district attorney in
Multnomah County .
McIntosh moved to
Clatsop County in 1998 to
serve as chief deputy dis-
trict attorney. She super-
vised child abuse and
major sex crime cases until
2003.
She was named the
Oregon District Attorneys
Association’s Child Abuse
Prosecutor of the Year in
1999.
After spending about
fi ve years at the d istrict
a ttorney’s offi ce, McIn-
tosh left to work as a
defense attorney and work
on domestic relations and
juvenile cases in Clatsop
and Tillamook courts.
She thinks having
worked as a prosecutor and
defense attorney has given
her a good perspective as
judge.
During her time as a
lawyer, McIntosh tried
many cases before Brown-
hill. She said Brownhill
was instrumental in her
career before she took the
bench because she gave her
feedback after every trial.
“You could count on her
for actual, real constructive
criticism, never just a ‘you
did a great job,’” McIntosh
said.
“It was very, very help-
ful as a fairly young lawyer
... every time I had a trial
to be able to get some feed-
back on what worked and
what didn’t work and what
I’d done better and what
I’d not done better.”
Brownhill also endorsed
McIntosh when she ran for
election in 2016.
“It felt really good
because I knew she
wouldn’t have done it if
she didn’t believe I could
do the job,” McIntosh said.
“The same way I know she
wouldn’t have retired when
she did if she didn’t know I
could do the job. It’s nice
to know she has that confi -
dence in me.”
Cornes: ‘You can go wash
(clothes) and take a shower.
Those kinds of places mean
the world to some people’
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After the military, he
moved back to Colorado for
work as a heavy equipment
operator. But after suffering
from worsening migraines
and schizophrenic episodes,
he decided he couldn’t
work anymore.
Cornes spent the next
two years trying to get his
disability claim approved.
He lost the house he was
staying in and moved
into a motor home, mov-
ing around pullouts in the
Vail Valley and once being
taken to court by the federal
Bureau of Land Manage-
ment for illegal camping.
“In Vail, it was hard,” he
said. “I pretty much knew I
wasn’t going to be able to
survive homeless there.”
Cornes eventually left
for Grand Junction, Col-
orado, where he found a
bed in a rescue mission.
He stayed and volunteered
there for the next year. He
enrolled at Colorado Mesa
University, where he stud-
ied for a bachelor’s of fi ne
arts in pottery.
“I make for the most
part functional stuff — tea-
pots and vases and mugs,”
he said.
About four years ago,
Cornes moved back to Ore-
gon. He stayed in Bend at
Home of the Brave, a shel-
ter for homeless veterans,
and enrolled at Central Ore-
gon Community College,
where he made the pottery
being auctioned off to sup-
port the warming center.
Cornes now lives in his
childhood home in Ham-
let with his elderly father.
Finding himself stabilized
again, he felt the need to
give back and inquired
about volunteering at the
shelter before offering up
his pottery.
“Those kind of places
really helped me out when
I became homeless and
didn’t have anywhere to
go,” he said. “You can go
wash (clothes) and take
a shower. Those kinds of
places mean the world to
some people.”
During art walk on Sat-
urday, the warming center
will host the silent auction
of Cornes’ work and a judg-
ing contest for a new logo,
with music by pianist Char-
lie McKenzie, a local fi sh-
erman and homeless res-
ident. The winning logo
design will be decided by
a three-person jury of art-
ists. Another vote will be
awarded to the logo that
receives the most votes
from visitors during the art
walk.
“This logo is to be able
to show our supporters in
town,” said Ron Maxted, a
volunteer and board mem-
ber with the warming cen-
ter. “The expression of
compassion for fellow man
is the theme of this logo
contest.”
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Tod Jones explains how the water system works in the instant hatchery.
Hatchery: ‘It’s been fun
for us to realize our dreams’
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In addition to the water
system, the container has
three skylights, several
overhead lights and electri-
cal power. They hired West-
ern Fabrication in Astoria
to install the watertight dia-
mond plate fl ooring, as well
as the 12-foot-long racks
that hold six incubators
each.
Jones said this system
will produce “the best fry.”
“The fry that emerge out
of these are heavier, they’re
just like wild fry,” he said.
“The ones that are in more
standard hatcheries use up a
lot of their yolk sac in their
development, while swim-
ming around and trying to
get away from the light.”
In the instant hatchery,
the eggs will be kept in cov-
ered boxes so they won’t be
bothered by the light. The
dark conditions are meant
to imitate what it’s like for
eggs huddled under gravel at
the bottom of a stream.
Once they hatch, the fry
are fi ltered through a poly-
ethylene material, which
Jones said looks like Top
Ramen, in order to sort out
the healthy fry from the egg
shells and any deformed fry.
They’ll be kept in darkness
while they develop so they
can stay still and absorb all
of the nutrients in their yolk
sacs.
Warren, a former hatch-
ery manager at the Gnat
Creek Hatchery, and Jones,
a former project manager for
Clatsop County Fisheries
Project, both spent decades
working with hatcheries.
“When we retired we had
all this information about
how hatcheries need to oper-
ate more effectively and effi -
ciently,” Warren said.
So they got to work build-
ing this new type of hatchery
system and named it for the
nest a fi sh builds in a stream,
called a “redd.”
“It’s been fun for us to
realize our dreams,” Warren
said.
Reveille: ‘An ideal step towards greater opportunities’
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“We’ve got an entire new
movement of sober-curi-
ous, and they’re looking
for alternatives,” Towsey-
French said. ”Essentially,
we’re looking at a high-end
Martinelli’s.”
Once the opportunity
for wholesale expansion
came, Towsey-French and
his investors indefi nitely
paused the retail and theater
concept. The cidery would
have struggled to recoup the
investment and keep produc-
tion with demand, he said.
“At the end of the day, I
make cider,” Towsey-French
said. “And if I do anything
that compromises my abil-
ity to do that well and to do
more of it, then I’ve made
the wrong choice.”
Reveille’s retail pullback
follows the closure of several
regional breweries and cider-
ies. Bend-based Avid Cider
Co. announced the closure
of a Pearl District taproom
in Portland to focus more on
production. Portland’s Cider
Riot, the site of recent con-
frontations between antifas-
cist and right-wing demon-
strators, will close later this
month after succumbing to
debt from a 2016 expansion
and failing to fi nd a buyer.
Reveille had been han-
dling much of its own local
distribution, with Crush
Wine Distributors in Yach-
ats helping spread its prod-
ucts along the Oregon Coast.
But with expanded produc-
tion, Towsey-French wanted
a better way to get his prod-
ucts out without starting a
distribution wing.
Fort George distributes
between 30 and 35 different
beers and ciders around the
Pacifi c Northwest, includ-
ing North Jetty Brewery in
Seaview, Washington.
Reveille will be the fi rst
craft beverage company
from Clatsop County to be
distributed by Fort George,
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Jeremy Towsey-French, owner of Reveille Ciderworks in Astoria, has received a state grant to
help expand his production.
said Brad DePuyt, distri-
bution manager for Fort
George. Reveille will also
receive storage space in the
new Astoria Warehousing
expansion.
“We’ve had the oppor-
tunity to get to know the
crew at Reveille since before
they opened,” Fort George
co-owner Chris Nemlow-
ill said in a release. “The
similarity in our philoso-
phies and approach to the
craft makes this an ideal step
towards greater opportuni-
ties for both companies in
the future.”
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