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Waves crash
near Cape
Disappointment.
Photos by Hailey
Hoff man/
The Astorian
147TH YEAR, NO. 85
DailyAstorian.com // TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2020
Waves break around the Peter Iredale shipwreck at Fort Stevens State Park.
Tragedy
for family off
Falcon Cove
Massive waves break at Cape Disappointment.
County opens household hazardous waste facility
Located next to city dump
By NICOLE BALES
The Astorian
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One child dead, another
one still missing
The Astorian
A 7-year-old girl died and a 4-year-old
boy is missing after being swept into the
ocean Saturday afternoon off Falcon Cove.
The Oregon State Police said Jeremy
Stiles, 47, of Portland, was holding his
children on the shore about 12:30 p.m.
when they were caught by a wave.
Stiles struggled back to shore, the state
police said, and the girl was helped from
the water by a Manzanita police offi cer.
Stiles and the girl were taken by ambu-
lance to Providence Seaside Hospital,
where the girl was pronounced dead.
See Tragedy, Page A6
Port invests in
airport grants
Nicole Bales/The Astorian
Clatsop County
ABOVE: Once the materials are received,
they are sorted in bins. LEFT: About 55
gallons of antifreeze and 110 gallons
of gasoline and other fl ammable fl uids
were collected on Saturday.
The regional airport
supports nearly 400 jobs
undreds of pounds of waste were
collected Saturday at the grand
opening of Clatsop County’s new
household hazardous waste facility in
Astoria.
Propane tanks, fl uorescent tubes,
gasoline and other fl ammable materials
were among the items dropped off, orga-
nized into bins and delivered to a Port-
land-area waste management service.
The facility, located off of William-
sport Road next to the Recology West-
ern Oregon waste transfer station, will
open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. one Saturday
a month.
Michael McNickle, the county’s
public health director, expects an infl ux
of people in the fi rst few months, and
depending on demand, he may consider
opening the facility more frequently.
Until now, people have either had to
hold on to their hazardous waste or take
it to collection facilities in Tillamook or
Columbia counties .
See Waste, Page A6
Woman at family crossroads
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Astorian
McCall takes
a ‘leap of faith’
The Astoria Regional Airport barely
pays for itself operationally. But the air-
fi eld supports nearly 400 jobs, primar-
ily from the U.S. Coast Guard air station ,
and brings in the lion’s share of federal
grants to the Port of Astoria.
Port commissioners recently commit-
ted to spending another $233,000 on local
matches in 2021, without knowing the ulti-
mate source, to ensure the Port stays in the
pipeline for $3.4 million in federal grants
to continue a multiphase rehabilitation .
By KATIE FRANKOWICZ
The Astorian
hen she stands in the
lobby of her busi-
ness,
Carissa
McCall
can
see where her
great-grandfa-
thers established
themselves.
One great-grandfather started
his business, a Les Schwab, off
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Katie Frankowicz/The Astorian
See Port, Page A6
$1.50
Carissa McCall opened Blessed Beauty Bar in Astoria in October.
Exchange Street where the Asto-
ria Co+op used to be located.
He later moved the business to
Warrenton and opened another
in Seaside. Both remain in fam-
ily ownership.
Another great-grandfather
worked at Lovell Auto off 14th
Street, now part of the Fort
George Brewery complex.
See McCall, Page A6