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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2020
IN BRIEF
Pedestrian hit by vehicle in Warrenton
A homeless man on a bicycle was hit by a vehicle
Wednesday afternoon while crossing a crosswalk on
S.W. Main Court and S.W. Second Street in Warrenton.
Police say the man refused medical treatment. The
driver was not cited.
BOW SIDE
PICKUP
Marijuana product sold
near Seaside recalled
The Oregon Liquor Control Commission has recalled
a marijuana product, some of it sold at a Seaside mar-
ijuana store, for potentially unsafe levels of pesticides.
The recall effects Winberry Farms Sweet Leaf Blend,
a package of prerolled joints using the marijuana strain
Trap Star. The product, cultivated by producer Ard Ri
and packaged by wholesaler DYME Distribution, was
sold Dec. 17 through Jan. 8 at several marijuana stores
statewide, including Tsunami Marijuana on U.S. High-
way 26 east of Seaside.
The strain of marijuana failed a pesticide test because
it exceeded the acceptable level for the insecticide Imi-
dacloprid. The state detected the discrepancy during
a monthly audit on products that have failed pesticide
tests at the point of origin, in this case the marijuana
fl ower.
The state recommends disposing of the products
or returning them to the retailer where they were pur-
chased. There have been no reports of illness. The health
impacts of consuming marijuana with unapproved pes-
ticide residues is unknown.
Hailey Hoff man/The Astorian
Jennifer Brann stands on the bow of the Miss Molly as they approach a cargo ship on the Columbia River on Thursday morning
to pick up workers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Cargo Bureau after completing ship inspections.
Kiwi’s Water Taxi is owned and operated by Jennifer and Alan ‘Kiwi’ Brann.
Clamming opens on the North Coast
The recreational razor clam harvest is open along the
North Coast.
The state said recent samples show the marine bio-
toxin domoic acid has dropped below the closure limit.
Clamming remains closed from Tillamook Head to
the California border for elevated levels of domoic acid.
Women’s march planned for Astoria
Indivisible North Coast Oregon is hosting March to
Win on Saturday afternoon in downtown Astoria.
The march is scheduled the same day as other wom-
en’s marches throughout the country. People will begin
marching at 3 p.m. from Heritage Square.
Weather closes Knappa schools
Schools in Knappa were closed on Friday due to icy
weather.
The school district initially announced a two and
three-hour delay to the start of classes before making
the decision to close.
— The Astorian
BIRTH
Jan. 3, 2020
In HORD,
Brief
Allison and Daniel, of Astoria, a girl,
Sabrina Joy Hord, born at Columbia Memorial Hos-
pital in Astoria. Grandparents are John and Deanna
Hord, of Astoria, and Gerald and Renee Hankins, of
Kent, Washington.
Recovery clubhouse coming to Long Beach
By ALYSSA EVANS
Chinook Observer
LONG BEACH, Wash.
— A recovery cafe club-
house will be open to the
community later this year.
Willapa
Behavioral
Health is the new renter
of the former Blue Dol-
phin Center off Pacifi c Ave-
nue North. The organiza-
tion plans to open a cafe and
move most of its staff offi ces
to the building.
“It’ll be a new facility
that works for patients,” said
Adam Marquis, the CEO of
Willapa Behavioral Health.
“It’ll be a one-stop shop.”
The Blue Dolphin Cen-
ter, a thrift store, closed in
late 2018 after 13 years of
business. Louise Krause,
the owner, ran the store with
help from family members,
such as her daughter, Vickie
Beamguard, and grand-
daughter, Tina Leeper .
During its tenure, the shop
was known as a place where
visitors could fi nd one-of-a-
kind items.
Krause sold the building
to Taylor-Russell Properties
of Ocean Park in January
2019. In May , Krause passed
away at age 85. Weeks later,
the City Council approved a
request to open a mixed mar-
tial arts studio in the building.
The proposal came from
Ira Evansen, who owns Val-
halla Combat in Gearhart.
Despite the building being
renovated around the time
Evansen’s proposal was
approved, the mixed martial
arts studio never opened.
Willapa
Behavioral
Health intends to complete
two phases of renovations
to the building. Through the
fi rst phase, the organization
will close its two Ocean Park
offi ces, and one of its Long
Beach offi ces. The offi ces
will be divided between the
organization’s main location
at 2204 Pacifi c Avenue and
the new building.
The organization hopes
to fi nish the fi rst phase by
June, Marquis said. Phase
two’s deadline will depend
on when the fi rst phase is
Washington state counties join
lawsuit over murrelet plan
By MALLORY GRUBEN
The Daily News
CORRECTION
fi nished.
The second phase will
include the opening of the
recovery cafe clubhouse.
“Our focus is serv-
ing everybody and follow-
ing best practices,” Marquis
said. “At the root of addic-
tion is a lack of meaning-
ful connection with people.
That’s what we’re trying to
create with the clubhouse.”
In the new building, Wil-
lapa Behavioral Health
will offer GED classes and
programs like Alcoholics
Anonymous.
“Our gift to the commu-
nity is that recovery meet-
ings can be held there,”
Marquis said. “We’ll serve
patients hand in hand.”
Offi ces close
for Martin
Luther King
Jr. Day
The Astorian
Type of support incorrect — U.S. Rep. Suzanne
Bonamici called the chairman of the National Endow-
ment for the Humanities in support of a grant applica-
tion by the Astoria Oregon Public Library Foundation.
An A1 story Thursday incorrectly said she wrote a let-
ter in support.
ON THE RECORD
Disorderly conduct
• Andrew Miller, 37,
of Seaside, was arrested
Thursday on S. Columbia
Street in Seaside for dis-
orderly conduct.
Drug possession
• Joshua Anthony
Redburn, 30, of Astoria,
was arrested Thursday
on Koppisch Road and
Hillcrest Loop Road for
unlawful possession of
heroin.
DUII
• Bonnie Dasse, 68,
of Seaside, was arrested
Thursday on N. Holladay
Drive in Seaside for driv-
ing under the infl uence of
intoxicants and reckless
driving.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
TUESDAY
Union Health District of Clatsop County, 8 a.m., Provi-
dence Seaside Hospital ED Center, Room B.
Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District Board of
Directors, 5:15 p.m., Bob Chisholm Community Center,
1225 Avenue A, Seaside.
Astoria City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 1095 Duane St.
Shoreline Sanitary District Board, 7 p.m., Gearhart Hertig
Station, 33496 West Lake Lane, Warrenton.
Seaside School District Board of Directors, 7 p.m., 1801
S. Franklin.
Seaside Planning Commission, 7 p.m., work session, 989
Broadway.
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LONGVIEW, Wash. —
Pacifi c County, Wahkiakum
County and the Naselle-
Grays River School District
have joined a lawsuit against
the Washington Depart-
ment of Natural Resources
to challenge the agency’s
conservation plan for the
marbled murrelet, a small,
threatened seabird.
The complaint, fi led in
Skagit County Superior
Court earlier this month,
alleges that the plan confl icts
with the department’s duty
to manage state trust lands to
harvest timber at sustainable
levels for trust benefi ciaries,
which include counties, pub-
lic schools, fi re departments,
libraries and other public
entities.
Trust benefi ciaries rely on
timber revenue to fund pub-
lic services. But rural coun-
ties like Wahkiakum County
could lose more than 20% of
operating revenue under the
conservation plan, accord-
ing to a news release by the
American Forest Resources
Council.
The conservation plan,
adopted in December , sets
aside about 272,000 acres
of Department of Natu-
ral Resources land for bird
habitat, meaning timber in
that area can’t be harvested.
However, the plan also frees
up about 100,000 acres for
harvest where such activity
was previously prohibited.
Environmentalists said it
fell “well short” of preserv-
ing enough habitat to save
the bird, but forest coun-
cil and other plaintiffs in
the suit expect timber har-
vest to decrease by 85 mil-
lion board feet over the next
several years under the plan,
causing an annual loss of
nearly $30 million in poten-
tial revenue and the loss of
935 jobs.
“Wahkiakum County is
participating in this effort
to hold the Department of
Natural Resources account-
able,” Wahkiakum County
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
The state Department of Natural Resources’ conservation plan for
the marbled murrelet, a small seabird listed as threatened under
the federal Endangered Species Act, is the focus of a lawsuit.
Commissioner Dan Cothren
said in a statement. “Bottom
line our county is still los-
ing around $1 million per
year in revenue because of
marbled murrelet long-term
conservation strategy.”
Cothren told The Daily
News in September that the
county had to cut staff by
about 30% under an interim
murrelet plan. And “not even
a fraction” of the 100,000
acres that would be freed for
harvest under the new plan
are located in his county.
Wahkiakum County and
the forest council are work-
ing on the suit alongside the
Concrete School District,
Quillayute Valley School
District,
Naselle-Grays
River School District, Clal-
la m County Fire District
Number 4, Pacifi c County,
Skamania County, Mason
County and Forks. The suit
also names the state Board
of Natural Resources as a
defendant.
The marbled murrelet
is a plump bird that spends
most of its life at sea. It trav-
els about 55 miles inland to
lay one egg per year in old
growth trees.
The plaintiffs argue that
much of the land set aside for
the bird will never become
habitat for murrelets, and
the plan overlooks the con-
servation benefi t of tens of
thousands of acres of habitat
already set aside under the
interim plan.
The lawsuit also alleges
that the Department of Nat-
ural Resources “failed to
conduct systematic, on-the-
ground inventories of its
trust lands, instead using
inaccurate data and a fl awed
model intended to support
specifi c policy choices at
the expense of trust benefi -
ciaries,” the forest council
wrote in a news release.
The bird was listed as a
threatened species under the
federal Endangered Species
Act in 1992. Five years later,
Washington state released
an interim plan to protect the
bird.
Murrelet
populations
continued to decline 3.9%
annually between 2001 and
2016 largely due to habitat
loss, and the Department of
Natural Resources estimates
about 6,000 murrelets are
left in the state .
In observance of Mar-
tin Luther King Jr. Day on
Monday, all federal, state,
county and city offi ces
and services, including
Astoria, Warrenton, Gear-
hart, Seaside and Can-
non Beach city halls,
are closed. All U.S. post
offi ces are closed, and
there is no mail delivery.
Astoria,
Jewell,
Knappa,
Warrenton/
Hammond and Seaside
(including Cannon Beach
and Gearhart) school dis-
trict schools, and Clatsop
Community College, are
closed.
The Astoria Library,
Seaside Library and War-
renton Library are closed.
The Port of Astoria
administrative offi ces are
closed.
Garbage
collection
through Recology West-
ern Oregon and the city of
Warrenton garbage collec-
tion are not affected by the
holiday. Recology West-
ern Oregon’s transfer sta-
tion is open.
The Sunset Pool in
Seaside is open. The Asto-
ria Aquatic Center is open.
The Oregon Film
Museum and Flavel
House are open from
11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and the
Carriage House is open
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The
Clatsop County Heritage
Museum and Uppertown
Firefi ghters’ Museum are
closed.
Lil’ Sprouts is open
from
7:30 a.m.
to
5:30 p.m. Fort Clatsop is
open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Columbia River Mar-
itime Museum is open
from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Seaside Museum
is open from 10 a.m. to
3 p.m.
Sunset Empire Trans-
portation (“The Bus”) is
running.
The Astorian offi ces
are open .