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Psilocybin mushrooms are seen in a grow room at a farm in the Netherlands.
require the Oregon Health
Authority to establish the
program.
Last year, the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration
designated psilocybin ther-
apy as a “breakthrough ther-
apy,” and Johns Hopkins
University is researching psi-
locybin to treat depression
and addiction, among other
things.
However, psilocybin is
still classified as a Schedule I
drug under federal law.
Recker said many peo-
ple still associate psychedel-
ics with media and imagery
from the 1960s.
“That imagery just took
over and if you talked to
someone who had a thera-
peutic psilocybin session it’s
much different,” she said.
Oscar Nelson, part-owner
of Sweet Relief and the Asto-
ria CBD Co., attended the
volunteer training and is
helping to facilitate a drop-
off location for the signatures
collected.
“Psychedelics have been a
part of my personal, spiritual
path and then also something
that has brought me out of
depression and addiction and
has given me a quality of life
that I don’t see how I would
have gotten any other way,”
he said.
However, Nelson doesn’t
believe the drug is for every-
body and should be available
in a safe setting. He said psi-
locybin helps push people
beyond their day-to-day per-
spective and see themselves
from a new vantage point.
“I hope that as these
things progress that it can be
more above ground and more
open,” he said.
“The goal is to get this on
the ballot, and then the Ore-
gonians can choose. But if it
doesn’t get on the ballot, then
people don’t even have the
option to say ‘yes’ or ‘no,’”
Nelson said.
Recker described the ini-
tiative as one of many layers
in drug policy reform.
She said the initiative
works hand in hand with the
decriminalization of drugs
and advocating for using
marijuana tax money to pay
for more addiction and recov-
ery services.
“Our mission ... is to cre-
ate a therapeutic program
for Oregon with the under-
standing that that is only one
tributary towards this larger
river of creating more access
to people who need more
options for mental health,”
Recker said.
“The more information
people have about the mea-
sure, the more they are in
support of it, and that’s not
just our opinion, that’s what
the polling has shown us,”
she said.
OBITUARIES
Terry Edward Millbrooke
Hammond
Feb. 23, 1953 — Jan. 19, 2020
The Astorian
Debbie Morrow, head of nonprofit Warrenton-Hammond Healthy Kids Inc., took home the Richard Ford Distinguished Service
Award, Warrenton’s citizen-of-the-year honor.
Chamber: It was their 147th annual banquet
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Coalition, the Astoria Music
Festival and Cascadia
Chamber Opera. She raised
more than $19,000 for the
North Coast Food Web as
part of Fort George Brew-
ery’s Magnanimous Mug
fundraising competition.
Teresa Brownlie, a cham-
ber ambassador and Rotar-
ian, took home the second
George Award. Brownlie,
who works for NW Natu-
ral, also serves on the board
of the United Way of Clat-
sop County and with the
Lunch Buddy Mentoring
Program. She chaperoned
Astoria Regatta princesses
to nearly 20 parades around
the region and serves in a
similar capacity with the
judges of Miss Oregon.
Mike and Mary Davies,
owners of local Subway
and Beach Burrito fran-
chises, shared a third
George Award.
Mike Davies is a board
member with the non-
profit Friends of the Asto-
ria Armory and served sev-
eral terms on the chamber
board. He serves on the
administrative council at
Our Lady of Victory Cath-
olic Church in Seaside
and has volunteered with
numerous
parent-teach-
er-student organizations at
Gearhart Elementary and
the former St. Mary, Star of
the Sea Catholic School in
Astoria.
Mary Davies has served
on the board of Liberty
Restoration Inc. and as the
historic theater’s first vol-
unteer director upon its
reopening. She has been
involved with the Astor
Street Opry Company, the
Coaster Theatre in Can-
non Beach and with Astoria
High School’s theater pro-
gram. She also volunteers
with the PEO Sisterhood
and helped found the Assis-
tance League of the Colum-
bia Pacific.
About
250
people
attended the chamber’s
147th annual banquet at
the Clatsop County Fair-
grounds. Hyak Tongue
Point took home the award
for Chamber Member of the
Year. Astoria Brewing Co.
was honored with the Board
President’s Award.
Terry Edward Mill- Kodiak, Alaska, and Astoria
brooke, age 66, was found and Hammond, Oregon, he
dead of natural causes at his fished the waters of Alaska,
home in Ham-
Washington and
mond, Oregon,
Oregon. He was
still actively fish-
on Jan. 19, 2020.
ing at the time
Terry
was
of his death. He
born Feb. 23,
enjoyed
read-
1953, in St. Hel-
ens, Oregon, to
ing, hunting and
traveling.
Arne and Marjut
Surviving rel-
(née Wrangen)
atives include his
Myllyluoma.
daughter, Tricia
Millbrooke is an
Terry Millbrooke
Rivera (Beko),
Americanization
and grandchil-
of the Finnish
dren Jocelyn and Garrett
Myllyluoma.
Growing up in Ocean Rivera, of Lemoore, Cal-
Park, Washington, Terry ifornia; and his siblings,
attended Ocean Park Ele- Tom Millbrooke (Debbie)
mentary School, where he of Canby, Oregon, Anne
played on the trophy-win- Millbrooke of Bozeman,
ning Blue Devils basketball Montana, Janet Pyle (Jack)
team. He thereafter stud- of Rogue River, Oregon,
ied at Ilwaco High School, Beth Linley of Monte Rio,
where he was a class officer California, Linda Palmer
and where he participated in (Ken) of Kalama, Washing-
ton, Charma Pederson of
the fisheries program.
On Feb. 7, 1975, he mar- Kalama, and Richard Lee
ried Sheryl S. “Sherry” (Mary) of Ridgefield, Wash-
Walker in Chehalis, Wash- ington. His parents and sev-
ington. Three years later eral siblings preceded him
their daughter, Patricia Lou- in death.
ise “Tricia” Millbrooke,
As he wished, his ashes
was born. Terry and Sherry will be spread in the waters
he fished.
divorced.
Memorial donations may
Terry chose fishing as
a career. Living over the be made to Ducks Unlim-
years in Chinook, Ilwaco ited, One Waterfowl Way,
and Blaine, Washington, Memphis, TN., 38120.
Gearhart: ‘Elk use this
30 acres for bedding,
for calving, for grazing’
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Tolman: ‘Everything is made from scratch’
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where he once oversaw three
different vegan restaurants.
“It was an interesting
experience cooking vegan
food,” he said. “Without
the animal fats, you have to
come up with different ways
to create robust flavors.
There’s not really room for
messing up. Your balance
has to be on, which I love
that. That’s why I focus on
French, is because French is
really about the balance. It’s
complex, yet simple at the
same time.”
Aspen Grove, open for
lunch and dinner while ramp-
ing up, features a wide-rang-
ing menu replete with tra-
ditional French dishes like
croque monsieur and bouil-
labaisse. After fully staffing,
Tolman hopes to open in the
mornings and offer conti-
nental breakfasts.
Rather than culinary
school, Tolman said he cut
his teeth as an apprentice
under European chefs from
Austria and Switzerland.
“I spent a lot of my years
going and working at places
where I really respected the
chef, so that I could learn
their techniques,” he said.
“Even here, when I came
into town, coming from
Edward Stratton/The Astorian
Sean Tolman, executive chef at new French restaurant The Aspen Grove, cooks one of his daily
pastas.
Utah, I didn’t know a lot
about seafood. So I went
and worked for (executive
chef) Eric Jenkins at Buoy,
because that way I could
learn seafood from basically
the best in the entire state.”
The singular root system
underlying an aspen grove
epitomizes Tolman’s belief
about his staff.
“When I named it The
Aspen Grove, it was an
idea that myself and all the
employees here, we’re the
trees in that grove,” he said.
“We’re one unit providing a
growth for people to come
and enjoy, and relax and eat
good food.”
The Aspen Grove fea-
tures a pastry chef, sous
chef, front-of-house man-
ager and servers. Lisa Tarab-
ochia, who previously ran
Clemente’s with Gordon
Clement until its closure in
November, is still involved
in a hands-off capacity as
director of sales and mar-
keting. But she stressed it is
Tolman’s restaurant.
“Everything is made
from scratch, from bones,
from stock and with supe-
rior technique, passion and
love,” she said in an email.
“It’s been incredible to
watch.”
More than 30 neigh-
bors attended a meeting
with the developers Satur-
day at Clatsop Community
College’s South County
campus in Seaside and
expressed their concerns
about the project.
Developers expect to
build 21 homes between
1,500 and 2,500 square
feet each. The estimated
purchase price would be
$450,000 to $550,000.
The value and quality of
the homes were described
as a “notch down” from
neighboring homes, which
left many neighbors in the
room displeased.
Among their concerns
were elk and butterfly hab-
itat, tsunami evacuation
routes, increased traffic
and the placement of a new
access road.
The developers plan to
incorporate the suggestions
and hold another neighbor-
hood meeting before sub-
mitting the application.
“There are challenges,
I think, especially with the
elk habitat and the sensi-
tivity of the dunes that will
all have to be considered,”
said Mike Weston, the con-
sultant for the developers.
John Lowe, a neigh-
boring property owner,
believes he will be the most
affected by the new homes.
Lowe’s property is next
to the potential develop-
ment and will face three
lots. He has a chain-link
fence around his property
and enjoys his privacy,
which he believes he will
no longer have after the
new homes are built.
He made suggestions to
the developers to preserve
his privacy, as well as help
with elk migration.
Lowe said his major
concern is the elk. He said
he watches the elk every
day from his home and
knows the property is elk
habitat.
“The elk use this 30
acres for bedding, for calv-
ing, for grazing — they’re
not just simply walking
through the area stopping
for 15 to 20 minutes to
graze,” Lowe said. “If you
destroy all this habitat for
the elk then they obviously
have to go somewhere else,
which puts pressure on
other areas.”
Neighbors
also
expressed concerns about
the butterfly habitat on the
property, which sits near
a butterfly sanctuary pro-
tected by the North Coast
Land Conservancy.
Lowe said he reached
out to the land conservancy
to learn more about wild-
life habitat on the property.
“Hopefully
things
won’t go too far before
they get an opportunity to
provide some input into
this process,” Lowe told
developers.