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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2020
Port accepts bulk oil cleanup settlement
IN BRIEF
Statewide job losses over virus
outstrip Great Recession
Another 825 people in Clatsop County fi led initial
claims for unemployment insurance the week of April 4
as restrictions to prevent the spread of coronavirus put
the economy on hold.
Nearly 1,900 people in the county have applied
for unemployment insurance, according to the state
Employment
Department.
More than half of those claims
have been in leisure and hos-
pitality, including restaurants
and hotels restricted to the
Number of Oregonians
public by government orders.
who have fi led
Over the last three weeks,
unemployment
269,900 Oregonians have
claims with the state
fi led unemployment claims
over the last three
with the state, compared to
weeks.
147,800 during the Great
Recession. More than 16 mil-
lion Americans have lost their
jobs over the past three weeks.
Number of Oregonians
The Employment Depart-
who fi led during all of
ment has more than qua-
the Great Recession.
drupled the amount of staff
taking claims over the past
month, so far paying out more than $28 million in bene-
fi ts over the past week.
The state expects to start processing weekly $600
federal payments through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief,
and Economic Security Act in the coming week, dra-
matically increasing the amount of benefi ts. It is also
implementing the Pandemic Unemployment Assis-
tance program allowing self-employed, contract and gig
workers not already eligible to receive unemployment
benefi ts for the fi rst time.
269,900
147,800
Front-line workers
against virus get free breakfast
Breakfast will be served to emergency responders
and health care workers on Tuesday, courtesy of the
Seaside Civic and Convention Center and caterer Ore-
gon Fine Foods.
Pancakes and sausages are on the menu on a drive-
thru basis at the northeast entrance loading zone from 6
to 9 a.m.
The convention center is temporarily closed to public
gatherings due to the coronavirus pandemic.
— The Astorian
DEATHS
April 10, 2020
In COFFEY,
Brief William
Carl “Bill,” 85, of War-
renton, died in War-
Deaths
renton.
Caldwell’s
Luce-Layton Mortuary of
Astoria is in charge of the
arrangements.
April 9, 2020
HODSON,
Bertha
Lucille, 86, of Astoria,
died in Astoria. Caldwell’s
Luce-Layton Mortuary of
Astoria is in charge of the
arrangements.
April 8, 2020
CRAWFORD, David
L., 84, of Warrenton, died
in Portland. Caldwell’s
Luce-Layton Mortuary of
Astoria is in charge of the
arrangements.
April 3, 2020
BAMBERG,
Shir-
ley Wells, 107, of War-
renton, died in Warren-
ton. Ocean View Funeral
& Cremation Service of
Astoria is in charge of the
arrangements.
The Port of Astoria Com-
mission has accepted a $2.9
million settlement from oil
companies to help clean up
historical petroleum contam-
ination but faces a signifi cant
shortfall to pay and monitor
the success of the project.
The bulk oil, manufactur-
ing and other heavy indus-
trial operations that used to
sustain the Port have left
left behind pockets of pollu-
tion under the docks. Since
the late 1990s, the Port has
deployed a boom to pre-
vent a sheen of oil from from
spreading from under its
docks between piers 1 and 2
into the Columbia River.
The state Department
of Environmental Quality
recently decided the Port,
McCall Oil and Chemi-
cal Corp. and ExxonMobil
should excavate contami-
nated soil, place a permeable
cap over the polluted area and
lay a marine blanket along
the shore between the piers .
Will Isom, the Port’s exec-
utive director , said the state’s
decision puts pressure on
the agency and the oil com-
panies to reach a workable
settlement.
“We’ve been at this a long
time,” said David Blount,
an environmental attor-
ney representing the Port.
“We endorse it. It’s the best
negotiated outcome that we
could imagine under the
Robbery
in the fi rst degree.
On
the Record
• Catherine
Elaine
Harassment
• Steven Craig Jen-
sen, 42, of Astoria, was
arrested Thursday on
14th Street in Astoria for
harassment and menacing.
DUII
• Matthew Don Wait,
19, of Astoria, was
arrested on March 28 on
Old U.S. Highway 30 for
driving under the infl u-
ence of intoxicants, reck-
less driving and failure
to perform the duties of a
driver. Police say Wait was
involved in an accident
and then rapidly fl ed the
scene once police arrived.
Shortly after, police say
Wait crashed his vehi-
cle into Big Creek Coffee
House, causing damage.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
PUBLIC MEETINGS
A well-regarded
Astoria attorney
By NICOLE BALES
The Astorian
Jeanyse Snow, an Astoria
attorney known for having
an exceptional legal mind
and a deep commitment to
her community, died Mon-
day at age 75.
Snow practiced law in
Astoria for about 50 years
with her husband, Harold,
who died in 2016.
The Snows were both
raised in Astoria and grad-
uated from Astoria High
School. Jeanyse Snow grad-
uated in the C lass of 1963
and went on to graduate
from Willamette University
College of Law. She joined
her husband at the Macdon-
ald, Dean & McCallister
law fi rm in Astoria in 1970,
which eventually became
known as Snow & Snow.
Paula Brownhill, a retired
Circuit Court judge, said
Snow helped blaze the trail
for women lawyers .
“Jeanyse Snow was an
excellent lawyer. She was
smart, she was analytical,
and she was always pre-
pared,” Brownhill said in an
email. “An Oregon appel-
late judge told me that Jea-
nyse was one of the
Blair Henningsgaard
best lawyers ever to
said Snow was also
advocate before the
an excellent writer
Court of Appeals.”
and authored many of
Brownhill also
the city’s ordinances.
described Snow as
“Jeanyse was a
“ a good Astorian .
hard person to get to
She and her husband Jeanyse Snow know, a private per-
Hal contributed so
son and very mod-
much to our community. We est,” he said. “She was a
will miss her.”
careful and exceptional
Steve Forrester, the for- attorney, very bright and
mer editor and publisher of rarely wrong when it came
The Astorian and the presi- to a question of law. I often
dent and CEO of EO Media called her for advice.”
Group, said Snow was
Henningsgaard
said
renowned for the brilliance Snow was a devoted and true
of her legal mind.
partner to her husband .
“But she was not vis-
“I cannot recall ever deal-
ible, because she did not ing on a case with Hal where
argue cases in court,” For- Jeanyse was not directly
rester said. “That was Hal’s involved,” he said.
part of the business. During
Astoria Mayor Bruce
one of Clatsop Commu- Jones
commemorated
nity College’s presidential Snow’s impact during Mon-
searches, the college Board day’s City Council meeting.
of Directors refused to give
“Jeanyse was a very gen-
the newspaper the names of erous philanthropist, a won-
candidates it was consider- derful, giving member of our
ing. I asked Jeanyse to argue community who, through
the case, and she agreed.
her work with the Ore-
“I went to the argument, gon Community Founda-
to watch Jeanyse work. She tion and many other boards,
outclassed the college’s gave very generously of her
attorney by a long shot. time and her resources to the
And she repeated a man- community,” he said. “And
tra I had heard from her so she will be greatly missed.”
many times: ‘ The public’s
Jennifer Crockett, the
business should be done in executive director at the
public.’ ”
Liberty Theatre, said the
Astoria City Attorney Snow family has been con-
The Astorian
Joan Dukes, who repre-
sented the North Coast in
the state Senate for 18 years,
died on Monday. She was
72.
Dukes, a Democrat
who lived in Svensen, was
elected in 1986 and served
in the Senate until 2004,
when she was appointed by
Gov. Ted Kulongoski to the
Northwest Power and Con-
servation Council.
She was succeeded
in Senate District 16 by
state Sen. Betsy Johnson,
D-Scappoose.
Dukes, who was from
Tacoma,
Washington,
served a term on the Clat-
sop County Board of Com-
missioners before she was
elected to the Senate. She
was also the county’s elec-
tions supervisor from 1981
to 1983.
Dukes was the chair-
woman of the Senate Trans-
portation Committee when
tolls ended on the Astoria
Bridge in 1993. The tolls
were used to pay down con-
struction bonds.
“After 28 years of
patiently paying tolls, I’m
certain travelers will be as
pleased as I am with the free
passage over this key link
with our Pacifi c Northwest
neighbors,” she said at the
time.
Johnson remembers that
Dukes had one of the last
coins from the tolls framed
on the wall in her offi ce in
Salem.
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Frank Spence said. “And at
the end of the 10 years, the
cost will be 10 times more.”
The cost of the cleanup
is hard to pin down without
a specifi c work plan, Blount
said, but he estimated the
project could exceed $3.3
million, including a 30%
contingency. Monitoring the
project for at least 30 years,
which the Port will be respon-
sible for, could cost around
$1.8 million, or $60,000 a
year, he said.
“At this point, we’re going
to have about half the money
to complete this,” Port Com-
missioner James Campbell
said. “I guess the (big) ques-
tion is, ‘Where is the rest of
the money going to come
from?’”
Snow known for her legal mind, generosity
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Seaside City Council, 7 p.m., (electronic meeting).
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Clatsop County Board of Commissioners, noon, work
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circumstances.”
Under the settlement,
McCall will pay the Port
$1.55 million, and Exxon
$1.35 million.
“The whole purpose of
this settlement is to provide
not only funding from these
parties to the Port to perform
the work, but to also pro-
vide fi nality for McCall and
Exxon, which they insisted
on if they’re going to pay
millions,” Blount said.
The Port Commission on
Tuesday unanimously, albeit
reluctantly, approved accept-
ing the settlement .
“Our choice is to approve
this and take it like a bitter
pill, or fi ght it, and it will be
in the courts for another 10
years,” Port Commissioner
nected to the theater since its
inception.
Hal Snow’s grandmother
and her twin sister were
among the fi rst ticket-tak-
ers and ushers at the theater
in 1925. Hal and Jeanyse
Snow, along with others,
came together in the 1990s
to help launch a renovation
project .
During the theater’s res-
toration between 1999 and
2006, the Snows, through
their family foundation,
made numerous grants to
Liberty Restoration Inc.
Crockett said Snow has
been instrumental in help-
ing lead the theater’s current
capital campaign.
She said the Snow Fam-
ily Fund of the Oregon Com-
munity Foundation gave
$125,000 at the theater’s
gala last year and secured the
naming rights to the theatre’s
vestibule restoration.
Crockett
remembers
Snow for being smart, hav-
ing a witty sense of humor
and for her dedication to
organizations throughout the
community.
“We’ll miss her very
much,” she said. “The Snow
family legacy lives on at the
theater . Her sons are both
involved. We feel their pres-
ence since day one they’ve
been so involved.”
Dukes was longtime state senator
ON THE RECORD
Walton, 18, of Astoria,
was indicted Friday on
two counts of robbery in
the fi rst degree, robbery
in the second degree, two
counts of unlawful use of
a weapon, unauthorized
use of a vehicle, theft in
the fi rst degree, driving
under the infl uence of
intoxicants, reckless driv-
ing and reckless endan-
germent of a person.
•
Omar
Magana
Suarez, 20, of Astoria,
was indicted Friday on
two counts of robbery in
the fi rst degree, robbery
in the second degree, two
counts of unlawful use of
a weapon, unauthorized
use of a vehicle and theft
By EDWARD STRATTON
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Johnson described Dukes
as an advocate on issues as
diverse as transportation and
pain management.
“Although she was fero-
ciously dedicated to Astoria,
she understood there were
no physical boundaries in
many political issues,” the
senator said in a statement.
“In transportation, one road
leads to another and another
and eventually connects to a
freeway. When one road is
allowed to deteriorate, it can
impact the rest of the state’s
transportation network.
“Joan also understood we
all feel physical pain, what-
ever our political affi liation.
One of her constituents was
a hospice physician who
told her a lot of people were
dying in pain.
“Thanks to her, the state
Legislature approved a com-
mission to oversee curricu-
lum for licensed health care
practitioners on pain man-
agement courses to improve
patient care. Nobody should
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Joan Dukes represented
the North Coast in the state
Senate.
have to die in pain when
there are ways to ease a
patient’s suffering.”
Johnson
remembers
that Dukes could also be
unyielding on some issues.
“In her case,” the senator
recalled, “she became furi-
ous when she discovered
that the cafeteria in the leg-
islators’ lounge at the Cap-
itol building served farmed
fi sh. Why is the great state
of Oregon, known for its
fi sheries, serving farmed
fi sh?
“At least for the rest of
her term, they stopped.”
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