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Newspaper Page TextA6 THE ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JULY 9, 2020 Museums: ‘85% to 90% of people come in with masks already’ Continued from Page A1 around admissions staff and focused a position on clean- ing touch points. McAndrew Burns, the historical society’s execu- tive director , said money from the federal Paycheck Protection Program helped keep employees on. They removed touch screens at the Heritage Museum and closed off a research section where a rchivist Liisa Penner is one of the foremost experts on the region’s history. The challenge hasn’t been cleaning surfaces, but rather dealing with the tight quar- ters at the former jail and ﬁ nding enough volunteers to help run other properties, such as the Flavel House Museum, Burns said. “Our volunteer base at the Flavel House, of course, are right in that sweet zone of people that should be con- cerned,” he said of older vol- unteers. “About half of them have not come back yet. We’ve appreciated that they would love to come back, but they don’t feel like it’s safe until there’s a cure.” The Seaside Aquarium, a galleria of exotic sea life on the city’s P romenade, reopened May 20 with a mask requirement . Little painted ﬁ sh guide people on a one-way route around around the aquarium’s main showroom of ﬁ sh tanks. Vis- itors still feed seals at the end. Keith Chandler, the gen- eral manager of the aquar- ium, said the museum has focused on making sure everyone has a mask. ‘WE PUT THE GUIDELINES IN. WHETHER THEY FOLLOW THEM OR NOT, WE CAN’T REALLY ENFORCE THAT ALL THE TIME. BUT THEY’RE THERE.’ Keith Chandler | general manager of the Seaside Aquarium time slang and a new series on local shipwrecks that will lead up to a new exhibit. New exhibits Clatsop County Historical Society The Clatsop County Historical Society has debuted two new exhibits at the Heritage Museum, including ‘Model City’ on how Astoria was planned and promoted over history. The exhibit features Ebba Wicks Brown’s topographic maps from her 1946 master’s thesis. “People are actually being pretty good,” he said. “At ﬁ rst, we were having to give quite a few masks away, but now, 85% to 90% of people come in with masks already.” As one of the few private museums with a tight bud- get based on entry fees, the aquarium largely relies on the honor system for social distancing and the one-way route. “We put the guidelines in,” Chandler said. “Whether they follow them or not, we can’t really enforce that all the time. But they’re there. The signage is there for them to follow if they choose to.” A refresh The extended closure did provide museums down- time for maintenance and a refresh of exhibits. The M aritime M useum brought in contractors to build walls for better sound and lighting. Staff replaced all the technology through- out the great hall, said c ura- tor Jeff Smith. “We’ve had that on the schedule for over a year and had secured funding for that over a year ago,” Smith said. “And when we had this unforeseen downtime, we decided, ‘Well, now is an excellent time to take that work on.’” Nate Sandel, the muse- um’s director of education, said the museum hadn’t done much virtually before all physical visits to schools and summer camps were can- celed because of the virus. Then the museum started offering up its ﬁ eld educator on Zoom calls with teachers in their virtual classrooms. “When she would be on the Zoom call with the teacher, the teacher would get the highest amount of student participation, of stu- dents logging in,” Sandel said. “And so that kind of gave us a little ﬁ re under our wings to say, ‘What more can we do to engage these students that are sitting at home?’” The museum started a series of virtual education lectures, from short pieces on student miniboat con- struction programs and Ore- gon’s top seafoods to mari- Emergency: ‘I think we can anticipate that this is going to continue for some time ...’ Continued from Page A1 “I think we can anticipate that this is going to continue for some time, and I didn’t want to have to do this exten- sion every month,” Asto- ria Mayor Bruce Jones said Monday night. “I ﬁ gured let’s wait at least two more months before we do it again.” The City Council also held a public hearing so staff could apply for a $150,000 community development block grant through the state to give low- and moder- ate-income businesses and employees across the county small grants. At 23.5%, the county had the second-highest unem- ployment rate in May, behind only Lincoln County. A smat- tering of businesses across the county have started to close during what would usu- ally be the busy tourist sea- son. Some owners cited the coronavirus and government restrictions as factors in their decisions . Mary McArthur, the exec- utive director of the Colum- bia-Paciﬁ c Economic Devel- opment District, wrote the grant application. Clatsop Economic Development Resources would distribute the money to businesses of 25 or fewer employees. More signiﬁ cantly, the money can- not be used for the same relief purpose or time period as federal funds. McArthur said Tues- day that Clatsop Economic Development Resources has already been distributing other small business relief funds through the state and has not yet run out. She won- ders whether there will even be enough demand for relief funds among businesses that have not received other fed- eral support. “This all may be a moot point,” she said of the block grant . “It looks like these businesses are either going out of business and not going to take any money, or they’re actually getting by, and can use just a little bit of this other small business assis- tance money.” McArthur called the restrictions related to prior federal support signiﬁ cant, but still urged small busi- nesses across the county to apply and said partners are seeking more unrestricted money. “I know our small busi- nesses are having a difﬁ cult time out there, and I hope it helps bridge a gap,” City Councilor Tom Brownson said . Astoria is the only local government in the county that meets the technical requirements to apply on behalf of the county for fed- eral community development block grants through Busi- ness Oregon, the state’s eco- nomic development agency. The city is also applying for $50,000 from the state for protective equipment that would be disbursed through the county’s Public Health Department. The money would focus on emergency responders, public health workers and the costs of community testing. Cruise boats: Ships will carry minimal crew Continued from Page A1 late July because of virus concerns . The Port of Astoria has canceled all but three of the more than 30 large, oceango- ing cruise ships that planned to stop locally this year on their way up and down the West Coast. Local ofﬁ cials in May pre- vented the Port from host- ing two mostly empty ocean- going cruise ships and their crews after an outbreak of the virus at Bornstein Seafoods in Astoria. Laying up the ships while idle could have made the Port around $15,000 a day, according to Will Isom, the agency’s executive director. Isom reported to the Port Commission on Tuesday that the agency narrowly lost out on another opportunity to lay up the Regatta, an Ocea- nia Cruises ship that had been scheduled to arrive Tuesday from Oakland, California. The Port heard a couple of weeks ago that the ship had technical difﬁ culties and instead went to Los Angeles, Isom said. “They don’t think the ves- sel will be ready to move here for the next few weeks,” he said. Closure: ‘We need to have this fresh ﬁ sh available locally’ Continued from Page A1 Cotte said. “And that was it. Then he left.” The surprise was as big to him as it was to customers . “I couldn’t give them any consolation of why, because I didn’t know either,” Cotte said. Bud Charlton, a late com- mercial ﬁ sherman, set up Warrenton Deep Sea Co. in the 1960s and acquired a former clam company for his market, according to his son, Mark Charlton . Charlton said the market moved around from Can- non Beach to near the Rite Aid in Warrenton before locating along the Skipanon in the 1970s, where it pro- cessed, canned, wholesaled and retailed seafood. “We processed thousands and thousands and thou- sands of cans of salmon, tuna, sturgeon,” Charlton said. “We smoked all those ﬁ sh and sold them through the market. In fact, at Christ- mastime, we’d have a UPS truck full of our ﬁ sh, the Stormy Brand.” Mark Kujala, a Clatsop County c ommissioner who represents Warrenton, called Bud Charlton a ﬁ xture in the community and Warrenton Deep Sea one of the premier ﬁ sh markets in the region. “I remember as a young kid going to Warrenton Deep Sea,” he said. “And we certainly did a lot of busi- ness with them for Skipanon Brand Seafoods.” Skipanon Brand closed in 2018 after working through a voluntary recall of canned products in 2015. Kujala said he has no plans to reopen the market, both because of the difﬁ culty in recovering from the recall and because of increased challenges, such as ﬂ uctuating seafood costs, higher labor costs and more regulations. “The industry changed, and it was very hard to make it pencil out for a lot of peo- ple,” Kujala said. “That’s why you don’t see many ﬁ sh markets around anymore. You see a lot of them start up and then they don’t last.” Astoria, once home to only Northwest Wild Prod- ucts, has seen several more hybrid seafood markets and restaurants open up, includ- ing Hanthorn Crab Co. on Pier 39, Hurricane Ron’s on Marine Drive, South Bay Wild Fish House on 10th Street and Astoria Marina Seafoods at the West Moor- ing Basin. Bell Buoy of Seaside still operates a restaurant and market along U.S. Highway 101 . Ecola Seafoods in Can- non Beach reopened in 2018 after being heavily damaged by an electrical ﬁ re. Kujala said he’d gladly patronize another shop in Warrenton. “We need to have this fresh ﬁ sh available locally, since we’re located in such a wonderful place on the Columbia River and on the Paciﬁ c Ocean,” he said. “We should have access to this great product.” Cotte said he is in the beginning stages of planning his own operation. “It’s not starting from scratch, but kind of work- ing backwards a little bit,” he said. “The absence of a retail market in the area … is huge, and it’s a big oppor- tunity, too.” With much of stafﬁ ng paid for by federal relief funds, the h istorical s ociety assigned staff special proj- ects, Burns said. At the Heritage Museum, they set up two new exhib- its. “Signs of the Times ” explores through historical signs how local businesses and Astoria have grown and changed over time. “Model City ” uses scale models to look at earlier planning and promotion of the region. The h istorical s ociety lost a robust calendar of events to the coronavirus, Burns said, but upped social media pres- ence and continued radio spots to keep its name out. With coronavirus cases rising globally and in Ore- gon, museums are following safety guidelines and stay- ing on their toes for new reg- ulations. The h istorical s oci- ety will follow local and state guidelines, along with its own comfort level, Burns said. “If things aren’t seeming to work the way that we’d like, if too many people at the ﬁ lm m useum are getting angry about waiting, maybe we’d switch to timed entry,” he said. “But we’re just kind of reacting to our public and to our volunteers and to our staff. People make sugges- tions. We listen, and we’ll swerve as we need to.” Consult a PROFESSIONAL Q: How do I insert Emojis into my computer’s emails & documents? 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