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148TH YEAR, NO. 45
DailyAstorian.com // TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2020
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CORONAVIRUS
PANDEMIC
Cruise ship
Regatta
heads for
Astoria
PORCH
PARADE
Extended stay
during pandemic
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Astorian
The Norwegian Cruise Line ship
Regatta will arrive Thursday with 93
crew members and lay up at the Port of
Astoria through at least April.
Will Isom, the Port’s executive direc-
tor, said the Regatta will be charged
$75,000 a month.
The federal Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention extended its no-sail
order for cruise ships carrying more than
250 passengers through October. A CDC
release on the extension noted that “data
show that when only essential crew are
on board, ongoing spread of (coronavi-
rus) still occurs.”
See Regatta, Page A2
Most schools
continue with
online learning
Precautions to contain virus
By KATIE FRANKOWICZ
The Astorian
Photos by Hailey Hoff man/The Astorian
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Assistance League volunteer Christine
Lolich hands goody bags fi lled with treats to a car on the parade
route. ■ From left, Christine Lolich, Saundra Clark and Sally
Haserot from the Assistance League prepare and hand out goody
bags for the Pandemic Porch Parade. Participants paid $10, passed
by 13 diff erent decorated stops and answered trivia questions
for a prize at the end of the route. The socially-distanced parade
replaced the Assistance League’s annual Home and Chef fundraiser
to support programs for local children. ■ From left, Mary Davies,
Lori Hulti and Ramona Hunter run a Día de los Muertos at a stop
on the parade at Pioneer Cemetery. ■ A decorated house on the
parade route features witches, ghosts and trivia, asking, ‘What was
Lewis and Clark’s dog’s name?’ ■ Dressed as Batgirl and a witch,
Kayrori Gedenberg, left, and Jacqueline Denton wave to passing
cars from the sidewalk at a stop of the parade.
Neighbor appeals
Pacifi c Seafood dorm
By EDWARD
STRATTON
The Astorian
HAMMOND — Pacifi c
Seafood , after pulling back
from a dormitory proposal
in Astoria amid neighbor-
hood appeals, faces a sim-
ilar situation at proposed
dorms in Hammond.
Warrenton city staff
recently extended by a
year building permits set
to expire Nov. 19 at Pacifi c
Fabrication, a Hammond
Clatsop County schools that had
reopened to some or all students in Sep-
tember will con-
tinue with online-
only
classes
MORE
following a coro-
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navirus outbreak at
County
the Pacifi c Seafood
reports four
plant in Warrenton.
new virus
The
coun-
cases • A2
ty’s virus count
remains too high
to allow in-person
classes, wrote Tom Rogozinski, the super-
intendent of the Warrenton-Hammond
School District, in a message posted on
the school district’s website.
The school district’s leaders plan to
continue distance learning for all students
through at least Oct. 23.
See Schools, Page A6
Astoria’s super discus thrower
McMaster on track to
beat school record
machine shop Pacifi c Sea-
food owns and hopes to use
part of to house 70 work-
ers from May through
November.
The seafood processor
has struggled to fully staff
the Warrenton plant, bus-
ing workers in from across
the region and using the
federal H-2B visa program
to attract foreign workers .
The company has rented
hotel rooms and other lodg-
ing to house the seasonal
workforce.
John King, the general
manager of the Warren-
ton plant, said the company
Hailey Hoff man/The Astorian
See Dorm, Page A6
Astoria High School’s Colton McMaster is a
top athlete in Clatsop County.
By GARY HENLEY
The Astorian
olton McMaster is the Clark Kent
of Astoria High School. He may
look quiet, humble and unassum-
ing , but put him in a foot-
ball, basketball or track
uniform, and he becomes
Clatsop County’s latest
super hero .
Topping the list of his
summer highlights was a
sixth-place fi nish — nationally — in
a virtual track meet discus competi-
tion in May .
“That doesn’t mean that I’m the
sixth-best in the nation,” he said,
“because there’s probably a whole
lot of kids better than me who didn’t
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compete.”
McMaster also placed ninth in
another virtual meet with his best
throw ever.
His mark of 173 feet, 6 inches, on
fi lm and measured by his mom , bet-
tered the Astoria school record by
over 10 feet. The Fishermen school
record is 163-5, a mark which still
belongs to Jason Thiel, set in 1989.
Track is not McMas-
ter’s only sport .
McMaster wrestled and
played baseball through
middle school, eventually
trading those two sports
for basketball and track.
And that has turned out to be a
pretty good deal.
McMaster was one of the Cowapa
League’s leading scorers in basketball
last season.
Oct. 17th & 18th
Saturday: 9 am- 3 pm ◆ Sunday: 10 am- 3 pm
Seaside Convention Center
You Never Know What You’ll Find At
A Collectors West Gun & Knife Show!
415 1st Avenue, Seaside
collectorswest.com
See McMaster, Page A6
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