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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, MAY 29, 2021
IN BRIEF
Nighttime closure planned
for New Youngs Bay Bridge
The New Youngs Bay Bridge will close at night for
two weeks beginning June 6.
The bridge will close from 9 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. Sun-
day through Friday until June 18. The closure is part of a
repair project that began in 2019.
Drivers can use U.S. Highway 101 Business as an
alternate route.
Warrenton appoints new
Municipal Court judge
WARRENTON — The City Commission has appointed
Stacy Rodriguez as judge of the city’s Municipal Court.
Rodriguez, an attorney based in Cannon Beach, has
been a prosecutor for the court since 2011.
She has also been a judge pro tem at Seaside Munici-
pal Court since 2007.
Rodriguez will assume the role on Tuesday.
— The Astorian
CANOE
FRISBEE
Hirsch named Oregon’s
acting state forester
The Oregon Board of Forestry appointed Nancy
Hirsch as the acting state forester Thursday. Hirsch will
step into her role overseeing the state Department of For-
estry on Tuesday.
Hirsch is coming back to the state Department of For-
estry after her 2019 retirement. She has held several lead-
ership roles over her 33 years at the agency. She was the
fi rst woman to serve as an incident management team
commander from 2008 to 2010. She previously served
as acting state forester for fi ve months in 2010 and 2011.
“Given the conversations we’ve had this week and
the vote of confi dence here today, I am extremely excited
and honored to be back and serve with the strong folks
that exist within the department,” Hirsch said. “I can feel
at ease with the opportunities and the serious work we
have in front of us.”
Hirsch will replace departing State Forester Peter
Daugherty, whose previously-announced resignation is
eff ective Monday. Daugherty faced dueling criticism
from environmentalists and the timber industry over
conservation and logging levels on state and private for-
ests. His time as agency head was also marked by fi nan-
cial and management problems.
— Oregon Public Broadcasting
Twelve Northwest tribes say
they are united to save salmon
SPOKANE, Wash. — Some Native American tribes
in the Pacifi c Northwest are criticizing the sugges-
tion they have competing opinions on how best to save
endangered salmon runs, saying tribes are united in pur-
suing the removal of four hydroelectric dams on the
Snake River in order to preserve the iconic fi sh.
A dozen tribes issued a joint press release on Wednes-
day rejecting the notion that tribes based near Puget
Sound might have diff ering goals than inland tribes.
“Any eff orts to divide the Indigenous peoples of this
region by suggesting that the Puget Sound tribes don’t
have the same interests as the Northwest inland tribes
have been soundly rejected by tribal leaders,” Nez Perce
Tribe Chairman Samuel Penney said in the release. “We
are all salmon people.”
The dozen tribes are united behind a controversial
proposal by U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson, an Idaho Republi-
can, to spend some $33 billion on eff orts to save salmon
that include breaching the four dams.
— Associated Press
DEATHS
May, 27, 2021
In BARROWS,
Brief
Virginia
Marie, 97, of Astoria, died
in Astoria. Caldwell’s
Deaths
Luce-Layton Mortuary of
Astoria is in charge of the
arrangements.
May 26, 2021
HAGERT,
Shirley
Ann, 86, of Astoria, died
in Astoria. Ocean View
Cremation & Funeral Ser-
vice of Astoria is in charge
of the arrangements.
ON THE RECORD
Assault
Wednesday
On
the
• Shayna
Marie Record
Drisk- onramp of
ill-Kieling, 29, of Astoria,
was arrested Wednesday
at Ninth and Astor streets
in Astoria for assault in
the fourth degree.
DUII
• William Edward
Thompson, 35, of Sea-
side,
was
arrested
on
the
the Asto-
ria Bridge for driving
under the infl uence of
intoxicants.
• Brad D. Cruce, 50,
of Vancouver, Washing-
ton, was arrested Tues-
day on 11th and Com-
mercial streets in Astoria
for DUII.
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Astoria Library Board, 5:30 p.m., 450 10th St.
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Annamarie Lilley, left, and Frances Taggart play canoe frisbee
tag at the Warrenton Grade School outdoor program at Camp
Kiwanilong on Wednesday. Students used their canoeing skills
to paddle around the lake and toss frisbees into other canoes.
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Former YMCA, restored bungalow
win historic preservation awards
By EDWARD
STRATTON
The Astorian
Over the past several
years, Noel Weber Jr., his
wife, Wytske v an Keulen, and
their family have transformed
the faded, mostly vacant shell
of the former YMCA in Asto-
ria into a community hub
anchored by Gathered Bake-
shop & Market and Shift
+ Wheeler, a clothing and
accessory company.
Weber Jr. and v an Keulen
recently joined Astoria Mayor
Bruce Jones at a City Coun-
cil meeting to receive the
Dr. Edward Harvey Historic
Preservation Award for com-
mercial building restoration .
Dan and Sara Hauer, who
restored their family’s 1921
bungalow on 14th Street after
it nearly burned down in 2018,
received the residential award .
The Harvey Award, given
since 1987, recognizes prop-
erty owners who com-
plete restorations that exem-
plify historic attributes and
the architectural heritage of
Astoria.
Family partnership
Weber Jr. purchased the
former YMCA off 12th Street
in 2015 from local artist Jim
Russell . The family, who run
Classic Design Studio, led by
their father, Noel Weber Sr.,
imagined an Astoria expan-
sion of the artistic coopera-
tive they had created in Boise.
Weber Jr. and v an Keulen
have split their time between
Idaho and Astoria, working in
spurts with family and friends
to renovate the building using
historic blueprints and photos
from the Clatsop County His-
torical Society.
They had stopped com-
ing to Astoria for six months
at the onset of the coronavi-
rus pandemic. But by then,
the family had already trans-
formed the building from a
faded purple to a fresh coat of
gray-and-black and prepared
two storefronts for Gathered
and Shift + Wheeler.
Most of their work since
has been on the upstairs, a
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destruction. An insurance
adjuster recommended gut-
ting the house to the studs.
But before crews began rip-
ping the historic wood fl oors
and cast-plaster walls, the
Hauers reached out to Rick-
enbach Construction and
began the process of histori-
cally re-creating the house’s
details.
The Hauers and their chil-
dren spent two years living in
rentals while crews made the
house structurally stable and
restored all the original plas-
ter, molding, windows, doors
and other features. They
didn’t move back in until
painting was fi nished last fall .
One of the only vestiges of
the fi re is a small, black burn
mark on the quarter-sawn oak
fl ooring in the dining room.
“It’s just such a beauti-
ful home,” Dan Hauer said.
“And the great thing after all
this is that it still just feels
like the same home … And
now with our kids here, that’s
the fourth generation grow-
ing up in this house.”
Three generations of Hau-
ers have owned the red bunga-
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low on 14th Street. The house
was originally designed by
famed Astoria architect John
E. Wicks and built in 1921 as
an example of how electricity
could be incorporated into a
historic home.
Dan Hauer’s grandparents
purchased the house in the
1950s. “It was the most wired
home in the N orthwest,” he
said. “They brought down
people from Portland and
Seattle to see it.”
In 2018, the wiring to a
basement outlet under the
center of the dining room
fl oor failed, igniting a fi re
that soon spread throughout
the walls of the home. Sara
Hauer said one of her sons
fi rst noticed the smoke com-
ing from the basement.
“I decided to open up the
blinds over the dining room,
and there was just nothing
but fl ames coming out,” she
said.
The Hauers credited the
Astoria Fire Department
with responding within min-
utes, saving the home from
A restoration
born of fi re
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former dormitory where the
family has a live-work studio,
and the artist s’ cooperative
they’re creating in the former
gym and basement.
“We were … review-
ing the year, the people here,
and I guess it’s just exciting
how everyone works on their
own skill in such a thought-
ful way,” v an Keulen said.
“And I feel like — especially
with the pandemic — I think
it has been empowering for
everyone.”
The restoration also
earned the family an Oregon
Heritage Excellence Award in
October .
Katie Henry, the coordi-
nator of the Oregon Heritage
Commission, said the YMCA
came on the agency’s radar
after receiving a grant several
years ago to help restore the
building’s facade.
“This is an incredibly
hard process, because all of
the nominations are excep-
tional,” she said. “But part of
what we sit there and think
about is, ‘Does this go above
and beyond?’”
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Sara and Dan Hauer received a Dr. Edward Harvey Historic Preservation Award for the
restoration of a 1921 bungalow damaged by an electrical fi re in 2018.
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COMMUNITY NEWS
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June 21-25 | 9:00 a.m. - NOON
Ages 3 years old to 5 th grade
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