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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2021
IN BRIEF
People on Oregon Coast urged
to take photos of king tides
The Oregon Coast is set to experience high-
er-than-normal tides this weekend, and researchers are
asking Oregonians to take photos to help document
sea level rise as climate change worsens.
From Friday through Sunday, the coast will get
some of the highest tides of winter, known as king
tides. King tides occur when the moon, Earth and the
sun align at the closest points to each other, leading
to enough gravitational pull to create larger-than-usual
tides.
The Oregon King Tides Project is asking anyone
with a camera to safely take and share pictures of the
king tides, which can add about 3 feet to average tides.
The resulting photo collection will help document and
inform researchers on the impacts of sea level rise,
fl ooding and erosion — all of which are becoming
worse as global warming continues to play out.
Researchers to study
decline in kelp and sea stars
Since a marine heat wave that happened from
2013 to 2015, there have been important ecosystem
changes on the Oregon Coast. The populations of bull
kelp, sunfl ower sea stars and other important marine
species like abalone have been on the decline. At the
same time, the population of purple sea urchins is ris-
ing rapidly.
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
marine resources program was recently awarded a
$250,000 grant to study those ecological changes.
— Oregon Public Broadcasting
DEATHS
Nov. 26, 2021
In DOUGLAS,
Brief
Kenneth
Todd, 56, of Westport, died
in Westport. Ocean View
Deaths
Funeral & Cremation Ser-
vice of Astoria is in charge
of the arrangements.
MOORE, Christopher
Brad, 56, of Seaside, died
in Seaside. Ocean View
Funeral & Cremation Ser-
vice of Astoria is in charge
of the arrangements.
Nov. 25, 2021
COATS, Scott, 54, of
Seaside, died in Seaside.
Hughes-Ransom
Mor-
tuary is in charge of the
arrangements.
THACKER,
Carol
Ann, 78, of Astoria, died
in Astoria. Ocean View
Funeral & Cremation Ser-
vice of Astoria is in charge
of the arrangements.
Nov. 23, 2021
O’DONOVAN, Laura,
62, of Astoria, died in
Astoria. Hughes-Ransom
Mortuary is in charge of
the arrangements.
ROLEY, Stephanie, 78,
of Seaside, died in Sea-
side.
Hughes-Ransom
Mortuary is in charge of
the arrangements.
MEMORIAL
Saturday, Dec. 4
Memorial
PETERSEN, Larry — Memorial at 1 p.m., at the
grave site, Ocean View Cemetery, 575 S.W. 18th St. in
Warrenton, followed by a reception at the Astoria Golf &
Country Club, 33445 Sunset Beach Road in Warrenton.
ON THE RECORD
Identity theft
DUII
On
the
Record
• Michael
Patrick
Lla-
• Exar Ovidio Morales
nos, 41, of Portland, was
indicted on Aug. 24 for
nine counts of identity
theft, fl eeing or attempt-
ing to elude a police
offi cer, reckless driving,
recklessly endangering
another person and giv-
ing false information
to a peace offi cer. The
alleged crimes occurred
in Clatsop County in
November 2019.
Theft
• Eric Nicholas Fer-
guson, 41, of Astoria,
was arrested on Fri-
day at Marine Drive
and 23rd Street in Asto-
ria for theft in the sec-
ond degree and criminal
trespass.
Roblero, 41, of Hillsboro,
was arrested on Sun-
day on U.S. Highway 26
near milepost 10 for driv-
ing under the infl uence of
intoxicants and reckless
driving.
• Darlene Frances Van
Auken, 35, of Warrenton,
was arrested on Thurs-
day at E. Harbor Drive
and N.E. King Avenue for
DUII and reckless driving.
• Jentry Michael Mil-
hiser, 32, of Chinook,
Washington, was arrested
on Thursday on Culp
Court in Astoria for DUII.
Milhiser had crashed into
another vehicle at Lex-
ington Avenue and Third
Street.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
TUESDAY
Gearhart City Council, 6:30 p.m., work session on council
goals, (electronic meeting).
WEDNESDAY
Clatsop County Board of Commissioners, 10 a.m., work
session, (electronic meeting).
Seaside Improvement Commission, 6 p.m., City Hall, 989
Broadway.
Gearhart City Council, 6 p.m., (electronic meeting).
THURSDAY
Seaside Parks Advisory Committee, 6 p.m., City Hall, 989
Broadway.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
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Astoria Scandinavian Midsummer Festival
Lloyd and Janet Bowler, two of Astoria’s busiest volunteers.
Bowler: ‘We have something we want to share’
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“That’s kept her really
busy,” Bowler said.
One thing that has kept
Bowler busy is hosting
radio programs, which he
had never done until after
retiring from teaching.
Shortly after arriving in
Clatsop County from Wash-
ington state in 1978, Bowler
became interested in pro-
gramming for the local pub-
lic radio station.
“I started listening to
KMUN right from the
beginning,” he said. “They
put out a call for people
to come down and pre-
view program proposals.
That was really how I got
my foot in the door,” to
broadcasting.
“I knew there was a
Celtic program, and I really
wanted to do Celtic, so
that’s what got me into it.”
Bowler had no radio
broadcasting
experience,
so “I decided to take the
radio class, and 32 years
later, here I am. I’m a lot
like the other programmers
(at KMUN) — most of us
had never had radio expo-
sure, as far as being a broad-
caster. We have something
we want to share, and we go
down there and share it.”
And Bowler apparently
knows what he’s doing,
since he recently received
the station’s “Programmer
of the Year” award “in rec-
ognition of exemplary vol-
unteer service to the Til-
licum Foundation and the
Lower Columbia Pacifi c
Region …”
On their Facebook page,
KMUN stated “Lloyd
has, like Richard (Daw-
son, another KMUN host),
been covering a large swath
of programming through-
out the pandemic, and has
been an integral part of the
lineup.”
Bowler can be heard
hosting “Morning Classics”
on Wednesdays, in addition
to the Scandinavian Hour
and Celtic Aire .
He’s also in the rota-
tion for “Bedtime Stories,”
which can be heard Sundays
through Thursdays at 8 p.m.
At the same time he
started hosting the Scan-
dinavian Hour, “I started
with Bedtime S tories, so
I’ve been a ‘Bedtimer’
for the last 32 years,” he
said. “About 10 years ago,
I started doing classical
music in the morning.”
While the Saturday music
shows are back to airing live
and in-studio, Bowler pre re-
cords the Morning Classics.
“I told the folks at KMUN
that getting up at 5 o’clock
on Wednesday morning and
going down to the station …
I grew to not like doing that
during COVID, so I’m pre-
recording those.”
The “same thing with the
B edtime S tories,” he said.
“It’s just a lot easier to do
them online.”
The COVID pandemic
changed the media indus-
try , with many employ-
ees reporting and working
remotely.
“When COVID hit, the
station was basically empty
of people for a year and a
half,” Bowler said. “The
folks who work at KMUN
were extremely busy, keep-
ing everything going.
“At fi rst it was kind of
weird, especially ironing
out the technical problems.
But those times are long
past, and it’s real easy to do.
I feel comfortable broad-
casting from home, record-
ing then uploading.”
The Saturday music
shows are where Bowler
shines. He loves the Celtic
music.
Always the host of Celtic
Aire, Bowler “made a deal
with the station, when we
came back live, I said I’d
like to do the Scandinavian
Hour, too. Lyle Haataja was
host before COVID h it, and
just did his fi rst program last
week.”
Personally, “I started lis-
tening to Celtic music after
I moved to Astoria,” he
said. “The public library
had a bunch of LP s by T he
Chieftains, and that was my
‘gateway drug’ into Celtic
music. ‘Thistle and Sham-
rock’ is another great Celtic
program (airs Fridays, 1 to
2 p.m.). I started listening
to Fiona Ritchie when she
started.
“I’m mostly Irish,”
Bowler said. “Accord-
ing to 23andMe , I’m about
three-quarters Irish, and
I’ve also been named as an
‘honorary Norwegian.’”
Seafood: The research will be broken into phases
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Funding comes from the
foundation’s Seeding Solu-
tions program, address-
ing challenges in food sup-
ply and agro ecosystem
management.
Project partners also
include the Alaska Seafood
Marketing Institute, Pacifi c
Seafood Group, Seafood
Industry Research Fund,
Trident Seafoods and West
Coast Seafood Processors
Association, which pro-
vided matching funds.
Jung Kwon, an associate
professor at Oregon State’s
Seafood Research and Edu-
cation Center in Astoria, is
heading up the multiyear
project. The research will
be broken into phases, she
said.
First, researchers will
determine the best and most
effi cient ways to extract
protein
from
seafood
byproducts, focusing spe-
cifi cally on two fi sheries —
Alaska pollock and Pacifi c
whiting. Pacifi c Seafood
Group, based in Clacka-
mas, and Trident Seafoods,
based in Seattle, are provid-
ing samples.
After extracting the pro-
tein, Kwon said they will
assess its nutritional con-
tent compared to other
common supplements, such
as whey. Then the proj-
ect will pivot to develop-
ing prototype food products
and supplements using the
protein, based on feedback
from consumer panels.
If successful, Kwon said
the project will create a
platform for solving global
food insecurity in an envi-
ronmentally
sustainable
way.
According to the Foun-
dation for Food and Agri-
culture Research, an addi-
tional 148 million people
may be protein defi cient by
2050 due to climate change.
“The success of the pro-
posed project will push for-
ward the notion of a sus-
tainable food system to the
next level,” Kwon said.
Kwon said the proj-
ect could also have a big
impact on the seafood
industry, giving processors
a high-value market for
what has been a low-value
waste product.
Lori Steele, the exec-
utive director of the West
Coast Seafood Processors
Association, said that while
most byproducts do go into
fi shmeal, it is not typically
a money making proposi-
tion, usually only off setting
disposal costs.
“There’s
opportunity
here, I think, to investi-
gate what can be done
with byproducts where we
can actually continue to
feed the world with it and
expand markets with new
products,” Steele said. “It’s
well within the scope of
what our industry in gen-
eral tries to do, which is to
fully utilize the product and
not throw anything away.”
The West Coast Food
Processors Association rep-
resents members in Ore-
gon, Washington state and
California that produce
631 million pounds of sea-
food every year, valued at
$550 million and employ-
ing more than 3,000 people.
“It almost feels like this
is sort of a step in the right
direction in terms of the
evolution of the industry,”
Steele said.
Homeless: Shower vouchers can be redeemed at any time
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funded for at least one year.
An overnight staff mem-
ber will be assisted by one
or two volunteers to over-
see the shelter. Men will be
separated from women and
children.
The park district will
work with the shelter to pro-
vide vouchers for shower
access. The passes will
enable free showers at the
Sunset Pool 13 hours a week
— 5:45 to 8 a.m. Mondays
and Wednesdays and Tues-
days and Thursdays from 5
to 6 p.m. “We try to set those
times where the pool isn’t
used as heavily and there’s
not a lot of children around,”
he said.
Shower vouchers can be
redeemed at any time.
‘THERE’S PROBABLY GOING
TO BE SOME CHALLENGING
EXPERIENCES TO BE HAD. B UT
WITH PROPER TRAINING AND
GOOD PROTOCOLS IN PLACE
WE’RE GOING TO TRY AND
EMBRACE AND HELP THOSE
FOLKS AS MUCH AS WE CAN.’
Skyler Archibald | executive director of
the Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District
“We do have some pro-
tocols in place for some of
the potential challenges that
might accompany them as
far as their personal belong-
ings or pets,” he said. “I feel
really confi dent in the abili-
ties of staff to interact with
that group.”
While a shower pro-
gram is already in place,
Archibald anticipates it will
get more use than it has in
the past.
Along with the shower
program, the park district
will work with the other
partners to provide a sack
lunch or dinner for when
people check in. “We’ll be
working with our foundation
and possibly with our nutri-
tion coordinator to fi gure out
exactly how to do that,” he
said.
“Unfortunately,
this
(homelessness) isn’t a prob-
lem that we can solve, but I
think providing a hot shower
and a towel is something that
really will help their health,”
Archibald said. “There’s
probably going to be some
challenging
experiences
to be had. B ut with proper
training and good protocols
in place we’re going to try
and embrace and help those
folks as much as we can.”