B1 THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2022 THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2022 • B1 WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE COMPILED BY BOB DUKE From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers 10 years ago this week – 2012 t 38, Jason Bjaranson was starting to û gure it might be time to get out of commercial û shing on the Paciû c Ocean. He was starting to think he should buy some life insurance, and had second thoughts about making what proved to be his last trip. But he had a family to support, and the bills were piling up. So he kissed his girlfriend goodbye and through the window of the truck, told her he loved her, and did what he has been doing his whole life 4 went to sea to make his living at one of the most dangerous jobs anywhere. But he and three others on the Lady Cecelia never came back. The 70-foot trawler went down in the night this week- end, possibly in a matter of seconds, 17 miles oû the coast of southern Washington state. When the U.S. Coast Guard reached the scene hours later, there was nothing but an oil slick, an empty life raft and some crab pots to mark where the trawler disappeared. A The Seaside boys basketball team and its sup- porters returned from the state championship tournament with a third-place trophy and a whole lot of pride. After all, this weekend concluded the most successful season in the history of Seaside boys basketball. Twenty-four hours after a loss to eventual state champion Central on Friday, the Gulls bounced back in Saturday’s third-place game at Gill Coliseum, where Seaside rallied 42-39 to win over Sisters in a back-and-forth battle. Seaside coach Bill Westerholm’s team also won the tournament’s s portsmanship award. Hospitality Masters, led by local hoteliers Brad Smi- thart and Seth Davis, won a û ve-year lease to refurbish the former Astoria Red Lion Inn today. They will open April 1 with 50 rooms as the Astoria Riverwalk Inn, a boutique hotel harkening back to the Americana feel of the 1960 s. The Port of Astoria faces the need for immediate rev- enues with little investment, possibly the biggest draw of keeping the landmark hotel. After testimony by commu- nity members, the commissioners decided to make the decision immediately instead of waiting until March 20 as previously announced. Kilee Kindred, center, of Astoria High School’s Pizazz dance team, leaps through the air alongside top dancers from other Oregon schools during the all-state dance performance in 2012. LEFT: The Seaside Seagulls boys basketball team claimed the third-place state trophy at Gill Coliseum in Corvallis after locking up the Sister’s Outlaws 42-39 in 2012. RIGHT: Julie Forseth enjoyed one of the last moments of solitude at Cannon Beach as the winter season ended in 1972. PORTLAND — The Astoria High School dance team placed second in its division at the s tate d ance and d rill championships on Thurs- day night at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum . Competing in the 4A s mall d ivision, 15 danc- ers for Astoria Pizazz competed against four other teams for a state title. 50 years ago – 1972 SEASIDE 4 Tears and smiles and red roses on Satur- day night greeted the announcement of 18-year-old Dana See as Miss Seaside 1972. See is a n honor student at Sea- side High School, where the 24th annual Miss Seaside Scholarship Pageant was presented to some 600 spectators. The poised brunette who trains and shows horses and gives riding lessons after her full schedule of high school and Clatsop College classes will serve as oû cial hostess for the Miss Oregon Scholarship Pageant in July. As Miss Seaside, she will also represent Seaside in various com- munity pageants, festivals and other appearances during the coming year. Somewhere in Clatsop County there may be a place for trash. And, county oû cials hope to û nd out where it is after a meeting April 7 with rep- resentatives of the s tate Department of Environ- mental Quality . At present, there are six approved sites in the c ounty and at least one more under consider- ation. However, c ounty oû cials are concerned the landû ll sites may have to be phased out if DEQ strictly enforces its proposed rules on solid waste management. After July 1, all sites must either cease opera- tion or gain a permit from DEQ. The proposed DEQ rules specify stringent controls on the types of landû lls that may be approved and also include procedures for main- taining sites and covering garbage. The Port of Astoria has applied to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a permit to modify and expand the West Mooring Basin by addition of the property between the present basin and the Union Fishermen9s Cooperative Cannery to the east . The Port9s plans call for demolition of the present east- ern breakwater and that portion of the northern or outer breakwater lying east of the present entrance. A new breakwater would be built alongside the Union Fishermen9s cannery, extending into the river almost to the pierhead line, then turning downriver and overlapping the Daff odils poke out of the snow below the Astoria Column in 2012. existing entrance, thereby closing the entrance to a surge produced by the east winds. The curator of the Columbia River Maritime Museum says the proposed new museum on the Astoria waterfront is expected to draw some 200,000 visitors per year and become one of the major attractions on the l ower Columbia. Review of the seal control program for the Columbia River will be made Tuesday in Portland at the Oregon Fish Commission meeting. The seal control program, in eû ect since 1935 under statutory authority, requires payment of a $5 to $25 bounty for all seals taken on the Columbia and permits the com- mission to establish other programs to control seals. State law requires each gillnetter to contribute $2.50 and each canner using salmon from the Columbia $50 to the fund to reduce seal damage to salmon caught in gillnets. 75 years ago — 1947 Gordon Sloan, of the Astoria Chamber of Commerce , will represent the chamber at the meeting of Oregon Dana See is crowned Miss Seaside in 1972. and Washington commercial secretaries and presidents in Portland today and tomorrow at which consideration will be given to the need for additional power dams on the Columbia River. With the power dam subject scheduled to come up tomorrow at noon before the meeting, Sloan will submit prior to that session a brief prepared by the chamber out- lining the stand of the local group and Columbia River salmon industry regarding the dam situation.