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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2022
IN BRIEF
County again extends
vacation rental moratorium
The Clatsop County Board of Commissioners on
Wednesday extended a moratorium on issuing new
vacation rental permits.
It is the third extension in a year, as the county has
worked to zone and regulate the enterprises.
A moratorium was originally approved in August
and went into eff ect in September. The county voted to
extend the freeze in December and April.
The latest extension comes three weeks after com-
missioners approved an ordinance that allowed vaca-
tion rentals as a permitted use in commercial and resi-
dential zones in unincorporated areas.
County staff is working on a plan to cap the num-
ber of vacation rentals allowed in certain areas. That
plan is due to arrive in a few weeks, but the full work
on limiting the proliferation of the rentals would have
continued after the second extension was set to expire
in late August.
The latest extension is scheduled to end on Dec. 24.
Fires erupt at Camp Rilea
during military exercise
Wildfi res erupted during a military exercise at
Camp Rilea Armed Forces Training Center in Warren-
ton on Thursday afternoon.
The fi res, which began before 2 p.m., were started
by tracer bullets.
The largest fi re, called the Bad Shot fi re, burned
about 12 1/2 acres of beach grass, according to Jeff
Golightly, the fi re chief at Lewis and Clark who served
as incident commander.
Another fi re, the Range fi re, burned about 5 acres
within a containment line put in place last week during
a prescribed burn in preparation for the exercise, Goli-
ghtly said.
No injuries or property damage were reported.
Fishing extended on river
amid strong Chinook returns
Columbia River Chinook fi shing will continue
uninterrupted through the rest of the summer season.
The season runs from July 14 to July 31 from the
Astoria Bridge to Bonneville Dam. The bag limit is
two adult salmonids, limit one steelhead.
Fishery managers decided to continue the season
due to strong returns of summer Chinook and sockeye.
The sockeye count at Bonneville Dam was 591,134
through Monday, which is the highest count to date
since the dam was built in 1931. The season has the
potential to break the record cumulative sockeye count
of 614,179, set in 2014.
County off ers virus testing
at hazardous waste facility
People can now get tested for the coronavirus at
Clatsop County’s household hazardous waste facility
on Williamsport Road in Astoria.
The new site replaces the testing operation at Camp
Rilea Armed Forces Training Center.
The drive-thru testing site will operate 9 to 11 a.m.
Tuesdays and Fridays.
Testing is by appointment only and reserved for
people with COVID-19 symptoms or who had a con-
fi rmed contact with someone who tested positive for
the virus — not for people looking to be tested for
events, travel or presurgery, the county said.
Astoria to hold ribbon-cutting for
playground at Violet LaPlante Park
An all-abilities playground will offi cially open to
the public Thursday at Violet LaPlante Park in Astoria
following a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The ribbon-cutting will be held by the city, Moda
Health and the Portland Trail Blazers from 1 to 2 p.m.
to celebrate improvements to the playground, which
was installed earlier this year.
Astoria was selected by the Moda Assist Program
to receive funding to purchase the new equipment.
The parks department received $20 for every assist
the Trail Blazers made during the 2020-2021 regular
season, totaling $37,000, with $10 each contributed
from the Trail Blazers and Moda.
The city also received a $4,500 grant from Pacifi c
Power’s Community Foundation and a $5,000 grant
from the Ford Family Foundation.
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DEATH
July 12, 2022
TROUT, Arthur F., 67, of Seaside, died in Sea-
side. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary is in charge of the
arrangements.
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Flintlock fi rearms and tools for making ammunition during the Lewis and Clark era were on display at a historic reenactment
last weekend at the Knappton Cove Heritage Center.
Repair project for historic mural
reaches $20K fundraising goal
Artwork brings
tribal culture and
heritage downtown
By R.J. MARX
The Astorian
SEASIDE — Donations
from the city, the Oregon
Coast Visitors Association
and benefactors pushed fund-
raising for a cultural history
mural on Broadway over its
goal of $20,000.
Funds were raised to repair
the 60-foot mural mounted on
the Ace Hardware building
damaged in November.
The mural, by histori-
cal artist and muralist Roger
Cooke, brings the culture
and heritage of the Clat-
sop and Nehalem people to
downtown.
Cooke, a Sandy resi-
dent who died in 2012, is
best known for his histori-
cal depictions of Northwest
tribes. On the left of the mural
are elders of the tribe. Among
vignettes are a man carving a
canoe and children playing on
the beach.
The mural also includes
historic images of Tostum,
headman of the Clatsop in the
mid-1800s, and Joe Scovell,
chief of the Nehalem.
“The next step is we’re
going to do a little clean-
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The mural along Broadway before it was damaged by a crash
in November.
ing and sort of preparation
and packaging of the exist-
ing metal that’s housed in
the tribal offi ces in Seaside,”
Todd Lawson, an artist, archi-
tect and tribe descendant, said.
Sixteen of the 4-foot-by-
10-foot panels will be shipped
to Seattle for restoration and
then repaired and restored in
Lawson’s studio.
Work to repair the mural
will be done by Seattle-based
artist Jeff Mihalyo.
“He’s a Renaissance man,”
Lawson said. “Super interest-
ing, super talented. You give
him something, he will recre-
ate it exactly if need be.”
Tribal members will clean
the panels with soap and
water to remove corrosion
before Mihalyo begins work.
“We want to do it really
gently,” Lawson said. “It’s got
a lot of residue from the salty
air coast there.”
The fi rst step will be to
clean “almost like the baby
ducks that get in the oil spills,”
Lawson said, using dishwash-
ing detergent, some warm
water and micro cloths.
Most of the mural will
survive, he said, with fi ve
damaged spots “surgically
removed and restored,” he
said. “The real attempt is to do
as little damage or intrusion as
possible.”
When complete, the mural
will be scanned to provide
a digital blueprint for future
repairs.
“We’ll be able to pull those
out as high-defi nition scans
with the original piece,” Law-
son said. “If somebody did
have to recreate it, it would be
done as close to the original as
possible.”
When the work is com-
plete, the Seaside Public
Works Department will return
to return the mural to Broad-
way near Holladay, with the
assistance of Ace Hardware,
which will add mounting
bolts.
Seaside High School
teachers Bill Westerholm and
Kriste York, along with stu-
dents in the Clatsop-Nehalem
tribal history class, will add a
QR code to link visitors to the
tribe’s website and historical
reference.
Lawson said he anticipates
work will be completed in
August, with an unveiling in
late August or September.
“It’s a great opportunity to
tell a bunch of diff erent sto-
ries,” Lawson said. “That’s
what is so exciting about it. I
think that’s why both the city
and the visitors association
gave us the money. It tells us
the story of the original inhab-
itants, shows how my ances-
tors lived and worked along
the coast. This mural tells a
great story of our history.”
Reports: Dams may need to be removed to help salmon
A White House
council released
the fi ndings
By NICHOLAS K.
GERANIOS
Associated Press
SPOKANE, Wash. —
The Biden administration
has released two reports
arguing that removing dams
on the lower Snake River
may be needed to restore
salmon runs to sustainable
levels in the Pacifi c North-
west, and that replacing the
energy created by the dams
is possible but will cost $11
billion to $19 billion.
The reports were released
by the White House Council
on Environmental Quality.
“Business as usual will
not restore salmon,” said
Brenda Mallory, chair of
the council. “The Columbia
River system is the lifeblood
of the Pacifi c Northwest.”
If the four Snake River
dams
were
ultimately
removed, it would be largest
such project in U.S. history.
In 2012, the Elwha Dam on
Washington state’s Olympic
Peninsula was removed to
restore habitat. At the time,
the National Park Service
said the elimination of the
Elwha Dam was the largest
such project in U.S. history.
Many salmon runs con-
tinue to decline, which envi-
ronmentalists blame on
dams, Mallory said, and
her offi ce is leading mul-
tiagency eff orts to restore
“abundant runs of salmon to
the Columbia River basin.”
Mallory cautioned that
the Biden administration
is not endorsing any single
long-term solution, includ-
ing breaching the dams.
A draft report by scien-
tists at the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Adminis-
tration found changes are
needed to restore salmon,
ranging from removal of
one to four dams on the
lower Snake River to rein-
troduction of salmon to
areas entirely blocked by
dams. A second report stud-
ied how power supplies
could be replaced if dams
are breached.
“These two reports add
to the picture — that we are
working alongside regional
leaders to develop — of
what it will take over the
decades ahead to restore
salmon populations, honor
our commitments to tribal
nations, deliver clean power
and meet the many needs
of stakeholders across the
region,” Mallory said.
More than a dozen runs
of salmon and steelhead are
at risk of extinction in the
Columbia and Snake rivers.
Billions of dollars have
been spent on salmon and
steelhead recovery, but the
fi sh continue to decline,
advocates said, and it is time
to try a diff erent approach.
Dam breaching is opposed
by grain shippers, irriga-
tors, power producers and
other river users. Dam sup-
porters blame declining
salmon runs on other fac-
tors, such as changing ocean
conditions.
“We need to go to larg-
er-scale actions,” NOAA
scientist Chris Jordan said
in a briefi ng on the report
Monday.
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