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THE ASTORIAN • TuESdAy, SEpTEmbER 6, 2022
Timber: Could create 2,500 jobs
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Winners were announced Fri-
day by the White House.
Commerce Secretary Gina
Raimondo said the grants
will allow communities to
invest in new infrastruc-
ture, research and workforce
development programs in
order to create good-paying
jobs. Special consideration
was given to rural, tribal and
low-income areas.
Oregon’s mass timber pro-
posal takes a multipronged
approach to achieve these
goals.
First, a portion of the grant
will go toward construction
of a factory at the Port of Port-
land dedicated to building
modular homes using engi-
neered wooden beams and
panels to address the city’s
affordable housing crisis.
The Terminal 2 hub will
also include a new lab for the
University of Oregon to study
acoustical design of mass
timber houses. Construction
is expected to break ground
in 2024.
Another $24 million in
grant funds will go to fur-
ther research into the struc-
tural, seismic, durability and
energy performance of mass
timber buildings, led by the
TallWood Design Institute,
a collaboration between UO
and Oregon State University.
Iain Macdonald, the insti-
tute’s director, said mass
timber has already gained
momentum in Oregon. He
highlighted companies such
as Freres Engineered Wood,
makers of mass timber ply-
wood panels used in build-
ings from the George W.
Peavy Forest Science Center
in Corvallis to the new roof
installed last year at Portland
International Airport.
In other developments,
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the top 20 commercial con-
struction firms in the country,
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Workers prepare mass timber structural components that are
manufactured by Freres Lumber Co.
has spun off a mass timber
subsidiary called Timber-
lab in Portland. Sauter Tim-
ber, a Tennessee-based man-
ufacturer, is in the process of
building a new fabrication
facility in Estacada.
“We’re seeing this expan-
sion throughout the industry,”
Macdonald said. “It’s not just
the folks who make the pan-
els and beams, but there are
all these tertiary services.”
Macdonald said mass
timber can be made from
small-diameter trees that
wouldn’t otherwise be suit-
able for a sawmill. Reve-
nue from those sales could
help agencies such as the
state Department of Forestry
fund thinning and restoration
work, creating healthier and
more fire-resilient forests.
Part of the federal grant
will allow the Department
of Forestry to study how that
work can be done sustain-
ably within the Willamette
National Forest, feeding the
industry with the wood it
needs.
“Using wood in construc-
tion is not a threat to the
forests,” Macdonald said.
“What is a threat is conver-
sion of the forests to other
uses like farmland or (res-
idential) development ...
Arguably, the best way to
preserve forests is to provide
good markets for sustainably
harvested timber.”
In all, the coalition esti-
mates the project will create
more than 2,500 jobs across
all sectors over the next five
years.
Curtis Robinhold, the Port
of Portland executive direc-
tor, called it “a transforma-
tional moment for Oregon.”
“The project will create
rural and urban jobs with
products grown and manu-
factured right here in Ore-
gon,” Robinhold said. “The
innovations will enable
production of high-qual-
ity building products from
low-quality wood. This
will increase housing, pro-
vide jobs and promote forest
health.”
“I was completely sur-
prised,” Mayer said. “ …
I literally stood and cried
when I read that email. It
was kind of unbelievable.”
In June, Layla, who was
staying with Mayer’s girl-
friend while she was work-
ing at Columbia Memorial
Hospital, escaped from the
house and killed a cat named
Jack. Layla was found chas-
ing another cat before being
apprehended and taken to
Clatsop County Animal
Shelter.
Eric Halverson, the interim
police chief at the time, desig-
nated Layla a level five dan-
gerous animal. Under city
code, animals at large that kill
other animals are designated
level five — the highest level.
With some exceptions, the
law also states that animals
receiving that classification
shall be euthanized.
Mayer appealed the des-
ignation, but it was upheld
in Municipal Court. He then
appealed to Circuit Court,
where the ruling was upheld
in August.
According to an email
from Kelly to Mayer, the
city used available discre-
tion within the dangerous ani-
mal ordinance and Layla was
reclassified from level five to
level four.
The decision to reclassify,
the email said, was based on
evidence that Layla has suf-
fered a history of abuse, that
the owners have the desire,
experience and ability to mon-
itor the dog’s activities and
that Multnomah County Ani-
mal Services have approved
the home where she will be
kept.
Conditions of Layla’s
release include a secure enclo-
sure on Mayer’s property with
a posted sign indicating a
“potentially dangerous dog.”
She must be leashed and muz-
zled when not on his property.
Layla is also permanently pro-
hibited from entering or resid-
ing in Astoria except while
being transported in a secure
vehicle while passing through
the city.
Layla, a pit bull that killed a cat
in Astoria in June, was spared.
Kelly indicated that
the cat owner supported
Layla’s release under the
conditions.
Mayer is not completely
sure why the city had a
change of heart, but thinks
the large number of emails
that city staff and city coun-
cilors received from peo-
ple voicing their support for
Layla was a contributing
factor. More than 30,000
people supported an online
petition for Layla.
“The outpouring of sup-
port from people who were
sympathetic to Layla’s story
is amazing and we are so
grateful to the police, the
city manager and the City
Council for being willing to
change their stance,” Mayer
said. “We’re very grateful.”
Alexis Weisend contrib-
uted to this report.
Stein: Sells her work in Gearhart, online
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about doing paste up layout
for ad work,” she said.
After graduation, she went
to work at Levitz Furniture
in their advertising depart-
ment, doing layouts for ads
in The Oregonian. She later
returned to school where she
learned medical transcription,
a career she pursued for the
next 30 years.
She met and married
Andrew Stein, the founder of
Logotek Inc., which produces
custom promotional products.
Throughout, she devel-
oped her hobby.
“My parents loved to go
to the beach,” she said. “My
mom loved to beachcomb.
So from the time I was a little
kid, I got into it.”
In the 1980s, she moved to
California, where she began
to explore her fascination
with sea glass at Glass Beach
in Fort Bragg.
A treasure trove can be
found in Santa Cruz, she
said, because a glass studio
on a cliff stored unused glass
behind the studio, which hap-
pened to be near a creek. In
the 1970s, an overflowing
creek swept glass into the
ocean during a rainstorm.
“And now this glass
is coming back in,” she
said. “It’s all beautiful,
multicolored.”
Getting to it can be treach-
erous, she added. “The waves
are just wicked there. And
you don’t typically find it on
the beach. You have to get out
in the water. People wear wet-
suits and have elaborate bas-
ket setups,” she said. “They
actually market it as ‘Santa
Cruz glass.’”
Sea glass is sold in galler-
ies, eBay and Etsy, she said.
Stein sells her work at the
Natural Nook in Gearhart.
Sea glass exists through-
out the world, with examples
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Pit bull: More than 30,000
supported online petition
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found from Roman times.
Most of the glass on the West
Coast is “newer, relatively
speaking.”
Pieces can be made into
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