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September 8, 2017
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Growth: Restaurant changes hands, businesses expand and make improvements
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Street Dam and a decision by
the district to remove its tide
gates.
The city contends the re-
moval has caused flooding
on properties upstream. The
two boards haven’t met in
more than a year, City Man-
ager Linda Engbretson said.
“We want to see what kind
of compromise we can reach
and find out if they’re still ad-
amant in taking it out.”
The meeting is expected lat-
er this month.
• An application for a 68-
unit apartment complex
proposed by builder Dick
Krueger adjacent to the re-
gional food bank on Choke-
berry Avenue comes before
the Planning Commission at
7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14, at
City Hall. The public is invit-
ed to give their opinions on
the project during the public
hearing.
• A zone change is in the
works for a 16-acre parcel
adjacent to Home Depot
along Alt. Highway 101 be-
tween Southeast Ensign Lane
and Highway 101. The land,
which is out of the flood plain
and tsunami zone, would be a
logical place for future com-
mercial develop, said Ken
Yuill, a member of the city’s
Planning Commission who
lives next to the parcel.
“Our area over by the Home
Depot can and should make a
great transition between the
big box stores and all of the
smaller stores, along with the
chance for some other hous-
ing options,” Yuill wrote in
an email to Urban Renewal
Advisory Board Chairwoman
Frida Fraunfelder.
• Uptown Café in the pla-
za across from Home Depot
changed hands this week.
David Posalski and Donnie
Jones purchased the restau-
rant from Krista Bingham
and David Yuill. Bingham
and Yuill are out of the coun-
try and have not returned
phone calls or emails seeking
comments about their plans,
although restaurant employ-
ees have confirmed they plan
to leave Warrenton.
• The play area at Robin-
son Community Park was
cordoned off and equipment
removed this week to make
way for a new $120,000 play-
ground the city recently pur-
chased after letting school
kids choose the design. The
city’s Public Works staff re-
moved the old equipment to
save money and a contractor
will install the new equip-
ment starting Sept. 18.
• Warrenton Christian
Church at 1376 S.E. An-
chor Ave., is building a
1,750-square-foot foyer on
the north side of the church
with a larger nursery and ad-
ditional storage below. The
church, just off South Main
Avenue, has been a neighbor-
hood institution for 49 years.
• Sowins Real Estate and
Property Management re-
cently moved its offices to
280 S.E. Marlin Ave. The
building got a complete ren-
ovation inside and out.
• Improvements to the
exterior of Roy Allgeyer’s
commercial building at 737
E. Harbor Drive were com-
pleted Aug. 22. The building,
which houses Penny Wise
Thrift Store, sits within the
city’s urban renewal zone,
and will receive a façade im-
provement grant.
• Speaking of thrift stores,
a commercial building in the
heart of downtown that for-
merly housed a thrift store
has gotten a major facelift.
Russ Mayes has the proper-
ty in the 100 block of South
Main Avenue ready for a new
tenant.
• Grading has begun on
Westlake Village and Lake-
shore Village, two develop-
ments along Highway 101
just south of Warrenton city
limits. What’s planned? An
87-lot project of single-family
homes planned to be built in
three phases.
Old-time fun set at Flavel House
“Old-Fashioned
Fun and Games,”
an annual event
sponsored by the
Clatsop
County
Historical Society,
is set for 11 a.m. to
4 p.m. Saturday,
Sept. 9, and Sun-
day, Sept. 10, at
Submitted photo
the Flavel House
Children
compete
in
a
gunny-sack
race
Museum,
441
at
last
year’s
games.
Eighth St., Astoria.
Activities for adults and onade and corndogs.
children include include
The event is free, but dona-
croquet and badminton, tions will be accepted.
hands-on activities, contests
For more information, call
and prizes, butter- and ice 503-325-2203.
cream-making demonstra-
tions, apple pressing, textiles,
blacksmithing, wagon rides
and more.
Children will learn how kids
entertained themselves in the
Victorian era.
Refreshments include lem-
Public Safety Calls
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ing, 3:47 p.m. Sept. 1, 1600
block Southeast Ensign Lane.
• Female employee with back
pain, 8:17 p.m. Sept. 2, 1500
block Southeast Discovery Lane.
• Male having difficulty breath-
ing, 7:26 a.m. Sept. 2, 33200
block Sunset Beach Lane.
• Unconscious female in car,
11:33 a.m. Sept. 2, 100 block
Southeast Neptune Drive.
• Male fall victim who hit head,
11:08 a.m. Sept. 2, Hammond
Marina.
• Female in severe pain, 12:16
p.m. Sept. 2, 2200 block South-
east Dolphin Avenue.
• Female child bitten by dog, 1:38
p.m. Sept. 2, historical area of
Fort Stevens State Park.
• Male asleep in car, 8:10 p.m.
Sept. 2, 200 block Southwest
Second Street.
• Female with alcohol poisoning,
11:23 p.m. Sept. 2, 200 block
Tyee Street.
503-338-2955