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January 12, 2018 T he C olumbia P ress 4 Miss Clatsop: Six compete for top two titles; eight for outstanding teen Continued from Page 1 grants and awards. The Miss Clatsop pageant will be Feb. 3 at the Seaside Convention Center. Tickets are $12 in advance through Brown Paper Tickets or $15 at the door. Mossman Mitchell The Clatsop County program is run by volunteers. The program encourages anyone interested in making a positive impact on the lives of young women to consider helping with the program. Those participating in the 2018 Miss Clatsop pageant are: • Bailee Neahring, 18, of Weaver Hillman Warrenton. She is a student at • Kayla Worwood, 21, of Clatsop Community College. Her platform is children’s Astoria. She is an advocate of poverty and her talent is maintaining music education in schools and her talent is lyrical dance. Huber Morinville Boothe Miller singing. • Aubrey McMahan, 19, of Knappa. Her cause of choice is Project Semicolon, a suicide prevention initiative, and her talent is singing. • Dana Ottem, 19, of Seaside. Her issue is removing microplastics from beaches and her talent is jazz dance. • Viola Soprano, 17, a Seaside High School student. She is an advocate of Use Your Voice, which encourages young people to get involved in the democratic process. Her talent is singing. • Haylie Moon, 22, of Cannon Beach. She is a student at the University of Portland. Her cause is destigmatizing adolescent mental health issues. Lyrical dance is her talent. Outstanding teen contes- tants are: • Hallie Mossman, 16, Potholes: City to develop a pavement management plan Continued from Page 1 Each street was given a PCI score between 1 and 100 based on cracks, potholes and pavement quality. Anything above 70 is con- sidered “good” and most of the city’s streets fall into that catego- ry. But there are too many consid- ered “fair,” “poor” or “very poor.” As a whole, the city scored 69 on the pavement condition index, just barely short of the “good” range. But, should the city contin- ue with its current budget strate- gy for street maintenance, it will continue to drop further down the scale, Conder said. “Everybody thinks their street’s the worst,” he said. Some of them are right. Two streets that scored “very poor”: Northwest Seventh Place and North Main Avenue, which intersect just east of the main route to Hammond. The city has nearly $350,000 set aside in its capital improve- ment budget to repair the streets this year. But repairs need to wait until water and, possibly, sewer lines go in. “Any pavement manager would tell you it’s gone too far,” former Public Works Director Jim Dunn said back in April, when the list of major improvement projects came before the commission. “We’re going to spend a lot of money on a road that’s not heav- ily traveled.” Conder recommended the city do its best to prolong the life of streets that aren’t so bad by giv- ing them a chip seal (gravel is spread over the surface followed by a thin layer of asphalt) and then follow that with a slurry seal (an oil and asphalt-based hard substance sprayed on top). The cost of chip and slurry can be done for less than $5 per square yard, Conder said. Let- ting streets get to the “very poor” level requires complete rebuild- ing at $112 per square yard. “You’re not doing preventive maintenance right now,” he told city leaders. “It’s one thing, hopefully, you guys will start do- ing.” The city begins forming its 2018-19 budget in the spring and that’s when decisions to increase funding would be made. Cindy Yingst/The Columbia Press Potholes are prevalent along Northwest Sev- enth Place on this section east of Northwest Warrenton Drive. But the residential area is one of the last in the city without sewers and the city wants to wait until water and sewer pipes are laid before reconstructing the street. of Warrenton, a Warrenton High School student. • Riley Mitchell, 15, of Warrenton, a Warrenton High School student. • Emmy Huber, 13, of Astoria, an Astoria Middle School student. • Josie Morinville, 13, of Knappa, an Astoria Middle School student. • Gracie Weaver, 13, of Seaside, a Broadway Middle School student. • Caitlin Hillman, 15, of Seaside, a Seaside High School student. • Lilly Boothe, 14, of Clatskanie, a Clatskanie High School student. • Taryn Miller, 15, of Scappoose, a Scappoose High School student. Consultant leads ‘joy and wealth’ seminar A seminar called “Building Joy & Wealth: Business Process Improve- ment,” will be held 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 16, at Clatsop Commu- nity College, 1651 Lexington Ave., As- toria. The seminar is sponsored by the Small Business Development Center and will be led by Arnie Hendricks, a contract chief finan- cial officer who has served more than 300 companies. Cost is $49 and payable at the work- shop by check or Hendricks credit card. Prereg- istration should be made by contacting the center, 503- 338-2402. Participants should get a better un- derstanding of financial statements, budgets and monthly business re- views, learn how to create a plan for enhancing the value of a business and plan for eventually selling a business. Hendricks owns Financial Manage- ment Resources. The seminar will be in room 219 of Columbia Hall.
