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Miss Clatsop: Six compete for top two titles; eight for outstanding teen
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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
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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.