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4 January 26, 2018 T he C olumbia P ress Math and tunes on tap at Thursday lecture “Mathematics and Music” is the topic of a community lec- ture set for 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 1, in the Lovell Show- room at Fort George Brew- ery, corner of 14 and Duane streets. Clatsop Community College math instructor Rich Beve- ridge will lead the talk. Many of us grew up with Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do, Beve- ridge says, but few understand the mathematics behind the diatonic scale made famous in the “Sound of Music.” The ancient Greeks knew that the length of a vibrat- ing string was mathemat- ically related to the tone it produced and, from this un- derstanding, developed the seven-tone diatonic scale and seven-stringed lyre. His talk is part of the month- ly “Ales & Ideas” lecture se- ries sponsored jointly by the college and Fort George. Doors open with food and beverage service at 6 p.m. Food, seasonal beers and oth- er beverages will be available for purchase, but no purchase is required. Minors are wel- come. Members of the local VFW post returned recently from a midwinter conference in Newport. The annual conference cele- brates the VFW’s Voice of De- mocracy scholarship program whereby high school students from across the state submit essays on various topics. This year’s topic was “American History: Our Hope for the Future.” Members who attend- ed from Fort Stevens Post 10580 are Commander Marc Warren, Quartermaster Bert Little and Chaplain Leroy Dunn. Auxiliary members attending were President Debbie Little, Treasurer Mu- riel Dunn, Secretary Susan Walker and members Dana Warren and Margie Jones. Winners at the post level in the essay contest are then submitted to the district. None of the local essays made it to the district competition. District winners and their families were treated to a banquet and received mone- tary awards. The Department of Oregon Veterans of Foreign Wars awarded $13,400 through the contest. Oregon’s winner represents the state in Wash- ington, D.C., in March. Continued from page 1 last year,” Workman said. “So are there that many more people driving under the in- fluence? Or are the police do- ing more enforcement?” The department made a commitment to stop im- paired drivers in 2016, which kicked into high gear in 2017, thus the dramatic increase in arrests. Warrenton Police Depart- ment presented its annual re- port to the City Commission Tuesday night and included statistics from the past four years. Some highlights: There were 8,317 calls for police service in 2014. Last year there were 7,956. There were 1,515 incident reports filed in 2014. Last year there were 2,028. There were 994 arrests in 2014, 925 in 2015, 961 in 2016. There were 1,098 ar- rests last year, a 14 percent increase from 2016. There were 2,407 traffic events (citations, collisions) in 2016, and 2,094 in 2017, a 15 percent drop. Arrests for driving under the influence of intoxicants increased 40 percent last year. “The decrease in traffic events stems from officers working more incidents/ cases and not having time to do more traffic,” Work- man wrote in his annual re- port. “There is also a direct correlation in the commit- ment to patrolling for DUIIs and the fact that a DUII case takes several hours and pro- hibits the officers from run- ning more traffic during the investigation and subsequent report writing.” Before the meeting, Work- man pointed out that arrests and report writing are up while total calls are down. “I see this as the depart- ment being more proactive and making larger cases and arrests on their own without a call for service,” he said. “But again, an arrest takes more time and (allows) less time for traffic stops.” If not for the rash of vehicle break-ins in November and December, the agency’s prop- erty crimes would have been down for the year, he said. “Warrenton continues to be a safe city to live in,” Workman said, “with few vi- olent crimes and an average amount of other crimes.” Math instructor Rich Beveridge Fort Stevens VFW attends conference in Newport Crime: Selective enforcement can skew stats
