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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.
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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