T he C olumbia P ress
December 7, 2018
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The joy of sharing space with wild things
“Sharing Space with Wild
Things” is the topic of this
month’s Nature Matters talk.
The presentation is at 7
p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, in
the Lovell Showroom at Fort
George Brewery, 1483 Duane
St., Astoria.
Josh Saranpaa, executive
director of the Wildlife Cen-
ter of the North Coast, and
Pauline Baker, rehabilitation
coordinator, will give the au-
dience an inside look at what
wildlife rehabilitation is, its
importance, and the impact
people have on wildlife.
The Wildlife Center is a
nonprofit wildlife hospital
and environmental education
center that has been rescuing,
rehabilitating, and releasing
native wildlife on the North
Josh Saranpaa
Oregon Coast for 21 years.
The talk is free. Doors open
at 6 p.m. for those who want to
purchase dinner or beverages
before the event.
Nature Matters is held ono
the second Thursday of the
month from October through
May. It’s sponsored by Lewis
Pauline Baker
and Clark National Historical
Park in partnership with the
North Coast Watershed Asso-
ciation, the Lewis & Clark Na-
tional Park Association and
Fort George.
For more information, call
503-861-2471.
We interrupt this test for a real emergency
Last week’s county emer-
gency alert system was inter-
rupted for… an emergency.
A test of the ClatsopAL-
ERTS! emergency notification
system had been planned for
Friday, Nov. 30, but the coun-
ty’s Emergency Management
Division (EMD) instead had
to broadcast a real emergency
that had many Clatsop County
residents concerned.
The test was scheduled to
send messages out to resi-
dential and business landline
phones as well as cell phones
and email addresses regis-
tered with ClatsopALERTS!
But a 7.2 earthquake near
Anchorage – one with a poten-
tial for tsunamis -- prompted
EMD to send local emails and
text messages about the Alas-
kan earthquake. That mes-
sage informed recipients that
no tsunami alert had been is-
sued for the Oregon Coast.
EMD
Manager
Tiffany
Brown said they wanted to
avoid any potential confusion
between the Alaska earth-
quake message and the sched-
uled test.
So they decided to cancel the
test.
Friday’s test was to be the
first of a series performed
four times a year as a test of
the local warning system and
to boost registration among
county residents
“One of our primary ob-
jectives in beginning these
quarterly tests is to reduce
confusion among our citi-
zens,” Brown said. “We didn’t
feel the test would achieve
that, coming so soon after the
earthquake message.”
The ClatsopALERTS! test
will be rescheduled for some
time this month.
ClatsopALERTS! is de-
signed to provide local citi-
zens with immediate infor-
mation and warnings about
storms, floods and tsunamis,
water contamination alerts,
missing persons reports, road
closures and other events.
Landline phones are auto-
matically included in the
ClatsopALERTS! database,
but to receive messages on
cell phones, users must regis-
ter their numbers.
To register, go to www.co.
clatsop.or.us.
Helping families at holiday time
Warrenton-Hammond
Healthy Kids is partner-
ing with Warrenton Grade
School
and
Warrenton
Christian Church for its
third annual Holiday Toy
Drive.
Donations of cash, checks
or toys can be dropped off at
the grade school. Also stop
by the grade school to adopt
a child or family.
Toys also can be dropped
off at Columbia Bank in
Warrenton, the Warrenton
Branch of Wauna Credit
Union, Warrenton Christian
Church and Darlene Warren
Farmers Insurance.
All donations must be
turned in by Wednesday,
Dec. 19. A gift-wrapping
party will be held at War-
renton Christian Church on
Saturday, Dec. 22.
For more information,
contact Debbie Morrow at
503-791-5973.
Bruce Dustin/The Columbia Press
Dalton Knight scored a team-leading 18 points in the Gaston win.
Boys basketball scores two
wins in first week of play
B y B ruCe d ustin
The Columbia Press
The Warrenton boys basket-
ball team was riding a high
going into its second week of
play, with two opening season
wins: 48-37 against Nestuc-
ca, and a nail-bitiing 56-54
against Gaston.
The week will culminate in
away games at Neah-Kah-Nie
and Vernonia this Friday and
Saturday.
“When Austin Little fouled
out close to the end of the
fourth quarter, everybody
thought it was a bad call,”
Coach Nate McBride said af-
ter the Gaston win. “But it
wasn’t and I told my bench
so.”
The call did highlight the
end of a game dominated by
defensive fouls contested by
many in the stands.
“Even with two wins under
our belt, we still have some
things to work on,” McBride
admitted. “But, regardless of
the negatives, our team has
dominated with strong of-
fensive and defensive play.
We need to work on press
breakers, and it’ll make a big
difference when Jake Morrow
comes off the disabled list
this week. But I’m really look-
ing forward to a good season
from our boys.”
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