T he C olumbia P ress
March 8, 2019
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City and county agree to lend
out their building inspectors
The Columbia Press
Front row, L-R: Kenzie Ramsey, Melia Kapua, Adriana DeJesus, Sagi Diego. Back row:
Coach Robert Hoepfl, Claire Bussert, Maria Heyen, Fernanda Alvarez, Avyree Miethe, Syd-
ney Marchello, Annie Heyen, Hallie Mossman, Grace Fritz, Leah Schiewe, Assistant Coach
Jeff Bilyeu. Back: Assistant Coach Michael Slivkoff.
Girls end best season in nearly a decade
B y B ruCe d ustin
The Columbia Press
The Warrenton girls bas-
ketball team bounced back
Friday with a 45-40 win over
Vale.
The win came one day after
their loss in the 3A Girls Bas-
ketball State Championship at
Marshfield High School in Coos
Bay to No. 2-ranked Salem
Academy, which then pitted
them against Brookings-Har-
bor Saturday morning.
But even with Fernanda
Alvarez’s team-leading 12
points, followed by Kenzie
Ramsey’s 11, and Claire Bus-
sert’s 6, the Warrior girls lost
40-45.
The team had an overall 21-
10 record, winning 69 percent
of league games.
The loss ended the Warren-
ton girls’ best season in near-
ly a decade.
Public safety calls
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• Male with nosebleed, 11:01 a.m.
Feb. 25, VA Clinic Camp Rilea.
• Female vomiting, 3:22 p.m.
Feb. 26, 600 block South High-
way 101.
• Female fall patient, 2:28 p.m.
Feb. 26, 0-100 block East Har-
bor Drive.
• Female vomiting, 8:08 p.m.
Feb. 26, 1600 block East Harbor
Drive.
• Male with chest pain, 11:11 a.m.
Feb. 27, 2000 block Chokeberry
Avenue.
• Male child with loss of con-
sciousness, 2:33 p.m. Feb. 27,
1700 block Ensign Lane.
• Female with difficulty breath-
ing, 4:37 p.m. Feb. 27, 1700
block Ensign Lane.
• Male hitting his head, 4:42 p.m.
Feb. 27, 1400 block Southeast
Willow Drive.
• Male with gun who’s passed
out, 10:53 p.m. March 1, 0-100
block East Harbor Drive.
• Male screaming & yelling, 10:20
a.m. March 2, 1300 block South-
east Jetty Avenue.
• Female passed out, 6 p.m.
March 2, 200 block Southwest
Alder Avenue.
• Female with side and hip pain,
6:35 p.m. March 2, 92200 block
Whiskey Road.
• Male with right leg weakness,
9:36 a.m. March 3, 33100 block
Patriot Way, Camp Rilea.
• Male with difficulty breathing,
4:10 p.m. March 3, 500 block
West Harbor Drive.
Seaside student
makes dean’s list
Summer Spell of Seaside
was named to the dean’s list
at Azusa Pacific University.
Spell, a global studies major,
was honored for fall semester
2018 and had an academic
standing of 3.5 or better.
Azusa Pacific is a Christian
university in Southern Cali-
fornia.
Warrenton and Clatsop
County building inspec-
tors will play backup for
each other, according to
an agreement approved by
both entities.
The agreement allows the
county to perform building
inspections on behalf of
the city and vice versa.
Each party will pay the
other $75 per hour for in-
spection
services
and,
should the need arise, 75
percent of plan-review fees
with a minimum of $75 per
review, whichever is greater.
“With several large proj-
ects on the horizon, there
are many benefits to such
an agreement,” City Man-
ager Linda Engbretson
said.
The agreement will come
in handy when building
officials are on vacation,
out of the office at train-
ing or when either is over-
whelmed with work, she
said.
The arrangement was
proposed and written by
David Kloss, the county’s
building official.
“This is a great idea,” said
City Commissioner Mark
Baldwin, a contractor. “I
know they’re all going to
work great together. It
saves time and makes con-
tractors more productive.
That’s the way government
should work all the time.”
Construction
projects
and workers sometimes sit
idle while waiting for prop-
er inspections to be com-
pleted.
“If you sit there for an
hour, you burn through
$200 to $500, don’t you?”
Mayor Pro Tem Rick New-
ton said to Baldwin.
“It’s a win-win for both”
government bodies and
builders,” said Bob John-
ston, Warrenton’s building
inspector.