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The Columbia Press 1 50 ¢ Clatsop County’s Independent Weekly www.thecolumbiapress.com August 28, 2020 Building future tradeswomen The Columbia Press Creating usable projects may be a fun way to pass the week for a group of girls at Warrenton High School. But those in the Girls Build camp will also pick up valuable skills that could land them a lucrative job when they get older. Portland-based Girls Build was founded by Ka- tie Hughes, a carpenter who longed to see more women working in the trades. All of the skills during camp are taught by tradeswomen. The Warrenton camp brough 27 girls together ages 8 to 14. They got to use power tools to make personal- ized marquee signs, piggy banks, kazoos, belts and concrete boxes. The camp is cosponsored by Hampton Lumber. Above: Teslyn Win- tersteen, 11, of Astoria shows off her lightbox. Left: Clara Moore, 10, of Astoria sands the rough edges of her box before drilling them together. Right: Onyx Nelson and Eleanor Nye, both 10 and from Astoria, use power tools to put their projects together. Cindy Yingst The Columbia Press Vol. 4, Issue 35 Three seek open seat on commission The Columbia Press Three Warrenton residents hope to win the seat that will be vacated by Commissioner Pam Ackley in No- vember. Allen Berry, Gerald Poe, and Bran- don Williams each filed by the Tues- day night deadline. Berry, a retired electrician from Hammond, initially had filed to run against Commissioner Tom Dyer. But he withdrew from that race and filed a new application this week for the Position One spot. He’ll face off against Poe, a mer- chant sailor who lives in Hammond, and Williams, a contractor who is ac- tive with the Clatsop County Republi- can Party. Also on the ballot will be Dyer, a re- tired Oregon State Police officer, who is running unopposed to retain his Position 3 seat. Mark Baldwin, a general contractor, also will be unopposed in his cam- paign to retain his Position 2 seat. Tide gate inventory to provide game plan for environmental improvements The Columbia Press CREST, a group whose mission is to improve the region’s natural resources, will conduct an inven- tory of tide gates along the Co- lumbia River and south to Gear- hart during the next two months. Information gleaned from the field studies, which are spon- sored by The Nature Conser- vancy, will help several organi- zations make decisions about future estuary restoration proj- ects. Tide gates lock into place when tides are high, stopping the flow of water upstream. But as the tide subsides, the gates open, al- lowing water captured above it to freely flow out. Tide gates help regulate the amount of water passing through a river or stream by locking into place when tides are high, stop- ping the flow of water upstream. They provide a way to protect property and allow the develop- ment of agriculture and roads in flood-prone areas. Yet the total number and con- dition of tide gates along the Co- lumbia River and North Coast is a bit of a mystery, said organiz- ers at CREST, which stands for Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce. Information from the field study will be shared with the Tide Gate Partnership, a statewide group initiated by the Oregon Farm Bureau and representing The Eighth Street Dam looking upstream at high See ‘Tide gates’ on Page 4 tide.