The Columbia Press
February 26, 2021
Business and development tidbits
Public safety calls
Continued from Page 2
Southwest Ninth Street.
Medical calls
• Fall patient with injuries, 6:22
a.m. Feb. 17, 200 block South-
west Second Street.
• Male with difficulty breathing,
10:58 a.m. Feb. 17, 500 block
Ridge Road.
• Male with difficulty breathing,
9:02 p.m. Feb. 17, 1400 block
Southeast 12th Place.
• Lift assist for female, 12:58 p.m.
Feb. 18, 1200 block Southwest
Cedar Avenue.
• Male with facial lacerations, 2:55
p.m. Feb. 18, flown to Coast Guard
station from 60 miles at sea.
• Female who’s not feeling well,
10:44 a.m. Feb. 19, 100 block
Northwest Fourth Street.
• Child having seizures, 3:39 p.m.
Feb. 19, 33200 block Karis Lane.
• Male lift assist, 3:21 a.m. Feb.
20, 90600 block Lewis Road.
• Male who’s clammy and sick,
no time given on Feb. 20, 100
block Northwest 17th Place.
• Male with general weakness,
2:48 p.m. Feb. 22, 100 block
Northwest Fourth Street.
• Female who needs help down
the stairs in wheelchair, 1:13
p.m. Feb. 22, 200 block South-
west Alder Avenue.
• Female who needs help up the
stairs in a wheelchair, 3:51 p.m.
Feb. 22, 200 block Southwest
Alder Avenue.
• Life-alert activation, 11:02 a.m.
Feb. 23, 100 block Southeast
First Street.
City wants ducks to stay out of wastewater treatment plant
The city will spend $49,130
on netting to keep birds out
of the aeration ponds at War-
renton’s wastewater treat-
ment plant.
Sprague Pest Solutions of
Portland will provide the
nets, the company deemed
to be the lowest of three bids
as well as the best design op-
tion.
“Each year, we have prob-
lems with birds diving into
the basins during the settling
phase of the process and it
causes high suspended solids
in the final effluent,” Public
Works Operations Manager
Kyle Sharpsteen wrote in a
report to the City Commis-
sion.
The birds, primarily diving
ducks, also cause problems
with the disinfection system,
he said. Other methods to
minimize the bird problems
haven’t been successful.
The three ponds are off
Northeast Fifth Street and
each is about 89 feet by 114
feet.
Middle school progress
Work is progressing rapidly
at the new Warrenton Middle
School, the project manager
reports.
The roof is about half com-
plete, exterior work is about
40 percent complete, plumb-
ing and duct work is under
way. Temporary heat will be-
Contest is for defibrillator win
Local businesses, churches
and organizations are eligible
to enter a contest to win an
automated external defibril-
lator.
Columbia Memorial Hospi-
tal is holding its second an-
nual AED Contest, giving two
groups $1,300 toward the
purchase of a defibrillator.
More
than
356,000
out-of-hospital cardiac ar-
rests happen in the United
3
States every year. Use of de-
fibrillators by bystanders was
associated with better surviv-
al and functional outcomes.
Groups in Clatsop, Tilla-
mook, Columbia, Wahkia-
kum or Pacific counties are
eligible.
Organizations win by writ-
ing a 250-word essay. Entry
forms are at surveymonkey.
com/r/aed-contest-2021 and
due Feb. 28.
Above: The site
plan for Trillium
House, a four-story
42-unit apartment
complex.
Above right: The
new sign on Harbor
Drive.
Right: A covered
play area at Warren-
ton Middle School.
gin March 1, which allows for
wallboard to be hung, taped
and finished.
The building is on target for
completion by late July with
furniture arrive July 17. Oth-
er exterior campus structures
should be finished by Sep-
tember.
Teachers and staff should
be able to begin moving in
by late August. Classes would
begin the following month.
New welcome sign
Warrenton has a new wel-
come sign.
The fish-themed sign is on
Harbor Drive not far from
the Fred Meyer turn-off. It
will be used to boast of the
city’s civic organizations and
the Spruce Up Warrenton
logo has been affixed already.
City Commissioner Rick
Newton arranged for replace-
ment of the former welcome
sign.
Affordable housing
The first project slated for
development in Chelsea Gar-
dens, a master-planned area
on Spur 104 between Ocean
Crest Chevrolet and Home
Depot, comes before the
Warrenton Planning Com-
mission March 11.
Planners will be asked to
approve the site design for
the project on 14th Place,
which is zoned commercial
mixed-use.
Trillium House is a four-sto-
ry 42-unit multi-family hous-
ing project designed to bol-
ster the lack of affordable
housing in Clatsop County.
It has won more than $4
million in federal and state
grants and tax credits. The
complex will have one-, two-
, and three-bedroom units
with a community garden,
outdoor play area and gath-
ering spaces.
The development is a col-
laboration of Walsh Con-
struction, a Portland com-
pany dedicated to affordable
“green” projects; Emmons
Design, an Astoria architec-
tural firm; and Northwest
Oregon Housing Authority,
the team’s sponsor and own-
er-manager of the project af-
ter completion.
The hearing is set for 6 p.m.
at Warrenton City Hall, 225
S. Main Ave.