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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2016
New college president mingles,
talks priorities at meet-and-greet
Breitmeyer’s
focus is on
enrollment
Getting to work
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Christopher
Breitmeyer
stood on the second fl oor of
Fort George Brewery Wednes-
day evening, sometimes a pint
in hand, and talked with the
elected offi cials, business lead-
ers, educators and other lumi-
naries who had come to meet
the new president of Clatsop
Community College.
Breitmeyer, after less than a
month since moving from St.
Louis, said he is still learning
the college and community,
but already enamored.
“That’s one of the things
that attracted me, is that I can
get to be a part of the commu-
nity and make a difference,” he
said.
Breitmeyer, 49, was hired
by the college’s board unan-
imously in April. Shortly
before the Fourth of July, he
arrived from St. Charles Com-
munity College northwest of
St. Louis, where he was vice
Danny Miller / The Daily Astorian
Christopher Breitmeyer, the new president of Clatsop Commu-
nity College, chats with community members during a public
meet-and-greet Wednesday at Fort George Brewery in Astoria.
president of academic and stu-
dent affairs since 2012, and the
college’s dean of math, science
and health since 2008.
A native of Illinois , Bre-
itmeyer earned a bachelor’s
in biology education. While
both his parents attended
community college, his
fi rst introduction was after
graduate school at Arizona
State University, where he
earned a master’s in zoology.
After graduation, he spent a
decade as a science teacher
at Yavapai College in central
Arizona.
His wife, Alana, who helps
teach other instructors to work
online at St. Charles, is staying
until next spring to earn a bet-
ter retirement package, along
with his daughter, Sophie, a
junior in high school hoping
to graduate early before mov-
ing to Astoria and enrolling in
college in the Pacifi c North-
west. He described himself as
a scientist, his wife as a math-
ematician and his daughter as
an artist.
Breitmeyer, who can
sometimes be seen around
town walking his rescue dog
Maize, said he is settling into
town, exploring, house-hunt-
ing and learning the state of
the college.
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
68
57
60
Partly cloudy with a
shower in spots
State says groundwater
contaminated with
oil after Mosier crash
SUNDAY
69
57
Beautiful with clouds
and sun
Some sun; breezy in the
afternoon
MONDAY
70
58
70
58
Times of sun and clouds
Times of clouds and sun
“I think the fi rst thing we
need to do is make a plan to
start a strategic plan, and I can’t
do that without knowing what’s
going on … so we can chart
the next fi ve years of the insti-
tution,” he said. “Like anything
else, you’ve got to know where
you’re going, or else you’re just
going to wander around, and
we don’t have the luxury of
resources that allow us to not be
focused and know what we’re
doing.”
Breitmeyer said he is poring
over past budgets, planning doc-
uments and other information to
learn the state of the college.
His top long-term priority is
increasing enrollment at the col-
lege, which recorded less than
a 1 percent drop in full-time
equivalent students from the last
academic year. At his fi rst col-
lege board meeting earlier this
month, Breitmeyer said the col-
lege is already doing better than
the national average, which is
seeing 5 to 6 percent drops in
enrollment.
As he learns about the col-
lege, Breitmeyer is trying to
fi nd a new second-in-command.
Donna Larson, the former vice
president of academic and stu-
dent affairs, left for a dean’s
position at Clackamas Commu-
nity College shortly before he
arrived.
Associated Press
PORTLAND — A mon-
itoring well installed after
last month’s train derailment
near Mosier has detected
oil contamination in the
groundwater.
The state Department
of Environmental Quality
tells Portland station KATU
that drinking water is not
affected in the Columbia
River Gorge town because
those wells are uphill from
where the oil train derailed
in June.
The agency said Wednes-
day that four monitoring
wells were installed after the
wreck, and one revealed sig-
nifi cant oil contamination.
The department plans
to install a treatment sys-
tem that injects air into the
underground water. The
oxygen will stimulate the
existing microbes that live
in the water to break down
the oil.
Chinook catch limit
raised off Westport
in Washington
The Daily Astorian
Beginning
Saturday,
anglers can keep two C hi-
nook daily, but must release
coho, off Westport in marine
waters stretching from the
Queets River to Leadbetter
Point.
The fi shery has suf-
fi cient C hinook remain-
ing within the guideline to
increase the daily limit with-
out much risk of having to
close early. Through Sun-
day , anglers had caught 13.9
percent (2,305 fi sh) of the
16,600 C hinook guideline
for Marine Area 2. The cur-
rent limit is one salmon .
For more information,
contact Wendy Beeghley,
ocean salmon manager for
the Washington Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife at
360-249-1215.
OBITUARIES
Leonard Richard “Dick” Mattson
Warrenton
Dec. 8, 1934 — June 27, 2016
ALMANAC
REGIONAL WEATHER
Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs.
ASTORIA
60/68
Astoria through Wednesday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 73°/54°
Normal high/low ........................... 68°/54°
Record high ............................ 86° in 1946
Record low ............................. 41° in 1930
Tillamook
57/67
Precipitation
Wednesday ....................................... 0.00"
Month to date ................................... 1.10"
Normal month to date ....................... 0.75"
Year to date .................................... 40.32"
Normal year to date ........................ 36.91"
Last
July 26
New
Newport
54/65
Aug 2
Coos Bay
55/68
Full
Aug 10
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
TOMORROW'S TIDES
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
10:00 a.m.
10:15 p.m.
Low
-1.2 ft.
1.5 ft.
City
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Honolulu
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Memphis
Miami
Nashville
New Orleans
New York
Oklahoma City
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington, DC
Klamath Falls
44/82
Lakeview
43/82
Ashland
55/85
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
North Bend
Hi
94
84
64
82
66
84
90
83
65
66
Today
Lo
50
48
53
55
58
44
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Hi
80
76
68
80
65
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87
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Fri.
Lo
40
42
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57
42
56
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Olympia
Pendleton
Portland
Roseburg
Salem
Seaside
Spokane
Springfi eld
Vancouver
Yakima
Hi
84
94
88
79
84
67
90
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85
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Today
Lo
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63
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Hi
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66
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Fri.
Lo
52
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58
55
55
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54
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55
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TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Hi Lo
96 72
86 70
96 75
94 65
96 77
94 77
101 75
57 50
86 75
90 75
96 77
109 86
91 67
98 80
90 79
95 75
93 79
89 74
98 74
90 73
96 81
102 78
70 55
81 58
90 74
Burns
47/83
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016
Tonight's Sky: Constellations Sagittarius and Scor-
pion are due low south.
High
8.7 ft.
7.9 ft.
Ontario
64/92
Bend
48/76
Medford
58/87
Aug 18
Baker
50/80
John Day
57/82
Roseburg
57/81
Brookings
52/70
UNDER THE SKY
Time
3:11 a.m.
4:25 p.m.
Prineville
52/79
Lebanon
57/79
Eugene
55/80
First
La Grande
56/80
Salem
59/78
SUN AND MOON
Sunset tonight ........................... 8:58 p.m.
Sunrise Friday ............................. 5:46 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................ 10:00 p.m.
Moonset today ............................ 7:47 a.m.
Pendleton
63/83
The Dalles
66/80
Portland
62/76
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s
pc
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s
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pc
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sh
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93
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96
92
92
94
102
60
86
91
97
111
93
98
89
95
95
93
98
95
100
99
72
71
96
Fri.
Lo
75
73
76
65
78
72
77
50
76
76
78
87
68
79
78
75
78
76
75
77
81
68
54
58
79
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy,
sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
sn-snow, i-ice.
CLATSOP
POWER
EQUIPMENT, INC.
SALES • SERVICE • RENTALS
Dick Mattson passed away unexpectedly Blazers and Seattle Seahawks fan, and enjoyed
June 27, 2016, at Good Samaritan Hospital in watching golf tournaments on TV.
Portland.
Reading was a passion of Dick’s. He had
Dick was born Dec. 8, 1934, in St. Mary’s a large collection of historical books featur-
Hospital in Astoria, Oregon, to
ing Indians, explorers, pioneers and
Hjalmer and Mae Mattson.
adventurers of all sorts.
When Dick’s home burned down,
Dick attended Warrenton schools
he designed and supervised the build-
and was the valedictorian at his high
ing of his new home, and immedi-
school graduation.
ately started collecting books for his
First and foremost, Dick was a
new library.
Christian. His greatest pleasure was
Dick enjoyed writing articles
praying for others. He would close his
about “The Good Old Days” for the
eyes and let the spirit guide his words.
Columbia Press, and had notebooks
Dick worked since the age of
of stories and poems he had writ-
12, when his father started the fam-
ily business, the Airport Crabpot Co . Leonard “Dick” ten about his own experiences and
Mattson
thoughts.
Dick and his brother, Jim, eventually
Gardening was another interest of
purchased the company from their
father and made it very successful, selling crab Dick’s. He loved working in his yard, and had
pots from California to Alaska and having 27 thousands of daffodils blooming each spring.
Dick was preceded in death by his father,
employees at one time.
Dick served two years in the U.S. Army, and Hjalmer Mattson; his mother and stepfather,
was stationed in Orleans, France, and a short Mae and James Rhoades; a brother, Arthur Roy
Mattson; and a sister, Helen Sodervick.
time in Beirut, Lebanon.
He is survived by his brother, Jim Mattson
Dick was an outdoorsman and loved hunting,
fi shing, trapping, clam digging and hiking. Sev- (Helen); his sister, Judy Mattson; nieces Jean-
eral of the ideas he submitted through the years nie Ball (Gary), Karen Layton (John), and Mar-
to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife gie Merritt; nephews Raymond, John, Bob and
to improve their regulations were adopted. Dick Dave Sodervick; Aunt Helen Salli; and several
cousins in Minnesota and California.
worked hard to get his elk each year.
Hughes-Ransom Mortuary & Crematory in
He and his brother, Jim, made numerous
camping trips to the Cascades, Eastern Oregon Astoria is in charge of the arrangements. Go to
and Idaho. They also made a trip to the Olympic www.hughes-ransom.com to share memories
and sign the guest book.
National Forest and British Columbia.
A memorial service is pending.
Dick loved sports. He was a Portland Trail
MEMORIAL
Friday, July 22
LEWIS, Vance Edward
— Memorial at 9 a.m. at the
Lake Church, 9015 Vernon
LOTTERIES
Road, No. 10, in Lake Stevens,
Washington. A private family
service will be held over the
weekend in Astoria.
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Hall, 989 Broadway.
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Board, 6 p.m., 163 E. Gower St.
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