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A place for Arch
Cape to gather
Plans to revamp
former Arch Cape
Deli in the works
By Brenna Visser
Cannon Beach Gazette
Plans are in motion to revamp the
former Arch Cape Deli and Grocery
into a community gathering space,
restaurant and deli.
A land use compatibility state-
ment has been submitted as one of
the early steps in renovating the deli
and grocery store which closed in
2011.
The original building, built in
1939, served as a general store be-
fore being rebuilt and expanded into
the post office and grocery store
many people visited on a daily basis
as the community hub since 1960.
“I believe both as a resident and a
business person it will be a vital ad-
dition to the Arch Cape community.
We all miss not having grocery and
deli to fill in our last minute needs,”
Chamber of Commerce Executive
Director Court Carrier said.
In June, project managers held a
community meeting to discuss the
idea, and Carrier said everyone who
attended seemed supportive.
“It’s badly wanted and needed.
The plans they are articulating are
really bringing some services back
in the community again. Everyone
seems to be very positive about it,
and it seems like (Coleman) has good
plans and intends to do this right.”
For the past few years, proper-
ty owner Butch Coleman has been
purchasing surrounding properties
and rezoning the area to prepare for
breaking ground on a 6,000-square-
foot multi-use space, said Vito Cerel-
li, the lead designer for the project
from O’Brien & Company.
In addition to restoring the deli,
the vision for the new Arch Cape
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Arch Cape post office and store, 1946, courtesy of “Arch Cape Chronicles,” by David and Alma English.
Deli and Grocery includes incorpo-
rating a new restaurant called the
Tunnel Cafe, a bakery, adding space
that can be rented for meetings or
events, and the possibility of post of-
fice boxes.
“We want to bring back a com-
munity building to the area,” Cerel-
li said, who grew up in Arch Cape.
“The deli served as community gath-
ering spot. Arch Cape is mostly res-
idential, so (Coleman) really wanted
to create a space for the local com-
munity.”
While the inspiration for the proj-
ect is drawn from creating something
for the community, Cerelli said he and
Coleman also see the project’s highly
visible location off Highway 101 as a
benefit to draw in travelers, as well.
Designs and details are still
evolving, but Cerelli said from a de-
sign perspective people should ex-
pect a large, Pacific Northwest-style
timber lodge.
“Every detail of the building is
a natural timber look,” Cerelli said.
“There will be lots of exposed tim-
ber — all the siding is being custom
milled for the project.”
After the county reviews the ap-
plication, a public hearing will be
held to discuss the project later this
year, Cerelli said. Coleman and
Cerelli hope to be breaking ground
sometime next year.
Astorian names new managing editor Sessions has ‘serious
EO Media Group
Jim Van Nostrand has joined The Dai-
ly Astorian as managing editor.
He is a veteran journalist with more
than 30 years of experience as a reporter
and editor. Most recently, he was the dig-
ital editor at the Tri-City Herald in Ken-
newick, Washington.
He replaces Laura Sellers-Earl, who
is retiring from full-time work after 25
years with the Astorian and its parent
company, EO Media Group. She plans to
remain in the community.
“Jim Van Nostrand brings a great depth
of journalistic experience and leadership
to our newsroom along with a strong
commitment to excellence,” said David
Pero, the Astorian’s editor and publisher.
“His career has been filled with achieve-
ments in print and on a wide variety of
digital platforms, and those qualities help
position The Daily Astorian to serve our
readers far into the future.”
Van Nostrand is a native of Washing-
ton state and spent part of his early career
in Oregon. He returned to the Northwest
five years ago from Washington, D.C., to
be closer to family and friends.
“It’s not often that you get to come
home in this business,” he said. “I look
forward to leading a great newsroom in
one of the most beautiful places in the
world to live.”
At the Washington Bureau for Knight
Ridder and then McClatchy newspapers,
he worked with journalists covering the
COLIN MURPHEY/EO MEDIA GROUP
Jim Van Nostrand recently joined The
Daily Astorian as managing editor.
White House, Congress and the federal
government, as well as foreign corre-
spondents in Baghdad, Beijing, Mexico
City and other countries. He also taught
digital storytelling to graduate journalism
students as an adjunct professor at Amer-
ican University and worked with students
from Penn State and Northwestern uni-
versities.
He formerly served as a senior editor
at Knight Ridder Digital, where he man-
aged national, world and politics cover-
age on 28 Knight Ridder newspaper web-
sites across the country.
He led Knight Ridder’s online cover-
age of the Iraq war, the 2000, 2002, 2004
and 2006 Olympics, and the 2000 and
2004 presidential campaigns.
He has been immersed in digital jour-
nalism since 1995, when he launched
Leadernet, an online business subsidiary
of the Times Leader newspaper in Wil-
kes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
He was part of a team that won the
2006 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for
the Biloxi Sun Herald’s coverage of Hur-
ricane Katrina.
He was the supervising editor for
“Echo Company,” a multimedia report-
ing project that won a 2005 Digital Edge
award from the Newspaper Association
of America. The project showed readers
the human side of 11 U.S. Marines and
a U.S. Navy corpsman killed in an am-
bush in Iraq. Editor & Publisher maga-
zine called it, “One of the most ambitious
and extensive projects to come out of the
Iraq war.”
He won McClatchy President’s
Awards for “Inside Iraq,” a blog written
by Iraqi journalists, and “Beyond the
Law,” an extensive international exam-
ination of abuses at U.S. detention camps
in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba.
Van Nostrand is a former U.S. Army
infantry captain. He served in the First
Infantry Division in Germany and in the
National Guard in Oregon and Pennsyl-
vania.
He is an avid historian and an active
member of the Online News Association.
questions’ about
Oregon’s pot laws
Letter to
Brown outlines
authority
By Paris Achen
Capital Bureau
SALEM — U.S. At-
torney General Jeff Ses-
sions has alleged that Or-
egon may be violating the
Obama
administration’s
requirements to keep mari-
juana out of the illicit mar-
ket.
Sessions sent a letter to
Gov. Kate Brown July 24
reiterating the Department
of Justice’s authority to
enforce the federal ban on
marijuana and highlighting
ways in which Oregon may
have failed to comply with
the “Cole memo.”
The memo, issued in
2013, represents the Obama
administration’s policy not
to prosecute the state legal-
ized market provided that
the state has a robust regu-
latory system that prevents
leakage of the drug into the
illicit market. Thus far, the
Trump administration has
honored the policy.
The attorney general
stated that an Oregon State
Police report in January
raised “serious questions
about the efficacy of mar-
ijuana ‘regulatory struc-
tures’” in the state. He
added that the Cole memo
does not preclude the De-
partment of Justice from
investigating or prosecut-
ing violations of the federal
prohibition.
“Congress has deter-
mined that marijuana is a
dangerous drug and that
the illegal distribution
and sale of marijuana is
a crime,” Sessions wrote.
“The department remains
committed to enforcing the
Controlled Substances Act
in a manner that efficient-
ly applies our resources to
address the most significant
threats to public health and
safety.”
Stevens named to post on Port of Astoria Commission
Retired Coast
Guard captain
fills vacant seat
By Edward Stratton
EO Media Group
ASTORIA — The Port of
Astoria Commission on Tues-
day, Aug. 22, unanimously
appointed retired U.S. Coast
Guard Capt. Robert Stevens of
Warrenton to fill the vacancy
left by Robert Mushen, who
resigned earlier this month be-
cause of medical issues.
Stevens, a veteran of 34
years in the U.S. Coast Guard
and Navy and a merchant ma-
rine, said he would offer calm,
quiet confidence to help the
Port promote growth and stay
fiscally responsible.
“The Port’s received a lot of
criticism, some of it justified,”
he said during introductions of
the seven hopefuls for Mush-
en’s seat. “I’m here to make
this a professional, deliberative
body, the way that democracy
is envisioned, and I know that
several of you believe the same
thing.”
He was joined in interviews
Tuesday by former commis-
sion candidate Pat O’Grady,
former budget committee
Chairman John Lansing, land
use planner Pamela Wev, for-
mer Yamhill County Commis-
sioner Robert Johnstone, South
County developer Russ Earl
and retired inventor Ronald
Meyer.
Stevens, a licensed captain
of vessels large and small who
recently retired from teaching
and evaluating captains of off-
shore platforms in emergency
management, ran Port Com-
missioner James Campbell’s
successful re-election cam-
paign against fellow incum-
bent Stephen Fulton in May’s
special districts election. He
said he was encouraged by oth-
ers to apply for Mushen’s seat
and felt he had something to
offer the Port.
Stevens’ take
Stevens fielded questions
from Port commissioners
on several of the agency’s
big-ticket issues.
A bond measure to fund in-
frastructure improvements at
the Astoria Regional Airport
narrowly failed in May’s spe-
cial districts election. Asked
by Commissioner Dirk Rohne
about his outlook at the airport,
Stevens said it was a shame the
ballot measure failed, but that
the Port can take baby steps
to improve the facility, help
medevac service Life Flight
find a better location and attract
more business.
“I would be supportive of
maybe looking at going to the
voters again with a bond mea-
sure and doing a better job of
selling it,” he said. “I’d be wel-
come to help do that.”
Most of the people who
voted the bond down were
in South County, he said, and
he’d be willing to stump for the
project on behalf of the Port.
Stevens said he wants to
help get government support
on big issues such as the $13.7
million difference between the
Port’s and the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency’s
estimates on damage from the
December 2015 storms, and in
dealing with stormwater-treat-
ment requirements.
The Port Commission re-
cently voted to send a letter to
North Tongue Point landown-
er Washington Development
Co. seeking to terminate the
agency’s remaining lease and
allow boatbuilder Hyak Mar-
itime to negotiate a purchase
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Stevens said the Port needs
public input on the issue, but
that the Port needs to consid-
er turning the property over
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er Hunsinger, who abstained
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blasted the decision, asked Ste-
vens whether he would want
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“Tongue Point appears to
me to be a classic example of
opportunity exceeding resourc-
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erty, which staff has said loses
the Port $250,000 annually.
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