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Federal grant helps fund North Coast
tsunami disaster preparation studies
Model for
communities,
river traffic
By Edward Stratton
EO Media Group
A federal grant will help
model the effect a tsunami
would have on coastal com-
munities and commercial traf-
fic in the Columbia River.
The $354,241 from the
National Tsunami Hazard
Mitigation Program is aimed
at projects to help prepare
the coast for a disaster. Ore-
gon has received $4.6 million
from the grant program since
2009.
“We wanted to figure out
what the impact of a maxi-
mum tsunami would have as
it travels up and inundates
the Columbia,” said Jonathan
Allan, a coastal geomorpholo-
gist with the state Department
of Geology and Mineral In-
dustries.
The project is meant to
A federal grant will help model the impact of a tsunami on
the Oregon Coast.
help understand the interac-
tion between tsunamis, tides
and river flows.
“That will help us figure
out where ships should evac-
uate,” Allan said. “If you’re in
the estuary, your best option
might be to evacuate upriver
in a local event. You won’t
have time to go out to sea.”
The state finished tsunami
run-up models for the Oregon
Coast in 2013. The new grant
funding will allow research-
ers to put the data into a more
useful format for coastal com-
munities, showing the public
how quickly waves will arrive
at different coastlines and es-
tuaries.
“We need that information
to figure out how quickly it’s
going to take people to evac-
uate from their homes to high
ground,” Allan said. “From
the wave arrival times, we can
extrapolate how long it will
take to reach safety.”
Researchers are also trying
to account for potentially fail-
ing bridges and other infra-
structure and the impact it will
have on people’s courses and
evacuation times, Allan said.
Previous grants have fund-
ed signs on U.S. Highway 101
telling people when they are
entering or leaving a tsunami
hazard zone, along with evac-
uation maps in areas with high
foot traffic. Clatsop and Tilla-
mook counties already have
the signs. The new funding is
meant for Lincoln and Lane
counties, Allan said, with the
hope of more than 300 signs
along the Oregon Coast by
2020.
“Oregon’s vision is for
coastal residents and visitors
to be fully prepared for and
resilient to Cascadia Subduc-
tion Zone tsunamis,” State
Geologist Brad Avy said in
a news release. “This feder-
al grant funding is critical in
continuing our progress to-
ward that vision.”
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By Jack Heffernan
EO Media Group
Clatsop County Commis-
sioner Lianne Thompson is
resisting a call for her resig-
nation, vowing to be a strong
and motivated voice and de-
claring: “My heart is in this
place.”
Board Chairman Scott Lee
urged Thompson to resign
after a meeting last week in
which she was criticized by
commissioners for claiming
thousands in travel and edu-
cation expenses, as well as for
a June incident with a county
employee that led to an inter-
nal investigation.
Presentation
on former
Gov. McCall at
history center
Join the Cannon Beach
History Center and Museum
for a free meeting of the mu-
seum’s membership. Don’t
miss this rousing, funny, and
spirited presentation on Gov-
ernor Tom McCall by Kick
Ass Oregon History’s Doug
Kenck-Crispin.
Originally from Spokane,
Washington, Kenck-Crispin
came with his family in 1982
and settled in North Portland.
Kenck-Crispin is the resi-
dent historian for the podcast
“Kick Ass Oregon History.”
He has been featured in Im-
bibe and Portland Monthly
magazines, OPB’s “Oregon
Experience,” “Think Out
Loud,” “Weekend Edition,”
and the season premiere of
Esquire TV’s “Best Bars in
America.”
He has written for Port-
land Monthly, Street Roots
newspaper and the Willamette
Week. In addition, he hosts
various historical speaking
series, field trips and histor-
ical tours — across the state
— that connect people with
Oregon.
Kenck-Crispin will be
talking about Governor Tom
McCall in celebration of this
year’s 50th anniversary of
HB1601 McCall Beach Bill.
McCall is known by many as
the man who kept Oregon’s
beaches open to the public,
but he was so much more. He
was an environmental gov-
ernor, war hawk, republican,
documentarian, and politi-
cian.
Start off happy hour with a
pint of Fort George on Satur-
day, Nov. 18, at 5 p.m. at the
Cannon Beach History Center
and Museum. The museum
is a private nonprofit located
at the corner of Sunset and
Spruce in Cannon Beach, Or-
egon. This event is free and
open to the public. For more
information call 503-436-
9301, visit cbhistory.org of
find them on Facebook. Check
out their Facebook page. The
museum posts daily historic
images and information.
“I have
little interest
or patience
with those
few people
who would
find valida-
Lianne
tion in power
Thompson
or who like
to see them-
selves as big fish in small
ponds,” Thompson, who rep-
resents South County, wrote in
a letter to The Daily Astorian.
“No one said it would be
easy to serve,” she said. “No
one promised that a closed sys-
tem would be open to change,
that entrenched powers would
not push back, or that personal
attacks would never supplant
honest debate. Certainly I nev-
er expected such a political
panacea. To see it play out in
real life, however, can either
be disheartening or motivat-
ing. I choose motivation.”
Before and after the Oct.
25 meeting, commissioners
Sarah Nebeker and Lisa Clem-
ent, along with Lee, chided
Thompson repeatedly. Thomp-
son wrote in the letter that she
would address commissioners’
specific complaints against her
at the board’s Nov. 8 meeting.
One issue centered on
a June incident in which
Thompson allegedly placed
her hands on a county employ-
ee — who has not been named
— after a Red Cross meeting
at Fort Clatsop. Immediately
before that, she said she “was
the only commissioner on the
board who worked.” After
making contact, she alleged-
ly asked in a loud, frustrated
tone, “Do you know what he
did,” in reference to County
Manager Cameron Moore.
She continued by claiming
Moore intentionally sched-
uled a meeting in May so she
would not be able to attend.
An internal investigation
concluded she was acting in
her role as commissioner at
the time and violated board
behavior policy.
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Any object became art: art deco lamps, a
Artist extraordinaire Susan Pastor died Oct.
16, 2017, at her home in Cannon Beach, with bronze mannequin, sea critters on gutters, a
pebble-inlaid fish on the driveway. She was
her husband and cherished cats by her side.
She was born on March 19, 1938, in Kear- known for her town- and seascapes of her
beloved town, and her portraits
ney, Nebraska, to Claude Saunders
of local personalities, including
and Idarose Prell Saunders. The fam-
lamplighter Jay Schwehr and artist
ily moved to California when she
Bill Steidel.
was a child. She attended Pepperdine
Her last painting was of her hus-
University on an art scholarship but,
band, napping. She encouraged un-
in her words, was “coerced” into
sung local artists by creating “Hid-
the more practical major of educa-
den Talent” Art Events to showcase
tion. Like her mother, she became a
their talents. She was a member of
school teacher and taught elementary
the Labor Day Spelunkers Party.
school in Southern California.
For nearly 42 years, Susie and Dave
Seeking a change, she moved to
made it a point to have Sunday din-
Oregon where she found “beauty
Susan Pastor
ner at the Driftwood restaurant.
and heaven” in Cannon Beach. She
Susie is survived by her husband
met her soulmate Dave Pastor, and
they were married on June 3, 1976. She was of 41 years, Dave; her daughter, Julie, and her
husband, Nick Sandoval; son, Bruce Billing-
the concierge for Hallmark Inn for 25 years.
A versatile artist, she mastered many tech- ton; stepson, Paul Pastor; two grandsons; three
niques, from trompe l’oeil to whimsical. She step-grandchildren; and her sister, Shirlee
painted landscapes, abstracts, still life and por- Ann, and her husband, Kent Rogers.
At her request, there will be no services.
traits. Her work is remarkable for its detail and
realism. Her mural of a bamboo garden on a Her ashes will be spread in the Pacific Ocean.
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people have tried to walk into it. She created any memorial donations to Clatsop Animal
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