January 9, 2015 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com • 5A
Moberg, Duehmig tapped
for Clatsop college board
Esther Moberg, director of
the Seaside Public Library, is
one of two new members of
the Clatsop Community Col-
lege board.
Moberg represents Zone 3
that covers the cities of Can-
non Beach, Seaside, Gear-
hart, Arch Cape, Warrenton
and the Clatsop Plains and
Necanicum areas.
Moberg holds a master’s in
library science from Emporia
State University and a bach-
elor of science degree from
Northwestern
University.
She is also a former Clatsop
Community College student.
Moberg is engaged in a vari-
ety of community initiatives,
including the Columbia Pacif-
ic Assistance League, P.E.O.
Sisterhood-Chapter FE and
the city of Seaside Emergency
Preparedness Team.
She is replacing for-
mer board member Larry
McKinley, who moved out
of the area.
“I am excited to join with
the other board members
on the Clatsop Community
College board to support the
role of continuing educa-
tion in Clatsop County,” said
Moberg. “I have fond memo-
ries of my time at CCC, and I
look forward to joining in the
work of the college.”
Robert Duehmig was
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in Zone 2, generally de-
scribed as Astoria, the Lewis
and Clark area and the Ol-
ney-Walluski areas. Frank
Satterwhite represented the
zone since being appointed
in September 1998, resigning
as of Oct. 31, saying it was a
good time to end his tenure
and spend more time with his
grandchildren as they prepare
for college.
Duehmig has served as
deputy director of the Ore-
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“I am very excited about
being on the board,” said
Duehmig. “CCC is such an
important part of our county
and I look forward to doing
my part to ensure that it con-
tinues to offer all it can to our
students and our community.”
Both new board members
were sworn in at the regular
December meeting of the col-
lege board.
Highway 101 takes a bath
More than four inches
of rain accumulated on
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miles south of Seaside,
following heavy rains
Sunday through Monday
morning.
Although the stand-
ing water caused traffic
to slow to 5 mph the ac-
cumulation was “really
good” compared to past
flooding events on that
stretch of highway, said
Lou Torres, Oregon De-
partment of Transporta-
tion public information
officer.
“We had an awful lot of
water in a short period of
time,” said Neal Wallace,
Seaside Public Works di-
rector.
The transportation de-
partment’s flood mitiga-
tion project, completed in
summer 2013, “has been
really preventing the sit-
uation from getting a lot
worse,” Wallace said.
The project involved re-
moving earthen berms on
wetland property owned
by the North Coast Land
Conservancy adjacent to
the highway. This allowed
water to move into its
natural area and disperse
more easily, rather than
concentrate much of it
onto the highway.
The department knew
from the very beginning
that, once finished, the
project “wouldn’t total-
ly eliminate high water
there,” especially in cas-
es where heavy rains and
high tides coincide, Tor-
res said. But the project
has reduced the severi-
ty and frequency of the
flooding.
Instead of five to six
inches of water on the
road, it could have been
15 to 20 inches of stand-
ing water absent the proj-
ect, and the transportation
department would have
had to close the highway.
Since the project was fin-
ished, there have been no
flood-related closures on
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The department is
“pleased with how the
project worked out,” he
said.
“It lessened the impact
(of the flooding), so that’s
good,” Wallace said.
Tax class available
for business owners
Business owners will
learn about how to deal
with personal property in
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tax returns in a free training
session offered by the Clat-
sop County Assessment and
Taxation Department Jan.
21.
The class will be offered
from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at
the Judge Guy Boyington
Building, 857 Commercial
St., Astoria.
The business personal
property training will dis-
cuss what personal property
in a business consists of and
explain tax calculations and
collection laws. All busi-
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return at the class; bring an
equipment list that includes
the price of equipment and
the year of manufacture and
purchase.
Due to limited space,
reservations are required.
Contact Sirpa Duoos at 503-
338-3674 or at sduoos@
co.clatsop.or.us to reserve a
space in one of the sessions.
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covered include:
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property
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• Who and what may be
assessed
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deadlines and extensions
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Two or three authors
The reading series is other events. Each student
will read each evening. part of the program’s bi- is matched with one of the
The schedule is as follows: annual 10-day Residency professional writers, or
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Wanting to engage the
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the January residency is in public, the school opened
top contemporary writers
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ferent and fun to go there are reading, they are al-
program.
• Tuesday, Jan. 13: in the winter.”
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thors.
Washburn said all the
writers are of high caliber
and fairly well known. The
group does include some
literary writers who may
be less familiar to the gen-
eral public, she said. Many
have won awards and var-
ious honors, such as Gug-
genheim Fellowships and
National Book Awards.
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rare opportunity (for peo-
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writers of this caliber,” she
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