2A • January 8, 2016 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com Three-vehicle FUDVKLQMXUHVWZR GDPDJHVEXLOGLQJ By Katherine Lacaze Seaside Signal KATHERINE LACAZE PHOTO/SEASIDE SIGNAL It took about 45 minutes for emergency responders to extricate a woman from a car that collided with a logging truck on U.S. Highway 101 in Gearhart on Tuesday morning. Two women injured in motor vehicle accident on Highway 101 in Gearhart Driver of car backed up into path of logging truck By Katherine Lacaze Seaside Signal Two people were injured in a two-vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 101 in Gearhart on WKHPRUQLQJRI'HF $FDOOZHQWRXWDERXW a.m. that a car and a logging WUXFN FROOLGHG DW +LJK- ZD\QHDUWKH3URYLGHQFH 5HKDELOLWDWLRQ 6HUYLFHV RI¿FH and Encore Dance Studio. *HDUKDUW )LUH 'HSDUWPHQW 6HDVLGH)LUH5HVFXH0HGL[ and Gearhart and Seaside po- lice departments responded. $FFRUGLQJ WR *HDUKDUW 3R- lice Chief Jeff Bowman and ZLWQHVVHV RQ WKH VFHQH WKH woman driving the car had SXOOHGRXWRIWKHEXVLQHVVSOD- za to make a left and merge RQWR WKH VRXWKERXQG ODQH RI 86 +LJKZD\ +RZHYHU there was not an opening for KHUWRSXOOLQWRWKHODQHVRVKH WULHG WR EDFN XS 6KH EDFNHG XS ³ULJKW LQWR WKH SDWK RI WKH ORJWUXFN´%RZPDQVDLG The driver of the Nygaard /RJJLQJ WUXFN WUDYHOLQJ QRUWK DSSOLHG KLV EUDNHV EXW could not stop the vehicle in time. His truck hit the passen- ger side of the car. %HVLGHV WKH GULYHU WKHUH was one passenger in the car. The police department has not LGHQWL¿HG WKH ZRPHQ DW WKLV time. 2QH ZRPDQ ZDV DEOH WR get out of the car and was walking. It took emergency UHVSRQGHUV DERXW PLQXWHV WR H[WULFDWH WKH RWKHU ZRPDQ they cut the roof off the car. Both were transported to Co- OXPELD 0HPRULDO +RVSLWDO EHFDXVH LWV VHUYLFHV LQFOXGH D WUDXPD FHQWHU %RZPDQ VDLG They were then transported to D3RUWODQGDUHDKRVSLWDO%RZ- man on Monday said he would not issue the driver any cita- tions. The driver of the logging WUXFN ZDV XQLQMXUHG DQG DEOH to drive the truck away from WKHVFHQHE\DERXWDP Anticipating the impact of climate change R.J. MARX PHOTO/SEASIDE SIGNAL Two women were injured after it was hit by a logging truck Tuesday, Dec. 29. To all of you that ever sat under a tree on a hot August afternoon sipping lemonade or after school doing homework, or climbed a tree and sat on its branches, slept overnight in a tree house, swung in a tire from a tree branch, jumped from a branch into a swimming hole, or just had a tree best friend growing up — this letter is directed to you. The trees need your help and they deserve your help. On Jan. 19, three units of the Homesteader Tract of Buster Creek Basin in the Clatsop State Forest will be auctioned off by Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) despite the thousands of phone calls and letters to Doug Decker, Oregon chief forester, asking (actually begging) him to either cancel or delay this auction. This tract is home to trees that are over 200 feet tall, over 100 years old, and up WR¿YHIHHWLQGLDPHWHU7KHIRUHVWÀRRU boasts ferns as tall as a man’s chest. This is a multi-culture forest and needs to be saved. For pictures showing the beauty of this amazing piece of north Oregon coast, go to the North Coast State Forest Coalition website. On the north coast of Oregon, for an old growth forest — this is it — a healthy ecosystem home to some of the few remaining old trees on the north coast. ODF says they are raising revenues for Clatsop County. The question is: Does Clatsop County need funds bad enough to destroy this forest, or is ODF creating a fake revenue crisis to support their plans to destroy this forest? Have the citizens of Clatsop County been polled to see how they feel? After all, the state forests, just like the state parks, belong to the public. In my naiveté I thought the job of ODF was to protect these assets for all of us. Join climatologist John Stevenson as KHNLFNVRIIWKHVHDVRQRI/LVWHQ- LQJ WR WKH /DQG SUHVHQWDWLRQV IRFXVHG RQWKHWKHPHRIZDWHU³&OLPDWH&KDQJH DQGWKH&RDVW´WDNHVSODFH:HGQHVGD\ -DQDWSPDWWKH6HDVLGH3XEOLF /LEUDU\ $GPLVVLRQ LV IUHH 5HIUHVK- PHQWVZLOOEHVHUYHG Listening to the Land is a monthly winter speaker series offered January WKURXJK 0D\ DQG SUHVHQWHG E\ 1RUWK Coast Land Conservancy and the Neca- nicum Watershed Council in partnership ZLWK WKH 6HDVLGH 3XEOLF /LEUDU\ /HDUQ more at NCLCtrust.org. ToR ĝrCnFs. FCEtorě-DireEt īriEes. Free Coupon Book at Wine & Beer Haus or online, www.seasideoutlets.com. world committed to plans that would pro- tect the world’s forests, and to regenerate those destroyed. ODF should be leading and supporting these efforts. There are many, many arguments against destruction of this forest. The North Coast State Forest Coalition web- site, the Upper Left Edge website, and the Aug. 15 issue of HipFISH all carry articles discussing why destruction of this forest is a very bad idea. The Coast Range Association, Oregon :LOGDQGWKH3RUWODQGRI¿FHRIWKH1DWXUH &RQVHUYDQF\KDYHDOOEHHQQRWL¿HG7KH\ are only effective because you are behind them. A call to these organizations for help could make a positive difference. I would like to suggest you call Mr. Decker but he won’t take your calls. He has, instead, forwarded calls to the Astoria 2')RI¿FH<RXFDQWU\ZULWLQJEXWWKHUH is no guarantee he will read your letter. Still, you all need to know that this is going down. ODF did request public input before it was decided to clear-cut this tract. I wonder, was the decision to clear-cut this forest decided before the public comment- ed? It seems to me if ODF cared about public opinion, this coming auction would be delayed in the hope that a win-win solution could be worked out. I am still naive enough to believe this is possible. We have just survived a very seri- RXVVWRUPZLWKÀRRGVVOLGHVDQGURDG washouts. This tract is along the Nehalem River and is part of the watershed for both Clatsop and Tillamook counties. Destroy- ing this forest would create additional complications for the watershed during serious storms. I am a 76-year-old single woman living in Nehalem. It is the time of the year when, like you, I re-evaluate my goals: What is precious to me, what makes me smile, what makes me feel joy. It is time for us (like our lobbyists, our major corporations) to be relentless in pursuit of what is important to us. Interesting enough is the ODF website where they describe the type of for- ests they plan to create in Oregon. That GHVFULSWLRQ¿WVWKH+RPHVWHDGHU7UDFWLQ Buster Basin. So why destroy it? I am not anti-logging. I use wood like many others, but I subscribe to the Nature Conservancy approach. Spare the old trees; select cutting or thinning the forests is a healthy way to provide needed wood and to provide necessary funds. At the Paris Climate Conference, major corporations and countries around the A three-vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 101 in Gearhart on Saturday caused damage to a telephone pole and RI¿FHEXLOGLQJDQGVHQWWZRSHRSOHWRWKH hospital with minor injuries. $W DERXW SP *HDUKDUW 3ROLFH Department responded to an accident on the highway near G Street. The driver of a Chevrolet Camaro was attempting to make a lefthand turn onto WKHKLJKZD\IURP*6WUHHW3ROLFH&KLHI Jeff Bowman said. When he pulled out to PDNHKLVWXUQ³KHIDLOHGWRQRWLFHDEODFN SLFNXS WUXFN WUDYHOLQJ VRXWKERXQG´ Bowman said. The truck hit the Cama- ro. The driver of the Camaro then veered DFURVVWKHKLJKZD\KLWWLQJD7R\RWD&R- UROODWUDYHOLQJQRUWKERXQGKHVDLG 7KH&DPDURDIWHUFROOLGLQJZLWKERWK FDUVFUDVKHGLQWRDWHOHSKRQHSROH The driver of the Corolla tried swerv- LQJULJKWWRDYRLGEHLQJKLWE\WKH&DPD- UR DQG FUDVKHG LQWR WKH RI¿FH EXLOGLQJ containing Mike’s Computer Repair and 3DFL¿F3DLQW7KHLPSDFWFDXVHG³DORWRI GDPDJHWRWKHEXLOGLQJ´%RZPDQVDLG 7KHDLUEDJVZHUHGHSOR\HGZKHQWKH YHKLFOH KLW WKH EXLOGLQJ 7KH GULYHU DQG DSDVVHQJHUZHUHWUDQVSRUWHGE\D0HGL[ DPEXODQFHWR3URYLGHQFH6HDVLGH+RVSL- tal. 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