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CAMPUS UPDATE
Crews address hillside crack, dormant mold
The Heights’ roof slopes
predominantly to the south
and likely some time ago
several roof drains were
clogged, causing overfl ow
internally at the overhang.
Crews are replacing dam-
aged studs and Sheetrock in
the areas abated by an abate-
ment company, Henry said.
“We just wanted to be safe
with what we were doing.”
The Heights gym will be
completed by the end of the
year, he said, with school
renovation beginning in
2020, with completion pro-
jected by fall for the opening
of classes.
Roley estimated that 115
workers were on site this
week, grading the athletic
fi eld, working on the middle
and high school, and begin-
ning construction on the
gym at The Heights.
“We are are on sched-
ule‚” Roley added. “I’d be
disingenous if I didn’t say
every day feels like a nail
biter — it’s a tight schedule
and we’re pleased with our
team.”
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
A crack on a hillside
above The Heights park-
ing lot caused some quick
architectural redesign, Proj-
ect Manager Jim Henry said
at the meeting of the Sea-
side School District Build-
ing Oversight Committee on
Tuesday, July 9.
“We
reacted
pretty
quickly, as it was a surprise
and site work at the Heights
was beginning soon,” Henry
said. “It took several weeks
from beginning to end to
come to a solution.”
First noticed by a dog-
walker, geotechnical engi-
neers conducted tests to reveal
on the discovered crevices of
between 2 inches and 8 inches,
indicating there was some
earth movement. The crack is
attributable to water seepage
after tree-cutting, Henry said.
The crack was not attrib-
utable to work at the mid-
dle and high school, or at the
elementary school.
R.J. Marx
Work on athletic fi eld at the new middle and high school campus.
Weyerhaeuser,
which
logged the area prior to con-
struction, has reforested the
area, Seaside School District
Superintendent Sheila Roley
said.
Rather than build a
retaining wall with drilled
piers to address the earth
movement northeast of The
Heights at a cost of between
$500,000 and $700,000,
architects redesigned the
layout for modular class-
rooms and realigned the fi re
lane away from the slippage
area. around the schools.
Some proposed utilities —
including transformers and
a gas meter — were moved,
as well as a location to store
dumpsters and trash.
With the new layout engi-
neers didn’t have to cut into
the hill. “We’re leaving that
lower part,” Roley said.
“That seemed to be a critical
Third osprey chick dies in Seaside nest
By KATIE FRANKOWICZ
The Astorian
The last of three osprey
chicks in a Seaside nest
that is the subject of a pop-
ular online livestream died
sometime Wednesday night,
July 10.
The chicks lived in a nest
above Broadway Park that
has been monitored by cam-
era since 2013, providing
online viewers with around-
the-clock opportunities to
see ospreys in the wild. An
osprey pair — nicknamed
“Bob and Betty” by viewers
— were raising three chicks
this year.
But the fi rst two chicks
died soon after the disap-
pearance of the adult male
osprey at the end of June.
Despite some hope that the
third chick would survive,
the female osprey struggled
to bring suffi cient food back
and appeared to be absent
from the nest entirely for at
least 24 hours earlier this
week.
Some viewers reported
that she showed up Wednes-
day afternoon with a fi sh,
but after hours alone in the
nest, exposed to rain and
chilly weather, the chick was
not in any shape to eat.
Wildlife rescue groups
and the Necanicum Water-
shed Council, which main-
Seaside Osprey Nestcam/The Daily Astorian
An osprey chick, center, in a nest in Seaside’s Broadway
Park rests near its mother on Monday. The chick died on
Wednesday. Two other siblings had died earlier in the month,
soon after the disappearance of the adult male osprey in late
June.
tains the nest camera, could
not intervene after the male
osprey disappeared. Federal
regulations protect migra-
tory bird nests and for-
bid anyone from disturb-
ing a nest while chicks are
present.
“We are heartbroken
of the passing of all three
chicks in the osprey nest
and the disappearance of the
male this year,” the Neca-
nicum Watershed Council
wrote in a Facebook post
Thursday morning, and
explained they were shut-
ting down the livestream for
the season.
Angie Reseland, execu-
tive director for the water-
shed council, fi rst shut down
the camera at 3 a.m. Thurs-
day. The night before, she
heard from the Wildlife
Center of the North Coast
that the last chick appeared
to be dying.
“I woke up thinking about
it,” she said. She thought:
“If I shut the camera down
now early in the morning,
nobody will have to wake up
and see this.”
The feed came back on
a couple of more times, but
was completely shut down
by midmorning.
“Thank you for pro-
viding the camera,” one
woman wrote in response
to the watershed council’s
announcement. “It’s inter-
esting to watch nature, the
good, bad and ugly.”
Osprey begin breeding
activities in the spring and
can lay up to four eggs. Male
osprey typically take on the
role of provider and bring
food to the female while she
sits on the eggs, according to
information provided by the
watershed council.
Chicks begin to fl y about
52 days after they hatch,
often in late July or early
August, but continue to
return to their nest for food
and rest between practice
fl ights. Mature osprey head
south for the winter and
return to the North Coast to
breed in the spring.
Osprey live on a diet of
fi sh and it is believed the
chicks in the Broadway Park
nest starved to death.
Last year, Bob and Betty
successfully reared three
chicks to maturity.
“So now it’s like the
opposite, the swinging pen-
dulum,” Reseland said. She
sighed, paused and added,
“Next year, it’s going to go
great.”
Commission hires new Clatsop County manager
By NICOLE BALES
The Astorian
Clatsop County commis-
sioners have hired a new
county manager.
Don Bohn, the assistant
county administrator for
Washington County, will
start on Sept. 16.
Monica Steele, the coun-
ty’s budget director, has
served as interim county
manager since Cameron
Moore retired last year. She
will remain in the role until
Bohn takes over.
Bohn and the other fi nal-
ist — Dan Chandler, the
assistant county administra-
tor for Clackamas County
— attended public meet-
and-greet events Monday
and rotated between three
panels made up of residents,
county staff and county
commissioners.
Commissioners met pri-
vately in executive session
on Tuesday to discuss the
hire.
“We took into account
everyone’s input and I don’t
think there was one decid-
ing factor, but the fact that
he already has homes here,
one in Astoria and one in
Naselle, and that he wants
to stay here for a long time,
that was a big plus,” Sarah
Nebeker, the commission’s
chairwoman, said.
Bohn moved to Oregon
from Colorado and earned
piece. If you don’t touch it,
it’s fi ne. We kind of avoided
that problem.”
Another concern came
from dry rot and dormant
mold discovered in several
areas when performing seis-
mic upgrade work at, Henry
said.
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