10 years ago this week — 2013

CANNON BEACH — The next time someone orders a seafood meal from a local restaurant, Nala Cardillo hopes the fish is among those considered sustainable.

Cardillo, coordinator of the Haystack Rock Awareness Program, is spearheading a program called the Sustainable Seafood Invitation. The program is financed through a $2,000 grant the Friends of Haystack Rock received through Travel Oregon’s philanthropy fund.

According to the philanthropy fund’s website, the overall goal of awarding grants is to “give people the chance to stay connected to a relevant and compelling experience from a place they’ve traveled to.”

The Haystack Rock Awareness Program is using the grant to educate visitors on how to choose seafood based on how abundant it is and to avoid seafood that may be in danger of depletion.

“The response on the beach has been great so far,” Cardillo said.

Forestland surrounding U.S. Highway 26 in Clatsop County can be pleasant, serene and relaxing.

During the daytime, hikers may encounter wildlife and enjoy the natural greenery. But when night falls, the forest turns dark, in more ways than one.

Raves on logging roads are increasingly becoming a concern for law enforcement and parents because of drug use at the raves — and impaired drivers leaving them.

A head-on collision happened July 21. A car carrying four teenagers — sheriff’s deputies believe they were leaving a rave — struck a vehicle with two women in it. Five people were seriously injured. All were taken to the hospital, two were seriously hurt.

“It’s always been an issue anytime you have these kinds of activities in the county when people are exiting those events and operating motor vehicles under the influence of intoxicants,” said Lt. Duane Stanton, of Oregon State Police. “It’s always a potential problem.”

Raves on logging roads have been a problem “for years and years and years,” said Clatsop County Sheriff Tom Bergin.

But now, with the ease and availability of social networking websites, it’s harder for law enforcement to get their hands on an invitation.

HAMMOND — For the second year, Pacific Northwest Works, in partnership with Warrenton marinas, and with grant funding through the Oregon State Marine Board and Oregon Youth Conservation Corps, created a successful summer work crew program.

A crew leader and several local area youths assisted with this project and completed more the 1,270 hours of community service. They developed leadership and teamwork skills, completed first aid/CPR and boater’s education courses.

One of the projects the crew was required to complete was the Adopt-A-River program. Members spent 45 hours cleaning up debris from a Columbia River beach, collecting several bags of trash.

The marine crew, who call themselves “The Marina Monkeys,” worked at the Warrenton and Hammond marinas cleaning and painting the public restrooms, restriping parking lots, painting deck rails and ramps, replacing deck boards and floats and many other projects.

Sometimes it takes a village, plus a few extra, to make the Hood to Coast Relay runners and Portland to Coast walkers feel cared for.

On Friday and Saturday, Jewell School was buzzing with volunteers serving food and giving out showers and sleeping places to hundreds of athletes.

Although Jewell School is just one of the dozens of refreshment stops along the 195-mile run, it is one that is cherished by many runners because it offers everything they crave: food, rest, showers — even Wi-Fi. This year, with a lot of rain coming down, the indoor sleeping area was particularly appreciated.

50 years ago — 1973

WARRENTON — “When you’ve got a mink coat they want to go with you, but when you lose it, they drop you like a hot rock,” Warrenton Planning Commission member Vern Davis said of big developers, big neighboring cities and big government and business in general at a land use meeting here Wednesday.

Davis’ view appeared to jibe with that of most Warrenton citizens without large landholdings.

By and large, the ordinary homeowners at the meeting made it plain that they don’t see development, whether of aluminum plants, shopping centers or new roads through residential areas as something needing much encouragement in town.

The other side of the fence also was represented as Astoria real estate man Tom Hill, longtime landowner E.H. Carruthers and two or three others argued for changes to allow them to develop property as they have planned.

Hill particularly would like to see major shopping centers, large car dealerships and truck service facilities along U.S. Highway 101 and mobile home parks in west Warrenton.

“We are at the mercy of a match,” Gov. McCall warned last month at the dedication of the new Tillamook State Forest, once the charred desert of the Tillamook Burn.

McCall’s warning is all too true this summer.

Oregon is facing one of its driest years in 30 years, with most of the state receiving almost or below half the average amount of annual rainfall.

Clatsop Community College and the Clatsop County Commission put the final touches Tuesday on an agreement giving the college 110 acres of the Astoria Experiment Station for its livestock and forestry programs.

Commission Chairman Lyle Ordway made the announcement today in the commission’s weekly meeting.

The agreement still must be approved by the Clatsop Community College board when it meets Aug. 23, said Clatsop College President Phillip Bainer.

“I think it’s just a matter of getting the board’s signatures at this time,” he said. “The board is solidly behind the program and use of the station.”

Too many cooks spoil the gruel, but are two too many?

They weren’t Wednesday when Nancy Kettelkamp and Debbi Everton took to the kitchen to turn out tasty cheese enchiladas with Spanish rice in the intermediate luncheon competition at the 4H-FFA Fair.

Wearing matching outfits right down to their identical aprons, even sporting similar pigtail hairdos, the soon-to-be high school freshmen worked as one.

In no time they had the main part of the meal on the way and could concentrate on such trimmings as a Mexican-style tossed salad (avocados, tomatoes, celery and lettuce smothered in homemade dressing) and a fresh fruit dessert (peach slices, cantaloupe balls, strawberries, blueberries and watermelon balls laid in pie crust tarts and covered with glaze syrup).

The kitchen twosome managed to pick up a championship on their dinner and an invitation to try it again at the Oregon State Fair.

75 years ago — 1948

An Astoria-built boat, the Washington, will sail from Seattle Friday to the Bering Sea on an exploratory voyage for the fish and wildlife service.

Washington, a 100-foot motor vessel, was built by the Astoria Marine Construction Co. About three months ago, the vessel was completely overhauled and refitted by the same company.

At that time, the vessel was being made ready for a fishing trip off the coasts of Chile and Peru for Pacific Exploration Co. That trip was canceled after the governments of the two South American nations refused to approve the trip.

A group of nine members of the American Pioneer Trails Association were guests at the salmon luncheon in the Astoria Hotel Monday at noon.

The group, which assembled several weeks ago at Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, has been traveling across the country rededicating historical monuments. They were accompanied to Astoria by Walter Meacham, secretary of the Oregon Centennial Association and Isa Botten, of Portland.

While in Astoria yesterday, they visited the sites of Fort Astoria, Fort Clatsop and the Astoria Column. They then went to Seaside to visit the salt cairn.

Employment in the Astoria area still presents a bright picture, Guy Barker, manager of the state employment office, reported Wednesday, with an even balance being maintained between applicants and requests for workers.

Several positions still are open with the maritime commission, Barker said, and there may be a shortage of harvest workers when weather permits the harvest season to go into full speed.

Many Astoria tenants afraid of eviction are failing to take advantage of the legal protection offered them and are being overcharged for rent, Eleanor H. Smith, in charge of the local rent office, has announced.

Smith made this announcement in reporting that one compliance case against an Astoria landlord involving 17 living units will be filed soon in federal court.

“We have reason to believe,” Smith said, “that many tenants who are being overcharged are reluctant to complain to this office because they fear eviction by their landlords if they do.”

Even though salmon catches by commercial fishermen have fluctuated lately, catches by sports fishermen on sports tackle have remained consistently good, according to Al Hetzel, Salmon Derby secretary.

Hetzel predicted excellent fishing conditions during the derby period, Aug. 30 to Sept. 6.

Sailors from Tongue Point station have been among the more active sports fishermen lately, going out almost daily in landing craft from which a dozen or more sailors drop lines. These excursions have invariably brought back several salmon, Hetzel said, some caught inside the river and some outside.