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Achievement Award grows, terns shrink 6 4 9 2 NORTH COAST • Page 3 OPINION • Page 4 7 THE DAILY ASTORIAN 138th YEAR, No. 249 TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2011 75 CENTS Column speedglider protests his arrest Dell Schanze says the government is stifling his creativity lates city ordinances and would be considered a class-A misdemeanor, which can carry a maximum fine of $1,000 and up to one year By CHELSEA GORROW p.m. Monday, Schanze, with his 10-year-old in jail. The Daily Astorian son, Jordan, and friends around him, said the That ordinance was drawn up in 1998, after government was stifling his creativity. He an incident where individuals rappelled down The speedglider who jumped from the hopes the citizens of Astoria will work to the 125-foot structure. Astoria Column Saturday, and then posted change that. “They think they should have to do some- the video on YouTube, was “This is a sad part of society onthe thing about something that’s exceptional,” arrested. VIDEO where you find the most creative Schanze said. Instead, celebrate life, and be Two Clatsop County Sher- Web and exceptional among you and thankful for creativity and for people who put iff’s deputies arrested Dell you try to create an image that See GLIDER, Page 10 Schanze, 41, of Saratoga they’re lesser,” Schanze said. Springs, Utah, speedgliding “Did they arrest the birds that RIGHT: Dell Schanze, of Saratoga Springs, near the Peter Iredale Monday fly off the tower? There is no Utah, the speedglider who launched him- afternoon, after receiving a tip www. law against what I did.” self off the viewing platform atop the Asto- from a citizen. dailyastorian.com There may not be a law, but ria Column Saturday, gets a hug from his He was arrested at Fort there is an ordinance against son Jordan, 10, while friends record his Stevens and bail was set at $1,000. He has Schanze’s actions. release from the Clatsop County Jail after since posted bail and been released. According to City Attorney Blair Hen- posting bail Monday. Outside the Clatsop County Jail around 3 ningsgaard, paragliding off the Column vio- ALEX PAJUNAS — The Daily Astorian Dedication marks Peacock’s official nesting place Train depot opens new opportunities for Maritime Museum
JONATHAN LINGEL — For the Daily Astorian Michael Haglund, an author, attorney and member of the Columbia River Maritime Museum board, describes the pilot boat Pea- cock’s 33 years of service in all conditions, particularly its abilities in the heavy seas characteristic of the Columbia River bar, at the dedication of the pilot boat in Astoria Saturday. he Columbia River Maritime Museum from more than 120,000 commercials ships. again. This time as woodshop for Clatsop Tdedicated the bar pilot boat Peacock It was donated to the museum in 1999, but Community College students enrolled in and opened up the old Astoria Train Depot was only just put on display at the east cor- the college’s historic restoration program to visitors Saturday. ner of the museum parking lot last October. and as a maritime educational center. Sam Johnson, executive director of the The inside of the Astoria Depot has been The museum has just begun to raise funds Maritime Museum, was among leaders of the hidden for even longer. The last time it was for these projects. The total estimated cost JONATHAN LINGEL — For the Daily Astorian event sharing details with visitors. open to the public was in the 1980s. It has to reopen the depot: about $2 million. Guests explore the options on display for the renovation of the Astoria Depot at Sat- The Peacock, built in 1964, saw 33 years since been used for storage. urday’s open house celebration. of hard service, ferrying bar pilots to and But a plan is in the works to put it to use • More photos, Page 10
By NANCY McCARTHY “Eighteen of us are going to “cast members” who will per- The Daily Astorian present to a jury why we want to form for 10 minutes before a become an All-America City,” National Civic League panel on Kansas SEASIDE — An 18-member said Mayor Don Larson. “Six- Friday morning. They gave a Seaside finds funds to team left for the All-America teen gave up their day jobs to go preview to the City Council competition in Kansas City, Mo. to Hollywood.” Monday night. City this morning in hopes of bring- Larson made the comment The presentation describes replace police vehicles ing fame – and maybe a little just before he took his place on See CITY, Page 3 fortune – to Seaside. a bench in City Hall to join other here City Council adopts transportation system plan By NANCY McCARTHY with two defeats of bond measures seeking The Daily Astorian funds for the police department vehicles, the we city couldn’t wait any longer. SEASIDE — The Seaside Police Depart- “When the electorate comes back and says ment will be able to replace its vehicles with ‘we can’t afford it’ or ‘we don’t want it,’ I’m come money from a city equipment replacement OK with that. fund that had been used to purchase machin- “But we have to make sure that the pub- Seaside sends team ery for other departments. lic understands that purchasing police vehi- to All-America The City Council agreed Monday night to cles is an imperative; the fleet has gone as far close the fund and dedicate the money to the as it can go. Two of the vehicles are spend- City competition police department. The fund will have an ing as much time in the garage getting repaired estimated $113,000 at the end of this fiscal as on the street,” Winstanley said. year on June 30. “We have to make sure that when we have Voters defeated a five-year, $301,000 bond an emergency, they get to the emergency.” measure in May that would have replaced By not being able to use the equipment seven police vehicles over five years. The replacement fund, other departments will have department has four vehicles with at least to find alternative methods of replacing equip- 100,000 miles and two others with more than ment, Winstanley said. 70,000 miles. “There will be an impact, but it’s the right The equipment replacement fund was used thing to do.” by city departments to purchase equipment, but In the past, the fund was used to replace the departments repaid the money over sever- a 30-year-old tractor used by the public NANCY McCARTHY — The Daily Astorian al years. Property leases paid to the city by works department; buy a printer for the city Those participating in the All-America City competition showed the Seaside City Council Mon- day night the presentation they will make to a National Civic League jury on Friday morning in Western Oregon Waste for its recycling station to print checks and utility bills among other Kansas City, Mo. They will talk about Seaside’s involvement in creating a skatepark, building a and by cell phone companies and other com- documents; install a computerized circulation new library and preparing for a tsunami and other potential disasters. In this scene, Seaside Library panies became the revenue source for the fund. See SEASIDE, Page 10 Director Reita Fackerell talks about why Seaside needed a new library. Listening are, from left, City Manager Mark Winstanley noted that Karna Cupples, McKenzie Cupples, Mayor Don Larson, Lois Larson, Fackerell and Darren Gooch. 2 THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2011 Obituaries John B. years. He was a fisherman most of sett) Borlaug. Patrick Finley from 1971 to 1975. He taught volunteer for the Hope Chest Thrift his life, fishing for crab, salmon and His parents sur- grades three and four in Clifton, Store in Nehalem. ‘Johnny’ Shelton albacore, working his way up off vive, residing in ‘Pat’ Voris Ariz., from 1977 to 1978, then Family members said she was never the back deck. In 1972, after some Portland. His Commercial fisherman, 56 grades five and six in Clinton, Iowa, happier than when she had a table full Commercial fisherman, 69 good fishing seasons, he bought the mother was a from 1979 to 1981. He taught the of people to nourish with the bounty John B. “Johnny” Shelton, 69, of Amel II, which he sold in 1975. He longtime resi- Patrick Finley “Pat” Voris, 56, of special education class at Seaside she was able to cultivate and gather Seaside, died Monday, May 23, had an aneurism and car accident, dent of Clatsop Warrenton, died Heights from 1982 until his retire- from the earth. 2011, in Sea- and after several years of rehabilita- County. Thursday, June ment in 2001. In addition to her husband, she is side. tion and recovery, he went back to F a m i l y 9, 2011, in Asto- He was a member of the Light- survived by two daughters, Amy He was born the fishing industry for a few more members said ria. house Christian Church, and also Norred of Boise, Idaho, and Tiffany Oct. 30, 1941, years. the strength, He was born attended the Seaside Assembly of Van Tuyl of Hillsboro. in La Grande, to He is survived by a brother-in- Brody courage and July 1, 1954, in God Church. He volunteered at the A memorial will be held at 2:30 Ray Shelton and law, Bob Campbell; twin nieces, Borlaug character that he Greeley, Colo., Cannon Beach Conference Center. p.m. Thursday, June 16, at Willamette Charlene Shel- Sue Moulton and Sandy Campbell; showed through- to Dr. Eugene Family members said he enjoyed National Cemetery. A celebration of ton-Hilsenkopf. a nephew, Rick Campbell; a son, out his short life was inspirational Finley Voris and reading, traveling, swimming, bik- life will follow at 4 p.m. in Hillsboro. He was edu- Scott Shelton; and a daughter, Lisa and heroic. Emma Alice ing, spending time with the fami- Memorial contributions may be cated in Seaside, Shelton. In addition to his parents, he is (Cook) Voris. ly dogs and the duties of country made to the Hope Chest Thrift Store, and graduated He was preceded in death by a sis- survived by a brother, Kade Ander- His mother sur- Patrick living, such as wood splitting, rais- 36345 Highway 101 N., Nehalem, from high ter, Sharon Campbell. son; a sister, Kaelyn Borlaug; four vives, residing in Voris ing chickens, etc. He and his wife OR 97131-9732 or the hospice orga- school in 1960. John Sequim, Wash. Shelton A memorial will be announced at grandparents, Mike and Richelle traveled to India on a mission trip nization of one’s choice. Always an ath- a later date. Borlaug and Jenny and Todd Burton; His father preceded him in death. to an orphanage, visited Israel with National Cremation Service is in lete and letter- Hughes-Ransom Cremation & two uncles, Terry and Jon Bassett; an He received his education at their church group and took two charge of the arrangements. man, in 1959, he was one of the Mortuaries in Seaside is in charge of aunt, Brenda Brown; and numerous Garibaldi Grade School and Taft High Christian cruises. team players to take the Seaside foot- the arrangements. great-aunts, great-uncles and cousins. School. In addition to his wife, he is sur- Amber Lynn Corley ball team to win the state champi- A celebration of life will be held He married Donna Jean Voris in vived by a son, Ben-Alexander Jack- onship in the A-2 league in Vale. He Brody Borlaug at 10 a.m., Saturday, June 18, at Tillamook. She preceded him in son of Los Angeles; a niece, Kale- Gillette, Wyo., resident, 28 was voted and given the award of the Multnomah Athletic Club, 1849 death. na Taylor of Chilliwack, British Amber Lynn Corley, 28, of Honorary Captain. He was one of Portland resident, 3 S.W. Salmon St. in Portland. Mr. Voris was a commercial fish- Columbia; three granddaughters, Gillette, Wyo., two football players from Seaside Brody Borlaug, 3, of Portland, Memorial contributions may be erman. He resided in Warrenton for Megan and Kayesee Schermerhorn of died Monday, High School to be invited to play in died Thursday, June 2, 2011, at made to the Doernbecher Blood and three years. Vancouver, Wash., and Anna Kusz- June 6, 2011, in the Shriners Football Game in 1960. Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Cancer Program (Immunology), He was a Christian. maul; a brother and sister-in-law, Wyoming, in a After high school, Mr. Shelton Portland, of a rare immunodeficien- 1121 S.W. Salmon St. No. 201, Family members said he enjoyed Bill and Sandy Jackson of Las drowning acci- worked for a short time in logging, cy disorder. Portland, OR 97205-2021. bike riding with his dog, Sarge, and Vegas and their five adult children; dent. then went on to work in the fishing He was born April 4, 2008, in Mount Scott Funeral Home in walking on the beach. He loved boats a sister and brother-in-law, Karrin S he was industry with Bell Buoy for several Portland, to Jeff and Tracy (Bas- Portland is in charge of arrangements. and the ocean. and Terry Taylor of Chilliwack; a born, June 10, In addition to his mother, he is brother-in-law, Pat Kerr of Hope, 1982, in Wash- survived by a son, Jeremy Voris of B.C.; and two stepdaughters, Linda ington. Her ® Eureka, Calif.; a brother and sister-in- Schermerhorn and her husband, Amber mother and ACCUWEATHER FORECAST FOR ASTORIA law, Rick and Debbie Voris of Otis; Luke, of Vancouver and Susan Har- Corley s t e p f a t h e r , a sister, Vonnie Voris of Sequim; a ris of Hawaii. Jeneen (Bigsby) Astoria 5-Day Forecast Oregon Weather companion, Lori Smith of Warrenton; A memorial will be held at 11 and Randy Evans survive, residing a nephew, Dale Voris of Redmond; a.m. Thursday, June 16, at the in Naselle, Wash. and a niece, Michelle Nelson of Fort Tonight Lighthouse Christian Church, 88786 She was raised in Washington. Shown is Astoria The Dalles Benning, Ga. Dellmoor Loop in Warrenton. She excelled in academics and was tomorrow’s 49/62 52/70 A memorial will be announced at Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortu- at a third-grade level at age 6. Pendleton a later date. ary in Astoria is in charge of the On April 19, 2008, she married weather. Portland 45/72 Temperatures 51/67 Hughes-Ransom Cremation & arrangements. An online guest book Sebren LeRoy “Lee” Corley IV Mortuaries in Astoria is in charge of are tonight’s Salem can be signed at www.caldwells (Lee). He survives, residing in 46/67 the arrangements. Rather cloudy lows and mortuary.com Gillette. The couple met in 2007 Albany while she was hosting karaoke. Fol- tomorrow’s Corvallis 45/67 lowing their wedding reception, highs Ontario Dennis Sabin Jackson Rhoda (MacKay) 49° 47/72 Bend 48/80 Teacher, 69 they celebrated by singing karaoke. Eugene 39/70 Van Tuyl Family members said her open Dennis Sabin Jackson, 69, of Sea- 44/69 Nehalem res- heart and welcoming smile attract- Wednesday Thursday side, died Satur- ed many friends wherever she went. Burns day, June 11, ident, 63 41/69 Her loyalty and willing shoulders 2011, in Seaside, made her a true friend to many. Medford R h o d a of multiple (MacKay) Van In addition to her husband, she 51/79 myeloma. Klamath Falls Tuyl, 63, of is survived by a daughter, Araelia 41/72 He was born Nehalem, died Rose Corley; a sister; two brothers; Breezy with some Partly sunny May 30, 1942, in Wednesday, June and several nieces, nephews, uncles, sun Newton, Iowa, to 8, 2011, in aunts, in-laws, cousins and friends. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2011 George William Clackamas, of A service has already been held. 62° 49° 61° 49° “Bill” and Emma heart failure. Almanac Sun and Moon Margaret (Sabin) She was born Astoria through Monday. Sunset tonight ...... 9:08 p.m. Jackson. Dennis Jan. 18, 1948, in Rhoda The Daily Astorian In 1966, he Jackson Van Tuyl Friday Saturday Temperatures Sunrise Wednesday ...... 5:23 a.m. Beaverton, to Established July 1, 1873 High ...... 60° Moonrise today ...... 8:24 p.m. received a bache- Roderick Reed (USPS 035-000) Moonset today ...... 4:12 a.m. Low ...... 51° lor’s degree in psychology from Ari- MacKay and Dorothy Elmira (Schultz) Published daily, except Saturday and Sunday, Normal high ...... 63° zona State University. In 1982, he MacKay. Her parents preceded her in by The Astorian Budget Publishing Co., 949 Normal low ...... 50° Full Last New First Exchange St., P.O. Box 210, Astoria, OR received a master’s degree in education death. 97103. Telephone 325-3211, (800) 781-3211 Precipitation from Portland State University. or Fax 325-6573. POSTMASTER: Send On Feb. 16, 1968, she married address changes to The Daily Astorian, PO Partly sunny Mostly cloudy and Yesterday ...... 0.17” In 2002, he married Lesley Jack- Randy Van Tuyl in Garden Home. Box 210, Astoria, OR 97103-0210. breezy Month to date ...... 0.64” June 15 June 23 July 1 July 7 son. She survives, residing in Sea- He survives, residing in Nehalem. www.dailyastorian.com Normal month to date ...... 1.24” side. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Year to date ...... 44.13” Mrs. Van Tuyl was a homemaker. 63° 51° 61° 50° Mr. Jackson taught in Guam The Associated Press is entitled exclusively Normal year to date ...... 34.31” She was very proud of her work as a to the use for republication of all the local news printed in this newspaper. SUBSCRIBER TO THE Regional Cities Under the Sky Public meetings NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE Today Wed. Today Wed. Tonight’s Sky: With summer just a week away, MEMBER CERTIFIED AUDIT OF CIRCULATIONS, INC. City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W the northern hemisphere is seeing the longest TODAY Board, 7 p.m., budget hearing, 7:30 days of the year. Today, the sun rises earliest at Baker City 70 38 s 66 34 s Olympia 65 46 pc 64 43 pc 5:21 a.m. PDT and sets at 9:01 p.m. PDT. Cannon Beach City Council, p.m., regular meeting and executive SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bend 74 39 s 70 34 pc Pendleton 74 45 s 72 43 pc 5:30 p.m., work session, City Hall, session to follow, 1700 S. Main Ave. Effective November 1, 2010 Brookings 63 48 pc 64 49 s Portland 68 51 c 67 51 pc Warrenton City Commission, Eugene 70 44 pc 69 41 pc Roseburg 75 49 pc 72 47 pc 162 E. Gower St., Cannon Beach. 7 Clatsop County Housing p.m., City Hall, 225 S. Main Ave. HOME DELIVERY Ilwaco 57 49 c 58 49 pc Salem 69 46 c 67 46 pc Tomorrow’s Tides EZpay (per month) ...... $9.75 Klamath Falls 74 41 s 72 38 s Seaside 57 50 pc 58 50 pc Authority Board, 5:45 p.m., Astoria / Port Docks 13 weeks in advance ...... $32.14 Medford 81 51 pc 79 46 s Spokane 69 46 pc 64 44 pc Owens-Adair Community Room, WEDNESDAY 26 weeks in advance ...... $61.60 Time High Time Low 52 weeks in advance ...... $116.80 Newport 60 46 pc 61 45 pc Vancouver 68 49 c 65 49 pc 12:49 a.m. 9.6 ft. 8:02 a.m. -1.7 ft. 1508 Exchange St., Astoria. Seaside Tourism Advisory North Bend 60 48 pc 63 47 pc Yakima 76 44 pc 75 41 pc 2:27 p.m. 7.4 ft. 7:46 p.m. 2.5 ft. 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Lotteries UNITED STATES ARMY START DELIVERY WASHINGTON Monday’s Match 4: 4-16-20-24 THE DAILY ASTORIAN Monday’s Daily Game: 4-2-2 P.O. Box 210 Monday’s Hit 5: 5-7-23-31-32 OREGON Astoria, Ore. 97103-0210 y B i r t No winner. Next jackpot Monday’s Pick 4: (503) 325-3211• (800) 781-3211 h E-mail: [email protected] p p d $150,000. 1 p.m.: 0-6-8-0 a a Monday’s Keno: 4-5-9-10-11- 4 p.m.: 0-1-6-8 Please start delivery of y 27-28-34-36-39-41-43-45-55-65- 7 p.m.: 9-4-9-0 THE DAILY ASTORIAN H 68-71-73-76-77 10 p.m.: 2-8-8-1 as soon as possible. Monday’s Lotto:16-17-22-25- Monday’s Megabucks: 3-6-7- I enclose $ 35-49 21-38-47 No winner. Next jackpot $5.2 No winner. Next jackpot $16.2 for weeks. million. million. Name: Address: CORRECTIONS City: 14 JUNE 1775 14 JUNE 2011 TV Phone Number Wrong — Because of an editorial assistant’s error, the phone number to call about the 25 26-inch TVs being given State: Zip: away that was given in Friday’s Daily Astorian was incorrect. The phone number at Astoria High School is (503) 325-3911. Ask for Phone: Serving our nation for 236 years —Tom Kerry Strickland, Teresa Dursse or Darla Rush. The newspaper regrets the error. E-mail: THE DAILY ASTORIAN NORTHWEST TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2011 3 City: All-America City presentation, ceremony are Friday Civic League has bestowed the des- Continued from Page 1 ignation on 600 cities; some cities have received it more than once. To how Seaside residents, organizations achieve All-America status, cities and city officials joined forces to must demonstrate how volunteers, create a skate park, build a library and civic organizations and city officials prepare for tsunamis and other dis- work together to solve local prob- asters. lems. Carolyn Lee, left, a member of Sea- An “All-America” committee has Those presenting Seaside’s case sideʼs Tsunami Advisory Committee, worked for more than a year gather- will talk about how local youths talks about the need to plan for a ing information and statistics and raised $375,000 to build a skate tsunami and other disasters during a preparing applications. Two months board park; how local contributors presentation to those attending a Sea- ago, Seaside learned it was one of 26 enabled the construction of the side City Council meeting Monday finalists for 10 All-America desig- library, now the busiest library per night. An 18-member group will give nations. capita on the Oregon coast; and how the presentation to the National Civic The Seaside group will make its Seaside’s tsunami plan is a model for League in Kansas City, Mo. Friday presentation at 8:55 a.m. (Central morning in an effort to be named one other coastal communities. of 10 All-America Cities. Also partici- time, 6:55 Pacific time) Friday. It The All-America designation pating with Lee in this scene are can be viewed by streaming on the could strengthen Seaside’s chances in Mayor Don Larson, Doug Barker and National Civic League’s blog, the future when the city applies for Richard Russell. Barker and Russell www.allamericacityaward.com grants to complete local projects, also are members of the cityʼs Tsuna- The awards will be announced said Russ Vandenberg, general man- mi Advisory Committee. The presenta- during a ceremony at 9 p.m. Friday ager of the Seaside Civic and Con- tion will focus on the involvement of (Central, 7 p.m. Pacific) and can be vention Center and All-America residents and city officials to create a viewed on the same blog. Watch for committee chairman. disaster plan, build a library and cre- the results on the Daily Astorian ate a skatepark. The group left this Finalists for the designation range morning for Kansas City. website, wwwdailyastorian.com Fri- from large cities, such as Fort Worth, day evening. Texas and Buffalo, N.Y., to small- NANCY McCARTHY Since the All-America competi- er areas, including Kenai, Alaska and The Daily Astorian tion began in 1949, the National Eden, N.C. School’s Out Party planned Jan Roberts-Dominguez Naselle principal Astoria Parks and Recreation will 11 a.m.: “Touch a Truck,” food, hold a School’s Out Party, a fami- music, swimming, games, and more, to speak at Tillamook ly-friendly event with activities for and the winner of the Voluntary earns accolade all ages, Saturday at the Astoria Tobacco Free Parks art contest will Aquatic Center. The festivities will be announced. County Library NASELLE — Naselle School Schools are begin at 10 a.m. with a Family Fun For questions, or information, Principal Karen Wirkkala has been selected based on Run. All other activities begin at call (503) 325-7275. TILLAMOOK — Jan the cuisine it has presented a Washington Achievement their statewide Roberts-Dominguez will inspired. “Oregon Hazel- Award, which is given by the Office assessment data be presenting a program nut Country – The Food, of the Superintendent of Public for the three pre- at 6 p.m. June 16 in the The Drink, The Spirit” will Instruction and the State Board of vious years. Ocean Beach School District Hatfield Community be available for purchase. Education. Barnes stated that Room at the Tillamook Among her accom- It was presented by Twyla Barnes, Naselle is one of seeks input on superintendent County Library, 1716 plishments, she has made superintendent of Educational Service very few schools OCEAN BEACH, Wash. — The Community members are also Third St. in Tillamook. numerous radio and tele- District 112. which have con- Ocean Beach School District Board encouraged to provide input on a She has written and vision appearances in This award was given to recognize sistently been the welcomes community members to survey located on the district’s web- illustrated a weekly food major markets around the Naselle Junior-Senior High School recipient of the Karen participate in the superintendent site at www.ocean.k12.wa.us/obsd column, “Food For country and has been a for showing consistent gains in lan- award each year. Wirkkala search process, and provide feedback through Thursday. The job position Thought,” for the Corval- Karl Maasdam photo regular guest chef on “AM guage arts (reading and writing), Naselle- Grays on final candidates, at a community closed June 8, and it is the board’s lis Gazette-Times since Jan Roberts- Northwest” (KATU). She math, science, extended graduation River Valley School District has meeting that will be held from 6:30 intention to complete the superin- 1983, and a syndicated Dominguez hosted the cooking seg- rates, and making adequate yearly received the School of Distinc- to 8 p.m. June 22 at Long Beach Ele- tendent selection process by late June. column, “Fresh ments on the PBS series, progress. tion/Washington Achievement Award mentary School. The selected final- The board has hired search con- Approach,” since 1985. “Preserv- “Northwest Gardening,” and was a ists will be available to meet in small sultant Educational Service District ing,” a seasonal column on pre- creative consultant and writer for groups with participants to ask ques- 112 to assist in the process. For serving food, had a 20 year run in the PBS television series “Smart tions and learn more about each can- information, contact Twyla Barnes at The Oregonian, beginning in 1987. Gardening.” For information, go to didate’s qualifications. (360) 750-7500. She is the author-illustrator of four http://janrd.com cookbooks, the latest being “The She and her husband, Steve, own Onion Book,” with Doubleday. and operate Stoneyburn Gallery and Roberts-Dominguez recently fin- Fine Framing in Corvallis. Playground needs support funds ished writing and illustrating her For information about the Sell something fifth book, a celebration of the Pacif- Tillamook County Library, call The Astor Elementary School Play- of Astoria is no longer able to accept EVERYONE needs! ic Northwest hazelnut industry and (503) 842-4792. ground Committee has raised the nec- donations for this project. Donations A proven best-seller! essary money to construct a cover over should now be sent to the Astoria the play area this summer. However, School District, 785 Alameda Ave., funds are still being raised for small- Astoria, OR 97103, with a note spec- er items such as paint, basketball ifying the contribution is for the Astor hoops, etc. Elementary School Playground Project. Wu to hold phone town hall We’ll pay.... As of Wednesday, the Moms Offer- For information, call Tammy Her- WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. and workforce investment and an open- ing Moms Support (MOMS) Club dener at (503) 741-0683. Rep. 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THE DAILY ASTORIAN The importance of fathers Founded in 1873 Debbie Loyd’s columns appear says that fathers influence devel- says that fathers children’s lives. They have regular monthly in The Daily Astorian. opment from a very early age, even play a major one-on-one time with each child. as early as a few weeks of age when role in preparing They are affectionate with their chil- STEPHEN A. FORRESTER, Editor & Publisher By DEBBIE LOYD dads become the child’s “most sig- children for life dren. They are teachers and good For The Daily Astorian nificant other.” He says that it is outside the fam- models. They protect and provide PATRICK WEBB, Managing Editor through the father that “the baby ily. This can for their children. If you are inter- “Men are the single greatest first learns about comings and happen both ested in some more ideas, consid- BETTY SMITH, Advertising Manager untapped resource in the lives of goings, transitions, separations and through model- er the following resources: CARL EARL, Systems Manager American children” says Kyle non- mother nurturing.” Father ing and direct Levine, J.A., & Pittinsky, T. Pruett, Yale psychiatry professor. involvement during the first eight teaching. Last- (1997). Working Fathers: New JOHN D. BRUIJN, Production Manager Census data show a shocking truth weeks of life affects children’s abil- ly, fathers Strategies for Balancing Work and DEBRA BLOOM, Business Manager that America is the most fatherless ity to manage stress as school-age Debbie increase the Family. New York: Addison-Wesley. country, with almost 34 percent of children. Loyd well- being of Shapiro, J. (1993). The Mea- SAMANTHA McLAREN-BOWMAN, Circulation Manager American children living without A father’s influence is accom- their children sure of a Man: Becoming the Father their biological fathers. Some plished through a number of means: when they have a good relationship You Wish Your Father Had Been. sources rate this as high as 40 per- attachment, involvement, play, with their children’s mother. New York: Delacorte. cent or more. This equates to a huge Sullivan, S. Adams (1992). The social problem because of the vast Father’s Almanac. New York: Dou- On with the show! differences fathers make in their Boys need a good male role model to learn bleday. Loaded with activities to children’s lives. do with kids. Astoria Music Festival’s ninth season Numerous studies have shown how to be men and girls need it to learn to Brott, A.A., & Ash, J. (1995). that children without involved appreciate their femininity and to develop The Expectant Father: Facts, Tips is a stimulant in the new economy fathers are significantly more like- and Advice for Dads-To-Be. New ly to use drugs, to do poorly in trust and intimacy with men. York: Abbeville Press. hen foundations and char- duction of Mozart’s opera The school and/or drop out of high National Center for Fathering itable trusts put big money Marriage of Figaro and several school, to have health, emotional (www.fathers.com/) W and behavioral problems, to be vic- modeling, teaching, protection and Benefits of involved fathering National Fatherhood Initiative on a theater restoration, they other events over three weeks. tims of abuse, and to engage in providing. Duncan says that father- are not just for children. Fathers (www.fatherhood.org) want to know who will use the Nine years later, leadership criminal behavior more than those child play tends to be more rough- also benefit. They experience more Stephen Duncan’s article, “The restored venue. If we build it, including Leena Riker and the who live with their married par- and-tumble play than mother-child personal happiness and satisfaction. Importance of Fathers” which you will anyone come? festival board and volunteers ents. Researchers at the University play and seems to be an important Their health and overall well-being can download as a PDF from a The truth is that it is difficult make the festival happen. Con- of Maryland found that having a factor in the father-child relation- is improved. They are even more Google search but apparently not to predict what will happen. But ductor and Music Director Keith substitute supportive “father fig- ship. likely to advance in their careers. from a direct website. ure” could help counteract these Boys need a good male role Good fathers nurture their mar- Debbie Loyd is a licensed pro- in the case of Astoria’s Liberty Clark has been a consistent pres- effects. model to learn how to be men and riage. They make fatherhood a high fessional counselor in Astoria who Theater, 178 event days are ence from the festival’s begin- Fathers have an important role. girls need it to learn to appreciate priority and spend lots of time with works with adults and couples on booked during 2011 – which ning. Stephen Duncan, professor at Mon- their femininity and to develop trust their children, being connected with a variety of issues. You can visit her amounts to the theater being used In an age of overamplified tana State University-Bozeman, and intimacy with men. Duncan most, if not all, aspects of their web site at debbieloyd.com and her every other day. Those events sound in huge venues, the Lib- include some 15,000 school chil- erty Theater’s intimacy and res- dren attending programs in the onant acoustics are refreshing. Liberty in the course of this year. Musicians, singers and audiences For many of those children, it is love it for that reason. The festi- Narcissism is brought out online the first time they have seen live val’s appeal is founded on its entertainment on a stage in a the- very special venue. By ROSS DOUTHAT The idea that modern America is he’s clearly a certainly, but not really even as lust The Astoria Music Festival New York Times News Service in thrall to self-regard dates to the well-habituated objects either. His “partners” existed ater. There will also be 14 wed- 1970s, when writers like Tom Wolfe creature of the less to titillate him than to hold up benefits Astoria by bringing dings in the Liberty this year and n every time and place, people and Christopher Lasch famously cri- online social mirrors to his own vanity: Whether nine conferences. audiences and performers to have associated new tech- tiqued the excesses of what Wolfe world. The fact the congressman was tweeting photos One high-profile event begins town. Cultural attractions such I dubbed the “me decade.” But a grow- that he used the of his upper body or bragging about Friday. And no one who worked as live music and theater are also nologies with moral decline. ing body of research suggests that Internet’s free- what lurked below, his focus was a high card in the competition “Men think that it is essential American self-involvement is actual- doms to violate always squarely on himself. If Bill to restore the Liberty Theater that the Nation have commerce,” expected the Astoria Music Fes- to lure the highly educated pro- ly reaching an apogee in the age of his marriage Clinton was seduced by a flash of Henry David Thoreau griped in Facebook and Twitter. vows isn’t par- Monica Lewinsky’s thong, Weiner tival. But this will be the festival’s fessionals who are essential to 1854, “and export ice, and talk According to a variety of sociol- ticularly note- seems to have been led into tempta- ninth season. the new information economy. through a telegraph, and ride thir- ogists (San Diego State’s Jean Ross worthy. That’s tion primarily by the desire to boast Even before the Liberty The- Over the next two weeks, it ty miles an hour ... but whether Twenge, Notre Dame’s Christian Douthat just the usual about his own endowments. ater was restored, the Astoria will be exciting to see musicians we should live like baboons or In this sense, his tweeted chest Music Festival appeared in 2003. walking Astoria’s streets and fill- like men, is a little uncertain.” shots are more telling than the explic- The brainchild of Clatsop Com- ing seats in restaurants. The fes- Similar anxieties have greeted If Bill Clinton was seduced by a flash of itly pornographic photos that fol- munity College voice teacher tival’s audience will also find its most subsequent inventions, from lowed. There was a time when fame the automobile to the iPhone: We’re Monica Lewinsky’s thong, Weiner seems to and influence were supposed to lib- Katherine Matschiner, the festi- way into our town’s commerce. erate men from such adolescent inse- val included a fully staged pro- On with the show. always teetering on the brink of have been led into temptation primarily by baboondom, always one technologi- curity. When Henry Kissinger boast- cal leap away from forfeiting our the desire to boast about his own endow- ed about power being the ultimate humanity. aphrodisiac, the whole point was that Sometimes, though, the pes- ments. he didn’t have to worry about his Eagle population simists are right to worry. Technol- pecs and glutes while, say, wooing ogy really does affect character. Cul- the former Bond girl Jill St. John. tures do change from era to era, some- Not so in the age of social media. times for the worse. Particular vices Smith, and others), younger Ameri- Spitzer-Schwarzenegger routine per- In a culture increasingly defined by grows, terns shrink can be encouraged by particular inno- cans are more self-absorbed, less formed on a virtual plane. What’s what Christine Rosen describes as vations, and thrive in the new worlds empathetic and hungrier for appro- more striking is the form his dal- the “constant demands to collect Natural world interactions reward that they create. bation than earlier generations – and liances took – not a private surrender (friends and status), and perform (by In the sad case of Rep. Anthony these trends seem to have accelerated to lust or ardor, but a pathetic quest marketing ourselves),” just being a a holistic, systemic approach Weiner’s virtual adultery, the Internet as Internet culture has ripened. The rit- for quasipublic validation. U.S. congressman isn’t enough. You era’s defining vice has been thrown uals of social media, it seems, make In all the tweets and transcripts have to hit the House gym and look aspian terns are beautiful 2000-2010 average. into sharp relief. It isn’t lust or smut status-seekers and exhibitionists of us that have leaked to date, there’s no good coming out of the shower, and birds – streamlined and ele- Last year, an estimated or infidelity, though online life all. sign that Weiner was particularly then find a Twitter follower who’s Cgant like fighter planes – but 13,600 cormorant breeding pairs encourages all three. It’s a desperate, At 46, Weiner isn’t technically a interested in the women he commu- willing to tell you just “how big” adolescent narcissism. member of Generation Facebook, but nicated with – not as human beings, you really are. their ravenous taste for young nested on the island and they Writing in the late ’70s, Lasch outward-bound salmon in the gobbled up about 19 million distinguished modern narcissism from Columbia estuary has generated young salmon and steelhead, old-fashioned egotism. The contem- much ill will in the past decade. the Bulletin reports. porary narcissist, he wrote, differs This spring, there has been a “from an earlier type of American huge turnaround in their for- ow, decades of work to individualist” in “the tenuous quali- ty of his selfhood.” Despite “his occa- tunes. This has less to do with Nbring eagles back from the sional illusions of omnipotence, the expensive efforts to limit their brink of extinction are yielding narcissist depends on others to vali- nesting areas on artificial some surprising and beneficial date his self-esteem.” His innate inse- islands, and much more to do results when it comes to getting curity can only be overcome “by see- with long-term efforts to restore terns and cormorants under con- ing his ‘grandiose self’ reflected in the and maintain biological diversity trol. attentions of others, or by attaching himself to those who radiate celebri- on the Columbia estuary. Harried away from their nests ty, power and charisma.” Also facing new challenges by eagles, the East Sand terns This is a depressingly accurate this spring are double-crested have left their nests open to gull anticipation of both the relationship cormorants, which share terns' predation this month. The between Weiner and his female “fol- taste for salmon, though few island's cormorants have been lowers,” and the broader “look at me! would describe these miniature similarly besieged by bald look at meeeee!” culture of online social media, in which nearly all of us pterodactyls as beautiful. eagles, peregrine falcons and participate to some degree or anoth- Together with sea lions, seals, great horned owls. er. pikeminnows and numerous Especially for the terns, this Facebook and Twitter did not forge other species, terns and cor- has meant colony collapse, with the culture of narcissism. But they morants have long been looked the number of active terns nests serve as a hall of mirrors in which it upon by fishermen as rivals. As with eggs declining from about flourishes as never before – a “vast virtual gallery,” as Rosen has written, billions of dollars have been 5,000 to fewer than 500. whose self-portraits mainly testify to poured into salmon recovery, There will still be plenty of “the timeless human desire for atten- the Northwest Power Planning adult terns and cormorants tion.” Council and others have joined around to eat migrating salmon And as Anthony Weiner just found the search for better balance this year. But in a longer-term out, it’s very easy to get lost in there. between salmon and their prin- perspective, this spring's devel- cipal predators. opments are a remarkable and Some salmon predators have gratifying example of nature been here virtually forever, but returning to a kind of balance. Caspian terns are carpetbaggers, This is a solid endorsement of Doonesbury flashback BY GARRY TRUDEAU taking advantage of manmade the proposition that ecosystems sediment islands and a human- are vastly complex and easily related lack of eagles and other thrown out of alignment. Yes, it raptors that would have kept the was enormously expensive to terns in check. At East Sand phase out the use of DDT and Island near Chinook, Wash., other chemicals that wrecked terns have had an average annu- eagle reproduction. But the al (2000-2009) consumption of advantages of our now-robust 5.3 million juvenile salmon and eagle population on the lower steelhead, including an esti- Columbia may save a fortune in mated 5.3 million last year, salmon-restoration funds. according to the Columbia We need to learn from this Basin Bulletin. A total of 8,300 and take a holistic, systemic tern pairs nested at the island approach to all our interactions in 2010, down slightly from the with the natural world. 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