From The Editor: Daily Astorian - Boat Mapping Will Become A Magnet

Stephen Forrester - The Daily Astorian
Saturday, August 07, 2010
8/2/2010 12:09:00 PM

Maritime Museum, Community College and Park Service build a new venture!!!

GRP:Boatwright (plural boatwrights)
A maker of boats, especially of traditional wooden construction.

Using technology to preserve "The Art Of A Craft"?

Hoorah!, Hoorah! Hoorah!

Now, how do we perpetuate "The Craft" of Wood Boat Building itself for our future?

How many are left in our community on the Lower Columbia with this unique skill that can pass it on to others?

How do we Pool those resources to teach this skill to others to save it?

Rolf Klep was a visionary. He founded the Columbia River Maritime Museum almost a half century ago. But Klep likely would be surprised at the technology behind the three-dimensional mapping of boats that's under way at the Maritime Museum. Katie Wilson reported that story last Tuesday.

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Astoria: "22"

The number of empty storefronts counted from 8th Street to the empty Mini-Mart at Mill Pond Village on a recent early evening drive through downtown.

What Downtown Main Street Can Learn From "The Mall"

Steve Lagerfeld - The Atlantic Online.com

A guided tour with a landscape architect and retailing specialist who believes that shopping malls -- vilify them though we might -- can offer moribund cities what they desperately need: practical lessons in the psychology of commerce

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Andy Jordan? Port of Astoria Legal Counsel?

And this would be the same Andy Jordan we saw up on the Liberty Theater stage advising and doing the "Legal Guiding" of the, then, sitting Lee County Commission's initial hearings and deliberating of the proposed Bradwood Landing LNG Receiving Terminal and has been in on it since?

And now, here he and his firm are, the new, official, Legal Counsel f0r The Port of Astoria with Oregon LNG/Pipeline hearings and delibeations on the horizon with Clatsop County and City of Warrenton and we all know, contrary to how stupid the folks at PofA assume we are, that, that agency will not be immune from those discussions and with Jordan advising offers some concern in my view.

Wonder if Jordan's firm came up with the "Hearings Officer" concept for County and Warrenton to relieve the sitting members of both commissions the accountability of making another historic spontaneous and knowledgeable decision on what they were elected to do in the first place and then, who oversees the validity of the hearings officers decisions without the inevitable appeals and protracted battles especially when Clatsop County Planning Staff Recommends denial of the OLNG Pipeline project right off the top?

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Feds Paid "Dead" People's Electric Bills With Stimulus Money From Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program !!

Jul 1, 2010 1:31 pm US/Eastern

WASHINGTON DC - (CBS4)

It was designed to help poor families heat and cool their homes, but an audit of the federal program that provided more than $100 million went to pay electric bills of thousands of applicants who were dead, in prison or living in million-dollar mansions.

GRP: "The investigation found HHS paid thousands of dollars to people who were obviously ineligible for the program.
HHS paid $3.9 million to 11,000 applicants who used the identities of dead people.
HHS paid $370,000 to 725 applicants who were in prison.
HHS paid $671,000 to about 1,100 people who made more than the maximum income to qualify for the program. New Jersey paid $3,200 to a nursing home on behalf of eight patients after the home's director applied for assistance. The patients' nursing home care was already paid by Medicaid."
Can we even fathom the potential, once "The American Doctor" gets the gist of how to work "The System, of abuse of a "National Health Plan", once implemented?

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GOP Congressmen Not Rushing To Join Tea Party Caucus

New York News And Features
Daily Intel - Dan Amira - 07/20/2010 10:29AM

If the new House Tea Party Caucus held a meet-and-greet this afternoon, it would consist of Minnesota's Michele Bachmann and Indiana's Mike Pence drinking punch and making awkward small talk while frequently glancing at the door for more arrivals.

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New GRP Straw Poll: Should DUII Cases Be Tried In Astoria Municipal Court Or Circuit Court?

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A Look At Pre-Northern Star Bradwood Landing!

"We take the following facts from the Court of Appeals' opinion and also from the record:
"Plaintiff is a construction and development company owned by Ken Leahy and his wife. Defendant is a ship-repair company based in Portland. Ken Leahy and two partners own a tract of land adjacent to the Columbia River known as the Bradwood property. The Bradwood property consists of 270 acres of forest land and 32 acres of marine industrial land."

GRP:Who is it linked Leahy with NSNG on the property and caused all this mass and coordinated blindness in Lower Columbia River community leadership to attempt to perpetrate this scheme against its citizens?

You Read It!
Then, There's The BRADWOOD PROJECT...Read This One!

Kitzhaber: Natural Gas, Not The LNG Process, Is Our Future

7/19/2010 11:38:00 AM

By PATRICK WEBB - The Daily Astorian

John Kitzhaber believes natural gas is a much-needed transition fuel while Oregon embraces other sources, but he is wary of liquefied natural gas.

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LNG Opponents Appeal Oregon LNG Skipanon Lease To DSL

7/7/2010 11:50:00 AM

LNG opponents appeal Warrenton lease renewal
By CASSANDRA PROFITA-The Daily Astorian

Two conservation groups and Warrenton resident Jim Scheller have teamed up to appeal a lease renewal for the Oregon LNG liquefied natural gas project in Warrenton.

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10 Super Foods To Eat Now!

Wednesday, July 7, 2010 7:44 AM
By Robin Berkowitz - NewsMaxHealth.com
Want to feel better? Look no further than the end of your fork. While the benefits of a varied, minimally processed diet are well-known, certain foods are especially potent in alleviating and even preventing numerous ailments that afflict modern society, including cancer, heart disease, and other age-related illnesses. Here are 10 “super foods” that can boost your immune system, your brain function, even give you a youthful glow. No prescription needed, and no pesky side effects – just dig in.

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House Minority leader Boehner Takes A Video Shot At Obama!

From: NewsMax.com

The YouTube video, titled “What About the Country, Mr. President?” is in response to Obama's speech in Racine, Wis., on Wednesday in which he ripped into Boehner for telling a newspaper that a major banking overhaul bill is like "killing an ant with a nuclear weapon."

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Josh Marquis: July 4th!!

Sunday, July 04, 2010

July 4

Considering she is 234 years old today and accounting for all the wrinkles and scars, the United States of America is looking pretty good for her age.

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Sockeye Salmon Returning Past Bonneville In Record Numbers After A Decade!

by Keely Chalmers, KGW Staff
kgw.com
Posted on July 3, 2010 at 8:51 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. -- After more than a decade of dismal numbers, sockeye salmon are returning to the Columbia River in record numbers.
According to the U.S Army Corps of Engineers the number of sockeye passing the Bonneville Dam this year has already quadrupled the yearly average.
So far this year more than 300,000 sockeye have passed the dam. That's a pretty remarkable number considering back in the 90's only a handful made it up the river.
Now tens of thousands are passing through the dam on a daily basis.
"There was a remarkable day last week when more than 30 thousand sockeye came past Bonneville Dam and that’s never happened before," said Michael Milstein with the Bonneville Power Administration.
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says the recovery is due to better ocean conditions, improved salmon habitat, and improvements made at the Columbia River dams.
The recreational sockeye salmon season on the Columbia opened June 26th and runs through July 31st.

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Clatsop County Oregon LNG/Pipeline Hearings: Another 50% Of Unsatisfied Issues Maintain Planning Staff's Denial Of Project

June 24, 2010

Staff Report Addendum
Oregon Pipeline LLC Consolidated Application
Staff Resopnse To Oregon LNG/Pipeline's June 9, 2010 Memorandum And Supplemental Materials

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Clatsop County Oregon LNG/Pipeline Hearings Close: Record Still Open For Public Input

Monday, June 28, 2010

From: Clatsop County Oregon

PIPELINE HEARING CLOSED; WRITTEN COMMENTS STILL ACCEPTED
The public hearing on the land-use application from Oregon Pipeline LLC concluded Friday, June 25, but written testimony will be accepted through the end of this week.
Hearings Officer Peter Livingston took testimony Friday in the second and final session of a public hearing that opened June 10.

GRP: See the "RED" on the map above? It means...."The Worst Possible Place For Major Transmission And Supply Pipelines!"

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Proposal To Ban Gillnetting Has Commercial Fishermen Up In Arms!

From the June 21, 2010 issue of High Country News - by Lee Van Der Loo
Updated 6/22/10
The heart of tiny Astoria, Ore., lies hidden behind the weather-beaten buildings of its gritty industrial waterfront. Docks line this lucky stretch of flat land at the base of the Coastal Range, hosting a lucrative fishing industry that reaches from Youngs Bay into the mouth of the Columbia River, several miles inland...... Read Full Article From High Country News

Hood River Juice Cites Government Misconduct In Prosecutiong Its Case?

Scott Learn, The Oregonian

The owner of Hood River Juice has asked a court to toss out pollution charges against him based on "government misconduct" in prosecuting the case, an allegation that turns in part on the role played by Brent Foster, a former top aide to Attorney General John Kroger.

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Pacific Seafoods Faces Class Action Lawsuit For Anti-Trust Violations

Jeff Manning, The Oregonian

In 26 years, Frank Dulcich has transformed Pacific Seafood Group from a minor fish distributor in Southeast Portland to perhaps the dominant seafood player in North America.

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