142nd YEAR, No. 150 ONE DOLLARTUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2015

By MARK FREEMANMedford Mail Tribune

MERLIN (AP) — As Da-vid Siddon strolls past the cougar enclosure at Wildlife Images Rehabilitation and Education Center toward the bear pens, his voice alerts Yak, and the 22-year-old, 800-pound grizzly bear trots to the gate to meet him.

At Alaska wildlife biol-ogists’ behest, Yak and her

to Wildlife Images from Alas-ka in 1993 as cubs after their mother was killed by a male grizzly and the cubs rescued by bush pilots.

The plan was for Siddon’s father, Wildlife Images found-er David Siddon Sr., and his

crew to initially bottle-feed and otherwise care for the bears until they could be re-turned to Alaska and released the following spring. But be-fore that could happen, Alaska tightened its policy, banning the release of animals heavily cared for by humans. Yak and Kodi have remained at Wild-life Images ever since.

“My dad was pretty peeved they didn’t take them back,” says Siddon, who now runs the center. “Before that, a handshake and a good thought were good enough.”

Right now no one is good enough to rehabilitate black bears in Oregon, where no re-hab centers have the facilities, staff and policies in place to meet the meticulous protocols

for ensuring that cubs raised in captivity don’t turn into nuisance bears once released.

Wildlife Images and the seven other major rehab cen-ters in Oregon, plus 38 small-

-ey and space needed to house orphaned cubs in penned ar-eas without the bears relating people to food — the bane that often ends in the animals’ deaths, authorities say.

Bears habituated to peo-ple make up the lion’s share of bear-damage and public-safety complaints in Western Oregon. Captured ones are euthanized under Oregon wildlife policy because relocating habituated

Rehab work is a bear of a job at Oregon refuges

Judge issues restraining order blocking acquisitionBy DERRICK DePLEDGE

The Daily Astorian

won a temporary restraining order block-

-est seafood processors on the West Coast.

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-ing and coldwater shrimp markets in vio-lation of federal antitrust law.

The complaint also claims there is a

acquires controlling interest in Ocean

space from the Port of Astoria at Tongue Point since the Warrenton plant burned down.

the competitive health of the West Coast

an independent competitor rather than

through either an exclusive marketing

acquiring it,” said Michael Haglund, a -

men, including Dennis Rankin of Rankin Fish in Astoria.

A federal judge in U.S. District Court in Medford issued the temporary re-straining order Friday and set a hearing for Feb. 9.

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-tions of monopoly business practices. A settlement in 2012 included a provision

an exclusive marketing agreement with

general counsel and director of govern-ment affairs, called the new lawsuit a

Company has 11 locations across the

West CoastBy EDWARD STRATTON

The Daily Astorian

Axel Englund opened En-glund Marine on July 22, 1944, in a 50-by-50-foot

building on a rebuilt dock at 101 15th St. with three employees. It was, at that time, one of at least four marine supply stores in Asto-ria.

later, his son Jon and grandson Kurt, CEO and president of En-

gathered more than 100 of their employees in the warehouse on the backside of their 44,000-square-foot retail center on Hamburg Av-enue Saturday.

Their employees came during

Englund Marine turns 70

Area events center, affordable living on council’s game plan

By ERICK BENGELEO Media Group

CANNON BEACH — The Can-non Beach City Council is anticipat-ing a year packed with projects:

Increasing hotel revenue; expand-ing NeCus’ Park; adding acreageto the Ecola Creek Forest Reserve;reviewing the master developmentplan for the city’s South Wind prop-erty top the list of the City Council’sgoals for 2015.

At its annual retreat Jan. 24 at

Steidel as mayor — the council ze-roed in on these general concerns,which will be-come part of a broader strate-gic plan incor-porating feed-back from city staff and the Cannon Beach community.

The strate-gic plan may also lay out options for ad-dressing Can-non Beach’s affordable housingscarcity and making the city moresustainable and eco-friendly.

Woodburn City AdministratorScott Derickson served as the volun-teer facilitator, helping to articulateand organize the council’s short-term priorities. Derickson is a formerClatsop County manager and formerWarrenton city manager.

Action itemsThe council plans to start tak-

ing care of a handful of items fairlysoon, including:

information technology manager;• Deciding whether the city’s

dune management plan should beupdated;

• Requiring reports from thevarious city boards, committees

Cannon Beach sets 2015

EDWARD STRATTON — The Daily Astorian

Running Englund Marine Group, from left, are President Kurt Englund, Chief Financial Officer Jeremy

Davis and CEO Jon Englund, right, son of Englund Marine’s founder Axel Englund.

Photo Courtesy of Englund Marine Group

Axel Englund opened Englund Marine July 22, 1944, with three employees. The company now employs 126 at 11 locations across the

Western U.S.

See ENGLUND, Page 10A

Daily Astorian file

Smoke and flames billow from the Pacific Coast Seafood plant

on Northeast Skipanon Drive in Warrenton June 4, 2013. A com-

plaint against Pacific Seafoods Group alleges the company may

not rebuild in Warrenton if it acquires Ocean Gold Seafoods.

Sam

Steidel

AP Photo/The Medford Mail Tribune, Jamie Lusch

Yak, a grizzly bear at Wildlife Images Rehabilitation and

Education Center, takes a rest inside his enclosure at the

center near Merlyn Wednesday.See REFUGES, Page 10A

See COUNCIL, Page 10A

See SEAFOOD, Page 10A