Friday, December 17, 2010

Lower Columbia Alternative Monthly: Hipfish among businesses lost and damaged by fire in Astoria


Fire destroyed two historic buildings on Astoria’s waterfront this morning, Gunderson’s Cannery Cafe building, which was once the Bumble Bee Cannery, and an office building at Number 10, Sixth Street, home to a dozen business, including the Lazy Spoon Cafe, Clatsop Behavioral Healthcare, Salon Verve (“vair-VAY”) and the monthly alternative area newspaper: Hipfish. As of noon today, Hipfish publisher Dinah Urell had not been able to gain access to the building to assess the damage.

Dinah Urell.wav “I’ve lost thousands of dollars of computer equipment and I had a lot of personal stuff in there too, expensive musical instruments and a lot...I’ve lost...pretty much everything.” (:13)

She added that the business did not have insurance coverage.

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