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144TH YEAR, NO. 81 ONE DOLLAR WEEKEND EDITION // FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2016 ASIA COMES TO AMERICA LADY FISH ‘WIN’ TIE WITH BANKS WEEKEND BREAK • 1C SPORTS • 8A SHAKE IT OUT! STUDENTS DRILL FOR EARTHQUAKE, TSUNAMI SAFETY IN NATIONAL EXERCISE By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian By LYRA FONTAINE For The Daily Astorian EASIDE — At 10:20 a.m. Thursday, Seaside High School Principal Jeff Roberts used the loudspeaker to tell all students to take cover for the earth- quake. The students dropped to their hands and knees, took cover under their desks and held on. Seaside High School took part in the Great Oregon ShakeOut for the fi rst time this year after Associated Student Body leaders sug- gested the statewide event. Homes, schools and organizations in other states and countries also participated in the drill Thursday. “We thought it would be wise for us to do,” Roberts said. Associated Student Body leaders are con- tinuing the tsunami awareness efforts started by last year’s offi cers. “We wanted everyone to use this to get edu- cated,” said senior Kara Ipson, a student body offi cer. “It’s important that everyone knows what’s going on.” Butane possible cause of blast, fi re S Photos by Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian Seaside High School students brave rainy conditions while practicing a Tsuna- mi evacuation drill on Thursday in Seaside. The manufacture of butane honey oil is a likely cause of an explosion and fi re Wednes- day night at Higher Level Concentrates, a marijuana extraction company on the corner of Portway and Industry streets. Marijuana extracts are made by sepa- rating cannabinoids from marijuana with a hydrocarbon-based solvent, such as butane or propane, or by high heat or pressure. An explosion was reported in the area around 6:30 p.m., and afterward, large plumes of smoke could be seen rising from the building. Multiple fi re agencies responded, while police established a perimeter. The fi re was contained by 7:20 p.m. Oregon State Police’s Offi ce of State Fire Marshal is overseeing the investigation. The building is leased by Jason Oei and William “Chris” West for Higher Level Con- centrates and a grow operation, High Tide Biological, located in a walkout basement See FIRE, Page 7A Walk in the rain After the 4-minute earthquake drill, more than 200 students braved a downpour to complete a tsunami -evacuation walk down Highway 101 and 12th Avenue to safety. Students complete the walk twice a year. See SHAKEOUT, Page 7A Student’s in Jim Poetsch’s classroom participate in The Great Oregon ShakeOut earthquake drill on Thursday at Seaside High School. Gov. Kate Brown Bud Pierce Gov. Brown, Pierce meet in last debate Seaside High School students walk along U.S. Highway 101 during a tsunami evacua- tion drill Thursday . By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau PORTLAND — Gov. Kate Brown and Bud Pierce, Republican candidate for gover- nor, faced off Thursday in their fi fth and fi nal debate before the Nov. 8 election. Panelists from The Oregonian and KGW 8 — which hosted the debate — quizzed the candidates on their approaches to the foster care crisis, how much they’d earmark for edu- cation out of a corporate sales tax measure and ideas for reducing the cost of health care. Pierce, a Salem oncologist, is trying to unseat Brown to complete the last two years of Gov. John Kitzhaber’s four-year term. As former secretary of state, Brown succeeded Kitzhaber when he stepped down in Febru- ary 2015 amid an infl uence-peddling scandal over contracts awarded to his fi ancée, Cylvia Hayes. See DEBATE, Page 6A Gender equality in 2016? It’s complicated By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer EDITOR’S NOTE — This is part of Divided America, AP’s ongoing exploration of the economic, social and political divisions in American society. F or weeks after the vote, the abuse kept coming: Ven- omous, sexist phone calls and emails, venting rage at the fi ve women on Seattle’s City Council who outvoted four men to derail a sports arena project. “Disgraceful hag” was one of the milder messages. “Go home and climb in the oven,” one councilor was told. This unfolded not in 1966, during an era when American women mobilized en masse to demand equality, but 50 years later in May 2016 — two months before the fi rst woman was nominated to lead a major party’s presidential ticket. Complicated time It’s a complicated time for gender relations in the U.S., as the campaign pitting Hil- lary Clinton against Donald Trump has underscored — most recently, with the fall- out from their fi rst debate and a sharp exchange about Trump’s attention to a for- mer Miss Universe and her weight. On one hand there’s been great progress toward equal- ity. Women hold the top jobs at IBM and General Motors, for example. They were recently approved to serve in all military combat jobs, and it’s possible, depending on the election outcome, that troops could soon be saluting the fi rst female commander in chief. See DIVIDED, Page 6A AP Photo/Andrew Harnik A member of the audience holds a sign that reads, “227 Years of Men. It’s HER Time!” during a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in January.