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2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2017 Foster Memorial Fund established Trump adviser says no more Family provides $20,000 gift to support festival The Daily Astorian The Astoria Music Festi- val has announced the estab- lishment of the Michael Fos- ter Memorial Fund to honor the memory of the Astoria res- ident, founding board mem- ber and longtime arts advo- cate who died in December. Foster’s family has made a $20,000 leadership gift, which has already been matched by pledges. “The importance of Michael’s lifelong commit- ment to arts and education in Astoria cannot be over- stated,” Deac Guidi, the music festival’s new board president, said. “From the Liberty Theater restoration and establishment of art galleries, to teaching gen- erations of Astoria High School students and rais- ing millions of dollars for scholarships, to helping found the Astoria Music Festival and serving on its board for nearly 15 years, Michael Foster left a last- ing legacy to his hometown and the entire state.” EPA attacks on farmers The fund, he said, will provide continued support for the Astoria Music Festival as a memorial to Foster’s com- mitment to art and music. The Astoria Music Fes- tival will commemorate its 15th season with the Michael Foster Memorial Concert on June 17 in the Liberty Theater. The concert will feature a performance of Beetho- ven’s Ninth Symphony, one of Foster’s favorite pieces of music. Festival Artis- tic Director Keith Clark will lead the orchestra and chorus and a quartet of Metropolitan Opera soloists. By DON JENKINS EO Media Group Spring Chinook fi shing season extended Fishing for the spring Chinook will be allowed from Buoy 10 upstream to Beacon Rock. Angling from banks will be allowed from Beacon Rock to the Bonneville Dam, but the closure near the mouth of the Lewis River will remain in effect. Managers will meet ahead of the newly extended deadline to discuss an additional extension. The Daily Astorian Spring Chinook fi shing season on the L ower Columbia River has been extended through April 10. Oregon and Washington state fi shery man- agers agreed to the extension Thursday in response to poor fi shing conditions that have limited harvest so far this season. FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT SATURDAY 52 40 A stray morning shower; otherwise, cloudy Clouds and sun with a shower in spots ALMANAC Cloudy Full Salem 43/62 Newport 43/53 Apr 10 New Apr 19 Ontario 35/61 Burns 25/58 Klamath Falls 30/64 TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 11:46 a.m. 11:40 p.m. Low -0.3 ft. 2.2 ft. City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend Hi 54 54 60 59 54 57 62 60 53 57 Today Lo 26 33 47 41 45 30 41 43 43 44 W s s s pc pc s pc pc pc pc Hi 58 60 62 60 52 64 67 58 53 57 Sat. Lo 28 32 47 39 44 32 44 38 39 42 W pc c pc c c pc pc c c c City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Springfi eld Vancouver Yakima Hi 57 57 58 61 59 54 56 61 60 64 Today Lo 44 38 43 42 43 44 39 41 44 39 W pc s pc pc pc pc s pc pc s Hi 58 61 59 61 62 53 56 59 57 67 Sat. Lo 38 39 41 43 39 42 35 39 40 36 W c pc c c c c c c c c TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER NATIONAL CITIES W c c r r c r s pc pc sh c pc s pc pc pc s r s r r c s pc r Hi 77 38 55 39 57 56 66 49 85 56 55 76 78 74 88 68 84 44 70 52 61 60 72 56 61 Sat. Lo 53 31 37 28 44 35 45 24 74 39 47 57 54 56 70 45 66 36 51 40 46 40 54 42 44 Don Jenkins/EO Media Group A billboard in Olympia advertises a website that advo- cates for stricter regulations on farmers. Audit pending The tribe, funded by an EPA grant passed through the North- west Indian Fisheries Com- mission, had a budget of some $655,000 for the campaign. The EPA’s inspector general has yet to release a congressio- nally requested audit into how the money was used. Some federal lawmakers accused the EPA of breaking a federal law prohibiting the grant from being used to lobby policymakers. The Washing- ton Public Disclosure Com- mission recently ruled What’s Upstream didn’t need to report its political activities. Although the campaign advocated man- datory 100-foot buffers, it did not cite a specifi c bill and did not need to register as a lob- bying effort, according to the commission . The commission was responding to a complaint from Save Family Farming that named a tribe offi cial, Seat- tle lobbying fi rm Strategies 360 and then-EPA Northwest Administrator Dennis McLer- ran. The Trump administration has not yet appointed a new region administrator. Baron said Save Fam- ily Farming will ask McLer- ran’s successor to get back fed- eral money spent on What’s Upstream and ensure the tribe doesn’t resume the campaign. “Given the severe disap- pointment with the state tak- ing this issue seriously, it’s grat- ifying the federal government with the new administration is considering this a pretty serious issue,” Baron said. Supports trade Starling said the White House supports trade. Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Trans-Pacifi c Partnership, which many farm groups sup- ported. “The president is com- mitted to negotiating agree- ments that secure open and equitable access to foreign mar- kets,” Starling said. Starling did not talk about immigration policy, but said farm labor will be another top priority. “We are getting to a point of push comes to shove when it comes to access to a reliable workforce. That is something we defi nitely have to work on for agriculture,” he said. Starling said farmers and ranchers have been the victims of “one regulatory proposal after another.” “We have to halt the regula- tory onslaught,” he said. “The administration will never lose sight of the fact that the No. 1 farm preservation tool we have is farm profi tability, not buzz- words, not catch phrases, or a federal grant program.” Four people injured in Astoria car crash Lakeview 25/61 Ashland 39/66 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 Source: Jim Todd, OMSI Hi 73 38 44 43 54 47 77 44 85 54 54 69 72 71 86 65 81 40 70 48 55 54 68 57 61 Baker 26/58 REGIONAL CITIES Tonight's Sky: Low in the west after sunset, the waxing crescent moon will be in Hyades Cluster. Today Lo 52 32 33 26 37 37 48 21 73 39 41 55 52 50 71 44 61 37 49 44 41 39 53 46 51 La Grande 30/56 Roseburg 42/61 Brookings 47/64 Apr 26 John Day 31/58 Bend 33/60 Medford 41/67 UNDER THE SKY High 9.4 ft. 7.5 ft. Prineville 31/61 Lebanon 41/59 Eugene 41/60 Last Pendleton 38/61 The Dalles 42/65 Portland 43/59 Sunset tonight ........................... 7:43 p.m. Sunrise Saturday ........................ 6:55 a.m. Coos Bay Moonrise today ........................... 9:31 a.m. 43/56 Moonset today ................................... none City Atlanta Boston Chicago Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Honolulu Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Memphis Miami Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Philadelphia St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Washington, DC 57 47 Sun and areas of low clouds Tillamook 42/53 SUN AND MOON Time 4:50 a.m. 6:08 p.m. 55 42 Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 45/53 Precipitation Thursday .......................................... 0.05" Month to date ................................. 14.45" Normal month to date ....................... 7.23" Year to date .................................... 32.33" Normal year to date ........................ 24.62" Apr 3 TUESDAY REGIONAL WEATHER Astoria through Thursday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 53°/44° Normal high/low ........................... 55°/40° Record high ............................ 72° in 1941 Record low ............................. 28° in 1954 First MONDAY 53 41 45 Cloudy with rain and drizzle late SUNDAY President Donald Trump’s top agricultural adviser says the new administration won’t tolerate federal support for advocacy campaigns like What’s Upstream. Ray Starling, special assis- tant to the president for agri- culture, trade and food assis- tance, outlined the White House’s farm policy priorities in a speech this month at the National Press Club in Wash- ington, D.C. “This administration will not allow the EPA to give tax- payer dollars to activist groups who then turn around and put up billboards that attack our farmers and ranchers,” said Starling, a former general counsel for the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. The promise cheered Gerald Baron, director of Save Fam- ily Farming, which was formed last year to respond to claims by What’s Upstream that farm- ers are unregulated polluters who let cows wade in rivers. “This indication from Ray Starling is important. It gives us optimism some of these things will be dealt with,” Baron said. Between 2011 and 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency fi nancially supported What’s Upstream, which was organized by the Swinom- ish Indian Tribe and several environmental groups. They hoped to infl uence Washing- ton state lawmakers to vote for stricter limits on farming near waterways. The campaign included a website, radio ads and a let- ter-writing campaign, but bill- boards in Olympia and Bell- ingham attracted the attention of federal lawmakers. The EPA withdrew its support soon after Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan- sas , called the billboards “dis- turbing” and “malicious.” Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W s sn pc sn c pc pc pc pc pc c s s s pc pc pc r t pc pc s s sh pc The Daily Astorian Four people were injured, two of them seriously, when a car rolled down a hill off Lief Erikson Drive near 51st Street on Thursday morning. A blue 1995 Nissan Path- fi nder likely struck the end of a protective highway guard- rail on the north side of the road just before 10:30 a.m., according to the Astoria Fire Department. The vehicle then rolled over into a yard of a home and came to rest on its side 40 feet down the hill. All of the car’s occu- pants were taken to Colum- bia Memorial Hospital. The two with more serious inju- ries were later fl own in a Life Flight h elicopter to a hospital in Portland. Police Department at the corner of North Main Ave- nue and Northwest First Street for driving under the influence of intoxicants. His blood-alcohol content was .051 and he failed a field sobriety test. Allison was also cited for having a bro- ken taillight. couver, formerly of Asto- ria, died Tuesday, March 28, 2017, in Vancouver. Tuesday, April 4 BOJANOWSKI, Fran- cis “Frank” — Rosary at 8:20 a.m., Mass at 9 a.m., luncheon and eulogy at 10 a.m., St. James Cathe- dral, 218 W. 12th St. in Vancouver. Wednesday, April 5 BOJANOWSKI, Francis “Frank” — Graveside ser- vice at 1 p.m., Ocean View Cemetery in Warrenton. ON THE RECORD DUII • At 8:58 p.m. Wednes- day, Joshua Guy Alli- son, 34, of Warrenton, was arrested by the Warrenton MEMORIAL Monday, April 3 BOJANOWSKI, Fran- cis “Frank” — Viewing from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Hamilton-Mylan Funeral Home, 302 West 11th St. in Vancouver, Washington. Bojanowski, 69, of Van- DEATHS March 24, 2017 HANER, Janice I., 73, of Portland, formerly of Seaside, died in Portland. Wilhelm’s Portland Memorial Funeral & Cremation is in charge of the arrangements. Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. C h a r t Yo u r C o u r s e Spring Term CLASSES BEGIN APRIL 3RD For Academic Classes Contact Student Services at registration@clatsopcc.edu or call 503-338-2411 Sign up for a Community Education Course! www.clatsopcc.edu/communityed or call 503-338-2408 PUBLIC MEETINGS MONDAY Astoria City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 1095 Duane St. TUESDAY Seaside Library Board, 4:30 p.m., 1131 Broadway. 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