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2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2015 Ilwaco embarks on major Warrenton to take wait-and-see approach ‘spruce-up’ campaign on marijuana restrictions By KATIE WILSON EO Media Group State Legislature could set new guidelines Measure 91, which legal- ized recreational use of the drug. Such preemptive ORFDO WD[HV KRZHYHU DUH WARRENTON — War- under a legal cloud, since renton will wait and see if the measure barred local the state Legislature sets WD[DWLRQ Several bills before the new guidelines on mari- MXDQD EHIRUH WKH FLW\ GH- Legislature could impact cides whether to pursue both medical and recre- ational marijuana. Under restrictions on the drug. 7KH FLW\ KDV D PRUDWR- Measure 91, the recre- rium on medical marijuana ational use of marijuana GLVSHQVDULHV WKDW H[SLUHV LV OHJDO VWDUWLQJ WKLV -XO\ LQ 0D\ 6WDWH ODZ SUR- but the Oregon Liquor hibits medical marijuana Control Commission will dispensaries within 1,000 not accept licenses to pro- feet of schools or other duce, process, wholesale dispensaries, but some RUUHWDLOWKHGUXJXQWLOQH[W cities with moratoriums \HDU Local ballot initiatives that will end, such as Sea- VLGH DUH H[SORULQJ IXUWKHU to restrict marijuana are restrictions, like buffer not authorized until No- zones between arcades and vember 2016. 0D\RU 0DUN .XMDOD parks. :DUUHQWRQDJUHHGWRWD[ who had said in Febru- marijuana before voters DU\ WKDW UHVLGHQWV PLJKW last November approved be interested in a ballot By DERRICK DePLEDGE The Daily Astorian LQLWLDWLYH VDLG DW D &LW\ Commission work session 7XHVGD\ QLJKW WKDW KH KDG QRW KHDUG DQ\WKLQJ DERXW VXFKDPRYHUHFHQWO\ Warrenton voters ap- SURYHG 0HDVXUH E\ percent to 46 percent, a fact that has become clear- er to commissioners since WKH)HEUXDU\GLVFXVVLRQ ³, ZDV LQ WKH PLQRULW\ when I voted and I have WRWHPSHUP\GHFLVLRQVVR WKH\UHIOHFWWKHSHUFHQW who voted for it,” said Commissioner Rick New- ton. .XMDOD DOVR UHFRJQL]HG voter sentiment. “That means something,” he said. 7KH FLW\ PLJKW ORRN PRUHFORVHO\DWZKHWKHULWV zoning should be updat- ed given the potential for marijuana growing opera- tions. Lotteries Tuesday’s Match 4: 01- 13-22-23 Tuesday’s Mega Millions: 0HJD%DOO Estimated jackpot: $47 million WASHINGTON Tuesday’s Daily Game: 2-6-6 Tuesday’s Keno: 01-02- 03-04-06-09-17-19-21-22-25- 37-40-50-53-64-67-69-72-80 OREGON Tuesday’s Pick 4: 1 p.m.: 4-8-1-3 4 p.m.: 9-8-7-9 7 p.m.: 3-6-4-9 10 p.m.: 7-6-8-5 ACCUWEATHER ® FORECAST FOR ASTORIA Astoria 5-Day Forecast Tonight Clear to partly cloudy 39° Thursday Parks in 2015 Oregon Weather Shown is tomorrow’s weather. Temperatures are tonight’s lows and tomorrow’s highs The Dalles 36/72 Astoria 39/63 Portland 40/69 Corvallis 39/70 Eugene 36/67 Pendleton 32/64 Salem 38/68 Albany 38/70 Ontario 29/68 Bend 22/65 Friday Burns 20/66 Medford 37/77 Pleasant with times of sun and clouds Klamath Falls 26/66 Beautiful with periods of sun Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 63° 43° 61° Saturday Sunday Mostly sunny 63° 44° Sunshine and nice 42° 67° 45° Almanac Sun and Moon Astoria through Tuesday. Temperatures High ........................................... 53° Low ............................................ 40° Normal high ............................... 56° Normal low ................................. 41° Precipitation Yesterday ................................ 0.18" Month to date .......................... 2.15" Normal month to date ............. 2.69" Year to date ........................... 24.21" Normal year to date .............. 27.53" Sunset tonight .................. Sunrise Thursday ............. Moonrise today ................ Moonset today ................. 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Lo W 26 s 28 s 47 s 41 s 45 pc 31 s 43 s 44 s 48 s City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Vancouver Yakima Today Hi Lo W 57 35 pc 56 32 s 58 40 pc 62 38 s 58 38 pc 56 40 pc 54 33 s 58 38 pc 63 33 s Hi 65 64 69 72 68 64 60 68 70 Thu. Lo W 39 pc 37 s 45 s 45 s 43 s 44 pc 39 pc 43 s 39 s ILWACO, Wash. — The corner of Spruce Street and First Street in Ilwaco is look- ing brighter thanks to two mu- UDOVGHSLFWLQJÀ\LQJJHHVHDQG swimming salmon that now grace the sides of the rundown Oddfellows building. The mural was just one of the bigger cleanup efforts a group of interested citizens and merchants took on March DQG LQ WKH FRPPXQLW\ service event, Spruce Up Il- ZDFRDQGQRZWKHFLW\LVKRS- ing to ride that momentum. At a special meeting March 23, Nick Haldeman, FKDLUPDQ RI WKH FLW\¶V 3DUNV and Recreation Commission, VDW GRZQ ZLWK ,OZDFR &LW\ Council members to map out SURMHFWVIRUWKLV\HDU 7KHUH¶V EHHQ VR PXFK SURJUHVV UHFHQWO\ LQ WKH FLW\ HVSHFLDOO\ DW WKH PDLQ LQWHU- section where the Oddfellows building is located, Haldeman said. ³7KHUH¶V VR PDQ\ WKLQJV going in the right direction,” he said. Drawing on the parks and recreation plan, he and the parks commission drafted a list of projects, from small things like placing trash cans DW WKH FLW\¶V SXEOLF SDUNV RU SODQWLQJ WUHHV QHDU &LW\ +DOO to big things like purchasing SURSHUW\ DGMDFHQW WR %ODFN /DNH1RZWKH\KRSHGWRIR- cus on a handful of projects ZLWKWKHFLW\ Tonight's Sky: Nearly overhead is the reddish star Regulus of Leo the Lion. Source: Jim Todd, OMSI Most of the talk centered around grants: grants the FLW\ KDV DOUHDG\ DSSOLHG IRU that parks could be a part of, grants the parks commission KRSHVWRDSSO\IRUDQGJUDQWV that never went through for both groups and how those projects could be revived. &LW\&RXQFLORU-RQ&KDP- EUHDX LQWHUMHFWHG VD\LQJ KH¶G EH LQWHUHVWHG LQ PRUH talk about small projects the FRPPXQLW\FRXOGVXSSRUWDQG complete and less talk about grants. ³<RX¶YH WDONHG DERXW WKH enthusiasm that came with the cleanup,” he said. “We need to be able to fund some things ourselves and get them going and see results.” %\ WKH HQG RI WKH KRXU long meeting, Haldeman and the council had nailed down three projects for the parks commission to focus on. 6LQFH WKH FLW\ DOUHDG\ KDV VHFXUHG PRQH\ WR LPSURYH signage for the section of the 'LVFRYHU\7UDLOWKDWZLQGVRXW of Cape Disappointment State Tomorrow’s Tides Time 6:14 a.m. 6:31 p.m. Low 0.6 ft. 0.2 ft. Thu. Lo W 58 sh 44 s 42 c 37 r 52 pc 48 sh 47 pc 29 c 70 sh 54 sh 56 c 54 s 56 s 61 pc 75 pc 57 c 69 t 47 pc 58 t 48 pc 58 pc 37 pc 53 s 44 pc 54 pc Cold Warm Stationary Showers Rain Flurries Snow Ice 3DUN DQG GRZQ LQWR ,OZDFR the parks commission will be a part of that work. 0D\RU 0LNH &DVVLQHOOL asked that the second project be to do “something” with &LW\3DUNDVPDOOSDUNORFDW- ed at the end of Lake Street, below Cooks Hill Road. The parks commission applied for D JUDQW ODVW \HDU WR LPSURYH WKH SDUN EXW WKH JUDQW GLGQ¶W go through. “Ok,” Haldeman replied. ³:KDWGR\RXZDQWWRGRZLWK &LW\3DUN"´ “Do something,” Cassinel- OLVDLG³,GRQ¶WNQRZ\HW´ %XW +DOGHPDQ VDLG KH WKRXJKW WKH\ FRXOG FRPH XS with something concrete for WKLV \HDU +H VXJJHVWHG IHQF- LQJ WKH RXW¿HOG DW WKH SDUN VR WKDW EDOOSOD\HUV FDQ NQRZ ZKHQ VRPHRQH¶V KLW D KRPH run. The council suggested VRPHWKLQJ PRUH WHPSRUDU\ VLQFH WKDW ¿HOG LV DOVR XVHG E\ VRFFHU SOD\HUV +DOGHPDQ said he would price out vari- ous materials and come back to the council with alterna- tives. Spruce Up Ilwaco Meanwhile, Envision Il- waco, the group of citizens and business owners who or- ganized the Spruce Up Ilwaco event, is feeling victorious. ,WZDVVDLG$QGL'D\H[- ecutive director of the Long %HDFK 3HQLQVXOD 9LVLWRUV %XUHDX RI WKH HYHQW ³UHDOO\ JRRG5HDOO\UHDOO\JRRG´ 'HVSLWH WKH QDVW\ ZHDWK- HU²³VLGHZD\VUDLQDQGJDOH force winds,” as Madeline 0RRUHRZQHURI3LQN3RSS\ %DNHU\ DQG D PHPEHU RI WKH Envision Ilwaco group, wrote in her notes after the event — a number of volunteers came out to help paint the murals, weed and pressure-wash the sidewalks near the Odd Fel- ORZV %XLOGLQJ DQG UHPRYH brackets and old signage from WKHEXLOGLQJ7KH\DOVRVWDIIHG dumpsters provided for free to Ilwaco residents. According WR 0RRUH DSSUR[LPDWHO\ residents dumped more than 2,500 pounds of garbage and more than 1,000 pounds of \DUGGHEULVIURPERWKUHVLGHQ- tial and public spaces. “I think what was great too ZDV WKH SDUWLFLSDWLRQ´ 'D\ said. “And it seemed to be a little bit contagious.” A number of neighbors, ZKHQWKH\VDZZKDWZDVJR- ing on, came out and worked RQ WKHLU RZQ SURSHUW\ DV well. Salem Nov. 23, 1938 — April 29, 2014 Fronts T-Storms Submitted photo Volunteers attach mural panels over the windows of the old Oddfellows building in downtown Ilwaco, Wash., a step toward beautifying a key downtown corner where historic buildings await repurposing. Marvin Quaschnick Tomorrow’s National Weather Hi 68 58 64 48 73 61 74 47 83 67 75 74 84 81 87 75 78 59 80 64 76 56 76 63 68 ³3HRSOH LQ JHQHUDO DUH SUHWW\ GLVVDWLV¿HG ZLWK &LW\ 3DUN´+DOGHPDQKDGWROGWKH council earlier. The third project Halde- man and the parks commis- VLRQ ZLOO XQGHUWDNH WKLV \HDU is to begin rerouting a section RI-RVK¶V7UDLOZKLFKOHDGVXS WKH KLOO IURP WKH %ODFN /DNH 7UDLODW%ODFN/DNH,QSODFHV -RVK¶V7UDLOFDQEHYHU\PXG- G\DQGRYHUJURZQ+DOGHPDQ VDLG %XW WKHVH DUH SUREOHPV KHEHOLHYHFDQEH¿[HGVLPSO\ E\ UHZRUNLQJ DQG UHURXWLQJ the trail in places. OBITUARIES Astoria / Port Docks Time High 12:00 a.m. 8.6 ft. 12:14 p.m. 8.4 ft. Submitted photo Ilwaco, Wash., Councilman David Jensen, Oddfellow building owner Jeff Cutting, Bruce Peterson, Dustin Mead and Jeff’s son Griffin all chipped in to install new decora- tive panels over the building’s windows. -10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. Forecast high/low temperatures are given for selected cities. Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. Marvin Quaschnick went to heaven April 29, 2014. Marvin Quaschnick was born Nov. 23, 1938, in Forbes, N.D. 0F,QWRVK&RXQW\ He is one of 10 children born to his parents, Reinhold Quaschnick DQG &ODUD )HLFNHUW 4XDVFKQLFN of North Dakota. +LV SDUHQWV VROG WKH IDPLO\ Marvin Quaschnick farm and moved to Astoria, Ore. 0DUYLQ MRLQHG WKH 86 1DY\ DQG SURXGO\ GLG KLV WRXU LQ 9LHW- nam. +HZLOODOZD\VEHUHPHPEHUHG for his quick wit, his love of life DQGIDPLO\ He is buried in Willamette 1DWLRQDO &HPHWHU\ LQ 3RUWODQG Ore. Memorials Saturday, April 18 48,119LYLDQ²0HPR- rial at 1 p.m., Seaside Amer- LFDQ/HJLRQ%URDGZD\ Seaside. /,1'6(< &DURO -HDQQH — Memorial celebration of life at 2 p.m., at the Touch- PDUNDW)DLUZD\9LOODJH The Daily Astorian Established July 1, 1873 (USPS 035-000) Published daily, except Saturday and Sunday, by EO Media Group, 949 Exchange St., PO Box 210, Astoria, OR 97103 Telephone 503- 325-3211, 800-781-3211 or Fax 503-325-6573. 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