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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2015 EO Media Group file A small portion of the East Sand Island cormorant colony can be seen from a bird blind. Cull: Audubon Society of Portland has challenged the killing Continued from Page 1A be killing birds on the island through August. The goal is to reduce the colony from about 14,000 breeding pairs to 5,600 pairs by 2018. The Audubon Society of Portland has challenged the killing in a federal lawsuit that argues the corps is ignoring the biggest threat to salmon, hydro- electric dams on the Colum- bia. Conservation director Bob Sallinger called on the corps to allow independent observers on the island so the public can know how the killing is being carried out, and to call off the killing until the lawsuit has run its course. “The idea of turning the largest cormorant colony in the United States into as shooting gallery and killing cormorants on the nest is a low point in terms of recent wildlife man- agement efforts,” Sallinger said. Winters said Wildlife Ser- vices personnel are focusing on Ketcham: Nine other ¿QDOLVWVUHFHLYHG scholarships from local businesses Continued from Page 1A Gouge, who started the competition last year, said he got the idea from an auto dealer friend in Ohio who holds a similar contest at his Hyundai dealership. He lets schools create the criteria for students to earn tickets through academ- ic and extracurricular in- volvement to increase their chances of winning the car. “It gives them an incen- tive to do well,” Gouge said. 7KH QLQH RWKHU ¿QDOLVWV who didn’t win a car got $250 to $500 scholarships from local businesses, in- cluding Teevin Bros., Mini Mart convenience stores, Fultano’s Pizza, Clatsop Distributing, Remax River & Sea and Lektro. For more information, visit http://astoriaford.net/ driven/ Visit us online at www.DailyAstorian.com portions of the colony where eggs have yet to hatch, so as not to create a situation where chicks are left without parents to feed them. Numbers of how many birds have been killed and eggs oiled to prevent them from hatching are to be posted on a corps website on Thursdays each week. He added the corps has a contract with people who are verifying the culling is being done in accordance with the en- vironmental impact statement. JEFF P. EO Media Group file Bill: There is no limit if there is DNA evidence on Feb. 10, Prozanski creased its statute of said the review is not limitations for rape Sperou, 64, was pastor at a and other serious sex a “smokescreen” to Happy Valley church. He was crimes in 1989, when head off legislative convicted in connection with lawmakers approval of a still-lon- raised only the youngest of the seven it from three to six ger limit. victims, who all chose to go on years. There is no lim- “I feel we have to the record. The statute of limita- it, however, if there is go through a deliber- tions barred his prosecution on DNA evidence avail- ative process and en- crimes involving the others, in- able. sure that we are doing cluding Watson. right,” Prozanski said. The current dead- Sen. Floyd Watson and others favored an line puts Oregon Brenda Tracy, a Prozanski extension to 20 years — or even among the states with 1998 rape victim who no limit. the shortest periods, according to went public with her own story “But it was not the statute the Rape, Abuse and Incest Na- in the Portland Tribune and other of limitations that failed them,” tional Network. About 40 states media, talked about a previous said Thomas Sermak, executive set it at 10 years or longer, and 28 rape that occurred when she was director of Public Defender of of them have no limits. 9 and a third-grade student in Sa- Marion County Inc., in opposing lem. Longer still? the change. “The system failed The perpetrator was the boy- Sen. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eu- friend of a babysitter, but Tracy them in other ways.” The proposed 12-year limit gene, the Judiciary Committee said she told her mother about ZRXOGDSSO\WRIRXU¿UVWGHJUHH chairman, described the 12- it only after her family moved sex crimes: Rape, sodomy, un- year limit as a stopgap pending away. lawful sexual penetration and sex a review of the limitations for “I remember feeling my ¿UVWGHJUHH VH[ FULPHV +H VDLG whole world was going to change abuse. The House bill mimics the he seeks a recommendation that once I told my mom what hap- change that lawmakers made in lawmakers can be prepared to act pened,” Tracy told the senators. 2005, when victims of sex crimes on in the 2016 session. It did — but when she report- Challenged by Danielle Tu- ed it to police, nothing happened. under age 18 have until age 30 to dor, a 1989 rape victim who told seek prosecution. “At 12, I did not know what Oregon most recently in- her story in the Portland Tribune the statute of limitations meant,” Continued from Page 1A “D r. Jeff m et th e ch allenge and H IT IT O U T O F TH E PA R K !!” Impressed even this old man!! In fact, I left the office confident of a 5 Star rating and literally in STITCHES!! Clear that his staff is also top notch and very professional. Thanks for another dental accomplishment. A double- crested cormorant rests atop of nest of eggs in the colony on East Sand Island. she said. “I only heard nothing was going to be done. We all pretended it didn’t happen and I never spoke about it again until recently.” Tracy said she represented only herself. Tudor’s perpetrator was Richard Troy Gillmore, who was convicted in a different case and has been in state prison since 1987. Tracy’s four perpetrators were arrested but never indicted. Gail Meyer, lobbyist for the Oregon Criminal Defense Law- yers Association, said several lawyers from the group met with Tracy and Tudor in an effort to understand each other’s perspec- tives. “We just did not know how to ¿QGPLGGOHJURXQG´VDLG0H\HU whose group now opposes any change. “We see an unfortunate truth: All allegations of sexual assault do not look the same. Some sim- ply are not true.” The Capital Bureau is a collaboration between EO Me- dia Group and Pamplin Media Group. O U R N EW C O LO R D ISPLAY T he Sim p lified W a y to Brow se C olors Every Row begins w ith a ca rd revea ling it’s top three colors a long w ith popula r trim a nd ceiling colors. • D JEFFREY M. LEINASSAR, DMD, FAGD • P R AG AN D D R O P C O L O R S • W ATCH V ID EO S AIN T R O O M S AN D M O R E ! 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