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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2015 Pot: Sales tax might lower the price of an ounce of pot $23 Continued from Page 1A Malik said that retail recre- ational marijuana prices would be lower with a sales tax when compared with a harvest tax, because a harvest tax would increase the markup cost of cannabis before it reaches con- sumers. Malik estimated the change would lower the cost of retail recreational marijuana in Oregon from approximately $300 per ounce, to $277 per ounce. As for the amount of rev- enue the proposed sales tax would raise, Malik estimated it would eventually be more than the state would receive if it maintains the harvest tax. However, Malik told law- makers that anticipated de- lays in licensing pot retailers would also mean less tax rev- enue for the state in the early years. For the budget year starting in July 2016, the Legislative 5HYHQXH 2I¿FH HVWLPDWHG WKH 17 percent sales tax would gen- erate a net total of $4.6 million, after startup and administrative costs for the legal pot system. That is based on retailers open- ing in January 2017. Oregon might not fully launch its re- tail pot system until late 2016, although adults age 21 and older can legally possess the drug starting July 1. Pot sales tax revenue could increase to a net total of $61.4 million for the two-year budget starting July 2017. Last fall, the Legislative 5HYHQXH 2I¿FH SURMHFWHG WKH harvest tax in Measure 91 would generate net revenue GXULQJ WKH ¿UVW \HDU LQ WKH range $6.5 million and $12.8 million, after start-up and ad- ministrative costs for the legal pot system. For the two-year budget that will begin in July 2017, economists estimated the harvest tax would generate a net total of $40.9 million af- ter administrative costs. 7KLV VWRU\ ¿UVW DSSHDUHG AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File LQWKH2UHJRQ&DSLWDO,QVLGHU QHZVOHWWHU7RVXEVFULEHJRWR An economist for the Legislature says a plan to collect taxes on pot at the point of sale will produce more revenue than an earlier scheme to tax producers. RUHJRQFDSLWDOLQVLGHUFRP Camp: It has only one paid staff member, a ranger Continued from Page 1A committed volunteer labor. Overall, the board raised more WKDQWRXSJUDGHRU¿[ existing camp facilities. The camp, which is locat- ed between Long Lake and a wooded area bordering the ocean near Fort Stevens, re- ceived donations from about 100 area individuals and businesses, Huddleston said, adding, “a lot of local com- panies are generous with do- nating their time, services or products.” Kiwanilong was one of 13 camps in Oregon to receive the $35,000 grant in 2014, which is awarded to facili- ties that “have maintenance and improvement needs, serve Outdoor School, are geographically dispersed and UHÀHFWWKH*UD\)DPLO\)RXQ- GDWLRQ¶V YDOXHV UHJDUGLQJ LQ- clusion and multi-cultural diversity,” according to the IRXQGDWLRQ¶VZHEVLWH “We were selected be- cause of the good work we were doing, but we were in need of some help,” Hud- dleston said. “It was kind of an honor to be chosen a ‘Suc- FHVV 6WRU\¶ 7KH\ ZDQWHG WR put us on their website. It felt good.” With the grant money, Camp Kiwanilong was able to complete 11 maintenance projects on several camp fa- cilities. Some repairs to the Boyington Lodge, the main gathering spot, included re- habilitating ill-functioning ZLQGRZV DQG GRRUV UH¿Q- LVKLQJ WKH PDLQ URRP ÀRRU restoring kitchen cabinets, walls and work areas; re- pairing waterline problems under the sink and dishwash- HU PDNLQJ WKH ¿UHSODFH DQG FKLPQH\ HI¿FLHQW DQG VDIH repairing the interior log walls and removing rot on an exterior wall. Two Pio- neer Cabins got new founda- tions and siding repairs. The food storage building also received repairs; three facil- ities were pressure-washed and treated; and the camp removed hazardous trees and limbs along paths and in the main camp area. While the facilities are YHU\ UXVWLF ³WKH\¶UH QHYHU going to be the Taj Mahal,” Huddleston said. The grant been accepted into the pro- gram, which runs June 28 through July 11. A history of the camp Submitted photos Camp Kiwanilong in Warrenton was the recipient of a 2014 Gray Family Foundation maintenance grant to be used for updating and renovating existing structures and facilities. The camp’s Boyington Lodge, the main gathering spot, re- ceived several repairs and replacements, including the replacement of the back door. Inside the Boyington Lodge at Camp Kiwanilong in Warrenton, repairs and additions included chinking, replacing lodge cabinets and doors and strip lighting. accounted for big improve- ments and, more importantly, allowed the camp to knock out a greater number of de- ferred projects in a single year. Summer program and year-round use Camp Kiwanilong, or “Camp K,” is well-known for its resident Summer Youth Resident Program, when the camp hosts about 100 young campers for a week at a time. The program, which is in its funds from Friends of Camp 37th year, operates six weeks Kiwanilong, the camp of- this summer until Aug. 1. Each session has a differ- ent theme, and the camp is offering a shorter session, from July 14 to 18, for third- through sixth-graders. Ses- VLRQ¿YHIURP-XO\WR is targeted for older youth in grades seven through nine. The other four sessions are open for all third- through eighth-graders. Because of donated THE DAILY ASTORIANʼ S 2015 WHO’S WHO The North Coastʼs Business Guide Kjellberg: ‘She has had to EHDGDSWDEOHDQGÀH[LEOH¶ country. Moore worked with Kjellberg and two other ex- Looking back on the past change students on the North 10 months, Kjellberg believes Coast from Austria and Tai- she made the most of her time wan. in America. She took classes .MHOOEHUJ¶V KRVW IDPLO\ at the junior level and compet- ZDV0DUFDQG6KHOOLH2¶&RQ- ed on the soccer, swimming nor. and track teams. She even ³)RU KHU VSHFL¿F H[SHUL- SDVVHGDGULYHU¶VWHVWWRJHWD ence, I think it has been good. temporary license. Being able She has learned a lot. You to drive allowed her to easily come from one set of stan- visit friends. dards and move into a fam- ³(YHQ WKRXJK LW KDV GH¿- LO\ WKDW¶V QRW JRLQJ WR EH WKH nitely been up and down, I same. She has had to be adapt- have learned so much I would DEOH DQG ÀH[LEOH´ 0RRUH not have been able to learn VDLG ³,W¶V DQ H[SHULHQFH IRU without leaving my family these kids.” and going some place totally Kjellberg was originally new,” she said. scheduled to return home last Gail Moore, a regional co- week, but her involvement ordinator with the Education with the Scandinavian Fes- First exchange program, said tival allowed her to stay one Kjellberg was one of 2,032 more week. international students placed “They are supposed to be in communities across the back a week after school is Continued from Page 1A fers financial assistance, known as Sparkyships, to many Clatsop County chil- dren who are in need. The Sparkyships often are based on teacher recommenda- tions. The camp also of- fers a two-year Counsel- or-In-Training program, where older youth focus on learning and developing techniques to serve phys- ically and mentally disad- vantaged youth and incor- porate those campers into the general population. The counselor program requires two summers of training. It is open for youth who have completed ninth grade, are age 15 or older and have &DPS .LZDQLORQJ¶V ILUVW weeklong youth camp, di- rected by Neal Maine, was in July 1975. That was the same year Clatsop County leased the camp to an inde- pendent board of nine direc- tors to operate and maintain the facility as a nonprofit or- ganization. The board signed a 99-year lease with pay- ments of $1 per year, Hud- dleston said. The Astoria Kiwanis Club sponsored the original proj- ect to build Camp Kiwan- ilong in 1936, but the Great Depression-era Works Proj- ect Administration cleared the land and built trails. The camp then was leased to the Girl Scouts of America from 1936 to 1975. Besides hosting thesum- mer camps, the site also is used throughout the year by various groups, such as the Oregon Museum of Science DQG ,QGXVWU\ WKH /LQ¿HOG College Track Team, the Co- lumbia County 4-H program, church groups and numer- ous others. The camp also is used for weddings and fam- ily reunions. In 2014, 2,261 youth and 1,846 adults used the camp. Prior to that, 4,337 people were hosted in 2013 and 3,500 in 2012. The camp can host about 140 overnight guests. Camp Kiwanilong is a budget camp and its only paid staff member is Ranger Amy Koch, who works part time. Groups are required to bring their own staff mem- bers, if needed. For more information, call (503) 861-2933 or www. campkiwanilong.org, or call 503298-0767 to register for camp. out. That would mean she would have missed the festi- val,” Moore said. “Well, she put too much work into this festival.” .MHOOEHUJ¿UVWKHDUGDERXW the Education First exchange program from her sister, who used it to study abroad in En- gland a couple of years ago. 7ZR RI .MHOOEHUJ¶V IULHQGV used the program to study in Las Vegas and Phoenix this year. She still can not believe how fast her time in Astoria has gone and how much she has changed. ³, FDQ¶W UHDOO\ UHPHPEHU that transition when I stopped being homesick and when everything was good,” she VDLG³,W¶VJRLQJWREHZHLUGWR come home and be an adult. ,¶PPRUHUHDG\QRZ´ ².\OH6SXUU Pub lished for m ore tha n a QUARTER OF A CEN TURY b y the Da ily Astoria n. Cha rting the new c om ers a nd b usiness p ioneers of our region. 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