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Pot: Sales tax might lower the
price of an ounce of pot $23
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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
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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
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harvest tax in Measure 91
would generate net revenue
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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.
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will produce more revenue than an earlier scheme to tax producers.
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committed volunteer labor.
Overall, the board raised more
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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,
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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-
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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
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restoring kitchen cabinets,
walls and work areas; re-
pairing waterline problems
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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.
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going to be the Taj Mahal,”
Huddleston said. The grant
been accepted into the pro-
gram, which runs June 28
through July 11.
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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-
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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
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ordinator with the Education with the Scandinavian Fes-
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Kjellberg was one of 2,032 more week.
international students placed
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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
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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
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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.”
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program from her sister, who
used it to study abroad in En-
gland a couple of years ago.
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used the program to study in
Las Vegas and Phoenix this
year.
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how fast her time in Astoria
has gone and how much she
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