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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015
Food bank
holds
volunteer
training
‘What was your favorite
summer job?’
The Daily Astorian
“Grooming poodles in Tucson,
Arizona. I was 16 or 17.”
Carol Thomas, Astoria
“Working at the Nehalem Bay State
Park as a seasonal interpretive
ranger. It was fun going on nature
walks with the kids, and making
arts and crafts out of nature’s
goodies.”
Lynn Hadley, Astoria
“Being a clown at the senior cen-
ter, and being in several parades.
Be a clown! And then, there was
the summer I dealt blackjack in
Alaska ...”
Laura Hutson, Astoria
The Clatsop Emergency
Food Bank is holding a vol-
unteer training from noon to
1 p.m. Thursday in the sanc-
tuary of the First Presbyte-
rian Church, 1103 Grand
Ave.
This training and orien-
tation is mandatory for vol-
unteers, and is the second
being held in June to attract
new volunteers and get ev-
eryone trained and on the
same page.
T here are 50 volunteers
keeping the food pantry
open Tuesday through Fri-
day from 3 to 4 p.m.; the
longest-serving have been
volunteering for 20 years.
For information, contact
Julene West at 503-325-
7351.
Death
June 23, 2015
RASMUSSON, “Clegg,”
66, of Warrenton, died in
Warrenton. Ocean View Fu-
neral & Cremation Service
in Astoria is in charge of the
arrangements.
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ACCUWEATHER FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
Astoria 5-Day Forecast
Tonight
Mostly cloudy
55°
Thursday
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lows and
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highs
The Dalles
62/97
Astoria
55/72
Portland
61/90
Corvallis
55/93
Eugene
52/91
Pendleton
60/94
Salem
57/92
Albany
54/92
Friday
Burns
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Medford
60/99
Partly sunny
72°
58°
Saturday
Mostly sunny;
breezy in the
afternoon
73°
58°
Partial sunshine
72°
57°
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Sun and Moon
Astoria through Tuesday.
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High ........................................... 73°
Low ............................................ 47°
Normal high ............................... 65°
Normal low ................................. 51°
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Yesterday ................................ 0.00"
Month to date .......................... 0.71"
Normal month to date ............. 2.13"
Year to date ........................... 27.37"
Normal year to date .............. 35.49"
Sunset tonight ................... 9:11 p.m.
Sunrise Thursday ............. 5:25 a.m.
Moonrise today ................ 1:44 p.m.
Moonset today ................. 1:06 a.m.
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Boston
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Chicago
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Denver
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Des Moines
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Detroit
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El Paso
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Fairbanks
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Honolulu
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Indianapolis
82 67 pc
Kansas City
92 76 c
Las Vegas
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Los Angeles
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Memphis
95 77 pc
Miami
92 79 pc
Nashville
91 70 pc
New Orleans
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New York
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Oklahoma City 93 72 s
Philadelphia
86 66 s
St. Louis
90 78 pc
Salt Lake City
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San Francisco
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Seattle
80 59 pc
Washington, DC 86 69 s
Klamath Falls
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Tonight's Sky: Mercury at greatest elongation,
23 west of Sun in morning sky.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
Tomorrow’s Tides
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
High
8:43 a.m. 5.8 ft.
9:05 p.m. 7.7 ft.
Time
2:53 a.m.
2:31 p.m.
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Contributed photo
This sea otter found June 16 is the third one that washed up dead in the area. It was near
the Seaview 30th Street drainage.
Third sea otter washes
up on Peninsula
Toxin likely didn’t cause death, but
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deaths from Tillamook to the
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SEAVIEW, Wash. —
is still fresh and that has clearly
A third dead sea otter has
died as a result of domoic acid,
washed up on the Long Beach
she said. Most of the dead pin-
Getting the data
Peninsula .
nipeds they encounter have been
“Right now it’s kind of a shot. Many more are too decom-
The otter found near
Seaview June 16 was too ‘wait and see’ scenario,” said Jim posed to determine what might
bloated to provide samples for Rice, stranding coordinator for have killed them. Though sam-
testing, so biologists with the the Oregon coast based out of the ples from all of these animals
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vice don’t know exactly how in Newport .
the different agencies that deal
“Fortunately, we’re not see- with marine mammals to pay
it died, but say a deadly ma-
rine toxin that has shut down ing a big effect from domoic for further testing.
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What they know
eries in the last two months — ing this could be because, right
Researchers and biologists
domoic acid — is likely not to now, California sea lions are
leaving Oregon and Washington know one thing for sure right
blame.
The same could not be for their breeding grounds farther now: Domoic acid is out there.
said for other marine mammal south. Depending on how long The phytoplankton that produc-
the bloom persists, however, the es it is there and smaller animals
deaths on the Peninsula.
On May 20, an employee sea lions could hit it again when are eating it up. These animals
with the Washington Depart- they return in the late summer are being eaten by larger ani-
mals and some of those larger
ment of Fish and Wildlife vid- and early fall.
The sea lion that died on the animals are acting weird.
eo taped a California sea lion
In any other year, Dyanna
having seizures on a beach Peninsula last month was a sur-
prise. Such high levels of domoic Lambourn, marine animal re-
near Long Beach.
The animal was euthanized acid had not been seen in a sea search biologist with WDFW,
and its samples sent out for lion before in Washington, and said testing for domoic acid in
testing. Now those samples are were still low compared to what dead animals would be low on
back and it is clear high levels has been found in sea lions off the department’s list “because
of domoic acid caused its bi- the California coast where out- we just haven’t seen these high
zarre behavior — the highest breaks of domoic acid are more levels up in Washington.” There
are other diseases that can cause
levels recorded in a sea lion on common.
“Historically ( central Cal- similar symptoms, after all.
the Washington coast.
“If this event continues,
Last week, NOAA an- ifornia) has been the ground
nounced it was sending out re- zero for mortality attributed to there may be a need to do more
searchers to examine the largest domoic acid, especially among screening on animals if they
toxic algal bloom in nearly a California sea lions,” Rice said. start presenting the symptoms,”
decade on the West Coast. The The toxin can cause permanent Lambourn said, adding, “Since
bloom, stretching from Monterey brain damage, destroying the we do know there are high lev-
Bay, Calif., to Homer, Alaska, part of the brain that deals with els of domoic acid out there ...
involves three different harmful memory, which in turn affects it’s higher on our list that, gee,
algae and has already led to the the animal’s ability to travel and that could be why.”
California sea lions are “the
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poster children” for domoic -ac-
eries in Oregon and Washington and can cause seizures.
“It was a little unusual for id-related mortality, but sea birds
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southern Washington.
Though one of the results of ology professor at Portland State also potential victims. Lambourn
such blooms, domoic acid, rarely 8QLYHUVLW\'XI¿HOGDORQJZLWK and other biologists are looking
affects sea otters, state and feder- research assistant Dalin D’Ales- at species in California that have
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erature shows that these blooms, marine mammal strandings and tions of the toxin.
By KATIE WILSON
EO Media Group
and domoic acid in particular,
can destroy sea lions. They are
worried what the blooms could
mean for these and other marine
mammals and birds.
On the record
Assault
• At about 7:38 a.m.
Sunday, the Seaside Po-
lice Department responded
to a 911 call about an in-
cident near 26 Avenue A.
Jorge Resendiz-Urtiz, 29,
of Seaside, was arrested and
charged with assault in the
fourth-degree. The police
report on the incident has
not been finalized.
DUII arrest
• At 10:16 p.m. Mon-
day, Clatsop County Sher-
iff’s Office arrested Bonnie
Jane Hudson, 46, Perris,
Calif., for driving under
the influence of intoxi-
cants on Claremont Road in
Astoria.
WASHINGTON
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lion
lege Board of Directors, 7
p.m., special meeting to ap-
point interim president, Tow-
ler Hall Room 206, 1651 Lex-
ington Ave.
THURSDAY
Recreational Lands Plan-
ning and Advisory Commit-
tee, WR SP IRXUWK ÀRRU
800 Exchange St.
Cannon Beach Planning
Commission, 6 p.m., City
Hall, 163 E. Gower St., Can-
non Beach.
FRIDAY
Cannon Beach Emer-
gency Preparedness Com-
mittee 10 a.m., City Hall,
163 E. Gower St., Cannon
Beach.
Lotteries
OREGON
Tuesday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 6-1-5-9
4 p.m.: 9-7-3-3
7 p.m.: 3-5-6-3
10 p.m.: 4-8-4-1
Public meetings
WEDNESDAY
Clatsop County Housing
Authority Board, 5 p.m.,
Guy Boyington Building, 857
Commercial St.
Clatsop County Board
of Commissioners, 6 p.m.,
Guy Boyington Building, 857
Commercial St.
Clatsop Community Col-
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