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TUESDAY, JULY 14, 2015 143rd YEAR, No. 10 ONE DOLLAR Summer academy takes students into the wild Citizens rebuff license to beg Proposed rule FKDQJHVIRU panhandlers come under ¿UHLQ6HDVLGH By KATHERINE LACAZE EO Media Group Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Shoshanna McCleary, foreground, and Pi Espinoza, background, watch for birds at a wetland restoration site along the Klaskanine River Monday. 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Cannon Beach drinks to Harley Sroufe 0HPRULDOIRXQWDLQXSDQGÀRZLQJDW the library after 41 years in other places By DANI PALMER EO Media Group CANNON BEACH — -DPHV +DUOH\ 6URXIH ZDV D ZHOOORYHG FKDUDFWHU LQ &DQQRQ%HDFKDQGQRZKLV PHPRU\ FDQ OLYH RQ PRUH fully in the public eye. The \HDUROG IRXQWDLQ EXLOW WR KRQRU 6URXIH ZDV UHOR cated to the front of Cannon Beach Library and rededi cated Thursday. 6URXIH RZQHG 6URXIH¶V Grocery on North Hem lock Street from 1951 until KLV GHDWK LQ DQG ZDV a member of the city parks committee. 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The United States is now the only nation to visit every single planet in the solar system. Pluto was No. 9 in the lineup when New Horizons departed Cape Canaveral, Fla, on Jan. 19, 2006. Pluto’s close-up Spacecraft makes À\E\RIP\VWHU\ZRUOG By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. ² :H¶YH PDGH LW WR 3OXWR E\ 1$ 6$¶VFDOFXODWLRQVWKHODVWVWRSRQD planetary tour of the solar system a KDOIFHQWXU\LQWKHPDNLQJ The moment of closest approach IRU WKH 1HZ +RUL]RQV VSDFHFUDIW came around 4:49 a.m. PDT Tuesday, FXOPLQDWLQJ DQ HSLF MRXUQH\ IURP planet Earth that spanned an incredi ble 3 billion miles and 9½ years. “This is truly a hallmark in hu man history,” said John Grunsfeld, 1$6$¶VVFLHQFHPLVVLRQFKLHI³,W¶V EHHQDQLQFUHGLEOHYR\DJH´ %DVHG RQ HYHU\WKLQJ 1$6$ NQRZV 1HZ +RUL]RQV ZDV SUHW W\ PXFK VWUDLJKW RQ FRXUVH IRU WKH KLVWRULF HQFRXQWHU VZHHSLQJ ZLWKLQ 7,700 miles of Pluto at 31,000 mph. 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