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WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2015
143rd YEAR, No. 11
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A new
Cuba?
Cuban-born
teacher sees hope
for his homeland
after recent trip
By McKINLEY SMITH
The Daily Astorian
When Manny Suarez visited Cuba
this summer, he noticed things had
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nearly half a century after he had left
the country as a child: T here was a
feeling of hopefulness for the future.
Cuba and the United States have
had a stormy history.
The Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961
and the Cuban Missile Crisis in
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between the U.S. and newly com-
munist Cuba. After decades of sus-
picion, the Obama administration
removed Cuba from the s tate-s pon-
sored t errorism l ist this year amid a
move toward a normalized relation-
ship between the two countries.
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hesitant to say anything,” said Su-
arez, a teacher who lives in Astoria .
Now, he said, people seemed
more hopeful and friendly.
Changing times
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is going to create multiple openings along the South Jetty Root, shown above, to allow access for
salmon and steelhead into Trestle Bay as part of an ecosystem restoration project.
Jetty stones will
be removed in
Trestle Bay
See CUBA, Page 10A
A Flavel
in the
House
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
FORT STEVENS STATE
PARK — The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers is planning a restoration
project near the South Jetty that
will open access to more than 600
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The p roject will remove 900
feet of jetty stones at seven loca-
tions in Trestle Bay, located on the
river side of the South Jetty.
Removing the jetty stones down
to the riverbed will give salmon
and trout , especially juveniles, ac-
cess to quieter waters and feeding
grounds.
“It allows them some refuge
and some habitat they can feed off
of,” Gail Saldana, the project man-
ager, said. “It’s like a timeout for
a length of time. It’s nice for them
to have a place where the water is
not beating at them. It gives them
an opportunity to rest.”
Into the bay
Trestle Bay was originally
formed by construction of the
South Jetty in the late 1800s, ac-
cording to the Army Corps.
The 8,800-foot jetty stone
structure in the bay — known as
the South Jetty Root — was first
breached by the Corps in 1995
While in Havana, he heard a taxi
driver talking about buying another
cab and learned some people were
trying to get air conditioning in their
homes to attract tourists.
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historic family
home, museum
By McKINLEY SMITH
The Daily Astorian
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Sandpipers sit on some of the rocks that make up the South Jetty R oot in Trestle Bay.
to regain at least partial connec-
tivity. Prior to the breach, the
limited access to the bay led to
degraded and fragmented salmon
habitat .
Saldana said the work in 1995
removed 500 feet of jetty stones,
but not all the way to the river-
bed. At low tides, salmon and
steelhead are still blocked from
the bay.
After positive feedback from
the initial opening, she said, “We
decided we should create some
more openings there.”
Work in the fall
The Army Corps plans to
award the current project to a
contractor by September, with
work set to begin in November.
The project, estimated to cost be-
tween $500,000 and $1 million,
is expected to take two to three
weeks to complete. Crews will
use a barge with a crane large
enough to lift the jetty stones,
some weighing up to 7 tons. The
jetty stones will likely be placed
up against other stones along the
structure. The largest opening
will be about 380 feet while other
openings will be about 50 feet, all
totaling 900 feet.
See FISH, Page 10A
George and Mary Flavel’s great-
great-great-great grandson, Mark
Bridgeman, and his wife, Ellen, vis-
ited the Flavel House Tuesday morn-
ing to celebrate their anniversary.
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historic grounds where the legendary
sea captain and bar pilot lived.
Mark Bridgeman said he had
never seen the family tree before
and learned most of his family his-
tory from his grandmother, Virginia
Southworth Flavel.
“It may be embellished a little,”
he said of his grandmother’s ac-
counts as he stood in the former Car-
riage House.
See FLAVEL, Page 10A
Hawaii GMO battles will shape West’s rules
Key court cases will
impact entire 9th Circuit
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GMO rules are not pre-empted by the
federal regulations, then it would clear
the way for such ordinances.
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are subject to its rulings.
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right now,” said Kristine Tidgren, staff are very high. All eyes will be on the
Legal battles over genetically mod- attorney for the Center for Agricultural 9th Circuit when this case goes for-
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to shape government authority over bio- sity.
Supporters of county GMO bans
tech crops across the West.
A federal judge most recently struck contend that Mollway’s legal reasoning
Three attempts to regulate GMOs by down Maui County’s prohibition against is faulty.
counties in that state — Kauai, Hawaii biotech crops on multiple legal grounds.
In their view, federal regulations
and Maui — have all been overturned
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by federal judges.
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How those decisions play out in the eral regulations entirely pre-empt Maui crops to be grown without restriction.
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will County’s ordinance banning GMOs,
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affect the ability of state and local gov- which was passed last year.
has no authority over biotech crops
ernments to set their own rules for bio-
If the ruling is upheld by the 9th Cir- once it determines they’re not plant
technology, experts say.
cuit, that would directly implicate other pests, so commercialized GMOs ar-
The 9th Circuit has jurisdiction over GMO bans within the same jurisdiction, en’t subject to federal regulations,
seven states, including Oregon, Wash- meaning they’d be pre-empted as well, critics say.
ington and California, where several said Tidgren.
See GMO, Page 10A
counties have enacted GMO bans that
Conversely, if the appellate court
AN ANALYSIS
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In this photo taken Sept. 10, 2014,
Monsanto crew leader Zenaida Ar-
cala places a pollination bag over
a corn tassel in Kihei, Hawaii. A
federal judge has ruled that the
Maui County ban of GMO crops is
illegal.