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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2015
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Pot ads can promote product, not buzz Two hikers rescued
By ZANE SPARLING
Capital Bureau
SALEM — The recreational
marijuana market that will ma-
terialize in January will likely
bring with it another strange
new sight for Oregonians: rec-
reational marijuana marketing.
But regulators say legal pot
ads almost certainly won’t con-
tain images of users inhaling
the product, or praising its “in-
toxicating” effect.
If that seems paradoxical it
shouldn’t. The same provisions
govern the promotional mate-
rial for alcohol, which never
shows consumers explicitly
imbibing.
The Oregon Liquor Control
Commission will regulate legal
pot businesses, and their adver-
tising.
The agency is engaged in
a dif¿cult balancing act as it
‘These are businesses and
we want them to succeed.’
— Becky Voelkel
staffer, Oregon Liquor Control Commission
writes the rules that will gov-
ern recreational cannabis.
Too much regulation could
stiÀe the nascent industry and
divert millions in tax revenue
from state coffers to the ev-
er-present black market. Too lit-
tle, and the commission would
fail the legislature’s mandate to
keep consumption safe and out
of the hands of minors.
The Retail Establishments
subcommittee, a subsection of
the commission’s Recreation-
al Marijuana Rules Technical
Committee, has unanimously
recommended duplicating the
agency’s liquor ad regulations
for the cannabis market.
“:e have real speci¿c rules
on the liquor side. We present-
ed that to (the committee) and
they were like, ‘Gosh, let’s just
mirror that,’” commission staff-
er Becky Voelkel said after the
subcommittee’s ¿nal meeting
on Monday.
That would mean no state-
ments that “encourage exces-
sive or rapid consumption” or
suggest usage “causes athletic
or artistic success.” LeaÀets,
handbills, and “two-for-one”
specials would also be banned.
Advertising a “happy hour”
would likely be permissible as
long as those ads don’t indicate
speci¿c price reductions.
There’s a small chance that
pot ads won’t exist at all.
Measure 91 gives the com-
mission the ability to prohibit
all advertising, but doing so
would violate the agency’s im-
plicit promise to treat the indus-
try like any other.
“These are businesses and
we want them to succeed,”
Voelkel said. “I don’t know
what the decision-makers are
going to do with the rules, but
I personally would be very sur-
prised if they said no advertis-
ing.”
The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO Me-
dia Group and Pamplin Media
Group.
Bonamici backs maritime training bill
The Daily Astorian
Clatsop Community Col-
lege, Oregon’s of¿cial mari-
time institute, could stand to
bene¿t from a bill introduced
late last month by U.S. Rep.
Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore.
House Resolution 2923,
the Maritime and Energy
Workforce Technical Train-
ing Enhancement Act, would
require the Secretary of Ener-
gy to award grants to expand
programs in maritime and
energy workforce technical
training.
It would create a ¿rst-ev-
er community and technical
college Centers of Excellence
program.
The college, one of a hand-
ful of community and techni-
cal colleges in the U.S. that
provide a maritime program,
has been identi¿ed as a po-
tential Center of Excellence
in light of the growing capa-
bilities of its maritime career
training programs.
The bill was originally in-
troduced by U.S. Rep. Gene
Green, D-Texas, and co-spon-
sored by Bonamici and Reps.
Pete Olson, R-Texas, Bobby
Scott, D-Va., Brian Babin,
R-Texas, and Reid Ribble,
R-Wis.
According to government
transparency website gov-
track.us, the bill has an 11
percent chance of leaving
committee, and a 3 percent
chance of being enacted.
“We have a surplus of mar-
itime and energy jobs, and not
enough people with the skills
and training to ¿ll them,” Rep.
Green said following the bill’s
introduction. “Industry is con-
tinuing to invest and grow,
and we want to make sure that
our constituents have the op-
portunity to take these high-
skilled jobs. This bipartisan
legislation will help bridge
the gap.”
“A skilled maritime work-
force is essential to the long-
term sustainability of the lo-
cal and national economy,”
Bonamici said. “Port opera-
tions, shipping, ship building
and repair, maritime com-
merce and trade all require
skilled technical and profes-
sional workers.
“Oregon’s North Coast has
a rich maritime history. I’m
proud to advocate for legis-
lation to help Clatsop Com-
munity College enhance its
maritime education program
so people can gain the knowl-
edge and skills needed for
these important jobs.”
OSU to recruit slug researcher, other experts
Additional state
funds will pay
for several new
positions
By MATEUSZ
PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
Farmers in Oregon will soon
get some much-needed assis-
tance with battling the slugs that
are devouring their crops.
Oregon State University
plans to recruit an entomologist
who specializes in slug research
as part of a broader hiring spree
made possible with added mon-
ey from state lawmakers.
Earlier this year, the uni-
versity held a “Slug Summit”
with farmers who complained
that the pests have grown more
problematic in recent years.
Theories abound as to why
slugs are more prevalent —
increased restrictions on ¿eld
burning and reduced tillage were
among the reasons proposed —
but concrete proof is scant.
Methods of controlling the
mollusks, such as bait contain-
ing the pesticide metaldehyde,
aren’t reliably effective, growers
reported.
The new research position
will focus on the best ways to
kill slugs or otherwise disrupt
their life cycle, said Dan Arp,
dean of OSU’s College of Agri-
cultural Sciences.
The Oregon legislature re-
cently approved 1 million in
additional funding for OSU’s
agricultural experiment stations,
extension service and forest lab-
oratory over the next two years.
Agricultural experiment sta-
tions will receive more than $6
million of that amount, which
will fund 16 new assistant pro-
fessor positions and six support
positions, said Arp.
OSU will begin trying to ¿ll
the positions as soon as possible,
but the recruiting process usual-
ly takes about eight months, he
said.
Courtesy of Robin Rosetta, OSU
European red slugs are quite common in gardens and landscapes.
“We’re really grateful to the
legislature for making this pos-
sible,” Arp said.
Following is a summary of
the other research positions that
OSU’s agricultural experiment
stations will be looking to ¿ll:
• Rangeland ecology with
a focus on conserving the sage
grouse, a bird species that’s a
candidate for federal protection.
Ranchers fear that threatened or
endangered status for the spe-
cies could result in grazing re-
strictions.
• Integrated management of
cropping systems, focusing on
managing nutrients, water and
pests for crops with intensive
rotations.
• Weed and pest management
primarily for horticultural crops
like vegetables and berries.
• Water management and
ef¿cient use, such as examining
innovative tools for irrigation.
• Fertilizer rate and transport,
which involves the study of how
much fertilizer is consumed by
crops and where surpluses end up.
• Near-shore ¿shery and
oceanography, looking at sus-
tainable practices.
• Food processing and safety,
researching new technology and
food safety concepts such as im-
proving shelf life.
• Food microbiology, study-
ing ways to prevent contamina-
tion with pathogens.
• Pesticide management, in-
cluding the best management of
rates and timing.
• Integrated pest manage-
ment response to climate and
weather, with a focus on model-
ing how changes will affect pest
control.
• Consumer demands and
marketing, which involves the
study of how people make buy-
ing decisions and how to inÀu-
ence them. The main focus will
be on products of fermentation
like alcohol and cheese.
• Brewing microbiology,
which will examine how to use
microbiology to improve Àavor.
• Quantitative plant genetics,
which requires the use of mod-
ern molecular tools to improve
breeding.
• Vegetable and specialty
seed breeding and management.
• Seafood processing and
innovation, which will include
new methods and safety com-
ponents.
• Two pollinator biology
technicians, one focused on
lab work and the other on ¿eld
work.
• An experiential learning
coordinator who lines up intern-
ships for students.
• Supplemental funding for
three positions in fermentation
science.
OSU’s Forest Research Lab-
oratory will receive $3. million
of the additional funding, which
will be spent on a two-year
study of the marbled murrelet, a
threatened bird species that nests
in coastal forests.
The birds will be banded
with radio transmitters so re-
searchers can ¿nd out more
about where they travel and how
far inland they lay eggs.
“We really don’t understand
much about their behavior. They
spend most of their lives out at
sea,” said Thomas Maness, the
laboratory’s director.
near Hug Point
Coast Guard
performed
airlift Monday
By ERICK BENGEL
The Daily Astorian
A U.S. Coast Guard Air
Station Astoria aircrew hoist-
ed two female hikers to safety
early Monday morning near
Hug Point after the hikers
became stranded on an out-
cropping of rock when the
tide rolled in and cut them off
from the beach.
The hikers — Annie Finch
and Tara Van Ness, two
20-year-olds from Canby —
were taken to local emergency
responders on scene without
visible injuries, Petty Of¿cer
1st Class Levi Read said.
Watchstanders at the Coast
Guard Sector Columbia Riv-
er Command Center received
the request for assistance from
the Clatsop County Sheriff’s
Of¿ce at 11: p.m. Sunday
after Van Ness’ mother, Tracy
Casillas, reported them lost
and needing assistance.
“The girls had wandered
pretty far down the coast from
where they were originally
supposed to be,” Petty Of¿cer
3rd Class Jonathan Klingen-
berg said.
Finch and Van Ness had be-
came disoriented and trapped
on a cliff by the incoming
tide. An MH-60 Jayhawk he-
licopter crew rescued them at
2: a.m. Monday. When air-
lifted, the hikers were roughly
10 feet up a cliff on the north
side of Cape Falcon in Tilla-
mook County, about 2. miles
south of Hug Point (the hik-
ers’ intended destination).
It is unknown why Finch
and Van Ness became disori-
ented, but “we believe that
they just lost their way,” Klin-
genberg added.
“We get a lot of these (inci-
dents),” Clatsop County Sher-
iff Tom Bergin said.
The weather at the time
was reported as clear skies
and calm winds.
“The skilled pilots and
crews (of Sector Columbia
River) certainly saved sig-
ni¿cant time in locating and
rescuing Van Ness and Finch
from a dangerous situation,”
Sgt. Matt Phillips, search and
rescue coordinator of Clatsop
County Sheriff’s Of¿ce, said.
New Àood maps
‘overwhelmingly good’
for Cannon Beach
By DANI PALMER
EO Media Group
CANNON BEACH — The
city doesn’t want to wait to
adopt new Àood plain maps.
Despite delays in the North
County in Àood-prone areas af-
fected by the Columbia River,
Cannon Beach of¿cials say they
like the federal government’s
new maps and the city could see
cost savings.
Flood insurance rates rose
signi¿cantly two years ago and
subsidies were phased out last
year.
At the City Council’s July
1 work session, planner Mark
Barnes said it could take months
to solve the issues up north
while changes are “overwhelm-
ingly good” for Cannon Beach.
Flood plain maps have two
signi¿cant uses, to set Àood
insurance rates and to provide
cities with guidelines for reg-
ulation. New construction in
the Àood plain is required to
be above reach of the 100-year
Àood level.
“The entire downtown area
comes out of the Àood plain,”
Barnes said. “The cost savings
there are tremendous for those
property owners.”
The city is urging accep-
tance of the Standard Digital
Flood Insurance Rate Map
drafts from the federal govern-
ment despite accuracy concerns
in Àood-prone areas affected
by the Columbia River, near
Warrenton and Astoria. These
concerns have stalled adoption
of all Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency mapping work
throughout Clatsop County, in-
cluding Cannon Beach.
The map changes wouldn’t
be good news for all, though.
Councilor Melissa Cadwal-
lader asked about the impacts
on those living along the wa-
terfront.
Barnes is still waiting on
that particular map, but an-
swered it would likely be a
0-0 split. Some insurance
rates for waterfront area home-
owners would rise and others
would lower or remain the
same.
Oceanfront homes are most
affected by velocity Àooding,
caused by storm surges, as op-
posed to downtown Àooding
which would come from over-
Àows in storm drains.
The new maps show poten-
tial risks from velocity Àood-
ing that could impact homes
on the beach. This could result
in higher insurance rates for
homeowners and new regula-
tions regarding construction or
rebuilding.
“I think if we’re going to
be helping a majority of our
citizens, then we should do it,”
Councilor George Vetter said
of the map revision request.
But he also sought more
information and numbers on
those affected ¿rst.
Barnes has requested the
new maps and plans to bring
them to the August work ses-
sion for review.
“If I haven’t made that
clear, the map is going to be
effective at some point in the
future, the only question is
whether we try to take mea-
sures to put it into effect soon-
er rather than later,” he said.
Of¿cials are exploring the
possibility of sending a map
revision request to FEMA
to allow it to begin using the
new Àood plain maps, possibly
within 90 days if approved.
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