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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2015
Golf event benefits reading program
The Daily Astorian
GEARHART — Start
Making a Reader Today is
holding a fundraiser golf
tournament Aug. 20 at Gear-
hart Golf Links to support
children’s literacy.
Birdies for Books starts at
3 p.m. with a nine-hole golf
scramble, limited to 40 play-
ers. A wine tasting runs after-
ward from 5 to 7 p.m.
Reserve your spot for the
golf scramble by Thursday
by contacting Jason Ban-
gild, general manager of the
course, at jasonb@gearhart-
golÀ inks.com or 503-739-
5037. Reserve your spot
for the reception afterward
by contacting Pam Lum of
Lum’s Auto Center at pam@
lumsautocenter.com or 503-
703-0753.
The Gearhart Golf Links
is located at 1157 N. Marion
Ave.
SMART pairs adults with
pre-kindergarten
through
third-graders for a shared
reading time. It seeks volun-
teers who can commit to one
hour a week from mid-Octo-
ber to mid-May at elementary
schools in Astoria, Warren-
ton, Gearhart and Seaside.
Contact Paula Seid, area pro-
gram manager for SMART,
at 971-634-1614 or pseid@
getsmartoregon.org for more
information.
Loans available for small manufacturers
The Daily Astorian
Business Oregon, the
state’s economic development
agency, recently launched the
$250,000 Small Manufac-
turing Business Expansion
Program, which will help six
to 12 small Oregon manufac-
turers get loans for expansion.
The program will target
companies in the technol-
ogy, outdoor gear or wood
products sectors that export
their products to other states
and countries. The loans are
capped at $50,000 and may
be forgiven for companies
that meet certain performance
goals. To be eligible, compa-
nies must have no more than
25 employees and program at
least 50 percent of the project
cost from its own resources.
“Manufacturing is a cor-
nerstone of Oregon’s econo-
my and delivers family wage
jobs around the state,” Gov.
Kate Brown said in a release
about the program. “We must
make sure our small manufac-
turers have the tools to com-
pete globally so they continue
to thrive and grow. This pro-
gram will provide these tools
to some who traditionally
wouldn’t have access.”
Oregon has about 5,300
manufacturers, and 75 per-
cent of them have 20 or fewer
employees. When they look
to expand, these small com-
panies often don’t qualify for
traditional commercial loan
programs.
“We’re a state that still
makes things and ships them
around the world.” said Sean
Robbins, Business Oregon’s
director, in the release. “From
semiconductors to wood
products to ocean going ships,
Oregon’s middle class is fu-
eled by manufacturing.”
Learn more about the
program details and quali¿ -
cations at http://tinyurl.com/
oehw5sp. Contact Dennie
Houle, a business develop-
ment of¿ cer serving Clatsop,
Columbia and Tillamook
counties, at 503-791-2732 or
Dennie.Houle@state.or.us
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Astoria 5-Day Forecast
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Pendleton
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A thick cloud cover
with a shower
Hop output to increase
despite drought conditions
By DAN WHEAT
Capital Press
MOXEE, Wash. — U.S. hop production
will be up 5 percent this year despite heat
and drought in the Yakima Valley where 70
to 80 percent of the nation’s hops are grown.
The increase is due to more acres in pro-
duction, but the crop still “will be very short
relative to demand” from the craft brewing
industry, said Doug MacKinnon, president
of 47 Hops, a Yakima, Wash., hop dealer.
The U.S. crop was estimated at 74.5 mil-
lion pounds at the International Hop Grow-
ers’ Congress in Germany the week of July
27, according to Hop Growers of America
and the Washington Hop Commission, both
in Moxee. That’s up 3.5 million pounds
from 2014 but short of the record of 94.7
million pounds in 2009.
German and other European crops are
down 10 to 20 percent. The world crop is
estimated at 198.2 million pounds, down
from 211 million in 2014.
Dan Wheat/Capital Press
Mixed bag
MacKinnon, who attended the congress,
said German production, which is approxi-
mately 40 percent of world production, is a
very mixed bag.
“Above average temperatures and lack
of rain have taken what was a beautiful
crop with enormous potential just six short
weeks ago and turned it into a crop that has
the potential to be the worst in recent mem-
ory,” he said.
Drought and winds are damaging the
German crop, estimated to be 16 percent
short of 2014 in yields, but it could be far
worse without signi¿ cant rain in the next
few weeks, MacKinnon said. Some German
growers at the congress said yields could be
down 25 percent or even rival 2003 when
the German crop was short 50 percent, he
said.
Most of the European crop is not irri-
gated. Most of the Yakima Valley crop is.
Yakima growers largely switched to drip ir-
rigation in recent years to save water.
Second to Germany
The U.S. is second to Germany in world
production and brewers have been con-
cerned drought will reduce the Yakima crop.
Some aroma varieties in the Yakima Val-
Klamath Falls
47/75
Nice with sunshine
and patchy clouds
Hop cones in summer growth in Yakima,
Wash. The Yakima area is the nation’s lead-
ing region in hop production. Acreage is
expected to keep increasing this year.
ley may drop 10 to 15 percent below av-
erage in yields, Hop Growers of America
said.
Heat has “severely affected” several va-
rieties but actually improved the outlook of
the Cascade variety, MacKinnon said. Some
growers in the Wapato Irrigation Project
have been “seriously affected” by lack of
water, but most growers have not been af-
fected by the drought, he said.
The bigger concern is another dry win-
ter doing greater harm to the 2016 crop, he
said.
In June, the National Agricultural
Statistics Service said U.S. hop acre-
age increased 16 percent. Washington is
at 32,205 acres, up 3,347 from last year.
Oregon is 6,807 up 1,397 from last year
and Idaho is 4,975 up 1,232. The in-
crease is driven by craft breweries pro-
jecting 20 percent annual growth through
2020.
Hop harvest in the Yakima Valley typi-
cally starts in late August and runs through
September.
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contains about 100,000 stars.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
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Brush back in area awaiting new sentence
By NATALIE ST. JOHN
EO Media Group
SOUTH BEND, Wash.
— After Brian Brush was
convicted of murdering his
ex-¿ ancpe Lisa Bonney and
sentenced to 88 years in state
prison, many locals expected
never to see him again.
But as the result of a July
state Supreme Court decision
that invalidated his sentence,
Brush has been transferred
Environmental group claims company polluting river
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r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice.
CLATSOP
POWER
EQUIPMENT, INC.
SALES • SERVICE • RENTALS
TACOMA, Wash. — Co-
lumbia Riverkeeper has ¿ led a
federal lawsuit against a Wash-
ington state heavy equipment
company claiming it’s pollut-
ing the river with industrial
waste.
The group claims Vancou-
ver-based Electro Incorporated is
violating its state-issued industri-
al stormwater general permit and
the federal Clean Water Act.
The lawsuit ¿ led in U.S.
District Court in Tacoma says
Electro’s facility discharges
pollutants via stormwater that
ends up in the Columbia River.
The lawsuit says the company
has also violated monitoring re-
quirements by failing to collect,
analyze and discharge samples.
Electro’s website says it spe-
cializes in machinery used in
mining and forestry as well as
offshore equipment.
Wednesday’s Powerball:
08-13-29-38-52, Powerball:
28, Power Play: 2
Estimated jackpot: $70
million.
WASHINGTON
Wednesday’s
Daily
Game: 6-3-6
Wednesday’s Hit 5: 09-
24-30-32-39
Wednesday’s Keno: 04-
05-07-09-15-16-17-24-27-37-
40-52-53-55-62-71-72-73-74-
78
Wednesday’s Lotto: 06-
08-26-27-33-38
Wednesday’s Match 4:
11-14-20-24
pher Allen Lindstrom, born
at Providence St. Vincent
Medical Center. Grandpar-
ents are Richard and Dinah
Bastiaen of Astoria, Dave
and Tammy Lindstrom of
Cornelius, and Mary Larsen
of Portland.
MONDAY
Knappa School District
Board, 5:30 p.m., regular
meeting, Knappa High School
library, 41535 Old U.S. High-
way 30.
Astoria City Council, 7
p.m., City Hall, 1095 Duane St.
Lotteries
OREGON
Wednesday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 9-3-3-4
4 p.m.: 6-6-7-0
7 p.m.: 9-5-8-2
10 p.m.: 8-6-6-3
Wednesday’s
Mega-
bucks: 13-15-20-24-31-36
Estimated jackpot: $6 million.
Birth
Aug. 2, 2015
BASTIAEN,
Chantel,
and LINDSTROM, Rob, of
Cornelius, a boy, Christo-
Public meetings
THURSDAY
Cannon Beach Design Re-
view Board, 6 p.m., City Hall,
163 E. Gower St., Cannon Beach.
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503-325-0792 • 1-800-220-0792
In 2014, the
from the State Pen-
State Court of Ap-
itentiary in Walla
peals threw out the
Walla, Wash., to Pa-
exceptionally long
ci¿ c County Jail.
¿ rst-degree mur-
Jail records in-
der sentence, and
dicate that the
ordered the coun-
53-year-old former
ty to either give
southwest Oregon
him a new, shorter
policeman and boat
Brian
standard sentence,
manufacturer was
Brush
or hold his trial
re booked into the
again. In July, the
jail at 1:16 p.m. Fri-
day. He is being held without Supreme Court upheld that
decision.
bail.
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