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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2015
Christmas closures planned Brown hopes for quick action
The Daily Astorian
In observance of Christmas
Day , all federal and state of¿ c
es are closed Friday. Clatsop
County of¿ ces and Astoria
City Hall and city services
close at noon Thursday, and are
closed Friday. Cannon Beach
and Warrenton city halls and
services are closed Thursday
and Friday. Gearhart and Sea
side city halls and services are
closed Friday. All U.S. post
of¿ ces are closed Friday, and
there is no mail delivery.
Astoria, Jewell, Knappa,
WarrentonHammond, Sea
side (including Cannon Beach
and Gearhart schools) and
Ocean Beach School District
schools and Clatsop Commu
nity College are closed for
winter break.
The Astoria /ibrary, War
renton /ibrary and all Timber
land libraries in Washington
state, including Ilwaco, Ocean
Park and Naselle, are closed
Thursday and Friday. The Sea
side Library is closed Friday.
The Port of Astoria of¿ ces
and services are closed Thurs
day and Friday.
Garbage collection through
Recology Western Oregon
(covering Astoria, Seaside,
Gearhart and Cannon Beach)
and the city of Warrenton with
a normal service day of Friday
will receive service Saturday.
Peninsula Sanitation (cover
ing the Long Beach Peninsu
la) customers whose regular
service day is Friday will
have their garbage picked up
Thursday. Recology Western
Oregon and Peninsula Sani
tation’s transfer stations are
closed Friday.
The Sunset Pool in Seaside
is closed Friday. The Astoria
Aquatic Center is open from
5 to 11 a.m. Thursday and
closed Friday.
The Clatsop County Her
itage Museum, Oregon Film
Museum, Flavel House and
Carriage House are closed
Thursday and Friday. The Up
pertown Fire¿ ghters’ Museum
is closed for the winter. Capt.
Gray’s Port of Play and Lil’
Sprouts are closed Thursday
and Friday. Fort Clatsop and
the Columbia River Maritime
Museum are closed Friday.
The Seaside Museum is closed
Thursday and Friday.
Sunset Empire Transpor
tation (³The Bus´) is not run
ning Friday.
The Daily Astorian of¿ c
es are closed Friday, and the
newspaper is not printed.
Public meetings
MONDAY
Astoria City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall,
1095 Duane St.
tee, 9 a.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Clatsop Care Health District Board,
noon, Clatsop Care Memory Community,
2219 S.E. Dolphin Road, Warrenton.
Warrenton City Commission, 6 p.m.,
225 S. Main Ave.
TUESDAY
Cannon Beach Public Works Commit-
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ACCUWEATHER FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
Astoria 5-Day Forecast
Tonight
Mostly cloudy with
a touch of rain
40°
Tuesday
Oregon Weather
Shown is
tomorrow’s
weather.
Temperatures
are tonight’s
lows and
tomorrow’s
highs
The Dalles
36/43
Astoria
40/48
Portland
39/46
Corvallis
38/49
Eugene
39/49
Pendleton
34/43
Salem
39/48
Albany
37/47
Wednesday
Breezy; a shower
in the morning,
then rain
40°
Thursday
45°
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38°
Friday
Cloudy with a
shower
Clouds and sun
with a shower in
the area
37°
47°
38°
Almanac
Sun and Moon
Astoria through Sunday.
Temperatures
High ........................................... 50°
Low ............................................ 43°
Normal high ............................... 48°
Normal low ................................. 36°
Precipitation
Yesterday ................................ 0.80"
Month to date ......................... 17.00"
Normal month to date ............. 6.45"
Year to date ........................... 70.24"
Normal year to date .............. 63.82"
Sunset tonight .................. 4:32 p.m.
Sunrise Tuesday .............. 7:55 a.m.
Moonrise today ................. 2:10 p.m.
Moonset today ................. 3:22 a.m.
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Tonight's Sky: The December solstice, which
marks the start of winter in the Northern Hemi-
sphere, occurs at 8:48 p.m. PST.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
Tomorrow’s Tides
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
High
10:12 a.m. 10.0 ft.
11:29 p.m. 7.9 ft.
Time
4:01 a.m.
5:16 p.m.
Low
2.5 ft.
-0.4 ft.
Tomorrow’s National Weather
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SALEM — Gov. Kate
Brown spoke about problems
in Oregon’s child welfare sys
tem Friday at the ¿ rst meet
ing of an advisory committee
the governor appointed last
month to oversee a review and
improvements to the system.
“I see your role as really
critical as we move forward,
in terms of making sure we
have a foster care system that
enables our children in the
system not only to survive
but to thrive,” Brown said. “I
want you to hear it from me.
In no way do I see this level of
services as being acceptable.”
The governor is respond
ing to the state Department
of Human Services’ failure to
take action against licensed
children’s services providers
with known problems. News
coverage highlighted the is
sues this fall, starting with a
story in Willamette Week that
revealed child neglect and
misuse of public funds by the
Portland foster care program
Give Us This Day. Although
thenDHS director Erinn Kel
leySiel and other top of¿ cials
knew of the problems, includ
ing detailed ¿ ndings from an
Oregon Department of Justice
investigation, the state contin
ued to send children to Give
Us This Day.
“I really see your role as
holding people’s feet to the
¿ re,” Brown said to the new
committee on Friday.
The state is close to award
ing a contract to a consultant
who will review several as
pects of the state’s child wel
fare and foster care programs,
and recommendations from
the consultant and advisory
committee could result in leg
islation as soon as the short
Fronts
Cold
legislative session in Febru
ary.
Several members of the ad
visory committee said the state
has cut money for these pro
grams during previous reces
sions and never restored fund
ing. Brown said she would
work with the L egislature to
increase funding for child wel
fare, although she did not spec
ify when.
At the same time, state Sen.
Sara Gelser, DCorvallis, said
a lack of resources cannot be
the excuse when the state fails
to take action to protect kids,
such as the foster children at
Give Us This Day.
“The problems that bring
us around the table, there is
no excuse, there is no policy,
there is nothing in the state
of Oregon that Musti¿ es what
happened to these kids,” Gels
er said. “We can’t allow our
selves to fall into that. We need
to remember why we’re at the
table.”
Gelser said the problem
was that Department of Hu
man Services managers and
the agency’s previous director
knew about problems at Give
Us This Day yet continued to
send children there, “which
suggests there is a culture that
accepts bad places.”
Director ultimately
responsible
Interim DHS Director
Clyde Saiki said the agency’s
director has to make clear he or
she is ultimately accountable.
“I think that part of the
culture change that has to
happen within the department
is leadership has to say we
are accountable, and if bad
things happen, that’s on us,”
said Saiki, whom Brown ap
pointed as interim director af
ter KelleySiel resigned and it
was revealed another interim
director had also failed to re
spond to the problems at Give
Us This Day.
Brown complimented Saiki
Friday on his handling of the
agency .
“I think his work has been
stellar,” Brown said. “I hope
you’re feeling that on the
ground, as well.”
Members of the advisory
committee, who include leg
islators and representatives of
service provider and interested
community groups, discussed
some of the areas in which the
Department of Human Services
could improve. One of their
concerns was transparency.
Lenp Garrett, executive direc
tor of Court Appointed Special
Advocates in Marion County,
said even though advocates
have court orders granting them
access to information on foster
children’s cases, they still often
struggle to get the information
they need from the department .
The group advocates for the in
terests of abused and neglected
children in the court system.
Gelser also said it seems like
she has had to “wrestle for ev
ery public record” she request
ed from the department .
Children reluctant
to report abuse
The committee also wel
comed two newly appointed
members on Friday, both from
the Oregon Foster <outh Con
nection program for current
and former foster kids: Katie
Robertson and Nicole Stapp.
Children in foster care are often
worried about issues that might
not come up in media cover
age or lawmakers’ discussions,
such as that if they report abuse
or other problems, they could
be moved to a different home
and separated from a sibling
or friend, Robertson and Stapp
said.
The committee is expected
to meet again in January.
The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO Me-
dia Group and Pamplin Media
Group.
Active shooter training available
The Daily Astorian
Under the Sky
National Cities
Today
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Atlanta
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Boston
53 47 pc
Chicago
50 35
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Denver
44 30 pc
Des Moines
36 28 c
Detroit
49 41
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El Paso
60 36 s
Fairbanks
-6 -10 pc
Honolulu
82 72 sh
Indianapolis
53 40
r
Kansas City
41 28 s
Las Vegas
55 43 pc
Los Angeles
64 55 pc
Memphis
67 53 sh
Miami
82 75 pc
Nashville
62 56 sh
New Orleans
73 62
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New York
54 50 pc
Oklahoma City 57 33 s
Philadelphia
56 51 pc
St. Louis
63 35 c
Salt Lake City
43 38 sn
San Francisco
58 56
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Seattle
43 37
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Washington, DC 54 49 pc
Klamath Falls
31/38
Breezy with
periods of rain
48°
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
Consultant will
review programs
Burns
22/33
Medford
40/47
48°
Ontario
30/37
Bend
24/37
to ¿ [ child welfare system
The Lower Columbia Hu
man Resources Management
Association is holding a sem
inar with a focus on active
shooter training, presented by
Matt Armstrong, from 11:30
a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 6 at Buoy
Beer Co. .
Armstrong will provide a
brief overview of Alert, Lock
down, Inform, Counter, and
Evacuate training (www.ali
cetraining.com), which is de
signed to prepare an individual,
business or school for an active
shooter event, and to give peo
ple options to increase their
chances of surviving the event.
This program has one primary
focus: survival of those who
¿ nd themselves under attack.
Membership in the associ
ation is not required to attend.
Register online at www.lchr
ma.org. The cost, including
lunch prepared by Buoy Beer,
is $15 for association members,
$12.50 for students and $20 for
nonmembers. Cancellations
must be received no later than
5 p.m. Jan. 4 for a full refund.
For information, contact
Stacey Brown at president@
lchrma.org
Warm
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are highs for the day. Forecast high/low temperatures are given for selected cities.
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r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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No charges ¿ led — Lt.
Andrew Merila, a spokesman
for the Oregon State Police,
said an administrative error
resulted in an erroneous re
port that Blake Painter, 36, of
Astoria, was arrested by the
state police Wednesday for
seconddegree criminal tres
pass. Merila said Painter was
not charged with the crime
and that the release was acci
dental. The arrest was listed in
an On the record item on 2A
of Friday’s newspaper.
mation Service in Astoria
is in charge of the arrange
ments.
Dec. 17, 2015
ELLSWORTH,
Joseph
Allan, 64, of Seaside, died
in Portland. Caldwell’s
LuceLayton Mortuary in
Astoria is in charge of the ar
rangements.
Deaths
Dec. 12, 2015
BUTLER, James Edward,
77, of Ocean Park, Wash
ington, died in Ocean Park.
Ocean 9iew Funeral Cre
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