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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2015
Holiday closures start Thursday
The Daily Astorian
‘What is a favorite
Christmas memory?’
“Watching my children sit on
Santa’s lap at Lipman and Wolfe in
Portland. He was a former teacher
of mine when I was young. I was
looking at him, and he was looking
at me and my children, and we
were both crying.”
Mary De La Salandra, Astoria
In observance of Christ-
mas Day , all federal and
state offices are closed Fri-
day. Clatsop County offices
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 Thurs-
day and Friday. Gearhart
and Seaside city halls and
services are closed Friday.
All U.S. post offices are
closed Friday, and there is
no mail delivery.
Astoria, Jewell, Knap-
pa, Warrenton/Hammond,
Seaside (including Can-
Lotteries
Rinda Johansen, Astoria
“When I was 10 years old, my mom
and dad got me and my brothers
and sisters a horse. He was a Shet-
land-Morgan cross. My dad came
leading him down the driveway.
From my childhood, that’s the only
Christmas I remember. It outshined
all the rest.”
Kathy Gaskins, Astoria
The Daily Astorian
WASHINGTON
Tuesday’s
Daily
Game: 1-4-0
Tuesday’s Keno: 02-
03-04-15-20-21-28-29-31-
32-37-39-42-50-55-60-65-
74-76-78
Tuesday’s Match 4:
02-05-12-23
Tuesday’s Mega Mil-
lions:
11-21-40-50-70,
Mega Ball: 15
Estimated jackpot: $94
million.
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ACCUWEATHER FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
Astoria 5-Day Forecast
Tonight
Cloudy with
showers
38°
Thursday
Oregon Weather
Shown is
tomorrow’s
weather.
Temperatures
are tonight’s
lows and
tomorrow’s
highs
The Dalles
31/42
Astoria
38/47
Portland
36/43
Corvallis
34/44
Eugene
34/43
Pendleton
31/39
Salem
35/43
Albany
36/44
Friday
Burns
15/25
Medford
33/41
Cloudy with a
couple of showers
47°
36°
Saturday
Clouds and sun
with a shower in
the area
47°
Cloudy with
occasional rain
38°
46°
38°
Almanac
Sun and Moon
Astoria through Tuesday.
Temperatures
High ........................................... 48°
Low ............................................ 37°
Normal high ............................... 48°
Normal low ................................. 36°
Precipitation
Yesterday ................................ 0.44"
Month to date ........................ 18.62"
Normal month to date ............. 7.07"
Year to date ........................... 71.86"
Normal year to date .............. 64.44"
Sunset tonight ..................
Sunrise Thursday .............
Moonrise today ................
Moonset today .................
Regional Cities
City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Today
Hi Lo W
33 17 sn
34 22 sf
46 37 r
45 34 sh
48 42 r
33 24 sf
44 33 sh
46 38 r
49 38 r
4:33 p.m.
7:56 a.m.
3:37 p.m.
5:43 a.m.
Full
Last
New
First
Dec 25
Jan 1
Jan 9
Jan 16
Under the Sky
Hi
28
32
44
43
47
30
41
45
48
Thu.
Lo W
11 sf
16 c
34 sh
31 sh
41 sh
13 sn
26 sn
35 sh
36 sh
National Cities
Today
City
Hi Lo W
Atlanta
71 66 r
Boston
52 49 r
Chicago
61 37 r
Denver
39 14 sf
Des Moines
47 29 r
Detroit
61 45 c
El Paso
63 46 s
Fairbanks
-2 -20 sf
Honolulu
84 72 pc
Indianapolis
65 42 r
Kansas City
57 32 sh
Las Vegas
58 39 pc
Los Angeles
66 45 pc
Memphis
75 54 t
Miami
84 76 pc
Nashville
72 59 t
New Orleans
79 66 r
New York
62 61 r
Oklahoma City 62 38 s
Philadelphia
66 64 r
St. Louis
69 39 r
Salt Lake City
34 19 sf
San Francisco
56 45 c
Seattle
44 37 sh
Washington, DC 65 62 r
Klamath Falls
24/30
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015
35°
Sunday
Cloudy
45°
Ontario
26/32
Bend
22/32
City
Olympia
Pendleton
Portland
Roseburg
Salem
Seaside
Spokane
Vancouver
Yakima
Today
Hi Lo W
44 35 sh
42 31 c
46 36 sh
44 36 sh
46 35 sh
48 42 r
32 25 sn
45 37 sh
39 22 c
Hi
43
39
43
42
43
47
31
42
36
Thu.
Lo W
29 c
24 c
33 sn
32 sh
31 sh
39 sh
21 c
33 sn
18 c
Tonight's Sky: The Northern Cross, which is
also known as Cygnus the Swan, stands almost
straight up from the northwest horizon before
midnight.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
Tomorrow’s Tides
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
High
12:24 a.m. 8.2 ft.
11:50 a.m. 10.3 ft.
Time
5:52 a.m.
6:55 p.m.
Low
2.7 ft.
-1.1 ft.
Tomorrow’s National Weather
Thu.
Hi Lo W
75 66 c
68 54 c
45 30 pc
32 16 pc
39 28 pc
51 35 pc
65 42 s
-15 -28 s
83 74 sh
54 41 pc
47 29 pc
55 40 pc
62 46 c
75 58 pc
84 76 pc
74 57 pc
78 67 t
74 60 c
59 35 s
76 60 t
57 38 s
34 19 c
52 44 r
44 33 c
75 62 t
Fronts
Cold
Warm
Stationary
Showers
T-Storms
-10s
-0s
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
Rain
Flurries
Snow
Ice
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands
are highs for the day. Forecast high/low temperatures are given for selected cities.
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms,
r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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non Beach) and the city of
Warrenton with a normal
service day of Friday will
receive service Saturday.
Peninsula Sanitation (cov-
ering the Long Beach Pen-
insula) customers whose
regular service day is Fri-
day will have their gar-
bage picked up Thursday.
Recology Western Oregon
and Peninsula Sanitation’s
transfer stations are closed
Friday.
The Sunset Pool in Sea-
side 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
Uppertown
Firefighters’
Museum is closed for the
winter. Capt. Gray’s Port
of Play and Lil’ Sprouts are
closed Thursday and Friday.
Fort Clatsop and the Co-
lumbia River Maritime Mu-
seum are closed Friday. The
Seaside Museum is closed
Thursday and Friday.
Sunset Empire Transpor-
tation (“The Bus”) is not
running Friday.
The Daily Astorian offic-
es are closed at noon Thurs-
day and all day Friday.
There is no Friday newspa-
per.
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OREGON
Tuesday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 6-6-2-0
4 p.m.: 4-7-8-3
7 p.m.: 0-9-9-1
10 p.m.: 1-2-3-2
“Unwrapping the stockings Christ-
mas morning with our two kids —
we usually had gag gifts in there.”
non Beach and Gearhart
schools) and Ocean Beach
School District schools and
Clatsop Community Col-
lege are closed for winter
break.
The Astoria Library,
Warrenton Library and all
Timberland libraries in
Washington state, includ-
ing Ilwaco, Ocean Park and
Naselle, are closed Thurs-
day and Friday. The Seaside
Library is closed Friday.
The Port of Astoria offic-
es and services are closed
Thursday and Friday.
Garbage
collection
through Recology Western
Oregon (covering Astoria,
Seaside, Gearhart and Can-
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The Astoria Warming Cen-
ter in the First United Meth-
odist Church, 1076 Franklin
Ave., is holding a volunteer
training from 1:30 to 3 p.m.
Sunday. The Warming Cen-
ter is in the lower level of
the church. Enter through
the double doors on the 11th
Street side of the building.
The public is invited to
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unteer opportunities . Attend-
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anyone to volunteering.
For information, write to
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‘Of Orcas and Men’ author shares
lessons of ‘remarkable creatures’
Awe-inspiring
creatures are
threatened
By KATHERINE LACAZE
EO Media Group
SEASIDE — Seattle-based
investigative journalist and author
David Neiwert knows a lot about
orcas, or killer whales, some of
which he shared during a presen-
tation on his recently published
book, “Of Orcas and Men: What
Killer Whales Can Teach Us,” at
the Seaside Public Library.
More than two dozen audi-
ence members left the presenta-
tion Thursday having learned a
thing or two about the carniv-
orous mammals, as well. They
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civilization’s early fear of the
whales, as the Latin roughly
translates into killer or messen-
ger from hell. They also learned
orcas are successful predators
in the waters they roam and
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Neiwert, the author of sev-
eral books and a contributing
writer for the Southern Poverty
Law Center, is a longtime nature
enthusiast. “Of Orcas and Men ”
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cultural history and environ-
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of the earth’s most elusive and
remarkable creatures.
“These creatures inspire
awe, even when you see them
in captivity, behind the glass
and concrete tank,” Neiwert
said. “They’re still so large and
so beautiful and so intelligent
that they have a real presence
about them.”
Katherine Lacaze/ EO Media Group
Seattle-based author and investigative journalist David
Neiwert gives a presentation on orcas at the Seaside
Public Library Thursday. He shared information from his
recently published book, “Of Orcas and Men: What Kill-
er Whales Can Teach Us,” about the history of orcas and
their relationship to various cultures throughout history.
Laurentiis, shows how little the
general public knew about the
mammals, even into the 1970s.
Many people interact only
with orcas in captivity, which is
“nothing like seeing the animal
in its real element,” said Neiw-
ert, who has spent a lot of time
observing and researching the
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cas, such as Namu, one of the
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aquarium in the 1960s, helped
change the public perception of
the mammals. Many people be-
came enamored with them, per-
ceiving them as sort of aquatic
panda bears, Neiwert said. For
the orcas, however, putting them
in SeaWorld theme parks, the
Miami Seaquarium and other
marine parks is detrimental be-
cause of their size, intelligence
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A changing perception
Some people in the cap-
predator in those environments,
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Neiwert said. Their success is
aided by their social structures orcas has varied throughout environment negatively affects
and enormous size — adult time and cultures. Some coastal the mammals. They claim they
male orcas grow to be about 32 indigenous cultures respected are educating children about or-
feet long and weigh between the orcas as their ancestors and cas. However, the presentations
12,000 and 14,000 pounds and creatures of great spiritual and give limited information about
adult female orcas grow to be physical power. The Greeks the whales themselves, Neiwert
about 24 feet long and 8,000 saw orcas as terrifying and de- said.
“What they’re actually sell-
pounds. Orcas originally were monic messengers of hell, the
grouped into one species, but antithesis of angelic and sacred ing is this spectacle: the specta-
scientists since have learned dolphins — although orcas cle of humans seemingly con-
they are part of a species com- are part of the oceanic dolphin trolling these large and amazing
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differences between the eco- orcas, Neiwert said. The movie you it’s purely an illusion. The
types are so pronounced they “Orca,” produced by Dino De orcas are very much in charge.”
are fundamentally different
species.
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there are three different types of
orcas: the southern orcas who
reside along the entire West
Coast; Bigg’s, or transient, or-
cas; and offshore orcas. There
are multiple other populations
elsewhere across the world.
Orcas are very empathetic
and intelligent, Neiwert said.
They have a capacity for echolo-
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have a unique sense of self,
different from what land mam-
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things as individuals,” Neiw-
ert said. “Their sense of self is
really bound up in each other.
This is why their pods are so
important, so critical to their
social lives. They remain with
their families their entire lives.”
On the record
DUII arrest
• At 10:50 p.m. Friday,
Oregon State Police arrested
Jonathan Michael Johnston,
36, Seaside, for driving under
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U.S. Highway 101 and Ave-
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