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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2015 Older generation rules state famous for its youth Age holds sway in Salem Katherine Lacaze/EO Media Group Emergency responders prepare to move a woman injured in an accident Tuesday morning to the Medix Ambulance to be taken to Columbia Memorial Hospital. Two women injured in Gearhart accident Driver of car backed up into path of logging truck business plaza to make a left and merge onto the southbound lane of U.S. Highway 101. However, there was not an opening for her to pull into the lane, so she tried to back up. She backed up “right LQWR WKH SDWK RI WKH ORJ WUXFN´ Bowman said. By KATHERINE LACAZE The driver of a Nygaard Log- EO Media Group ging truck, traveling north, ap- plied his brakes but could not stop GEARHART — Two people the vehicle in time. His truck hit were injured in a two-vehicle ac- the passenger side of the car. cident on U.S. Highway 101 in Besides the driver, there was Gearhart on Tuesday morning. one passenger in the car. A call went out about 10:42 One woman was able to get a.m. that a car and a logging truck out of the car and was walking. It collided at 3621 Highway 101, took emergency responders about near the Providence Rehabilita- 45 minutes to extricate the other WLRQ 6HUYLFHV RI¿FH DQG (QFRUH woman after cutting the roof off Dance Studio. the car. Both were transported to Gearhart Fire Department, Columbia Memorial Hospital, Seaside Fire & Rescue, Medix Bowman said. The driver of the and Gearhart and Seaside police logging truck was uninjured and departments responded. able to drive the truck away from According to Gearhart Police the scene by about 11:50 a.m. Chief Jeff Bowman and witness- Bowman said no charges have es on the scene, the woman driv- EHHQ ¿OHG DW WKLV WLPH7KH LQFL- ing the car had pulled out of the dent still is under investigation. am certain that climate change and “I do not feel it is fair to my fam- higher education would receive ily, my clients or my constituents to more policy attention if young peo- juggle so many responsibilities, and P\IDPLO\PXVWFRPHILUVW´%DUWRQ SOHYRWHGPRUH´ By PARIS ACHEN wrote. At age 30, Rep. Dallas Capital Bureau Young people’s under- Heard, R-Roseburg, is the representation is worse youngest legislator serving In the state where “young people in Salem. than it was in the 1970s, JRWRUHWLUH´²DVGHSLFWHGLQ,)&¶V said Jim Moore, politics Heard sought election FRPHG\³3RUWODQGLD´²EDE\ERRP- after struggling with state professor at Pacific Uni- ers hold the power. versity and director of the regulations to kick off his Millennials, ages 18-34, repre- landscape consulting busi- Tom McCall Center for Policy Innovation. sent only 3 percent of seats in the ness in Douglas County. In 1975, 17 percent of Oregon Legislature, while they He said policymakers of- state representatives were make up 29 percent of the voting-el- ten enact regulations that Brent baby boomers, who were igible population, according to a make it harder for young Barton then 24-29. There was survey by Pew Charitable Trusts’ people to start businesses only one baby boomer in Stateline and the National Confer- and careers. the Senate, Moore said. ence of State Legislatures. “The older generation “Boomers were seeing Baby boomers, ages 51-69, make is already in place in their that young people could up less than one-third of Oregon’s businesses or endeavors so FDXVHSROLWLFDOFKDQJH´KH potential voters yet hold more than when they vote for more said. half of legislative seats. policy that hinders young The survey found a similar dis- people, they don’t under- Watergate and parity in state legislatures around stand that regulation is Vietnam the nation. getting so thick and heavy The Watergate scandal The imbalance might be “tilting and onerous that it is shut- “showed younger people policymaking toward the interests of ting down my generation Dallas that they needed to be in- seniors and away from the country’s and people younger than Heard volved to prevent the kind ODUJHVWOLYLQJJHQHUDWLRQPLOOHQQLDOV´ me from even getting start- of corruption they saw at wrote Stateline’s Rebecca Beitsch. HG´+HDUGVDLG WKHQDWLRQDOOHYHO´0RRUH Oregon’s handful of legislators said. “Throw in the Viet- who are 35 and younger think the po- Establishing careers Millennials also are at nam War and the Civil litical tilt toward seniors is a reality. Rights movements, and “Young people simply don’t vote a stage in life when they there were a host of issues as frequently as senior citizens, and might be establishing ca- that drew younger people that is what skews political out- reers, paying off student LQWRSROLWLFV´ comes far more than the age of leg- debt and raising children. Millennials also have Barton’s life might epit- LVODWRUV´VDLGVWDWH5HS%UHQW%DU- started families and busi- ton, a 35-year-old Democrat from omize some of the chal- nesses later than baby lenges millennials face in Oregon City. Jim boomers did. getting representation in Moore Climate change and higher Salem. “Millennials will en- education After three terms, Barton an- ter politics, just a bit later than the Climate change and higher edu- nounced in August he wouldn’t seek ERRPHUVGLG´0RRUHVDLG cation are “two examples of issues re-election next year so he can spend The Capital Bureau is a collabo- where seniors and millennials weigh more time with his family. He and ration between EO Media Group and Pamplin Media Group. LVVXHV GLIIHUHQWO\´ %DUWRQ VDLG ³, his wife just had their first child. National park visitor fees increasing next week The Daily Astorian Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian The Oscar B Ferry makes a test run in February. The ferry has been out of service since mid-December. Oscar B ferry out of service By KYLE SPURR The Daily Astorian The Oscar B ferry between Westport and Puget Island, Wash., has been out of service since mid-December from debris clogging the cooling system. There is no timetable for how long the ferry will be shut down. It is the last ferry on the Lower Columbia Riv- er and the only way for vehi- cles to cross the river besides the Astoria Bridge and the Lewis and Clark Bridge in Longview. Wahkiakum County Public Works Director Chuck Beyer said he hopes to have a repair plan submitted this week to the U.S. Coast Guard, which RI¿FLDOO\VKXWGRZQWKHIHUU\ Once the Coast Guard signs off on the work, it will still take a few weeks for ma- terials to ship and the repair work to be done, Beyer said. The clogged cooling line causes the generator to over- heat. Without the generator, the ferry’s hydraulics and steering won’t work. Beyer said debris from recent storms are partly to blame, although the clogging seems to be caused by a de- VLJQÀDZ “There had been issues in the past with the intakes get- ting clogged, and material JHWWLQJLQWRWKH¿OWHUV´%H\HU said. There is no cost estimate yet for the repair. The $5.7 million ferry, which went into service in January, is GO ONLINE www. dailyastorian .com still under warranty. The Oscar B remains docked in Puget Island. The increase in visitor fees at Lewis and Clark Na- tional Historical Park will go into effect next week. Starting Monday, the vis- itor use fee to enter the park will increase from $3 per person to $5 per person, age 16 and over. The annual Lewis and Clark Pass, good for unlim- ited entry for one year, will increase from $10 to $20. Lewis and Clark Nation- al Historical Park is one of 131 national parks to update entrance fees, following a directive from the National Park Service. The increase in park en- trance fees will allow the park service to invest in the improvements necessary to provide the best possible park experience to visitors, according to Lewis and Clark National Historical Park Superintendent Scott Tucker. “This modest increase in fees will allow us to contin- ue to protect, preserve and share the special places here with current visitors and IXWXUH JHQHUDWLRQV´ 7XFN- er said. “The money from entrance fees is used to im- prove trails, infrastructure, and visitor services and 100 percent of fees collected re- main in the park for visitor XVHSURMHFWV´ Consult a PROFESSIONAL W A NTED Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber N orth w es t H a rdw oods • Lon gview , W A LEO FINZI Contact: Steve Axtell • 360-430-0885 or John Anderson • 360-269-2500 Have a quick question? Feel free to call. We’re glad to help. We Appreciate your Business and want to Wish Everyone a Happy Holiday and A Happy New Year! Simon & Maggie 4340 Highway 101 N. Gearhart, OR 97138 503-738-4108 In the fall of 2014, Tuck- er said, the park service conducted a nationwide re- view of entrance fees. To solicit public input, Lewis and Clark National Historical Park launched a civic engagement cam- paign. Based on the public comments, Tucker recom- mended the lowest possible increase to regional park service management. Astoria ’ s Best NETWORK AND COMPUTER SALES, SERVICES & REPAIRS M-F 10-6 Sat 12-5 1020 Commercial #2 503-325-2300 suggestions Q: Any for the New Year? A : With winter’s transient power outages, and the unstable voltages that come along with those, check that you have a “Surge Protector,” not just a power strip to protect your TVs, routers, switches, and computers. Surge protectors absorb voltage surges, and even “sacrifice themselves” to protect your equipment. 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