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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
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By KATHERINE LACAZE
The driver of a Nygaard Log-
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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said Jim Moore, politics
Heard sought election
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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
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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
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of corruption they saw at
wrote Stateline’s Rebecca Beitsch.
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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
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Millennials also have
Barton’s life might epit-
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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.
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National park visitor
fees increasing next week
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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
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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-
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the past with the intakes get-
ting clogged, and material
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said.
There is no cost estimate
yet for the repair. The $5.7
million ferry, which went
into service in January, is
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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
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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
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In the fall of 2014, Tuck-
er said, the park service
conducted a nationwide re-
view of entrance fees.
To solicit public input,
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