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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2016
Lower Columbia Film outlines risks of clearcut logging
Hispanic Council
awarded $80,000
By ANDREW R. TONRY
EO Media Group
CANNON BEACH —
Standing on the beach, looking
east, you can see them — the
expanding swaths of clear cuts
carved out of the hills. Every
few months it seems another
is shaved away, almost like a
haircut. What’s tougher to see
— at least with the naked eye
— is how those clear cuts have
the potential to disturb both
the water we drink and the air
we breathe.
Such potential for devasta-
tion is the subject of “Behind
the Emerald Curtain,” a doc-
umentary ¿ lm to be shown at
the Cannon Beach Chamber of
Commerce at 6 p.m. Wednes-
day . Admission is free. An
informal question-and-answer
session and reception follows
the screening.
The ¿ lm is produced by
the Portland-based nonpro¿ t
advocacy group Paci¿ c Rivers
along with North Fork Stu-
dios, and directed by Shane
Anderson.
Much of the crisply shot
and foreboding half-hour ¿ lm
is set less than 30 miles south
of Cannon Beach, in Wheel-
er and Rockaway Beach. In
those nearby locales, the ¿ lm
posits, both drinking water
and oxygen have been com-
promised by destructive log-
ging practices.
According to the ¿ lm, nat-
ural root systems act as a ¿ lter
time employees and recently
assisted Latinos to sign up for
and learn to use the Oregon
Health Plan. The council plans
to assist people without S ocial
S ecurity numbers to enroll in
the emergency services.
The ¿ ve-year initiative
started with 77 applicants and
was narrowed down to 25. Of
that 25, the 10 collaborators
were announced.
There is a plan to launch an
advisory group for the initia-
tive in Seaside.
Meetings are being sched-
uled this month in Seaside and
Astoria, inviting people who
want to participate.
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The nonpro¿ t Northwest
Health Foundation recently
awarded the Lower Columbia
Hispanic Council $80,000 for
the ¿ rst year of a ¿ ve-year ini-
tiative to improve health and
education outcomes for local
Latino children.
The foundation chose 10
community groups in Oregon
and s outhwest Washington to
work together and share infor-
mation over the ne[t ¿ ve years.
The $80,000 is renewable
for each of the ¿ ve years.
The Lower Columbia His-
panic Council has three full-
Oregon is top relocation
destination in America
10 percent over the past six years.
According to the study, 19
percent of people moving to
Oregon say they did so for re-
tirement. Another 19 percent
say they came for the lifestyle.
Other popular states for
those looking to move were
South Carolina, Vermont, Ida-
ho, North Carolina, Florida,
Nevada, Texas, Washington
and Washington, D.C.
Associated Press
SALEM — For the third
year in a row, more people are
moving to Oregon than any-
where else in the nation.
The Statesman Journal re-
ported that a study by United
Van Lines found that 69 percent
of moves to and from Oregon in
2015 were inbound. The state has
increased inbound migration by
ACCUWEATHER ® FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
Astoria 5-Day Forecast
Tonight
Occasional rain
and drizzle
40°
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Thursday
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Astoria Mayor Arline
LaMear will hold her month-
ly “Meet the Mayor” event
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at noon Wednesday at City
Hall.
LaMear had committed
to the events during her ¿ rst
year as mayor and has re-
leased a schedule to continue
the meet-and-greets this year.
Residents are invited to
attend and discuss city is-
sues.
Memorial
Saturday, Jan. 9
LITTON, Carolee Jo — A celebration of life will be held at 2 p.m. at the Seaside Lighthouse
Christian Church, 88786 Dellmoor Loop.
Deaths
Jan. 2, 2016
SHERMAN, Larry L., 78,
of Hammond, died in Astoria.
Ocean View Funeral & Cre-
mation of Astoria is in charge
of the arrangements.
Dec. 27, 2015
BENEKE, John C., 74,
of Gearhart, died in Seaside.
Hughes-Ransom Mortuary in
Seaside is in charge of the ar-
rangements.
Dec. 24, 2015
OWEN, John A., 71, of As-
toria, died in Vancouver, Wash-
ington. Arrangements are pend-
ing at Penttila’s Chapel by The
Sea in Long Beach, Washington.
Birth
Dec. 22, 2015
OLSON, Kimberly and Scott, of Salem, a boy, Henry Spencer Olson, born in Salem.
Grandparents are Al and Carol Olson of Astoria and Joel Giusti and Vicki Giusti of Salem.
Lotteries
OREGON
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7 p.m.: 4-1-4-6
10 p.m.: 5-6-8-4
Monday’s Megabucks:
09-11-13-25-41-47
Estimated jackpot $5.2
million.
WASHINGTON
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Monday’s Match 4: 12-
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Public meetings
TUESDAY
Seaside Community and Senior Commis-
sion, 10 a.m., the Bob Chisholm Center, 1225
Avenue A.
Seaside Library Board, 4:30 p.m., 1131
Broadway.
Port of Astoria Commission, 5 p.m.,
workshop, old Port offices, 422 Gateway
Ave.
Miles Crossing Sanitary Sewer District
Board, 6 p.m., 34583 U.S. Highway 101 Busi-
ness.
Seaside Planning Commission, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 989 Broadway.
Cannon Beach City Council, 7 p.m., City
Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
WEDNESDAY
Seaside Improvement Commission, 7
p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway.
DUII arrest
• At 7:36 a.m. Monday, Warrenton Police arrested Herbert George Bechtolt, 67, of Warren-
ton, for driving under the inÀ uence of intoxicants after Bechtolt reportedly backed his vehicle
down an embankment by the KOA campground on Ridge Road.
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she ¿ nds the scent of the same
chemicals to have permeated
the clinic, and a patient suffers
a subsequent seizure.
In a ¿ lm full of disturbing
images, another follows. As
the camera zooms out from
the clinic, a freshly logged hill
looms directly behind it.
On the record
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Interview subject
‘Behind the Emerald Curtain’
According to ¿ lmmakers,
the only way Wheeler resi-
dents can be made abreast of
nearby spraying schedules is
to pay $25 for the information.
“<ou have to pay to ¿ nd
out if you’re being poisoned,”
says a À abbergasted inter-
viewee.
But “Behind the Emerald
Curtain” doesn’t take issue
with particular perpetrators so
much as it does with Oregon
law. Under the auspices of the
Oregon Forest Practices Act,
it alleges, everything these
private landowners — and the
companies who log it — are
doing is perfectly legal.
As such, the ¿ lm is as
much a call to action as it is an
exposé.
LaMear to hold monthly ‘Meet the Mayor’
Ontario
28/37
Bend
25/37
‘You have
to pay to
fi nd out if
you’re being
poisoned.’
Free Christmas tree recycling available
Recology Western Oregon
is having their annual one-day
Christmas tree recycling pickup
for residents within the city lim-
its of Astoria on Tuesday .
The Dalles
30/38
Astoria
40/48
for Rockaway’s Jetty Creek
watershed, and that after
such forests were clear cut the
amount of silt in the water in-
creased dramatically. Filtering
out that silt is a complex and
costly process, which added
unnecessary chemicals to pub-
lic drinking water. Improve-
ments to Rockaway Beach’s
water processing facilities, the
¿ lm asserts, cost some $1.6
million.
“Behind the Emerald Cur-
tain” also explores chemical
spraying after forests have
been logged.
Most disturbing is the tes-
timony of one Wheeler resi-
dent. She tells of staggering to
a local clinic after a spraying
near her home. Upon arrival
The Daily Astorian
Oregon Weather
Shown is
tomorrow’s
weather.
Temperatures
are tonight’s
lows and
tomorrow’s
highs
Submitted Photo
Filmmaker Shane Anderson explores risks to our region’s forests.
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