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143rd YEAR, No. 139 TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2016 ONE DOLLAR Rescuers recount Smith Lake tragedy A father dies, a son lives after canoe capsizes By ERICK BENGEL The Daily Astorian Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Donna Wright holds a candle as she participates in a candlelight walk honoring Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday. The Lower Columbia Diversi- ty Project organized the event, which was followed by a free soup dinner at Peace Lutheran Church, sponsored by the North Coast Food Web. ‘Remember! Celebrate! Act!’ Nation honors slain civil rights leader The Associated Press 2/80%,$ 6& ² )RU WKH ¿UVW WLPH LQ years, civil rights leaders gathered Monday at the South Carolina Statehouse to pay homage to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. without the Confed- HUDWHÀDJFDVWLQJDORQJVKDGRZRYHUWKHP The banner was taken down over the summer after police said a young white man who had posed for pho- WRVZLWKDUHEHOÀDJVKRWQLQHEODFNFKXUFKPHPEHUV to death during a Bible study in Charleston. After the massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal &KXUFK5HSXEOLFDQ*RY1LNNL+DOH\UHYHUVHGFRXUVH and made it a priority for lawmakers to pass legislation WRUHPRYHWKHÀDJ “Isn’t this a great day? It’s so nice to be standing KHUHDQGQRWORRNLQJDWWKDWÀDJ´VDLG(]HOO3LWWPDQ ZKR DWWHQGHG PRVW RI WKH .LQJ 'D\ DQWLÀDJ UDOOLHV since they started in 2000. “I always had faith it would come down. I hate it took what it did, but was real hap- py to see it go.” Across the country, the 30th anniversary of the holi- day to honor the civil rights leader assassinated in 1968 was remembered in different ways. In Michigan, peo- ple delivered bottled water to residents of Flint amid WKHFLW\¶VGULQNLQJZDWHUFULVLV,Q$WODQWDDQRYHUÀRZ crowd listened as to the nation’s housing secretary talk about the 50th anniversary of King’s visit to Chicago to launch a campaign for fair housing. Rallies against po- OLFHEUXWDOLW\LQ0LQQHVRWDDQG&DOLIRUQLDEULHÀ\VKXW GRZQWUDI¿FRQWZREULGJHV (OVHZKHUH DQ RYHUÀRZ FURZG VKRZHG XS DW Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta to celebrate its for- mer pastor’s legacy at an annual commemorative ser- vice. It capped more than a week of events under the theme: “Remember! Celebrate! Act! King’s Legacy of Freedom for Our World.” While people have been distracted by TV reality shows and music “that tears down instead of uplifts,” many injustices have occurred and “we’re about to cre- ate right here in this civilized society the wild, wild west with guns,” said King’s daughter, the Rev. Bernice King. Y’all, we can’t keep being distracted, because if you’re not careful, we’re about to allow a reality show host to bully himself into becoming president of the United States of America,” she said. C +HDWKHU :\ODQG DQG 7LP :DONHU looked out the window at exactly the right moment. What they saw horri- ¿HGWKHP$IDWKHUDQGKLV\RXQJVRQ capsize in a canoe on Smith Lake near Warrenton on Sunday afternoon. 7KHIDWKHU\HDUROG.\OH+DUN- OHVVRI:DUUHQWRQGURZQHG+DUNOHVV¶ VRQ\HDUROG/RJDQZDVWUDQVSRUWHG WR&ROXPELD0HPRULDO+RVSLWDODQGLV expected to fully recover. :KLOHVHDUFKLQJIRU+DUNOHVVHPHU- gency responders used the lakefront house owned by Tim’s brother, Brian Walker, and his wife, Kyle Walker, as a base of operations. See RESCUERS, Page 10A Coast Guard daughter up for national scholarship Warrenton senior could be Military Child of the Year By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian More than 20 people walked in the rain while holding candles to honor Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday. Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Kit Ketcham, of Pacific Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, holds a candle before the candlelight walk honoring Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday. WARRENTON — In all respects, :DUUHQWRQ+LJK6FKRROVHQLRU$VKOH\ Fish is a high-achiever, whether she is loading up on honors courses, studying online and through the summer at Clat- VRS &RPPXQLW\ &ROOHJH ¿[LQJ FRP- puters for her district or start- ing up Lego ro- botics teams for younger kids. Not one to abdicate her re- sponsibility in paying for col- OHJH )LVK has applied for about 10 schol- Ashley arships, among Fish them the Mili- tary Child of the Year award, for which she was recently named one of 90 semi- ¿QDOLVWVQDWLRQZLGH 7KH DZDUG JLYHQ E\ WKH QRQSUR¿W 2SHUDWLRQ+RPHIURQWKRQRUVFKLOGUHQ of U.S. Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and National Guard for their scholarship, volunteer- ism, leadership and extracurricular in- volvement while facing the challenges of military life. See ASHLEY, Page 10A As US eyes rural West, what’s next? not approve of the es to empty chairs armed men who took and a single camera. over the refuge. But But in the days the underlying frus- since, attention has tration and anger at turned to Walden’s federal land manage- 24-minute descrip- ment and loss of eco- tion of the area he nomic opportunity is represents and the real. “decades of frustra- By ERIC MORTENSON tion, arrogance and and MATEUSZ betrayal that has con- PERKOWSKI So now what? U.S. Rep. tributed to the mis- Capital Press So now what? Greg Walden trust of the federal Walden said he’s discussed such issues with the U.S. Rep. Greg Walden government.” Judging from more than Republican leadership, but it’s didn’t have much of an audi- ence in early January when he 120,000 YouTube views of his unclear how much can be ac- VWRRGRQWKHÀRRURIWKH+RXVH speech and even-handed edi- complished in the current polit- of Representatives to talk about torial response from the largest ical atmosphere. the militia takeover of the Mal- news organizations, Walden and /DVW ZHHN WKH +RXVH YRW- heur National Wildlife Refuge others who represent, live in and ed 253-166 to overturn the headquarters in southeast Ore- work in the rural West appear to U.S. Environmental Protection gon. That’s how it works; Mem- have gained the nation’s atten- Agency’s “Waters of the U.S.” bers of Congress give even their tion. 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