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
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years, civil rights leaders gathered Monday at
the South Carolina Statehouse to pay homage
to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. without the Confed-
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The banner was taken down over the summer after
police said a young white man who had posed for pho-
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to death during a Bible study in Charleston. After the
massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal
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and made it a priority for lawmakers to pass legislation
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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
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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-
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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.
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looked out the window at exactly the
right moment. What they saw horri-
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capsize in a canoe on Smith Lake near
Warrenton on Sunday afternoon.
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expected to fully recover.
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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,
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Fish is a high-achiever, whether she is
loading up on honors courses, studying
online and through the summer at Clat-
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puters for her
district or start-
ing up Lego ro-
botics teams for
younger kids.
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abdicate her re-
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paying for col-
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she was recently named one of 90 semi-
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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-
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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
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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.
The message: No, we do
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