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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2016
Budtender claims he’s owed back wages Goldeen remembered
as a community leader
Manzanita dispensary owners refute
claim, say partnership didn’t pan out
By KATHERINE LACAZE
EO Media Group
still a pending investigation,”
she said.
A former employee of
Oregon Coast Cannabis has
¿ led a claim with the state
Bureau of Labor and Industries
alleging unpaid wages, statutory
oYertime wages and bene¿ t pay,
but owner Andrew Buck said
the company doesn’t owe the
employee anything. The work
the employee performed, Buck
said, was part of an investment
into the company.
Daegon McDonald, the
former employee who ¿ led the
claim, alleges Buck owes him
about $370 for expenses —
such as gas used to run errands
in Portland and Warrenton
and money spent purchasing
materials — and about $12,300
in unpaid wages and statutory
overtime wages at a rate of $15
per hour from Aug. 12 to Nov.
9. The labor bureau is investi-
gating the case.
“It’s a business relationship
that did not happen as we would
like,” Buck said. “But we are
certainly wishing the best to
them and we do not wish to go
into the matter until the investi-
gation has actually been settled.”
Co-owner Hannah Hayes
said it is “somewhat of a
sensitive matter.”
“We really don’t have much
to say at this time since it is
Dispensary opened
in September
By EDWARD
STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
T he bureau sent a notice of
the wage claim in December
to Buck, who opened
the Manzanita marijuana
dispensary with Hayes in
September . According to the
wage claim, McDonald was
never paid for any of the work
he had done at Oregon Coast
Cannabis, “even though the
business remains open and
continues to pro¿ t.”
During his time with the
company, McDonald said, he
helped remodel the interior of the
business, served as a budtender,
helped run the company’s social
media pages, created schedules
for employees, helped create
an employee handbook and
worked as a direct assistant to
Buck.
“My employer has ignored
my questions regarding when or
if I will be paid and even gave
me a 72-hour eviction notice
for not paying rent,” McDonald
stated.
Buck also was McDonald’s
landlord for a few months.
Buck ¿ led the residential
eviction complaint, naming
McDonald as the defendant,
in
Tillamook
County
Circuit Court in mid-De-
R.J. Marx/The Daily Astorian
Oregon Coast Cannabis in Manzanita.
cember. Because of alleged
nonpayment of rent from Sept.
1 to Nov. 1, Buck claimed
McDonald had to move out of
the apartment, which has the
same address as Oregon Coast
Cannabis. The delinquent rent
totaled $1,800. However, in
his response to the bureau ,
Buck alleged McDonald
owes $3,200 in back rent for
residing in the rental property
for ¿ ve months.
Circuit Court Judge Jonathan
Hill gave a default ruling in
December in favor of Buck,
because McDonald did not
show up. McDonald was given
until Jan. 3 to move out.
Claims he was
neYer ¿ red
To support his wage claim,
McDonald included evidence,
such as shift schedules,
time records, statements
from witnesses and other
documents to substantiate his
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Jan. 24, 2016
BADER, William Logan, 87,
of Seaside, died in Hammond.
Hughes-Ransom Mortuary is in
charge of the arrangements.
Jan. 5, 2016
KELLY,
William
H.
“Boodha,” 73, of Astoria, died
en route to Portland.
DUII arrests
• At 9:48 p.m. Friday,
Oregon State Police arrested
Burke Andrew Chambers, 52,
of Beaverton, for driving under
the inÀ uence of intoxicants on
U.S. Highway 26 at mile post
12. Chambers’ blood alcohol
was measured at 0.16 percent,
according to police.
• At 9:17 p.m. Saturday,
Oregon State Police arrested
Russell Raymond Earl,
71, of Gearhart, for DUII
on U.S. Highway 101 in
Warrenton.
• At 11:13 p.m. Sunday,
Oregon State Police arrested
Jordan Kekoa Schweitzer,
25, of Astoria, for DUII
on U.S. Highway 101 and
Hamburg Avenue in Astoria.
Assault
• At 1:39 a.m. Saturday,
Warrenton Police arrested
Steven Michael Wolf, 38 , of
Warrenton, for fourth-degree
assault and criminal trespass
after a dispute at 228 Main
Ave.
6:30 p.m., special meeting to
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third-À oor boardroom, 785
Alameda Ave.
Clatsop Community Col-
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(closed to public) to discuss
employment and property
transactions, Columbia Hall
Room 219, 1651 Lexington
Ave.
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Astoria Parks and Recre-
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The Bureau of Labor and
Industries is conducting a wage
investigation to assess what
— if any — amount of wages
are actually owed, according
to communications director
Charlie Burr.
“We make a determination
to ¿ nd if wages were actually
owed,” he said.
If one of the parties does
not agree with the result of the
investigation and the bureau’s
determination, they can ask
for a contested case hearing in
front of an administrative law
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employment. McDonald stated
he never was formally ¿ red,
but when he showed up for
work one day, the locks were
changed and the “employer
refuses to talk about it.”
Buck did not disagree
McDonald worked at Oregon
Coast Cannabis between August
and November, but he stated
McDonald was not hired.
Rather, in an oral agreement ,
McDonald “was supposed to
provide one year sweat equity as
part of his parents’ investment,”
which included $24,000, Buck
told the labor bureau.
McDonald did not bring
$24,000 to the table and he
“stopped coming to work,”
Buck stated.
He said business partner-
ships do not pan out “fairly
regularly” in all industries.
“It just happens that we’re
in a contentious industry at this
time,” he said. “It’s an ongoing
case that we are in the process
of settling. At this time, there is
no violation on record, and we
wish the best to any involved
parties.”
Wage investigation
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Friends and family
remembered Ann Goldeen,
a chiropractor and president
of the Jewish Beit Salmon
Congregation, as dedicated
to the health of her
community.
Goldeen, 63, died of
cancer
Sunday at
her home
in Astoria.
She
is
survived
by husband
B a r r y
Sears and
daughters Ann Goldeen
L e a h
Goodstein and Jasmine
Golden-Sea.
There will be a public
funeral for Goldeen at
noon Thursday in Clatsop
Community
College’s
Performing Arts Center .
Following the funeral will
be a potluck reception at
Fort George Brewery’s
Lovell Showroom.
“She was a very
strong-willed, motivated,
determined person,” said
Sears, who met his wife
when the two were studying
at the Western State Chiro-
practic College in Portland.
Goldeen had moved
north
from
Oakland,
California, and Sears from
Santa Barbara. The two
moved to Astoria in 1981,
shortly after graduating, and
opened their practice, where
Goldeen was a chiropractor
with her husband for 35
years.
Many of Goldeen’s
interests revolved around
health
and
building
community.
For more than 20 years,
she ran “To Your Health”
and “Diggin’ the Dirt,”
health
and
gardening
shows on KMUN Coast
Community Radio. She
was a master gardener with
Oregon State Universi-
ty’s Extension Service and
served on the board of the
Astoria Coop Grocery.
Along with her husband,
Goldeen enjoyed classical
music, hosting participants
in the Astoria Music Festival
and joining the North Coast
Chorale about ¿ ve years ago
as a singer.
“I think she de¿ nitely had
a very strong commitment
to community support,”
Sears said, adding she came
from a very community
oriented family.
Goldeen was president
of the Jewish Beit Salmon
Congregation formed last
year. The congregation had
long been a point of conver-
sation but took shape after
a Rosh Hashanah Jewish
New Year celebration in
2014 at Goldeen’s house,
during which her son-in-law
Abram Goodstein, a Los
Angeles-based r abbi, started
organizing members.
“Everywhere she went,
she sort of created a congre-
gation,” said Allie Evans,
treasurer for Beit Salmon.
“If it wasn’t Beit Salmon , it
was soup night. If it wasn’t
soup night, it was master
gardeners.”
While on a trip to Israel
in 2013, Sears said his wife’s
health began to fade rapidly.
S he was taken to a hospital
and doctors removed a
tumor. Shortly thereafter,
Goldeen learned she had a
rare intestinal cancer, was is
dif¿ cult to treat.
Evans said Goldeen was
driven by Tikkun Olam , a
Jewish concept marked by
acts of kindness to heal or
repair the world.
“At the end, she
organized a bene¿ t for the
Syrians,” Evans said. “She
did this a couple of weeks
ago. Even down to the end,
she was thinking of how she
can make an impact on the
greater world.”
And to the end, Evans
said, there was a continuous
stream of people coming to
visit Goldeen, a testament
to the community she had
fostered.
“She’ll be missed by a
lot of people,” Sears said.
“We’ve had a lot of support
from the community.”
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