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Water
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the bridge
Compiled by Bob Duke
From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
10 years ago this week — 2006
Four titles in a row for the Astoria girls, and a return to the winner’s circle
for the Astoria boys marked two days of swimming in the District 1/3A cham-
pionships Friday and Saturday at the Astoria Aquatics Center.
The Astoria girls ran away with their team title, scoring 289 points to the
201 for runner-up Tillamook.
On the boys’ side, Astoria wrested the title away from defending champion
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This map of East Astoria waterfront from the East End boat ba-
sin to tongue Point shows the two areas, shaded, which are to
be filled by the dredge McCurdy, now working in the channel for
the U.S. Corps of Engineers. The eastern area, extending out-
ward from the foot of 53rd to the railway like, will contain about 8
acres of new land. It is being pumped in first and job is about 80
percent complete. The dredge then will shift to west end of the
lagoon and will fill it as far east as 42nd street if material in the
channel holds out. This tract will be about 15 acres of new land.
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erman they remembered for his rebellious spirit, his love for the ocean, his
mischievous nature and his out-of-place boots.
Craig L. “Boots” Larsen, of Hammond, died last week when his boat, the War-
renton-based crabber Catherine M, sank near Tillamook. He was 32 years old.
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career, he didn’t have all the appropriate equipment, said Garibaldi Pastor Bill
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said. “Those old dairy boots just didn’t look right, and the name stuck.”
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75 years ago — 1941
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ment over repeal of the state reforestation act but apparently are agreed that
proper use of cut-over stump land now in public ownership requires that part
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closed to the Astoria Chamber of Commerce aviation committee a possibil-
ity the civilian pilot training course might be started at the Clatsop airport as
early as March 1 instead of in late spring or early fall as was originally planned.
THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2016
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T TAKES A LOT FOR A
professional to lose his
license to practice. In this
county it happened some
25 years ago when the state
Insurance
Commissioner
revoked Mike Maki’s license.
There was some disbelief and
denial among the man’s friends
about his malfeasance as an
insurance agent. But it also
became clear that an agent had
to work hard to lose his license,
because it seldom happened
‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said,
‘To talk of many things;
Of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax —
Of cabbages —and kings —’
Through the Looking-glass
of Cabbages and Kings
Every month the Oregon Bar
Association, the state Board of
Medical Examiners and the Board
of Nursing release lists of licensed
professionals who are on probation
or no longer licensed to practice.
It is extremely rare for a state
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ardy. That is happening to a Salem
trial judge.
Judge Vance Day’s case made a
headline when it was noted that he
would not marry same-sex couples.
That was an eye-catching charge, but
the judge’s transgressions move well
beyond that. The 48-page decision of
the state Commission on Judicial Fit-
ness and Disability is painful reading
to someone who cares about the pro-
bity of our judiciary.
Concerning the gay marriage
issue, the commission wrote: “The
intended discrimination corrodes
the integrity and impartiality of the
judiciary.”
One of the most damning sec-
tions is devoted to what was true
or false in Judge Day’s responses
to the commission. In a nutshell,
Judge Day had been caught in a
number of lies.
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SOMETIMES STATING THE
obvious is the most essential thing
in public life. In its preamble to the
Day decision, the Commission of
Judicial Fitness writes that, “The
Supreme Court has admonished
that the courts of Oregon belong
to the people and in order to main-
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Oregon in the courts of this state, it
is essential that the judges of those
courts be held to the highest stan-
dard of honesty and competence.”
Statesman-Journal
Marion County Circuit Judge Vance Day presides over his court-
room in Salem in 2012. Day, a former chairman of the Oregon Re-
publican Party, is facing an ethics investigation after asking his
clerks to refer couples seeking same-sex marriages to other coun-
ty judges due to his religious beliefs.
The Oregon
Sheriffs
Association
drew a line
on elected
officials
who support
threats of
violence
“These men and women are asking
for change, and we support their
right to challenge our government
to make change. However, we do
not agree with or support any cit-
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advocate for change in a manner
that includes illegal action, threats
of violence, or violence against any
citizen of the United States.”
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IN A SIMILAR VEIN, THE
Oregon State Sheriffs Association
last Thursday issued a statement
that seems prompted by Grant
County Sheriff Glenn Palmer’s
conduct. Concerning the armed
occupiers of the Malheur National
Wildlife Refuge, the sheriffs said:
Secretary Clinton has ‘half a dream’
and negative for Democrats
Sanders’ rhetoric plays
(turnout was down 22 percent
well to young folks’ anxiety
and offers a ray of hope. He
from 2008).”
This doesn’t sound any-
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see
as
broken,
and
he’s
not
thing
like the kind of num-
most striking statistics to come
new to those positions. He
bers Sanders would need to
of the Iowa caucus entry polling was has held many of the same
push his agenda forward, and
the enormous skew of young voters positions most of his life, but
he knows that. If anything, it
sounds like the budding of
away from Hillary Clinton and to they have never had as much
as they do now.
another Republican revolu-
Bernie Sanders. Only 14 percent resonance
Never mind that Sanders has
tion. But these facts are ones
Charles
of caucusgoers 17 to 29 supported been in Congress for decades
that would never pass Sand-
Blow
ers’ lips. They would puncture
Clinton, while 84 percent supported and doesn’t have the stronger
record of accomplishments, as my col- the balloon and end his ascendance.
Sanders.
Clinton, on the other hand, represents
On Thursday, I traveled to the league Nick Kristof put it last week.
Sanders is good at setting the goals, much of what they distrust or even
University of New Hampshire, site of but not so good at getting there.
despise. There is an aura of ethical ambi-
a debate between Clinton and Sanders
When people question Sanders on the guity — from the emails to the Wall Street
that night. Before the debate, I mingled feasibility of pushing his ambitious pol- paid speeches to the super PACs. (There
on campus with people rallying for both icies through an obstructionist, Repub- is growing pressure for her to release the
candidates, with the Sanders rally many lican-controlled Congress, he often transcripts of those speeches and have the
responds with the broad and loose talk content of them compared to her public
times larger than the Clinton one. The of a political revolution, like he put it in pronouncement.) There is the legacy of
energy for Sanders
his closing remarks her military hawkishness, including her
at the school was
Thursday:
Iraq war vote. There is the articulation of
But possibly
“I do believe we her positions that are at odds with young
electric.
need a political rev- folks’ aspirations and sensibilities, like
the most
olution where mil- saying Thursday, “I don’t believe in free
For the actual
lions of people stand college,” and saying that she continues to
debate, I went to a
damaging
up and say loudly support capital punishment.
debate-watching
and clearly that our
But possibly the most damaging of
party for Clinton sup-
of Clinton’s
government belongs Clinton’s attributes is, ironically, her prac-
porters at the Three
attributes is, to all of us and not ticality. As one person commented to
Chimneys Inn, just
just a handful of me on social media: Clinton is running
off campus. There
wealthy campaign an I-Have-Half-A-Dream campaign.
were more heads ironically, her
contributors.”
That simply doesn’t inspire young peo-
of white hair in that
practicality.
What he is say- ple brimming with the biggest of dreams.
room than a jar of cot-
ing is that a political Clinton’s message says: Aim lower, think
ton balls.
The two scenes so close to each other revolution, meaning massive numbers of smaller, move slower. It says, I have more
drove home the point for me: Hillary new voters and unprecedented voter turn- modest ambitions, but they are more
Clinton has a threatening young voter out by people who support his policies, realistic.
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problem.
As Clinton put it Thursday in a swipe
Young folks are facing a warming gress and an easier path to his policies’ at Sanders, “I’m not making promises
planet, exploding student debt, stunted passage and implementation.
that I cannot keep.”
But if Iowa is any measure, that revo-
mobility, stagnant wages and the increas-
But the pragmatic progressive line is
ing corporatization of the country due in lution has yet to materialize, and indeed, not going to help her chip away at Sand-
part to the increasing consolidation of may never.
ers’ support among the young. That sup-
Iowa did see a record number of cau- port is hardening into hipness. Supporting
wealth and the impact of that wealth on
cusgoers … for the Republican candidate. Sanders is quickly becoming the thing to
American institutions.
Young folks are staring down a bar- The number of Democratic caucusgoers do if you are young and want to appeal to
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conversely, smash it to bits. And they’re Clinton.
that is quickly running out, and a strategy
As RealClearPolitics reported:
angry at those who came before them for
of simply holding out long enough so that
“The trend line is positive for Repub- the heavy black and brown support for
doing too little, too late. They want a dra-
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matic correction, and they want it now.
By CHARLES BLOW
New York Times News Service
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