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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2016
Seaside High School names new principal
By R.J. MARX
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — The Seaside
School District has named Jeff
Roberts the new principal at
Seaside High School.
Roberts, the high school’s
assistant principal, will replace
Sheila Roley, who plans to retire
at the end of June.
Superintendent
Doug
Dougherty said both the school
board and the administration
were involved in the selection
process. “Jeff is very involved
with our community,” Dough-
erty said. “Both he and his wife
Nissa. I would say what has
impressed us all is Jeff’s desire
to really support students. For an
assistant principal in charge of
discipline, he is one of the most
supportive people. The students
love him.”
Dougherty said Roberts is
involved in providing activities
and programs for students with
a wide range of interests.
“He has been working so
closely with Sheila, and Sheila
has supported him 100 percent,
involving him in day-to-day
decisions for quite some time,”
Dougherty said.
A graduate of Lin¿eld Col-
lege, Roberts received his mas-
ter’s degree in teaching at
Paci¿c University.
OBITUARIES
Louise Birkenfeld
Seaside
Oct. 25, 1928 — Feb. 15, 2016
Louise Birkenfeld, a long- group.
In earlier years her work was
time resident of Seaside, was a
beautiful, gracious person who displayed in local galleries, also.
loved life and lived it to its full- She also had watercolor paintings
that were accepted
est. She loved gar-
and judged by the
dening and nature,
Oregon Watercolor
and
especially
Society. Her favorite
enjoyed her artwork.
thing to do, other than
Louise was so happy
spend time with fam-
to retire from being
ily and friends, was to
an of¿ce manager at
paint. An educational
an industrial paint-
fund has been estab-
ing contracting ¿rm
lished at Trails End
and get to work on
Art Association in her
her art whenever she
Louise Birkenfeld name.
wanted to.
She will be very
She was a mem-
much missed by
ber of Trails End Art
Association in Gearhart and her sisters, Doris Fales and
also Pallette Puddlers of Can- Virginia Collins; her daugh-
non Beach. Her artwork has ters, Madolyn Irene Smith and
been displayed for years each Carey Teresa Birkenfeld; her
Memorial Day and Labor Day grandchildren, Keith Smith,
at the Cannon Beach Informa- Sally Tietz, Tim Smith, Cas-
tion Center building with other sandra Swain and Jeremy Sis-
members of the Cannon Beach seck; and her great-grandchil-
dren, Travis Smith, Zachary
Smith, Sarah Tietz, Ian Tietz
and Zachary Lane. She was
so happy being together with
family at Christmas.
Louise was born to Esther
May Drake Williams and
Ernest Eugene Williams on
Oct. 25, 1928, in Scott City,
Kansas.
She was married to Frank
William (Bill) Birkenfeld in
1951. They were married 29
years until Bill’s death in 1980.
Louise also had a son, Tracy
William Birkenfeld, who died
in 1987.
Services will be held at
Hughes-Ransom Mortuary in
Seaside today at 3 p.m.
Hughes-Ransom Mortu-
ary & Crematory in Seaside is
in charge of the arrangements.
Visit www.hughes-ransom.
com to share memories and
sign the guest book.
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utility commissioners to testify on a bill to double the state’s renewable energy mandate
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to weigh in on energy bill
By HILLARY
BORRUD
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Republi-
can state senators Thursday
called for Oregon’s pub-
lic utility commissioners
to testify on a controver-
sial bill to double the state’s
existing renewable energy
mandate.
The legislation would
also require the state’s two
investor-owned utilities,
Paci¿Corp and Portland
General Electric, to stop
buying coal power to serve
Oregon customers.
In a press release, Sen-
ate Republicans pointed
to an article published
Wednesday in The Orego-
nian which said members
of the Public Utility Com-
mission had concerns about
the bill but were silenced
by the administration of
Gov. Kate Brown. Paci¿-
Corp and Portland General
Electric are state-regulated
monopolies, and the Pub-
lic Utility Commission is
responsible for vetting the
utilities’ requests to raise
rates.
Republicans sent the
request in a letter to the
chairman of the commit-
tee holding hearings on
the bill, state Sen. Lee
Beyer,
D-Springfield.
The Senate Committee on
Business and Transporta-
tion is scheduled to hold
another public hearing on
Lawrence Fred ‘Larry’ Lumbra
Westminster, Maryland
Jan. 23, 1924 — Feb. 12, 2016
Artist, bon vivant, lover of years, Larry was involved in
dogs and children, Larry Lum- the sale of wholesale quantities
bra died in a hospice in West- of dairy products and granite.
minster, Maryland, on Feb. 12. A very Vermont combination.
Larry was born
Concluding
a
in St. Johnsbury,
successful career
in sales, Larry was
Vermont, to Daniel
and Beufah Lum-
able to retire, com-
fortably, at the age
bra. He had a sister,
of 59. Having lived
Evelyn, who prede-
in
Bloomington,
ceased him by sev-
Indiana, for sev-
eral years. He was
eral decades prior to
fortunate to spend
retirement, he was
his entire childhood
¿nally able to totally
in St. Johnsbury and
himself
it was there that he, Lawrence Lumbra immerse
in his one true pas-
at 16, met Elaine
sion, which was the
Jones. She was 14.
Elaine, truly, was the love ¿ne arts.
Bloomington is the home
of his life, and they celebrated
their 71st anniversary on Jan. of Indiana University, and it
27, 2016. Born of this mar- was there that he spent several
riage were two children, Greg- years taking art history and
ory Lumbra and Alison Gibbs. ¿ne arts courses. Following his
They, their spouses, Carla eventual move to Astoria, he
Lumbra and Richard Gibbs, also was involved in many art
Elaine Lumbra and numer- classes at Clatsop Community
ous grandchildren all survive College. In the ensuing years
he produced hundreds of stone
Larry.
Following World War II, and wood sculptures, and later
after being honorably dis- in life, many oil paintings.
In the late 1980s, Larry and
charged from the Navy, he
attended the University of Ver- Elaine moved to Astoria, Ore-
mont. Utilizing the GI Bill, gon, where they spent sev-
he was able to get a degree in eral years lovingly restoring
business. During his working an older home on Exchange
Street. During the mid-1990s
they once again moved east,
residing in Massachusetts
and Florida. In 2001, they
returned to Astoria and bought
a house in the Alderbrook
neighborhood.
During their almost 20
years in Astoria, they were
faithful members Grace Epis-
copal Church. They always
went to early service, and then
joined their fellow parish-
ioners at The Blue Scorcher
for coffee. They remained in
Astoria until the end of 2014,
when they moved to Mary-
land to live with their daugh-
ter, Alison Gibbs, and her
family. Recently, when asked
how he was doing , he said,
“My only problem is I’m so
damn old.” He had a really
good life and will be sorely
missed by friends and family.
the bill Monday afternoon,
and could also then vote on
the legislation. The House
passed the bill last week.
Beyer could not be reached
for comment late Thursday
afternoon.
“The unwillingness of the
governor to listen to the con-
cerns of utility regulators —
experts on how Oregon’s util-
ities function, is concerning,”
the Republicans wrote in the
letter to Beyer, who is a former
public utility commissioner.
The letter was signed by Sen-
ate Minority Leader Ted Fer-
rioli, R-John Day, and eight
other Republicans.
The public utility commis-
sioners have expressed con-
cern in emails and other cor-
respondence released by the
state that the legislation would
be costly for ratepayers yet do
little to reduce carbon emis-
sions in Oregon.
Even if the public util-
ity commissioners testify
before the Senate commit-
tee, they might not be able to
say whether the utilities have
produced reasonable esti-
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Paci¿Corp and Portland Gen-
eral Electric estimated the bill
would cause rates to increase
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increases. This week, the EO
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Group Capital Bureau reported
the Public Utility Commission
still had not ¿nished vetting
the cost projections from the
utilities.
House Bill 4036, which
was written by the two utili-
ties and environmental groups
along with the Citizens’ Util-
ity Board of Oregon, would
require Portland General Elec-
tric and Paci¿Corp to use
renewable power sources such
as wind and solar to serve at
least 50 percent of their cus-
tomers’ energy demand in
Oregon by 2040, up from the
current state mandate of 25
percent renewable energy by
2025.
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