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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2016
‘How do you feel about Oregon LNG giving up the Warrenton project?’
“It’s a tremendous
loss. I think we need
the revenue. It’s bet-
ter than coal trains
coming in here.”
“Fine, thank you.”
“It’s good they
gave up on it. We
don’t want that. It’s
too beautiful here
for that.”
Ann Davenport, Van-
couver, Washington
Mike Dewaide,
Astoria
Robin Dismang,
Astoria
THE DAILY ASTORIAN // QUESTION OF THE WEEK
RafÀ e to help ¿ nance
McClure Park slide
The Daily Astorian
The Friends of McClure
Park is just $5,000 away
from making the 30-foot
hillside slide project a
reality.
Since February, the
group has been conducting
a rafÀ e ticket sales drive in
an effort to raise the ¿ nal
funds needed for the center-
piece of the McClure Park
project.
With just over two
weeks left for rafÀ e ticket
sales, community members
are encouraged to purchase
tickets before they run out.
Right now, only 500 tick-
ets need to be purchased in
order to reach the ¿ nal goal.
Tickets for the rafÀ e are
$10 each. First prize is an
electric bicycle valued at
$1,700, which is on display
in the window at the old
Link’s store at 1254 Com-
mercial St.; second prize
is an Astoria weekend get-
away at the Hampton Inn,
and dinner for two at The
Cellar on 10th, valued at
$600 .
Tickets may be pur-
chased at The Cellar on
10th, 1004 Marine Drive,
and Reef Barber Shop, 175
14th St., Suite 170. Dona-
tions may also be made
at the Friends of McClure
Park GoFundMe site, www.
gofundme.com/onc88g
RafÀ e ticket sales end
May 1, prior to the draw-
ing, which will be held at 4
p.m. at McClure Park. Par-
ticipants do not have to be
present to win.
For information about
Friends of McClure Park,
contact Dave McElroy at
503-298-8987, email mac-
jake@aol.com or go to
“Friends of McClure Park,
Astoria OR” on Facebook.
Developer drops plans for a new
methanol plant in Washington state
Consortium
still wants plants
in Kalama and
St. Helens
By PHUONG LE
Associated Press
SEATTLE — A Chi-
na-backed consortium on
Tuesday canceled plans to
build a $3.4 billion meth-
anol plant in Washington
state, but said it is commit-
ted to building two other
facilities in the Pacific
Northwest.
Northwest
Innovation
Works ended its lease with
the Port of Tacoma, citing
regulatory and other issues
related to developing the
land, the site of a former
aluminum smelter.
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ACCUWEATHER FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
Astoria 5-Day Forecast
Tonight
A t-storm in spots
early; mostly
cloudy
47°
Thursday
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Pendleton
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sunshine
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Occasional rain;
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afternoon
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Sun and Moon
Astoria through Tuesday.
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Low ............................................ 47°
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Normal month to date ............. 3.55"
Year to date ........................... 35.44"
Normal year to date .............. 28.64"
Sunset tonight ................... 8:10 p.m
Sunrise Thursday ............. 6:18 a.m
Moonrise today ................ 6:53 p.m
Moonset today ................. 5:55 a.m
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tial impacts of our project,”
Vee Godley, the company’s
president said in a statement
Tuesday.
Methanol, a wood alco-
hol, is used to make olefins,
a component in everyday
products such as eyeglasses,
insulin pumps and fleece
jackets. Most methanol in
China is produced using
coal, but the Northwest
plants would use natural gas.
Claudia Riedener, with
the citizens’ opposition
group Red Line Tacoma,
said the entire process of
taking natural gas from Can-
ada, piping it to Tacoma,
converting it to methanol
and shipping it to China
to make plastics was not
sustainable.
“There was nothing in
it for Tacoma,” she said.
“We’re elated. It’s celebra-
tion time.”
The Columbian newspa-
per reported season closure
discussion was prompted
by weak coho runs forecast
for 2016 in Puget Sound
waters and many coastal
streams.
Two years of warm water
in the north Paci¿ c Ocean are
considered the likely cause.
For the waters between
Cape Falcon and Leadbet-
ter Point at the northern tip
of Long Beach Peninsula,
salmon ¿ shing will open -uly
1 and is scheduled to continue
daily through Aug. 31, or until
18,900 ¿ n-clipped coho are
caught.
The bag limit will be two
salmon, but only one Chinook.
Cape Falcon to Leadbetter
Point is the only portion of the
northern Oregon and Wash-
ington coast where coho ¿ sh-
ing will be allowed.
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016
48°
Sunday
Cloudy with a
shower
VANCOUVER, Wash. —
The Paci¿ c Fisheries Man-
agement Council has adopted
limited summer salmon ¿ sh-
ing seasons off the Washington
and northern Oregon coasts.
At a meeting last week ,
the council avoided a com-
plete closure of the season, a
possibility that had been dis-
cussed in March.
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billions of dollars into the
region. Washington Gov. -ay
Inslee had embraced them as
a boost to the state’s clean
energy future.
But the Tacoma proj-
ect faced vocal opposition
from those concerned about
environmental and health
impacts.
More than 1,000 people
attended a hearing in early
February. About 1 ½ weeks
later, the company put the
project on hold, saying it
“had been surprised by the
tone and substance of the
vocal opposition.”
“Given sufficient time,
we believe we would have
been able to satisfy most
of the local citizens’ con-
cerns and questions through
the public participation pro-
cess, and correct a lot of
the misinformation swirl-
ing about regarding poten-
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The company also said
it would take at least three
more years — longer than
anticipated — to complete
an environmental review
and there wasn’t enough
time under the current port
lease to do that.
The Tacoma project was
the largest of three metha-
nol re¿ neries proposed by the
company to convert natural
gas to methanol, which would
then be shipped to China to
make plastics and other con-
sumer goods. The plant would
have produced 20,000 met-
ric tons a day and dwarf other
methanol plants planned or
being built in the U.S.
The company said Tues-
day it is committed to devel-
oping methanol plants in
Kalama, Washington, and St.
Helens . Supporters have said
the projects would create
hundreds of jobs and infuse
City
Olympia
Pendleton
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Roseburg
Salem
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Tonight's Sky: Low in the east, Mars will be 7.2
west of Saturn after sunset.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
Tomorrow’s Tides
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
High
1:34 a.m. 8.6 ft.
2:10 p.m. 7.7 ft.
Time
8:04 a.m.
8:02 p.m.
Low
0.2 ft.
1.5 ft.
Tomorrow’s National Weather
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OBITUARIES
Gerald Vern Gerritz
Astoria
May 20, 1923 — April 2, 2016
Gerald Vern “Gerry” Gerritz passed away on
April 2, 2016, in Astoria, Oregon, where he was
born to Peter and Lillian Gerritz on May 20, 1923.
He married Eleanor Tienhaara on Nov. 11,
1942. They were married for 45 years until her
passing in 1988.
He served with the 91st Infantry Division
during World War II in North Africa and Europe.
He was a longshoreman, commercial ¿ sher-
man and Mack-of-all-trades. Gerry loved ¿ shing,
hunting, clam digging, crabbing, camping and
traveling.
He is survived by his son Gerry Gerritz of Fair-
view; his daughter Dee-Elina Rees of Portland;
his daughter Christine Smith of Eugene; three
grandsons and three granddaughters; and four
great-grandsons and four great granddaughters.
His love in his later years, Betty Tygart, graciously
cared for him, and was by his side to the end.
The graveside service will be May 20 at 11
a.m. at Ocean View Cemetery. Family, union
brothers and friends are invited to a reception at 1
p.m. at the ILWU Local 50 hiring hall, 491 Indus-
try St., Astoria, Oregon.
Charitable donations can be made in Gerry’s
honor to the ILWU Local 50 Astoria High School
Scholarship Inc. fund.
Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary in Astoria is
in charge of the arrangements. An online guest book
may be signed at www.caldwellsmortuary.com
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April 18, 2016
WILSON, Ricky Dean, 65, of Warrenton, died in Astoria. Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary in
Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
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PUBLIC MEETINGS
WEDNESDAY
Seaside Tourism Advisory
Committee, 3 p.m., City Hall,
989 Broadway.
Sunset Empire Parks and
Rec District, 5 p.m., 1225 Ave.
A, Seaside.
Astoria Budget Committee,
7 p.m., City Hall, 1095 Duane
St.
Shoreline Sanitary District
Board, 7 p.m., Gearhart Hertig
Station, 33496 West Lake
Lane, Warrenton.
THURSDAY
Cannon Beach Parks Com-
mittee, 9 a.m., City Hall, 163 E.
Gower St.
Seaside City Tree Board, 4
p.m., City Hall, 989 Broad-
way.
Seaside Transportation Ad-
visory Commission, 6 p.m.,
City Hall, 989 Broadway.
Cannon Beach Design Re-
view Board, 6 p.m., City Hall,
163 E. Gower St.
Seaside Transportation Ad-
visory Commission, 6 p.m.,
City Hall, 989 Broadway.
Astoria Budget Committee,
7 p.m., City Hall, 1095 Duane
St.
CLARIFICATION
The church mentioned in Tuesday’s “Seaside” movie story on 1A is the former Grace Lutheran
Church, which is now owned by the city, not Our Saviour’s Lutheran. The city-owned former
church is located at 1115 Broadway in Seaside.
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