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DailyAstorian.com // TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2016 143RD YEAR, NO. 234 ONE DOLLAR MEMORIAL DAY Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian Mike Phillips, left, of American Legion Clatsop Post 12, tosses a wreath of flowers honoring all servicemen into the Columbia River as American Legion commander Pat Ehrlich salutes on Monday at Maritime Memorial Park in Astoria. Veterans honor debt to the fallen Across the North Coast, people pause to remember By KATHERINE LACAZE For The Daily Astorian S Katherine Lacaze/For EO Media Group EASIDE — Seaside paused Monday to remember the country’s fallen servicemen and servicewomen during a ceremony in obser- INSIDE Cannon Beach vance of what was described marks holiday. as “America’s most solemn Read more on Page 12A. holiday.” The Seaside American Legion Post 99 held its annual Memorial Day c elebration in honor of America’s war dead. Katherine Lacaze/For EO Media Group See MEMORIAL DAY, Page 12A Local Boy Scouts present colors during the Seaside American Legion Post 99’s annual Memorial Day observance. Col. Michael Becker gave the history of Memorial Day. Youth authority sex abuse suit dismissed Child sex predator also involved in old Seaside case By TYLER FRANCKE Woodburn Independent WOODBURN — A Marion County lawsuit that concerned alleged sex abuse crimes at MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility has been dismissed . The case centers on Frank James Milligan, 47, a convicted child sex pred- ator whose most infamous crime was the July 2000 abduction of a 10-year- old boy, whom he sexually assaulted, choked unconscious and left for dead in a park in Dallas. He was also charged and convicted of the sexual molestation of a Salem boy in Seaside in 1999. Prior to these crimes, he had pre- viously been employed by the Ore- gon State Hospital and Oregon Youth Authority, working as a group life coor- dinator at MacLaren from May 1997 until being placed on leave in 1999. He was formally dismissed in 2000. While at MacLaren, he allegedly sexually assaulted at least one youth offender housed there, a man identifi ed in court documents only as “J.M.” J.M. was 15 in December 1998 when he was sent to MacLaren and assigned to the residential area in which Milligan was working at the time. Milligan, already serving com- bined prison sentences of 36 years, was convicted in September of crimi- nal charges stemming from the incident at MacLaren, for which Marion County Judge Cheryl Pellegrini tacked an addi- tional 35 years onto his sentence. However, the civil case may have reached its conclusion after a different judge, Claudia Burton, entered a ruling on summary judgment in May against J.M. and his attorneys, of the Portland fi rm Kell Alterman & Runstein. Transparency murky as spending on lobbying goes up Groups spent $251 million in Oregon over nine years First of two parts. By HILLARY BORRUD Capital Bureau SALEM — Businesses, spe- cial interest groups and gov- ernments have increasingly invested in lobbying Oregon lawmakers and other state offi - cials over the last nine years. And based on spending data from the state, those groups appear to have concluded lob- Lobbying our state officials bying is a good investment: reported annual spending on lobbying increased 15 per- cent from 2007 to 2015, when adjusted for infl ation . Yet despite the millions of dollars involved, it’s nearly impossible for Oregonians to get details on how lobbyists spend that money to achieve payoffs for their clients, because state law allows lobbyists and their clients to disclose little informa- tion about how they infl uence state laws and spending. The EO Media Group/ Pamplin Media Group Capital Bureau categorized lobbying spending in Oregon by indus- try and sector using data from the Center for Responsive Pol- itics, which tracks spending on lobbying at the federal level. In total, groups spent more than $251 million on lobbying over the last nine years, according to state data. The health care sector — whose ranks include nurses, pharmaceutical companies, hos- pitals, and doctors — reported spending the most on lobby- ing from 2007 through 2015, a total of $36.5 million. Next was the business sector, which spent $30.8 million, followed by fi nance, insurance and real See LOBBYING, Page 12A See MILLIGAN, Page 12A Frank James Milligan INSIDE TODAY! THE PORT OF ASTORIA SPRING 2016 NEWSLETTER This newsletter will provide our community with periodic updates on Port projects and initiatives along with information about Port customers, Port staff and the work that they do. PORT OF ASTORIA