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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016
‘Castle in the sky’
Investors anxious as Oregonians
again vote on marijuana outlets
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
Last year, Golden Leaf
Holdings, a leading cannabis
company, paid $3.3 million
for almost 100 acres of land
in Oregon to build a mari-
juana growing, processing
and research site.
The future looked bright:
Oregon voters had legal-
ized recreational marijuana
in 2014. But Measure 91
gave counties and towns the
opportunity to opt out and
ban pot businesses.
Days after Golden Leaf
signed the papers on the
property in Marion County
near the town of Aurora, the
county banned marijuana
businesses in unincorporated
areas. So did about 100 other
towns and counties.
“That shut us out com-
pletely out of the recreational
market, which was our orig-
inal strategy,” said Beau
Whitney, a Golden Leaf vice
president.
Now, Golden Leaf has
another chance. Marion
County is one of about 50
Oregon towns and coun-
ties that will decide in the
November election whether
to opt back into the marijuana
business, according to the
Oregon Liquor Control Com-
mission, which regulates and
licenses the industry.
Other states across Amer-
ica are also grappling with
the issue of how to deal
with the emerging mari-
juana business. Recreational
or medical marijuana mea-
sures are on ballots in Ari-
zona, Arkansas, California,
Florida, Maine, Massachu-
setts, Montana, Nevada and
North Dakota.
At Golden Leaf’s prop-
erty, in the Willamette Val-
ley between Portland and
Salem, valuable machines
to process marijuana into
potent oils are mostly idle,
used only for medical mari-
juana. One greenhouse was
fi lled with rows of robust pot
plants, but about 20 other
greenhouses stood empty
under rainy skies on a recent
afternoon.
Whitney said Marion
County will lose $7.5 mil-
lion in employees’ wages per
year and in company spend-
ing for infrastructure devel-
opment if voters say no to
marijuana, forcing Golden
Leaf to move elsewhere.
“We just want a level
playing fi eld,” Whitney said.
“We’re just looking for rea-
sonable regulation.”
Marion County Commis-
sioner Sam Brentano said
he doesn’t want the county
overrun by pot businesses
attracted by its rich soil and
highway access, and that
he has received complaints
about odor, noise and lights.
One recent evening, 16
backers of pro-pot ballot mea-
sures gathered in an anteroom
of a medical marijuana store.
Some volunteered to staff a
phone bank. Others said they
would hand out fl iers to boost
voter awareness of the ballot
measures.
“This is really the Wild
West now,” Genevieve Sheri-
dan, an insurance agent repre-
senting cannabis businesses,
told those gathered at West
Salem Cannabis.
A color-coded map pub-
lished by the Association of
Oregon Counties shows how
the differing pot policies have
created a patchwork. Ore-
gon’s more conservative east-
ern counties are red, mean-
ing they banned recreational
marijuana businesses; coun-
ties establishing regulations
for licensed marijuana busi-
nesses are green; those that
have a pot vote pending are
orange or violet; and others
that haven’t taken any action
are blue.
The landscape is likely to
change with this election.
Steven Marks, executive
director of the Oregon Liquor
Control Commission, told
The Associated Press that “we
will have more licensing and
a bubble of activity coming.
… We’ll see how many pass.”
Steve Richert/For The Daily Astorian
Steve Richert of Cannon Beach sent in this picture of the sunset at Cannon Beach Sat-
urday after two days of storms.
Rain brings wild Chinook salmon to
some southern Oregon backyards
Associated Press
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
49
60
48
61
54
Mostly cloudy with a bit
of rain
Variably cloudy with a
couple of showers
A shower in the a.m.,
then a little rain
ALMANAC
Tillamook
50/60
Salem
49/60
Newport
49/57
New
First
Oct 30
Coos Bay
52/62
Full
Nov 7
Clatsop County property tax
bills to arrive in mailboxes
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
TOMORROW'S TIDES
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
9:25 a.m.
10:13 p.m.
Low
1.1 ft.
-1.4 ft.
Baker
36/52
Ontario
43/61
Burns
32/52
Klamath Falls
34/52
Lakeview
30/50
Ashland
43/57
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
North Bend
Hi
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Olympia
Pendleton
Portland
Roseburg
Salem
Seaside
Spokane
Springfi eld
Vancouver
Yakima
Hi
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TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
Hi
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71
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La Grande
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Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016
UNDER THE SKY
Today
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The Daily Astorian
Roseburg
50/62
Brookings
50/59
Nov 14
John Day
42/53
Bend
38/52
Medford
46/62
Tonight's Sky: Antares the Scorpion will be quite
low in the southwest as twilight fades this evening.
High
8.4 ft.
9.7 ft.
Prineville
37/56
Lebanon
49/59
Eugene
47/60
Sunset tonight ........................... 6:25 p.m.
Sunrise Tuesday .......................... 7:37 a.m.
Moonrise today .......................... 7:55 p.m.
Moonset today ............................ 9:18 a.m.
City
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Honolulu
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Memphis
Miami
Nashville
New Orleans
New York
Oklahoma City
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington, DC
Remaining cloudy with a
passing shower
Pendleton
45/58
The Dalles
45/62
Portland
49/60
SUN AND MOON
Time
3:38 a.m.
3:20 p.m.
Breezy; morning rain,
then a shower or two
Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs.
ASTORIA
49/60
Precipitation
Sunday ............................................. 1.79"
Month to date ................................. 11.65"
Normal month to date ....................... 2.39"
Year to date .................................... 54.62"
Normal year to date ........................ 42.88"
Oct 22
61
48
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Sunday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 63°/52°
Normal high/low ........................... 61°/44°
Record high ............................ 77° in 2002
Record low ............................. 33° in 1983
Last
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MR. DO
Clatsop County property
tax bills for the 2016-17 fi scal
year will arrive in mailboxes
soon.
Countywide, the real mar-
ket value of all taxable prop-
erty increased from $7.92
billion to $8.35 billion, an
increase of 5.4 percent. The
total assessed value this year
is $5. 8 billion, or 2.9 percent
higher than last year.
Property
taxes
are
impacted by voter-approved
levies and bonds, including a
fi ve-year local option for the
Warrenton Rural Fire Dis-
trict and the renewed Clat-
sop County Fairgrounds fi ve-
year option. Taxpayers in the
Shoreline Sanitary District
will pay $1.99 per $1,000
assessed value for debt ser-
vice payments on a bond
passed in 2008 for sewer
improvements.
Tax payments are due on
or before Nov. 15 and can be
paid in the following ways:
• By mail
• At the Clatsop County
Assessment and Taxation
Offi ce, 820 Exchange St.,
Suite 210.
• At any local branch of
Columbia Bank, Clatsop
Community Bank or Wauna
Federal Credit Union.
• Online at www.co.clat-
sop.or.us, click on “Pay Taxes
Online.”
Property value disputes
or penalties assessed due to
late fi ling can be appealed to
the Clatsop County Board of
Property Tax Appeals. Forms
are available from the Clerk
and Elections Division, 820
Exchange St. Petitions must
by fi led by Jan. 2.
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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PUBLIC MEETINGS
MONDAY
Astoria City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 1095 Duane St.
TUESDAY
Cannon Beach Public Works
Committee, 9 a.m., City Hall,
163 E. Gower St.
Sunset Empire Parks and Rec
District, 4 p.m., 1225 Ave. A,
Seaside.
Port of Astoria Commission,
4 p.m., executive session, 6
p.m., regular meeting, new Port
offi ces, 10 Pier 1, Suite 209.
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy,
sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
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MEDFORD — Biologists
say rains are encouraging
spawning Chinook salmon to
spread across Oregon’s Bear
Creek Basin and even into
backyard creeks.
The Mail Tribune reported
that wild Chinook have
moved from the Rogue River
into Bear Creek early and
explored tributaries that hav-
en’t seen the fi sh in years.
Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife fi sh biol-
ogist Pete Samarin says the
storm front expected this week
will likely bring the salmon
into Medford’s Lazy and Lar-
son creeks. Peak spawning
isn’t until Halloween, so the
city’s residents could see the
large fi sh spawning for sev-
eral weeks if the water fl ow
remains cooperative.
Astoria Historic Landmarks
Commission, 5:15 p.m., City
Hall, 1095 Duane St.
Shoreline Sanitary District
Board, 7 p.m., Gearhart Hertig
Station, 33496 West Lake Lane,
Warrenton.
Clatsop County Human
Services Advisory Council, 4
to 5:30 p.m., 800 Exchange St.,
Room 430.
Seaside Planning Commis-
sion, 7 p.m., work session, City
Hall, 989 Broadway.
Samarin says he hopes
people who see the big fi sh
in expected streams call his
offi ce to report the fi ndings.
He also asks onlookers to
leave the fi sh alone.
LOTTERIES
OREGON
Sunday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 7-9-5-1
4 p.m.: 6-4-4-3
7 p.m.: 1-1-9-6
10 p.m.: 4-8-9-7
Saturday’s Megabucks:
2-9-17-24-40-41
Estimated jackpot: $4.8
million
Saturday’s Powerball: 23-
49-57-64-67, Powerball: 20
Estimated jackpot: $136
million
Saturday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 2-4-8-8
4 p.m.: 2-4-8-8
7 p.m.: 5-7-0-3
10 p.m.: 5-2-3-0
Friday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 9-6-9-2
4 p.m.: 0-2-0-8
7 p.m.: 0-7-6-0
10 p.m.: 6-4-3-0
WASHINGTON
Sunday’s Daily Game: 9-0-6
Sunday’s Keno: 07-12-13-
15-21-24-26-27-34-35-37-
42-48-52-54-56-67-72-76-80
Sunday’s Match 4: 04-05-
11-18
Saturday’s Daily Game:
4-7-5
Saturday’s Hit 5: 02-06-15-
28-37
Estimated jackpot: $140,000
Saturday’s Keno: 02-04-05-
08-10-17-19-20-21-22-29-
30-36-44-50-53-60-61-66-73
Saturday’s Lotto: 01-04-05-
29-44-49
Estimated jackpot: $2.5
million
Saturday’s Match 4: 01-07-
18-24
Friday’s Daily Game: 7-8-1
Friday’s Keno: 08-23-27-30-
36-38-40-41-43-44-49-52-
54-61-62-68-70-71-78-80
Friday’s Match 4: 03-05-
14-22
Friday’s Mega Millions: 07-
27-60-64-74, Mega Ball: 5
Estimated jackpot: $20
million
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