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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2016
Peninsula Art Association’s Studio
Tour, 10 a.m., multiple locations, Long
Beach, Wash.
Submitted Photo
* “The Polar Express” Film Screening,
12 p.m., Neptune Theatre, 809 Ocean
Beach Blvd., Long Beach, Wash., free, all
ages.
The annual Sankta Lucia Festival, a Scandinavian Midsummer Fes-
tival Association event, offers a procession ceremony, announce-
ment of the Sankta Lucia Court and Star Boys, music, dancing and
refreshments. The festival is a traditional holiday event that takes
place the day after Thanksgiving to mark the opening of the Christ-
mas season.
David Drury, jazz, 6 p.m., Bridgewater
Bistro, 20 Basin St., Astoria, no cover.
Tom Trudell, jazz, 6 p.m., Shelburne Inn
Restaurant, 4415 Pacifi c Way, Seaview,
Wash., no cover.
Western Haunts, rock, 9 p.m., Adrift
Hotel, 409 Sid Snyder Drive, Long Beach,
Wash., no cover.
* “It’s A Wonderful Life,” fantasy drama,
7:30 p.m., Coaster Theatre, 108 Hemlock
St., Cannon Beach, $15 to $20, Rated PG.
Howly Slim, blues, 7 p.m., WineKraft, 80
10th St., Astoria, no cover, 21 +.
Saturday
Ivy & Joel Ricci, folk, 8 p.m., Sou’Wester
Lodge, 3728 J Place, Seaview, Wash.
* Sankta Lucia Festival, 7 p.m., Astoria
High School, 1001 Marine Drive, Astoria,
$1 to $5, all ages.
* Artisan Gift Fair, 10 a.m., Seaside Con-
vention Center, 415 First Ave., Seaside,
all ages.
Erotic City Prince Tribute Band,
9 p.m., San Dune Pub, 127 Laneda
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
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ALMANAC
First
Tillamook
54/45
Mostly cloudy with a
touch of rain
Dec 20
Ontario
49/33
Bend
46/35
Burns
44/28
Klamath Falls
44/32
Lakeview
42/25
Ashland
48/39
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
TODAY'S TIDES
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
3:21 a.m.
4:16 p.m.
Low
1.8 ft.
1.3 ft.
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
North Bend
Hi
41
46
53
54
53
44
53
51
54
56
Today
Lo
35
35
47
43
48
32
42
44
46
47
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c
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pc
c
r
r
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Hi
41
45
51
50
55
44
50
50
52
54
Fri.
Lo W
32 sn
35 c
46
r
42
r
44
r
32 c
39
r
43 c
43 c
45
r
City
Olympia
Pendleton
Portland
Roseburg
Salem
Seaside
Spokane
Springfi eld
Vancouver
Yakima
Hi
49
53
52
57
52
54
42
54
51
52
Today
Lo
41
42
45
44
45
48
38
44
46
36
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Hi
51
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50
51
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Fri.
Lo W
38 sh
41
r
43 c
43
r
42 c
44 c
37
r
43
r
44 c
35 c
TODAY'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
Hi
72
43
43
49
47
50
68
-5
83
48
54
62
76
63
81
64
75
50
68
55
53
47
60
51
58
Baker
41/35
John Day
46/42
Roseburg
57/44
Brookings
53/47
Tonight's Sky: Due east, The Hyades, form a V that
outlines the Taurus bull's face and Pleiades cluster.
Today
Lo
54
41
31
26
34
35
45
-11
73
34
33
39
49
43
70
43
56
44
37
41
38
28
48
44
43
Prineville
50/36
Lebanon
54/44
Medford
53/42
UNDER THE SKY
High
8.6 ft.
7.0 ft.
La Grande
44/41
Salem
52/45
Newport
54/46
Last
Dec 13
Pendleton
53/42
The Dalles
52/41
Portland
52/45
Eugene
54/43
Full
Dec 7
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
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Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
ASTORIA
54/47
Sunrise today .............................. 7:29 a.m.
Sunset tonight ........................... 4:35 p.m. Coos Bay
Moonrise today ........................... 2:35 a.m. 55/46
Moonset today ........................... 2:41 p.m.
Time
9:44 a.m.
10:17 p.m.
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Cloudy with occasional
rain
Periods of rain
SUN AND MOON
Nov 29
MONDAY
REGIONAL WEATHER
Precipitation
Tuesday ............................................ 0.63"
Month to date ................................. 10.52"
Normal month to date ....................... 8.36"
Year to date .................................... 69.82"
Normal year to date ........................ 54.83"
New
SUNDAY
52
42
Periods of rain
Astoria through Tuesday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 51°/46°
Normal high/low ........................... 52°/39°
Record high ............................ 62° in 1956
Record low ............................. 21° in 1985
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c
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pc
c
pc
s
c
c
pc
s
s
s
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c
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Hi
72
49
43
59
49
47
62
-3
82
48
53
61
74
63
80
64
74
52
61
56
55
54
62
52
61
Fri.
Lo
47
43
29
30
31
34
44
-8
72
32
33
42
47
39
68
36
55
44
29
44
32
34
51
41
43
Mordecai & Woolen, pop, 8 p.m.,
Sou’Wester Lodge, 3728 J Place, Seaview,
Wash.
* Butterfi eld Cottage’s Gingerbread
Tea, 1 p.m., Seaside Museum & Historical
Society, 570 Necanicum Drive, Seaside,
$3 to $5, all ages.
Western Haunts, indie, 9 p.m., Adrift
Hotel, 409 Sid Snyder Drive, Long Beach,
Wash., no cover.
Sunday
* Artisan Gift Fair, 10 a.m., Seaside Con-
vention Center, 415 First Ave., Seaside,
all ages.
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy,
sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
sn-snow, i-ice.
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High Life’s Twinkle Tours, 5 p.m., High
Life Adventures, 92111 High Life Road,
Warrenton.
George Coleman, jazz, 6 p.m., Shelburne
Inn Restaurant, 4415 Pacifi c Way, Seaview,
Wash., no cover.
Niall Carroll, pop, 6 p.m., WineKraft, 80
10th St., Astoria, no cover, 21 +.
* “It’s A Wonderful Life,” fantasy drama,
3 p.m., Coaster Theatre, 108 Hemlock St.,
Cannon Beach, $15 to $20, Rated PG.
* Messiah’s Sing-a-long Concert, 4 p.m.,
CCC Performing Arts Center, 588 16th St.,
Astoria, free, all ages.
Jennifer Goodenberger, piano, 6 p.m.,
Bridgewater Bistro, 20 Basin St., Astoria,
no cover.
Maggie & the Cats, blues, 6:30 p.m.,
Sweet Basil’s Café, 271 Hemlock St., Can-
non Beach, no cover, 21 +.
Blind J. Wakins, country, 7 p.m., Adrift
Hotel, 409 Sid Snyder Drive, Long Beach,
Wash., no cover.
Howly Slim, blues, 7 p.m., American
Legion, 1315 Broadway, Seaside, no
cover, 21 +.
McDougall, Americana, 8 p.m., Fort
George Brewery, 1483 Duane St., Astoria,
no cover.
Margot Limburg & Timothy Hull, Irish
folk, 7 p.m., Peninsula Arts Center, 504
Pacifi c Ave., Long Beach, Wash., $12.
* Recommended for kids.
Thanksgiving travel expected to
be heaviest in almost a decade
By TAMMY WEBBER
Associated Press
CHICAGO — Elizabeth
Thompson can’t wait to leave
the big city behind and decom-
press over the Thanksgiving
holiday at her grandmother’s
house in rural south-central
Indiana. But fi rst she has to get
there.
On Wednesday, Thompson,
23, missed her Amtrak train
from Chicago to Galesburg,
Illinois, where she’d planned
to catch a ride with a family
member the rest of the way to
Edinburgh, Indiana.
“It’s just where we go
to unplug and escape,” said
Thompson, who had to decide
whether to wait several hours
for the next train or hop on a
bus and get going.
Americans took to the roads,
air and railways Wednesday
for what is expected to be the
busiest Thanksgiving travel
period in almost a decade.
Almost 49 million people are
expected to travel 50 miles or
more between Wednesday and
Sunday, the most since 2007,
because of lower gas prices
and an improving economy,
according to AAA.
And while they look for-
ward to eating turkey and
watching football, many are
ready to abandon another,
more recent, American pas-
time: rehashing the rancorous
election between Republican
Donald Trump and Democrat
Hillary Clinton.
“My mother specifi cally
said, ‘We’re not going to talk
about it,”’ for her grandmother’s
sake, Thompson said. Although
nobody in her family supported
Trump, “my grandmother is sick
of hearing about it.”
Kevin Baumann, a 47-year-
old boilermaker from Spo-
kane, Washington, is able to
join his family for Thanks-
giving for the fi rst time in two
years, so politics was the last
thing he wanted to discuss.
“We’ll avoid it,” said Bau-
mann, who stopped in central
Montana Tuesday on his way
home, after working on a coal
plant in Iowa. “We’ve got big-
ger things to talk about during
the holidays.”
James Arnold, 18, a fresh-
man at Eastern University in
Philadelphia, expects that the
election will be a big topic of
conversation during Thanksgiv-
ing dinner at his family’s home
in Silver Spring, Maryland.
“My family loves to talk
about things together and the
election is something huge,”
he said Tuesday while waiting
for a train.
“Every holiday they sit
down and talk about things
like that,” he added. “It’s going
to be interesting.”
The weather appeared to
be cooperating for the most
part, with no signifi cant issues,
National Weather Service
meteorologist Amy Seeley
said. There was light rain in
Chicago, a major airline hub,
but delays were only averag-
ing 15 minutes, according to
the Chicago Department of
Aviation.
“It looks pretty quiet across
the country today; I’ll take it,”
Seeley said.
Pumpkin-fl inging TV special canceled
Associated Press
BRIDGEVILLE, Del. —
The Science Channel has can-
celed its planned TV special on
a Delaware pumpkin-launch-
ing competition after a woman
was critically injured during
the event earlier this month.
Science Channel spokes-
man Paul Schur said in a state-
ment that the network has
canceled the Saturday night
three-hour “Punkin Chunkin”
special. The show was also
going to air on the Discovery
Channel.
Delaware State Police said
in a statement that an air can-
non’s trap door ripped off
the machine after the cannon
fi red a pumpkin on Nov. 6. A
39-year-old woman was hit by
chunks of metal and remains in
critical condition. A 56-year-
old man was also hurt.
A Science Channel produc-
tion crew had been chronicling
the three-day Sussex County
tradition.
Authorities say the incident
has been preliminarily consid-
ered an “industrial accident.”
Tongue Point: Site was also the base
for crews performing maintenance
Continued from Page 1A
Mothball site
The Corps acquired the
property in 1975 from the U.S.
Department of Commerce’s
Maritime
Administration.
Henon said the site was used
for the Maritime Administra-
tion Reserve Fleet, a large col-
lection of mothballed warships
in Astoria.
“The Corps’ intent for
acquiring the subject property
was as a staging point for the
Port of Portland’s large pipe-
line dredge, Oregon, which
was under contract by the
Corps of Engineers for chan-
nel improvement work along
the lower Columbia River,”
Henon said.
The site was also the base
for crews performing coastal
maintenance,
hydrological
surveys and to store various
items for the dredge plant and
a radio relay facility.
State land
Surrounding the Corps’
patch of property is the rest of
South Tongue Point, owned by
the Department of State Lands.
The college leases 7 acres
for its career-technical cam-
pus, the Marine and Environ-
mental Research and Training
Station. The state is review-
ing a proposal by the college
to purchase 37 acres to the
north of Liberty Lane around
the campus by the end of June.
“It’s not comfortable to
me to have so many valu-
able assets on property we
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Red Beans & Rice, swing, 11:30 a.m.,
Bridgewater Bistro, 20 Basin St., Astoria,
no cover.
Tom Trudell, jazz, 6 p.m., Bridgewater
Bistro, 20 Basin St., Astoria, no cover.
Ave., Manzanita, 21 +.
The American West, Americana, 7 p.m.,
McMenamins Sand Trap, 1157 Marion
Ave., Gearhart, no cover.
Maggie & the Cats, blues, 6:30 p.m.,
Sweet Basil’s Café, 271 Hemlock St., Can-
non Beach, no cover, 21 +.
Rain, some heavy; breezy
in the afternoon
* Pickleball, 10 a.m., Camp Rilea Gymna-
sium, 333168 Patriot Way, Warrenton, $4,
all levels.
* Winter Magic Show, 1 p.m., Veterans
Field, 3914 Pacifi c Way, Seaview, Wash.,
all ages.
* Artisan Gift Fair, 12 p.m., Seaside Con-
vention Center, 415 First Ave., Seaside,
all ages.
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* “It’s A Wonderful Life,” fantasy drama,
7:30 p.m., Coaster Theatre, 108 Hemlock
St., Cannon Beach, $15 to $20, Rated PG.
Wild Mushroom Program, 1 p.m., Fort
Stevens State Park, 100 Peter Iredale
Road, Hammond, $5 parking, all ages.
Friday
TODAY
Peninsula Art Association’s Studio
Tour, 10 a.m., multiple locations, Long
Beach, Wash.
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don’t own,” said college Pres-
ident Christopher Breitmeyer
said at a recent college board
meeting.
The college, already the
state’s offi cial maritime col-
lege, has requested state fund-
ing to add a second story onto
the administrative building on
the campus as it tries to become
a national center for maritime
excellence and expand its mari-
time science programs.
A separate proposal would
see the Columbia Land Trust
acquire about 90 acres of land
south of Liberty Lane and
transfer the property to the col-
lege for use as a living labora-
tory in support of an environ-
mental sciences program. The
college estimates the purchase
could happen in 2018.
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