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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2016
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Trump off to a strong start
in Electoral College votes
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump started racking up electoral
votes today even as anti-Trump protesters across the country tried
to persuade the Electoral College to prevent him from winning the
White House.
Trump didn’t lose any electors with votes counted in a half
dozen states he won Nov. 8: Tennessee, West Virginia, Arkansas,
South Carolina, Mississippi and Oklahoma.
Initial results gave Trump 44 votes and Democrat Hillary Clin-
ton, 10. It takes 270 votes in the Electoral College to win the presi-
dency. Electors were voting throughout the day and there was scant
evidence many GOP electors would peel away from their Election
Day winner. More than three dozen would have to abandon him to
complicate his path to the presidency.
More than 200 demonstrators braved freezing temperatures at
Pennsylvania’s capitol, chanting, “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist
USA!” and “No treason, no Trump!”
Protesters also gathered in Colorado, Georgia, South Carolina,
Virginia, Texas, Nebraska and other states.
The protesters, however, were unlikely to persuade the Electoral
College to dump Trump. An Associated Press survey of electors
found very little appetite to vote for alternative candidates. Only
one Republican said he would vote for someone else.
Trump aides: Democrats’
complaints are sour grapes
WASHINGTON — Sour grapes. That’s how Donald Trump’s
closest advisers see Democrats’ complaints that Moscow hacked
their private emails this election season in a bid to sow discord
among their supporters and sway the election toward Republicans.
The pushback comes ahead of the Electoral College vote, which
was expected to make official Trump’s election win and pave his
way to take office on Jan. 20.
“Let’s assume it’s true,” Reince Priebus, Trump’s incoming
chief of staff, said Sunday of Russian interference in the election.
“There’s no evidence that shows that the outcome of the election
was changed because of a couple dozen John Podesta emails that
were out there.”
The number of leaked emails by Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s cam-
paign manager, was actually closer to tens of thousands. And it’d be
difficult to prove exactly what influenced voters.
But Democrats said it was a personal attack and a threat to
democracy.
Gov-elect: North Carolina will
repeal LGBT law on Tuesday
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina legislators will repeal the
contentious HB2 law that limited protections for LGBT people and
led to an economic backlash, the state’s incoming governor said
today.
Gov.-elect Roy Cooper made the surprising announcement
just weeks before he takes office and shortly after the Charlotte
City Council voted to repeal its own local nondiscrimination ordi-
nance enacted in early 2016. It was that ordinance that Republicans
blamed for the statewide law.
“Senate Leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore
assured me that as a result of Charlotte’s vote, a special session will
be called for Tuesday to repeal HB2 in full. I hope they will keep
their word to me and with the help of Democrats in the legislature,
HB2 will be repealed in full,” the Democrat said in a statement.
Outgoing Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, who narrowly lost the
November election to Cooper, issued a statement saying he will call
the special session but also accusing Democrats of using the issue
for political gain.
Repealing the law would be a remarkable sign of cooperation
for the incoming governor and the GOP-controlled legislature. Just
last week, lawmakers called a special session and stripped Cooper
of some of his authority when he takes office next month.
Buses resume taking remaining
civilians, rebels from Aleppo
BEIRUT — A fragile cease-fire was back on in Syria today, as
buses resumed evacuating those still remaining in eastern Aleppo
following days of delays and others departed with the sick and
wounded from two rebel-besieged Shiite villages in the country’s
north.
At the United Nations, the Security Council was expected to
vote within hours on a resolution seeking to deploy U.N. monitors
to Aleppo immediately in order to prevent what France has warned
could be “mass atrocities” by Syrian forces and allied pro-govern-
ment militias as they assume control of all of the rebel enclave.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and
the pan-Arab Al-Mayadeen TV said that 10 buses left with civilians
from the two Shiite villages long besieged by rebels — Foua and
Kfarya — and were on their way to government-controlled areas
today.
According to the deal, more than 2,000 sick and wounded are
supposed to leave the villages. The Observatory and the pan-Arab
TV said 15 additional buses entered the two villages to bring out
more people.
The evacuations from the villages were added on as conditions
to a Turkey- and Russia-brokered cease-fire deal that paved way
for the last rebels and civilians to leave the remainder of the rebel
enclave in the eastern half of Aleppo.
China disputes US claim it is
top source of synthetic drugs
BEIJING — U.S. assertions that China is the top source of the
synthetic opioids that have killed thousands of drug users in the
U.S. and Canada are unsubstantiated, Chinese officials told the
Associated Press.
Both the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the White
House Office of National Drug Control Policy point to China as the
main source of fentanyl, fentanyl analogs and fentanyl precursors
that end up in North America.
Such statements “lack the support of sufficient numbers of
actual, confirmed cases,” China’s National Narcotics Control Com-
mission told DEA’s Beijing field office in a fax dated Friday.
In its letter to the DEA, which the commission also sent to AP,
Chinese officials urged the U.S. to provide more evidence about
China’s role as a source country.
It’s a point the state-run China Daily newspaper drove home
publicly in an article this month stating that made-in-China carfent-
anil was not the cause of overdose deaths in the U.S.
Gunmen kill 10, including
Canadian, in attacks on police
KARAK, Jordan — Gunmen assaulted Jordanian police in
a series of attacks Sunday, including at a Crusader castle popular
with tourists, killing seven officers, two local civilians and a woman
visiting from Canada, officials said. Several armed men barricaded
themselves inside the castle for hours, hemmed in by special forces
soldiers.
At least 34 people, including two foreign nationals, were
wounded in the day’s violence, which was one of the bloodiest
attacks in Jordan in recent memory.
Security officials announced late Sunday, several hours after
reports of the first shooting, that the operation had ended and that
four gunmen were killed. They said troops continued to search the
area.
Trial starts for confidante of
impeached S. Korean president
SEOUL, South Korea — The jailed confidante of impeached
South Korean President Park Geun-hye denied on the first day of
her trial today that she used her ties to Park to extort money from
big companies.
The hour-long hearing at the Seoul Central District Court was
the first public appearance in weeks for the woman at the heart of a
scandal that led to Park’s impeachment after millions took to streets
in protests.
Choi Soon-sil, Park’s friend of 40 years, wore white prison
clothes and bowed deeply to the three judges before her lawyer, Lee
Kyoung-jae, denied that Choi conspired with Park and her presiden-
tial aide to pressure companies to donate tens of millions of dollars
last year to foundations controlled by Choi. When directly asked by
a judge about the extortion charges, she denied the charges.
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family. I think that’s why I con-
tinue it, just the love of it and
wanting to continue to help
people, to try and make peo-
ple’s lives easier.”
“Sometimes you have
calls that aren’t all roses,” she
added.
Training
Cremer has been the Can-
non Beach Fire and Rescue
safety officer for seven years.
She oversees the scene at car
accidents, fires or medical
calls to ensure volunteers are
wearing personal protective
equipment and heads a safety
committee, discussing poli-
cies each month.
Volunteer firefighters par-
ticipate in regular Wednes-
day trainings. “Sometimes
the drills are really exciting,”
Cremer said.
Trainings might involve
“burn to learns,” in which
people donate their old
homes or motor vehicles
for the team of volunteers
to burn for a period of time.
These drills allow volunteers
to gain experience with han-
dling actual fires.
“We might set up a smoke
machine and a ‘body’ in there
that we might have to find to
keep us in touch with what
could honestly happen in a
real fire,” Cremer said. “We
have mock motor vehicle
accidents, and sometimes in
the summer we have a mock
rescue in the ocean where we
deploy our Jet Skis.”
Cremer holds certifica-
tions in fire fighter II, appa-
ratus operator, emergency
medical responder and water
rescue technician. Cannon
Beach volunteer firefighters
have access to courses that
provide continued education,
she said.
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Cremer was also a Can-
non Beach lifeguard for
25 years, more than 15
years full time. Though she
remembers some serious res-
cues, Cremer also recalls the
camaraderie among her fel-
low lifeguards.
“It was wonderful,” she
said. “You’re paid to be at
the beach.”
Outdoor adventurer
For 21 years, Cremer has
worked at the same land-
scaping company, where she
enjoys “being able to beau-
tify things.”
She likes walking away
from a yard and thinking,
“Wow, that looks so good.”
“I love working outside,
even in the rain,” she added.
Cremer has also fished
commercially for sockeye
salmon in Alaska’s Bristol
Bay, taught in the experimen-
tal education unit at the Uni-
versity of Washington and
taught preschool in Cannon
Beach — “when it was down
by the kite shop.”
Cremer grew up in Port-
land and moved to Cannon
Beach in 1980.
“I always wanted to live
at the coast, even as a lit-
tle kid,” she said. She appre-
ciates “the close-knit com-
munity and the amazing
beauty of the beach and our
surroundings.”
In her spare time, Cremer
enjoys taking her active dog,
Sailor, on walks, hiking,
mountain biking and cycling.
An avid cyclist, Cremer
often bikes to Astoria and
around Fort Stevens. She has
also started century riding —
biking 100 miles.
“You start at a certain
time and you pedal 100
miles,” Cremer said. “You’re
out there and it’s like, ‘Yep,
I’m doing this.’”
— Lyra Fontaine
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