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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2016
More offi cers killed in the line of duty
Offi ces, services close
for New Year’s holiday
New Year’s Day, which
falls on Sunday, is being
observed on Monday. All fed-
eral, state, county and city
offi ces and services, including
Astoria, Warrenton, Gearhart,
Seaside and Cannon Beach
city halls, are closed. All U.S.
post offi ces are closed and
there is no mail delivery.
Astoria, Jewell, Knappa,
Warrenton/Hammond, Seaside
(including Cannon Beach and
Gearhart schools) and Ocean
Beach School District schools
and Clatsop Community Col-
lege are closed for winter
vacation.
The Astoria
Library,
Seaside Library, Warren-
ton Library and all Timber-
land libraries in Washington,
including Ilwaco, Ocean Park
and Naselle, are closed.
The Port of Astoria offi ces
and services are closed.
Garbage collection through
Recology Western Oregon
(covering Astoria, Seaside,
Gearhart and Cannon Beach),
city of Warrenton garbage col-
lection, and Peninsula Sanita-
tion (covering the Long Beach,
Washington, Peninsula) are not
affected by the holiday. Recol-
ogy Western Oregon’s cus-
By LISA MARIE PANE
Associated Press
tomer service offi ce is closed
Monday; the transfer station
is open Monday. The Seaside
Recycle Depot and Peninsula
Sanitation’s transfer station are
open Monday.
The Sunset Pool in Seaside
is closed Sunday, and reopens
Monday. The Astoria Aquatic
Center is open.
The Clatsop County Her-
itage Museum is closed Sun-
day and Monday. The Oregon
Film Museum, Flavel House
and Carriage House are closed
Sunday. The Uppertown Fire-
fi ghters’ Museum is closed
for the winter. Capt. Gray’s
Port of Play and Lil’ Sprouts
are open Monday. Fort Clat-
sop is open from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. Sunday and Monday.
The Columbia River Mari-
time Museum is open from
9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday
and Monday. The Seaside
Museum is closed Sunday and
open Monday.
Sunset Empire Transpor-
tation (“The Bus”) is not run-
ning Sunday, but resumes ser-
vice Monday.
The Daily Astorian offi ces
are closed Monday, but the
newspaper is printed and
delivered as usual.
The number of police
killed in the line of duty rose
sharply in 2016, driven by
shootings of police around
the country, most notably
ambushes in Dallas and Baton
Rouge, Louisiana.
From Jan. 1 through
Wednesday, 135 offi cers lost
their lives, including Sea-
side Sgt. Jason Goodding in
February. Some died in traf-
fi c accidents, but nearly half
were shot to death.
That’s a 56 percent
increase in shooting deaths
over the previous year. Of the
64 who were fatally shot, 21
were killed in ambush attacks
often fueled by anger over
police use of force involving
minorities.
“We’ve never seen a year
in my memory when we’ve
had an increase of this mag-
nitude in offi cer shooting
deaths,” said Craig Floyd,
president and chief executive
of the National Law Enforce-
ment Offi cers Memorial Fund.
“These offi cers were killed
simply because of the uniform
they wear and the job they do.
This is unacceptable to the
humane society that we are.”
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
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Mostly cloudy with rain in
the afternoon
Partly cloudy
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Clouds and sun with
spotty showers; chilly
Mostly sunny and cold
Cold with plenty of sun
Full
Salem
26/41
Newport
32/44
Jan 12
New
Jan 19
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
TOMORROW'S TIDES
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Candace Pozdolski will be
the new lead dispatcher starting
Saturday, Emergency Commu-
nications Manager Jeff Rusiecki
of Astoria Police Department .
The lead dispatcher oversees the
Aimee Marie McFadden
Hillsboro
Aug. 25, 1971 — Dec. 5, 2016
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ing from noon to 1 p.m. Jan. 4 at Astoria City
Hall.
For more information, please call the may-
or’s offi ce at 503-325-5824.
OBITUARY
Burns
-4/20
Klamath Falls
14/29
“With
Next-Generation
9-1-1 technologies already
in use in Astoria 9-1-1, addi-
tional oversight and leadership
will be needed to guide us into
the future,” Rusiecki said in a
statement, “and Candace will
help fulfi ll that role.”
Meet the Astoria mayor on Wednesday
Ontario
2/16
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
North Bend
daily operations of the Dispatch
Center and provides guidance
and direction to other personnel
when needed.
Pozdolski served eight
years in a larger center in Cal-
ifornia, and is beginning her
third year with Astoria 911.
Astoria Mayor Arline LaMear will hold
her next “Meet the Mayor” community meet-
Baker
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TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
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Tonight's Sky: The Winter Circle - Sirius is the
brightest star in the night sky followed by Capella,
Rigel, Procyon, Betelgeuse, Aldebaran and Pollux.
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La Grande
11/28
Baton Rouge
Less than two weeks after
the Dallas attack, a lone gun-
man in Baton Rouge shot
and killed three offi cers and
wounded three others out-
side a convenience store in
the weeks after a black man,
37-year-old Alton Sterling,
was shot and killed by police
during a struggle.
Baton Rouge Police Cpl.
Lester Mitchell was partners
with Matthew Gerald, one
of the three slain offi cers,
and was among the offi cers
who raced to the scene of
the shooting that also killed
sheriff’s deputy Brad Gara-
fola and offi cer Montrell
Jackson. Mitchell has daily
reminders of the deadly
shootout, driving past the
scene on his way to police
headquarters.
“Just passing there, you
can’t help but replay it over
and over again,” he said.
Mitchell said the shoot-
ing has made him more alert
and aware of potential dan-
gers on patrol, sometimes
in situations that wouldn’t
have alarmed him before,
like a hand in a pocket. “You
learn to cope with it, because
if you don’t, you can drive
yourself crazy,” he said.
The
National
Law
Enforcement
Offi cers
Memorial Fund’s Floyd
said the impact of this year
has been profound on law
enforcement. Agencies are
struggling to recruit offi cers
to their ranks and those who
continue to serve “talk about
how their head is now on a
swivel.”
“They’re always look-
ing over their shoulder,
always worrying about the
next attack that could come
at any time from any direc-
tion,” Floyd said.
That was underscored by
the slaying in November of
a San Antonio detective who
was fatally shot and killed
outside police headquar-
ters as he was writing a traf-
fi c ticket. The man accused
of shooting him said he was
angry about a child-custody
battle and simply “lashed
out at somebody who didn’t
deserve it.”
New 911 lead dispatcher named
Roseburg
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Brookings
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Jan 27
John Day
14/33
Bend
10/33
Medford
24/39
UNDER THE SKY
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Eugene
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The Dalles
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Portland
28/40
Sunset tonight ........................... 4:39 p.m.
Sunrise Saturday ........................ 7:58 a.m. Coos Bay
Moonrise today ........................... 8:43 a.m. 32/47
Moonset today ........................... 6:28 p.m.
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ASTORIA
32/45
Precipitation
Thursday .......................................... 0.23"
Month to date ................................. 10.14"
Normal month to date ....................... 9.28"
Year to date .................................... 86.64"
Normal year to date ........................ 66.90"
Jan 5
TUESDAY
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Thursday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 52°/38°
Normal high/low ........................... 48°/37°
Record high ............................ 60° in 1920
Record low ............................. 16° in 1990
First
MONDAY
better with our struggle,” he
said. Frazier added that the
attack was a “game changer.
It changed the perception of
law enforcement. It reversed
the roll after Ferguson. We
were the pursuer and now,
we’re being pursued.”
Sniper attack
In Dallas, a sniper on July
7 attacked at the end of what
had been a peaceful rally
against police brutality. He
killed fi ve law enforcement
offi cers and wounded nine
others — the largest death
toll among law enforcement
from a single event since the
9/11 attacks, which killed 72
offi cers. Months later, Dal-
las businesses and residents
still display blue ribbons
and banners declaring, “We
support our Dallas police
offi cers.”
But even amid com-
munity support, the police
department remains unset-
tled. Hundreds of offi cers
have retired or left the force
over the past six months as
the city struggles to fi nd
a way to increase pay and
save a failing police and
fi re pension. Former Chief
David Brown, who became
a national fi gure in the after-
math, was among those who
opted to retire. And interim
Dallas Police Association
president Frederick Frazier
said that morale is “almost
nonexistent.”
“A lot of us are going
through the motions at work.
We’re hoping things will get
After a yearlong battle with brain
cancer, Aimee Marie McFadden passed
away at her home in Hillsboro, Oregon,
on Dec. 5. Aimee was born on Aug. 25,
1971, in Seattle, the daughter of Judith
Stidham and Peter Simpson.
She graduated from Tahoma High
School in Maple Valley, Washing-
ton, in 1989, obtained an associate
degree in computer programming
and networking from Clatsop Com-
Aimee McFadden
munity College in 2000, and was
working toward a degree in business
administration.
She had a passion for spending
time with friends and family, as well
as the outdoors, especially fi shing.
She is survived by her daughter Mia,
mother Judith, stepfather William and
twin brother Adam.
A celebration of life service will
be held at the Lake Wilderness Lodge
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DEATHS
Dec. 24, 2016
CARLSON, Edward Charles, 59, of
Long Beach, Washington, died in Knappa.
Hughes-Ransom Mortuary & Crematory in
Seaside is in charge of the arrangements.
Dec. 25, 2016
HARRINGTON, Larry John, 85, of Tolo-
vana Park, died in Tolovana Park. Hughes-Ran-
som Mortuary & Crematory in Seaside is in
charge of the arrangements.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
TUESDAY
Astoria City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 1095 Duane St.
Seaside Library Board, 4:30
p.m., Seaside Library, 1131
Broadway.
Miles Crossing Sanitary Sewer
District Board, 6 p.m., 34583
U.S. Highway 101 Business.
Seaside Planning Commis-
sion, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989
Broadway.
Cannon Beach City Council,
LOTTERIES
7 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower
St.
WEDNESDAY
Maritime Memorial Com-
mittee, 1 p.m., Holiday Inn
Conference Room 204, West
Marine Dr.
Seaside Improvement Com-
mission, 6:30 p.m., City Hall,
989 Broadway.
Gearhart City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 698 Pacifi c Way.
OREGON
Thursday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 4-9-3-5
4 p.m.: 0-9-1-0
7 p.m.: 5-6-0-0
10 p.m.: 0-7-6-9
WASHINGTON
Thursday’s Daily Game: 6-1-9
Thursday’s Keno: 01-06-11-
13-15-29-30-31-41-43-47-
48-49-59-65-66-74-76-78-80
Thursday’s Match 4: 06-12-
13-22
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