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DailyAstorian.com // THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2017
144TH YEAR, NO. 155
Convict in
Warrenton
murder
could ask
for parole
ONE DOLLAR
HATCHING A NEW
FISH PLAN
BIG CREEK HATCHERY PLANS TO
REDUCE SALMON PRODUCTION
By DERRICK DePLEDGE
The Daily Astorian
A felon convicted in a notorious murder
on a Warrenton boat in 1998 could get the
chance to argue he is entitled to parole.
Anthony Scott Garner stabbed Dana Bai-
ley in the head and chest after suspecting her
of being a police informant, then set fi re to
the Foxy Lady at the Warrenton marina as
police arrived to investigate the crime. Gar-
ner, who faced the death penalty, was con-
victed in 2001 of two counts of aggravated
murder and sentenced to life in prison with-
out the possibility of parole.
The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled
Wednesday that Garner should get a new
sentencing hearing in Clatsop County Cir-
cuit Court because his attorneys failed to
properly argue his case on appeal.
The Court of Appeals in 2004 overturned
one of Garner’s murder counts — for inten-
tionally maiming Bailey — and his attorneys
could have used the decision to argue for a
new sentencing hearing before a jury to con-
sider a sentence that allowed for parole.
See GARNER, Page 7A
Fish hatcheries on the Lower
Columbia River Basin
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A project by local Mormon churches aims
to help young women in developing nations
remain in school during their menses — a
time when, in many cultures, the custom is
to isolate bleeding girls, who are viewed as
“unclean.”
Volunteers from the Relief Society, a wom-
en’s group in the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, are assembling hundreds
of reusable feminine hygiene kits that will
be sent to places where such products are not
readily available.
On Saturday, about two dozen women
from the Astoria and Warrenton wards gath-
ered in the Mormon church on Niagara Ave-
nue to stitch together drawstring bags for the
girls to carry their supplies in. Wards in Sea-
side and Long Beach, Washington, are also
preparing kit materials, which will be com-
bined with work done by congregations in
Rainier, St. Helens and Scappoose.
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River Basin
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By ERICK BENGEL
The Daily Astorian
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
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Local churches make
hygiene kits for girls
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Jessica Wentzek and Dustin Manwaring, both hatchery technicians, sweep fish ponds last week at Big Creek Fish Hatchery
south of Knappa. The hatchery south of Knappa faces a one-third reduction in salmon production by 2022.
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‘We are all
still girls’
Area hatchery and release sites
1. Youngs Bay SAFE Area Net Pens
9. Gnat Creek Hatchery
2. Tongue Point SAFE Area Net Pens
10. Skamokawa Creek Weir
3. Klaskanine Hatchery
11. Cathlamet Channel Net Pens
4. Deep River Net Pens
12. Elochoman Weir
5. Grays River Weir
13. Beaver Creek Hatchery
6. Grays River Hatchery
14. Mill Creek Weir
7. Big Creek Hatchery
15. Abernathy Creek Weir
8. Blind Slough SAFE Area Net Pens
16. Germany Creek Weir
Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Alan Kenaga/EO Media Group
NAPPA — Nestled in the hills south
of Knappa and Svensen is the Ore-
gon Department of Fish and Wild-
life’s Big Creek Hatchery, which on aver-
age releases 3.8 million hatchery fi sh a
year into the Columbia River.
Big Creek fi ts into a larger network
of approximately 160 hatcheries produc-
ing more than 100 million salmon in the
Columbia River Basin. Sixty-two of the
hatcheries receive federal funding from
the Mitchell Act, which since 1938 has
helped fund programs to mitigate the
impact to fi sh from water diversions such
as dams, pollution and logging.
As fi shery managers with the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
adjust production of certain salmon spe-
cies at the federally funded hatcheries to
help their struggling wild counterparts,
Big Creek faces a one-third reduction in
its maximum salmon production by 2022.
Big Creek
For the past 7 1/2 years, Rob Dietrichs
has managed Big Creek Hatchery for the
state. Big Creek is one of Oregon’s larg-
est hatcheries on the Columbia downri-
ver from Bonneville Dam. The county
See FISH PLAN, Page 7A
Trump fuels Dems’ anxiety at start of Oregon session
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — President Don-
ald Trump was omnipresent as
state lawmakers commenced
their 160-day legislative ses-
sion at the State Capitol
Wednesday.
Outside the Capitol, hun-
dreds of protesters stood on the
building’s steps to rally against
Trump’s executive order last
week temporarily banning ref-
ugees and visa holders from
several predominantly Mus-
lim countries from entering the
country.
Inside, state lawmakers
began the process of policy-
making as they face uncer-
tainty about what policy
changes could still come from
the Trump administration,
including a likely repeal of the
Affordable Care Act and oth-
ers that could affect the state’s
federal funding.
“My sense of it is with
what is going on in Washing-
ton, D.C., especially on issues
like the Affordable Care Act,
there is a growing sense that
we are on our own,” said Sen-
ate Majority Leader Ginny
Burdick, D-Portland. “There is
so much confusion back there,
so much that is frankly dis-
tressing to many Oregonians
going on out there that there is
a sense that we need to work
together.”
Revenue shortfall
State lawmakers this ses-
sion have to contend with a
$1.8 billion revenue shortfall
stemming from a reduction in
federal contribution to subsi-
dized health care for low-in-
come residents, spikes in
human services caseloads and
rising state pension costs. But
the tone of the session largely
reverberated Wednesday with
resistance to Trump.
Hundreds of protestors
assembled on the Capitol steps
in opposition to Trump’s exec-
utive order concerning immi-
gration and urged Gov. Kate
Brown to join other states in
See SESSION, Page 7A
Anna Reed/Statesman-Journal
Hundreds attend an immigrant and refugee rights rally, in
response to President Trump’s ban on people entering the
United States from seven Muslim-majority countries, at
the Oregon State Capitol in Salem on Wednesday.