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2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2017 Oregon Democrats call for party unity in wake of Trump victory Seek to end rift left over from bitter primary Hillary Clinton — those fault lines were felt in Oregon, as well. In its report on recent accomplishments, the party characterized the election of Trump and the party’s loss of the Oregon Secretary of State’s Offi ce as “heartbreaks.” Republican Dennis Richard- son won the offi ce over state Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian, a Democrat. By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau SALEM — Seemingly energized by a common enemy — President Donald Trump — the Democratic Party of Ore- gon convened for a leadership reorganization in Salem this weekend. Many candidates for party positions spoke of uniting the party in the wake of a divi- sive presidential election by appealing to rural voters and fostering an overall culture of inclusivity. While the presidential elec- tion revealed fractures within the national Democratic party — roughly along the lines of those who supported U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont , and those who supported for- mer U.S. Secretary of State Atkins new chairwoman On Sunday, Democratic Party of Oregon delegates elected former Oregon Secre- tary of State Jeanne Atkins to chair the party. Atkins is a former staffer for U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, and was appointed secretary of state in early 2015, when then-Secretary of State Kate Brown became governor after the resignation of former Gov. John Kitzhaber. Atkins, who did not seek election to the offi ce and intended to retire from pub- lic service, said she was moti- vated to jump back into poli- tics by Trump’s election. In a speech before party delegates cast their votes, Atkins acknowledged the par- ty’s recent setbacks. But she said Oregon Dem- ocrats have had successes as well — such as the recent pas- sage and implementation of the country’s fi rst automatic voter registration law and raising the state’s minimum wage. Atkins said she seeks to include and mobilize the ranks of people she said were turning to the Democratic party to “resist the dark vision of Donald Trump and his fel- low Republicans.” “Our task is to open our organization to them,” Atkins said, “to encourage and work alongside these new orga- nizations and individuals to make change, and to do our job of electing leaders who endorse our Democratic val- ues of fairness, justice and opportunity.” FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT TUESDAY WEDNESDAY 54 48 45 ALMANAC 54 42 Partly sunny with a passing shower Times of clouds and sun First Newport 43/53 Apr 3 Coos Bay 42/58 Last Apr 10 Source: Jim Todd, OMSI TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 8:36 a.m. 8:47 p.m. Low 0.2 ft. 0.2 ft. REGIONAL CITIES City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend Hi 50 48 53 55 51 47 55 54 51 54 Today Lo 28 30 42 40 46 26 38 43 43 43 W r sn r r r c sh r r r Hi 52 54 57 59 52 55 62 58 53 58 Tues. Lo 33 39 47 48 48 36 45 47 47 50 W c c c r r c c r r c City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Springfi eld Vancouver Yakima Hi 52 55 54 56 55 51 50 54 54 60 Today Lo 42 37 44 40 44 46 34 40 43 38 W r pc r r r r c r r pc Hi 51 55 56 64 58 53 47 62 56 57 Tues. Lo 46 43 47 47 48 48 39 48 47 41 W r c r c r r c r r c TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER NATIONAL CITIES Hi 77 45 53 62 54 63 80 28 84 66 58 72 73 76 81 78 82 62 69 68 66 49 62 51 75 Lakeview 24/54 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 Tonight's Sky: The new moon will be at 7:57 p.m. Enjoy the Milky Way Galaxy under a moonless night sky. Today Lo 62 39 38 36 41 45 56 9 70 54 44 53 53 53 65 59 68 51 47 54 51 37 50 44 60 Burns 26/49 Ashland 36/60 W c r r pc r c s s sh c r pc pc t pc c pc r pc r r sh pc r pc Hi 76 48 51 53 57 57 69 25 84 63 63 72 77 73 82 74 82 60 70 72 65 53 67 51 77 Tues. Lo 60 39 38 32 40 34 50 12 69 44 49 53 54 58 67 52 68 46 58 50 51 34 53 46 53 Associated Press WARRENTON — The U.S. Coast Guard helped res- cue a diver near the entrance to Tillamook Bay. A Coast Guard spokesper- son in Seattle says two boats SEASIDE — Provi- dence Seaside Hospital pres- ents “Preventing Falls: Stay- ing Healthy and on Your Feet” from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Thurs- day in the hospital’s Educa- tion Room A, lower level, at Ontario 35/58 Klamath Falls 26/55 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc c c r pc pc pc c sh c pc s s pc pc pc pc r pc c c c s r t Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. Have you waited until the end of the year to utilize your insurance benefi ts? Klemp Family Dentistry now off ers CEREC by Sirona ceramic dental restorations. Your new crowns can be completed in Republican from Ashland, in a special election last year. Across the board, Ore- gon Democrats are eager to maintain their hold on the governorship. Gov. Brown, who was elected in November to fi n- ish the term of her predeces- sor, is up for reelection in 2018. A Republican has not held the position since the late Vic Ati- yeh, who served from 1979 to 1987. Some divisions within Ore- gon’s Democratic Party were not only over presidential can- didates, but philosophy. ‘Move on’ Saying he sought to restore trust and confi dence in the party, new male Vice Chairman Valdez Bravo called on party members to “move on” from the 2016 campaign. “If we’re to accomplish our bold ambitions and fi ght against a fascist right-wing agenda, then we have to stop seeing each other as Bernie versus Hillary,” Bravo, who ran unopposed, said. “We have to stop seeing each other as establishment versus grass- roots. We have to stop seeing each other as radical versus lib- eral, and quite simply, we have to stop seeing each other as us versus them.” Bravo said he believed the party had a chance to strengthen in Oregon’s predominantly Republican-leaning rural coun- ties by sending more resources east of the mountains and emphasizing party leadership in individual counties. Lupita Maurer, who was elected Sunday as the party’s female vice chairwoman, said in remarks prior to her vic- tory that the party needed to go beyond “lip service” to a strategy of working in all Ore- gon’s counties, and that the party needed to help counties develop programs to foster Democratic leadership on the neighborhood level. The Capital Bureau is a col- laboration between EO Media Group and Pamplin Media Group. Diver rescued in Tillamook Bay The Daily Astorian Roseburg 40/64 Brookings 41/57 Apr 19 Baker 28/52 John Day 33/55 Bend 30/54 Medford 38/62 UNDER THE SKY High 8.9 ft. 8.8 ft. Prineville 29/57 Lebanon 41/61 Her opponent for chair, Larry Taylor of Astoria, who has been involved with the party on the local, state and national level for 20 years, said that Oregon Democrats had sent a message to party leadership in last year’s elec- tion that they wanted a change. “In Oregon, (voters) elected a Republican as secretary of state, and 28 out of 36 coun- ties voted for Trump,” Taylor said. In some counties east of the Cascades, more than 70 percent of voters cast their bal- lots for Trump, according to the Secretary of State’s Offi ce. Taylor also communicated a sense of urgency in main- taining the party’s hold on the state Legislature, saying that Democrats needed to run in races for all state legislative seats. In the most recent elec- tion, one state Senate seat fl ipped from blue to red, as the late Sen. Alan Bates, D-Med- ford, who died in August, was replaced by Alan DeBoer, a and a helicopter were dis- patched Sunday after an alert that multiple divers were in distress. After the rescue of the fi rst distressed diver, the search con- tinued until the second diver surfaced and returned to shore Providence Seaside helps to prevent falls, stay active La Grande 35/53 Salem 44/58 Eugene 40/59 Full Pendleton 37/55 The Dalles 41/59 Portland 44/56 Sunset tonight ........................... 7:38 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday .......................... 7:03 a.m. Moonrise today ........................... 7:09 a.m. Moonset today ........................... 7:26 p.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 Breezy with periods of rain Tillamook 44/55 SUN AND MOON Time 2:17 a.m. 2:36 p.m. 53 41 Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 45/54 Precipitation Sunday ............................................. 0.76" Month to date ................................. 13.44" Normal month to date ....................... 6.35" Year to date .................................... 31.32" Normal year to date ........................ 23.74" Mar 27 FRIDAY REGIONAL WEATHER Astoria through Sunday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 51°/43° Normal high/low ........................... 55°/40° Record high ............................ 72° in 1994 Record low ............................. 29° in 1996 New 54 43 Cloudy with occasional rain Rain and drizzle THURSDAY Taylor was challenger 725 S. Wahanna Drive. Ways to prevent a fall are discussed, and the presentation includes a short introduction to t ai c hi. There is no cost for this event, but registration is required. To register, go to www.providence.org/classes or call 800-562-8964. Program helps entrepreneurs The Daily Astorian The Oregon Technology Business Center, with sup- port from the Janette G. Drew Fund of the Oregon Commu- nity Foundation, is seeking an entrepreneur from the North Coast to participate in a six month Virtual Incubation Pro- gram beginning April 14. The program offers inten- sive education and mentor- ing to rural entrepreneurs . Jim McCreight, an organizer of the program, said downtown Astoria spice shop Pat’s Pan- try used the program to open a second location in Portland. The program is limited to between 12 and 15 entrepre- neurs. The total six-month cost is $79. Information and an application can be found at www.otbc.org/vip. The dead- line to apply is April 3. DEATHS March 24, 2017 ENSLOW, Susan M., 69, of Astoria, died in Astoria. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary & Crematory in Astoria is in charge of the arrangements. March 25, 2017 ENGBLOM, Robert Har- ris, 90, of Knappa, died in Knappa. Caldwell’s Luce-Lay- ton Mortuary in Astoria is in charge of the arrangements. PUBLIC MEETINGS TUESDAY Clatsop Care Health District Board, noon, Clatsop Care Memory Community, 2219 Dolphin Ave., Warrenton. Astoria Library Board, 5:30 p.m., Library Flag Room, 450 10th St. Warrenton City Commission, 6 p.m., City Hall, 225 S. Main Ave. Seaside Airport Advisory Committee, 6 p.m. City Hall, 989 Broadway. Astoria Traffi c Safety Adviso- ry Committee, 6:30 p.m., City Hall, 1095 Duane St. WEDNESDAY Cannon Beach Tourism and Arts Commission, 1 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. Astoria Watershed Forest Practices Open House, 6 p.m., City Hall, 1095 Duane St. without assistance. A third diver had already made it back to shore and was not in distress. The Coast Guard says the rescued diver is a 54-year-old man who was taken to Til- lamook Regional Medical Center. 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