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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2017
Foster Memorial Fund established Trump adviser says no more
Family provides
$20,000 gift to
support festival
The Daily Astorian
The Astoria Music Festi-
val has announced the estab-
lishment of the Michael Fos-
ter Memorial Fund to honor
the memory of the Astoria res-
ident, founding board mem-
ber and longtime arts advo-
cate who died in December.
Foster’s family has made
a $20,000 leadership gift,
which has already been
matched by pledges.
“The importance of
Michael’s lifelong commit-
ment to arts and education
in Astoria cannot be over-
stated,” Deac Guidi, the
music festival’s new board
president, said. “From the
Liberty Theater restoration
and establishment of art
galleries, to teaching gen-
erations of Astoria High
School students and rais-
ing millions of dollars for
scholarships, to helping
found the Astoria Music
Festival and serving on its
board for nearly 15 years,
Michael Foster left a last-
ing legacy to his hometown
and the entire state.”
EPA attacks on farmers
The fund, he said, will
provide continued support for
the Astoria Music Festival as
a memorial to Foster’s com-
mitment to art and music.
The Astoria Music Fes-
tival will commemorate its
15th season with the Michael
Foster Memorial Concert
on June 17 in the Liberty
Theater.
The concert will feature
a performance of Beetho-
ven’s Ninth Symphony, one
of Foster’s favorite pieces
of music. Festival Artis-
tic Director Keith Clark will
lead the orchestra and chorus
and a quartet of Metropolitan
Opera soloists.
By DON JENKINS
EO Media Group
Spring Chinook fi shing season extended
Fishing for the spring Chinook will be
allowed from Buoy 10 upstream to Beacon
Rock. Angling from banks will be allowed
from Beacon Rock to the Bonneville Dam, but
the closure near the mouth of the Lewis River
will remain in effect.
Managers will meet ahead of the newly
extended deadline to discuss an additional
extension.
The Daily Astorian
Spring Chinook fi shing season on the
L ower Columbia River has been extended
through April 10.
Oregon and Washington state fi shery man-
agers agreed to the extension Thursday in
response to poor fi shing conditions that have
limited harvest so far this season.
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Don Jenkins/EO Media Group
A billboard in Olympia advertises a website that advo-
cates for stricter regulations on farmers.
Audit pending
The tribe, funded by an EPA
grant passed through the North-
west Indian Fisheries Com-
mission, had a budget of some
$655,000 for the campaign.
The EPA’s inspector general
has yet to release a congressio-
nally requested audit into how
the money was used.
Some federal lawmakers
accused the EPA of breaking
a federal law prohibiting the
grant from being used to lobby
policymakers. The Washing-
ton Public Disclosure Com-
mission recently ruled What’s
Upstream didn’t need to report
its political activities. Although
the campaign advocated man-
datory 100-foot buffers, it did
not cite a specifi c bill and did
not need to register as a lob-
bying effort, according to the
commission .
The commission was
responding to a complaint
from Save Family Farming that
named a tribe offi cial, Seat-
tle lobbying fi rm Strategies
360 and then-EPA Northwest
Administrator Dennis McLer-
ran. The Trump administration
has not yet appointed a new
region administrator.
Baron said Save Fam-
ily Farming will ask McLer-
ran’s successor to get back fed-
eral money spent on What’s
Upstream and ensure the tribe
doesn’t resume the campaign.
“Given the severe disap-
pointment with the state tak-
ing this issue seriously, it’s grat-
ifying the federal government
with the new administration is
considering this a pretty serious
issue,” Baron said.
Supports trade
Starling said the White
House supports trade. Trump
withdrew the U.S. from the
Trans-Pacifi c
Partnership,
which many farm groups sup-
ported. “The president is com-
mitted to negotiating agree-
ments that secure open and
equitable access to foreign mar-
kets,” Starling said.
Starling did not talk about
immigration policy, but said
farm labor will be another top
priority.
“We are getting to a point
of push comes to shove when
it comes to access to a reliable
workforce. That is something
we defi nitely have to work on
for agriculture,” he said.
Starling said farmers and
ranchers have been the victims
of “one regulatory proposal
after another.”
“We have to halt the regula-
tory onslaught,” he said. “The
administration will never lose
sight of the fact that the No. 1
farm preservation tool we have
is farm profi tability, not buzz-
words, not catch phrases, or a
federal grant program.”
Four people injured in Astoria car crash
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Precipitation
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Month to date ................................. 14.45"
Normal month to date ....................... 7.23"
Year to date .................................... 32.33"
Normal year to date ........................ 24.62"
Apr 3
TUESDAY
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Thursday.
Temperatures
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Record high ............................ 72° in 1941
Record low ............................. 28° in 1954
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President Donald Trump’s
top agricultural adviser says
the new administration won’t
tolerate federal support for
advocacy campaigns like
What’s Upstream.
Ray Starling, special assis-
tant to the president for agri-
culture, trade and food assis-
tance, outlined the White
House’s farm policy priorities
in a speech this month at the
National Press Club in Wash-
ington, D.C.
“This administration will
not allow the EPA to give tax-
payer dollars to activist groups
who then turn around and put
up billboards that attack our
farmers and ranchers,” said
Starling, a former general
counsel for the North Carolina
Department of Agriculture.
The promise cheered Gerald
Baron, director of Save Fam-
ily Farming, which was formed
last year to respond to claims
by What’s Upstream that farm-
ers are unregulated polluters
who let cows wade in rivers.
“This indication from Ray
Starling is important. It gives
us optimism some of these
things will be dealt with,”
Baron said.
Between 2011 and 2016,
the Environmental Protection
Agency fi nancially supported
What’s Upstream, which was
organized by the Swinom-
ish Indian Tribe and several
environmental groups. They
hoped to infl uence Washing-
ton state lawmakers to vote for
stricter limits on farming near
waterways.
The campaign included a
website, radio ads and a let-
ter-writing campaign, but bill-
boards in Olympia and Bell-
ingham attracted the attention
of federal lawmakers. The EPA
withdrew its support soon after
Senate Agriculture Committee
Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan-
sas , called the billboards “dis-
turbing” and “malicious.”
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The Daily Astorian
Four people were injured,
two of them seriously, when a
car rolled down a hill off Lief
Erikson Drive near 51st Street
on Thursday morning.
A blue 1995 Nissan Path-
fi nder likely struck the end of
a protective highway guard-
rail on the north side of the
road just before 10:30 a.m.,
according to the Astoria Fire
Department. The vehicle then
rolled over into a yard of a
home and came to rest on its
side 40 feet down the hill.
All of the car’s occu-
pants were taken to Colum-
bia Memorial Hospital. The
two with more serious inju-
ries were later fl own in a Life
Flight h elicopter to a hospital
in Portland.
Police Department at the
corner of North Main Ave-
nue and Northwest First
Street for driving under the
influence of intoxicants. His
blood-alcohol content was
.051 and he failed a field
sobriety test. Allison was
also cited for having a bro-
ken taillight.
couver, formerly of Asto-
ria, died Tuesday, March 28,
2017, in Vancouver.
Tuesday, April 4
BOJANOWSKI, Fran-
cis “Frank” — Rosary at
8:20 a.m., Mass at 9 a.m.,
luncheon and eulogy at
10 a.m., St. James Cathe-
dral, 218 W. 12th St. in
Vancouver.
Wednesday, April 5
BOJANOWSKI, Francis
“Frank” — Graveside ser-
vice at 1 p.m., Ocean View
Cemetery in Warrenton.
ON THE RECORD
DUII
• At 8:58 p.m. Wednes-
day, Joshua Guy Alli-
son, 34, of Warrenton, was
arrested by the Warrenton
MEMORIAL
Monday, April 3
BOJANOWSKI, Fran-
cis “Frank” — Viewing
from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
Hamilton-Mylan
Funeral
Home, 302 West 11th St.
in Vancouver, Washington.
Bojanowski, 69, of Van-
DEATHS
March 24, 2017
HANER, Janice I., 73, of Portland, formerly
of Seaside, died in Portland. Wilhelm’s Portland
Memorial Funeral & Cremation is in charge of
the arrangements.
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PUBLIC MEETINGS
MONDAY
Astoria City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 1095 Duane St.
TUESDAY
Seaside Library Board, 4:30
p.m., 1131 Broadway.
Port of Astoria Commission, 5
p.m., workshop, Port offi ces, 10
Pier 1, Suite 209.
Clatsop County Fair Board,
5:30 p.m., Clatsop County Fair
and Expo, 92937 Walluski Loop.
Astoria Library Board, 5:30
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