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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 2017
‘Who or what will you be thinking about and remembering on Memorial Day?’
“I’ll be thinking about all the
soldiers who’ve lost their
lives, and my loved ones who
are no longer here. Not to
mention, the terrorist attacks
— like the one at the concert.
Those young kids. It’s so sad.”
“All the veterans
that died for our
country.”
Karl Hellberg,
Warrenton
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“I’m in the Coast
Guard. My mom is
prior Navy. My dad is
retired from the Navy
after 29 years. So, I’ll be
thinking about my family.”
Lori Mavencamp, Warrenton
Dylan Dean, Astoria
OBITUARIES
Janet Roseanne Mellott
Larry Lee Haller
Astoria
July 26, 1939 — May 4, 2017
Seaside
April 25, 1934 — May 21, 2017
Janet Roseanne Mellott passed away peace-
She is survived by her husband, Gene; daugh-
fully, after an extended illness, on May 4, 2017, ters Karel (Clint) O’Grady of Seaside, Oregon,
with family by her side.
and Karen Mellott of Dover, Tennessee; grand-
Janet Roseanne Dvorak was born July 26, sons, Jeff (Stacy) Brien of Dickson, Tennes-
1939, in Iowa Colony, Texas, to Joe
see, and Daniel Brien of Dover, Ten-
Dvorak Sr. and Albina Krampota
nessee; a brother, Joe Dvorak Jr. of
Dvorak.
Smithfi eld, Virginia; a brother-in-
She graduated from Alvin High
law, Scott (Susan) Mellott of Hous-
School in Alvin, Texas, in 1957. She
ton, Texas; a sister-in-law, Kathryn
attended business school and worked
Mellott of League City, Texas; and
in Houston, Texas, where she met
numerous nieces and nephews.
her future husband, Gene. Janet and
The family would like to thank
Gene traveled from coast to coast due
the staff of Clatsop Retirement Vil-
to her husband’s career in the U.S.
lage for their thoughtfulness and car-
Coast Guard.
ing during this diffi cult time, and
Janet Mellott
She worked with the Girl Scouts
also thank you to Lower Columbia
in Hawaii and later, when the fam-
Hospice for their assistance in mak-
ily settled in Astoria, Oregon. Janet
ing her last days on this earth more
also worked at Tongue Point Job Corps Center comfortable.
as a medical secretary until her retirement. After
At Janet’s request there will be no ser-
retirement, Janet and Gene lived in Knappa, vices. Her ashes will be interred at Willamette
Oregon.
National Cemetery in Portland, Oregon.
Janet was preceded in death by her parents;
In lieu of fl owers, please donate to the Clat-
her brother, Leo Dvorak; and a son-on-law, sop County Animal Shelter or Lower Columbia
Everett Jordan.
Hospice.
Larry was born in Sweet Home,
Jaycees, Rotary, Miss Oregon Pag-
Oregon, to Alma and Joseph Haller.
eant, Masonic Lodge, Providence
He graduated from Milwaukie
Seaside Hospital Board, Seaside
High School. He received a bachelor
Civic and Convention Center Board,
of science degree from Oregon State
and the Chamber of Commerce.
University, and a master’s degree in
During these years he received many
honors and awards.
administration from the University of
He is survived by his wife, Joyce;
Oregon.
daughter, Kristi; son-in-law, Todd
He married Joyce Cumberland
Shaffer; son, Scott; daughter-in-law,
in 1956. In 1960, he moved with his
Cheryl Harrison; a brother, Bill; and
family to Seaside, where he taught
Larry Haller
several nieces and nephews.
and coached at Seaside High School
A celebration of life is planned for
until he retired in 1989.
Larry devoted his life to community service. later this year.
Donations may be made to Seaside Kids,
He served on the Seaside City Council for 22
years. He was a member of the Seaside Kids, P.O. Box 275, Seaside, OR 97138.
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
47
Partly cloudy
Partly sunny
ALMANAC
First
69
52
Beautiful with clouds
and sun
Salem
45/72
Newport
45/59
Last
June 9
Prineville
34/70
Lebanon
43/72
La Grande
40/62
Baker
34/61
Ontario
46/72
Burns
30/64
Roseburg
48/75
Brookings
49/65
June 17
John Day
38/65
Bend
33/67
Medford
46/81
Klamath Falls
35/72
Lakeview
35/70
Ashland
44/78
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UNDER THE SKY
Tonight's Sky: Comet Johnson in the constellation
Bootes might reach magnitude +6.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
TOMORROW'S TIDES
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
8:01 a.m.
7:53 p.m.
Low
-1.4 ft.
1.7 ft.
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
North Bend
Hi
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TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Hi Lo
74 55
64 52
62 51
82 52
66 48
70 57
95 71
62 39
86 72
67 55
66 46
103 76
75 57
67 53
91 78
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77 60
68 57
71 51
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70 55
87 53
68 54
63 49
68 59
Pendleton
44/67
The Dalles
47/77
Eugene
42/71
Full
June 1
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
Mostly sunny, nice and
warm
Portland
48/73
Sunset tonight ........................... 8:52 p.m.
Sunrise Thursday ........................ 5:33 a.m. Coos Bay
Moonrise today ........................... 5:13 a.m. 48/61
Moonset today ........................... 7:35 p.m.
High
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8.0 ft.
Mostly sunny, nice and
warm
Tillamook
45/63
SUN AND MOON
Time
1:03 a.m.
2:17 p.m.
70
51
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ASTORIA
47/65
Precipitation
Tuesday ............................................ Trace
Month to date ................................... 5.78"
Normal month to date ....................... 2.52"
Year to date .................................... 47.02"
Normal year to date ........................ 32.56"
May 25
SUNDAY
70
51
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Tuesday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 62°/50°
Normal high/low ........................... 61°/47°
Record high ............................ 85° in 1999
Record low ............................. 34° in 1966
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By MATEUSZ
PERKOWSKI
EO Media Group
Debates over Idaho’s
so-called “ag gag” law, which
criminalized secret audiovisual
recordings of farm operations,
often center on the livestock
industry.
It was an undercover video
of cattle abuse at an Idaho
dairy, after all, that inspired
state lawmakers to pass the stat-
ute in 2014.
During oral arguments this
month about the law’s consti-
tutionality before the 9th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals in
Seattle, Judge Mary Marga-
ret McKeown approached the
matter from an angle that didn’t
involve dairy cows.
“It could apply to beekeep-
ing too, right? So does a bee-
hive have a privacy interest?”
McKeown asked Idaho’s dep-
uty attorney general, Carl
Withroe.
Withroe acknowledged that
beehives would be covered by
the statute but said they prob-
ably lack the right to personal
privacy.
However, the farmer does
have the right to control who
enters his property and to
exclude those who want to
record its operations without
permission, he said.
The judge seemed to think
that argument was beside the
point.
“But that’s trespass, not pri-
vacy, that you’re talking about,”
she said, later adding that “cor-
porations don’t have a privacy
interest.”
McKeown’s observation
that “it keeps coming down to
trespass” could be problem-
atic for Idaho’s defense of the
law, which was struck down
nearly two years ago by a fed-
eral judge who found it violated
free speech rights.
Trespass is already prohib-
ited by Idaho law in the legit-
imate interest of protecting
private property, while other
statutes aim to protect peo-
ple from defamation, theft and
fraud, according to the Animal
Legal Defense Fund.
The defense fund claims the
real goal of the “ag gag” law,
on the other hand, is the ille-
gitimate purpose of suppress-
ing speech that casts a negative
light on the farm industry.
As for privacy rights, the
law’s opponents argue that
farms are effectively “industrial
facilities” that don’t have the
same expectations of privacy as
people.
Idaho’s lawyers counter that
the law simply requires people
to obtain a farmer’s permission
to enter his property and fi lm
operations without misrepre-
senting who they are.
The statute regulates the
ability to use a tool, such as a
camera, on private property,
rather than restricting “expres-
sive conduct,” according to
Idaho.
“There is no First Amend-
ment right to make those
recordings in the fi rst place,”
said Withroe.
Since the law simply
restricts the ability to record on
private property, without dis-
tinguishing between favorable
and unfavorable coverage, the
regulation is impartial regard-
ing content and thus doesn’t
violate free speech rights, he
said.
Judge Carlos Bea seemed
skeptical of this argument, not-
ing that people who violate the
statute must pay the farmer
double the amount of losses
caused by the crime in resti-
tution — a requirement that’s
unlikely to be triggered by a
positive portrayal.
“It isn’t viewpoint-neu-
tral. It’s directed to the opera-
tions only, and only to pejora-
tive reports of the operations,”
Bea said.
Though Idaho’s legal theory
was subject to much of the tough
questioning by the three 9th Cir-
cuit judges, they also pushed
back against some arguments
by the Animal Legal Defense
Fund’s attorney, Justin Marceau.
Specifi cally, the judges
inquired about provisions of
the law that prohibit using mis-
representation to gain access to
records, obtain employment or
economically harm the farm.
At one point, Judge Richard
Tallman wondered whether the
defense fund could live with a
narrower injunction against
the Idaho law than the cur-
rent order entirely blocking its
enforcement.
MEMORIAL
Saturday, May 27
SELLERS, June Elizabeth — Memorial at 1 p.m., Grace Community Baptist Church, 1195
Irving Ave. A reception follows the service.
DEATHS
May 24, 2017
HARRISON, Willard R., 88, of Astoria, died in Astoria. Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary of
Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
May 23, 2017
ENBUSK, Henry Jacob, 93, of Clatskanie, formerly of Astoria, died in Clatskanie. Caldwell’s
Luce-Layton Mortuary in Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
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209.
Cannon Beach Budget Com-
mittee, 5:30 p.m., City Hall, 163
E. Gower St.
Clatsop County Board of
Commissioners, 6 p.m., Judge
Guy Boyington Building, 857
Commercial St.
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executive session and special
emergency meeting on video
gambling application, City Hall,
698 Pacifi c Way.
THURSDAY
Sunset Empire Transportation
LOTTERIES
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Center Conference Room, 900
Marine Drive.
Clatsop County Recreational
Lands Planning and Advisory
Committee, 1 to 3 p.m., fourth
fl oor, 800 Exchange St.
Youngs River Lewis & Clark
Water District Budget
Committee, 3 p.m., 34583 U.S.
Highway 101 Business.
Youngs River Lewis & Clark
Water District Board, 6 p.m.,
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101 Business.
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Gower St.
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