2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 2017 ‘What should be done to help fund Astoria Parks and Recreation?’ “I think that the $3 fee that they were going to tack on to the wa- ter bill, I think that was a good idea. I don’t think a daily use fee is helpful.” “Daily admission fee, I suppose. That seems fair.” Temojai Inhofe, Astoria THE DAILY ASTORIAN // QUESTION OF THE WEEK U.S. Sen. Maria Cant- well and U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft announced Tuesday that Coast Guard families in s outhwest Washington state and the North Coast of Ore- gon will have greater access to local health care providers. Coast Guard dependents of active duty members sta- Union reaches fi rst milestone for corporate sales tax measure tioned at Station Cape Dis- appointment near Ilwaco, Washington, and the Sector Columbia River in Warrenton will be eligible to enroll in the TRICARE Prime Remote health plan, allowing families to seek out-of-network care. Without this designation, Coast Guard families have experienced diffi culty access- ing health care , with some traveling more than a hundred miles for care . “Coast Guard members stationed in s outhwest Wash- ington and n orthern Oregon protect our people, our environ- ment and our economy every day,” Cantwell, D-Washington, said in a release. “I applaud the Coast Guard for working with me to make sure these Coast Guard families can receive the health care they deserve, where they live and serve.” By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau Army Corps seeks comments on dredging The Daily Astorian The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is taking com- ments on a request by the Warrenton Fiber Co. to dredge near its Tansy Point barge-loading dock. The company is request- ing a 10-year maintenance dredging permit to take out 2,000 cubic yards of sediment during the ini- tial dredge event and up to 10,000 cubic yards of sedi- ment thereafter. The area around the facil- ity would be dredged to 15 feet mean lower low water, which refers to the aver- age height of the lowest tide recorded at a tide station each day during the record- ing period. Comments must be received by Monday and include the Corps’ reference number “NWP-2007-729-3.” They can be emailed to dan- ielle.h.erb@usace.army.mil . FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT THURSDAY Mostly sunny; breezy in the afternoon Pleasant with plenty of sunshine ALMANAC First Full June 30 Coos Bay 52/69 Last July 8 July 16 John Day 48/78 Seaside June 22, 1913 — June 3, 2017 La Grande 45/75 Baker 40/75 Ontario 57/86 Bend 44/79 Burns 39/82 Klamath Falls 49/89 Lakeview 49/86 Ashland 54/91 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 Source: Jim Todd, OMSI TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 6:54 a.m. 6:37 p.m. Low -1.2 ft. 2.0 ft. REGIONAL CITIES City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend Hi 77 80 74 77 61 88 88 76 61 66 Today Lo 40 44 58 48 53 49 55 49 47 53 W s s s s c s s s pc s Hi 75 79 78 82 64 89 94 81 64 67 Thu. Lo 38 45 58 51 54 49 59 54 49 54 W s s s s s s s s s s City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Springfi eld Vancouver Yakima Hi 72 81 74 81 77 62 78 78 74 85 Today Lo 45 48 52 53 50 50 52 47 50 50 W pc s pc s s pc s s pc s Hi 77 79 80 86 82 65 78 82 79 85 Thu. Lo 47 51 55 56 54 53 52 50 53 50 W s s s s s s s s s s TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER NATIONAL CITIES W c pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc s pc pc t pc r pc s pc s s pc pc pc Thu. Hi Lo 80 73 81 67 90 67 90 55 93 63 88 71 110 83 75 53 86 74 85 70 90 68 115 87 84 64 84 75 90 80 78 72 86 77 83 72 92 69 90 75 88 75 90 58 83 61 75 53 92 75 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W t pc pc s pc t s pc pc pc s s pc r pc r r pc s pc pc s s s pc Need a Lift? Roby’s can help. Lift chairs starting at $599. Battery support ensures lift mechanism works for one cycle without electricity. Available in a wide selection of fabrics and special-order fabrics ZERO GRAVITY device that supports legs, back, and neck Astoria - (503) 325-1535 1555 Commercial • www.robysfurniture.com Althea Merle Logan was born June 22, Althea is survived by her son, Joe Logan, 1913, in Brocksburg, Nebraska, to George and and his wife, Virginia, of Corvallis, Oregon; Addie Marburger. She was raised on farms four grandchildren, four great-grandchildren near Douglas, Wyoming, and married William and eight great-great grandchildren; and by a Logan in Douglas on May 21, 1932. sister, Gayle Armstrong of Lander, Bill and Althea fi rst lived in Wyoming. Althea’s grandchild, Douglas, then Rock Springs, Wyo- Brenda Monroe, was a very special ming, and later moved to Lander, caregiver, as well as a great comfort Wyoming, where she became the and companion to “Grammy” during her last years. assistant administrator of the Wyo- Althea was preceded in death ming State Training School. She by her parents, her husband and her worked there until she retired in daughter, Mary Ann Hamrick of 1978. When Althea retired, she and Seaside, her granddaughter Jenny, Bill moved to The Dalles, Oregon, and by her brothers, Roy and Fred, and later to Seaside, Oregon, to be Althea Logan and her sisters, Alice and Gladys. closer to family. A service will be held at 11 a.m. Althea was very active in the July 10 at Calvary Episcopal Church Episcopal Church wherever she lived, and was a 65-year member of the PEO in Seaside, Oregon. In lieu of fl owers, contributions may be Sisterhood. She served as president of the Episcopal Church Women in the Diocese of made to the Calvary Episcopal Church or the Wyoming, and also in Province Six. In Sea- PEO Sisterhood Chapter CR. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary & Crematory side, she was active in Calvary Episcopal Church, and served on the Altar Guild, St. of Astoria/Seaside is handling the funeral Margaret’s Guild and the Vestry, and was a arrangements. Memories may be shared in an online guest book at www.hughes-ransom.com trustee of the Endowment Fund. DEATH PUBLIC MEETINGS May 15, 2017 WELLS, Joseph Alan, 54, of Seaside, died in Portland. Ocean View Cremation and Burial Service of Astoria was in charge of the arrangements. A service will be announced at a later date. MEMORIAL Saturday, June 24 MERRILL, Alice — Celebration of life at 2 p.m., Lewis & Clark Bible Church, 35082 Seppa Road. Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. Side pocket to keep remote control handy at all times divisive ballot measures, we urge them to join us and oth- ers advocating for a legislative plan that includes both cost control and new revenues to pay for outcomes Oregonians want, including better high school graduation rates and affordable access to college.” Vaandering said the asso- ciation would not wait to take action to address Oregon’s education funding woes. “We refuse to sit idly by and allow the crisis in Oregon’s schools worsen while corpora- tions obstruct all efforts to pay a penny more in taxes,” Vaan- dering said. “Our classrooms are already far too crowded, our school years are too short, and our college tuition is much too high to do nothing.” The state House of Repre- sentatives voted 35- 24 Tues- day to postpone a vote on a two-year K-12 budget of $8.2 billion, to give lawmakers another week to reach a deal to raise more revenue for educa- tion. The Senate approved the budget earlier this month. The Capital Bureau is a collaboration between EO Media Group and Pamplin Media Group. Althea Merle Logan Roseburg 53/86 Brookings 60/84 Tonight's Sky: Mercury will be at superior conjunc- tion with the sun. The elusive planet will pass into the evening sky. 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 Prineville 42/82 Lebanon 47/82 Medford 55/94 UNDER THE SKY Today Hi Lo 76 70 83 63 80 67 96 63 93 71 79 64 104 78 72 53 87 74 87 70 93 71 116 88 87 66 88 74 91 80 88 70 83 77 84 67 94 66 87 68 96 75 100 68 78 60 69 51 88 73 Pendleton 48/79 Salem 50/82 Newport 47/64 under a certain threshold. The threshold is “a sum of money suffi cient to ensure the state system of public education meets quality goals established by law.” The Oregon Education Association announced Tues- day that petitioners have col- lected the 1,000 signatures needed to receive a ballot title. The proposals are gaining momentum just as the Dem- ocratic majority in the Legis- lature is scrambling to nego- tiate corporate tax reform and spending reductions with Republicans and the business community. A Better Oregon, a coali- tion of businesses that united to defeat another union-backed corporate sales tax measure last November, issued a statement Tuesday in response to the ini- tiative petitions’ milestone. “It’s disappointing that gov- ernment employee unions con- tinue to push for ballot measure battles rather than working collaboratively with legislators to put the state on a sound fi s- cal path into the future,” said Pat McCormick, a spokesman for Brighter Oregon. “Instead of polarizing Oregonians with OBITUARIES The Dalles 54/87 Portland 52/80 Eugene 48/82 Sunset tonight ........................... 9:11 p.m. Sunrise Thursday ........................ 5:24 a.m. Moonrise today ........................... 3:45 a.m. Moonset today ........................... 6:22 p.m. High 7.4 ft. Clouds to start, then sunshine returns Plenty of sun Tillamook 45/69 SUN AND MOON Time 1:11 p.m. none 81 57 Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 50/68 Precipitation Tuesday ............................................ 0.02" Month to date ................................... 2.44" Normal month to date ....................... 1.92" Year to date .................................... 49.57" Normal year to date ........................ 35.28" June 23 SUNDAY 82 61 SALEM — The state’s largest teachers’ union has reached the fi rst milestone to land two tax reform proposals on the November 2018 ballot. One proposal, Initiative Petition 27, would levy a 0.95 percent gross receipts tax on corporations with annual sales greater than $5 million. Peti- tioners want all of the revenue to go toward K-12 and higher education. “We are taking every step we can to ensure our students have the schools they deserve,” said Hanna Vaandering, pres- ident of the Oregon Educa- tion Association, in a state- ment. “Oregonians are tired of shortchanging our students in order to protect low corporate taxes. They want a more equi- table system where every stu- dent gets the individual atten- tion they need to succeed.” The other, Initiative Peti- tion 26, would eliminate the constitutional requirement to garner a three-fi fths majority vote in both chambers of the Legislature to pass new taxes, when educational funding dips REGIONAL WEATHER Astoria through Tuesday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 63°/56° Normal high/low ........................... 64°/51° Record high ............................ 86° in 1902 Record low ............................. 42° in 1947 New SATURDAY 70 57 50 Partly cloudy FRIDAY 68 51 Rory Gerard, Astoria Sandy Van Meer, Astoria Coast Guard families get greater access to health care The Daily Astorian “We should be able to fund it through our prop- erty taxes, not our water bill. We prob- ably need to liquidate some of the properties.” OBITUARY POLICY The Daily Astorian pub- lishes paid obituaries. The obit- uary can include a small photo and, for veterans, a flag sym- bol at no charge. The deadline for all obituaries is 10 a.m. the business day prior. Obituaries may be edited for spelling, proper punctua- tion and style. Death notices and upcoming services will be published at no charge. Notices must be submitted by 9 a.m. the day of publication. Obituaries and notices may be submitted online at www.dailyastorian.com/forms/ obits, by email at ewilson@ dailyastorian.com, placed via the funeral home or in person at The Daily Astorian office, 949 Exchange St. in Astoria. For more information, call 503- 325-3211, ext. 257. BIRTH June 8, 2017 SPENCER, Sarah and Chris, of Astoria, a girl, Tessa May Spencer, born at Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria. Grandparents are Vinny and Kathy Scalesse of Longview, Washington, and David and Annette Spencer of Ferndale, Washington. 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