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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JULY 4, 2017
Three rescued at Cape D after vessel sinks
Charter boat
helped man,
teenagers
EO Media Group
CAPE
DISAPPOINT-
MENT, Wash. — Passengers
and crew of the Ilwaco char-
ter boat Pacifi c Dream came
to the rescue early Monday
morning after a man and two
teenagers were thrown in
the cold water of the Pacifi c
Ocean when their small plea-
sure craft, the Aggi K, sank off
Cape Disappointment.
At 7:16 a.m., watchstand-
ers at U.S. Coast Guard Sec-
tor Columbia River received
a report from the Aggi K
that their vessel was taking
on water and their dewater-
ing pumps could not keep up.
Communications were lost
shortly after, according to a
Luke Whittaker /EO Media Group
A life ring was thrown to pull the man and boys aboard.
A man collapsed on deck after being pulled from the cold
water Monday near Cape Disappointment.
Coast Guard press release.
Watchstanders issued a
urgent marine information
broadcast. The crew of the
Pacifi c Dream responded.
Aboard the vessel was
Coast River Business Jour-
nal reporter and photogra-
pher Luke Whittaker, who
was researching a story on the
calls for help. They were soon
able to hone in on the shouts
and retrieved all three people,
who were all wearing life jack-
ets, out of the water.
Whittaker said the trio
exhibited signs of being cold
and shaken by their experi-
ence. Seawater in the area was
around 60 degrees at the time.
Luke Whittaker /EO Media Group
ocean salmon season.
Whittaker said Pacifi c
Salmon Charters Skipper
Brian Cable immediately
began searching the area.
Glare made it diffi cult to see
anything on the surface of the
water, but as they neared the
area of the sinking, passengers
and crew could hear frantic
The three were an adult man,
his nephew and his nephew’s
friend. They declined to iden-
tify themselves.
The Aggi K had mostly
sunk by the time the char-
ter crew made it on scene.
The charter crew transferred
the three people to a 47-foot
m otor l ife b oat crew from
Coast Guard Station Cape Dis-
appointment, who transported
them back to station for med-
ical evaluation by emergency
medical service personnel. An
MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter
crew searched the area for the
vessel, but did not see it or any
signs of pollution.
In perhaps the biggest sur-
prise of the whole incident,
the three said they planned to
go fi shing again today — this
time aboard a Pacifi c Salmon
Charters boat.
The Coast Guard used the
sinking and other incidents
to urge the public to exercise
safety on and around the water
on the Fourth of July holiday.
Besides the sinking, the
Coast Guard said that its per-
sonnel had responded to a dis-
abled pleasure craft with fi ve
people aboard a mile south of
Nehalem Bay and a kayaker
clinging to his kayak 100 yards
off the Tillamook coast.
Special election, cost containment, bond measures advance
budget committee Monday, one
week before the constitution-
ally required end of the session.
They include an elections
bill, a cost containment bill and
bond packages.
Senate Bill 229, initially a
technical elections bill, gen-
erated some controversy last
week because an amended ver-
sion of the bill would schedule
Deadline a
week away
By CLAIRE
WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — State l awmak-
ers advanced several key pieces
of legislation out of the main
a special election in January for
legislation that gets referred to
the ballot.
Oregonians can petition to
refer certain non-emergency
legislation to voters.
A newly-amended version
of the bill advanced by legis-
lators Monday, though, spec-
ifi es that the special election
date only applies to House Bill
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SEASIDE — A pedestrian
was hit and killed by a motor
vehicle early today on U.S.
Highway 101 near the Seaside
Airport.
The crash occurred at about
3:13 a.m., according to Sea-
PUBLIC MEETINGS
& More!
Under the bill, the state
wouldn’t tie hospital rates to a
percentage of Medicare rates
for public employees until plan
years starting July 1, 2019.
“ … If our standard is
going to be, cut somebody else
but me, we’re never going to
do much cost containment,”
Devlin said.
Bond money
Finally, the Joint Ways and
Means Committee advanced
key bond bills to fi nance large
projects.
Among the likely winners
of coveted bond money: the
Elliott State Forest, for which
legislators set aside about $100
million to decouple the land
from its obligations to generate
revenues for K-12 education.
While the state Senate was
scheduled to meet this morn-
ing, the House is not expected
to convene again until Wednes-
day. That’s the fi rst day that the
House could vote on the above
bills.
The Capital Bureau is a col-
laboration between EO Media
Group and Pamplin Media
Group.
WEDNESDAY
Gearhart City Council, 7
p.m., City Hall, 698 Pacifi c Way.
HOURS OPEN: MON-FRI 8-6 • SATURDAY 9-5 • SUNDAY 10-4
We Service What We Sell
Assault
• At 10:28 p.m. Thursday,
Chad Copeland, 37, of Asto-
ria, was arrested by the Astoria
Police Department near Sec-
ond Street and Bond Street
and charged with second-de-
gree assault, fourth-degree as-
sault, coercion and recklessly
endangering another person.
He allegedly put his arms
around a woman and cornered
her against a wall. After she bit
him to get away, he allegedly
slammed her head against a
stone wall and punched her
several times in the face. Wit-
nesses also said he kicked her
repeatedly while she was on
the ground. Both were taken
to Columbia Memorial Hos-
pital for minor injuries.
DUII
• At 12:37 a.m. Friday,
side Police. No other details
were immediately available.
One lane of the busy high-
way was open this morning as
the Seaside Police and the Ore-
gon State Police investigate.
Thousands of people are
expected in Seaside today for
the Fourth of July holiday.
DEATH
Authority Board, 10 a.m.,
Gable Park Apartments, 2544
Gable Road, St. Helens.
Seaside Parks Advisory
Committee, 7 p.m., City Hall,
City Hall, 989 Broadway.
Monday, July 3, 2017
GOTTESMAN,
Kelly
Marie, 55, of Astoria, died in
Astoria. Ocean View Funeral &
Cremation Service of Astoria is
in charge of the arrangements.
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A pedestrian was killed today
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THURSDAY
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indicated they may vote against
the legislation itself. A feature
of the bill, which would tie
most hospital rates under pub-
lic employee health plans to a
percentage of Medicare rates,
became a point of contention
at the committee meeting Mon-
day evening.
While the arrangement
allows the state to draw down
substantial federal funds, law-
makers worried that limiting
payments could put an extra
fi nancial burden on hospitals
that already agreed to fork over
money to the state through the
provider tax.
State Sen. Betsy Johnson,
D-Scappoose, said the provision
could present a political prob-
lem in the event that the pro-
vider tax does go to the ballot.
“If there is a referral, we’re
going to need those hospitals
to stand shoulder to shoulder
with us in the referral,” John-
son said.
The committee’s co-chair-
man, Sen. Richard Devlin,
D-Tualatin, said he believed
the provision should stay in the
cost containment bill and that
the issue could be revisited.
Fatal crash on Highway 101 in Seaside
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Year to date .................................... 49.57"
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July 8
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Astoria through Monday.
Temperatures
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Normal high/low ........................... 66°/52°
Record high ............................ 88° in 1906
Record low ............................. 41° in 1949
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2391, the so-called provider tax
passed to offset state Medicaid
costs.
Under the new amendment,
any other legislation passed this
session that gets referred to the
ballot would go to the Novem-
ber 2018 election.
A provision that would have
a bipartisan legislative com-
mittee — with more Demo-
crat members than Republican
members — write ballot titles
for legislative referrals remains
in the bill. Critics have said that
would be a more partisan pro-
cess than having the attorney
general write them, as current
law holds.
After some debate in com-
mittee, lawmakers also agreed
to move forward Senate Bill
1067, this year’s much-dis-
cussed cost containment bill,
which outlines several ways that
the state hopes to save money.
The methods of curtail-
ing costs vary, but include
trimming the costs of public
employee health care and cen-
tralizing the state’s debt collec-
tion practices.
Some legislators voted to
advance the bill to the fl oor but
Galen Grudenic, 26, of Sea-
side, was arrested by the Sea-
side Police Department near
Avenue N and South Colum-
bia Street and charged with
driving under the infl uence of
intoxicants. His blood alco-
hol content was 0.18 percent.
• At 6:19 p.m. Saturday,
Matthew McPherson, 57,
of Portland, was arrested by
the Clatsop County Sheriff’s
Offi ce in Fort Stevens State
Park and charged with DUII
and reckless driving.
• At 7:08 p.m. Satur-
day, Jason Grant Wyrick,
43, of Vancouver, Washing-
ton, was arrested by the War-
renton Police Department
in Fort Stevens State Park
and charged with DUII. His
blood alcohol content was
0.10 percent.
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