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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JULY 18, 2017
For 18,000 Oregon voters, Astoria recognizes library
director, prominent architect
‘other’ runs the gamut
A ‘classic way
to protest,’
expert says
By KATIE FRANKOWICZ
The Daily Astorian
A former Astoria Library
director responsible for pur-
chasing the library’s fi rst edi-
tion Lewis and Clark journals
will have an archive named in
his honor.
The Astoriana Collection
that contains “anything and
everything you would want to
know about the city of Asto-
ria and its history,” according
to library director Jimmy Pear-
son, will now be called the
Bruce Berney Archives.
Mayor Arline LaMear
announced the honor in a proc-
lamation Monday night.
Berney served as library
director for 30 years until his
retirement in 1997. He worked
tirelessly to preserve and con-
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By CLAIRE
WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — It takes all
kinds: Democrat, Republican,
Frisbiterian.
About 18,000 of the
approximately 2.5 million
voters in Oregon choose
“other” as their party affi li-
ation when they register to
vote.
Most — about 11,000 —
leave the space next to the
“other” box blank. More than
700 have written in “Indepen-
dent,” even though Oregon
has an offi cial Independent
Party and there’s also a non-
affi liated option.
Others, according to data
provided by the Secretary of
State’s Offi ce, get a bit more
creative.
Some appear to think
they’ve found a clever play
on “party” — keg, tea, toga.
There are communists,
anarchists and one voter who
imagines him- or herself polit-
ically aligned with the hip -
hop group the Wu-Tang Clan.
Some voters have chosen
historical relics like the Bull
Moose Party or the American
Whig party.
Others still pick desig-
nations that seem to convey
a sort of Oregonian ethos:
“Beer party,” “Cannabis,”
“Cascadia Independence.”
And some just beg more
questions: “Heinz 57,”
“Atomic Temptations Vibra-
tions,” “champions of the
lower case.”
Some of the more whim-
sical names are reminiscent
of the “Jedi census phenom-
enon,” when, in the early
2000s, thousands of people
in English-speaking coun-
tries designated “Jedi,” the
Star Wars order of knights, as
their religion when polled by
census takers.
The irreverent “other” vot-
ers represent a “classic way to
protest,” Jim Moore, director
of the Tom McCall Center for
Policy Innovation at Pacifi c
University, said.
In countries where voting
is required, Moore said, “joke
votes” can be common.
There’s a key distinction
here, though: registering to
vote isn’t required in Ore-
gon. So while these “other”
voters make the effort to reg-
ister, they may be convey-
ing displeasure with the party
system.
“They’re taking that step,
and yet they say, ‘A pox on all
of your party houses,’” said
Moore.
So what’s voter participa-
tion like for these “other” vot-
ers, who take the trouble to
register but are “meh” about
the pre designated choices?
About 69.8 percent of reg-
istered “others” cast ballots
in the November election,
according to the Secretary of
State’s O ffi ce.
That’s compared to 89.3
percent of registered Republi-
cans, 87.9 of registered Dem-
ocrats, 79.4 percent of reg-
istered Independents and
61.1 percent of non affi liated
voters.
The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO
Media Group and Pamplin
Media Group.
WEDNESDAY
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By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
SALEM — After touring
the “unique” Cascade-Siski-
you National Monument in
Oregon and speaking to ranch-
ers, loggers and environmen-
talists, U.S. Interior Secretary
Ryan Zinke must next make a
recommendation on whether it
should be abolished or resized.
It’s going to require a lot of
study, Zinke indicated, given
that the monument was created
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Florence to become
Coast Guard city
The Daily Astorian
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REGIONAL WEATHER
Tillamook
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Salem
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Newport
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Moonrise today ........................... 1:42 a.m.
Moonset today ........................... 4:00 p.m.
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people that are incredibly pas-
sionate about this monument.”
Zinke was ordered by Pres-
ident Donald Trump to review
27 national monuments and
report by Aug. 24. Since June
12, Zinke has recommended
that the Bears Ears National
Monument in Utah be down-
sized, and that no changes
be made to Craters of the
Moon National Monument in
Idaho and the Hanford Reach
National Monument in Wash-
ington state.
PUBLIC
MEETINGS
TUESDAY
Clatsop County Human
Services Advisory Council,
4 to 5:30 p.m., 800 Exchange
St., Room 430.
Shoreline Sanitary District
Board, 7 p.m., Gearhart
Hertig Station, 33496 West
Lake Lane, Warrenton.
Seaside Planning Commis-
sion, 7 p.m., work session,
City Hall, 989 Broadway.
Astoria Historic Land-
marks Commission, 5:15
p.m., City Hall, 1095 Duane St.
WEDNESDAY
Seaside Tourism Advisory
Committee, 3 p.m., City
Hall, 989 Broadway.
Seaside Parks Master Plan
Update Workshop, 6 p.m.,
Seaside Public Library, 1131
Broadway.
LOTTERIES
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DUII
• At 5:20 p.m. Saturday,
Joshua Ashworth, 25, of Sea-
side, was arrested by the
Seaside Police Department
on U.S. Highway 101 and
charged with driving under the
infl uence of intoxicants.
• At 1:25 a.m. Sunday, Wil-
liam Michael Weiss, 55, of
Astoria, was arrested by the
Astoria Police Department
on the 500 block of Commer-
cial Street for DUII. His blood
alcohol content was 0.10
percent.
Thursday, July 20
DIAMOND, Sali — Graveside service at 2 p.m., Greenwood
Cemetery, 91569 Oregon Highway 202. Diamond, 68, of Astoria,
died Sunday, July 16, 2017, in Astoria. Caldwell’s Luce-Layton
Mortuary of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
APPLIANCE
YE
Harassment
• At 8:10 p.m. Friday, Shir-
ley Gene Brown, 65, of Port-
land, was arrested by the War-
renton Police Department on
the 100 block of south U.S.
Highway 101 and charged
with physical harassment. A
Staples employee was show-
ing her a CD player when
Brown allegedly yelled that
she was a Christian and sud-
denly slapped her twice in the
face before running out of the
store. Video footage allegedly
captured the incident, and she
was arrested when she returned
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fi ve men from Florence and
three men from other local
towns.
“Over the past 100 years, the
community has rallied around
and accepted the men and
women of the Coast Guard as
their own,” Rear Adm. David
Throop,
commander
of
the Coast Guard’s District 13,
said in a release. “The sup-
port of communities like Flor-
ence is essential in helping our
crews and families to be ready
at all times. We are happy to
be able to highlight these local
efforts by designating Florence
a Coast Guard City.”
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at nightfall will be Leo toward the west, Virgo to its
southeast, Scorpius due south and Sagittarius in the
southeast.
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UNDER THE SKY
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Prineville
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Lebanon
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Eugene
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SUN AND MOON
First
Pendleton
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The Dalles
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Portland
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Precipitation
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Month to date ................................... 0.02"
Normal month to date ....................... 0.67"
Year to date .................................... 49.59"
Normal year to date ........................ 36.58"
New
Florence will be designated
a U.S. Coast Guard City next
month, the 24th nationally and
third in Oregon after Astoria
and Newport.
The designation coincides
with the 100th anniversary
of Coast Guard Station Siu-
slaw River. On Dec. 14, 1917,
Capt. Theodore Roberge from
Station Cape Disappointment
in Ilwaco, Washington, was
appointed as the “Keeper”
of Station Siuslaw River. By
March 1918 the station had a
full crew which consisted of
Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs.
ASTORIA
52/68
Astoria through Monday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 68°/48°
Normal high/low ........................... 68°/53°
Record high ............................ 90° in 1908
Record low ............................. 43° in 1930
— and expanded by former
President Barack Obama— to
protect biodiversity in an area
where three mountain ranges
converge, creating diverse
habitats for species that would
normally be living apart.
“Beautiful country, no
doubt,” Zinke said at a news
conference Saturday next to
a lake rimmed by evergreens.
“There’s areas that are being
harvested, and harvested well.
On the trail I saw horseback,
and the resident artisan and the
SATURDAY
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A shower in the a.m.;
otherwise, clearing
1960s as part of the Clatsop
Community College c ampus.
She and other architects
she worked with had a hand in
designing a number of Astoria
landmarks including the Astor
Library, the Veterans Memo-
rial and the Columbia River
Maritime Museum .
She died in 2006 and is
interred at the Ocean View
Cemetery in Warrenton.
The city proclaimed July
21, 2017, the 75th anniversary
of Wicks Brown’s registration
as an architect in Oregon, as
Ebba Wicks Brown Day .
In a third proclamation that
LaMear noted was “very apro-
pos” based on discussions
about p arks funding Monday
night, the council declared
July to be Parks and Recre-
ation Month .
Zinke ponders fate of Cascade-Siskiyou
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
serve the history of Astoria,
Pearson said.
“Because of his work, we
have today for the future …
anything and all things Asto-
ria,” Pearson said about the
archive.
Berney and his wife, Kris-
tinia Berney, still reside in
Astoria and were at Mon-
day’s meeting to hear the
proclamation.
The city also honored Ebba
Wicks Brown, who in 1942
was the second woman in
Oregon to become a licensed
architect by examination.
Wicks Brown was born in
Astoria in 1914 to a promi-
nent local architect and gradu-
ated from Astoria High School
in 1932 in a building designed
by her father. It was a building
she later helped renovate in the
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