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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017
What are you doing for the eclipse?
“Not sure yet.”
“I’m just going to
hope to see it and
look up. It’ll be
great to see it —
from any angle
would be really fasci-
nating.”
Felicia Roberts,
Astoria
THE DAILY ASTORIAN // QUESTION OF THE WEEK
More than 50,000 no longer
eligible for Oregon Health Plan
Sandra Jean Norgaard
Caregiver
May 15, 1948 — Aug. 10, 2017
State required
to check status
every year
Sandi Norgaard, born May 15, 1948, in shouting out, at 5 p.m., “Tracy, Thor, dinner-
Astoria, Oregon, passed away Aug. 10, 2017, time!” All the kids scattered, but met up after
after a brief battle with cancer, at the age of dinner until the street lights came on.
69 at Clatsop Care Center in Astoria, Oregon.
She had a special passion for the elderly.
She married Jon Norgaard in
She wanted to make sure their
1968; they later divorced. They had
quality of life was the best it could
two children, Tracy (Gary) Hard-
be, and was a very hard worker,
ester and Thor (Kirsten) Norgaard.
and dedicated to her job, and never
She has two grandchildren, Faith and
late. She worked for 17 years at
Tristan Norgaard; two step-grand-
Clatsop Care Center as a certifi ed
sons, Randy and Adam Hardester;
nursing assistant , medical assistant
and two great-grandchildren, Willow
and resident assistant . She worked
and Avery Hardester.
at multiple facilities around the
She was preceded in death by her
county, including Crestview,
sister, Sharon Larson of Spencer,
Astor House, Neawanna by the
Sandra
Iowa; her parents, Clarence Hosler
Sea and numerous home health
Norgaard
and Lila Bumala; and Harry Lofgren,
care jobs. Her co-workers, fam-
her stepfather who raised her.
ily and friends will miss her feisty
She graduated from Astoria High School straight forward fl air for the truth.
in 1966. She loved watching her kids play
The family is deeply grateful for the out-
sports, and was always at their games, cheer- pouring of love, prayer and support in many
ing them on. She liked to watch her Portland heart felt forms.
Trail B lazers with her cat Dallas (not named
There will be a potluck celebration of life
for the Cowboys). She truly was a sports on Sunday, Aug. 20, at 1 p.m. at the Amer-
mom!
ican Legion, 1132 Exchange St., in Astoria,
She was known on Denver Street for her Oregon.
By CLAIRE
WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
55
Areas of low clouds
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Mostly cloudy
Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs.
ASTORIA
55/68
Tillamook
54/67
First
Full
Aug 29
Salem
57/83
Newport
53/65
Coos Bay
55/70
Last
Sep 5
Sep 12
Ontario
58/90
Bend
49/87
Burns
43/85
Klamath Falls
49/87
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Lakeview
48/87
Ashland
59/95
TOMORROW'S TIDES
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
4:24 a.m.
4:05 p.m.
Low
-0.1 ft.
2.4 ft.
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
North Bend
Hi
85
86
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Pendleton
Portland
Roseburg
Salem
Seaside
Spokane
Springfi eld
Vancouver
Yakima
Hi
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88
80
90
85
68
82
87
80
92
SALEM — More than
51,000 people may have
received state health bene-
fi ts despite no longer quali-
fying for them, according to
records provided by Gov. Kate
Brown’s offi ce this week.
As of Aug. 7, 51,034 Ore-
gon Health Plan patients have
been determined no longer eli-
gible for the program, but it’s
not clear how long they may
have been receiving benefi ts
without qualifying.
The Oregon Health Plan
is the state’s Medicaid pro-
gram and provides health care
to the poor and other quali-
fying groups. About 1 mil-
lion Oregonians receive cov-
erage through the program,
which Oregon signifi cantly
expanded under the federal
Affordable Care Act.
Under federal law, the state
is required to check Medicaid
patients’ eligibility every year,
but Oregon has fallen behind.
The state is transitioning
to a new “integrated eligibil-
ity” system that offi cials say
will make doing the annual
redeterminations for the
Oregon Health Plan and
other government benefi ts
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Campfi res and open fl ames
will be prohibited on all state
beaches beginning today .
Oregon
State
Parks
announced the indefi nite ban
mainly due to high fi re danger
but also because of the mas-
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89 75
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sive number of people visiting
the state for Monday’s total
solar eclipse, Nehalem Bay
State Park Ranger Ben Cox
said.
While a number of rang-
ers will head south Monday to
assist at parks located inside
the eclipse’s path of totality,
By KAELIA NEAL
The Daily Astorian
CANNON BEACH —
The Cannon Beach Rural Fire
Protection District received a
$9,030 grant and a generous
donation of $50,000 .
The F ire D istrict applied
for the V olunteer F ire a ssis-
tance grant in April through
the Oregon Department of
Forestry.
The grant aids fi re depart-
ments in rural areas in
improving their protection
capabilities.
By completing 602 in-kind
match training hours, the fi re
d istrict matched the grant for
a total project cost of $18,060 .
“It will help us fi ght some
of these fi res in the wild land
area — anything outside the
city limits,” Fire C hief Matt
Benedict said.
T he fi re d istrict also
received a donation of $50,000
from the John Harrington
Trust. Harrington was a resi-
DEATHS
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy,
sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
sn-snow, i-ice.
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weekly updates on the eli-
gibility numbers since mid-
May, when a warning from
the state’s top auditor brought
more public scrutiny to the
fact that the qualifi cations of
thousands of people in Ore-
gon’s program remained
unclear.
The Medicaid eligibility
issues have been seemingly
overshadowed by recent news
that the state’s health agency
had developed plans earlier
this year to publicly discredit
FamilyCare, a Portland-area
Medicaid provider.
Last week, Brown asked
the health agency’s director,
Lynne Saxton, to resign in
the wake of news that Saxton
had apparently approved of
aspects of the plan or directed
staff to develop the plan. How-
ever, it is not clear how much
of the public-relations strat-
egy, which ranged from infl u-
encing legislators to connect-
ing disgruntled FamilyCare
patients, was implemented.
Saxton’s last day is Aug.
31.
Meanwhile, the chairman
of the state Senate General
Government and Account-
ability Committee, state Sen.
Chuck Riley, D-Hillsboro,
says he plans to call the Ore-
gon Health Authority before
the committee to testify in
September.
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Media Group.
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some will stay behind to mon-
itor beaches along the North
Coast.
Cox also warned beach-
goers to stay away from the
shorelines during the eclipse as
high and low tides may swiftly
rise and lower by as much as 9
feet Monday morning.
Cannon Beach gets fi re grant, donation
TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
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more straightforward.
The state is still working
through what it says is a fi nal
group of about 115,000 people
who have yet to be re-checked
and moved to the new eligibil-
ity system.
As of Aug. 7, 51,034
people out of that group of
115,233 people have been
found ineligible, which is
about 44 percent.
Typically, every year,
about a quarter of Oregon
Health Plan patients are found
to be no longer eligible for the
program, according to health
agency offi cials.
The agency has said the
115,233 patients have com-
plex characteristics and that
their rates of continued eligi-
bility may not adhere to typ-
ical patterns. In other words,
agency offi cials maintain that
it is diffi cult to predict how
many more people of that
group may be determined
ineligible for the program.
The agency has 11,686
more people to process by
Aug. 31, the deadline the gov-
ernor has given it to fi nish the
redetermination work.
Two spokesmen for the
Oregon Health Authority did
not respond to a request for
comment by deadline Tuesday
on the fi gures, which were cur-
rent as of Aug. 7 and provided
to the EO Media Group/Pam-
plin Media Group by the G ov-
ernor’s O ffi ce on Monday.
The agency has been pro-
viding the governor with
Campfi res prohibited at state beaches
Baker
46/85
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Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
Hi
91
82
85
76
82
84
95
62
88
88
85
99
77
89
92
90
89
87
90
88
90
89
72
78
89
John Day
51/86
La Grande
51/85
Roseburg
60/91
Brookings
58/76
Tonight's Sky: Aug. 21: The 62-mile-wide umbra
shadow of totality will pass over Depoe Bay, Salem,
Madras and Lime. Outside of the umbra shadow,
Portland, Eugene and Bend will have a 99 percent
partial eclipse.
Today
Lo
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62
72
55
67
68
69
47
72
74
67
78
62
77
80
75
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68
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66
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58
74
Prineville
47/88
Lebanon
56/84
Medford
60/97
UNDER THE SKY
High
6.3 ft.
8.5 ft.
Pendleton
57/87
The Dalles
61/88
Portland
58/79
SUN AND MOON
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
67
53
Partly sunny; areas of
fog early
Mostly cloudy
Eugene
54/83
Sunset tonight ........................... 8:23 p.m.
Sunrise Thursday ........................ 6:17 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................... 1:01 a.m.
Moonset today ........................... 4:08 p.m.
Time
10:44 a.m.
10:10 p.m.
SUNDAY
66
54
REGIONAL WEATHER
Precipitation
Tuesday ............................................ 0.00"
Month to date ................................... 0.37"
Normal month to date ....................... 0.42"
Year to date .................................... 50.04"
Normal year to date ........................ 37.36"
Aug 21
69
55
Mostly cloudy
Astoria through Tuesday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 70°/47°
Normal high/low ........................... 69°/53°
Record high ............................ 89° in 1919
Record low ............................. 45° in 1982
New
SATURDAY
68
56
Ginger Reneque, Astoria
James King, Renton,
Washington
OBITUARY
TONIGHT
“We’re (she and
her husband, Tom)
going to Tillamook
or Forest Grove. I
don’t think we can
see it as well here.”
dent of Cannon Beach .
A portion of the donation
— $31,428 — is being used
to purchase the Zoll Med-
ical X Series monitor and
defi brillator.
“It (the monitor) helps with
the standardization of equip-
ment between the two agen-
cies — the fi re department and
medic’s ambulance,” Benedict
said.
“This monitor will allow
me to use my paramedic skills
to its full abilities,” he said.
LOTTERIES
Aug. 15, 2017
JOHNSON, Michael Alan, 63, of Hammond, died in Ham-
mond. Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary of Astoria is in
charge of the arrangements.
JAMESON, George Dwayne, 81, of Warrenton, died in
Scappoose. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary & Crematory in Asto-
ria/Seaside is in charge of the arrangements.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
THURSDAY
Cannon Beach Parks and Community Services Committee, 9
a.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Cannon Beach Design Review Board, 6 p.m., City Hall, 163 E.
Gower St.
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