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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Hurricane Irma brings death,
destruction to the Caribbean
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hurricane Irma has killed at
least 10 people as the dangerous Category 5 storm continued its
destructive march across the Caribbean early today.
At least eight people were killed and 23 injured in French
Caribbean island territories, France’s interior minister said.
Speaking today on French radio France Info, French Interior
Minister Gerard Collomb said the death toll in Saint-Martin and
Saint-Barthelemy could be higher because rescue teams have yet
to finish their inspection of the islands.
“The reconnaissance will really start at daybreak,” Collomb
said.
At a news conference, Collomb also said 100,000 food rations
have been sent to the islands, the equivalent of four days of
supplies.
“It’s a tragedy, we’ll need to rebuild both islands,” he said.
“Most of the schools have been destroyed.”
Most Florida flood zone
property not insured
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — As Hurricane Irma bears
down on Florida, an Associated Press analysis shows a steep
drop in flood insurance across the state, including the areas most
endangered by what could be a devastating storm surge.
In just five years, the state’s total number of federal flood
insurance policies has fallen by 15 percent, according to Federal
Emergency Management Agency data.
Florida’s property owners still buy far more federal flood
insurance than any other state — 1.7 million policies, covering
about $42 billion in assets — but most residents in hazard zones
are badly exposed.
With 1,350 miles of coastline, the most in the continental
United States, Florida has roughly 2.5 million homes in hazard
zones, more than three times that of any other state, FEMA esti-
mates. And yet, across Florida’s 38 coastal counties, just 42 per-
cent of these homes are covered.
Florida’s overall flood insurance rate for hazard-zone homes
is just 41 percent. Fannie Mae ostensibly requires mortgage lend-
ers to make sure property owners buy this insurance to qualify
for federally backed loans, and yet in 59 percent of the cases, that
insurance isn’t being paid for.
Donald Trump Jr. heads to
Capitol to explain 2016 meeting
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s oldest son is
scheduled to make his first appearance on Capitol Hill today as
part of a Senate investigation into Russian meddling in the pres-
idential election and a meeting he had with Russians during his
father’s campaign last year.
Donald Trump Jr. will be interviewed by staff on the Senate
Judiciary Committee, which is one of three congressional com-
mittees investigating the meddling and possible Russian links to
Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump Jr. released a series of emails in July that detailed
preparations for the June 2016 meeting. The emails show he
took the meeting expecting that he would be receiving damag-
ing information about Democrat Hillary Clinton as part of what
was described to him as a Russian government effort to aid the
Trump campaign.
Special counsel Robert Mueller and the House and Sen-
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Warrenton-Hammond
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WHSD seeks a full-time
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AP Photo/Carlos Giusti
A man drives through rain and strong winds during the
passage of Hurricane Irma in Fajardo, Puerto Rico. The
U.S. territory was first to declare a state of emergency.
ate intelligence committees are also investigating the meeting,
which was attended by Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and
then-campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. A grand jury has heard
testimony about it.
Staffers are expected to focus on the 2016 meeting but could
also probe any other possible connections Trump’s family had
with Russia. Trump Jr. agreed to the interview in July after Senate
Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, sub-
poenaed him and Manafort. The committee withdrew the sub-
poenas after the two agreed to be interviewed privately by staff,
and Grassley said they both would eventually be questioned by
senators in a public hearing.
Tough path for GOP on immigration
— and Trump made it harder
NEW YORK — On immigration, there were few easy answers
for the Republican Party’s most vulnerable members. And Presi-
dent Donald Trump just made things harder.
Endangered Republicans from California to Colorado and
Nevada to New Jersey have struggled in recent days to defend
their president’s decision to end the program that offered deporta-
tion protections for young people living here illegally who came
to this country as children. The Trump administration gave Con-
gress six months to agree on an alternative, yet it’s far from cer-
tain that a divided Congress can do so.
And on the ground in key states and swing districts across
America, a concerned Hispanic community is getting even
angrier at Trump’s Republican Party as next year’s midterm elec-
tions loom.
“Those candidates who need Latino voters are on their own,
and they’re struggling,” said Alfonso Aguilar, executive direc-
tor of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles. “If he
continues with this behavior and this rhetoric, things could get
worse.”
In isolated instances, Republicans facing difficult re-elec-
tions joined Democrats in condemning the president’s move to
end protections for young immigrants. The vast majority, how-
ever, praised Trump for ending what they viewed as an unconsti-
tutional Obama-era program, even as they vowed to find a com-
passionate solution.
New Myanmar fires in empty
Rohingya village raise questions
BANGKOK — Journalists saw new fires burning today in a
Myanmar village that had been abandoned by Rohingya Mus-
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lims, and pages ripped from Islamic texts that were left on the
ground. That intensifies doubts about government claims that
members of the persecuted minority have been destroying their
own homes.
About two dozen journalists saw the fire in Gawdu Zara vil-
lage in northern Rakhine state on a government-controlled trip.
The U.N. says about 146,000 Rohingya in the region have fled to
neighboring Bangladesh in less than two weeks since Rohingya
insurgents attacked police outposts in Gawdu Zara and several
others Aug. 25.
The military has said nearly 400 people, most of them
described as insurgents, have died in clashes and that troops have
conducted “clearance operations.” It blames insurgents for set-
ting villages on fire, without offering proof. Rohingya say the
fires were set by troops and Buddhist mobs who attacked them
and drove them from their homes.
Reporters saw no Rohingya in any of the five largely destroyed
villages they were allowed to tour Thursday, making it unlikely
they could have been responsible for the fires.
An ethnic Rakhine villager who emerged from the smoke said
police and Rakhine Buddhists had set the fires. The villager ran
off before he could be asked anything else.
H-bomb or not, experts say
North Korea near its nuclear goal
TOKYO — North Korea’s latest nuclear test was part theater,
part propaganda and maybe even part fake. But experts say it was
also a major display of something very real: Pyongyang’s mas-
tery of much of the know-how it needs to reach its goal of becom-
ing a full-fledged nuclear state.
It remains unclear whether North Korea tested, as it claims, a
hydrogen bomb ready to be mounted on an ICBM.
But Sunday’s test, the sixth and most powerful North Korea
has conducted since its first in 2006, was a stunning advance in
its demonstrated ability to build high-yield nuclear weapons. The
explosion is believed to have ranged from 140 kilotons to poten-
tially double that — or more — if it was conducted at a greater
depth than has been calculated.
The power of the blast is important.
It will likely prove to be at least 10 times stronger than anything
the North tested before. That’s an important indicator of whether
the device was the hydrogen bomb North Korea says it was.
Syrian army: Israeli air raid
on military position kills 2
BEIRUT — Israeli warplanes struck a military position in
western Syria early today, killing two soldiers and causing mate-
rial damage, the Syrian army said, in what appeared to be the far-
thest airstrike north by the Jewish state since Russia joined Syr-
ia’s war two years ago.
The army said the air raid targeted a facility near the western
town of Masyaf, close to the Mediterranean coast, a stronghold
of President Bashar Assad.
The army said the Israeli warplanes fired several missiles
while in Lebanese air space, and warned of the “dangerous reper-
cussions of such hostile acts on the security and stability of the
region.”
There was no immediate comment from Israel.
While largely staying out of the Syrian civil war, Israel has
carried out a number of airstrikes against suspected arms ship-
ments believed to be headed to Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant
group, which is fighting alongside President Bashar Assad’s
forces. Israel has also struck several Syrian military facilities
since the conflict began, mostly near the Israeli-occupied Golan
Heights.
101 Legal Notices
101 Legal Notices
AB6448
ln the Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Clatsop
ln the Matter of the Estate of Willard Ray Harrison,
Deceased.
Case No. 17PB05537
Notice to Interested Persons
Notice is herby given that Paul D. Harrison has been appointed
personal representative of the above entitle estate. AII persons
having claims against the estate are required to present them to
the undersigned personal representative in care of the under-
signed at: 18315 NE 308th St, Yacolt, WA 98675, within four (4)
months after the date of first publication of this notice, as stated
below, or such claims may be barred.
All persons whose right may be affected by the proceedings in
this estate may obtain additional information from the records
of the Court, the personal representative or the attorney for the
personal representative.
Dated and first published: August 24, 2017
Paul D. Harrison,
Personal Representative,
18315 NE 308th St,
Yacolt, WA 98675
Attorney for Personal Representative
Kelly M. Stearns,
Attorney at Law, OSB A867L7
1139 Exchange St
Astoria, OR 97103
503-468-3100 office
kmstearns@gmail.com
Published: August 24th, 31st, and September 7th, 2017
AB6470
CITY OF ASTORIA
PUBLIC NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the Astoria Community Development
Department has received the following request(s):
1.Exterior Alteration EX17-05 by Rickenbach Construction to
replace existing steel windows, on the north elevation only, with
new aluminum windows at 904-936 Commercial in the C-4, Cen-
tral Commercial, Zone.
Davidson 701D one color
printing press
Clean and in excellent
shape. Has been running
daily. New 208 ac motor.
Extra supplies and parts.
Services & parts manuals.
2.Exterior Alteration EX17-10 by Larry Bensel and the Larry
Bensel and Miser Family Trust to replace all of the windows with
the essence series by Millard which are wood clad and to remove
and reinstall exterior siding at 3680 Grand Ave in the R-2, Medi-
um Density Residential, Zone.
For information, call or write the Community Development
Department, 1095 Duane St., Astoria OR 97103, phone 503-338-
5183.
$2,000 you haul.
Available Oct 1 in
Astoria, OR you haul.
In accordance with Astoria Development Code Articles 3, 6, 9, &
12, a decision on the request(s) will be processed administrative-
ly by the Community Development Department.
Contact Tom or Carl at
The Daily Astorian
503-325-3211
The Community Development Director reserves the right to modi-
fy the proposal, no further public notice will be provided.
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Materials pertinent to the request(s) are available for review at
the Community Development Department, City Hall, 1095 Duane
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ested parties are invited to express their opinion for or against
the request by letter addressed to the Community Development
Department, 1095 Duane St, Astoria OR 97103. Comments from
interested parties must be received within 15 days of the date this
notice is published. Only those parties who comment in writing
on the proposed development will receive first class mailed
notice of the decision on the permit.
THE CITY OF ASTORIA
Anna Stamper,
Administrative Assistant
Published: September 7th, 2017