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Newspaper Page Text2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2017 ‘How do you feel about ﬂ u shots? Would you get one?’ THE DAILY ASTORIAN // QUESTION OF THE WEEK “I think they’re im- portant. Some would disagree, but at our age every little leg up helps.” “I think they’re very good. I’m really sus- ceptible to this stuff. I’m very religious about getting the shot.” “Yes. Because I think it’s necessary for younger kids and seniors. I took care of a senior, and I could easily give her the ﬂ u. If there is a shot that can prevent something, and there’s a high percent of positive result, then that’s a deﬁ nite yes.” Jeﬀ Campbell, Astoria Donna K. Wright, Astoria Terisa Misner, Svensen Wildﬁ res push Oregon hunters and hunted into new terrain By MARK FREEMAN Medford Mail Tribune MEDFORD — Wildﬁ res will displace both hunters and the hunted this fall as burning forests and backwoods pub- lic-safety closures push men and beasts into new haunts. Big-game animals such as deer and elk do ﬁ ne in the face of wildﬁ re, often showing uncanny abilities to stay ahead of encroaching ﬂ ames or ﬁ nd- ing green oases amid a ﬁ re’s roar. And while deer and elk won’t be returning to burned areas around Prospect and Union Creek anytime soon, they likely will feel at home in the smoky areas immediately around wildﬁ res and closed areas, biologists say. “While they seem to know how to avoid the ﬁ res, we have no indication that they avoid smoke,” says Mark Vargas, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Rogue District wildlife biologist. “We’ve had many instances where there’s a herd of elk a Associated Press Smoke from the Chetco Bar Fire. half-mile from a ﬁ re and smoke so thick you can’t breathe,” he says. “And there are the elk, foraging. It just doesn’t alter their behavior.” So add a N95 smoke mask to your daypack essentials this fall, because successful deer and elk hunters likely will ﬁ nd themselves in precisely the smoky conditions they and other Oregonians have been trying to avoid in town for the past two months. “I wouldn’t give up on smoky areas,” Vargas says. “You can’t avoid it. There’s smoke everywhere.” Closures With more than 300,000 acres of wildﬁ re area in south- west Oregon alone, area clo- sures in the region are unprec- edented. The entire Sky Lakes and Rogue-Umpqua Divide wilderness areas are closed to the public for the ﬁ rst time. Other ﬁ res have caused the public to be forced out of huge swaths of land in the Prospect and Union Creek areas, while lower elevations continue to see public-access closures on private industrial lands. The Chetco Bar Fire based largely in Curry County cov- ers more than 190,000 acres, while the Miller Complex of ﬁ res in the Applegate Valley covers more than 36,000 acres. While the closed wilder- ness areas will displace hun- dreds of hunters who look to get away from crowds, per- haps the most hunters will be impacted by the nearly 64,000 acres in the High Cascades Complex of ﬁ res. Because many hunters will be forced out of their some- times decades-old comfort zones, they will have to try new terrain to get their hunts in this fall. “I know it can be an incon- venience,” Vargas says. “But THURSDAY FRIDAY 73 54 55 ALMANAC 61 49 Mostly cloudy with a couple of showers Cloudy with a passing shower or two Full Salem 53/85 Newport 54/69 Oct 5 Coos Bay 53/71 New Oct 12 Ontario 42/78 Burns 32/74 Klamath Falls 39/78 Lakeview 37/75 Ashland 52/86 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 Source: Jim Todd, OMSI TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 1:52 a.m. 1:55 p.m. Low 1.1 ft. 3.3 ft. City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend Hi 75 76 75 84 78 77 88 86 76 78 Today Lo 35 42 55 50 58 39 51 54 54 53 W s s s s s s s s s s Hi 77 79 69 84 70 78 87 83 69 69 Thu. Lo 37 47 54 52 57 41 53 56 55 56 W s s pc s s s s s s s City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Springfi eld Vancouver Yakima Hi 80 79 83 88 86 81 73 86 82 80 Today Lo 49 49 59 52 53 56 49 52 57 47 W s s s s s s s s s s Hi 84 82 85 89 85 75 77 85 83 81 Thu. Lo 53 52 58 54 55 56 51 53 57 49 W s s s s s s s s s s TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER NATIONAL CITIES Hi 90 81 74 57 70 78 78 53 89 79 69 86 90 89 89 90 90 84 64 88 76 68 88 80 89 Baker 35/77 REGIONAL CITIES Tonight's Sky: First Quarter Moon (7:53 p.m.) Today Lo 69 68 51 45 50 51 63 39 77 53 50 66 64 68 77 65 74 68 55 68 54 48 60 58 70 La Grande 42/78 Roseburg 52/89 Brookings 55/69 Oct 19 John Day 49/78 Bend 42/79 Medford 51/87 UNDER THE SKY High 5.9 ft. 6.8 ft. Prineville 41/81 Lebanon 52/85 Eugene 50/84 Last Pendleton 49/82 The Dalles 48/85 Portland 59/85 Sunset tonight ........................... 7:03 p.m. Sunrise Thursday ........................ 7:10 a.m. Moonrise today .......................... 2:24 p.m. Moonset today ......................... 11:49 p.m. 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 Mostly cloudy, showers around; cooler Tillamook 50/76 SUN AND MOON Time 8:41 a.m. 7:36 p.m. 62 49 Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 55/73 Precipitation Tuesday ............................................ 0.00" Month to date ................................... 2.68" Normal month to date ....................... 1.75" Year to date .................................... 52.74" Normal year to date ........................ 39.85" Sep 27 SUNDAY REGIONAL WEATHER Astoria through Tuesday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 72°/57° Normal high/low ........................... 66°/48° Record high ............................ 85° in 1967 Record low ............................. 38° in 1908 First 64 49 Nice and warm with plenty of sunshine Clear SATURDAY W s pc s c s pc t pc pc pc pc s s s sh s s pc t s pc s s s s Hi 90 75 74 58 76 70 79 42 89 73 74 87 90 81 89 80 92 78 72 78 77 68 81 83 78 Thu. Lo 69 51 55 44 53 52 63 33 76 53 54 66 66 61 77 56 76 56 56 56 56 48 58 58 57 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W s pc s r s s pc r pc s s s s s sh s s pc c pc s s s s s Harry G. Bernier Gladstone March 15, 1929 — Sept. 14, 2017 Roby’s can help. Lift chairs starting at $599. Side pocket to keep remote control handy at all times 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 “Captain” Harry Bernier was born and raised DHC-4s and C-123-Ks, supplying food and arms in Astoria, Oregon, the son of Arnold G. Bernier to insurgents ﬁ ghting the Viet Cong and North (Estacada, Oregon) and Mary Constance Bell Vietnamese Army, and in support of CIA opera- (Astoria, Oregon). Harry was a descendant of tions in Southeast Asia. In 1971, he returned to Astoria and started commercial ﬁ sh- an early Oregon pioneer and Oregon ing. He worked as a mate on ocean statesman, Samuel Terry McK ean, tugboats, and then got his master’s who came out on the Oregon Trail in license. He worked various shipping 1847. jobs up and down the West Coast. He Harry was raised by his mother, was a cruise ship master in the Inland Connie, his late uncle, Burnby Bell, Passage, up the Columbia River, on and his grandmother, Polly McK ean the East and West coast of the U.S. and Bell, a Clatsop County historian. in the Caribbean. He worked in Prud- Harry graduated from Astoria hoe Bay, Alaska, in support of the oil High School in 1948, enlisted in the industry, assisted with the Exxon Val- Air F orce, and served as an air traf- Harry Bernier dez oil spill cleanup in the late 1980s, ﬁ c control operator during the Euro- and was master of a research vessel in pean Operations following World War II, including the Berlin Airlift. He was accepted Puerto Rico in the early 1990s. He was captain of the Oregon Responder into ﬂ ight school in 1952, and during the Korean War he ﬂ ew F-86-D ﬁ ghter jets, serving in the during the New Carissa shipwreck off the Ore- 445th Fighter Squadron. Later he served in the gon C oast in 1999. Later in his career, he was a 497th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, supporting captain of the Portland Spirit on the Willamette Strategic Air Command operations from Fair- River, and his last job, at 75, was piloting the child Air F orce Base, Spokane, Washington, as Canby Ferry in Canby, Oregon. He was a life- long member of the American Legion Post 12 in a ﬁ rst lieutenant. He married Margaret L. Wallen in 1956, and Astoria, Oregon, and the Order of Elks No. 180 had one child, Mark. He served as air trafﬁ c in Astoria, Oregon. He is survived by his former wife, Patri- controller for the Federal Aviation Administra- tion at Boeing Field in Renton, Washington, in cia Brock Winter, formerly of Astoria, Oregon; 1957, and then was back in the air ﬂ ying cargo in his cousin, Thomas M. Bell of Portland, Ore- C-46 and DC-3s in Alaska in 1958. From 1959 gon; son Mark (Bernier) Mousseaux, and grand- to 1966 he ﬂ ew cargo, and then air retardant daughter Kora Mousseaux, of Phoenix, Oregon; bombers (TBM’s and B-26s), for forest ﬁ res in siblings Joy, June, Donna, Jack and John; and nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death the western U.S. In late 1966, he was recruited by Continental by a brother, Jim Bernier. He resided in Gladstone, Oregon, with his Air Service — Air America, and ﬂ ew contracted military missions in Southeast Asia during the cat, Kitty Kat, and is now free to ﬂ y and sail Vietnam War until April 1971. He ﬂ ew C-45s, again. New Youngs Bay Bridge will close next week for repairs The Daily Astorian The Oregon Department of Transportation is closing the New Youngs Bay Bridge on U.S. Highway 101 from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. Oct. 5 and Oct. 6 to complete a variety of maintenance activities. Drivers can use U.S. Highway 101 Business as a detour. PUBLIC MEETINGS WEDNESDAY Clatsop County Board of Commissioners, 6 p.m., Judge Guy Boyington Building, 857 Commercial St. Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. Need a Lift? Public access Recent rains and even high-elevation snow has given hunters hope that nature will quell these lightning-ignited blazes and return public access to closed areas — particularly wilderness areas — if not for the start of the general elk sea- son three weeks from now, then at least for the second half 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. of the general buck deer sea- son for riﬂ e hunters. But those could be false hopes. “There have been no inclinations to even dis- cuss that,” says Chamise Kramer, the Rogue Riv- er-Siskiyou National Forest’s spokeswoman. “The closures aren’t just about active ﬁ re, but also where equipment and ﬁ reﬁ ght- ers are,” Kramer says. “There are a lot of factors that come into play, a lot more than just weather and active ﬁ re.” Until then, it’s smoke masks and Visine while ply- ing the smoky woods for buck and bulls. “Hopefully the weather cooperates and they open it,” Vargas says. “If not, we’ll be in the smoke.” OBITUARIES FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT there are usually plenty of areas to hunt. “This is an opportunity to try out new areas,” Vargas says. “I am.” For four decades the Vargas family has hunted blacktails in the Dixon Unit between Union Creek and Prospect. With his traditional hunting area and deer camp now off limits, Var- gas will be looking to hunt new lands. THURSDAY Clatsop County Recreational Lands Planning and Advisory Committee, 1 to 3 p.m., fourth ﬂ oor, 800 Exchange St. Arcadia Beach RV park public meeting, 11 a.m., Cannon Beach Fire Hall, 188 E Sunset Blvd. LOTTERIES OREGON Tuesday’s Pick 4: 1 p.m.: 9-2-0-7 4 p.m.: 6-5-0-2 7 p.m.: 9-6-2-0 10 p.m.: 4-8-6-7 Tuesday’s Lucky Lines: 02- 05-10-14-20-22-26-31 Estimated jackpot: $20,000 Tuesday’s Mega Millions: 1-10-57-66-75, Mega Ball: 4 Estimated jackpot: $20 million WASHINGTON Tuesday’s Daily Game: 2-1-9 Tuesday’s Keno: 06-08-12- 16-20-21-35-36-39-42-49-50- 60-62-63-64-65-72-76-78 Tuesday’s Match 4: 04-05- 21-23 MEMORIAL Sunday, Oct. 1 LUND, Barbara (Wascher) — Celebration of life at 1:30 p.m., Willamette Oaks Retirement Community, 455 Alexander Loop in Eugene. All are welcome. The Daily Astorian Established July 1, 1873 (USPS 035-000) Published daily, except Saturday and Sunday, by EO Media Group, 949 Exchange St., PO Box 210, Astoria, OR 97103 Telephone 503- 325-3211, 800-781-3211 or Fax 503-325-6573. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Daily Astorian, PO Box 210, Astoria, OR 97103-0210 www.dailyastorian.com MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news printed in this newspaper. SUBSCRIBER TO THE NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE MEMBER CERTIFIED AUDIT OF CIRCULATIONS, INC. 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