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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2017
Chamber of Commerce to change directors
Hauke to retire
next year
By EDWARD
STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Brenna Visser/The Daily Astorian
A two-car collision north of Gearhart Wednesday after-
noon closed U.S. Highway 101.
Astoria teenager
killed in crash
north of Gearhart
By BRENNA VISSER
The Daily Astorian
An Astoria teenager was
killed Wednesday afternoon
when he lost control of his
car on a curve on U.S. High-
way 101 north of Gearhart
and collided with another
vehicle.
Broderick Danielson, 18,
was driving his black Honda
Civic northbound near mile-
post 14 at about 2 p.m. when
he skidded into the south-
bound lanes, according to the
Oregon State Police. His car
collided with a Toyota 4Run-
ner driven by Melany Bloom,
38, of Rosburg, Washington.
Bloom was taken to
Columbia Memorial Hospital
with minor injuries.
The highway opened to
both lanes of traffic around
5 p.m.
Skip Hauke, the direc-
tor of the Astoria-Warrenton
Area Chamber of Commerce,
will retire next year and hand
the reins to David Reid.
Hauke has been direc-
tor since January 2005, tak-
ing over after the retire-
ments of then-Director Roger
Rocka and Associate Direc-
tor John Compere. He joined
the chamber after selling the
property of his family’s gro-
cery store, Hauke’s Sentry
Market, to Safeway.
The chamber was estab-
lished in 1873 and has a mis-
sion to create a strong local
economy, promote the com-
munity and represent the
interests of business with
government.
Skip Hauke
David Reid
Hauke plans to phase him-
self out of the position by late
spring. He will retire around
his 75th birthday in May after
helping with the Crab, Sea-
food and Wine Festival, the
chamber’s largest fundraiser,
in April.
“I will miss the job,
there’s no doubt about it,”
Hauke said. “But there comes
a time when you have to let
go. I’ve got a good sense of
accomplishment, basically
with all the credit going to a
great staff. But we’ve accom-
plished a lot.”
He pointed to the region’s
increased lodging taxes from
visitors and a growing mem-
bership of more than 640 as
signs of a job well done by
the chamber.
Hauke is one of only
two people to twice win the
chamber’s George Award,
Astoria’s citizen-of-the-year
honor, along with former
Astoria Mayor Willis Van
Dusen. Reid won the award
in 2014.
Hauke said he first talked
to Reid two years ago during
one of the chamber’s Busi-
ness After Hours networking
events about being his succes-
sor. Reid’s name was brought
to the chamber’s board of
directors, who selected him,
Hauke said.
Reid and his wife, Lisa,
moved to Astoria in 2002
when he took a job as a
sales coordinator with insur-
ance company Aflac Inc. He
has been a chamber member
since 2003 and has served on
its board since 2011. His term
expires at the end of the year,
he said, in time for the tran-
sition. He has also been with
the Astoria Rotary Club since
2003.
“The chamber for me has
always been the place where
all the things I love about this
community come together,”
Reid said.
The role of the chamber is
both as an advocate for local
businesses and as a visitor’s
bureau, he said.
Reid has been working
part time for Aflac while also
being a lead adviser with the
Small Business Development
Center. He will not continue
with either position. Reid also
serves on the Astoria Down-
town Historic District Asso-
ciation’s Business Develop-
ment Committee, a role he
said he hopes to continue,
time permitting.
“Their missions are
aligned but not identical,”
he said of the chamber and
downtown association. “I
look at them as concentric
circles.”
Feds threaten state’s criminal justice funds
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — The U.S.
Department of Justice has
threatened to end millions
of dollars in criminal jus-
tice grant funding to Oregon
over the state’s sanctuary
policies that prohibit the use
of state and local resources
to enforce federal immigra-
tion law.
In a letter Wednesday,
Acting Assistant Attorney
General Alan Hanson asked
the Oregon Criminal Jus-
tice Commission to address
whether Oregon’s policies
violate federal statute.
The Edward Byrne
Memorial Justice Assistance
grants are a primary source
of federal funding for state
and local law enforcement,
including police and sher-
iff’s departments. Oregon
receives about $4 million of
the grant money every two
years, said Bryan Hockaday,
a press secretary to Gov.
Kate Brown.
Former Gov. Kitzhaber agrees to $1,000 fine to settle ethics complaint
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
EO Media Group
Former
Gov.
John
Kitzhaber has agreed to
pay a $1,000 fine to settle
ethic complaints against
himself and former first
lady Cylvia Hayes that al-
leged they used their offic-
es for personal benefit.
SALEM — Former Gov.
John Kitzhaber has agreed to
pay $1,000 to settle an eth-
ics complaint related to accu-
sations he and first lady Cyl-
via Hayes used their public
offices for profit, had conflicts
of interest and inappropriately
accepted gifts.
The Oregon Ethics Com-
mission is scheduled to con-
sider the settlement agreement
Friday in Salem.
“Dr. Kitzhaber, through
his attorney, indicated that he
wishes to conclude this matter
by agreeing to the terms and
conditions in this order with-
out completing the investiga-
tion phase,” the order states.
The settlement would not
have an impact on a pending
ethics investigation into the
former first lady.
Ron Bersin, the commis-
sion’s executive director, was
not immediately available for
comment on his staff’s rec-
ommendation to approve the
settlement.
The agreement asserts that
Kitzhaber violated state law
by benefiting from frequent
flier miles he accrued from
state travel between 2011 and
2013 and failed to disclose his
conflicts of interest related to
Hayes’ consulting company in
2013.
The company, 3E Strate-
gies, received paid consulting
contracts from 2011 to 2013.
Kitzhaber argued that he
received advice from his attor-
ney that he did not need to
disclose a conflict of inter-
est because the consulting
company did not shape state
policy.
The commission voted
unanimously in July to pur-
Complaint alleges Roseburg senator engaged
in repeated unwanted touching at Capitol
Gelser wants
Kruse expelled
By CLAIRE
WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — State Sen. Sara
Gelser Wednesday called for
the expulsion of a fellow sen-
ator who she says for years
subjected her to unwanted
touching.
Gelser, D-Corvallis, filed
a detailed formal complaint
against state Sen. Jeff Kruse,
R-Roseburg, a move that rep-
resents a step up from two sep-
arate informal reports she has
made about Kruse’s behavior
since early 2016.
She also alleged Wednes-
day that Kruse has inappro-
priately touched more than
a dozen other women at the
Capitol.
Kruse declined to comment.
“I’m not going to say any-
thing to anybody,” Kruse, who
has denied allegations of inap-
propriate behavior in previous
media interviews, said.
He added that since a for-
mal investigation was ongo-
ing, “we need to let the process
work.”
Gelser’s complaint, pro-
vided Wednesday by the Office
of Legislative Counsel, says
Kruse repeatedly touched her
in ways that made her feel
uncomfortable.
Gelser and another female
state senator who has not been
identified had previously made
informal complaints about
Kruse’s behavior to the Legis-
lature’s human resources and
legal teams.
The informal complaint pro-
cess is typically confidential.
The allegations emerged pub-
licly, though, in the past month,
as more people who have expe-
rienced sexual harassment
came forward with their expe-
riences in industries ranging
from politics to entertainment.
Anna Reed/Statesman Journal
State Sen. Sara Gelser, D-Corvallis, on Wednesday filed
a formal complaint against Sen. Jeff Kruse, alleging the
Roseburg Republican has touched her inappropriately re-
peatedly over the years.
Until Wednesday, Gelser
had been reluctant to publicly
describe specifically what she
had experienced, saying she
did not feel she had to describe
salacious details to be believed.
In her formal complaint,
though, Gelser, who was
elected to the Senate in 2014
and served in the House of
Representatives prior to that,
described multiple incidents
where Kruse had touched her
in ways that made her feel
uncomfortable going back to
2011.
She also described avoid-
ing meetings with Kruse, tak-
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allowing her staff or interns
to meet with him to protect
them from harassment.
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Gelser described being
“increasingly reluctant” to
meet with Kruse because he
touched her in “ways that made
(her) feel uncomfortable.”
“This included hugs in
which he pressed his full body
against mine, wrapping his arm
tightly around me, kissing my
cheek, or whispering in my
ear,” Gelser wrote. “I would
step away from these behav-
iors but was concerned that I
would offend or embarrass him
by discussing the behavior. I
simply tried to avoid meet-
ing with him unless absolutely
necessary.”
But, Gelser said, she could not
avoid being on the House floor,
where she said in 2011 Kruse
approached her from behind and
ran both of his hands and arms
down her shoulders and breasts
and “squeezed” her in a hug.
sue an official investigation of
the former governor and his
fiancée.
The agency in February
2015 had suspended a pre-
liminary review of three com-
plaints of alleged ethics vio-
lations against the couple,
triggered by pending state and
federal investigations.
Kitzhaber and Hayes had
been under criminal inves-
tigation for more than two
years after Willamette Week
reported the first lady may
have used her position to
win several consulting con-
tracts. The scandal eventually
prompted Kitzhaber to resign
from office in February 2015.
The commission resumed
the ethics review in late June
after the U.S. Attorney’s
Office announced no criminal
charges would be filed against
the couple. The state Depart-
ment of Justice abandoned
its investigation of the cou-
ple because its statute of lim-
itation had expired during the
federal probe.
Under commission rules,
ethics investigators must con-
duct a preliminary review to
determine whether to launch a
full investigation.
Gloria A. Walker
Astoria
July 30, 1941 — Nov. 10, 2017
Gloria
A.
of Louisiana; seven
Walker was born
grandchildren and
July 30, 1941 in
one grandchild on
Windsor, Connecti-
the way; and one
cut. She passed
step-grandson,
Chance Gomez.
away Nov. 10, 2017
She was pre-
in Astoria, Oregon,
ceded in death by
at the age of 76.
a daughter, Julie
She is survived
Cozine of Portland,
by her husband of
34 years, Larry Gloria and Larry Oregon.
Walker
A celebration
Walker; a sister,
of life for Gloria
Gwenie Leaham,
and a brother, Fuzzy Frew, of A. Walker will be held at the
Massachusetts; a son, Clint, Elks Lodge, 453 11th St., in
and his wife, Marnee Bates; Astoria, Oregon, at 1 p.m.
a stepdaughter, Teri Walker Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017.
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