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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2017
The Harbor: It’s now on better financial footing with reserves
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Sue Farmer, the interim
executive director of The Har-
bor, said the new office space
is about the same size as the
previous offices in the Norblad
Building but provides a more
concentrated and up-to-date
setting.
“These offices provide for
more confidentiality,” Farmer
said, adding The Harbor will
only be in the lower level of the
office space previously occu-
pied by the law firm.
The Harbor recently sold
the Van Dusen Building at
the corner of Duane and 10th
streets to Astoria Maker Indus-
tries, a makerspace that will
establish its headquarters in
the building. The Harbor had
previously been located in the
building, a donation from Pig
Photos by Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
LEFT: The Harbor recently moved its offices into the former Snow & Snow law firm at 801 Commercial St. RIGHT: Asto-
ria Makers has been fixing up the Van Dusen Building, purchased from The Harbor earlier this year.
’N Pancake founders Marianne
and Robert Poole, until moving
in 2010 to the Norblad Build-
ing to save money.
The Harbor’s restoration
of the Van Dusen Building,
largely driven by volunteers,
became too expensive. Farmer
said selling the building has
“given us a reserve we can fall
back on when we’re waiting
for grant reimbursements.”
Jeanyse Snow, a partner
with her husband, Hal, in the
Snow & Snow law firm until
his death last year, recently
sold the building at the cor-
ner of Eighth and Commercial
streets to Dash Family LLC,
registered to local attorney
Blair Henningsgaard.
Farmer took over as interim
executive director of The Har-
bor when Melissa Van Horn
left in September 2016.
“We’re always open to the
possibility of somebody,” she
said when asked about whether
the group was searching for a
new director. “I did not want
to step down until we found
someone who was suitable for
the position.”
Farmer said The Harbor is
now on better financial foot-
ing, with reserves from the
building sale and grants from
Providence Seaside Hospital,
Randall Family Foundation
and Warrenton High School’s
CommuniCare program.
Paul Caruana, who owns the
Norblad Building with busi-
ness partner Brand Faherty,
said The Harbor has occupied
three spaces, each 1,200 to
1,400 square feet. There are no
plans for what might go in once
the group is moved out, he said.
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Neighbors help
during massive senior
living center fire
Dozens of neighbors rushed to the scene of
a massive late-night fire that injured at least 20
people at a Pennsylvania senior living commu-
nity, wrapping the elderly in blankets and carry-
ing them to ambulances in makeshift gurneys.
Larry Kingsland, 62, said today he and scores
of people who live around the Barclay Friends
Senior Living Community ferried elderly resi-
dents to medics as firefighters rescued them from
the blaze.
“Everyone saw how devastating the fire
was and we all had the same reaction: that peo-
ple needed help,” he said of the Thursday night
inferno in West Chester, about 35 miles west of
Philadelphia. “The whole neighborhood was
helping.”
Firefighters were still dousing smoldering hot
spots on what remains of the building late this
morning. The fire was declared under control
just before 1:30 a.m. An investigation into what
caused the blaze is underway, a town fire chief
said.
The fire quickly spread to multiple buildings,
engulfing sections within minutes; flames could
be seen shooting from the roofs and windows of
the structures.
Many of the residents were pushed in wheel-
chairs or rolled on beds to safety, said Dina Cic-
carone, another neighbor who helped move peo-
ple away from the fire and into safety. In some
cases, she said, people used blankets as makeshift
gurneys to assist in the rescue effort.
House passes GOP tax
bill; fate in Senate unclear
WASHINGTON — Republicans have
stretched closer to delivering the first big legis-
lative victory for President Donald Trump and
their party, whisking a $1.5 trillion overhaul of
business and personal income taxes through the
House. Thorny problems await in the Senate,
though.
The House passage of the bill Thursday on
a mostly party-line 227-205 vote also brought
nearer the biggest revamp of the U.S. tax system
in three decades.
But in the Senate, a similar measure received
a politically awkward verdict from nonpartisan
congressional analysts showing it would even-
tually produce higher taxes for low- and mid-
dle-income earners but deliver deep reductions
for those better off.
The Senate bill was approved late
Thursday by the Finance Committee and sent to
the full Senate on a party-line 14-12 vote. Like
the House measure, it would slash the corporate
tax rate and reduce personal income tax rates for
many.
But it adds a key feature not in the House ver-
sion: repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s require-
ment that everyone in the U.S. have health insur-
ance. Elimination of the so-called individual
mandate under the Obama health care law would
add an estimated $338 billion in revenue over 10
years that the Senate tax-writers used for addi-
tional tax cuts.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget
Office has projected that repeal of the mandate
would result in 13 million more uninsured peo-
ple by 2027, making it a political risk for some
lawmakers.
Defiant Moore camp
targets female accusers,
vows fight
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Ever defiant,
Republican Roy Moore’s campaign lashed out at
the women accusing him of sexual misconduct,
declaring “let the battle begin.” Women’s advo-
cates decried the talk as worn intimidation tactics
in a desperate attempt to keep his imperiled Sen-
ate bid alive.
Moore ignored mounting calls from Washing-
ton Republicans concerned that he may not only
lose a seat they were sure to win, but also may
do significant damage to the party’s brand among
women nationwide as they prepared for a diffi-
cult midterm election season.
Moore’s team showed no such concerns
Thursday.
“You ask me if I believe the girls. No, I don’t
believe the girls. I believe Judge Moore,” Moore
strategist Dean Young said. “Let the battle begin.
... Get ready to fight Mitch McConnell. We’re
going to fight you to the death on this.”
President Donald Trump, through a
spokeswoman, called the allegations of sexual
misconduct against the former judge “very trou-
bling.” The Republican president stopped short
of calling on Moore to quit the race, however,
breaking with most Republican leaders in Wash-
ington, including McConnell, the Senate major-
ity leader.
Trump did take time to publicly ridicule Dem-
ocratic Sen. Al Franken, who apologized Thurs-
day after a woman who had traveled with him
on a USO tour in 2006 accused him of forcibly
kissing her and then groping her for a photograph
taken while she was sleeping on a transport plane.
Trump tweeted that the photo was “really bad”
and that “just last week he was lecturing anyone
who would listen about sexual harassment and
respect for women.”
Iraqi forces retake
the country’s last
IS-held town
BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces backed by the
U.S.-led coalition retook today the last town in
the country that was held by the Islamic State
group, more than three years after the mili-
tants stormed nearly a third of Iraqi territory, the
Defense Ministry’s spokesman said.
At dawn, Iraqi military units and local tribal
fighters pushed into the western neighborhoods
of Rawah in western Anbar province and after
just five hours of fighting, Iraqi forces retook the
town, according to Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool.
Rawah, 175 miles northwest of Baghdad, lies
along the Euphrates River valley near the bor-
der town of Qaim that Iraqi forces retook from IS
earlier this month.
U.S.-led coalition forces supported the oper-
ations to retake Rawah and Qaim with intelli-
gence, airstrikes and advisers, coalition spokes-
man Ryan Dillon said.
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