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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2017
Astoria man pleads not guilty to
manslaughter after fatal crash
By JACK HEFFERNAN
The Daily Astorian
An Astoria man pleaded
not guilty to a number of
charges Monday after he
allegedly crashed a car while
drunk earlier this month, kill-
ing his passenger.
Jason Don Martin, 39,
allegedly drove a 1989 Ford
Bronco off an embankment
on the northbound side of
Lief Erikson Drive near the
Crest Motel about 1:50 p.m.
OBITUARIES
David Jay Maki
Seaside
Nov. 24, 1949 — Oct. 16, 2017
influence of intoxicants and
reckless driving. He appeared
in court Monday for a second
time via video from the Clat-
sop County Jail while sitting
in a wheelchair. Circuit Court
Judge Paula Brownhill kept
his bail at $250,000.
Martin has no previous
criminal history in Oregon. If
convicted, he will face up to
23 years in prison.
Martin is scheduled for an
early resolution conference
in December.
Nov. 11. The car struck a tree,
killing Shannon Inniss, 44, of
Astoria.
One of two dogs in the car
also died at the scene, while
Martin was taken to Colum-
bia Memorial Hospital,
treated, released and arrested.
Tests of blood and urine sam-
ples taken from Martin have
not been completed yet.
Martin was indicted on
charges of first-degree man-
slaughter, first-degree ani-
mal abuse, driving under the
“Do every job the best you can, people are assistant to his lifelong friend, George Leino.
David used these skills as a member and trustee
depending on you.” — John Maki.
On a stormy Thanksgiving 1949 afternoon, for the Warrenton United Methodist Church.
David married and divorced three times. Jill,
the phone rang, interrupting the family dinner.
Anita and Cynthia are the dependable
Announcing the “best Thanksgiving
women who had most of the respon-
gift ever” — Baby David!
sibility for raising their three children,
A Williamsport boy, he grew
David John, Marc Alan (deceased)
up with trees, water and good bud-
dies. He started school as part of the
and Amelia Marie. Brady, Jacob and
Lily are David’s grandchildren.
final class at the one-room Walluski
David was reunited with his fam-
School. He went on to attend Asto-
ria public schools through 1968, then
ily of origin, George and Virgina
Blue Mountain Community Col-
Amoroso. Precious time with “folks
lege to study to become a published
who look like and laugh like me!”
photographer.
was warm and fulfilling. David is
David Maki
His early work career took him
survived by his brothers Tim, Rob-
ert, Rockey and Stephen Amoroso,
from the childhood yard work through
and extended cousins. His adoptive
the cannery, plywood mills, Warren-
ton School District, Tongue Point Job Corps parents, John and Ruth Maki, and his niece,
Center and Dammash Hospital. His passion for Alicia Hill Hess, predeceased him. His sister,
construction went beyond his local work for the Jane Maki Hill, and nephew, Jim Hill, reside in
Oregon.
oil module construction at Tongue Point.
“I was given family, friends, 31 years of
As a member of U.S. Construction Local
Operating Engineers 701, he worked at both the sobriety, a work life that touched the North and
North and South Poles, as well as the decom- South Poles, and was able to give blood. God
missioning of the Trojan Nuclear Facility. He loves me. Thanks to all who took care of me. I
was trusted in each of these high-stress posi- did my best as long as I could.”
tions, but most often told of constructing the
A celebration of life and social time is at 1
aquarium pen for Keiko (“Free Willy”) in New- p.m. on Friday, Dec. 1, at Warrenton United
port, Oregon. When his work time ended due Methodist Church on Main Avenue in Warren-
to physical restrictions, he was a construction ton. Memorials to the church are welcome.
Black Friday a paid holiday for state workers
By CLAIRE
WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Want to get an
errand done at the DMV or
check out the Capitol Christ-
mas tree this Friday?
You’re out of luck.
The Friday after Thanks-
giving is considered a hol-
iday for state workers. The
Capitol and executive branch
agencies will be closed, and
many state employees get a
paid vacation day.
The day after Thanksgiv-
ing was an unpaid furlough
day in the 2009-2011 budget
biennium, when the state had
a budget shortfall, according
to Amy Williams, a spokes-
woman for the Department of
Administrative Services.
Prior to that, it was a regu-
lar working day.
It’s been a paid holiday for
state employees since 2015,
when it was negotiated as
part of the state’s collective
bargaining agreement.
Pay for employees who
have to work the day after
Thanksgiving depends on the
agency, Williams said in an
email.
Employees exempt from
double-time pay on holi-
days include Oregon State
Police, certain corrections
employees and the Portland
Air National Guard, among
others.
“For 24/7 operations like
the State Police, they don’t
have normal holidays like the
rest of us but are given addi-
tional vacation time to make
up for it so being double-paid
doesn’t apply,” Williams
said. “If a non-24/7 agency
had an employee who needed
to work on the holiday, that
person could do so after
receiving his/her manager’s
permission and then would
be paid double-time for any
work done on that day.”
In a survey of 2017 holi-
day closures by the Society
for Human Resource Man-
agement, 75 percent of orga-
nizations — including public
sector employers — surveyed
said their offices were closed
the day after Thanksgiving.
Oregon’s not the only
state to give its employees
the day off, either: California
and Washington are among
other states who designate a
statewide holiday this Friday.
Federal employees don’t
get a paid holiday on the
Friday after Thanksgiving,
though, according to the
federal Office of Personnel
Management.
Eleanor ‘Ellie’ Fraser Johnston Hamilton
Warrenton
Oct. 30, 1938 — Nov. 10, 2017
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
63
53
55
Breezy with periods
of rain
Breezy with rain
ALMANAC
Cloudy, rain
Full
Salem
55/65
Newport
56/61
Dec 3
Coos Bay
56/63
New
Dec 9
Baker
45/57
Ontario
46/58
Planning department to reduce hours in December
Burns
39/59
The Daily Astorian
Klamath Falls
42/63
Lakeview
36/63
Ashland
51/66
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017
Tonight's Sky: After sunset, waxing crescent moon
near Saturn low west.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
TOMORROW'S TIDES
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
9:17 a.m.
9:51 p.m.
Low
3.4 ft.
0.2 ft.
Today
Lo
46
48
23
34
18
27
43
-1
68
25
20
56
61
33
70
33
54
48
28
49
26
42
54
52
49
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
North Bend
Hi
52
59
63
61
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57
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64
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Lo
45
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Portland
Roseburg
Salem
Seaside
Spokane
Springfi eld
Vancouver
Yakima
Hi
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50
56
65
61
59
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62
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46
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TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
Hi
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45
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37
49
75
1
83
50
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74
87
62
84
61
72
57
62
60
55
59
70
56
61
La Grande
49/59
Roseburg
55/64
Brookings
57/62
Dec 17
John Day
52/62
Bend
49/62
Medford
49/63
UNDER THE SKY
High
7.6 ft.
8.5 ft.
Prineville
50/62
Lebanon
56/64
Eugene
52/61
Last
Pendleton
48/64
The Dalles
44/56
Portland
53/62
Sunset tonight ........................... 4:38 p.m.
Sunrise Wednesday .................... 7:26 a.m.
Moonrise today ......................... 10:03 a.m.
Moonset today ........................... 7:23 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 with a bit
of rain
Tillamook
58/63
SUN AND MOON
Time
3:57 a.m.
2:47 p.m.
Breezy with occasional
rain and drizzle
55
45
Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs.
ASTORIA
55/63
Precipitation
Monday ............................................ 0.64"
Month to date ................................... 9.12"
Normal month to date ....................... 7.16"
Year to date .................................... 71.27"
Normal year to date ........................ 53.38"
Nov 26
SATURDAY
54
45
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Monday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 54°/41°
Normal high/low ........................... 52°/39°
Record high ............................ 63° in 1987
Record low ............................. 26° in 2011
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28
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39
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26
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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in the side of the face while
she was holding their child.
Gonzalez had left by the time
police arrived, but sheriff’s
deputies later pulled him over
as he was driving.
Monday’s Megabucks: 6-12-
17-20-39-46
Estimated jackpot: $3.2 million
WASHINGTON
Monday’s Daily Game: 3-3-6
Monday’s Hit 5: 10-11-21-
33-34
Estimated jackpot: $310,000
Monday’s Keno: 04-05-07-11-
14-24-27-29-30-34-42-43-45-
46-50-58-59-60-67-74
Monday’s Lotto: 03-13-15-
28-29-32
Estimated jackpot: $3.2
million
Monday’s Match 4: 01-02-
03-09
OBITUARY POLICY
529 SE MARLIN, WARRENTON
503-861-0929
YE TSOP
C LA NTY
C OU
Assault
• At 9:03 p.m. Sunday,
Rafael Gonzalez, 39, of War-
renton, was arrested by the
Clatsop County Sheriff’s
Office near Seaside High
OREGON
Monday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 7-1-0-7
4 p.m.: 2-9-8-3
7 p.m.: 3-4-1-2
10 p.m.: 5-7-0-1
Monday’s Lucky Lines: 02-06-
11-16-19-22-25-30
Estimated jackpot: $16,000
APPLIANCE
AND HOME
FURNISHINGS
IN
School and charged with
fourth-degree assault. Earlier
in the night, Warrenton police
responded to the 1580 block of
S.E. Willow Drive to a report
of a man who struck his wife
ON THE RECORD
LOTTERIES
PACKAGE DEALS
Mattresses, Furniture
& More!
open from 7:30 a.m. to noon.
The entire department, located
at 800 Exchange St., will be
closed on Dec. 22 and Dec. 25
for Christmas.
Nov. 21, 2017
O’MALLEY, Sandra Francis, 82, of Warrenton, died in Astoria. Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortu-
ary of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
APPLIANCE
3 A 0 RS
The Clatsop County
Community Development
Department will reduce
its operating hours in late
December.
From Dec. 18 to Dec. 29,
the Land Use Planning and
Building Codes offices will be
DEATH
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy,
sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
sn-snow, i-ice.
Over
Eleanor “Ellie” Fraser Johnston Hamil- with a youth group to Alaska, and adult groups
ton was born Oct. 30, 1938. She passed away to Antwerp, Belgium and Vienna, Austria, and
and went to be with God, family, and friends in teaching at vacation Bible schools and with
heaven Nov. 10 at 5:15 p.m.
Awana youth ministry. She was also involved
Ellie graduated from school in
with Senior Connection, the Asto-
ria Rescue Mission and Gideons
Buckeye, Arizona and went to Ari-
zona State College in Tempe, Ari-
International.
zona. She finished her teaching edu-
Ellie has four children, Dean
cation degree in Flagstaff, Arizona,
Hamilton of Wisconsin, John Hamil-
ton of Portland, Bonnie Hamilton of
living in Williams, Arizona, with her
Forest Grove and Paul Hamilton of
teacher husband, Bob.
Salem. Ellie also has eight grandchil-
They later moved to Ripon, Cal-
ifornia, where Ellie was active in
dren and one great-granddaughter.
teaching church youth and witness-
Her resting place is located at
ing at the Modesto, California abor-
Ocean View Cemetery in Warrenton.
Eleanor “Ellie”
tion clinic. Ellie was later active in
A memorial service will be held
Hamilton
at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017,
the Modesto Baptist Church, work-
ing with the Vietnamese families and
at North Coast Family Fellowship,
witnessing on several mission trips to Belgium. 2245 N. Wahanna Road in Seaside.
For the past 23 years, Ellie has been involved
In place of flowers, the family requests a
with ministries, teaching junior high school at donation to Gideon’s International (www2.
North Coast Christian School for two years, tak- gideons.org).
ing mission trips with the Lighthouse Church
Please sign our online guest book at www.
and North Coast Family Fellowship, including caldwellsmortuary.com
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