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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 2018
Sea lion saved from certain death now does tricks in Chicago
Biff rescued
from the river
By CASSANDRA
PROFITA
Oregon Public Broadcasting
The Shedd Aquarium sits
at the end of a pier in Lake
Michigan with a sweet view of
the Chicago skyline wrapped
around the lake shore.
Inside, they put a lot of
effort into making visitors
from the Pacific Northwest
feel at home.
Walking into the sea lion
cove, a waterfall, huge fake
conifers and a host named
Herb greet visitors.
“Welcome to the Shedd
Aquarium,” he said. “And
welcome to the Pacific
Northwest.”
We’re no longer in Chi-
cago, he said.
“Now, you’re somewhere
else — around Northern Cal-
ifornia, Oregon, Washington
state,” he said.
Shedd Aquarium
Biff the sea lion was rescued from the Columbia River.
The geographic illusion
probably isn’t fooling Biff, the
sea lion who has lived here —
next to a pool of beluga whales
— since 2009.
He’s one of just 15 Colum-
bia River sea lions that have
been rescued from certain
death by zoos and aquariums
across the country.
Over the past decade,
Northwest wildlife manag-
ers have lethally removed 175
California sea lions from the
Columbia River. They were
killed after getting caught eat-
ing too much salmon at Bon-
neville Dam, where fish lad-
ders create a kind of sea lion
buffet.
Biff was among the first
sea lions caught making repeat
visits to that buffet in 2009.
But he was lucky. The Shedd
Aquarium was able to give
him a new home while others
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said in a release. “By vastly
improving our meter tech-
nology, we can deliver power
more reliably and shorten out-
ages, save costs, and allow for
better management of renew-
able sources.”
More than 70 million smart
meters have been installed
nationwide, equivalent to half
of the households in the U.S.
Smart meters are a key com-
ponent to updating an aging
energy grid, and can make it
possible to adjust the flow of
energy to meet specific needs,
and support both rising tech-
nological demands and a
clean energy future.
Access to daily energy
usage information will be
available to customers via
a secure website about six
weeks after a new meter is
installed. The meters instantly
track outages, provide fore-
casts of the next bill and offer
alerts to help adjust usage.
“We are connecting our
small communities through-
out Oregon in a way that
improves the reliability and
efficiency of the grid, both
at home and at work,” Bird
said. “With smart meter tech-
nology now mature, proven
and available at competitive
prices, we can deliver the ben-
efits without any additional
cost to customers.”
The Oregon Women for
Agriculture will hold its annual
conference in Astoria Feb. 15 to
Feb. 17.
The conference will begin
with a tour of the Oregon
State University Seafood Lab
for a glimpse into how faculty
and staff are developing new
uses for seafood byproducts.
The conference will also tour
the Hampton Lumber Mill in
Warrenton.
There will be a panel discus-
sion of female forest managers
representing land conservan-
cies, national parks and state
and private forestlands. They
will talk about varying portfolio
goals, the objectives of forest
ownership and the tools used to
achieve these goals. The panel
will be moderated by Valerie
Elder, an assistant professor of
forestry and natural resources at
the university.
For more information, call
503-243-3276 (FARM) or email
Sandy Willius, the group’s trea-
surer in Yamhill County, at swil-
lius@citizensEbank.com
Knappa Water Association flushing water mains
The Daily Astorian
KNAPPA — The Knappa
Water Association is flushing
water mains from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. today through Friday, and
from Jan. 22 through Jan. 24.
Users may experience peri-
ods of low pressure or cloudy
water. If these conditions persist,
call the Knappa Water Associa-
tion office at 503-458-6461.
ria. Ocean View Funeral &
Cremation Service of Astoria is
in charge of the arrangements.
SOLUM, Rodney Edwin,
65, of Astoria, died in Asto-
ria. Ocean View Funeral &
Cremation Service of Astoria is
in charge of the arrangements.
Jan. 9, 2018
HARMON, Silvia R., 78, of
Astoria, died in Astoria. Ocean
View Funeral & Cremation
Service of Astoria is in charge
of the arrangements.
WINSTANLEY,
Val-
erie Lynne, 62, of Warrenton,
died in Astoria. Hughes-Ran-
som Mortuaries & Crematory
of Astoria/Seaside is in charge
of the arrangements.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
MONDAY
Ecola Creek Watershed Council, 4:30 p.m., City
Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Knappa School Board, 4:30 p.m., Knappa High
School library, 41535 Old U.S. Highway 30.
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Pacific Power is begin-
ning to replace 590,000 tradi-
tional electric meters at Ore-
gon homes and businesses
with new digital smart meters
providing continually updat-
ing usage information.
Installations will roll out
region by region over the next
two years, reaching Clatsop
County in April 2019.
“Installing smart meters is
a key step toward the power
grid of the future here in
Oregon and our customers
throughout the state all ben-
efit,” Stefan Bird, president
and CEO of Pacific Power,
Jan. 12, 2018
LaTOURETTE, Shirley,
59, of Seaside, died in Sea-
side. Ocean View Funeral
& Cremation Service of
Astoria is in charge of the
arrangements.
Jan. 11, 2018
MILLS, Janet Kathleen,
67, of Astoria, died in Asto-
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DEATHS
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy,
sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
sn-snow, i-ice.
C o m e and see h o w
and give him a little rub on
the chest right there,” he said.
His fur was cold and wet.
Petting a wild animal —
knowing he would be dead if
he weren’t here, behind bars
— highlights the dilemma
people have managing hun-
gry sea lions.
Trainer
Eric
Daniel
remembers when Biff first
arrived at the aquarium.
“He adapted quickly,”
Daniel said. “He’s a very
smart, very sharp animal.
Very food motivated. All the
things that got him into trou-
ble in the first place.”
Dr. Bill Van Bonn, vice
president of animal health
at the aquarium, said having
Biff around helps teach peo-
ple in the Midwest about the
conflict that brought him here.
“We’re really faced with
a conservation conundrum,”
he said. “As these animals do
really well in the wild, they
tend to want to be in simi-
lar places that people want to
be.”
Smart electric meters coming in 2019
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Klamath Falls
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At one point, he flopped
his massive sea lion body
through the bike-rack tun-
nel and dove into the second
pool. Then he jumped out and
flipped his tail up over his
head in a sea lion headstand.
After each correct move,
Heizmann tossed little fish
called capelin to Biff. They’re
about 6 inches long — noth-
ing compared to the 20-pound
salmon Biff used to eat on the
Columbia.
Incidentally, he’s lost more
than 250 pounds on the aquar-
ium diet. When he got here he
weighed around 900 pounds;
now he’s around 630. But he’s
still quite big.
Biff dazzled his viewers as
he moved quickly in response
to commands. And just when
the list of tricks had been
exhausted, Heizmann offered
to pet Biff. They call this
doing “tactile.”
The trainer called him
over and Biff sat up next to
the bars.
“You can just go ahead
Women’s agriculture conference in Astoria
TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
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Tonight's Sky: High above the southwest horizon is
the constellation of Aries, the Lamb.
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UNDER THE SKY
High
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Eugene
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Full
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Portland
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Sunset tonight ........................... 4:56 p.m.
Sunrise Tuesday .......................... 7:54 a.m. Coos Bay
Moonrise today ........................... 6:45 a.m. 47/57
Moonset today ........................... 4:04 p.m.
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Mostly cloudy, rain;
breezy
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SUN AND MOON
Time
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ASTORIA
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Precipitation
Sunday ............................................. 0.00"
Month to date ................................... 4.40"
Normal month to date ....................... 4.84"
Year to date ...................................... 4.40"
Normal year to date .......................... 4.84"
Jan 16
FRIDAY
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Sunday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 61°/48°
Normal high/low ........................... 50°/38°
Record high ............................ 61° in 2018
Record low ............................. 17° in 1950
New
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Rain at times
THURSDAY
were euthanized.
On a recent day at the
aquarium, Biff wasn’t out
on the exhibit floor with the
whales and fake conifers. He
was in a back room where he
does his training sessions.
He was lying on the floor
behind metal bars with his
own little playground, which
consisted of two hot tub-sized
pools and a tunnel made of
what looked like bent-over
bike racks.
Biff still has his brand,
C-700, seared into his back.
Those are the markings man-
agers used to identify and
remove sea lions from Bonne-
ville Dam.
With just a few feet between
Biff and visitors, trainer Kurt
Heizmann blew a little whis-
tle, and Biff sprung into action.
“Swim!” Heizmann said.
Biff jumped in and out of the
pool.
“Spin!” Biff jumped around
in a circle.
“Wave!” Biff held up one
flipper, then the other.
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and the dosage of radiation by 1/5.
• Extra oral imaging for patients that
typically gag or struggle with x-rays.
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TUESDAY
Cannon Beach Public Works Committee, 9 a.m.,
City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Port of Astoria Commission, 4 p.m., 10 Pier 1 Ste. 209.
Seaside School District Board of Directors, 6
p.m., 1801 S. Franklin, Seaside.
Astoria City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 1095 Duane St.
Seaside Planning Commission, 7 p.m., work
session, City Hall, 989 Broadway.
Shoreline Sanitary District Board, 7 p.m.,
Gearhart Hertig Station, 33496 West Lake Lane,
Warrenton.
LOTTERIES
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Sunday’s Daily Game: 6-5-8
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