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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2018
US attorney says Oregon has pot overproduction problem
Attorney General Jeff Sessions
withdrew an Obama adminis-
tration memo that had guided
states with legalized weed on
how to avoid federal scrutiny.
The meeting included rep-
resentatives from 13 other
U.S. attorney’s offices, the
FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspec-
tion Service, the U.S. Forest
Service and U.S. Customs and
Border Protection. U.S. attor-
neys from California, Wash-
ington state, Colorado, Idaho,
Alaska and Montana attended
in person.
Gov. Kate Brown, a Dem-
ocrat, told guests that Wil-
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press
PORTLAND — Oregon’s
top federal prosecutor said Fri-
day the state has a “formida-
ble” problem with marijuana
overproduction that winds up
on the black market and that he
wants to work with state and
local leaders and the pot indus-
try to do something about it.
U.S. Attorney Billy Wil-
liams convened the unprece-
dented summit of influential
federal law enforcement rep-
resentatives, state officials and
marijuana industry scions after
liams has assured members of
her administration that “law-
ful Oregon businesses remain
stakeholders in this conver-
sation and not targets of law
enforcement.”
The marijuana industry has
been watching federal pros-
ecutors in states with legal-
ized weed like Oregon closely
since Sessions rescinded the
so-called Cole memo. U.S.
attorneys in states where mar-
ijuana is legal under state law
now face the delicate question
of how to do their jobs and
hew to the federal ban.
Williams sought to calm
crowned Miss Clatsop
County 2018 and Aubrey
McMahan won Miss North
Coast. Caitlin Hillman won
Miss Clatsop County’s Out-
standing Teen 2018, while
Taryn Miller took home the
Contestants in the Miss
Clatsop County competition
learned their fate over the
weekend.
Haylie
Moon
was
Oregon, and that is, we have
an identifiable and formidable
marijuana overproduction and
diversion problem,” he said
Friday.
Williams added: “And
make no mistake about it,
we’re going to do something
about it.”
There is general agreement
that marijuana from Oregon
does wind up in other states
where it isn’t legal. Still, it’s
hard to say if pot smuggling
has gotten worse in Oregon —
where illicit pot farmers were
thriving long before recre-
ational legalization — or how
much of the marijuana leaving
the state filters out from the
legal side.
Williams has previously
said law enforcement in 16
other states have reported
seizing marijuana from Ore-
gon and postal agents have
intercepted more than 2,600
pounds of pot in outbound
packages and over $1.2 mil-
lion in associated cash.
Advocates dismiss the idea
that legalization has caused a
spike in black markets sales.
It’s just that now, because it’s
legal, it’s much easier to track
it back, they said.
Soldier who died at Camp Rilea identified
Moon crowned Miss Clatsop County
The Daily Astorian
fears among pot growers, but
said the market has a problem
that must be addressed. Every-
one needs a “bottom-line
answer” on how much excess
marijuana is being produced
and how much of it winds up
on the black market, he said.
Williams last month wrote
a guest column in a newspa-
per in which he said the sur-
plus attracts criminal networks
and generates money launder-
ing, drug violence and draws
down water supplies in rural
communities.
“Here’s what I know in
terms of the landscape here in
Miss North Coast’s Out-
standing Teen prize.
Winners were announced
during a ceremony on Sat-
urday in Seaside. The Miss
Oregon competition will take
place in Seaside this summer.
Associated Press
PORTLAND — Officials
have identified a soldier who
died in an accidental shooting
at Camp Rilea.
Authorities say 24-year-
old Spc. Devin Kuhn died
Wednesday from his inju-
ries in the emergency room at
Columbia Memorial Hospital
in Astoria.
Kuhn was assigned to
Alpha Co., 2nd Ranger Battal-
ion, 75th Ranger Regiment at
Joint Base Lewis-McChord,
Washington.
Camp Rilea, based in War-
renton, is the primary train-
ing facility for the Oregon
National Guard.
Washington cancels salmon net-pen site lease
Laura Jean Dowell
site where net pens holding
farmed Atlantic salmon col-
lapsed last summer, releasing
tens of thousands non-native
fish into Puget Sound.
The decision comes days
after a multiagency state
Astoria
Aug. 30, 1958 — Jan. 30, 2018
By PHUONG LE
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Washing-
ton state officials on Sunday
canceled a lease with Cooke
Aquaculture Pacific at the
investigation found the Can-
ada-based company negli-
gent for failing to adequately
clean its nets, saying that
directly contributed to the
net-pen failure in August at
the facility.
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
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TOMORROW'S TIDES
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Tonight's Sky: Pegasus, the fl ying horse, stands low
in the west as darkness falls and sets by midnight.
Hi
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High
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Lebanon
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Eugene
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First
La Grande
36/48
Salem
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Newport
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Sunset tonight ........................... 5:26 p.m.
Sunrise Tuesday .......................... 7:32 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................ 11:49 p.m.
Moonset today .......................... 10:30 a.m.
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ASTORIA
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Precipitation
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Month to date ................................... 1.43"
Normal month to date ....................... 1.07"
Year to date .................................... 12.79"
Normal year to date ........................ 11.27"
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Normal high/low ........................... 51°/37°
Record high ............................ 65° in 1984
Record low ............................. 13° in 1989
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Laura “Lori” Jean (Kankkonen) Dowell was Katrina and T.J. are together, and working hard
taken from us way too soon after a two-year to take care of the business that she and Tim
courageous battle with cancer on Jan. 30, 2018 worked so hard to build and make successful.
Lori fought extra hard to give her family and
at her home in Astoria. She was 59 years young.
friends as much time as she could
Lori was born Aug. 30, 1958 in
with her, and made her goal of seeing
Astoria, Oregon. She was chosen by
her daughter and son-in-law’s house
her parents, Richard E. Kankkonen
built, and spending one last memora-
and Nancy E. Stimson (Kankkonen)
ble Christmas in their new home, sur-
Loftin. She graduated from Stayton
rounded by her family and friends,
High School in 1976, but always con-
sidered herself a Fighting Fisherman
and making sure Katrina upheld all
her holiday traditions.
because she only spent a short time at
She is survived by her devoted
Stayton High School.
husband, Tim Dowell; a daughter and
In 1977, she married Gary
son-in-law, Katrina and Mike Smith,
Kaufman and they had a daughter,
Laura Jean
and their children, Grayson and Tay-
Katrina. They later divorced.
Dowell
lor; her son, Timothy (T.J.) Dowell,
In 1982, she married the love of
and his children, Natasha and Angel;
her life, Tim. She chose Tim’s son,
T.J., as her own, and never needed a piece of her sister and brother-in-law, Cari and Jerry
paper to prove he was her son, but made it Dudash, and their son, Jason; stepsister Paula
legally so by adopting him, and making it offi- Loftin; stepbrothers Ken Loftin, Charles Lof-
cial, with her name listed as his mother on his tin, Richard Loftin, Terry Ward and his wife,
birth certificate, something that made her proud. Bonnie, and David Ward; her birth mother, San-
Together Tim and Lori started T.J.’s Auto dra Priolette; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law,
Repair in 1990. Side by side they built the shop, Ken Dowell, Brenda Hansen, John and Rita
along with the slave labor of their children, from McCall, Beverly Dowell, Jon and P-Nut Dow-
the ground up. She was a gifted jewelry maker, ell, JR and Cherilyn Hageman, and Mary Jean
which she proudly displayed and sold at the Dowell; as well as several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents,
shop. She could sew, made beautiful stained-
glass windows and clocks, was a great cook, Richard and Millie Kankkonen and Nancy and
Ken Loftin; father and mothers-in-law, Kenneth
and was always doing crafts.
Then she discovered Pinterest! Bling was and Mary Dowell and Rita and Alex Kindred;
her thing! She “blinged” out everything, from and a brother-in-law, Dennis Dowell.
A celebration of life will be held Feb. 11,
her daughter’s wedding to her last project she
started, a Swarovski jeweled toilet (that she 2018 at 2 p.m., at the Astoria Elks Ballroom,
found on Pinterest) for her new house that she 453 11th St., Astoria, Oregon.
A private burial was already held at Ocean
and Tim were building.
Knowing that her last days were near, she View Cemetery in Warrenton, Oregon.
Caldwell’s Luce-Layton is in charge of the
said her greatest accomplishment was her kids,
her marriage, her business and her grandchil- arrangements. Please sign our online guest book
dren, and took great pride in knowing Tim, at caldwellsmortuary.com
BIRTH
Jan. 23, 2018
NICKOLS, Chasiddy and Jonathan, of
Ocean Park, Washington, a girl, Kaylee
Lynne Nickols, born at Columbia Memorial
Hospital in Astoria. Grandparents are Shawn
and Leslie Nickols of Centralia, Washington,
and Tammi and Wes Bender of Long Beach,
Washington.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
MONDAY
Port of Astoria Airport Committee, 4 p.m.,
Astoria Regional Airport terminal, 1110 S.E.
Flightline Drive, Warrenton.
Astoria City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 1095
Duane St.
TUESDAY
Community Center Commission, 10:30 a.m.,
1225 Avenue A., Seaside.
Port of Astoria Commission, 4 p.m., strategic
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy,
sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
sn-snow, i-ice.
planning workshop, Port offices, 10 Pier 1 Suite
209.
Seaside Library Board, 4:30 p.m., 1131 Broad-
way, Seaside.
Miles Crossing Sanitary Sewer District
Board, 6 p.m., 34583 U.S. Highway 101 Busi-
ness.
Seaside Planning Commission, 7 p.m., City
Hall, 989 Broadway.
Cannon Beach City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall,
163 E. Gower St.
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