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DailyAstorian.com // TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2018 145TH YEAR, NO. 166 ONE DOLLAR Jaime Valdez/Portland Tribune Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian Matthew McClure pours a beer at the Wet Dog Cafe & Brewery. Astoria Brewing Co. is dropping the Wet Dog Cafe name (above) as the brewery consolidates under one brand. The new logo (below) will be a style reminiscent of its original name, Pacific Rim Brewing Co. BRAND RECOGNITION College tuition break pitched for immigrants Lawmakers counter Trump administration Astoria Brewing Co. to rebrand Wet Dog Cafe By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian T U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore- gon, and DACA recipient Aldo Solano of Portland at Blumenauer’s office in Northeast Portland in January. he Wet Dog Cafe & Brewery on 11th Street will be renamed as Astoria Brewing Co. consolidates its brand and owners Stephen and Karen Allen transition toward the next generation. That transition includes their children, Kera Huber, Andy Huber and Mike Allen, who have worked at the cafe since they were teenagers, along with Matthew McClure, a manager who joined the company in 2014. “We’ve become partners,” Karen Allen said. “They’re supporting, managing. They have been doing that all along anyway.” The transition is part of a succession plan Karen Allen, 60, and Stephen Allen, 65, hope to execute over the next several years. See REBRAND, Page 4A From left to right: Kera Huber, Karen Allen, Matthew McClure, Stephen Allen and Mike Allen along the Columbia River in Astoria. Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian SALEM — Pushing back on federal policies on immigration, the state Senate on Monday passed a bill that would give in-state college tuition to students who have graduated from an Oregon high school but are not citizens. The bill was designed to address the Trump Administration’s plan to eliminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. However, the bill also offers in-state tuition to immigrant students who never received DACA. “These children are our children,” state Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, said in an emotional speech on the Senate floor Monday. He said children who were brought to the United States by their parents had no choice in the matter and should not be penalized for the rest of their lives. The Senate passed the bill 17-10, with support from 16 Democrats and one Repub- lican, Sen. Alan DeBoer of Ashland. Ten other Senate Republicans voted against the bill. Under a law passed in 2013, immigrant students have to apply for an official federal identification document to be eligible for res- ident tuition at Oregon’s public universities. The removal of DACA makes those docu- ments impossible to obtain. The bill essen- tially removes the requirement to submit an official federal identification document to receive in-state tuition. Instead, students only have to show that they graduated from an Oregon high school. That mirrors eligibil- ity requirements for citizens in Oregon. The bill also makes immigrant students eligible for scholarships, grants and other financial aid from public universities, com- munity colleges and the Oregon Higher Edu- cation Coordinating Commission. Sen. Fred Girod, R-Stayton, said he opposed the legislation because it reneged on a bipartisan agreement when the 2013 law was passed to make immigrant students eli- gible to receive in-state tuition but not state financial aid. If passed by the House and signed by Gov. Kate Brown, the law would take effect immediately. More than 11,000 Oregonians are DACA recipients. Seafood industry faces tougher wastewater requirements New version of a permit By KATIE FRANKOWICZ The Daily Astorian Oregon’s seafood indus- try has concerns about the new version of a permit to regulate wastewater discharges from seafood processing facilities. The draft 900-J National Pollutant Discharge Elimina- tion System general permit will replace a previous ver- sion that expired in 2011, but the new version includes sig- nificant changes in indus- try practices. The state hopes to address pollutants from organic material as well as oil, grease, bacteria and ammonia that can be harmful to aquatic life. “There are new parameters that could be a challenge for processors,” said Laura Gleim, a spokeswoman for the Oregon Department of Environmental Equality. “This renewed per- mit places limits on pollutants that didn’t have limits in pre- vious iterations of this permit, including ammonia, chlorine, bacteria and temperature.” Wastewater discharges from nine seafood facilities in Clatsop County are already covered under — or the facil- ities have applied for — the general permit which expired in 2011 or the individual National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit, including BioOregon Protein, Bornstein Seafoods, Astoria Pacific Seafoods and Pacific Coast Seafoods. To comply with the new general permit, processors may have to alter standard operat- ing procedures and manage- ment practices. Some proces- sors may need to upgrade their facilities and bring on more advanced water treatment and monitoring systems that will likely come with hefty price tags. Depending on where they Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian See SEAFOOD, Page 4A Seafood processors are concerned about a new version of a permit for wastewater.
