DailyAstorian.com // TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2018
145TH YEAR, NO. 166
ONE DOLLAR
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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.