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Organizers estimated the
fees would have cost the non-
profit an additional $6,500.
The re-enactment typically
costs the group about $10,000
to stage. State parks offered to
allow the group to keep gate
fees — $20 per car last year
with special prices for motor-
cycles, bikes and those who
arrived on foot.
Friends of Old Fort Ste-
vens, a nonprofit that raises
money and recruits volunteers
for the park, also will not pro-
vide advertising services or
volunteers for the event. They
were asked by the state Parks
and Recreation Department to
discontinue the practice, said
David Lindstrom, the nonprof-
it’s secretary.
“We take our signals from
the parks,” Lindstrom said.
“We don’t ask questions. We
only do what they ask us to do
or not do.”
Organizers and park offi-
cials alike became concerned
last year in light of the national
debate over the display of Con-
federate flags. Last year’s event
took place just three weeks after
a deadly white nationalist rally
with Confederate flags in Char-
lottesville, Virginia, and a local
controversy after a Confeder-
ate flag and rebel decals were
linked with an award-winning
float at the Astoria Regatta.
Organizers were taunted
in Facebook messages in the
weeks leading up to the re-en-
actment, including derisive
requests for participants to
use real bullets during battles.
In response, Warrenton police
sent extra patrols to the park to
help ensure safety.
“Absolutely the national
debate about the Civil War and
its connection to the slavery
issue has everything to do with
OPRD making the decision it
did,” Lindstrom said. “OPRD
said you can have the event,
but you’re funding it your-
self. If you hold the event, the
state is stepping into the debate
about this, and that’s just not a
position the state needs to take.
That’s the OPRD’s decision,
and I agree with it.”
State park officials could
not be reached for comment.
Participants typically stage
battles, fashion shows, medical
demonstrations, speeches and
church services throughout the
three-day re-enactment — set
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
A Civil War re-enactment held at Fort Stevens State Park for 27 years will relocate.
in 1863, the year Fort Stevens
was built.
Bishop said the site is irre-
placeable in terms of edu-
cational opportunities and
the years of annual fam-
ily vacations inspired by the
re-enactment.
“For us, it was the one key-
stone that we could tie into,”
Bishop said. “When some-
one would say, ‘Nothing Civil
War-related happened in Ore-
gon,’ we could point to Fort
Stevens.”
Many people have partici-
pated for decades and invested
tens of thousands of dollars.
Onlookers, even those who live
near other re-enactment sites,
come from all over the region
to witness the battles.
Organizers were denied per-
mits at two other Oregon parks
in recent years — Willamette
Mission State Park and Milo
McIver State Park — because
the event “did not fit the scope
and purpose of that park,”
Bishop said. He did not spec-
ulate why the state denied the
permits or imposed the fees,
saying that a number of theo-
ries have been tossed around.
The Confederate flag contro-
versy is one of them.
“On the East Coast they’re
having problems, too,” Bishop
said. “Part of it could be the
political climate we’re in now.”
The event’s departure
comes after a six-year study
that revealed Fort Stevens was
the second-highest economic
driver among more than 150
state parks. According to the
study, 89 percent of spending
came from visitors who trav-
eled from more than 30 miles
away.
“I feel that it will obviously
affect the number of people
that come over the Labor Day
weekend,” Lindstrom said. “I
may be naive, but I don’t think,
because of its overall popu-
larity, it will affect the overall
population of the park.”
Bishop said he is optimis-
tic the group will find a new
location for this year’s re-en-
actment. The organization is
in talks to have the battle take
place on private land in Colton,
or it may move to a neighbor-
ing state.
While this year’s event will
certainly not take place at Fort
Stevens, the organization may
consider returning at some
point in the future, Bishop said.
“Right now I would say the
case is closed,” he said. “But
I’m always hopeful we could
work it out.”
Merkley: ‘I don’t want to sell off our infrastructure’ Rev. Billy Graham,
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the influence of the gun man-
ufacturers and the massive
amounts of money that they’re
spending.”
Immigration
A couple of town hall
attendees referred to the loom-
ing deadline for the Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals
program. The program allows
undocumented immigrants who
came to the United States as
children, including more than
11,000 people in Oregon, to
apply for two-year, renewable
legal status and employment.
In September, Trump estab-
lished a March 6 deadline for
Congress to work out an immi-
gration deal before the govern-
ment stops issuing permits for
the program.
“He wanted to use the issue
of Dreamers not just as a con-
versation about Dreamers and
border security. He wanted to
do a complete rewrite of the
traditional values of immi-
gration,” Merkley said of the
president.
Another attendee asked if
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An attendee asks U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley a question at
Tuesday’s town hall in Seaside.
Congress could do anything
to limit deportation raids by
U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement. Merkley said that
he and U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden
have asked the Trump adminis-
tration to observe “safe zones”
around schools and court-
houses and challenged some
detentions.
“We’ll keep pushing, but
it’s under the president’s con-
trol,” Merkley said. “That’s
not a very satisfactory answer,
I know.”
Infrastructure
Astoria City Councilor
Tom Brownson asked Merkley
about Trump’s $1 trillion dollar
proposal to improve infrastruc-
ture. The proposal would rely
on state and local governments
to pick up most of the tab.
“We’re just barely keeping
up with what we have and tak-
ing small bites into our infra-
structure,” Brownson said. “It
seems to be a know-nothing
bill.”
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known as ‘America’s
Pastor,’ dies at 99
tories forged powerful global
links among conservative
Christians, and threw a lifeline
MONTREAT, N.C. — The to believers in the commu-
Rev. Billy Graham, who trans- nist-controlled Eastern bloc.
formed American religious Dubbed “America’s pastor,”
life through his preaching and he was a confidant to U.S.
activism, becoming
presidents from Gen.
Dwight Eisenhower
a counselor to pres-
to George W. Bush.
idents and the most
In 1983, President
widely heard Chris-
Reagan gave Gra-
tian evangelist in his-
ham the Presidential
tory, died Wednesday.
Medal of Freedom,
He was 99.
America’s
high-
Graham, who long
est civilian honor.
suffered from can-
Rev. Billy
cer, pneumonia and
When the Billy Gra-
Graham
ham Museum and
other ailments, died
at his home in North Caro- Library was dedicated in 2007
lina, spokesman Mark DeM- in Charlotte, former Pres-
oss told The Associated Press. idents George H.W. Bush,
More than anyone else, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton
Graham built evangelicalism attended.
“When he prays with you
into a force that rivaled lib-
eral Protestantism and Roman in the Oval Office or upstairs
Catholicism in the United in the White House, you feel
States. His leadership sum- he’s praying for you, not the
mits and crusades in more president,” Clinton said at the
than 185 countries and terri- ceremony.
By RACHEL ZOLL
Associated Press
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structure such as bridges and
ports is apparent, the bill is
structured so that the federal
government can take credit for
what state and local govern-
ments pay, Merkley said. The
senator also criticized the pro-
posal’s reliance on private-pub-
lic partnerships and the tolls
people would have to pay as a
result.
“You can’t do a lot of infra-
structure in that fashion,” Merk-
ley said. “I don’t want to sell off
our infrastructure. We get a lot
more infrastructure when we do
direct investment. We pay for it
up front and we own it and we
don’t pay tax for 100 years on
the back end.”
Throughout the town hall,
Merkley summed up his core
philosophy in four issues:
health care for every citizen,
affordable housing, job avail-
ability and education.
“You know, sometimes I
feel like all we’re doing is rant-
ing about all the things that are
going wrong,” he said. “That’s
why I really feel like it’s so
important to talk about what
would make our country work
better.”
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