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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2018
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Shooting woes cost Astoria girls at Molalla in 53-29 loss
The Daily Astorian
MOLALLA — A 22-5 run
by Molalla in the second quar-
ter proved to be the difference
Friday night, in a first-round
Class 4A state playoff girls
basketball game.
The big rally gave the Indi-
ans a 28-11 halftime lead,
on their way to a 53-29 win
over Astoria.
Molalla (13-11 overall)
advances to the Sweet 16,
while the season comes to a
close for the Lady Fishermen,
15-10.
The game was tied 6-6 after
one quarter before Molalla’s
big run in the second period,
while Astoria could never get
into a rhythm offensively.
Brooklynn
Hankwitz
scored a team-high 12 points
for the Lady Fishermen, who
were 10-of-59 from the field,
which included 2-for-20 on
3-pointers. Hankwitz also
hauled in 10 rebounds, despite
first-half foul trouble.
The Indians were play-
ing their fifth Cowapa League
team of the season, with wins
over Astoria, Seaside and
Scappoose and losses to Banks
and Valley Catholic.
Molalla’s Alicia Schultz
led all scorers with 16 points.
Freshman teammate Zoe Wood
added 12.
“We stayed with them the
first quarter, but that was it,”
said Astoria coach Mike Jacob-
son. “Our inexperience really
showed its colors tonight. We
Boat: You can monitor the progress of Boat-A-Lahti online
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Funded through the mar-
itime museum and private
donors, the boats are built to
withstand rough weather and
equipped with a GPS unit that
uploads the boat’s position
twice a day. A watertight com-
partment acts as a time cap-
sule carrying mementos from
students.
A plan to launch the boat
at sea from Tongue Point Job
Corps Center’s training vessel
Ironwood was denied by the
U.S. Department of Labor, said
Nate Sandel, education direc-
tor for the maritime museum.
Boat-A-Lahti was eventually
taken aboard the Astoria-based
Coast Guard cutter Alert and
launched near San Diego earlier
this month.
Within 14 miles and 10
hours of travel, Boat-A-Lahti
washed up on San Diego’s Mis-
sion Beach but was taken in by
lifeguards with the San Diego
Fire-Rescue Department.
“You have setbacks,” Sandel
said. “That’s what education is,
making adjustments.”
The lifeguards towed the
vessel out to sea several days
later. Boat-A-Lahti traveled
south along the Baja Peninsula
and by Friday had washed up
on a beach in the El Vizcaíno
Biosphere Reserve, Mexico’s
largest wildlife refuge. The
maritime museum will contact
officials to relaunch the vessel,
Sandel said, or he will travel
there to retrieve it.
Boat-A-Lahti has a slim
chance of making landfall on
Asia, and likely not this school
year. The hull carries informa-
tion in six different languages
about the builders and direc-
tions for what to do if the ves-
sel is found.
Shortly before Christmas,
Sandel delivered Boat-A-La-
hti’s sister vessel to Tanesashi
Elementary School in Hachi-
nohe, a city on the northern
end of the Japanese island of
Honshu.
Named East Ocean Friends
by Japanese students, the boat
was launched at sea several days
later by the head of the Minami-
hama Fishermen Cooperative.
Because of clockwise cur-
rents swirling around the North
Pacific Gyre, East Ocean
Friends could cross the ocean
this school year. The vessel has
mostly headed east across the
Pacific.
Matthew Bola, a spokes-
person for Hachinohe, said the
Educational Passages program
helps connect to different cul-
tures through the bonds of edu-
cation and science.
“While the project itself
will show how science can be
applied in an interesting and
real-world activity, the com-
munication between the two
students will form a bond that
will be greatly educational and
memorable, far surpassing the
realm of just the classroom set-
ting,” he said.
Monitor the progress of
Boat-A-Lahti, East Ocean
Friends and other vessels at
educationalpassages.com
didn’t play anywhere near we
were capable of playing.
“We are definitely going to
miss the four seniors (McKen-
zie Burnett, Taylor Feldman,
Libbie Nash, McKailyn Rog-
ers),” he added. “They showed
up every day and worked hard
on and off the court.”
Pynes: ‘It’s
an honor’
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Hachinohe
A miniature fiberglass boat
named East Ocean Friends
by students at Tanesashi
Elementary School in Ja-
pan was launched at sea by
the head of the Minamiha-
ma Fishermen Cooperative.
park after closing hours, but
has not had any excessively
unpleasant encounters.
“It kind of goes with
being in a park rather than
being in a residential neigh-
borhood downtown,” Pynes
said. “We haven’t had any-
body that’s been disagree-
able at all.”
When the park is open,
the ability to interact with
people from across the
globe can be as much of a
perk as the views.
“You kind of see it every
day through fresh eyes,”
Pynes said. “It’s an honor
to be a caretaker of such a
beautiful monument.”
Tax break: Opponents argue it’s a tax hike on Oregon businesses
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The bill, after more than an
hour of at-times acrimonious
debate in the Senate, now heads
to the House.
All Republicans pres-
ent voted against the measure,
as did one Democrat, state
Sen. Betsy Johnson of
Scappoose.
Sen. Brian Boquist, R-Dal-
las, says he plans to sue the state
over the revenue package.
Under the state’s Constitu-
tion, bills for raising revenue
require a three-fifths majority
vote rather than a simple major-
ity, and must begin in the House.
Boquist believes the bill
qualifies as raising revenue and
thus must meet those guidelines.
However, to date there has been
no opinion from the Legisla-
ture’s attorneys on that question.
Boquist told colleagues on the
Senate floor that he’d requested
an opinion earlier this month.
Earlier versions of the leg-
islation laid out broader tax
changes, but the bill was pared
down last week in an amend-
ment after what the bill’s spon-
sor described as negative
feedback.
Senate Democrats have cast
the amended bill as allowing
Oregon to assert its self-deter-
mination, in the words of Senate
Majority Leader Ginny Burdick,
D-Portland, and tout the support
of the pro-business Tax Founda-
tion for repealing the deduction.
Opponents of the plan
“argue that this is a tax hike on
Oregon businesses, an argu-
ment that stretches the imagi-
nation,” wrote Nicole Kaeding,
director of special projects at the
Tax Foundation, in a post on the
organization’s website Thurs-
day. “No business currently
receives this deduction in Ore-
gon; preventing it from existing
in the state doesn’t cause a tax
increase.”
Sen. Mark Hass, D-Bea-
verton, sponsor of the bill and
chair of the Senate Commit-
tee on Finance and Revenue,
contended the deduction, when
combined with the favorable
state tax rates for pass-through
businesses that the Legisla-
ture passed in 2013, would be
another giveaway to the same
group of people.
“This bill will not cause any
small business in Oregon to pay
one cent more in taxes than it did
last year,” Hass said in a state-
ment after the bill’s passage.
“The folks we’re talking about
already enjoy a lower state tax
rate on their net income, and
they just got a 20 percent fed-
eral deduction. We’re sim-
ply unhitching the state from
the Trump tax train so they
aren’t double-dipping on the
deduction.”
The move is expected to
allow the state to collect $244
million more in taxes through
mid-2019 than if Oregon
allowed the deduction from state
income taxes.
Republicans cast the mea-
sure as a hit to small business
owners in the state and claimed
it would put small businesses
at a disadvantage compared to
larger companies, which are
benefiting from dramatically
lower federal tax rates as a result
of tax reform.
“Democrats claim that (the
bill) will merely prevent busi-
nesses from ‘double-dipping,’”
Boquist said in a statement.
“This is wrong.”
According to the National
Federation of Independent Busi-
ness-Oregon, about 22,000 tax
filers qualified for the preferen-
tial small business rates in 2016,
but there are about 357,000
small businesses in the state,
most of which are structured as
pass-through entities.
The Capital Bureau is a col-
laboration between EO Media
Group and Pamplin Media
Group.
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