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2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2018 Initiative petition seeks Seaside bus shelter replaced after fatal crash gun storage requirements One of the ‘busiest stops’ Measure could go to voters in November By R.J. MARX The Daily Astorian SEASIDE — Bus riders will soon see some respite from the elements in Seaside. Six months after a crash claimed the life of Robert Miles, 42, of Warrenton, and critically injured a 41-year- old Washington state man, the northbound South Roosevelt Drive shelter will be replaced. Last week, contractors resurfaced the ground in preparation for an April 11 shelter installation. “That’s one of our busiest stops,” Paul Lewicki, opera- tions manager for the Sunset Empire Transportation Dis- trict, said Monday. “It’s quite uncomfortable and inconve- nient for our riders to stand in the weather. We’re happy to do this now.” In September, Corrissa Barnett, of Seaside, allegedly By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau R.J. Marx/The Daily Astorian Contractor Eric Huntsman at work raking the area of the bus shelter in Seaside. “We had one here that we had planned for replace- ment of another shelter, so we’re redirecting that one,” he said. “I feel bad it took us so long to get this done, but as with many projects, it has red tape, different munici- palities and organizations involved. We’re close to the end now.” crashed an SUV into the shel- ter. She is facing charges of manslaughter, assault and driving under the influence of intoxicants. The shelter, which costs about $8,000 when purchased new, was already among the inventory at the Sunset Empire Transportation Dis- trict, Lewicki said. ‘Meet the Mayor’ event set for Wednesday The Daily Astorian Astoria Mayor Arline LaMear will hold her monthly “Meet the Mayor” of City Hall, 1095 Duane St. It is a chance for anyone to come and ask questions or talk to the mayor about any concerns. community meeting Wed- nesday. The meeting begins at noon and is held in council chambers on the second floor FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 41 55 47 Cloudy with a little rain late Cloudy with a bit of rain ALMANAC 54 44 Periods of rain Breezy with rain New Salem 42/63 Newport 42/56 Apr 15 Coos Bay 44/59 Full Apr 22 Baker 33/58 Burns 32/58 April 1, 2018 BJORK-BELL, Susanna E., 67, of Astoria, died in Astoria. Ocean View Funeral & Cre- mation Service of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements. NIXON, Scott, 57, of Gearhart, died in Gear- Lakeview 32/58 Ashland 45/69 Source: Jim Todd, OMSI TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 11:05 a.m. 10:58 p.m. Low 0.2 ft. 2.3 ft. Today Lo 59 39 27 27 17 33 50 8 73 33 18 57 54 39 73 39 63 45 28 48 28 41 51 41 53 REGIONAL CITIES City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend Hi 57 58 57 53 50 61 66 52 51 53 Today Lo 33 37 44 40 43 35 44 41 42 43 W pc c c c c c c c c c Hi 58 61 58 63 53 62 70 59 56 58 Wed. Lo 38 43 47 44 48 41 49 46 46 48 W c c c r r c c r r c City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Springfi eld Vancouver Yakima Hi 53 57 54 61 54 51 47 53 53 57 Today Lo 38 39 43 44 42 42 34 42 43 34 W c pc c c c c pc c c c Hi 52 58 58 69 63 54 45 64 58 62 Wed. Lo 44 44 49 49 46 48 36 46 48 41 W r c r c r r pc c r c TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER NATIONAL CITIES W pc r r pc r r s pc pc t pc s pc t pc pc c r pc r t pc s c sh Hi 61 62 38 64 40 40 81 28 82 43 46 84 72 57 85 56 71 64 60 66 45 61 64 51 67 Wed. Lo 39 31 25 36 29 26 57 15 73 28 35 62 55 39 71 34 53 36 41 34 33 47 52 46 36 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc r pc pc s sf s s sh pc s pc pc s pc pc pc t s t s pc pc r t APPLIANCE AND HOME FURNISHINGS 529 SE MARLIN, WARRENTON 503-861-0929 YE TSOP C LA NTY C OU Mattresses, Furniture & More! TUESDAY Port of Astoria Commission, 3 p.m., executive session (closed to public), 4 p.m., workshop, Port offices, 10 Pier 1, Suite 209. Seaside Library Board, 4:30 p.m., 1131 Broadway, Seaside. Miles Crossing Sanitary Sewer District Board, 6 p.m., 34583 U.S. Highway 101 Business. Seaside Planning Commis- sion, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway. Cannon Beach City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. WEDNESDAY Warrenton-Hammond School District Finance Committee, noon, district offices, 820 S.W. Cedar Ave. Seaside Improvement Com- mission, 6 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway. Warrenton-Hammond School Board, 6 p.m., meeting on fa- cilities, Warrenton High School library, 1700 S. Main Ave. Astoria School Board, 6:15 p.m., study session, Capt. Robert Gray School third-floor boardroom, 785 Alameda Ave. Gearhart City Council, 7 p.m., 698 Pacific Way, Gearhart. Monday’s Megabucks: 2-4-13- 18-23-48 Estimated jackpot: $3 million WASHINGTON Monday’s Daily Game: 1-8-6 Monday’s Hit 5: 01-12-17-22- 33 Estimated jackpot: $190,000 Monday’s Keno: 01-08-17-19- 20-23-26-27-30-31-34-39-42- 47-60-65-73-75-76-79 Monday’s Lotto: 01-03-05-30- 45-48 Estimated jackpot: $3.7 million Monday’s Match 4: 12-15-16- 20 OBITUARY POLICY PACKAGE DEALS IN hart. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary & Crematory of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements. WEST, Martin Eugene, 93, of Astoria, died in Astoria. Ocean View Funeral & Cre- mation Service of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements. PUBLIC MEETINGS OREGON Monday’s Pick 4: 1 p.m.: 5-5-7-4 4 p.m.: 0-4-0-2 7 p.m.: 3-7-5-3 10 p.m.: 4-2-1-4 Monday’s Lucky Lines: 01-07- 12-14-20-21-28-29 Estimated jackpot: $14,000 APPLIANCE 3 A 0 RS The state doesn’t go around searching your liquor cabinet, but if, for example, a minor gets into a car accident while intoxicated and authorities learn that an adult purchased or provided them alcohol, then the law can be enforced. Kevin Starrett, head of the Oregon Firearms Federation, criticized IP 44, and said that a gun owner should have the right to store the gun in a man- ner they see fit and that is in line with their “personal cir- cumstances,” such as whether or not there are young children in the home. “This is not how you solve the problem of people who use guns in a criminal fashion, by punishing people who don’t use guns in a criminal fash- ion,” Starrett said. Starrett also took issue with a section of the measure that would hold a gun owner who transferred a gun without securing it — either with a trig- ger lock, cable lock or secured container — liable for another person’s injuries for five years after the gun is transferred. Gun control advocates have tried to pass similar legislation in prior legislative sessions, mostly focused on preventing minors’ access to firearms. Petitioners are aiming for the November ballot. In order to go forward in the ballot title process, the petitioners must collect 1,000 signatures. LOTTERIES Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. Over ring a firearm to a minor must directly supervise the minor’s use of the firearm. Under the measure, gun owners would also face lia- bility for injuries that result from failure to meet those requirements, unless the injury “results from a lawful act of self-defense or defense of another person.” The liabil- ity would apply for five years after a violation of the mea- sure, such as an unsecured transfer. One of the petitioners, Paul Kemp, says part of the impe- tus behind the measure was the death of his brother-in-law, Steve Forsyth, who was killed in the Clackamas Town Center shooting in 2012. The shooter, who killed Forsyth, 45, and Cindy Ann Yuille, 54, and injured a 15-year-old girl, before killing himself, stole the gun, a Stag Arms AR-15, from a friend. “Most folks who have guns are pretty good about securing them,” Kemp, himself a gun owner, said. “The problem is, there’s too many folks who aren’t.” The idea, says Jake Wei- gler, a spokesman for Orego- nians for Safe Gun Storage, which supports the petition, is to create an enforcement sys- tem in the event that a crime is committed, similar to how adults can be held liable if they furnish alcohol to a minor. DEATHS Ontario 40/62 Klamath Falls 35/62 E.J. Harris/EO Media Group An initiative petition filed Monday would require gun own- ers to take new security protections. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 Tonight's Sky: Before midnight due southeast, waning gibbous moon and Jupiter will make a close approach, passing within 345 feet of each other. Hi 79 44 41 49 37 45 83 23 81 69 41 77 71 76 84 79 83 46 60 52 61 53 65 53 60 La Grande 36/53 Roseburg 44/69 Brookings 44/58 Apr 29 John Day 37/58 Bend 37/61 Medford 44/70 UNDER THE SKY High 8.8 ft. 7.3 ft. Prineville 36/63 Lebanon 43/63 Eugene 40/63 First Pendleton 39/58 The Dalles 41/62 Portland 43/58 Sunset tonight ........................... 7:47 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday .................... 6:50 a.m. Moonrise today ........................ 11:28 p.m. Moonset today ............................ 8:54 a.m. City Atlanta Boston Chicago Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Honolulu Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Memphis Miami Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Philadelphia St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Washington, DC Mostly cloudy, rain; breezy Tillamook 41/55 SUN AND MOON Time 4:19 a.m. 5:25 p.m. 58 47 Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 41/55 Precipitation Monday ............................................ 0.02" Month to date ................................... 0.51" Normal month to date ....................... 0.42" Year to date .................................... 23.74" Normal year to date ........................ 25.26" Apr 8 55 46 SATURDAY REGIONAL WEATHER Astoria through Monday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 51°/38° Normal high/low ........................... 55°/40° Record high ............................ 70° in 1942 Record low ............................. 29° in 2008 Last FRIDAY SALEM — Advocates want to get a second gun-re- lated measure on the statewide ballot in November. Initiative Petition 44, filed Monday, would create addi- tional storage, transfer and reporting requirements for gun owners. The petition’s filing fol- lows the February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Doug- las High School in Parkland, Florida, and subsequent stu- dent walkouts and marches in support of tightening gun regulations. It also follows another statewide initiative petition, IP 43, that would ban the sale of certain types of firearms in Oregon and require owners of those types of guns to undergo a new background check and register them. The new measure filed on Monday would amend state statutes to require that a per- son who owns or possesses a firearm to “secure the firearm with a trigger or cable lock engaged or in a locked con- tainer equipped with a tam- per-resistant lock.” It would also require a per- son who “owns, possesses or controls” a firearm to report if the gun was stolen or lost within 24 hours of learning of the theft or loss. Additionally, it would require people trans- ferring firearms to do so with a trigger or cable lock engaged or in a locked container with a tamper-resistant lock. Transfer is defined in the measure as “the delivery of a firearm, including, but not limited to, sale, gift, loan or lease of the firearm.” Finally, the measure would require that a person transfer- HOURS OPEN: MON-FRI 8-6 * SATURDAY * SUNDAY 10-4 We Service What We Sell The Daily Astorian publishes paid obituaries. The obituary can include a small photo and, for veterans, a flag symbol at no charge. The deadline for all obituaries is 9 a.m. the business day prior. Obituaries may be edited for spelling, proper punctuation and style. Death notices and upcoming services will be published at no charge. Notices must be submitted by 9 a.m. the day of publication. 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