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2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2018 Gearhart City Councilor Lorain announces departure Councilor known for her humor, persistence By R.J. MARX The Daily Astorian GEARHART — With an emotional farewell speech, Gearhart City Councilor Sue Lorain on Wednesday announced her resignation. Lorain and her partner are relocating to Tigard. Her resig- nation is effective April 20. Mayor Matt Brown and other city councilors praised Lorain for her contributions to R.J. Marx/The Daily Astorian Gearhart city councilors Dan Jesse, Sue Lorain and Ker- ry Smith. Lorain on Wednesday announced her departure from the council. the city. “You took me aside and showed me the ropes,” Brown said. “I’ve loved what we’ve agreed on and what we’ve disagreed on. You’ve really acted like a mom to a lot of us here with all your support. I appreciate your service and friendship.” A retired teacher — “I taught everything at some point,” she said in 2016 — Lorain spent much of her career educating fifth- and sixth-graders in Washing- ton state’s Highline School District. Known for her quick wit and unpredictable style, Lorain and her partner moved to Gear- hart in 2004. Lorain served on the Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce board and as vice president of Seaside Scholar- ships, a nonprofit providing scholarships for local students. She won election to the City Council in 2012, driven to succeed after someone said, “I don’t think you’d be very good at that job.” She considered that a chal- lenge. “I knew I could be a good steward of the commu- nity,” she said. Lorain won re-election in 2016. Among her accomplish- ments, Lorain mentioned the city’s vacation rental ordi- nance, her service on the fire hall committee and making enduring personal connec- tions at the top of the list. Finding a new home for the fire station out of the tsunami inundation zone remains a goal. “The wealth of knowledge I learned about geology, fire stations, fire- fighters is more than a life- time worth of good stuff,” she said. Councilors and staff at Wednesday’s council meet- ing shared tributes. “I’d like to thank Sue,” City Attorney Peter Watts said. “No matter how tense a meeting’s been, she’s found a way to make us laugh. I hope you run in your new city.” Councilors Dan Jesse, Paulina Cockrum and Kerry Smith echoed the sentiments. “I feel like I am in a half- way world between an ending a new beginning, where all my dreams, worries and plans can gather together,” Lorain said. “I am going to be cross- ing the threshold between farewell and new experiences, and I just feel lucky.” High wind warning in effect Sign rededication celebrates history Saturday for the North Coast of Astoria’s Sikh community The Daily Astorian A high wind warning will be in effect on the North Coast for most of Saturday. South winds could range from 30 to 45 mph with gusts of more than 70 mph, according to the National Weather Service. The warn- ing is effective from 4 a.m. to 8 p.m. The strongest gusts on the coast are projected to take place from sunrise until early afternoon. Strong winds could last until the early eve- ning in the Coast Range. Trees and power lines may be damaged, power out- ages are possible and trav- eling — especially driving across bridges — may be challenging. FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY 50 52 47 52 40 61 45 54 42 Periods of rain; breezy late Windy and cooler with rain Breezy with occasional rain and drizzle Sunny to partly cloudy Cooler with rain; breezy in the afternoon ALMANAC REGIONAL WEATHER Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 50/52 Astoria through Thursday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 53°/44° Normal high/low ........................... 55°/40° Record high ............................ 72° in 2007 Record low ............................. 30° in 1955 Tillamook 50/52 Precipitation Thursday .......................................... 0.82" Month to date ................................... 1.41" Normal month to date ....................... 1.04" Year to date .................................... 24.64" Normal year to date ........................ 25.88" Apr 8 First Apr 15 Coos Bay 49/52 Full Apr 22 Apr 29 TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 12:26 a.m. 1:30 p.m. Low 3.4 ft. 1.2 ft. Hi 74 45 35 41 31 44 87 39 80 49 39 88 71 60 83 61 79 54 57 60 46 60 63 64 70 Ashland 48/57 City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend Hi 61 60 58 61 60 52 62 64 60 59 Today Lo 47 45 48 50 50 46 49 51 49 49 W c r r r r r r r r r Hi 62 53 52 54 52 52 59 53 51 53 Sat. Lo W 39 r 37 r 45 sh 43 r 47 r 35 r 43 r 46 r 46 r 46 r City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Springfi eld Vancouver Yakima Hi 65 63 66 64 66 62 48 63 66 56 Today Lo 50 48 52 51 53 50 38 50 52 44 W r c r r r r c r r c Hi 53 59 56 59 56 53 51 54 55 62 Sat. Lo W 45 r 46 r 48 r 46 r 46 r 47 r 41 r 45 r 47 r 41 r TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER NATIONAL CITIES 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 Lakeview 43/51 REGIONAL CITIES Source: Jim Todd, OMSI Today Lo 57 37 19 21 14 22 62 16 72 23 15 68 58 34 73 34 67 38 24 37 22 52 58 51 40 The Daily Astorian Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 UNDER THE SKY High 7.7 ft. 6.4 ft. Burns 41/55 Klamath Falls 46/52 W pc sn pc sn c c s s sh sn sn pc pc r pc r c c r pc c sh r r pc Hi 61 47 37 59 40 39 87 38 80 42 41 89 71 49 86 49 72 45 47 45 42 62 65 57 47 Sat. Lo 39 31 26 37 25 23 69 19 72 23 27 60 55 33 73 31 52 30 31 28 29 45 52 46 33 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W r pc s pc s pc pc s sh pc s c c pc pc pc r sn c c s r sh r sn With reports of elk and human interactions on the rise in communities across Clat- sop County, Warrenton city officials will co-host a pub- lic meeting with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wild- life to address elk-related issues and concerns. The meeting is scheduled for Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Warrenton Community Center, 170 SW 3rd Street. Herman Biederbeck, a wildlife biologist with the Ore- gon Department of Fish and Wildlife, will talk about elk population trends and state management objectives. He The Daily Astorian The Clatsop County Demo- cratic Central Committee will hold a forum at 6 p.m. Monday for registered Democrats in the May 15 election. The forum will include state Sen. Betsy Johnson, D-Scappoose; state House Enter to PAIR KEENS! Karen Mellin served as an Astoria city councilor when historian Johanna Ogden approached the council with the story of the Ghadar Party and its founders, members of the Sikh community that lived in Alderbrook. Mellin became will also highlight safety con- cerns arising from increasing interactions between people and elk. Biederbeck has spent many hours with Gearhart city officials and residents to dis- cuss concerns around a grow- ing elk herd in that city. Topics at the meeting will include ways people can reduce elk damage and improve safety on their prop- erty, including vegetative man- agement, types of fencing and other tools. Along with Bieder- beck, law enforcement repre- sentatives will provide an over- view of elk-related challenges. Warrenton residents have reported seeing more elk in town, leading to concerns about safety and property dam- age. Biederbeck pointed to dangerous activities such as people feeding the elk and get- ting too close in order to take pictures. “These kinds of interactions may seem innocent enough, but in reality can be very dan- gerous because it could trigger the elk to become aggressive towards humans,” he said. Several years ago, War- renton police dealt with elk that had become aggressive because they were being fed and had learned to expect food from people. The city now has an ordinance in place that pro- hibits people from feeding the elk and other wildlife. Democrats hold election forum Monday Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. WIN O A F Clatsop County Historical Society The Ghadar Party plaque was stolen last year. Meeting set about Warrenton elk Ontario 51/67 Roseburg 51/59 Brookings 48/52 Astoria will rededicate a bronze sign stolen from Mar- itime Memorial Park last year that commemorated the founding of a political party in 1913 to fight for India’s inde- pendence from Britain. The rededication will occur Saturday afternoon at the park in Uniontown and will include a celebration of the 105th anniversary of the Ghadar Party’s original meeting in the city’s Finnish Socialist Hall. The original sign, erected in 2013, was stolen last Octo- ber and has not been recov- ered. State Sen. Betsy John- son, Lovekesh Kumar, owner of the Super Mart in War- renton, his brother, Baha- dur Singh, and former Asto- ria Mayor Willis Van Dusen donated personal funds to replace the missing plaque. a champion of efforts to rec- ognize these former Astorians and the party they founded. Their story had been largely forgotten, she said, but the plaque turned out to be a popular destination for Indians traveling in the area. She and others hope to cre- ate a more durable memorial, perhaps setting the plaque in a wall, in much the same way that a curving wall nearby pro- vides a lasting commemora- tion to people involved in the maritime industry. It would make it almost impossible for the plaque to be stolen again, she pointed out. This plan would have to go through city review, however. For now, Mellin and repre- sentatives of the Oregon Sikh community plan to simply rededicate the plaque. The celebration begins at noon on Saturday. Baker 47/62 John Day 52/55 Bend 45/53 Medford 49/59 Tonight's Sky: In Cancer, open cluster M44, the Beehive cluster or Praesepe. Time 6:12 a.m. 8:19 p.m. Prineville 48/57 Lebanon 51/55 Eugene 50/54 Sunset tonight ........................... 7:51 p.m. Sunrise Saturday ........................ 6:44 a.m. Moonrise today ........................... 1:25 a.m. Moonset today .......................... 10:46 a.m. New La Grande 50/60 Salem 53/56 Newport 49/51 SUN AND MOON Last Pendleton 48/59 The Dalles 48/60 Portland 52/56 The Daily Astorian candidates Tim Josi, John Orr and Tiffiny Mitchell; Clatsop County district attorney can- didate Ron Brown; and county Board of Commissioners can- didates Andy Davis, Peter Roscoe, Doug Thompson, Pamela Wev, Susana Glad- win and Commissioner Lianne Thompson. Questions for candi- dates will be drawn from the audience. The forum will be in Columbia Hall Room 219 on Clatsop Community College’s main campus at 1651 Lexing- ton Ave. The forum will also be broadcast on the Clatsop Democrats’ Facebook page. 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