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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Apr 22
Apr 29
TOMORROW'S TIDES
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
12:26 a.m.
1:30 p.m.
Low
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Hi
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35
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31
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Ashland
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Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
North Bend
Hi
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Portland
Roseburg
Salem
Seaside
Spokane
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Yakima
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TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
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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
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REGIONAL CITIES
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UNDER THE SKY
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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
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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
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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
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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.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
SATURDAY
Gearhart Emergency Preparedness Town Hall,
3 p.m., Fire Hall, 670 Pacific Way.
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