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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2018 Hawaii volcano erupts from summit, sends plume 30,000 feet into sky By SOPHIA YAN and AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted from its summit before dawn Thurs- day, shooting a dusty plume of ash about 30,000 feet into the sky. The explosion came at about 6 a.m. after two weeks of volcanic activity and the opening of more than a dozen fissures east of the crater that spewed lava into neighbor- hoods, said Mike Poland, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Residents who live in a nearby town reported light amounts of ash falling follow- ing the eruption. Poland said the explosion likely only lasted a few min- utes and that ash accumula- U.S. Geological Survey The Kilauea Volcano erupted from its summit, shooting a dusty plume of ash about 30,000 feet into the sky. tions were minimal, with likely trace amounts near the vol- cano and at the town, named Volcano. The lava that has emerged over the last two weeks has destroyed at least 26 homes and 10 other structures. The crater sits within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, which has been closed since May 11 in preparation for an eruption. Officials have said they didn’t expect the explosion to be deadly as long as peo- ple remained out of the closed national park. Kilauea is one of the world’s most active volcanoes. An eruption in 1924 killed one person and sent rocks, ash and dust into the air for 17 days. Scientists warned last week that a drop in the lava lake at the summit might create conditions for an explosion that could fling ash and boulders the size of refrigerators into the air. Scientists predicted it would mostly release trapped steam from flash-heated groundwa- ter released as though it was a kitchen pressure cooker. Communities a mile or two away may be showered by pea-size fragments or dusted with nontoxic ash, they said. Kilauea volcano has been erupting continuously since 1983. It’s one of five volca- noes that comprise the Big Island of Hawaii, and the only one currently erupting. Medicare: County options dwindle Continued from Page 1A FamilyCare representa- tives could not be reached for comment. The insurer’s quar- terly statements show 4,135 Medicare Advantage custom- ers in the state. A former Fam- ilyCare spokesman had said its two Medicare Advantage plans cover about 600 people in Clatsop County. Craig Parker, a regional coordinator with Senior Health Insurance Benefits Assistance, said the people covered by FamilyCare can sign up for Moda Health’s two Medicare Advantage plans or go with original Medicare supplemented by one of many Medigap policies available statewide. As of January, around 7,900 people in Clatsop County were covered by Medicare, a federal health insurance program for people 65 and older covering hospital care and outpatient treatment, with supplemental policies to cover other services such as prescription drug coverage. More than 2,800 people were served by health insur- ance programs such as Medi- care Advantage, with cov- erage provided by private insurers such as Moda Health and FamilyCare that negotiate with health care providers to find the lowest-cost options. The plans can often be more cost-effective than original Medicare coupled with Medi- gap policies FamilyCare’s departure from Oregon seems to be a business decision and not reg- ulatory, Parker said. After a spat with the Oregon Health Authority over reimburse- ment rates last year, Family- Care in January stopped pro- viding plans for Medicaid recipients under the Oregon Health Plan, affecting approx- imately 120,000 customers. Clatsop County had seven Medicare Advantage provid- ers as recently as 2009. The county now joins a wide swath of rural Oregon — including Tillamook, Baker, Gilliam, Harney, Lake, Morrow, Uma- tilla and Wallowa counties — down to only Moda, Parker said. A report in August by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit focusing on health care issues, found that 147 mostly rural counties across 14 states have no Medicare Advantage plans, including Washington’s Pacific County. Insurers have less leverage to negotiate rates with hospitals and other health care provid- ers in rural markets, the report said, potentially making them less profitable than others. Ron Beazely, a Cannon Beach resident highlighted by The Daily Astorian in Octo- ber when he was forced to find a new Medicare Advan- tage plan in the wake of Care- Oregon’s departure, said his transition to FamilyCare was seamless. Beazely is now wondering what he will do next. “You think the state of Ore- gon would step in to protect us folks on the coast,” he said. Primary: Just 33 percent of voters cast ballots Continued from Page 1A “There are, of course, bumps in the road, but it’s basically a long-term down- ward trend, and it’s hard to say where we are now, except on that trend,” Moore said. The 2016 primary, with both major political parties in contentious presidential nominating fights, garnered a 54 percent turnout. But pri- mary elections in midterm years such as 2018 — where there isn’t a contest for pres- ident on the ballot — don’t tend to generate enthusiastic turnout. “The only thing worse would be a special election held in January of an odd- ly-numbered year, where you’d get lower turnout,” said Paul Gronke, a profes- sor of political science at Reed College and director of the Early Voting Information Center. Participation also appears to vary between political parties. A slightly greater share of registered Democrats and Republicans turned out than did in the last midterm pri- mary, in 2014. Early figures from the state show that about 43 per- cent of registered Democrats voted in Tuesday’s election, while about 46 percent of registered Republicans cast a ballot. Both those rates of participation are slightly higher than they were in 2014. The rate of participation among members of other parties — including the Inde- pendent Party of Oregon — held steady at about 24 per- Pier 2: Port Commission approved consultants Continued from Page 1A Library: Total proposed budget is $267,000 Continued from Page 1A tive assistant and the library’s only other employee, will go up from 11.5 hours a week to 25. They might finally be able to have staff meetings, Calog said, only half jokingly. The total proposed bud- get for the little library for the next fiscal year, which starts in July, comes to nearly $267,000. The levy is expected to bring in an esti- mated $933,773 over the next five years. For comparison, the Asto- ria Library, staffed by Direc- tor Jimmy Pearson, two full- time senior librarian assistants and several part-time library assistants, will operate with a general budget of $531,275 this next fiscal year, with the addition of $108,000 of capi- tal improvement fund money. The Seaside Public Library, with more than 3,000 regis- tered patrons, has a budget of nearly $690,000 this fiscal year. Warrenton’s library oper- ated out of a small building on Pacific Drive in Hammond for years until an inspection revealed the structure was in critical condition. The library relocated in 2017, leasing a building downtown from the Warrenton School District, a move that displaced the Ser- endipity Caffe and Bakery. At the time, the move caused some consternation in the community, but the library has only seen library card sign-ups and use increase at the new location. “I guess the question is: At some point in the future is it something the city may be interested in purchasing?” Engbretson said. Right now, the answer is unknown. The City Commission still needs to determine what it wants to do with the old Hammond building. For now, Engbretson is interested to see what a year really looks like with the increased levy funds in place. Beyond adding hours of oper- ation, Calog hopes to make the library more of a commu- nity space and offer evening programs. If the library lands a grant to automate services — add- ing bar codes to materials and a computer system to track checkouts and returns, T HURSDAY E VENING (2) (-) (-) (6) (-) (8) (9) (10) (12) (13) (-) (20) (-) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) L KATU KOMO KING KOIN KIRO KGW KRCW KOPB KPTV KPDX KCPQ TBS KZJO ESPN ESPN2 NICK DISN FAM FMC LIFE ROOT FS1 SPIKE COM HIST A&E TLC DISC NGEO TNT AMC USA FOOD HGTV FX CNN FNC CNBC BRAV TCM SYFY RFD (2) (4) (5) (-) (7) (-) (3) (10) (12) (-) (13) (20) (22) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) 6 PM McGrath said American Cruise Lines has been up front about its responsibility. “I’m confident they’ll pay,” said Jim Knight, the Port’s executive director. The Port Commission on Tuesday approved spending up to $25,000 for engineer- ing consultant BergerABAM to provide a more detailed assessment of the damage to Pier 2 and recommend repairs or replacements. The Port had started a similar investigation in 2014 after the bulk carrier Global Endeavor ran into the north- west corner of Pier 1 while coming in to load logs. The Port was unable to get any recompense because it could not prove the condition of the dock prior to the collision. “We can go over and see snapped piling (from the Queen of the West) on Pier 2 really easily,” McGrath said. SCHEDULE THE DAILY ASTORIAN A among other benefits — there will be more money to work with. Warrenton went out for the grant with Seaside Public Library. Calog and Engbret- son expect to hear back about the grant’s status by early June at the latest. Engbretson said they are optimistic they will get the grant, but would still be able to do some auto- mation even without it. Mayor Henry Balensifer said he was excited about the library’s more robust budget, and satisfied by how Calog plans to use the money. But, he told her, “I want to keep this in perspective.” “I know you said you’ve been used to a shoestring bud- get, but looking at this budget, it’s still a shoestring,” he said. “It’s just a nicer shoestring.” cent between 2014 and 2018. Meanwhile, participation among nonaffiliated voters decreased significantly from 2014 to 2018 — from 20.3 percent to 13.6 percent. That’s likely prompted by a recent influx of nonaffili- ated voters who were regis- tered through the state’s new automatic voter registration law, which went into effect in early 2016. That means that Orego- nians who have a qualify- ing interaction at the Depart- ment of Motor Vehicles are now automatically registered to vote. During that process, they can either opt out of reg- istration, select a political party, or do nothing and be automatically registered as a nonaffiliated voter. The resulting growth in the number of registered vot- ers, in turn, could also have depressed overall turnout numbers in an off-year elec- tion. In 2014, 35.9 percent of registered voters cast a bal- lot; in 2010, 41.6 percent; and in 2006, 38.6 percent. “I would hesitate to make any assertions about tra- jectory of turnout, because we have added in Oregon Motor Voter registrants,” Gronke said, “And so they will almost by definition pull down our overall turnout numbers, for good reason: we’ve added people into the registration system that were previously sort of detached from the political system.” “It’s sort of bouncing around,” said Gronke of turn- out, “So this does look like a low point, but it’s going to be 2020 until we’ll really be able to tell.” The Port also has leverage because American Cruise Lines often requests berthing space at the Port, McGrath said. The Port Commission also approved approximately $23,000 in reimbursements to Bornstein Seafoods for work the company paid for under the Pier 2 seafood pro- cessing warehouse. The com- pany faced a freezer sinking into a void under Pier 2 and hired Bergeman Construc- tion to insert helical piers for support. The Port did not have the specialized equip- ment or know-how to insert the piers under the building’s foundation, McGrath said. The reimbursement to Bornstein can be included in pending claims the Port has with the Federal Emer- gency Management Agency. because storms in Decem- ber 2015 contributed to the damage under the building’s foundation, Knight said. Evening listings THURSDAY M AY 17 A - Charter Astoria/ Seaside - L - Charter Long Beach 6:30 7 PM 7:30 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30 Jeopardy! 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