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2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2018 How do you think people should commemorate Memorial Day? “Watch John Wayne movies.” “I think everyone has someone special to them that has been affected in some way by war or the armed forces … so I think that it’s important for everyone during that day to maybe take a little extra time just to appreciate what these people have done.” THE DAILY ASTORIAN // QUESTION OF THE WEEK “We have Remem- brance Day, for vet- erans of World War I and stuff. We wear little plastic poppies on our chest and listen to ceremony speakers.” Marshall Lancaster, Astoria Tony Hau, Vancouver, British Columbia Nick Wright, Seaside Job growth slowing, but unemployment at record low By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau April unemployment hovers above 4 percent in county SALEM — A preliminary jobs report released by the state last week showed that Oregon lost about 2,900 non- farm jobs in April, the first time Oregon has had a net job loss in 16 months. But jobs have grown steadily over the past year, and a month of job losses is typical even in years where the econ- omy is expanding, state econo- mists say. The state’s job growth rate over the past year — April 2017 to April 2018 — was 1.6 percent. “That’s fine and a good rate of growth,” state employment economist Nick Beleiciks told lawmakers Tuesday. “But it has slowed and a lot of econo- mists think that has to do with a shortage of workers avail- able to take the jobs that are out there.” Employers said that in 2017, about 64 percent of their job vacancies were “difficult to The Daily Astorian Unemployment in Clat- sop County remained just above 4 percent in April, according to the state Employment Department. The county’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate, accounting for peaks in summer and valleys in winter, was 4.1 percent, the same as March and slightly higher than the year prior. Employment has peaked in EO Media Group Oregon state economists say statewide unemploy- ment is at a record low and that employers are report- ing that it’s difficult to fill vacancies. fill,” according to the Oregon Employment Department. The current job growth rate matches the national job growth rate, but it has certainly slowed from 2015, when Ore- gon was adding jobs at a rate of 3.7 percent. Job growth isn’t uniform throughout the state. Beleiciks said it’s driven by the Portland and Bend areas, the Rogue Val- ley and Lane County, where new job creation outpaces that of rural areas. In rural areas, a comparatively greater share of openings are due to vacan- cies in existing jobs rather than many Oregon counties over the past year. Clatsop County added 410 jobs in April, 140 fewer than expected. Lei- sure and hospitality added 280 jobs; professional and business services 100; and manufacturing and con- struction 30. Trade, trans- portation and utilities cut 40 jobs. The county added 360 jobs over the past year for a 2 percent growth rate in new positions. The construction, lei- sure and hospitality sectors added the most jobs in April, according to the employment department. Going forward, health care, construction and professional and business services are employment. Industries adding the most jobs were construction (140); and lei- sure and hospitality (110). Retail was down 70 jobs over the past year. Columbia County’s sea- sonally adjusted unemploy- ment rate was 5 percent in April, up slightly from last month and last year. Til- lamook County’s was 4.3 percent, the same as last month and up slightly from a year ago. expected to grow at the highest rate through 2027, according to draft projections that don’t include job replacement open- ings or self-employment. About 72 percent of jobs added in the state last year paid more than the state’s average wage of $51,132 per year. Because average pay is only growing at the rate of inflation, the state isn’t seeing “real wage gains” right now, Beleiciks said. While the post-recession recovery of jobs lost and job growth has been uneven geo- graphically, Oregon’s rural counties are still perform- ing better in terms of employ- ment than they have in recent memory. Oregon’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is at its lowest point — 4.1 per- cent — since 1976, the earli- est year for which comparable records exist, Beleiciks said. “Some areas of the state, like Grant County has the highest unemployment rate, 7.2 percent, as of April,” Bele- iciks said. “ … (That) is really high, but for Grant County, since 1990, that’s actually really close, if not the record low unemployment rate, for that area.” The Capital Bureau is a collaboration between EO Media Group and Pamplin Media Group. Peninsula community grieves for Willapa Bay crabber ing with a salvage team and the vessel’s insurer to try to locate the Kelli J using sonar, Read said. The second-largest estu- ary on the Pacific Coast, Wil- lapa Bay covers more than 260 square miles and is laced with channels up to 80 feet deep at low tide. An intense search started Saturday when Soule’s wife, Heather, reported him overdue at noon from pulling crab pots. The Coast Guard launched air and surface assets, covering a grid of more than 580 square nautical miles, both in the bay and well out into the nearby Pacific Ocean, where the boat might have been swept by the current. By Sunday morning, Chinook Observer NAHCOTTA, Wash. — The disappearance of Nahcot- ta-based crab boat Kelli J and the young father alone at its helm in a mishap on Willapa Bay on Saturday sent the Long Beach Peninsula and the wider West Coast fishing community into mourning. The search for Kevin Soule and his sunken ves- sel was still underway Tues- day, a Coast Guard spokes- man said. Reports on Sunday that the 43-foot fiberglass hull had been found between Oys- terville and Bay Center proved erroneous, Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read said Tuesday. The Coast Guard is work- searchers had found an oil slick and debris associated with the Kelli J. At 12:33 p.m. Sunday — about a full day after the presumed mishap — the Coast Guard suspended its search. Although the Dungeness crab fishery is infamously prone to deaths and injuries, Soule’s friends and neighbors were shocked as news spread that he may have lost his life. Crab season is winding down and marine conditions were benign Saturday. Struggling to make sense of what happened, other boat operators on the bay sug- gested Soule’s vessel may have overturned in the process of winching up a stuck crab pot. However, there is no indi- FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 64 53 55 Low clouds 61 50 Partly sunny Mostly sunny 62 52 Mostly cloudy Kevin Soule is pictured sorting crab aboard his vessel, the Kelli J. are a well-known multigener- ational fishing family on the bay. Kevin’s parents are Ernie and Bonnie Soule of Nah- cotta. His only sibling, Bran- don, died in 2015 at age 34. DEATH SUNDAY 60 49 cation that mandatory auto- matic safety gear deployed, including an EPIRB beacon that is supposed to send out a location signal when it hits the water. Hundreds of condolences, prayers and offers of help were registered on social media in the days following Soule’s disappearance. “Kevin was an honest good dude, he didn’t deserve this,” his friend Ross Kary wrote. “He loved his daughters and family. I pray for closure for his family.” Kevin Soule is married to Heather Unruh Soule, man- ager of Long Beach KeyBank. The couple have two daugh- ters, ages 10 and 6. The Soules Cloudy May 22, 2018 OLSON, Walter “Pokey,” 72, of Warrenton, died in Warrenton. Ocean View Funeral & Crema- tion Service of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements. MEMORIAL ALMANAC Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 55/64 Astoria through Tuesday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 71°/44° Normal high/low ........................... 61°/47° Record high ............................ 88° in 1941 Record low ............................. 37° in 1960 Tillamook 52/64 Salem 53/76 Newport 52/61 Sunset tonight ........................... 8:50 p.m. Sunrise Thursday ........................ 5:34 a.m. Moonrise today .......................... 2:35 p.m. Moonset today ............................ 3:05 a.m. May 29 New June 6 Coos Bay 54/64 First June 13 Source: Jim Todd, OMSI TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 4:17 a.m. 4:27 p.m. Low 1.6 ft. 0.8 ft. Hi 80 81 77 81 89 81 94 64 84 82 88 92 69 87 84 88 91 80 85 81 86 77 64 80 82 Today Lo 69 55 54 52 69 57 64 46 74 60 67 70 58 70 73 66 72 61 66 62 66 60 54 55 63 Baker 53/77 May 2, 2018 JOHNS, Erin, of Astoria, a boy, Kage Michael Johns, born at Columbia Memorial Ontario 58/84 Burns 45/76 Lakeview 42/72 Ashland 58/78 REGIONAL CITIES City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend W t s pc pc c s s c s pc pc s pc pc c pc t s c s pc pc pc pc pc Hi 81 66 85 82 89 84 97 56 84 85 87 94 69 89 85 89 88 80 87 82 88 85 65 71 84 Thu. Lo 67 56 61 54 70 58 67 41 74 61 70 71 55 69 71 66 72 61 66 60 67 60 55 54 63 Hi 75 77 58 74 60 71 81 76 59 61 Today Lo 53 53 50 51 55 45 58 54 52 55 W pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc Hi 77 76 58 74 61 73 79 75 61 63 Thu. Lo 52 53 50 52 53 49 58 52 52 55 W t t c pc pc pc t pc pc pc City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Springfi eld Vancouver Yakima Hi 76 87 80 76 79 62 82 74 78 91 Today Lo 52 62 58 57 53 54 59 53 56 60 W pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc Hi 72 84 78 77 76 63 81 74 75 90 Thu. Lo 50 57 56 57 55 52 59 53 53 58 W pc t pc t pc pc pc pc pc pc Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W t s pc s pc s s sh s s pc s pc pc t s t s pc s s s pc pc s Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. Hospital in Astoria. Grandpar- ents are Mindy Riva of Astoria and Harry Johns Jr. of Nampa, Idaho. Great-grandparents are Kathy Riva and Jeanne Johns of Astoria. Great-great- grandmother is Joana Johns of Warrenton. PUBLIC MEETINGS Klamath Falls 45/73 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 BIRTH Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 Tonight's Sky: Vega, Altair and Deneb of the Sum- mer Triangle emerge from the eastern horizon after 10:30 p.m. High 7.1 ft. 8.6 ft. La Grande 54/76 Roseburg 57/77 Brookings 51/60 June 20 John Day 56/79 Bend 53/76 Medford 58/79 UNDER THE SKY Time 10:08 a.m. 10:50 p.m. Prineville 54/79 Lebanon 54/75 Eugene 51/74 SUN AND MOON Last Pendleton 62/84 The Dalles 63/88 Portland 58/78 Precipitation Tuesday ............................................ Trace Month to date ................................... 0.42" Normal month to date ....................... 2.42" Year to date .................................... 33.12" Normal year to date ........................ 32.46" Full Saturday, May 26 YANAGAWA, Sonja Marie — Burial at 1 p.m., Ocean View Cemetery, 575 18th St. in Warren- ton, followed by a celebration of life at the Warrenton Community Center, 170 S.W. Third St. in Warrenton. REGIONAL WEATHER WEDNESDAY Cannon Beach Budget Com- mittee, 5:30 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. Clatsop County Board of Commissioners, 6 p.m., Judge Guy Boyington Building, 857 Commercial St. THURSDAY Sunset Empire Transportation District Board, 9 a.m., Astoria Transit Center Conference Room, 900 Marine Drive. Port of Astoria Budget Com- mittee, noon, Port offices, 10 Pier 1, Suite 209. Jewell School Board, 4 p.m., special meeting, Jewell School library, 83874 Oregon Highway 103. Cannon Beach Planning Com- mission, 6 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. Tuesday’s Lucky Lines: 04-06- 11-16-18-24-26-32 Estimated jackpot: $25,000 Tuesday’s Mega Millions: 16- 17-21-36-48, Mega Ball: 9 Estimated jackpot: $73 million WASHINGTON Tuesday’s Daily Game: 6-2-9 Tuesday’s Keno: 10-13-19-20- 23-28-37-40-41-44-47-54-57- 59-63-65-66-71-72-80 Tuesday’s Match 4: 04-12-19-22 LOTTERIES OREGON Tuesday’s Pick 4: 1 p.m.: 9-3-5-7 4 p.m.: 0-8-9-8 7 p.m.: 8-5-2-1 10 p.m.: 2-0-9-7 The Daily Astorian Established July 1, 1873 (USPS 035-000) Published daily, except Saturday and Sunday, by EO Media Group, 949 Exchange St., PO Box 210, Astoria, OR 97103 Telephone 503- 325-3211, 800-781-3211 or Fax 503-325-6573. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Daily Astorian, PO Box 210, Astoria, OR 97103-0210 www.dailyastorian.com MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news printed in this newspaper. 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