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2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2018 Vancouver port to pay $500K to settle open meetings lawsuit Marijuana growers in southern Oregon prevail in appeals court By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM — The Oregon Court of Appeals rejected an appeal by county commission- ers in a prime marijuana-grow- ing part of the state to put back in place their restrictions on commercial pot production. The appeals court’s dis- missal without comment Wednesday of the Josephine County commissioners’ case marks the latest step in the struggle between the coun- ty’s political leaders to tamp down the proliferating mari- juana business, and growers trying to protect their busi- nesses and investments. In December, the county commission passed an ordi- nance banning commercial pot farming on smaller rural residential lots and reducing larger grow sites. Ross Day, attorney for the marijuana farmers, said the county’s appeal to the court was frivolous. “Hopefully the county gets the message that it acted illegally when it adopted the ordinance,” Day said after the appeals court made its ruling. The commissioners were appealing a ruling by the state Land Use Board of Appeals, or LUBA, that put their restrictions on marijuana pro- duction on hold. LUBA said the county had failed to prop- erly notify land owners. Wally Hicks, attorney for the county, said the ruling is a setback for the county’s effort to protect property owners. “Some participants in the marijuana industry have been abundantly clear that they will challenge any mean- ingful regulation the county introduces. Thus, regard- less of which way the Court of Appeals ruled, the matter has always been destined for a return trip to LUBA,” Hicks said in an email. Members of the commis- sion in the southern Oregon county have called pot farms a nuisance. Voters in the state legalized marijuana with a 2014 ballot measure, prompt- ing a “green rush” as pot entre- preneurs set up shop in the fer- tile, rainy mountainous area. Pete Gendron, a marijuana grower in Josephine County and president of the Oregon SunGrowers’ Guild advocacy group, has pointed out that growers have invested large sums to start operations and said they were shocked when the county tried to restrict them. One grower had a letter from the county dating back a year or more stating that can- nabis cultivation was farm use and was allowed, and he invested a half-million dollars because of those assurances, Gendron said. In a sign of how bitter the dispute has become, the county commission filed a lawsuit in federal court, con- tending that the state can- not dictate marijuana regula- tions over county restrictions because weed remains illegal under the federal Controlled Substances Act. The pending lawsuit calls on the federal court in Med- ford to declare that two bal- lot measures in 1998 and 2014 that legalized medical and recreational marijuana, respectively, are pre-empted by federal law. Oregon Senior Assistant Attorney General Carla Scott has argued the lawsuit should be dismissed. “A political subdivi- sion of a state such as Jose- phine County lacks stand- ing to challenge a state law in federal court on suprem- acy grounds,” Scott recently wrote in a filing in the case, the Daily Courier newspaper of Grants Pass reported. Associated Press VANCOUVER, Wash. — The Port of Vancouver has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a lawsuit over open meetings laws that the port admitted to violating while commissioners debated a lease for an oil terminal. The Columbian reported Thursday that the payment SATURDAY SUNDAY 70 53 50 ALMANAC John Parkin Meece Canby March 28, 1927 — April 30, 2018 Pleasant with sunshine and patchy clouds Nice with sunshine and patchy clouds Full Last June 27 Salem 51/79 Newport 50/63 Coos Bay 53/67 New July 6 Prineville 42/73 Lebanon 49/77 Kaye Mulvey Baker 41/68 Seaview, Washington Jan. 25, 1926 — May 23, 2018 Ontario 52/80 Bend 41/69 Medford 51/78 July 12 John Day 45/69 Burns 40/68 Klamath Falls 39/71 Lakeview 41/66 Ashland 50/76 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 UNDER THE SKY Source: Jim Todd, OMSI TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 10:29 a.m. 10:30 p.m. Low -1.7 ft. 2.3 ft. REGIONAL CITIES City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend Hi 75 72 67 72 63 76 78 72 62 65 Today Lo 41 41 51 47 51 39 51 48 50 52 W pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc Hi 68 69 68 75 67 71 78 78 63 66 Sat. 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John Parkin Meece died April 30, 2018, at ing a vegetable garden were lifelong hobbies, Marquis Hope Village in Canby, Oregon. He along with being a Beaver, Denver Broncos and Portland Trail Blazers fan. He was a mem- was 91. Meece, second son of James Charles and ber of the Elks Lodge in Aurora, Colorado, and the Spokane, Multnomah Ath- Joyce Parkin Meece, was born letic, and Astoria Golf and Country March 28, 1927, in Portland. He clubs. attended Ainsworth and Lincoln As an active, fit 70-year-old, Jack schools. had a massive stroke which left his Jack was active in scouting and right side paralyzed. Proving doctors was a Sea Scout; when the older wrong with months of hard work boys went to war, he served as an and Dorothy’s support, he walked unusually young quartermaster. again with a foot brace and cane. He Graduating early to join the Navy, lived almost independently, tending Jack completed basic training in San his garden for another 20 years. Diego, just as the war ended. He John Meece Jack is survived by daughters, attended Oregon State College and Peggy (Dan) Sigler and Judy (Craig) was a Delta Tau Delta. Daufel of Canby; grandchildren, In 1950, Jack married Dorothy Joyce Sharpe; they were married just shy of Ben (Tiah) and Nick (Katie) Sigler of Canby, 60 years when Dorothy died in 2010. With a and Ali (Conor) Baranski of Sandpoint, Idaho; degree in industrial engineering, Jack spent 35 and seven great-grandchildren. He was pre- years with ESCO Corp., mostly in outside sales ceded in death by his wife, Dorothy, brother, Jim, and great-granddaughter, Talia. in the Portland, Denver and Spokane offices. There will be a family service at Willa- After retiring, he and Dorothy owned Arch Cape Deli & Grocery on the Oregon Coast in mette National Cemetery. Our sincere thanks the 1980s, moved to Warrenton in the 1990s, to Canby Adult Center’s Meals on Wheels, the Canby Fire Department, and his longtime care- and to Canby in 2003. An avid outdoorsman, Jack had a passion giver, Anna, for the care and support provided for swimming, snow skiing, boating, fish- to Jack through the years. Donations may be made in Jack’s memory ing, hunting, clamming, crabbing, golfing and even windsurfing. Outside chores and tend- to the Canby Adult Center Meals on Wheels. La Grande 46/67 Roseburg 52/78 Brookings 52/72 Tonight's Sky: Vega, of Lyra, is the brightest star of the Summer Triangle, which is in view all night. Today Hi Lo 92 73 65 59 88 74 92 61 95 76 83 65 98 71 63 47 87 74 88 68 94 75 102 78 78 60 94 76 88 76 94 70 87 73 76 62 92 73 80 61 95 77 88 62 69 57 70 54 84 65 Pendleton 49/74 The Dalles 57/81 Portland 55/79 Eugene 47/75 Sunset tonight ........................... 9:09 p.m. Sunrise Saturday ........................ 5:23 a.m. Moonrise today ........................... 7:34 a.m. Moonset today ......................... 11:10 p.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 72 57 Tillamook 50/70 SUN AND MOON High 9.7 ft. 8.0 ft. 73 55 Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 50/70 Precipitation Thursday .......................................... 0.04" Month to date ................................... 2.30" Normal month to date ....................... 1.40" Year to date .................................... 35.44" Normal year to date ........................ 34.76" Time 3:19 a.m. 5:00 p.m. Partly sunny and comfortable TUESDAY REGIONAL WEATHER Astoria through Thursday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 63°/50° Normal high/low ........................... 64°/50° Record high ............................ 86° in 1914 Record low ............................. 42° in 1949 June 20 74 55 Mostly sunny and beautiful Partly cloudy First MONDAY agreed the port would admit to violating the Washing- ton Open Public Meetings Act during executive session meetings. The resolution came after a 2017 state Supreme Court ruling that found the port went too far during execu- tive sessions when discussing the minimum price for a real estate lease. OBITUARIES FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT will cover court costs and fees incurred by Columbia Riverkeeper, Sierra Club and Northwest Environmental Defense Center. The groups sued the port district in 2013 after its gov- erning board held closed-door meetings to discuss lease pric- ing for the then-proposed Van- couver Energy oil terminal. In March, the parties Katrina Kay “Kaye” Mulvey died peace- Kaye was known in her family as the “Ener- fully in the presence of her children on May gizer Bunny,” always on the go. She was hap- 23, 2018. She was the youngest of four children pily involved with many organizations and groups on the peninsula, including St. Peter’s born and raised in Powers, Oregon. Episcopal Church, the Mentor Club, Kaye graduated from Oregon Herbert Zahl Foundation, Columbia State College with a business degree, Pacific Heritage Museum, and sev- and went to work for Crown Zeller- bach in Portland, Oregon. She moved eral others, and was a founding orga- nizer of the American Field Service to Kelso, Washington, and had three at Ilwaco High School. children with her first husband, James A close friend described her as, Tregaskis. They divorced in 1969. “Eternally elegant, Kaye with an Kaye moved to the Long Beach ‘e.’” Peninsula in 1971, where she mar- ried Charles Mulvey. Together, they Kaye is survived by her three chil- dren, Scott (Linda) Tregaskis, Ann raised a blended family in Seaview, Kaye Mulvey (Paul) Norman and Patricia (Tim) Washington. Kaye and Charles suc- cessfully ran the Charles Mulvey Bolen; stepchildren, Mary Mulvey, Jane (Gary) Young, Alice (Steve) Gallery (The Sea Chest) for 30 years Flaherty, Laura (Kent) Bell, Shannon (Doug) until Charles’ death in 2001. While on vacation in the Palm Springs area, Tetz and Matthew Mulvey; 14 grandchildren; she met Leslie “Les” Cowan of Seattle, Wash- and 20 great-grandchildren. ington. They were married, and resided in In lieu of flowers, the family suggests a memorial donation to the Columbia Pacific Her- Seaview until Les’ death in 2013. Kaye was a talented lady who was loved itage Museum, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, or by her family and her friends and the penin- a favored charity of your choosing. sula. She loved us all in return, and never knew Friends and family are welcome to Kaye’s a stranger. Kaye was a fabulous cook, and a memorial service, which will be held at 1 p.m., remarkable hostess, who enjoyed planning par- June 16, 2018, at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church ties. She was passionate about her flower gar- (Peninsula Church Center), 5000 N Place, dens — it was a common occurrence for strang- Seaview, Washington. A reception to celebrate ers to stop at the house to take photographs of her life will be from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Heritage Museum, Ilwaco, Washington. the colorful blooms. DEATH June 10, 2018 DODGE, Donald A., 62, of Bay City, formerly of Warrenton, died at home. Waud’s Funeral Home in Tillamook is in charge of the arrangements. PUBLIC MEETINGS MONDAY Knappa School Board, 6 p.m., Knappa High School library, 41535 Old U.S. Highway 30. 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