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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
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John Parkin Meece
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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.
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ASTORIA
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Precipitation
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Month to date ................................... 2.30"
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TUESDAY
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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
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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.
Astoria City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 1095 Duane St.
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