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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2018
house, 1204 Ivy Ave., Tillamook, $5.
Astoria Music Festival All-Stars Classi-
cal Jam, 7:30 p.m., Liberty Theatre, 1203
Commercial St., Astoria, $15, $25, $35.
Astoria Music Festival All-Bach, 7:30
p.m., Liberty Theatre, 1203 Commercial
St., Astoria, $20, $35, $45.
“Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes
Mystery,” 7:30 p.m., Coaster Theatre, 108
Hemlock St., Cannon Beach, $20 to $25,
rated PG.
“Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes
Mystery,” 7:30 p.m., Coaster Theatre, 108
Hemlock St., Cannon Beach, $20 to $25,
rated PG.
Chris McNeary, folk, 7:30 p.m.,
WineKraft, 80 10th St., Astoria, no cover,
21+.
FRIDAY
Plein Air & More Arts Festival, 10 a.m.,
on location throughout Cannon Beach.
* Jeff Evans’ Magic Show, 2 p.m., South
Bend Library, 1216 First St., South Bend,
Wash.
SUNDAY
Luke Winslow-King, blues, 8:30 p.m.,
Adrift Hotel, 409 Sid Snyder Drive, Long
Beach, Wash., no cover.
Hickory Mertsching Artist Demon-
stration, 11 a.m., RiverSea Gallery, 1160
Commercial St., Astoria.
SATURDAY
Plein Air & More Arts Festival, 11 a.m.,
on location throughout Cannon Beach.
Plein Air & More Arts Festival, 10 a.m.,
on location throughout Cannon Beach.
* Reptile Man Richard Ritchey, 3
p.m., Hoffman Center, 594 Laneda Ave.,
Manzanita.
Northwest By Northwest Gallery
* “King Arthur’s Quest,” 2 p.m., NCRD
Performing Arts Center, 36155 9th St.,
Nehalem.
* “King Arthur’s Quest,” 7 p.m., NCRD
Performing Arts Center, 36155 9th St.,
Nehalem.
Plein Air & More is an interactive, three-day arts festival featuring
artists who create art outdoors in Cannon Beach, on the beach and
in galleries. Festival artist Hazel Schlesinger will demonstrate ‘en
plein air’ painting at Northwest By Northwest Gallery.
Astoria Music Festival Sergey’s Happy
Hour, 4 p.m., Liberty Theatre, 1203
Commercial St., Astoria, $20.
Resolectrics, blues, 7 p.m., McMenam-
ins Sand Trap, 1157 Marion Ave., Gear-
hart, no cover.
Bar-K Buckaroos, country, 6 p.m.,
Public Coast Brewing Co., 264 Third St.,
Cannon Beach, no cover.
* Starlite Children’s Academy “After
Hours,” 7 p.m., Barn Community Play-
house, 1204 Ivy Ave., Tillamook, $5.
* Great American Trainwreck, country,
7 p.m., Confluence Project Amphithe-
ater, 244 Robert Gray Drive, Ilwaco,
Barbie G, folk, 7 p.m., WineKraft, 80 10th
St., Astoria, no cover, 21+.
ON THE RECORD
Naomi Hooley & Rob Stroup, blues, 7
p.m., Peninsula Arts Center, 504 Pacific
Ave., Long Beach, Wash., $15.
* Starlite Children’s Academy “After
Hours,” 7 p.m., Barn Community Play-
* Pacific Northwest Pro Wrestling, 5
p.m., The Armory, 1636 Exchange St.,
Astoria, $10.
Resolectrics, rock, 8 p.m., Fort George
Brewery, 1483 Duane St., Astoria, no
cover.
The Hackles, folk, 8 p.m., Adrift Hotel,
409 Sid Snyder Drive, Long Beach, Wash.,
no cover.
* Recommended for kids.
Ban on food taxes would
be a first in the nation
Office on the 84300 block of Nordmark
Drive in Seaside and charged with assault-
ing a public safety officer, resisting arrest
and interfering with making a police report.
A sheriff’s deputy was trying to arrest Rich-
creek on a warrant before he allegedly
resisted. The deputy threatened to use a stun
gun before two other officers arrived. A scuf-
fle then allegedly ensued before Richcreek
was arrested.
DUII
• At 2:08 a.m. Thursday, Hoang N. Phan,
23, of Portland, was arrested by Astoria
police on Second Street near the Astoria Riv-
erwalk and charged with driving under the
influence of intoxicants.
Assault
• At 8:12 p.m. Wednesday, Nathan-
iel Eugene Richcreek, 39, of Seaside, was
arrested by the Clatsop County Sheriff’s
Wash., no cover.
Billy Stoops & the Dirt Angels, 7 p.m.,
The Birk, 11139 Hwy. 202, Birkenfeld,
$10.
Astoria Music Festival Puccini’s Tosca,
4 p.m., Liberty Theatre, 1203 Commercial
St., Astoria, $30, $65, $85.
Voters to decide
in November
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
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Baker
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Ontario
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Burns
47/81
Klamath Falls
45/83
Lakeview
44/82
Ashland
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Tonight's Sky: Summer arrives at 3:07 a.m., which
is the moment of the summer solstice here in the
Northern Hemisphere.
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Roseburg
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Brookings
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July 19
John Day
52/81
Bend
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Medford
55/86
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High
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Prineville
49/82
Lebanon
54/77
Eugene
50/77
New
Pendleton
59/84
The Dalles
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Portland
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Sunset tonight ........................... 9:11 p.m.
Sunrise Friday ............................. 5:24 a.m.
Moonrise today .......................... 2:43 p.m.
Moonset today ............................ 2:06 a.m.
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New York
Oklahoma City
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10:11 p.m.
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Month to date ................................... 2.31"
Normal month to date ....................... 1.92"
Year to date .................................... 35.45"
Normal year to date ........................ 35.28"
June 27
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Astoria through Wednesday.
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Normal high/low ........................... 64°/51°
Record high ............................ 86° in 1902
Record low ............................. 42° in 1947
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EO Media Group
A measure to ban taxes on everything related to the sale
and distribution of food that has qualified for the Novem-
ber ballot would be a first in the nation.
a legal analysis conducted by
Portland law firm Stoll Berne
for Our Oregon.
Other taxes that could be
repealed under the constitu-
tional amendment include the
fuel tax, which pays for roads,
local restaurant taxes and por-
tions of a hospital provider tax
voters approved in January to
maintain the state’s Medicaid
program.
Proponents have cast the
measure as a way to prevent
additional costs to low-income
families and seniors on limited
budgets.
Mary King, professor of
economics emerita at Portland
State University, said the ballot
measure is “a massive, unprec-
edented carve-out for some of
the biggest retailers in the world
that will apply to far more than
just the food they sell.”
Backers of the proposal
have acknowledged that the
measure still allows taxes on
other basic necessities such as
diapers, medicine and feminine
hygiene products, yet restau-
rant food would not be taxed.
Proponents argue restaurant
food could still be taxed.
Johnson, Witt dinged by fellow Democrats
By DIRK VANDERHART
Oregon Public Broadcasting
In 2016, two Democratic
state legislators took a rare
step: They endorsed a Repub-
lican opponent in a competi-
tive statewide race.
State Sen. Betsy Johnson,
D-Scappoose, and Rep. Brad
Witt, D-Clatskanie, supported
Dennis Richardson in his suc-
cessful bid for secretary of
state against Democrat Brad
Avakian. Nearly two years
later, their party has exacted its
revenge — sort of.
In a rare move earlier this
month, the central committee
of the Democratic Party of Ore-
gon voted to eject both Johnson
and Witt from the party’s exec-
utive committee, citing the law-
makers’ support of Richardson.
In practical terms, it’s a
pretty minor move. By virtue
of being elected, every Dem-
ocratic legislator in the state
automatically gets a seat on
the party’s executive commit-
tee. As such, they have sway
over appointing a party trea-
surer, among other things.
But few legislators par-
ticipate in the committee —
including Johnson and Witt.
“If you called most elected
legislators, they wouldn’t know
that they belonged to the exec-
utive committee,” Johnson, the
Senate’s most prominent mod-
erate Democrat, told OPB. “I’ve
been to exactly zero meetings.”
Still, the lawmakers were
surprised to hear earlier this
month they’d been voted off
the committee. They figured
their support for Richardson
was in the past.
Both said they learned
about the vote from party
chairwoman Jeanne Atkins on
June 11, the day after the vote.
“I was dumbstruck that
anybody cares about this,”
Johnson said.
“This has obviously been
a burr under somebody’s sad-
dle for almost two years now,”
Witt said. “I don’t know who
it is who has the problem and
what problem they have with
what I said.”
MEMORIALS
Friday, June 22
JONES, Lola Essiemae — Viewing from 5
to 7 p.m., Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary,
1165 Franklin Ave.
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy,
sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
sn-snow, i-ice.
CLATSOP
POWER
EQUIPMENT , INC.
SALES SERVICE RENTALS
•
A corporate-funded ballot
measure that would block taxes
on junk food and sugary drinks
and freeze the state’s corporate
minimum tax for certain com-
panies has qualified for the
November ballot.
Measure 103 would amend
the Oregon Constitution and set
a national precedent by barring
all taxes on the sale or distribu-
tion of groceries.
Large grocery chains —
Kroger, Albertsons, Safeway
and Costco — and others have
contributed about $2.5 million
to the political action commit-
tee attempting to make the con-
stitutional change.
The ballot measure would
prevent implementation of a
Multnomah County tax on
sodas and other sugary drinks.
It could even repeal the state’s
bottle deposit fee, which is
meant to encourage recycling
of spent beverage containers
and other taxes, according to
•
PUBLIC MEETINGS
THURSDAY
Seaside Transportation Advisory Commission, 6 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway.
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