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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JULY 2, 2018
Standing together
Violence erupts in Portland
after right-wing activists march
Associated Press and
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Kathleen Zunkel was among hundreds who came out
on Saturday in Astoria to protest immigrant family
separations under the Trump administration. Similar
demonstrations were held across the country.
Oregon workers get
minimum wage hike
Straws banned
in Seattle
Associated Press
SALEM — Oregon
workers are getting a bump
in the minimum wage but
will also pay a new statewide
transit tax.
Workers in the Portland
area on Sunday saw the min-
imum wage jump to $12 per
hour, or a 75-cent increase.
Workers in Clatsop County
and others under the stan-
dard rate moved up 50 cents
to $10.75, while more rural
parts of the state got a 50 cent
increase to $10.50.
The Legislature in 2016
approved a set of increases
in the minimum wage until
2022, when the wage will be
tied to inflation.
Oregon workers will now
also pay a transit tax. The
tax is .001 percent — $1 per
$1,000 — and employers
will withhold the tax from
workers’ wages.
That tax took effect Sun-
day. It pays for public trans-
portation
projects
and
improvements statewide.
A new law in Seat-
tle, meanwhile, bans plas-
tic straws and utensils at
businesses.
The
Seattle
Times
reported that it’s believed to
be the first major U.S. city to
ban single-use plastic straws
and utensils in food service.
Seattle Public Utilities
says a 2008 ordinance has
phased out various plas-
tic products from the food
industry. Businesses can use
compostable utensils, straws
and cocktail picks.
Advocates say plastic
items can’t be recycled and
many single-use plastics end
up in the ocean, polluting the
water and harming sea life.
Businesses that don’t
comply may face a fine of up
to $250.
PORTLAND — Violent
skirmishes erupted in Portland
Saturday between a right-wing
group and anti-fascists who
have previously clashed across
the Pacific Northwest, leading
to injuries and arrests.
Four people were taken to
hospitals, including one who
suffered serious injuries during
what Portland Police declared
a riot. One officer was also
hurt after being struck by a
projectile, police said.
The skirmishes that broke
out Saturday afternoon were
not related to peaceful ral-
lies held earlier in the day as
several thousand took part
of a nationwide movement
to protest President Donald
Trump’s immigration policies,
KGW-TV reported.
The Patriot Prayer, a Van-
couver,
Washington-based
group, had a permit for a
march and a 4 p.m. rally in
a downtown Portland park.
Organizers said the event was
to demonstrate for free speech
and freedom.
The group has organized
similar pro-President Donald
Trump rallies in Seattle, Port-
land and other cities that have
drawn demonstrators, coun-
terprotesters and the so-called
“antifa” movement aimed at
stopping them. Police have
struggled to keep the peace at
Mark Graves/The Oregonian
Joey Gibson, left, of Vancouver-based Patriot Prayer, leads
a rally in downtown Portland on Saturday.
these tense dueling encounters.
On Saturday afternoon,
Portland police announced
they were revoking the permit
for the march after they said
officers witnessed instances
of assault and other crimi-
nal activity, The Oregonian
reported. Police used flash-
bang grenades and pepper
spray to disperse the crowds.
“We seized numerous
weapons early on, and inter-
ceded and separated people
when necessary. However,
once projectiles, such as fire-
works, eggs, rocks, bottles
and construction equipment
were thrown and people were
injured, we ordered people to
disperse,” Portland Deputy
Chief Bob Day said in a state-
ment Saturday night.
Police arrested four people
but said those arrests stemmed
from criminal investigations
that began before Saturday’s
protests and were not related
to the day’s events.
Police said more arrests
could come as investigators
follow up on reports of crim-
inal activity Saturday.
Fist fights broke out and
several people were arrested
during dueling protests involv-
ing anti-facists and right-wing
groups in downtown Portland
in early June.
Earlier Saturday, hun-
dreds gathered to demon-
strate against the Trump
administration.
Benjamin Cota and Yvonne
Davis stood between park
blocks in downtown Portland
and they were tired.
The married couple wore
sun hats and white T-shirts, lis-
tening to speakers rail against
the Trump administration’s
“zero tolerance” border policy
that has led to large-scale sepa-
rations of migrant families.
“We’re old enough to have
seen several administrations,”
Cota said. “There isn’t any-
thing like this.”
The Families Belong
Together rally, part of a nation-
wide demonstration, continued
three weeks of steady protest in
Portland of the administration’s
hardline stance on immigration.
It was also another rally in
a long line of rallies against
Trump and his policies starting
before he even took office.
The resistance has come in
waves. There was the Women’s
March, the travel ban, multiple
mass shootings, family separa-
tions, the travel ban again.
Cota and Davis said it’s
been difficult to keep their
energy up over the past two
years.
“It’s exhausting,” Davis
said. “It’s just so tiresome
because every night you come
home, you’re like, ‘What did
I miss today?’ It’s another
outrage.”
So they, like so many others
in the Northwest and around
the country, keep showing up.
“Every little thing you can
do is throwing sand in the gears
of the machine,” Cota said.
Snapped vessel line kills two at Port of Longview
Associated Press
LONGVIEW, Wash. —
Authorities say two people died
and two others were injured
when a vessel line snapped at
the Port of Longview.
The Daily News reported
34-year-old Byron Jacobs of
Longview died from blunt force
injuries after he was struck by
a line that snapped in half as
crews were moving a ship from
one loading hatch to another.
The Cowlitz County Cor-
oner’s Office says Jacobs
died at the scene at 2:40 a.m.
Thursday.
Port officials say chief
mate Pingshan Li, 41, was also
struck and died Thursday at
Southwest Washington Medi-
cal Center.
Officials said another long-
shoreman and security guard
sustained injuries that were not
life threatening.
The MV ANSAC Splendor
remains docked at the port.
The Coast Guard and
Washington State Labor and
Industries are investigating.
Tangent man enjoys a lifelong passion for falconry
An ancient art
of hunting
By BENNETT HALL
Corvallis Gazette-Times
CORVALLIS — Randy
Carnahan works the swing
shift at the Hollingsworth
& Vose glass fiber plant in
Corvallis.
A lot of people don’t like
working nights, but Carnahan
loves his schedule because he
has the mornings free to pur-
sue his passion: falconry.
“I hit it hard,” he said. “My
goal is to be in the field 100
days out of the 107-day sea-
son. You see the great flights
when you have fit birds.”
Falconry, the ancient art of
hunting with trained birds of
prey, used to be the exclusive
province of the nobility. These
days, it’s open to everyone —
at least in theory. In practice, it
requires a major commitment
of time and effort.
In Oregon, anyone over the
age of 13 can apply for a fal-
coner’s license — but getting
The Astoria-
Warrenton
Area Chamber
of Commerce
presents 4th of July
fireworks!
Andy Cripe/Albany Democrat-Herald
Randy Carnahan works with Tink, a sharp-shinned hawk
he has trained to hunt.
one is no easy matter. First,
aspiring falconers must find a
sponsor who holds a general
or master’s license and serve
an apprenticeship of at least
two years. After that, appren-
tices must pass an exhaustive
state test and earn a personal
endorsement from their spon-
sor before receiving their gen-
eral falconer’s license.
Carnahan fell in love with
falconry after reading a book
on the subject as a young boy.
“The idea of training a
hawk or a falcon just blew my
doors off,” he said.
Generally,
falconers
acquire their birds either by
capturing a fledgling in the
nest or purchasing one from a
breeder. Carnahan got his first
hunting bird, a Cooper’s hawk,
at the age of 15 when “it flew
into my pigeon house and laid
waste.”
fireworks fly high
on the 4th of july
At the time, Carnahan’s
family was living in Coquille,
a rural community, and he
spent countless hours working
with his hawk. The bird was
so well-trained that it would
fly to him when he whistled
from a quarter-mile away.
Now 61, Carnahan has
flown all kinds of raptors
since then, from peregrine fal-
cons to merlins to red-tailed
hawks.
At the moment he has two
— a 16-year-old goshawk
named Cully and a 5-year-old
sharp-shinned hawk named
Tink — that he keeps on the
farm near Tangent where he
lives with his wife, Lisa.
Both birds are accipiters, a
genus distinguished by short,
broad wings, a long rudderlike
tail and long talons which they
use to dispatch their prey.
Unlike falcons, which dive
down on their prey at speeds
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Show begins
at twilight with
fireworks shot
from the East End
Mooring Basin.
Grab a chair or
blanket and a
flashlight, then join
us on the riverwalk
to enjoy the show.
of up to 235 mph, accipiters
are ambush hunters that suc-
ceed by accelerating quickly
over short distances before
their targets have time to react.
Carnahan flies Tink mostly
around the farm, where she
catches small birds such
as starlings and English
sparrows.
Cannon Beach Library
Annual Fourth of July Book Sale
July 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th
Wednesday—Saturday, 10 am—5pm
1000’s of Books at Bargain Prices!
131 N. Hemlock
Cannon Beach
503.436.1391
info@cannonbeachlibrary.org
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PRELUDE AT 6:30 PM
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1203 Commercial, Astoria Soloists:
Jennifer Crocket, Clarinet
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Special Guests:
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