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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JULY 16, 2018 Astoria celebrates Ghadar Party Event honors Indian culture By KATIE FRANKOWICZ The Daily Astorian John Dudley An elk dines on some Gearhart shrubbery. Gearhart urged to ban elk feeding By R.J. MARX The Daily Astorian GEARHART — A resi- dent wants Gearhart to pro- hibit people from feeding elk. The animals, known to block traffic, dine on gar- dens and occasionally men- ace dogs or visitors, have become an increasing source of concern. Bebe Michel said she was inspired after attending town halls with Oregon Depart- ment of Fish and Wildlife officials this spring in Gear- hart and Warrenton. Warrenton has an ordi- nance that prohibits elk feeding. “In the interest of pub- lic safety and the elk herd, I ask the city draft an ordi- nance prohibiting the feed- ing of elk,” Michel told the City Council last week. “From that Warrenton meet- ing, it became clear that the feeding of elk — for exam- ple, hand-feeding apples — habituated the elk to view humans as a food source.” In Warrenton, feeding wildlife other than songbirds or squirrels comes with pen- alties as high as $250 per offense. “Please do both humans and elk a favor — do not feed the elk,” Michel said. Mayor Matt Brown said the city would “definitely have those conversations,” with a council goal-setting session set for July 24 at City Hall. It might be hard to believe the history of East Indian work- ers in Astoria was nearly for- gotten when an event celebrat- ing the founding of an Indian radical nationalist party here in 1913 and the city’s efforts to commemorate that history drew several hundred people Saturday. State officials who attended discussed plans to introduce the Ghadar Party into school cur- riculum. Members of Astoria’s present-day Indian community hope it is the first of many such cultural celebrations to come. Like others, Sameer Sharma, who owns the Hampton Inn & Suites in Astoria, didn’t know about the East Indians who once lived in Astoria when he moved here. He said it is important to celebrate this history and what he sees as a history of accep- tance by Astorians. He and oth- ers also believe the celebrations will be good for Astoria, bring- ing in visitors and helping boost the economy. Most of the audience and nearly all the performers and speakers at Saturday’s event were Indian. People traveled from across the West Coast to attend, and banners for Sikh organizations in Oregon and Washington state were on display. Historian Johanna Ogden first published information about how East Indians, many of them Sikhs from India’s Pun- jab region, came to Oregon to work in the early 20th century and settled in Astoria’s Alder- brook neighborhood in a 2012 article. Ogden wrote about how ABOVE Performers en- tertain the audience at an event celebrating the Gha- dar Party in Astoria. RIGHT The audience at an event put on by the Sikh community in Astoria claps during a performance. Eric. B. Williams the workers founded the Gha- dar Party, a group that later fought for Indian independence from British rule. After learning of this history, Astoria leaders advocated for a plaque at Maritime Memo- rial Park in 2013. The plaque was stolen in 2017. Oregon and Astoria officials and members of regional Sikh communities rededicated a new plaque for the Ghadar Party on a stormy day this spring. The event Saturday, held at Maritime Memorial Park, included singing, speeches, tra- ditional food and dance and martial arts demonstrations. Oregon leaders, including state Sen. Betsy Johnson, D-Scap- poose, and Attorney Gen- eral Ellen Rosenblum, were in attendance, along with local elected officials. SUB-BIDS REQUESTED Seaside School District New Middle/High Schools Seaside, Oregon Putin says he wanted Trump to win in 2016 Russian claims no meddling to help Trump By JONATHAN LEMIRE, JILL COLVIN and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press HELSINKI — Russia’s Vladimir Putin said today he did want Donald Trump to win the 2016 U.S. presidential elec- tion but took no action during the campaign to make it hap- pen. He said he favored the celebrity businessman because of his policies. Trump and Putin “spent a great deal of time” discussing allegations of Russian election meddling as they met for several hours, the U.S. president said. But Trump did not strongly con- demn the interference efforts, which U.S. intelligence agen- cies insist did occur, including hacking of Democratic emails, the subject of last week’s indict- ment of 12 Russians. Trump said, as he has count- less times, that there was “no collusion” between his cam- paign and the Russians. Putin, as always, denied all. The two leaders spoke at a joint news conference. Trump, in opening remarks, said that U.S.-Russia relations had been at their lowest point until the two sat down face- to-face in a highly-anticipated summit. “That changed,” Trump said, “As of about four hours ago.” AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a soccer ball to Pres- ident Donald Trump, left, during a press conference after their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland. Trump also continued to deny that there had been any other collusion between his campaign and Russians, declaring: “We ran a brilliant campaign and that’s why I’m president.” The summit began just hours after Trump blamed the United States — and not Russian election meddling or its annexation of Crimea — for a low-point in U.S.-Rus- sia relations. The drama was playing out against a back- drop of fraying Western alli- ances, a new peak in the Rus- sia investigation and fears that Moscow’s aggression may go unchallenged. “Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse,” Trump tweeted this morning, blaming “many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!” WANTED Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber Northwest Hardwoods • Longview, WA The Russian foreign min- istry responded by liking Trump’s tweet and then reply- ing: “We agree.” Asked about the tweet and whether he held Rus- sia responsible for anything, Trump said he held “both countries responsible,” thinks the United States has been “fooling” and that “we’re all to blame.” “The probe is a disaster for our country. There was no col- lusion at all.” Putin, speaking through an interpreter, once again denied what he described as “so-called interference of Rus- sia.” He called it “nonsense” and insisted the Russian state had never interfered and would never interfere in the American electoral process. The pair had opened their long-awaited summit with a wink and slouch, respectively, then talked one on one behind closed doors for two-plus hours before the American leader declared their meeting was off to a “very, very good start for everybody.” “We have not been getting along well for the last num- ber of years,” Trump said after arriving at the Presidential Palace in Finland’s capital, where the leaders are meet- ing. “But I think we will end up having an extraordinary relationship. … I really think the world wants to see us get along.” Putin, for his part, said he and Trump have maintained regular contact through phone calls and meetings at interna- tional events but “the time has come to have a thorough dis- cussion on various interna- tional problems and sensitive issues.” He added: “There are quite a few of them for us to pay attention to.” Their opening one-on-one session had been scheduled to run 90 minutes. The Russians said it lasted two hours and 10 minutes. 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