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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
OHSU opens new building aimed at ending cancer
Scientists work
to find a cure
ers in the field, there’s noth-
ing more exciting than that,”
he said.
Dietz works in the lab of
Dr. Missy Wong up on Oregon
Health & Science University’s
Pill Hill. Over the next week
or so, she’s moving her team
of eight researchers down to
the new building, meaning her
old lab is a jumble of discon-
nected machines and scientific
equipment.
Wong agrees the new build-
ing is gorgeous, but points out
that scientists move a lot — for
graduate school, for post-doc-
toral work and for jobs once
they’re done with school —
so she’s taking a practical
approach.
“There’s always opportu-
nity in moving to consolidate
the junk you’ve accumulated
over the years, and so we look
forward to kind of purging out
our refrigerators and freezers,”
she said.
More than the new build-
ing, Wong said she is excited
about sharing space with scien-
tists from other disciplines.
“There are people that are
from a genetics background,
from a biochemistry back-
By KRISTIAN
FODEN-VENCIL
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Oregon Health & Science
University will celebrate the
official opening of the new
Knight Cancer Institute in
Portland today.
The new building, and the
650 researchers and support
staff it can hold, have the grand
mission of finding a cure for
cancer.
“It’s an ambitious goal,”
said pediatric oncology resi-
dent Matt Dietz during a recent
look around the new building.
“It’s a really exciting space to
be in.”
Dietz, originally from Con-
necticut, is in the early stages of
his career. He said he can’t wait
to move into the new building
and rub shoulders with what he
calls some of the best cancer
scientists in the nation.
“As a trainee and as an
interested scientist, the oppor-
tunity to have spontaneous
interactions with thought lead-
Kristian Foden-Vencil/Oregon Public Broadcasting
Researchers are moving into OHSU’s new Knight Cancer
Institute with the challenge of finding a cure for cancer.
ground, et cetera, and we’re
all scattered on this campus up
here,” she said. “Moving down
to the new building, we’ll all
be in a single building.”
The hope is that chance
meetings will lead to shared
ideas and, in turn, ground-
breaking research and seren-
dipitous discoveries.
One reason Wong isn’t
gushing about the new build-
ing may be that she’s actu-
ally moving into a smaller
space than her current work
home, as are many scientists.
They’re even being asked to
share machinery, again with
the idea of encouraging chance
meetings.
“Even though the fundrais-
ing campaign was $1 billion,
we wanted to use most of that
money for research,” she said.
“So yeah, we could have built
an amazing building that was
huge, but then that’s not being
good stewards of this gift.”
The building cost $190 mil-
lion, with the money being pro-
vided mostly by the state and
private citizens. The $500 mil-
lion donated by Nike founder
Phil Knight — a donation he
initially promised on the con-
dition it be matched by other
fundraising — will be used
mostly for research, rather than
construction.
The building was fin-
ished on time and on budget.
But some alterations had to
be made. Perhaps the largest
involved increasing the size of
the concrete bathtub in which
the basement sits.
The watertight bathtub
is needed to stop flooding,
because the building sits in a
flood plain close to the Willa-
mette River.
“I think they carefully
thought about that, because it
can really ruin careers,” Wong
said.
Scientists at universities
in New York, Texas and else-
where have lost their life’s
work recently, as samples and
computers were ruined by
floodwaters.
Even a little water in the
basement can be a problem as
that’s often when refrigerators
and generators are housed. And
if water shorts out the electric-
ity, there’s no power to keep
samples frozen.
Other changes to the build-
ing were less mission critical.
For example, planters on
the sixth floor terrace were just
too big, because they’d been
designed to hold trees.
“There was a communi-
cation early on in the proj-
ect with the original designer
about wanting it to be an inti-
mate space where people were
sort of surrounded by nature,”
said Tiffani Howard, a sci-
entist who helped design the
building.
“Well, when we started
doing that work on the land-
scaping, all of a sudden every-
body else said, ‘Our view is
gone.’”
Dietz said it’s nice that peo-
ple will now know who he’s
working for when he goes to
work.
“When I talk with friends
from college, and they find
that I’m located here in Port-
land, they’re excited,” he said.
“When I talk to my friends
in science or in medicine, the
Knight Cancer Institute, I
mean it has clout.”
Astoria man arrested after Dairy Queen robbery
By JACK HEFFERNAN
The Daily Astorian
An Astoria man has been
arrested in connection with an
armed robbery at Dairy Queen
Gerald Lee
Haynes
last week.
Gerald Lee Haynes, 42, was
arrested by Astoria police Thurs-
day morning.
Haynes was allegedly armed
with a small pistol and took an
undisclosed amount of money
from the West Marine Drive
restaurant just after 10 p.m. on
Aug. 31.
A Dairy Queen employee told
police she saw Haynes return
to the restaurant sometime after
the robbery, Astoria Police Chief
Geoff Spalding said. She then
reported seeing him near Dutch
Bros on Marine Drive. Soon after
the report, police took him into
custody near Florence and Taylor
avenues.
Haynes has been charged with
first-degree robbery, first-degree
theft and possession of a weapon
with intent to use.
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
SATURDAY
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ALMANAC
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Salem
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Sunrise Saturday ........................ 6:45 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................... 3:54 a.m.
Moonset today ........................... 6:53 p.m.
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Coos Bay
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Detroit
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Fairbanks
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Indianapolis
Kansas City
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Oklahoma City
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
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Baker
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Tonight's Sky: Moon at perigee at a distance of 224,
315 miles of the Earth.
Today
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Audrey Holbrook Hamrick, longtime res- active member of the Women of the Moose and
ident of Seaside, Oregon, passed away peace- the American Legion.
fully Sept. 3, 2018, in Twin Falls, Idaho.
She is survived by her children, Sally
Audrey was born in Kelso, Washington, on (Fletcher) Hartman and Debra (Debbie) Sand-
ers; seven grandchildren; and 15
May 24, 1928, the second of two chil-
dren to William H. and Sally Whea-
great-grandchildren.
ton Holbrook. She admired her only
Audrey joins the awaiting arms
sister and best friend, Inez Irene Hol-
of her loving husband; parents; cher-
brook Shelley.
ished sister; wonderful niece; son,
On Oct. 8, 1943, she married Ray-
Richard; daughter-in-law, Juan-
mond (Bill) Sanders in Blackfoot,
ita Goul Sanders; daughter, Vickie
Sanders Hanover; son-in-law, Lonnie
Idaho. They had four children, Rich-
ard, Vickie, Sally and Debra. They
Hanover; and grandchildren, Richard
Hanover, Velma Audrea Taylor and
later divorced.
Annie Hanover; all of whom have
On Dec. 28, 1986, she married
Theodore (Ted) Cecil Hamrick in Audrey Hamrick preceded her in death.
Audrey has requested no funeral
Chehalis, Washington. They made
services. In lieu of flowers, Audrey
their home in Seaside, Oregon, where
suggests family and friends make dona-
they enjoyed a view of the river and wildlife.
Audrey was very creative, enjoying sew- tions to Paralyzed Veterans of America or to
ing, crafts, gardening and cooking. She loved Mooseheart.
outdoor activities, including hunting and fish-
All arrangements are being handled by
ing. She had a genuine love for all things living, Rosenau Funeral Home and Crematory in Twin
often taking in injured animals. She had been an Falls, Idaho.
BIRTH
Aug. 3, 2018
FRUEHLING,
Dawn
and Craig, of Naselle, Wash-
ington, a boy, Stevin David
Fruehling, born in Vancou-
ver, Washington. Older sib-
ling is Scot Fruehling. Grand-
parents are Carol and George
Logsdon and Peggy and John
Young, all of Naselle, and
Mike and Angela Fruehling of
Astoria.
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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PUBLIC MEETINGS
MONDAY
Youngs River Lewis & Clark Water District Board, 6 p.m., 34583 U.S. Highway 101 Business.
Cannon Beach Rural Fire Department Board, 6 p.m., Fire-Rescue Main Station, 188 Sunset Ave.
Seaside City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway.
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Mostly cloudy with a
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56/78
The Dalles
61/78
Portland
60/75
SUN AND MOON
Time
12:15 a.m.
1:25 p.m.
Partly sunny; breezy in
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ASTORIA
53/66
Precipitation
Thursday .......................................... 0.00"
Month to date ................................... Trace
Normal month to date ....................... 0.36"
Year to date .................................... 36.28"
Normal year to date ........................ 38.46"
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Tillamook
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Audrey Holbrook Hamrick
TUESDAY
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REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Thursday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 62°/46°
Normal high/low ........................... 69°/51°
Record high ............................ 90° in 1958
Record low ............................. 40° in 1992
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