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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
Oregon now has a hypoxia Lawsuit seeks return of
season, just like a wildfire forced union fees in Oregon
season, say researchers
SALEM — Seeking the
return of millions of dollars
of forced union fees, 12 Ore-
gon public employees filed a
federal class-action lawsuit
against the state’s three larg-
est public sector unions, a
smaller union, and affiliates.
The U.S. Supreme Court
ruled in June that government
workers can’t be required to
Kristian FODEN-VENCIL
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Scientists say warming
ocean temperatures mean
Oregon’s coastal waters now
have a low-oxygen season,
or hypoxia season, just as the
state’s forests have a fire
season.
Hypoxia is a condition in
which the ocean water close to
the sea floor has such low lev-
els of dissolved oxygen that
the organisms living down
there die.
Some of the first signs came
in 2002 when dead crabs were
hauled up in crab pots. Since
then, scientists and crabbers
say things have worsened.
“We can now say that Ore-
gon has a hypoxia season
much like the wildfire season,”
said Francis Chan, co-chair of
the West Coast Ocean Acidi-
fication and Hypoxia Science
Panel.
“Every summer we live
on the knife’s edge and
during many years we cross
the threshold into danger —
including the past two years.
When oxygen levels get low
enough, many marine organ-
isms who are place-bound,
or cannot move away rapidly
enough, die of oxygen star-
vation,” he said. “Hypoxia
is something we rarely saw
throughout the 20th century,
but have seen almost annually
since the year 2002.”
The low-oxygen condi-
tions are caused by warmer
ocean temperatures. Those
trigger excessive phytoplank-
ton blooms, and when those
organisms die they sink to the
ocean bottom and suck the
oxygen out of the water.
Exacerbating the problem
is the lack of mixing ocean
waters, as changing wind pat-
terns have led to stratification
of ocean layers.
Oregon State University
oceanographer and co-chair
of the Oregon Coordinating
Council on Ocean Acidifica-
tion and Hypoxia, Jack Barth,
is collecting data to draw the
first hypoxia maps of Oregon’s
coast.
“We’re actually seeing
real interest from the fishing
PRINEVILLE — Face-
book announced it will build
two more buildings at its data
center outside the Central Ore-
gon town of Prineville, grow-
ing it to the size of 66 football
fields.
The California social media
company said Thursday it
expects the expansion to come
AP Photo/Don Ryan
An expanse of beach near Rockaway is shown from
Nea-kah-nie Mountain.
community. They know how
to look at our data and say,
‘Where are the layers in the
ocean? Where is the high and
low oxygen?’” Barth said.
Some Oregonians who
make their living from the
sea have been aware of the
problem for a long time and
brought it to the attention of
researchers, Barth said.
lihoods. And they have been
working with scientists ever
since.”
Those same industries
alerted people to a different
problem — ocean acidifica-
tion — in 2007. The Whiskey
Creek Shellfish Hatchery on
Netarts Bay experienced mas-
sive die-offs of larval oysters.
That threatened to destroy the
hatchery’s entire operation.
OSU researchers Burke
Hales and George Waldbusser
responded and found the prob-
lem was highly acidified water
and that the hatchery could
mitigate it by drawing water
from the bay at certain times of
the day, or treating the water to
lower its corrosiveness.
Further research found
acidification didn’t destroy
oyster shells but prevented
them from developing in the
first place.
“Scientists from Oregon
State have been involved since
day one on both the emerging
challenges of coastal ocean
hypoxia and ocean acidifica-
tion,” said Caren Braby, marine
resources program manager at
the Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife and co-chair of
the Oregon Ocean Acidifica-
tion and Hypoxia Council.
Scientists say rising levels
of carbon dioxide, attributed
to the burning of fossil
fuels, are major drivers of
increased ocean acidification.
In its first biannual report
to the Legislature, Oregon’s
Hypoxia Council said the
state needs more monitoring
and policy direction on this
problem.
‘Scientists
from Oregon
State have
been involved
since day
one on both
the emerging
challenges
of coastal
ocean hypoxia
and ocean
acidification.’
Caren Braby,
marine resources program
manager at ODFW
“Scientists keep saying that
the ocean is changing along
with the climate, and people
are beginning to get in tune,”
Barth said. “They see the heat
waves and all the smoke from
wildfires and are beginning to
realize that this is something
different.
“The crabbing and the oys-
ter industries were ahead of the
curve. They were among the
first to notice that the ocean
just off our coast is changing
and was affecting their live-
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resisting arrest, two counts of criminal trespass
and third-degree criminal mischief. O’Rourke
allegedly became unruly as he was being dis-
charged from the hospital. When police arrived,
he allegedly shoved and kicked an officer before
being taken into custody.
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Assaulting a public safety officer
• At 2:52 a.m. Thursday, Jeremiah O’Ro-
urke, 42, of Beaverton, was arrested by Sea-
side police at Providence Seaside Hospital and
charged with assaulting a public safety offi-
cer, two counts of harassment, two counts of
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Crystal Virginia Stephens, a daughter of two story there, that will remain forever a mystery.
She was proud of her huge collection of salt-
pioneer Oregon families, died in Astoria on July
and-pepper shakers and decorative spoons, sent to
6, 2018, at the age of 98.
A self-professed “tough Eastern Oregon her from far away places by friends and relatives.
She was proud to be known as a thrifty
ranch girl,” she was born in Mitchell,
person who didn’t throw much away.
Wheeler County, Oregon, Dec. 17,
She traveled to Alaska and
1919, to Lossie Tilman Howard and
Hawaii, and occasionally took the
Golda Frances Howard, born Kee-
ton. Her mother died in 1971, and
bus to Reno, where she enjoyed the
shows and collected mementos, care-
her father in 1987, both in Roseburg,
fully annotated with the place and
Oregon.
date collected, and appropriate notes
Crystal was the second oldest
relevant to the occasion.
and the first girl among her six sib-
lings. They were a ranching fam-
Her siblings, of whom she was the
ily, and hard work was a way of life.
last survivor, included Darrell, Til-
After graduating from Mitchell High Crystal Stephens ford, twins Raymond and Rachael,
Ralph, and Reatha, all born in Mitch-
School, she moved to Westport to
ell between 1916 and 1930.
work for a family friend at the West-
port Hotel.
Crystal was proud of the Oregon pioneer her-
In 1940, she and James (Jim) Howard Ste- itage of the Keeton and Howard families. She
phens of Fossil, Oregon, were married. They was fiercely independent all her adult life, liv-
then moved to Astoria, where Jim worked as a ing alone at her homes on Franklin Avenue and
saw filer at the wartime shipyards, helping build Clatsop Avenue. She often visited the Astoria
wooden minesweepers. He then served as a Senior Center, and was dismayed that she out-
lieutenant at the Astoria Fire Department. Their lived so many of her dear friends. She spent her
last years comfortably at Astor Place assisted
son Dennis was born in 1942.
Crystal lived in Astoria for the rest of her long living home.
She is preceded in death by her parents; by
life. After their divorce in 1945, she worked as a
waitress, then as a telephone operator for Pacific niece Cindy Nedry; and nephews Dean Howard,
Northwest Bell in Astoria, retiring in 1975. She Howard Miller, Bruce Miller and Neil Miller.
She is survived by a son, Dennis, of Fair-
told vivid stories of serving as a marine operator
during dangerous winter storms, working with banks, Alaska; and nieces and nephews Judy
fishing boats and ships crossing the Columbia Hartwell of Edmonton, Canada, Susan Beguin
of Spokane, Washington, David Beguin of Ala-
River Bar.
She was a longtime member of Women of bama, Tami Hanson of Ponoka, Alberta, Can-
the Moose and of the Rebekahs, a fraternal ada, Lisa Davis of Roseburg, Oregon, Vicky
order associated with the Independent Order of Huber of Porterville, California, Lossie How-
ard of Wyoming, Cande Vanasen of Porter-
Odd Fellows.
She was fond of classic movies, and was a ville, California, Terry Barnett of Bakersfield,
particular fan of Cary Grant. She loved coun- California, JoAnne Grant of Resaca, Georgia,
try and western music, and had a large collec- Darrell Howard of Pepeekeo, Hawaii, Brandt
tion of 78 rpm records. Among her memora- Howard of Okanogan, Washington, and Ginger
bilia was an autograph by the popular country Nedry of Prineville, Oregon.
A graveside service was held at Greenwood
singer/songwriter Lefty Frizzell, dated “Rose-
burg, Ore. Nov. 15, 1952,” in her careful hand- Cemetery on Sept. 15, 2018.
writing, on the back of half a torn citation issued
Donations may be made in Crystal’s memory
by the Chief of Police in Astoria. The ticket was to the Clatsop County Animal Shelter, 1315 S.E.
issued to “Arthur F.,” not to Crystal. There’s a 19th St., Warrenton OR 97146 (503-861-0737).
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none
Some sun
servers, was the site of Face-
book’s first data center, which
opened in 2011.
The expansion will make
the Prineville data center the
biggest, a spokeswoman said.
The company also has them in
Forest City, North Carolina;
Lulea, Sweden; and Altoona,
Iowa.
Crystal Stephens
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online in 2020.
In a statement, Facebook
said this new construction will
bring its total Prineville foot-
print to more than 3.2 million
square feet, representing an
additional investment of $750
million.
Prineville, where cool
high-desert evenings cool the
OBITUARIES
REGIONAL WEATHER
Precipitation
Thursday .......................................... 0.01"
Month to date ................................... 1.95"
Normal month to date ....................... 1.26"
Year to date .................................... 38.23"
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Astoria through Thursday.
Temperatures
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Record high ............................ 86° in 2014
Record low ............................. 40° in 1985
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collected in recent years
from thousands of public
sector employees who left
their unions or never joined.
Defendants include the
Service Employees Inter-
national Union; American
Federation of State, Local,
and Municipal Employees;
and the Oregon Education
Association.
Facebook growing its data center in Oregon
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
contribute to labor groups.
The National Right to
Work Legal Defense Foun-
dation, which was involved
in the Supreme Court case,
is handling the Oregon case
and 200 others across the
country.
The group said the suit,
filed Thursday in federal
court in Oregon, seeks fees
OREGON
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Thursday’s Lucky Lines: 4-5-
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