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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2018
Portland restricts straws over Oregon task force backs
environmental concerns
controversial opioid plan
Customers have
to ask for straws
By ERICKA CRUZ
GUEVARRA
Oregon Public
Broadcasting
You soon won’t be able to
expect a server to give you a
straw for your drink in Port-
land — unless you ask for
one first.
Portland City Councilors
on Wednesday approved an
ordinance that implements
a by-request-only policy for
plasticware for dine-in, deliv-
ery and takeout orders start-
ing July.
That means what was once
a given at restaurants and din-
ing establishments now needs
to be requested: Instead of sit-
ting down and automatically
getting a straw with your glass
of water, for example, you’ll
need to ask your server for one.
And at the drive-thru,
restaurant employees will
need to ask customers if they
need condiment packets,
utensils or plasticware like
plastic straws and stirrers.
To be clear: it’s not an out-
right ban on straws, though
the city did consider that. The
brains behind the legislation
say they made a conscious
effort not to do that after con-
versations with members of
the community — namely,
the disability rights com-
munity. The idea, though, is
to get people to think twice
about plastic consumption.
“These plastics are cheap
and a lot of businesses have
made it a point to just include
them in whatever order is
happening for food and drink
— and that is the default,”
said Pete Chism-Winfield,
program specialist with the
city’s Bureau of Planning and
Sustainability.
“So what we’re trying to
do with this policy is reset the
default that doesn’t include
all these different plastics that
may or may not be needed,
and give the consumer an
opportunity to make that
decision themselves.”
The city is making it so
that all retail food and bever-
age establishments will only
give customers plasticware
after a customer asks for it.
And for customers getting
takeout, plasticware will only
be provided after employees
ask customers if they need it.
The city simply wants
to get people to think twice
about whether or not they
need to use disposable plas-
ticware when they order food.
“We want to really be
able to break out of the sta-
tus quo mold of automatically
expecting to have plasticware
or plastic straws every time
we sit down at a restaurant
and order a soft drink or order
a cocktail,” said Amy Rath-
felder, an environmental and
sustainability policy advisor
to Mayor Ted Wheeler.
“We want to just sort of
break out of that thinking and
start to change the dynamic.
Because ultimately, as we
consider the larger impacts of
climate change and the small
steps we’re going to need to
take to reduce its effects, this
is one of them.”
Commercial crab season
likely delayed until January
Chinook Observer
ILWACO, Wash. — The
opening of commercial Dunge-
ness crab season will likely be
delayed until Jan. 1, according
to the Washington Department
of Fish and Wildlife.
A decision won’t be offi-
cial until after a conference
call today at noon by tri-
state managers. The main-
land West Coast crab fishery
is managed by a consortium
of Washington state, Oregon
and California officials.
The most recent round of
testing found crab in Pacific
and Clatsop counties either
at or very near the minimum
23 percent meat requirement.
However, crab in southern
Oregon were still signifi-
cantly under weight.
If the season opens Jan. 1, it
will be two weeks earlier than
the 2017-18 season — which
didn’t start until Jan. 15 — and
on par with the 2016-17 sea-
son, which started Jan. 1, 2017.
Whale entanglements slightly up last year
Associated Press
PORTLAND, Maine —
Federal officials say last
year was slightly worse than
average for the entangle-
ment of large whales, which
is a major threat to the ani-
mals’ populations.
The National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Admin-
istration released a report
nets and fishing line.
NOAA says entangle-
ments happened along all
U.S. coasts except for the
Gulf of Mexico. Entangle-
ment is a major concern for
jeopardized species such
as the North Atlantic right
whale. The North Atlantic
Right Whale Consortium
estimates that about 411 of
the whales remain.
Thursday on the subject.
The agency says the number
of cases nationally was 76,
and that 70 entanglements
involved live animals, while
the rest were dead. The
10-year average is closer to
70 entanglements.
The agency says about
70 percent of the confirmed
cases were attributable to
fishing gear, such as traps,
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
SATURDAY
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36/48
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34/51
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43/55
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47/58
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16/36
Ontario
24/36
Bend
25/44
Burns
11/33
Klamath Falls
25/41
Lakeview
19/40
Ashland
36/53
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
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BEND — A proposal to
expand alternative treatments
for certain chronic pain con-
ditions while limiting the use
of opioids has moved for-
ward with minimal changes,
despite outcries from chronic
pain patients and criticism
from pain experts across the
country.
The Bulletin reported that
the state’s Chronic Pain Task
Force, an ad hoc commit-
tee providing recommenda-
tions on treatments for chronic
pain under Oregon’s Medicaid
program, backed a proposal
Wednesday to provide cover-
age for five chronic pain con-
ditions currently not covered
by the Oregon Health Plan.
That would allow patients
to receive services such as
physical therapy, acupuncture
and other types of treatment.
Opioids would be covered in
limited doses for some of the
chronic pain conditions, but
not for fibromyalgia or central-
ized pain syndrome, a central
pain processing disorder that
can heighten the response to
painful stimuli.
The task force concluded
that opioids are not beneficial
and can be harmful for those
conditions.
Overprescribing of pre-
scription opioids has been
blamed for the ongoing over-
dose epidemic nationwide.
Patients who are already
taking doses above the opi-
oid limits would be required
to begin a taper of their med-
ications at a rate determined
in conjunction with their doc-
tor. Patients with fibromyalgia
or centralized pain syndrome
would be required to taper off
opioids completely.
“This is basically more
extreme and draconian than
any approach in the country. It
goes against all of the guide-
lines,” said Kate Nicholson,
a civil rights attorney from
Colorado and a chronic pain
advocate. “And importantly, it
does so without regard for any
attempt to measure potential
harms or benefits to patients.”
The proposal is the sec-
ond try by the task force to
craft the chronic pain coverage
guidelines.
A previous proposal would
have limited opioid cover-
age to 90 days and required
patients to taper off painkill-
ers within a year. After hear-
ing from patients and provid-
ers, Oregon Health Authority
staff reworked the proposal to
soften the language and pro-
vide patients and their doctors
more flexibility in the rate of
tapering.
“We at OHA believe that
health care delivery is really
dependent on the trusting rela-
tionship between a patient and
provider,” Dr. Dana Hargunani,
chief medical officer at the
health authority, told the task
force. “All of the proposal ele-
ments, particularly addressing
the opioid tapers — including
the timelines, the rates and the
ultimate success in getting to
zero, are intended to be flexible
and to meet individual patient
needs based on the patient and
doctor relationship.”
Oregon Health Authority
officials estimated that about
67,400 people would gain cov-
erage to alternative pain treat-
ments under the proposal and
that between 600 to 1,200
patients would need to have
their opioid treatments re-eval-
uated by their providers.
OBITUARIES
Barbara June Wilson
Astoria
June 27, 1931 — Sept. 29, 2018
Barbara June Wilson left this mortal coil ly’s clothing, among other items. She loved
on Sept. 29, 2018, where she wished, at home creative crafts and creative minds. She usu-
with her cats at the age of 87. She was born on ally spoke her mind and questioned just about
June 27, 1931 to William and Barbara Keehn in everything. She was a voracious reader, espe-
cially mystery novels (usually one a
Marysville, Washington.
week), and she also loved crossword
Surviving childhood disease for
puzzles.
two years, she graduated from Everett
After her children were grown,
High School in 1951, and then joined
she dedicated her life to animal wel-
the Women in the Air Force (WAF),
fare, especially cats. She was a for-
where she served as a dental techni-
cian tasked with X-raying the teeth of
mer president of the Seattle area
group that helped abandoned pets.
servicemen during the Korean War.
She is survived by her husband,
While in the service, she met her
Terry Wilson; son, David Konyha;
first husband, James Konyha. She
grandson, Nicholas Konyha; daugh-
chose to leave active service to start
a family and raise two children, but Barbara Wilson ter, Debra Nickel, and grandson,
Keehnan Konyha; and her beloved
remained the wife of a serviceman
cats, Charolette, Robby and Sweety.
until 1966, when her husband retired
As she requested, her body was donated to
from the Air Force and moved the family to
Bellevue, Washington. She moved to Monroe, medical research.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to
Washington, in 1995, and in 2001 she moved
with her husband, Terry, and 11 rescued cats to the River Song Foundation (riversongfounda-
tion.org) in Hammond, Oregon.
Astoria, Oregon.
She will be dearly missed and remembered
She was an outstanding cook and an excep-
tional seamstress, making most of her fami- always.
DEATHS
Dec. 5, 2018
MAIZE, Patricia Ann, 82,
of Long Beach, Washington,
previously of Warrenton, Ore-
gon, died in Astoria. Cald-
well’s Luce-Layton Mortuary
in Astoria is in charge of the
arrangements.
Dec. 4, 2018
DOTY, Gilbert Bennett,
80, of The Dalles, previously
of Astoria and Hammond,
died at the Oregon Veterans
Home in The Dalles. Ocean
View Funeral & Cremation
Service of Astoria is in charge
of the arrangements.
ON THE RECORD
Assault
• At 5:24 p.m. Thursday, Wayne Tagg, 61,
of Warrenton, was cited by Warrenton police
on the 690 block of Northwest Ninth Street for
fourth-degree assault. Milton Scott Andros, 57,
of Warrenton, was cited for harassment. Tagg
allegedly punched Andros in the face while the
men were engaged in a physical disturbance.
DUII
• At 5:49 a.m. Thursday, Kyna Lou Estes, 36,
of Astoria, was arrested by Astoria police on the
800 block of Glasgow Avenue and charged with
driving under the influence of intoxicants, sec-
ond-degree assault, hit-and-run, reckless endan-
germent, possession of methamphetamine,
criminal mischief and reckless driving. After
colliding with another car in the area, Estes
allegedly told her two children in the car, ages
19 and 9, to run home. Estes allegedly then met
them there before fleeing to an RV park a few
blocks away, where she was arrested.
• At 12:57 a.m. Wednesday, David Derland
Huff, 48, of Warrenton, was arrested by Astoria
police on Columbia Avenue and West Marine
Drive and charged with DUII. His blood alco-
hol content was 0.11 percent.
REGIONAL CITIES
TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
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UNDER THE SKY
High
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Sunset tonight ........................... 4:30 p.m.
Sunrise Saturday ........................ 7:45 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................... 7:54 a.m.
Moonset today ........................... 5:12 p.m.
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ASTORIA
40/52
SUN AND MOON
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1:19 p.m.
TUESDAY
REGIONAL WEATHER
Precipitation
Thursday .......................................... 0.00"
Month to date ................................... 0.32"
Normal month to date ....................... 2.11"
Year to date .................................... 53.71"
Normal year to date ........................ 59.48"
Dec 15
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Astoria through Thursday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 47°/32°
Normal high/low ........................... 49°/37°
Record high ............................ 57° in 2015
Record low ............................. 16° in 1972
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