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Newspaper Page TextA2 THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2019 Oregon reaches milestone as commissioner sworn in Fisheries Hoyle takes the oath of ofﬁ ce By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM — Oregon’s new labor commissioner, sworn in on Monday, has an ambitious agenda but an investigation pushed by her predecessor on sex- ual harassment in the state Capitol loomed, even as the report drew new criticism. The swearing in of Val Hoyle by Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum marked the ﬁ rst time in Oregon history that most of the ﬁ ve statewide executive ofﬁ ces are held by elected women. At the start of the cer- emony in the state House of Representatives, Hoyle, Gov. Kate Brown and Rosenblum sat together under a mural showing Oregon pioneers — all men — at a historic meet- ing in 1843 when the pro- visional government was established. “Now more than ever, leadership in our state is reﬂ ective of Oregon’s peo- ple, and that’s a really good thing,” Brown said, trig- gering applause from ofﬁ - cials and well-wishers who packed the chamber. Hoyle’s ﬁ rst order of business is dealing with an investigation, triggered by AP Photo/Andrew Selksy Oregon Labor Commissioner Val Hoyle shows her oath of oﬃ ce after she signed it after her inauguration at the state Capitol in Salem on Monday. her predecessor Brad Ava- kian, and released Thurs- day that condemned top lawmakers for allegedly allowing sexual harass- ment to persist in the Cap- itol. But the investigators failed to interview them. State Rep. Diego Her- nandez, D-Portland, who was named in the report though a rumor against him was unsubstantiated, said the investigation only fur- thered “a racially-moti- vated, defamatory smear” campaign against him, launched because of his strong stances on civil and immigrant rights. “It also deﬁ es logic that in the course of the investi- gation conducted that they never asked to speak with me about my experiences — which have included racism, bullying, threats and harassment,” Hernan- dez said in a statement. In an interview Fri- day with the Portland Tri- bune, Hernandez said “I feel thrown under the bus by Brad Avakian.” State Sen. Sara Gelser, D-Corvallis, whose com- plaints about Sen. Jeff Kruse’s behavior prompted Kruse’s resignation last year, expressed regret Mon- day that the investigation by the Bureau of Labor and Industries, known as BOLI, furthered a “malicious BIRTH rumor” about Hernandez. That rumor was shown to be without substance by an independent investigation commissioned earlier by the Legislature. Gelser tweeted that the report raises real concerns that must be addressed, but emphasized that Hernandez “is not one of them.” There was also worry that Hoyle, a former House majority leader, would give the investigation short shrift because she knows the lead- ers in the Legislature. Rep. Julie Parrish, a Republican from a Portland suburb who was defeated in her re-election bid in November, asked if Hoyle will do something about sexual harassment in the Capitol or sweep it under the rug. “Love to be proven wrong, but my gut says this report goes away w/Ava- kian,” Parrish tweeted. But Hoyle told report- ers that the investigation is a priority and that she wants to ensure the Capitol is a safe environment. “The ﬁ rst thing I’m going to do tomorrow morn- ing is sit down with the staff who did the report to come up with a plan of action on how we’re going to address it,” Hoyle said. Her ﬁ rst question to staff will be why they apparently didn’t interview key people like House Speaker Tina Kotek Seaside Jan. 6, 1933 — Dec. 27, 2018 Hall, 163 E Gower St. Clatsop County Board of Commissioners, 6 p.m., Judge Guy Boyington Building, 857 Commercial St., Astoria. Warrenton-Hammond School Board, 7 p.m., Warren- ton High School library, 1700 S. Main Ave. Astoria School Board, 6 p.m., study session, 7:30 p.m., regu- lar meeting, Capt. Robert Gray School third-ﬂ oor boardroom, 785 Alameda Ave. Cannon Beach City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 163 E Gower St. WEDNESDAY Clatsop Soil and Water Conservation District Board, 10 a.m., 2001 Marine Drive, Room 113. Warrenton-Hammond School District Finance Com- mittee, 12:30 p.m., district oﬃ ce, 820 S.W. Cedar Ave. Cannon Beach City Council, 5:30 p.m., work session. City TUESDAY Seaside Library Board, 4:30 p.m., Don Larson Public Library, 1131 Broadway. Clatsop Care Health District Board, 5 p.m., Clatsop Care Memory Community, 2219 Dolphin Ave., Warrenton. Warrenton City Commis- sion, 6 p.m., City Hall, 225 S. Main Ave. Astoria Planning Commis- sion, 6:30 p.m., City Hall, 1095 Duane St. FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 53 47 43 Cloudy with a passing shower ALMANAC Occasional rain 54 41 Cloudy Cloudy Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 43/53 Tillamook 47/54 Salem 41/55 Newport 47/54 Last Jan 20 Coos Bay 50/55 New Jan 27 La Grande 37/44 Baker 33/42 Ontario 32/44 Burns 29/43 Roseburg 46/57 Brookings 49/52 Feb 4 John Day 40/47 Bend 35/50 Medford 40/51 Klamath Falls 37/46 Lakeview 34/42 Ashland 43/52 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2019 UNDER THE SKY Tonight's Sky: Stephen Hawking's birthday (1942). Source: Jim Todd, OMSI TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 9:16 a.m. 9:39 p.m. Low 3.3 ft. 0.3 ft. REGIONAL CITIES City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend Hi 36 43 58 50 49 46 52 47 52 59 Today Lo 33 35 49 44 46 37 40 41 47 50 W c r r r r c r r r r Hi 42 50 52 56 53 46 51 52 54 56 Wed. Lo 31 35 46 45 49 32 37 46 48 49 W c c r r r r r r r r City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Springfi eld Vancouver Yakima Hi 41 38 46 55 49 49 35 51 45 36 Today Lo 37 34 43 46 41 46 32 46 42 32 W r c r r r r sn r r sn Hi 50 49 52 57 55 53 41 56 52 40 Wed. Lo 46 41 47 44 47 49 37 45 46 29 W r c r r r r sh r r i TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER NATIONAL CITIES Today Hi Lo 64 40 45 39 43 19 49 23 45 19 49 26 61 42 -15 -20 82 67 52 24 50 26 58 41 69 50 65 37 82 63 67 36 74 52 49 40 56 30 50 39 53 29 42 29 60 55 45 42 58 41 Prineville 37/52 Lebanon 45/55 Eugene 44/56 Sunset tonight ........................... 4:47 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday .................... 7:57 a.m. Moonrise today ........................... 9:41 a.m. Moonset today ........................... 7:31 p.m. Full Pendleton 34/49 The Dalles 33/41 Portland 43/52 SUN AND MOON City Atlanta Boston Chicago Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Honolulu Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Memphis Miami Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Philadelphia St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Washington, DC SATURDAY 54 42 REGIONAL WEATHER Precipitation Monday ............................................ 0.16" Month to date ................................... 1.45" Normal month to date ....................... 2.44" Year to date ...................................... 1.45" Normal year to date .......................... 2.44" High 8.0 ft. 8.6 ft. FRIDAY 56 44 Breezy with periods of rain Astoria through Monday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 44°/33° Normal high/low ........................... 49°/38° Record high ............................ 67° in 1986 Record low ............................. 15° in 1974 Time 3:46 a.m. 2:46 p.m. Fishery managers will present their expecta- tions for spring Chinook returns into harvest areas off the Columbia River at a meeting in Astoria tonight. Fishery manag- ers representing Clat- sop County, Oregon and Washington state will dis- cuss season structure and harvest management con- siderations in the select areas, which include Youngs Bay, Blind Slough/Knappa Slough and Tongue Point/South Channel. They also plan to solicit public comment for the winter, spring and summer ﬁ sheries in the select areas. The meeting is sched- uled from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Express, 204 W. Marine Drive. The select areas are where commercial gill- net ﬁ shermen are still allowed to ﬁ sh for salmon as opportunities on the river main stem disappear due to state legislation to phase out the gear. Takeko ‘Susie’ Wahl PUBLIC MEETINGS Jan 13 The Daily Astorian OBITUARIES Dec. 27, 2018 FICK, Terenia and Andrew, of Astoria, a girl, Sally Marie Fick, born at Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria. Grandparents are Mark and Geri Fick, Joanna Brochocka and Larry Goza, all of Astoria, and Jim Ydstie of London. First meeting set for Tuesday and Senate President Peter Courtney. Hoyle said she takes the issue personally, describ- ing to reporters how when she was a 21-year-old wait- ress as a hotel, she and other women were subjected to harassment by a man. She ﬁ led a harassment claim. “It was really difﬁ cult; it was not popular with all of my colleagues,” Hoyle said, but added that she was rep- resented by a union and that the man wound up being transferred. There were also times when she wasn’t paid the full wages due her but didn’t speak out, fearing she could be ﬁ red. “I’m not coming at this from a theoretical perspec- tive,” Hoyle said. Oregon is one of only four states that directly elect their labor commission- ers. Hoyle was elected in the May primary last year, winning more votes than her two male challengers combined. Three women previously held three of the ﬁ ve top statewide ofﬁ ces, but they were not all elected to the positions. Oregonians elect ﬁ ve statewide ofﬁ cials to the executive branch: gover- nor, secretary of state, trea- surer, attorney general, and commissioner of labor and industries. The secretary of state and the treasurer are men. W pc sn sh s s r s pc pc s s pc pc s s s pc r s pc s c c r pc Hi 52 49 24 52 30 30 54 -8 83 29 41 60 67 51 78 46 63 44 52 44 38 45 61 52 47 Wed. Lo 29 30 14 31 15 21 42 -25 68 18 22 43 49 28 53 23 41 32 36 30 21 27 49 47 31 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W s c c pc s c pc sf pc pc s pc c s pc pc pc c pc c s pc r r pc Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. A Seaside treasure has passed. On Dec. the t ai c hi and q i g ong classes. She enjoyed 27, 2018, our mother, Takeko “Susie” Wahl, traveling in the U.S. and internationally passed away after a year long battle with throughout Europe and Japan. When home, she spent many hours in her lung cancer. She passed away peacefully in beloved garden. One of her favorite pastimes her sleep, with family by her side. Takeko Wahl was born in Karatsu, Japan, was playing the video machines at various casinos, but she mostly enjoyed on Jan. 6, 1933. She was the elev- playing locally at West Lake Chi- enth of 12 children, and her mother nese Restaurant and Pudgy’s/ passed away from childbirth, forc- Finns restaurants. But most of ing her father to give her up to be all, she enjoyed being Grandma raised by her aunt and uncle, along to Joe and Kim’s children, Ryan with an older brother. She grew up and Kelsey Wahl and Sumiko in difﬁ cult, war time Japan. and Christopher White. She loved After high school, she attended cooking for her family and friends secretarial school in Sasebo, where more than anything. she met Charles Wahl, who was in Takeko is survived by her chil- the Navy and stationed in Sasebo. Takeko Wahl dren, Joe Wahl and Kimiko White, They fell in love and were mar- and their spouses Lora Wahl and ried, and had their children, Joe and Kim, while serving in Sasebo. Takeko Bill White; grandchildren, Ryan Wahl (wife would always say that Charles was the love Jen), Kelsey Wahl, Sumiko White and Chris- topher White; as well as her close family of her life. After Charles was diagnosed with lung friends, Dale Stampﬂ ee and Sheri Schuman, cancer, the family was ﬂ own to the San who lived with her part of the year, and gave Diego Naval Hospital, where he underwent much of their time caring for her during her treatment. Shortly after receiving treatment, bout with cancer. The family would like to thank the doc- he passed away in 1959. Since Charles was from the Astoria area, and had a mother tors, nurses and staff of Providence St. Vin- and sister in Gearhart and Seaside, Takeko cent’s Hospital, Providence Seaside Hos- moved the family to Gearhart to raise their pital and North Coast Hospice for their children. She eventually purchased a home professional and compassionate care of on Neawanna Street in Seaside, where she mom during this last year. A celebration of life service will be held raised their children. Takeko worked for many years for Sea- on Jan. 12, 2019, at 1 p.m. at Hughes-Ran- side High School, where she touched gen- som Mortuary in Seaside. A reception will erations of students who were inspired with follow at the American Legion Post 99 in her many Asian-styled specialty dishes, and Seaside from 2 to 5 p.m. In lieu of ﬂ owers or gifts, please make a where she later introduced and managed the snack bar. One of the highlights of her time donation to the Takeko (Susie) Wahl Memo- there was assisting the world-renowned chef rial Scholarship Fund at First Interstate Bank James Beard in his famous cooking school. in Seaside. The family would like to invite everyone During this time she had the opportunity to meet and get to know many well-known to add a favorite memory or photo of Takeko (Susie) online at www.hughes-ransom.com chefs at this cooking school. After retiring from the school district, she and fb.me/hughesransommortuary. These enjoyed many different activities, including will be gathered together and printed into a the Seaside Gourmet Club, playing pin ochle, memory book, which will be at the celebra- as well as participating in, and later leading, tion of life and reception. 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