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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
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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
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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.
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City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
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Olympia
Pendleton
Portland
Roseburg
Salem
Seaside
Spokane
Springfi eld
Vancouver
Yakima
Hi
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38
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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.
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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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