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Coach: ‘The
three of us that
resigned …
we didn’t do
anything wrong’
Regulate:
Auditors
fi nd state
oversight
insuffi cient
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coach, was charged with second-de-
gree sex abuse, third-degree rape and
third-degree sodomy after allegedly
having sex with a 15-year-old girl
on the wrestling team during the Red-
mond trip. The sex abuse charge is
based on Truax being her coach and
the alleged victim being underage and
unable to consent to sex. The rape and
sodomy charges are based on allegedly
having sex with a victim under 16.
“This is a sad and traumatic situa-
tion for our school community and our
community at large,” Johnson wrote
in a statement. “The district is com-
mitted to making the situation better
for students, chaperones, and adults
who take future trips by implementing
new policies and procedures.”
Owings said this is not the way he
wanted to end his career after more
than 30 years as Knappa’s wres-
tling coach. He called the situation
“heartbreaking.”
“The three of us that resigned …
we didn’t do anything wrong. In hind-
sight, there’s things we would have
done to prevent the situation, but
that’s hindsight,” Owings said without
elaborating.
The wrestling coaches were placed
on leave after the allegations against
Truax surfaced. Owings and Whit-
worth were paid coaches, while Posey
and Truax were volunteers.
Truax, who was suspended as
coach, will not return, Johnson said.
The school district has also learned
that Truax did not undergo a back-
ground check, which is a requirement
for anyone who works with students
at the school. “We thought one was
done,” Johnson said.
Before the resignations were
announced, many in the commu-
nity spoke in support of Owings at a
school board meeting Monday night
and urged the school district to keep
him on as coach. Former students and
wrestlers described how Owings was
an important and formative part of
their high school years.
“That man does nothing but pro-
vide an outlet for so many students
in the community for so many years.
He’s a man worth his word,” said
Gary Newberry, a coach for Knappa
Kids Wrestling. “The support he has
behind him speaks volumes to what
kind of person he is.”
Parents and coaches said the school
district should have clearer guidance
for managing behavior on overnight
trips.
Aaron Barendse, the Knappa foot-
ball coach, said while some things
“are obvious,” it’s troublesome and
nerve-wracking to go on trips and feel
like the responsibility for what hap-
pens falls entirely on him.
“As a coach, I don’t think I’ve had
any formal, sit-down training,” he said.
Johnson presented the school
board on Monday with a draft policy
outlining expectations for fi eld trips
and overnight trips.
“We want to continue the pro-
gram,” Johnson said of the wrestling
team. “We want to make it the best
we can for kids, so we’re going to do
everything we can.”
guidance on cannabis that
had allowed more leeway
for states during the Obama
administration. Shortly there-
after, Oregon’s top federal
prosecutor, Billy Williams,
made headlines when he lam-
basted what he claimed was a
rampant problem of diversion
from the state, with tons of
legally grown Oregon canna-
bis leaking across state lines
and into the black market.
State auditors waded into
the fray this year, fi nding that
state oversight is insuffi cient,
particularly when it comes to
medical marijuana. Addition-
ally, they said, the state could
improve testing of marijuana
products to protect public
health and should consider
testing cannabis products
for heavy metals and micro-
biological contaminants. It
should also make sure labs
that test cannabis are consis-
tently accredited.
Although it has worked to
beef up tracking of marijuana
products, the Oregon Liquor
Control Commission is ham-
strung in efforts to prevent
diversion due to data errors
and a lack of inspections,
according to the report.
The agency was over-
whelmed by rapid growth of
the cannabis market, auditors
said, and was unable to get the
staff, licenses and inspections
it needed to adequately over-
see the program. Just 3 per-
cent of licensed retailers have
undergone a state compliance
inspection, while 32 percent
of growers have, the report
report.
The agency halted process-
ing new recreational marijuana
license applications in June
so state offi cials could catch
up on a backlog. Gov. Kate
Brown wants to change state
law to allow the commission
to cap licenses based on mar-
ket demand and other factors.
The state doesn’t have as
much authority to regulate
medical growers’ activities,
auditors said. And they found
there aren’t enough inspectors
of medical cannabis, there
is high turnover among the
inspectors the program does
have, and money coming into
the program through fees is
dropping off.
In a press release, Rich-
ardson said that prevent-
ing diversion of cannabis is
“imperative to ensure fed-
eral authorities maintain con-
fi dence in Oregon’s ability to
adequately regulate the use
and sale of marijuana.”
Directors of the Oregon
Liquor Control Commission
and the Oregon Health Author-
ity said they agreed with audi-
tors’ recommendations.
Photos by Luke Whittaker/Chinook Observer
Vancouver Weed Co. owner Gary Green holds a sample of concentrated marijuana oil he extracted using a rotary
evaporator in the Ilwaco lab.
Marijuana: Concentrates becoming an
alternative to prescription medications
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Pacifi c County, where the potent
oils were readily available at a rel-
ative discount. The trend devel-
oped despite federal prohibition
of interstate transportation of mar-
ijuana products.
“People were coming in
because we had good concen-
trates at a really good price with
high numbers,” Nichols said. “We
have some that start at about $12
per gram and a lot in the $15 to
$18 category.”
Outdoor harvests in Oregon
have since slashed price dispar-
ities, allowing Clatsop County
stores to counter with rock-bot-
tom prices of their own, including
grams less than $12 at The Far-
macy and Sweet Relief.
Concentrated cannabis oils
have become increasingly popu-
lar as an alternative to prescrip-
tion medications.
“A lot of people have been
cutting back on their medications
and using oils,” Nichols said.
Customers often seek concen-
trates for relief of side effects
from cancer treatments, arthri-
tis, fi bromyalgia and muscu-
lar dystrophy, but sales haven’t
been exclusive to a particular age
group or demographic.
“I’m surprised by how many
senior citizens who have taken
up dabbing,” Nichols said. “I
had some people in here ear-
lier in their 60s and 70s seek-
ing dabs. It’s not just the kids,
everybody seems to have grav-
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itated towards it in one way or
another.”
Cannabis concentrates are also
popular for consumers who don’t
want to smoke or eat edibles but
still want the benefi ts.
“We beefed up in the concen-
trate department because we’re a
top seller and they move out of
here really quickly,” Nichols said.
“There are also a lot of growers
producing a lot more concentrates
because it’s been picking up in
popularity.”
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a park, said junior Allison Keel-
ing. They made a template of the
dragon on paper and scaled it up
to the wall in chalk before paint-
ing, fi nishing last week.
The members of Cereghino’s
class aren’t the fi rst students to
honor Chinese heritage. Asto-
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Local sales of marijuana concentrates continue to grow.
ria graduate Raina Christian, an
adoptee from the Guangxi prov-
ince of China, erected a hanging
lantern exhibit and organized the
area’s fi rst Mid-Autumn Festi-
val in 2016 for her senior project,
hoping to raise awareness about
the infl uence of the Chinese on
the city.
By 1880, Chinese immigrants
comprised a third of Astoria’s
population, according to histo-
rian Liisa Penner of the Clatsop
County Historical Society. They
were drawn as cheap labor to
build the city’s infrastructure and
work in canneries. The Chinese
Exclusion Act of 1882 drained
much of the population out by
World War II.
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creating marijuana concentrates at the extraction lab in Raymond.
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