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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2019
Port of Columbia County site
State care for elderly and
disabled needs improvement signs sale agreement with Shell
Associated Press
SALEM — The Oregon
Department of Human Ser-
vices still has signifi cant
work remaining on most
recommendations in a state
audit of the agency’s pro-
gram that provides in-home
care to the aging and dis-
abled people.
That’s the conclusion
of a followup report that
the Secretary of State’s
offi ce released Tuesday
about work done since the
original audit, which was
released in October 2017,
the Salem Statesman Jour-
nal reported .
The audit had found
shortcomings in the Aging
and People with Disabili-
ties Program, which served
about 13,230 people in
2017 through its consum-
er-employed provider ser-
vice. The program allows
participants to hire their
homecare worker.
In a statement, Secretary
of State Dennis Richardson
said his offi ce is encour-
aged by the progress but
“there is still more work
to be done to ensure aging
adults and people with dis-
abilities are safely receiv-
ing the care they need.”
The audit made 11 rec-
ommendations. Work on
seven of those have started,
but remain incomplete. The
other four recommenda-
tions have been fully put in
place.
Ashley Carson Cotting-
ham, the director of the
Aging and People with
Disabilities program, said
the audit was valuable for
improving the program.
“Through the recom-
mended changes, we’ve
been able to strengthen
key components of the pro-
gram around safety and
are working hard to fi nal-
ize the remaining planned
improvements for con-
sumers who opt to use the
program,” she said in a
statement.
Unfi nished
work
includes establishing min-
imum home-care worker
training requirements, put-
ting a new model for the
home-care worker pro-
gram in place that reduces
By CHLOE SKAAR
The Daily News
the workload of staff,
and developing a skills
assessment for home-care
workers.
The recommendations
aren’t yet in place for a
variety of reasons, the
report said.
For example, state law-
makers passed Senate Bill
1534, which requires the
department to put mini-
mum training standards in
place for homecare work-
ers by 2020. The depart-
ment has put together a
workgroup and its pro-
posal is in the rule-making
process.
The auditor’s recom-
mendation for a new model
for managing the homecare
worker program to reduce
workloads is considered
a long-term goal and may
require input from lawmak-
ers, the report said.
The agency has put rec-
ommendations in place
that include training for
case managers to recog-
nize when consumers need
more help and monitoring
the care they receive and
contacts with staff.
LONGVIEW, Wash. —
The proponent of a $1 bil-
lion renewable diesel fuel
project near Clatskanie has
announced it has signed an
agreement with petroleum
giant Shell to buy renewable
diesel, another step in what
still is a long road to con-
struction of the plant.
NEXT Renewable Fuels
also announced last week
that it wants the plant, which
would produce 13.3 million
barrels of biodiesel annually,
operating by 2021.
Biodiesel is made from
cooking oils, animal tallow
and seed and vegetable oils.
Lou Soumas, CEO of
Waterside Energy, which
owns NEXT, said Shell
asked not to reveal the time
length of the agreement.
The plant would be
located on Port of St. Hel-
ens-owned property at Port
Westward, but NEXT still
is negotiating a lease with
the port. Three other energy
companies have signed sim-
ilar purchase agreements,
said the port’s executive
director, Doug Hayes, but
he declined to name them
because the companies are
Port Commission approves contract
to dismantle abandoned vessel
The Daily Astorian
The Port of Astoria
Commission has approved
a $25,000 contract to have
Big River Construction
dismantle the vessel John
Muir.
The
agency
was
recently granted a $41,000
judgment against Marvin
Olson, a Colorado resident
and owner of the 1976
wooden sailboat, over
haul-out, storage and sal-
vage fees after the vessel
was abandoned at North
Tongue Point.
Matt McGrath, opera-
tions manager at the Port,
said the agency has all the
state permits in place to
dismantle the vessel.
The
Port
also
announced the lineup of an
ad-hoc committee recently
created to help evalu-
ate the fi nancial needs of
the agency and possible
solutions. The commit-
Astoria Yacht Club’s
Winter Education series
continues in February with
a presentation by Steve
Rich of Englund Marine
& Industrial Supply from
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thurs-
day at the Yacht Club
room upstairs, 300 Indus-
try St.
Rich’s years of expe-
rience at the electron-
ics counter of Englund
Marine gives him unique
Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — Scien-
tists in California are intro-
ducing a scale to measure
“atmospheric rivers,” the
weather phenomenon that
can dump massive quanti-
ties of Pacifi c Ocean water
on the West Coast, carrying
it through the air from as far
THURSDAY
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Newport
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Coos Bay
30/48
New
Feb 26
Mar 6
Baker
4/34
Lakeview
2/31
Ashland
23/45
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THURSDAY
Seaside Parks Advisory Com-
mittee, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989
Broadway.
Tuesday’s Lucky Lines: 2-7-10-
13-17-22-25-29
Estimated jackpot: $39,000
Tuesday’s Mega Millions: 3-34-
36-59-66, Mega Ball: 7
Estimated jackpot: $157 million
WASHINGTON
Tuesday’s Daily Game: 8-6-8
Tuesday’s Keno: 02-05-11-16-
17-23-24-33-34-40-43-46-48-57-
67-70-75-77-78-80
Tuesday’s Match 4: 04-06-09-14
LOTTERIES
Burns
2/31
Klamath Falls
8/33
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Judge Guy Boyington Building,
857 Commercial St., Astoria.
Gearhart City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 698 Pacifi c Way.
Ontario
14/37
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Ralston Purina Co .
She was a member of St.
John Fisher Catholic Church.
She is survived by her sister,
Frances Crandall (George), and
several nieces and nephews.
A graveside service was
held at Mount Calvary Cath-
olic Cemetery in Portland,
Oregon.
MEMORIAL
WEDNESDAY
Clatsop County Board of
Commissioners, 6 p.m., work
session on homelessness fund,
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
North Bend
of Astoria for 17 years. Wini
enjoyed cooking, enter-
taining and playing bridge.
Wini and Don lived in San
Diego and Long Beach,
California, for many years,
as well as American Samoa
and Puerto Rico, where her
husband was employed by
Van Camp Seafood Co. and
PUBLIC MEETINGS
La Grande
7/33
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Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
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John Day
11/39
Winifred “Wini” Doran
was born in Brookfi eld,
Washington, on Jan. 2,
1919. She lived in Astoria,
Oregon, and graduated from
Astoria High School.
On Nov. 2, 1940, she
married Donald Doran, who
died on May 24, 2006.
She worked for the Port
Saturday, Feb. 9
CARLSON, Donald R. and Frances Marie (Thomas) “Peggy” — Celebration of life and
reception, 2 p.m., Washington Land Yacht Harbor Harmony Hall, 9101 Steilacoom Road
S.E., Olympia, Washington.
Roseburg
26/43
Brookings
32/49
Tonight's Sky: The bright eclipsing variable star
Algol is in one of its periodic dimming, magnitude
3.4 instead of its usual 2.1.
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12/40
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22/44
Medford
21/44
UNDER THE SKY
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9/31
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17/33
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23/42
Eugene
22/43
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Feb 19
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ASTORIA
28/46
Sunset tonight ........................... 5:27 p.m.
Sunrise Thursday ........................ 7:31 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................... 8:42 a.m.
Moonset today ........................... 7:25 p.m.
Time
3:09 a.m.
2:35 p.m.
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REGIONAL WEATHER
SUN AND MOON
Feb 12
SUNDAY
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Astoria through Tuesday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 41°/28°
Normal high/low ........................... 51°/37°
Record high ............................ 65° in 1941
Record low ............................... 9° in 1989
Precipitation
Tuesday ............................................ 0.00"
Month to date ................................... 1.12"
Normal month to date ....................... 1.34"
Year to date ...................................... 6.05"
Normal year to date ........................ 11.54"
First
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2017 would have been cat-
egory 4 — or “extreme” —
because it persisted for 36
hours and produced up to 14
inches of rain in the Sierra
Nevada.
Scripps says it’s similar to
scales that gauge hurricane,
wind, or tornado intensity
and could aid fl ood response
and water management.
Winifred ‘Wini’ Doran
insights into this chang-
ing fi eld. He will give an
update on the current state
of the art for marine elec-
tronics and a preview of
the things he sees for the
future, followed by a ques-
tion and answer session.
FRIDAY
away as Hawaii.
The Scripps Institution of
Oceanography at the Uni-
versity of California, San
Diego announced Tuesday
that the 1-through-5 scale
will characterize the strength
of atmospheric rivers from
“weak” to “exceptional.”
Under the system, an
atmospheric river in January
OBITUARIES
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
In addition to the lease,
the project depends on the
Port of St. Helens rezon-
ing the land from agricul-
ture to industrial use. The
Oregon Land Use Board of
Appeals is hearing an appeal
from Columbia Riverkeeper
about rezoning the land; the
rezoning has attracted oppo-
sition from the area and area
conservationists.
In December, the appeals
board turned the rezoning
decision back to Columbia
County, citing a lack of clear
planning from the port and
failed arguments from Riv-
erkeeper. Riverkeeper again
appealed that action, and
Hayes said the port will get
its chance to better defi ne
the purpose of rezoning after
the board makes a decision
with the new appeal.
“They have to submit
their oral arguments by this
week,” Hayes said. “Once
we hear the results of that ...
we would anticipate a lease
within the next year.”
Hayes said the project
could mean up to $11 mil-
lion in extra revenue for
the port annually. Hayes
also said the NEXT project
would employ 200 full-time
workers and create 1,000
jobs to build it.
A new scale will measure
‘atmospheric rivers’ on West Coast
tee will include Walt Pos-
tlewait, an executive vice
president at lender Craft3;
marine engineer Bill
Young; former fi nancial
representative John Lan-
sing; regional U.S. Bank
President Kevin LaCoste;
Englund Marine & Indus-
trial
Supply
Finance
Director Jeremy Davis;
and Kevin Leahy, exec-
utive director of Clatsop
Economic Development
Resources.
Yacht Club presents Rich
The Daily Astorian
expected to make their own
announcements later this
week.
Soumas said the renew-
able diesel produced at the
site can be used in existing
fuel stations, making the
product attractive to nation-
wide companies such as
Shell.
“(The fuel) can run in
the same vehicles as petro-
leum,” Soumas said. “It
allows them not to have
to worry about changing
stations.”
Soumas said NEXT
would produce 37,500 bar-
rels of biodiesel a day,
mainly transporting it on
ships. Railroad use would
be minimal, Soumas said,
and most of the rail traffi c to
the site would involve car-
rying construction supplies.
He also said there won’t be
use of any long unit trains,
meaning the rail cars would
be attached to existing trains
instead of increasing the
number of trains to Port
Westward.
Next hasn’t signed a lease
with the port, but it already
is paying the port $15,000
a month until a lease is
signed, Hayes said. Hayes
said he expects the lease to
be signed within a year.
OREGON
Tuesday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 0-8-0-3
4 p.m.: 8-7-9-2
7 p.m.: 9-1-7-6
10 p.m.: 3-0-4-2
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