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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2019
Astoria company earns
‘operator of the year’ award
The Harbor hires a new director
Fifth director for
agency since 2012
The Daily Astorian
Astoria logging com-
pany
J.M.
Browning
Logging and owner Jay
Browning were recognized
by the state as “Opera-
tor of the Year” for n orth-
west Oregon at a ceremony
Wednesday.
Browning and operators
like him “have shown how
they can harvest needed
wood products in Oregon
while protecting natural
resources,” Lena Tucker,
private
forests
divi-
sion chief for the Oregon
Department of Forestry,
said in a statement.
“We’re pleased to
honor the excellent care
and diligence they demon-
strate, often in challenging
circumstances.”
The Oregon Board of
Forestry gives the Oper-
ator of the Year Awards
to operators in n orth-
west, s outhwest and East-
ern Oregon who go “above
and beyond” the require-
ments of the Oregon For-
est Practices Act, which
outlines how people must
harvest timber while still
By KATIE FRANKOWICZ
The Daily Astorian
The Harbor, an advocacy
group for victims of domestic
and sexual violence in Clat-
sop County, has a new exec-
utive director.
Terri Steenbergen, an East
Coast native with a back-
ground in political work and
nonprofi t management, has
been on the job for only a
few days. She arrives at a
time when the organization
is seeking to further stabilize
and maintain programs after
expanding services last year,
said Mindy Stokes, the board
chairwoman.
Steenbergen has experi-
ence with gender-based vio-
lence and managing big bud-
gets, Stokes said.
A hiring committee that
included board members,
a representative from law
enforcement and a Harbor
staff member “felt Terri was
Jay Browning, center, owner of J.M. Browning Logging, was
recognized by the Oregon Board of Forestry as this year’s
‘Operator of the Year’ for northwest Oregon. He stands
between State Forester Peter Daugherty and Board of
Forestry Chair Tom Imeson.
protecting or enhancing
streams, water quality and
habitat and reducing land-
slide risks.
Browning earned this
year’s award for protect-
ing a fi sh-bearing stream
in Hampton Lumber’s Big
Creek Forest. Browning
removed aging alder trees,
clearing up space for large
conifer trees to regenerate
along the streambank and
improve fi sh habitat.
The award also rec-
ognized Browning for
decades of consistently
applying
management
practices that safeguard
forest resources, even
under challenging circum-
stances, according to the
state.
Gwin and Sons Log-
ging of Vernonia and its
owner, Rick Gwin, were
were recognized by the
Oregon Board of Forestry
with a 2018 Merit Award
for northwest Oregon.
Parents protest tightened vaccine bill
By SARAH
ZIMMERMAN
Associated Press
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
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A bit of afternoon rain
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Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
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the state’s relaxed vaccine
exemption policy. That pol-
icy allows parents to decline
required immunizations for
religious, personal or philo-
sophical reasons. The state’s
considering a proposal that
would require children to
receive vaccinations in order
to attend school, unless they
have a doctor’s note seek-
ing an exemption for medi-
cal reasons.
If passed, Oregon would
join only three other states in
banning nonmedical exemp-
tions for vaccines. Washing-
ton state is also considering
a similar proposal.
But parents call the mea-
sure discriminatory, say-
ing the state shouldn’t hold
a child’s education hostage
in exchange for receiving
vaccines.
A training session for
political candidates and
campaign workers will be
held Saturday to help pre-
pare Clatsop County citizens
considering a run for offi ce
during the May elections.
The training, named
Campaigns 101, aims to
teach fi rst-time candidates
how to get involved in the
political process. The main
topics of the training will
address the basics of cam-
paign organizing, steps in
fi nancial record-keeping and
the timelines of fi ling for
offi ce and voter-guide con-
tent submission.
The session is being spon-
sored by the Clatsop County
Democratic Party, but peo-
ple of all political affi liations
are invited to attend.
The session is from
10:30 a.m. to noon in the
Flag Room of the Astoria
Library.
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• At 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Molly Elizabeth Marshall, 36, of Seaside, was arrested by
the Clatsop County Sheriff’s Offi ce on the 33000 block of Beerman Creek Road for driving
under the infl uence of intoxicants.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
MONDAY
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Cannon Beach Rural Fire Department District Board, 6 p.m., Fire-Rescue Main Station, 188 Sun-
set Ave.
Seaside City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway.
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SALEM — As a mea-
sles outbreak in southwest
Washington continues to
grow, hundreds of people,
including families, swarmed
the Capitol on Thursday to
protest a measure making
it harder for parents to opt
out of school vaccination
requirements.
“There is no measles
emergency,” said Sarah
Bacon during a speech at a
protest rally. Bacon is the
executive director of Orego-
nians for Medical Freedom,
a grassroots organization
that advocates for parents’
freedom to make medical
decisions for their children.
More than 70 people,
many of them unvaccinated
children, have been sick-
ened with measles in Clark
County, Washington. In Ore-
gon, six people have been
confi rmed with measles, a
disease the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention
considered to be eliminated
in 2000.
Doctors and health offi -
cials have said that vac-
cines have been proven safe
and effective, and noted that
serious vaccine side effects
are rare. In a video mes-
sage last month, U.S. Sur-
geon General Jerome Adams
pleaded with parents to “pro-
tect their children by getting
them vaccinated,” saying it
is the best protection against
measles.
The recent outbreak has
fueled lawmakers to tighten
Clatsop Democrats hold campaign training event
Lakeview
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Portland
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Sunset tonight ........................... 6:11 p.m.
Sunrise Saturday ........................ 6:41 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................... 7:58 a.m.
Moonset today ........................... 8:24 p.m.
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ASTORIA
31/48
SUN AND MOON
Time
2:51 a.m.
3:02 p.m.
Mostly sunny
TUESDAY
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REGIONAL WEATHER
Precipitation
Thursday .......................................... 0.14"
Month to date ................................... 0.15"
Normal month to date ....................... 1.79"
Year to date .................................... 12.74"
Normal year to date ........................ 19.18"
Mar 14
51
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Times of clouds and sun
Astoria through Thursday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 46°/31°
Normal high/low ........................... 53°/38°
Record high ............................ 74° in 1905
Record low ............................. 25° in 1974
First
MONDAY
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the most qualifi ed to take the town and abandoned plans
agency from here forward,” for an expensive remodel of
Stokes said, adding, “What the Van Dusen B uilding on
Duane Street — now
struck me is that she
home to artists’ stu-
is accessible and
dios. The Harbor
down to earth.”
moved locations and
“This is the kind of
is renting offi ce space
work I’ve been want-
in the former Snow
ing to do for a while,”
& Snow law fi rm,
Steenbergen said. She
across the street from
has worked for Mercy
Terri
the Clatsop County
Corps in Uganda and
Portland, and man- Steenbergen Courthouse.
“I feel like T he
aged a fi eld program
in Portland to encourage voter Harbor has done some good
turnout to re-elect Gov. Kate expansion in the last year,”
Steenbergen said.
Brown.
The organization secured
The Harbor has weath-
ered several upheavals and grants to locate advocates in
changes in recent years, health care clinics and facili-
including four different direc- ties in the region and to ensure
tors since longtime director staff are effectively including
Pat Burness retired in 2012. minority or other socially or
Molly Pringle, the group’s culturally diverse groups in
most recent director, stepped their outreach. The group is
down because of unexpected also in the process of reopen-
family circumstances in ing a secure shelter for women
December, but left on good and families fl eeing abuse.
“I think this year we want
terms.
Hoping to stabilize core to make sure we’re really
services, the organization also solidifying those grants and
decided to close its unprofi t- maintaining the work we’re
able Deja Vu thrift store down- doing,” Steenbergen said.
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