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Plastics: Kids love to help with beach cleanups Mitchell: Voiced
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sure to not leave it behind,”
said Pooka Rice, outreach
coordinator for the Haystack
Rock Awareness Program.
In years past, children
were drilled on the impor-
tance of recycling. With ris-
ing concerns about plas-
tic pollution and especially
the accumulation of micro-
plastics — tiny pieces of
plastic that are diffi cult if
not impossible to recycle
— Trash Talk’s work tries
to answer a new and grow-
ing recycling conundrum:
What to do with the exces-
sive amount of plastic that
gets dumped into the envi-
ronment and then washes up
in strange tiny pieces on the
beach.
Kids love to help with
beach cleanups .
“It’s a way for them
to feel like they’re doing
something,” Rice said.
“Just because they’re small
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Students at Bumble Art Studio’s preschool program arrange
marine plastic debris into a mural on an old window.
doesn’t mean they can’t
help.”
But the project also
gives them permission to
view these scraps that pol-
lute marine environments as
potential art materials.
For the students of Sim-
ply Kids Preschool, the re use
work they were engaged in
as an art project carries on in
their own classrooms, said
Adrienne Hunter, the pre-
school’s owner and operator.
In their creative play, the
students are often asked to
look at recyclable objects
like the cardboard centers of
toilet paper rolls or peanut
butter jar lids and ask them-
selves, “What can this be
other than what it is?”
The preschool uses
dishes made from recycled
plastics and they got rid of
single-use paper napkins,
instead using cloth napkins.
Objects that would have
been trash are often repur-
posed in the classroom.
For Hunter, the extra cost
of forgoing easy and often
cheaper options like paper
napkins or disposable dishes
is not even a question.
“Our focus was really not
looking at the costs,” she
said, “but just being con-
scious of how we use things
and what we throw away.”
The preschoolers’ win-
dows, along with the work
of other young students in
local classrooms, will be on
display at the old ABECO
building on Commercial
Street during Second Satur-
day Art Walk in April.
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The cooler waters are
good news for whales and
salmon. Prey that salmon rely
on appear to be in abundance,
and indicators researchers use
to predict juvenile and adult
salmon survival increased
slightly. There were no major
seabird die-offs in 2018, and
sea lion pups were fi nding
enough to eat.
However, the ocean is still
not as productive as it was
before the heat wave. For
researchers, there are linger-
ing questions: Is this the new
normal, where major events
like marine heat waves rou-
tinely disrupt ocean creatures
and fi sheries? Or is the ocean
truly going back to what it
was like before 2014?
The last couple of years
have been a slow transition
away from the unproductive
hot years, said Toby Garfi eld,
the director of NOAA’s envi-
ronmental research division,
who co-edited the report. He
and other researchers pre-
sented the ecosystem report to
the Pacifi c Fisheries Manage-
ment Council on Thursday.
“The system is in transi-
tion, but to what?” Garfi eld
said. “We’re not sure.”
Researchers saw an intense
but short-lived heat surge last
fall. Some theorized a new
heat wave might be forming
in the North Pacifi c. But a
heat wave never fully estab-
lished itself.
“That doesn’t mean it
can’t re-establish,” Garfi eld
said. Researchers have seen
this happen before. Still, it
was mostly gone by Decem-
ber and has not reformed as
of February .
And there are troubling
reminders of the recent past,
evidence that the warm
waters are still infl uenc-
ing the biology of the sys-
tem, said Chris Harvey, of the
Northwest Fisheries Science
Center, and a co-editor of the
report.
Researchers continued to
see massive amounts of pyro-
somes off the Oregon Coast
in 2018. These semi trans-
lucent “sea pickles,” more
common in water warmer
than what is usually found off
the North Coast, showed up
en masse in 2017. They gum
up commercial fi shing gear
and feed on planktonic organ-
isms that are important food
to small fi sh, and, in turn, to
larger marine creatures.
There are predictions
for poor returns of Chinook
salmon in 2019, fi sh that
likely suffered in the condi-
tions they found when they
entered the ocean during the
unusually warm years.
Harmful algal blooms
have also been widespread .
NOAA included informa-
tion about the blooms in the
assessment for the fi rst time
ever, acknowledging the
impact of the events, which
shut down popular and valu-
able razor clam and crab
fi sheries.
“This was clearly a prob-
lem and potentially related
to the warmer-than-average
conditions,” Harvey said .
Harmful algal blooms
have proved to be a serious
management issue for state
fi sh and wildlife departments,
shutting down and delaying
fi sheries. One of the largest
toxic blooms ever recorded
on the West Coast occurred
during the hot years.
Whale entanglements in
fi shing gear also continued,
likely infl uenced by harmful
algal blooms, which altered
where and when fi shing gear
might be present in the water.
Most of the confi rmed
reports of whale entangle-
ment came from Califor-
nia, Harvey said. Of the con-
fi rmed reports, most involved
humpback whales. Often the
fi shing gear the whales tan-
gled with was not identifi ed.
When it was, it was often
crab gear.
R esearchers expect to see
“hypoxic,” or dead zones, of
low oxygen waters along the
sea fl oor become widespread
off the Oregon and Wash-
ington coasts this spring and
summer — bad news for bot-
tom dwellers — as well as
corrosive waters caused by
ocean acidifi cation — bad
news for shellfi sh.
Overall, Garfi eld said, the
ocean seems to be continuing
to cool and adjust.
“But it’s taking its time.”
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trade program bill
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But educators in atten-
dance Sunday said the
committee’s budget, which
is less than the $9 billion
requested by Gov. Kate
Brown, falls well short of
providing what students
and teachers need.
Mitchell,
D-Astoria,
agreed with concerns over
funding for education and
other essential services but
said a lot depends on being
able to raise more revenue.
“Based off of what we
have right now, there isn’t
a lot of room to grow at
the moment, especially
since there are indications
we’re on kind of a down-
ward (economic) trend,”
she said.
Much of the attention at
the town hall was toward
putting more pressure on
s tate Sen. Betsy Johnson,
D-Scappoose, a co-chair-
woman of the Joint Com-
mittee on Ways and Means
and one of the most power-
ful state legislators.
Johnson was called out
by some for not support-
ing Measure 97, an unsuc-
cessful ballot measure for a
gross receipts tax in 2016.
Jan Mitchell, a local orga-
nizer, asked Mitchell how
to get through to legisla-
tors like Johnson about the
lack of funding for social
services and the need to
make more revenue from
private timberland owners
and other corporations.
Rep. Mitchell called on
people to rally around spe-
cifi c legislation, push it
with their legislators and
show up to Salem with
their stories. As for rais-
ing revenue, she supported
Measure 97, but said not
every legislator felt the
same way about raising
taxes on corporations.
Mitchell shared her
hopes for legislation this
session to ban single-use
plastic bags and polysty-
rene, while discouraging
the use of disposable plas-
tic straws.
She heard from people
concerned about the fees
related to opting out of
Pacifi c Power’s new smart
power meters, and from a
parent worried about being
mandated to get her child
vaccinated.
Mitchell voiced her sup-
port for state House Bill
2020, which would cre-
ate the nation’s fi rst carbon
cap-and-trade program.
The
Georgia-Pacifi c
Wauna Mill is the largest
single employer in Clat-
sop County and would be
affected by the legisla-
tion. Kristi Ward, a spokes-
woman for the mill, called
the cap-and-trade proposal
one of the most concerning
pieces of legislation she’s
ever seen.
“We work very hard to
make our mill more com-
petitive in an environ-
ment that every year gets
more and more competi-
tive, and you see more and
more paper mills shutting
down,” she said.
There are mills in the
Midwest that already ship
into Wauna Mill’s mar-
ket west of the Rocky
Mountains without the
added cost of capping car-
bon emissions, Ward said.
“Pennies matter per case,
basically, ” she said.
The cap-and-trade bill
is not being put together
without talking to com-
munities around the state,
Mitchell said. She pointed
out how the proposed leg-
islation would greatly
increase the cap initially on
carbon emissions for ener-
gy-intensive facilities like
the Wauna Mill.
“I think that while obvi-
ously what you said, ‘Pen-
nies on each box,’ does
mean something, they are
defi nitely trying to fi gure
out a way of trying to help
those industries who have
a competitive issue there,”
Mitchell said.
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Sundstrom: ‘I wanted to teach all kinds of dancers’
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professional career, came to
Astoria as part of an outreach
program where dancers per-
form at schools and librar-
ies. The professional dancers
then collaborate with local
dancers.
“I like to break through
the snobbishness and open
up to the beauty of (ballet),”
Sundstrom said. “It comes
from the royal court ... and I
kind of want to work toward
changing that culture and
opening the doors so every-
one can enjoy it.”
Sundstrom has been the
director OBT2 since its
inception in 2016. Before
that, she spent more than
10 years touring as a pro-
fessional dancer for ABT2,
the training company for
American Ballet Theatre,
the Pennsylvania Ballet and
then again as a dancer for
American Ballet Theatre.
She starred in leading roles
in famous works such as
“Swan Lake” and “Romeo
and Juliet.”
After retiring in the mid
1990s, Sundstrom began
teaching across the country
at small ballet schools.
“I wanted to teach all
kinds of dancers, not just the
talented ones,” she said. “I
just wanted to teach the danc-
ers who wanted to learn.”
Eventually, Sundstrom
came back home to Oregon
to direct the Portland Fes-
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to take the job with Ore-
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back to the next generation
of dancers in the state that
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