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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2019
Column closed Saturday for rescue training
Search continues for missing
29-year-old Svensen woman
Police suspect
she went into the
water near pier
The Daily Astorian
The Astoria Column will
be closed on Saturday for
the Clatsop County Sheriff’s
Offi ce High Angle Rescue
Team to conduct a training
returning to shore
searches on the
on the video . A
water .
search and rescue
“We want to be
dog also tracked
open to all possi-
Sanders to the same
bilities and ensure
location where she
we’ve done all we
was last seen on
can to locate Maya.
Maya Sanders
video.
Please keep Maya’s
“Based on this
family and friends
information there is a in your thoughts as they go
strong probability that she through this diffi cult time,”
went into the water,” As- Halverson said.
toria Deputy Police Chief
Sanders was reported
Eric Halverson said in a missing around the Astoria
statement.
Riverwalk on Tuesday.
Clatsop County Search
Her clothing and other
and Rescue’s dive team did items were spotted at the
a dive in the area but was end of Sixth Street, near
unable to locate her.
Comfort Suites and by the
The dive team will con- train tracks near Tongue
tinue conducting sonar Point.
By BRENNA VISSER
The Daily Astorian
Video footage shows a
missing Svensen woman on
a pier at North Tongue Point
on Tuesday afternoon.
Investigators reviewed
footage from several cam-
eras and found that Maya
Sanders, 29, was alone .
Footage showed that she
entered the pier walking
north out of the camera
frame.
Sanders is not seen
The Daily Astorian
The Sunday auditions for
the Peninsula Players’ sum-
mer musical “Mary Poppins”
have been canceled because
of the death of Timothy Pior,
SALEM — Oregon will
pay off half of its Medicaid
debt through new taxes on
health care providers.
Gov. Kate Brown on
Wednesday approved a
six-year tax on hospitals
and insurance plans to help
fund the state’s $950 mil-
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Knappa
Jan. 17, 1936 — March 8, 2019
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Coos Bay
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Ontario
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Georgia Faye Oja, 83, of Knappa, passed every kind. She loved her cats the most.
away Friday, March 8, 2019.
She enjoyed feeding the birds and squir-
Georgia was born in Offerle, Kansas, on rels. In her later years, she loved her role as
Jan. 17, 1936 to Clarence and Ruby Israel. matriarch of the family, as she was loved,
After living in Offerle for a short time, the respected and admired by all of her children,
grandchildren and great-grand-
Israels moved to Hood River,
children. She loved them all, and
Turner, Bridge and Jewell. They
enjoyed spending time with them.
fi nally settled in Svensen, Oregon.
Georgia is survived by her sib-
Georgia attended local schools;
lings, Donna Karns, of Knappa,
the last school she attended was
Ganell Israel, of Denver, Colo-
Knappa-Svensen High School.
rado, Sandra Parks, of Svensen,
During this time, she met and
and Kent and Kathy Israel, of War-
married Richard Beemer of Asto-
renton; and her children, Dick
ria. They welcomed their fi rst
and Kim Beemer, of Eugene, Dan
son, Dick, in 1952, then moved to
Beemer, of Eugene, Vicky and
Eugene, Oregon. They later had
Georgia Oja
Bob McClenathan, of Palm Beach
two more children, Danny and
Gardens, Florida, Wayne and Pam
Vicky. In 1974, Georgia and Rich-
ard Beemer divorced. She then moved back Oja, of Astoria, Jackie Stiles, of Vancouver,
to Svense n, and went to work at The Logger. Washington, Nancy and Bill Munson, of
In 1977, she married Richard Oja, and Corvallis, Neil Oja, of Flower Mound Texas,
three more children were added to the Oja and Mark and Millie Oja, of Knappa. She is
family, Dick, Danny and Vicky. She proudly also survived by 17 grandchildren and 27
stepped in and continued to help raise Rich- great-grandchildren.
Her husband, Richard, preceded her in
ard’s two youngest boys, Neil and Mark.
Georgia and Dick continued to run The Log- death on March 1, 2019.
A graveside service and interment will
ger until they sold it in 1991. Georgia con-
tinued to work at The Logger for several be Saturday, March 16, at 11 a.m. at Knappa
Prairie Cemetery, 92892 Knappa Dock
more years.
Georgia loved people and her commu- Road, immediately followed by a remem-
nity, volunteering at the local granges, food brance celebration at the Brownsmead
banks and various fund raising activities. Grange, 42280 Fish Lane. All are invited to
Georgia enjoyed country music, spending attend.
Donations in Georgia’s name may be
more than a decade attending the Oregon
Jamboree with friends and family. Georgia made to the Knappa Schools Foundation.
Ocean View Cremation and Burial Service
loved the annual corn feed in Brownsmead.
She was a all-around animal lover of of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
DEATH
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Ilwaco
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Tonight's Sky: Albert Einstein's Birthday (1879).
First quarter moon (3:27 a.m.)
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UNDER THE SKY
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The Dalles
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Portland
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Sunset tonight ........................... 7:19 p.m.
Sunrise Friday ............................. 7:29 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................ 12:07 p.m.
Moonset today ............................ 2:51 a.m.
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ASTORIA
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Precipitation
Wednesday ....................................... 0.04"
Month to date ................................... 1.34"
Normal month to date ....................... 3.24"
Year to date .................................... 13.93"
Normal year to date ........................ 20.63"
Mar 14
MONDAY
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REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Wednesday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 51°/35°
Normal high/low ........................... 54°/39°
Record high ............................ 73° in 1979
Record low ............................. 25° in 1969
First
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1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, and
6 to 8 p.m. on Monday, as
planned.
A notice in today’s Coast
Weekend said auditions
would take place all three
days.
Georgia Faye Israel Oja
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
who was involved with the
troupe.
Pior, who died from fl u-re-
lated complications, will be
remembered at a memorial in
Warrenton on Sunday.
Auditions will take place
OBITUARIES
exploring a tax on employ-
ers who don’t provide
workers affordable health
care coverage.
Legislative budget lead-
ers say that without new
revenue, Oregon will have
to fi ll the rest of the approx-
imate $450 million fund-
ing gap through its general
fund.
lion Medicaid shortfall. The
move is expected to bring in
over $430 million.
The state has been strug-
gling to keep up with Med-
icaid funding after a drop in
federal contributions. The
governor hopes to make
up the rest of the money
through a tax on tobacco
and e-cigarettes. She’s also
to be safely brought down.
The C olumn will be closed
between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.
The public is welcome to
watch the rescue, but carpool-
ing is advised as parking will
be limited.
Revised auditions announced for ‘Mary Poppins’
Brown signs funding to pay down Medicaid debt
Associated Press
exercise.
The training will be a
re-enactment of the rescue
that was performed in July
2000. A man visiting from
Florida had a heart attack at
the top of the C olumn and had
March 12, 2019
DONER, James Norman, 83, of Warrenton, died in Astoria. Caldwell’s Luce-Layton
Mortuary of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
ON THE RECORD
Assault
• Around noon on Wednesday, Darrel McGinnis, 63, of Astoria, was arrested by Astoria
police on the 1500 block of Franklin Avenue for second-degree assault after allegedly hitting
another man on the head with a walking stick.
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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THURSDAY
Seaside Convention Center
Commission, 5 p.m., Seaside
Civic and Convention Center,
415 First Ave.
Cannon Beach Academy,
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Suite 430, Astoria.
Port of Astoria Ad-Hoc Finance
Committee, noon, Port offi ces,
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