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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2019
Dog recovers after being Lawmakers roll out billion-dollar
trampled by Gearhart elk ‘student success’ proposal
By ROB MANNING
Oregon Public Broadcasting
A corgi survived
the encounter
Oregon would enact a
new tax on businesses and
raise more than $1 billion
annually for public schools
under a legislative proposal
released after more than a
year in development.
Three leaders of the Joint
Committee on Student Suc-
cess briefed reporters on a
House bill aimed at priori-
tizing early childhood edu-
cation, student mental health
and district initiatives to
improve graduation rates
and other priorities.
Committee members vis-
ited 77 schools, hearing from
teachers,
administrators
and students, to identify the
highest priorities in funding
schools. They said they’re
focusing the billion-dollar
investment on a few prob-
lems they heard discussed
everywhere they went.
A chart shared by commit-
tee leaders Thursday outlined
three main components:
• $400 million per two-
year budget cycle on early
childhood priorities, includ-
ing full funding for Early
Childhood Special Education.
• $600 million per bien-
nium on “statewide invest-
ments,” such as drop-out
By R.J. MARX
The Daily Astorian
GEARHART
—
“Sammy,” a 12-year-old
c orgi, is one lucky dog.
He survived an encoun-
ter with an elk herd in late
March outside his home
at Ninth Street and North
Cottage in Gearhart.
Attuned to the elk popu-
lation from years of living
on the North Coast , Joanne
Dreier listened for the
herd before going out. She
checked all the windows,
opened the garage door and
Sammy walked ahead.
Suddenly, a herd of
about 80 elk emerged from
the thicket.
Instead of making a turn
toward the golf course, the
herd stopped and two lead
females approached.
“There were several
seconds where everybody
was just standing still and I
was trying to keep Sammy
from going further,” Dreier
said.
While
not
usually
responsive, the herd will
eventually move away.
“But these females were
intent on getting rid of this
dog,” Dreier said. “I think
it was because there were
calves in this group. The
two females, one of them
in particular, came forward
and charged at him.”
When the dog’s short
legs got caught in the tall
side grass, he leaped in the
air and realized he was in
big trouble, she said.
The lead female lifted
her leg and came down on
Sammy with her hoof.
“I was hysterical by this
time and I ran over and
grabbed him,” Dreier said.
“I thought his back was
broken.”
Holding the dog, she
backed away toward the
house.
“The rest of the herd,
thank goodness, didn’t
really pay any attention,”
she said. “Somehow they
went to the golf course.”
By this time, two golf
course employees heard the
commotion . “They called
Joanne and Sam Dreier
Sammy recuperates after an elk encounter.
‘HE WAS REALLY LUCKY.
IF I HAD NOT GRABBED
HIM, IT WOULD HAVE
BEEN OVER FOR HIM.
HAD THEY CHARGED ME,
I DON’T KNOW WHAT I
WOULD HAVE DONE.’
be seen as isolated , but part
of a larger effort to provide
greater safety for residents
and their pets when con-
fronted with the elk .
Gearhart and Warren-
ton have been “ahead of
the curve,” he said, in seek-
ing solutions to the risk
posed by interactions with
wildlife. Sam and Joanne
Dreier intend to partici-
pate in further discussions
as Gearhart joins a regional
effort to control elk-human
interactions.
Despite a broken tibia
and cracked ribs, Sammy is
“his same jaunty self,” Sam
Dreier said. “From his per-
spective, he’s got a twinge
of pain. But that’s going
to be gone in a couple of
weeks.”
The Daily Astorian
WARRENTON — No
injuries or major damage
were reported in a fi re at
a homeless camp behind
Goodwill on Saturday
night.
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
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44
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Brief showers early;
mostly cloudy
THURSDAY
54
43
Assault
• Around 9:30 a.m. on Fri-
day, David Ethan Long, 48,
of Warrenton was arrested
by Astoria police on the 100
block of Forest Street for
second-degree assault. Long
Periods of sun with a
couple of showers
MONDAY
Seaside City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 989 Broadway.
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42
Partly sunny with a
couple of showers
Periods of rain
wise was contained in under
an hour.
It is unclear what started
the fi re, Alsbury said,
though it appeared it was a
tent that caught fi re. There
were also several propane
tanks at the scene.
allegedly punched and hit
a 64-year-old Astoria man
with a guitar in the basement
of an apartment complex.
DUII
• At 11:45 p.m. on Friday,
Richard Jasper, 48, of Ham-
mond, was arrested by War-
renton police at the inter-
section of Pacifi c Drive and
Enterprise Street for driving
under the infl uence of intoxi-
cants, refusing to take a breath
test and reckless driving.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
FRIDAY
54
39
Around 6:30 p.m., the
Warrenton Fire Department
responded to a fi re that
started about 400 feet away
from the store , said Assis-
tant Fire Chief Brian Als-
bury. The fi re spread to a
few nearby trees, but other-
ON THE RECORD
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
advocates have repeatedly
said that the state has never
addressed that new respon-
sibility the way voters
intended, with a new source
of revenue.
The committee’s goal
has been to raise upward of
$2 billion per biennium, and
since they started working
on the revenue side, they’ve
focused on enacting a tax that
would spread the cost across
the largest possible group of
taxpayers. The leading pro-
posal is a Commercial Activ-
ities Tax, likely tiered based
on the size of businesses.
One of the commit-
tee’s vice-chairs, Rep. Greg
Smith, R-Umatilla, said the
smallest businesses would
be exempt from the tax com-
pletely. He said businesses
earning between $150,000
and $1 million per year
would pay a fl at fee of $250,
while the largest businesses
would pay a percentage of
revenue, between 0.37 per-
cent and 0.45 percent.
A presentation at the com-
mittee Thursday evening
offered two variations on the
commercial tax that could
allow businesses to deduct
the cost of labor in exchange
for higher tax rates, so that the
revenue total would remain at
$1 billion per year.
Small fi re reported at homeless camp
behind Goodwill in Warrenton
Joanne Dreier, owner of ‘Sammy’
our vet to tell them that we
were on our way, ” she said.
Sammy was taken to
Bayshore Animal Hospital
in Warrenton, where he was
sedated and treated.
“He was really lucky,”
Dreier said. “If I had not
grabbed him, it would have
been over for him. Had
they charged me, I don’t
know what I would have
done.”
Her advice to dog own-
ers is to keep dogs on a
leash when outside, even at
home.
“We’re very grate-
ful he wasn’t more badly
injured,” she said. “It could
have been a very bad day
for all of us.”
Sam Dreier said he
hopes the incident will not
prevention and supports for
students with disabilities.
• $1 billion per biennium
for a “school improvement”
fund, described as “noncom-
petitive grants” toward spe-
cifi c goals, such as smaller
class sizes, a longer school
year and additional health
professionals in schools.
State Sen. Arnie Roblan,
D-Coos Bay, the committee
co-chair, told reporters that
the spending plan was the
culmination of his 14 years
as a legislator. He said he
has repeatedly thanked Sen-
ate President Peter Courtney
for placing him on the joint
committee.
“I jumped at the chance,”
Roblan said. “Even though
the hours are long and the
travels have been great, this
is singularly the most import-
ant thing for me, because it’s
getting at the heart of why I
came here in the fi rst place.”
Legislative leaders are
working to address funding
diffi culties that date back
nearly three decades to Ore-
gon’s passage of property
tax measures. Ballot Mea-
sure 5 shifted responsibility
to fund schools away from
local school districts and to
the state Legislature through
caps on local property taxes.
But lawmakers and school
Times of clouds and sun
TUESDAY
Clatsop County Planning
Commission, 10 a.m., Judge
Guy Boyington Building, 857
Commercial St., Astoria.
Warrenton City Commission,
6 p.m., City Hall, 225 S. Main
Ave.
Rural Law Enforcement
District Advisory Committee,
6 p.m., at Jewell School, 83874
Highway 103.
Clatsop Community College
Board, 6:30 p.m., Columbia
Hall Room 219, 1651 Lexing-
ton Ave., Astoria.
Lewis & Clark Fire Depart-
ment Board, 7 p.m., main fi re
station, 34571 Highway 101
Business.
million
Saturday’s Powerball: 15-33-
43-59-60, Powerball: 8
Estimated jackpot: $84 million
Friday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 1-1-6-0
4 p.m.: 1-8-2-0
7 p.m.: 2-7-0-4
10 p.m.: 4-4-3-9
Friday’s Lucky Lines: 2-7-10-
13-20-24-25-29
Estimated jackpot: $31,000
Friday’s Mega Millions: 8-22-
24-38-64, Mega Ball: 21
Estimated jackpot: $120
million
WASHINGTON
Sunday’s Daily Game: 8-5-9
Sunday’s Keno: 02-04-05-08-
11-12-15-19-20-24-29-33-44-
45-49-51-52-69-72-80
Sunday’s Match 4: 01-05-17-
18
Saturday’s Daily Game: 6-3-5
Saturday’s Hit 5: 07-08-09-
22-26
Estimated jackpot: $420,000
Saturday’s Keno: 04-07-08-
28-32-33-36-42-43-49-58-64-
65-66-68-71-75-77-78-79
Saturday’s Lotto: 07-16-17-
21-27-49
Estimated jackpot: $6.6 million
Saturday’s Match 4: 02-03-
06-18
Friday’s Daily Game: 7-7-8
Friday’s Keno: 11-13-14-19-
24-25-28-31-46-47-49-50-51-
54-58-61-62-64-78-79
Friday’s Match 4: 05-09-13-24
LOTTERIES
ALMANAC
REGIONAL WEATHER
Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs.
ASTORIA
45/56
Astoria through Sunday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 54°/45°
Normal high/low ........................... 55°/40°
Record high ............................ 81° in 2016
Record low ............................. 30° in 2011
Tillamook
45/53
Precipitation
Sunday ............................................. 0.62"
Month to date ................................... 2.53"
Normal month to date ....................... 1.42"
Year to date .................................... 17.58"
Normal year to date ........................ 26.26"
Salem
45/59
Newport
45/53
Sunset tonight ........................... 7:53 p.m.
Sunrise Tuesday .......................... 6:41 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................... 8:46 a.m.
Moonset today ......................... 11:39 p.m.
Apr 12
Full
Last
Apr 19
Coos Bay
46/54
New
Apr 26
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
TOMORROW'S TIDES
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
11:01 a.m.
10:51 p.m.
Low
0.0 ft.
2.5 ft.
City
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Honolulu
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Memphis
Miami
Nashville
New Orleans
New York
Oklahoma City
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington, DC
Hi
77
53
72
72
78
71
86
51
85
71
77
89
87
73
85
72
78
73
80
78
77
71
66
60
79
Ontario
47/58
Burns
37/48
Klamath Falls
34/47
Lakeview
35/45
Ashland
43/53
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
North Bend
Hi
59
53
55
61
55
55
58
59
55
58
Today
Lo
40
37
45
45
47
34
44
44
45
46
W
r
r
r
r
sh
t
r
r
r
r
Hi
51
49
55
58
54
47
55
57
53
54
Tues.
Lo
33
31
43
44
46
29
41
42
45
46
W
r
c
sh
sh
pc
sh
sh
pc
pc
sh
City
Olympia
Pendleton
Portland
Roseburg
Salem
Seaside
Spokane
Springfi eld
Vancouver
Yakima
Hi
58
58
61
60
61
55
52
58
61
61
Today
Lo
40
43
46
47
45
46
41
45
46
38
W
sh
r
r
r
r
sh
sh
r
r
sh
Hi
59
56
60
59
59
54
55
55
57
63
Tues.
Lo
38
40
45
45
45
45
35
43
45
38
W
pc
sh
pc
c
pc
pc
sh
sh
pc
c
TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Lo
64
41
46
48
45
49
59
27
69
52
49
70
60
59
73
60
64
57
53
60
54
54
53
46
61
Baker
40/51
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2019
Tonight's Sky: After sunset, the waxing crescent
moon and Mars are within 5 degrees of each other.
High
9.0 ft.
7.1 ft.
La Grande
40/48
Roseburg
47/59
Brookings
45/56
May 4
John Day
40/46
Bend
37/49
Medford
44/55
UNDER THE SKY
Time
4:05 a.m.
5:30 p.m.
Prineville
39/51
Lebanon
44/55
Eugene
45/58
SUN AND MOON
First
Pendleton
43/56
The Dalles
46/59
Portland
46/60
W
t
r
c
s
s
pc
s
s
pc
pc
s
s
s
r
pc
r
t
pc
s
pc
pc
pc
c
sh
t
Hi
75
46
62
77
65
61
92
47
85
66
71
83
77
78
83
77
81
66
83
76
71
58
64
59
79
Tues.
Lo
56
39
38
43
43
35
65
28
71
41
54
55
56
54
70
48
62
46
62
50
50
38
50
46
51
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
W
c
sh
pc
c
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
t
c
s
pc
s
c
s
r
pc
pc
c
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy,
sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
sn-snow, i-ice.
OREGON
Sunday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 2-2-1-5
4 p.m.: 8-0-8-3
7 p.m.: 8-8-5-6
10 p.m.: 8-8-6-7
Sunday’s Lucky Lines: 2-8-9-
14-17-21-25-32
Estimated jackpot: $12,000
Saturday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m: 3-2-5-0
4 p.m.: 6-0-4-2
7 p.m.: 0-8-6-6
10 p.m.: 3-7-3-9
Saturday’s Lucky Lines: 1-7-
10-16-20-23-25-31
Estimated jackpot: $10,000
Saturday’s Megabucks: 4-6-
17-18-28-42
Estimated jackpot: $10.4
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