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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2019
Season fi nale among busiest
Washington clam digs ever
Chinook Observer
LONG BEACH, Wash.
— The razor clam dig on
April 20 was the biggest in
at least a decade, according
to an analysis by the Wash-
ington Department of Fish
and Wildlife.
“The Saturday crowd
is the largest one-day total
for at least the last 10 years
— and likely much longer
— whew!” Dan Ayres, the
state coastal shellfi sh man-
ager, said after looking at
the statistics.
More than half a million
clams were harvested over
the weekend, which coin-
cided with the Long Beach
Razor Clam Festival, a long
Easter holiday, and nearly
ideal weather and tides.
The state estimates
19,507 diggers participated
Saturday and 14,268 Sun-
day. The average number
of clams harvested per dig-
ger was a perfect limit of 15
Saturday and 14.6 Sunday.
After a preseason cen-
sus last summer found that
81 percent of clams in p en-
insula sands were less than 3
inches in length, the Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife
decided on a constrained
harvest . In the end, there
were only four days of dig-
ging — Dec. 22, Feb. 17
and the April weekend.
Although the state thinks
only about 4,000 clams were
One dead after crash on U.S. Highway 26
The Daily Astorian
One person was killed
after driving into a power
pole near milepost 7 on
harvested in the December
dig, the season total came to
more than 614,500, thanks
to the huge total in April.
This ended up far exceed-
ing the quota of 333,557 set
before the season.
The agency’s summer
2018 census found fewer
than 2.1 million adult clams.
However, nearly 10 million
small clams were estimated
to be making their way to
being 3 inches or more in
length — a 52-fold increase
from the 2017-18 count.
“These small clams will
be closer to 4 to 4.5 inches
by next fall ( the 2019-20
season) and make diggers
much happier,” Ayres said
at the time.
The Clatsop County
Democrats are holding a
candidate forum Saturday
for contested races with
the Clatsop Community
College Board and Port of
Astoria Commission.
The fi rst panel of can-
didates includes incum-
bent Andrea Mazzarella
and challenger Sara Meyer,
running for the same posi-
tion on the college board.
The second panel is incum-
bent Bill Hunsinger and
challenger Scott McClaine,
Holly Hill, Florida
May 1, 1927 — Sept. 28, 2018
both running for Position 3
on the Port Commission.
Questions will be taken
from the audience.
The forum begins at
1 p.m. Saturday at the
Bob Chisholm Commu-
nity Center, 1225 Ave. A in
Seaside.
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
63
44
44
Clear to partly cloudy
Mostly sunny
ALMANAC
Partly sunny
First
Salem
42/68
Newport
44/59
May 11
Coos Bay
44/61
Last
May 18
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
TOMORROW'S TIDES
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
5:23 a.m.
5:34 p.m.
Low
2.2 ft.
1.1 ft.
Ontario
37/63
Burns
28/55
Klamath Falls
31/58
Lakeview
31/53
Ashland
39/68
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
North Bend
Hi
56
54
64
66
60
60
71
67
58
60
Today
Lo
26
27
45
40
44
31
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65
68
61
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44
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City
Olympia
Pendleton
Portland
Roseburg
Salem
Seaside
Spokane
Springfi eld
Vancouver
Yakima
Hi
65
59
69
71
67
63
55
67
67
64
Today
Lo
37
31
44
43
42
43
33
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TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
Hi
86
58
54
39
63
49
90
63
83
70
66
76
67
81
84
86
83
60
71
65
76
59
67
64
66
Baker
26/57
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2019
Tonight's Sky: Before sunrise, Mercury and brighter
Venus low in the east; Saturn and brighter Jupiter
due south.
Today
Lo
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67
55
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73
60
68
50
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61
40
52
43
59
La Grande
29/56
Roseburg
43/72
Brookings
46/66
May 26
John Day
29/56
Bend
27/56
Medford
42/71
UNDER THE SKY
High
6.9 ft.
7.9 ft.
Prineville
26/59
Lebanon
38/67
Eugene
40/68
Full
Pendleton
31/60
The Dalles
40/68
Portland
44/70
Sunset tonight ........................... 8:21 p.m.
Sunrise Tuesday .......................... 6:04 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................... 4:19 a.m.
Moonset today ........................... 2:58 p.m.
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
Sun and areas of low
clouds
Mostly cloudy
Tillamook
38/64
SUN AND MOON
Time
11:13 a.m.
11:59 p.m.
58
46
Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs.
ASTORIA
44/63
Precipitation
Sunday ............................................. 0.00"
Month to date ................................... 5.30"
Normal month to date ....................... 4.93"
Year to date .................................... 20.35"
Normal year to date ........................ 29.77"
May 4
FRIDAY
56
45
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Sunday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 61°/35°
Normal high/low ........................... 58°/42°
Record high ............................ 81° in 1925
Record low ............................. 32° in 1985
New
THURSDAY
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DEATHS
April 28, 2019
BRUNES, Etta Lurene, 93, of Asto-
ria, died in Astoria. Caldwell’s Luce-Lay-
ton Mortuary of Astoria is in charge of the
arrangements.
Assault
• Around 6 p.m. on Sun-
day, John Ewen, 61, of Asto-
ria, was arrested on the
35000 block of Conifer Lane
by the Clatsop County Sher-
April 27, 2019
NORRIS, Lisa Ann, 54, of Ocean Park,
Washington, died in Ilwaco, Washington.
Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary of Asto-
ria is in charge of the arrangements.
iff’s Offi ce for fourth-de-
gree assault and criminal
mischief.
DUII
• Around 1:30 a.m. on
Saturday, Andrew Malinen,
26, of Warrenton, was
arrested near Holladay Drive
and First Avenue in Seaside
by the Clatsop County Sher-
iff’s Offi ce for driving under
the infl uence of intoxicants.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
MONDAY
Prairie Cemetery Association
of Knappa, 6 p.m., annual
board meeting, 40615 Ziak
Tired of being frustrated?
another smiling family
Robert Paul “Bob” Kearney, who died in 1951. They married in Portland on Sept.
peacefully on Sept. 28, 2018 at Halifax Hos- 12, 1953. After his marriage, Bob worked for
pice in Ormond Beach, Florida, was born on GE Credit in Spokane, and Boyd Coffee and
May 1, 1927 to Paul and Martha (Wilson) Reynolds Metals in Portland. Bob learned
Kearney in Astoria. He was the grandchild of sales at Reynolds, where he was awarded
Reynolds’ “golden briefcase.”
early Astorians, James F. and Jose-
In 1960, Bob, Virginia and
phine (Lienweber) Kearney and
their two children, Molly and Pat-
Charles and Susan (Neimela) Wil-
rick, moved to Astoria when Bob
son, and grew up close to his numer-
became the Midwest regional
ous aunts and uncles.
sales manager for Bumble Bee
Bob was a Sea Scout and an
Seafoods. In order to shorten his
Eagle Scout. He frequently camped
lengthy time on the road selling
at Cullaby Lake near Astoria, and
fi sh, the family moved to Illinois,
Camp Meriwether in Tillamook
where they lived in Mount Pros-
County. He caddied at the Astoria
pect and Arlington Heights from
Country Club and worked at Bum-
Robert Kearney
1964 through 1976.
ble Bee’s Elmore Cannery. One of
In 1976, Bob was transferred to
Bob’s earliest jobs as a high school
student was to work on repairs to Astoria High Longwood, Florida, to become the Southern
School after the fi re of 1942. Bob was a three- regional sales manager for Bumble Bee, a
job he held until being transferred to the pri-
year letterman in football at Astoria .
Bob attended Oregon State College in Cor- vate label division of Castle & Cooke/Dole
vallis in spring 1945, and enlisted in the Navy in San Jose, California, in 1981. That stint,
shortly before his 18th birthday. Bob was however, was short-lived. Bob retired in
in boot camp in San Diego on V-J Day, and 1982 to New Smyrna Beach, Florida, where
served his hitch in Whidbey Island, Washing- he lived for the next 33 years (interspersed
ton, where he worked on decommissioning with frequent trips to Astoria).
During his active retirement years, Bob
naval aircraft, achieving the rank of aviation
storekeeper third class. He was a sergeant in fi shed, sailed and counseled prisoners trying
to change their lives. Virginia died in 2013.
the Marine Corps Reserves for several years.
Bob spent his immediate post war years Bob moved to Bishops Glen Assisted Liv-
at the University of Portland, and summers ing in Holly Hill, Florida, in 2015, where
working on tally scows on Bristol Bay and in he engaged in lively conversations with
southeastern Alaska. After graduating from his neighbors and caregivers, and enjoyed
the University of Portland, Bob graduated in watching the scenery.
Bob loved fi shing, boats, rivers and
the fi rst class of the Portland Metropolitan
Police Academy and served as an offi cer for beaches. He was a professional Astorian;
looking for anyone with whom he could talk
the department.
Bob also served as deputy sheriff in Clatsop about the Pacifi c Northwest, the proud Asto-
County under his father, and lived in the Clat- ria heritage of his family, and the lifetime
sop County Jail during his tenure, where pris- friends he made growing up in Astoria. Bob
oners would threaten to tell his father when he was a friend of Bill W. since 1975.
His sister, Sue Haskins, preceded him in
came in late from dates on Saturday nights. He
also created the fi rst standardized ticket book death. Bob is survived by his daughter, Molly,
of Tallahassee, Florida; son, Patrick, of Sil-
used by the Clatsop County Sheriff’s Offi ce.
Bob sailed on cruises as a purser to India ver Spring, Maryland; grandson, Thomas,
on the Liberty Ship SS Peter J. Maguire, and of Kalamazoo, Michigan; and niece, Anna
many cruises as a purser along the West Coast Meyer, and her daughter, Colette, of Happy
between Seattle and Honolulu on the SS Per- Valley, Oregon.
In lieu of fl owers, a memorial donation
mente (Victory) Silver Bow. Bob also oper-
ated a charter boat, the Terry, out of Astoria, may be made to the Columbia River Mari-
worked on the “Mothball Fleet” at Tongue time Museum, 1792 Marine Drive, Astoria,
Point, and was a fi sh buyer at Celilo Falls on OR., 97103.
A service will be held at the Ocean View
the Columbia River before The Dalles dam
Cemetery Chapel in Warrenton, Oregon, on
was constructed.
Bob met his wife, Virginia Rooney, at a May 1, 2019, at 11 a.m., followed immedi-
dance at the American Legion Hall in Astoria ately by a fi nal commitment.
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WEDNESDAY
Seaside Improvement Com-
mission, 6 p.m., City Hall, 989
Broadway.
Gearhart City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 698 Pacifi c Way.
Saturday’s Powerball: 2-29-
41-45-62, Powerball: 6
Estimated jackpot: $181
million
Friday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 2-9-6-3
4 p.m.: 9-9-1-2
7 p.m.: 4-0-5-3
10 p.m.: 7-5-3-0
Friday’s Lucky Lines: 4-5-10-
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Friday’s Mega Millions: 9-17-
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Sunday’s Daily Game: 7-1-2
Sunday’s Keno: 04-06-09-12-
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49-52-55-59-63-71-80
Sunday’s Match 4: 08-13-15-
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Saturday’s Daily Game: 7-4-8
Saturday’s Hit 5: 08-21-27-
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Saturday’s Keno: 01-05-11-
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Saturday’s Lotto: 14-16-20-
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Saturday’s Match 4: 04-13-
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Friday’s Daily Game: 5-9-6
Friday’s Keno: 01-08-12-18-
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Friday’s Match 4: 05-08-13-23
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