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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2019
Washington state budget scrimps on
replacing salmon-blocking culverts
By GENE JOHNSON
Associated Press
Katie Frankowicz/The Daily Astorian
Haystack Rock is a popular destination, drawing thousands of people every year.
Oregon had more than 29 million
overnight visitors last year
The coast ranked
third in the state
By MEERAH POWELL
Oregon Public
Broadcasting
A new economic impact
report released by the Ore-
gon Tourism Commis-
sion shows continuous
growth in the state’s tour-
ism industry.
Visitation and spending
increased for the ninth con-
secutive year in 2018.
Travel spending in the
state was $12.3 billion in
2018 — a 4.2% increase
from 2017. The report esti-
mates that more than 29
million overnight visitors
came to Oregon last year.
Oregon also saw an
increase in the number of
overnight visitors and trav-
el-generated employment.
“We’ve been coming
back quite robustly from
the G reat R ecession of
2008 and 2009,” said Todd
Davidson, Travel Oregon’s
CEO.
As for particular regions
el-related jobs such as
accommodation and food
services, retail and trans-
portation. That’s an almost
3% increase from 2017.
A number of factors
point to Oregon’s tour-
ism industry continuing
to grow over the years,
Davidson said, including
increased visitation and
spending from international
travelers.
“Our growth in interna-
tional spending is outpac-
ing the national average
rate of growth for last year
nearly 4 -to-1 ,” he said.
“The nation grew about
1-1.2% and we grew nearly
5% in international visitor
spending.”
Davidson said he also
expects the International
Association of Athletics
Federation’s World Cham-
pionships, being hosted in
Eugene in 2021, to draw in
tourists.
“It’s going to be Ore-
gon’s opportunity to be
showcased on a global
stage,” he said. “We’ll have
competitors here from over
200 different countries.”
of the state, the Portland
area saw the most over-
night visitors last year with
26.6 million visits from sin-
gle travelers and 13.1 mil-
lion visits from traveling
groups.
The Willamette Val-
ley came in second, fol-
lowed by the Oregon Coast.
Mount Hood and the Gorge
saw the least number of
overnight visitors last year,
with 3.5 million single trav-
elers and 1.4 million travel-
ing groups.
Davidson said he found
it encouraging that tour-
ism growth is occurring
throughout the state, not
only in specifi c spots.
“The benefi ts of the vis-
itor industry are being felt
statewide,” he said. “As
tourism has grown in Ore-
gon roughly 4% year over
year, we were seeing sim-
ilar rates of growth in
regions throughout the
state.”
Travel-generated
employment in Oregon was
also high last year. There
were more than 115,000
employees hired in trav-
Place Matters Conference tackles public health in June
The Daily Astorian
People interested in
gaining new insights, skills
and connections to help
address the leading pre-
ventable causes of death in
Clatsop County are invited
to the Clatsop County Place
Matters Conference on
June 4.
The conference is an
opportunity for people to
learn more about what they
can do to reduce public
health issues like tobacco,
poor nutrition, physi-
cal inactivity and exces-
sive alcohol use. Through
speakers and interactive
sessions, participants will
explore new and different
ways to promote health, as
well as prevent and manage
chronic disease.
The event’s keynote
speaker is Debra Furr-
Holden, an epidemiologist
with expertise in addiction,
prevention science and
behavioral health equity
research.
The event takes place
from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the
Clatsop County Fair and
Expo .
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
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Douglas ‘Doug’ Starkey Shadbolt
Corvallis
Dec. 1, 1948 — March 28, 2019
Doug Starkey Shadbolt passed peacefully
He had a strong affi nity for Northwest
at his home in Corvallis, with family mem- mountains, desert, rivers and forests. Begin-
bers by his side. He was a remarkable man ning in 2010, he tirelessly helped build a
with a unique eye for beauty, a sly sense of family farm in Oregon’s Eola Hills. His skills
humor and a love for his work, especially included releasing tractors hopelessly stuck
ceramics, where his skills and vision were in the muck.
He is survived by his twin sister,
centered in recent years.
Candy; his brothers, Mike (Marsh)
Doug was raised in Portland.
and Larry (Catherine); his niece,
He was a graduate of Grant High
Celeste; his nephew, Ernst; and
School in Portland and attended
their families.
Lane Community College, Clatsop
His family thanks the many
Community College, and did his
caregivers, including his friends
work most recently in the ceram-
and hospice providers. His spirit
ics studio at Linn-Benton Commu-
lives on in each of us who were
nity College. When complimented,
touched by him.
he never failed to honor his teach-
A celebration of life will be held
ers, books, tools and schools.
Doug was passionate about Douglas Shadbolt for family and caregivers in the
early summer.
wild places, especially the North
Donations in his memory should be sent
Coast. Retiring from the Oregon Department
of Forestry in 2005, he led fi re protection to The Hunger Project, Plan International
crews and enforced regulations in the Clat- USA or the Tillamook County Women’s
Resource Center.
sop State Forest for upward of 20 years.
MEMORIAL
Monday, May 6
LOVE, William F. — Vis-
itation at 10 a.m., followed
by a funeral at 11 a.m.,
Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, 1403 S.
Wahanna Road in Seaside.
Love, 77, of Seaside, died
Thursday, May 2, 2019, in
Portland. Hughes-Ransom
Mortuary of Seaside is in
charge of the arrangements.
DEATHS
PUBLIC MEETINGS
Thursday’s Lucky Lines: 1-5-
9-14-20-22-27-31
Estimated jackpot: $37,000
OREGON
Thursday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 1-9-0-0
4 p.m.: 6-7-1-0
7 p.m.: 4-5-6-7
10 p.m.: 1-3-4-0
WASHINGTON
Thursday’s Daily Game:
3-2-9
Thursday’s Keno: 02-08-10-
16-25-27-29-30-31-36-37-41-
49-53-57-59-67-70-71-75
Thursday’s Match 4: 04-18-
21-23
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Chinook salmon.
The Legislature did
direct about $50 million to
other important salmon-res-
toration efforts, including a
dam removal on the Nook-
sack River and fl ood-plain
work along the Dungeness
and Cedar rivers. But even
lawmakers who wrote the
transportation budget said
they were unhappy with the
culvert money.
LOTTERIES
Burns
35/75
TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
the Northwest Indian Fish-
eries Commission, said in a
written statement. “Under-
funding culvert removal at
this point makes it almost
impossible to meet the
court’s deadline and will
slow salmon recovery.”
Salmon recovery has
become an urgent priority
as the region’s resident killer
whale population has fallen.
The whales primarily eat
FRIDAY
Public Safety Coordinating Council, 2:30 p.m., 800 Exchange, Suite 430, Astoria.
MONDAY
Astoria City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 1095 Duane St.
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2019
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
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John Day
41/74
La Grande
39/72
Roseburg
46/80
Brookings
48/66
Tonight's Sky: Just above the northeast horizon is
brilliant Vega of Lyra, the Harp.
Today
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Prineville
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Lebanon
42/72
Medford
47/84
UNDER THE SKY
High
8.7 ft.
7.6 ft.
Pendleton
44/74
The Dalles
45/80
Portland
48/75
Newport
43/58
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
Melissa Erkel, a fi sh passage biologist with the Washington
Department of Fish & Wildlife, looks at a culvert along the
north fork of Newaukum Creek near Enumclaw, Wash., in
2015.
May 2, 2019
GOODRICH, Henry Howard, 85, of Warrenton, died in Warrenton. Caldwell’s Luce-Lay-
ton Mortuary of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
NETZEL, Helmi Lillian, 97, of Seaside, died in Seaside. Caldwell’s Funeral & Cremation
Arrangement Center in Seaside is in charge of the arrangements.
Eugene
42/73
Sunset tonight ........................... 8:26 p.m.
Sunrise Saturday ........................ 5:58 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................... 5:53 a.m.
Moonset today ........................... 7:13 p.m.
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Sunshine and patchy
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Tillamook
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SUN AND MOON
Time
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ASTORIA
45/63
Precipitation
Thursday .......................................... Trace
Month to date ................................... Trace
Normal month to date ....................... 0.25"
Year to date .................................... 20.35"
Normal year to date ........................ 30.29"
May 4
TUESDAY
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Thursday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 56°/47°
Normal high/low ........................... 59°/43°
Record high ............................ 78° in 1909
Record low ............................. 34° in 1948
New
60
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Sunshine and patchy
clouds
Mainly clear
MONDAY
SEATTLE — Washing-
ton faces a federal court
order to fi x under-roadway
pipes that block migrating
fi sh by 2030, but a budget
passed by lawmakers puts
the state at risk of missing
the deadline and could delay
salmon recovery even as the
Pacifi c Northwest’s endan-
gered orcas are starving.
The Legislature’s two-
year transportation bud-
get, approved last weekend,
devotes $100 million to fi x-
ing culverts — large pipes
that allow streams to fl ow
under roadways, but can
prevent salmon from reach-
ing their spawning grounds.
The $100 million is about
one-third of what Gov. Jay
Inslee requested, and far less
than what many — includ-
ing some lawmakers, state
offi cials, conservationists
and Native American tribes
— agree is necessary.
“We are extremely disap-
pointed in the Legislature’s
last-minute decision to
underfund culvert removal,”
Lorraine Loomis, chair of
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