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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2019
IN BRIEF
Public universities seeking tuition hikes
Four of Oregon’s public universities will defend sub-
stantial tuition increases this week in front of the Higher
Education Coordinating Commission amid protests
from frustrated students.
The University of Oregon is proposing a 9.7%
increase, the Oregon Institute of Technology seeks a
9% increase, Portland State University wants an 11%
increase and Southern Oregon University is looking at
a 13.5% jump, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported
Monday.
The commission must OK tuition hikes of more than
5% and Portland State students have vowed to express
their anger at a tuition hike approved by the school’s
board at the commission meeting Thursday.
Oregon State, as well as Eastern and Western Oregon
universities, approved increases that are less than 5%.
Western Oregon’s increase was the smallest, at just
over 2%.
— Associated Press
DEATHS
June 8, 2019
KENNEDY,
Eliz-
abeth Ann, 67, of
Warrenton, died at home
of natural causes. Cald-
well’s Luce-Layton Mor-
tuary of Astoria is in
charge of the arrange-
ments. A family celebra-
tion of her life will be
private.
June 6, 2019
HOLWEGE,
Betty
Jane, 95, of Warrenton,
died at home. Caldwell’s
Luce-Layton Mortuary
of Astoria is in charge of
the arrangements.
June 5, 2019
ANDERSON, Gus-
tave C., 88, of Asto-
ria, died in Longview,
Washington. Caldwell’s
Luce-Layton Mortuary
of Astoria is in charge of
the arrangements.
Photos by Katie Frankowicz/The Astorian
Astor Street Opry Company performers put on a show during the Astoria Pride parade Saturday.
Astoria Pride brings color downtown
MEMORIAL
June 15, 2019
WILLIAMS, Marion “Dennis” — Celebration of
life from 2 to 5 p.m., Pegg, Paxson Springer Funeral
Chapel, 4675 S.W. Watson Ave., in Beaverton.
ON THE RECORD
Drugs
• Warrenton police
arrested Ashley Marie
Johnson, 34, at the War-
renton Post Offi ce on
Friday on charges of
unlawful possession and
delivery of methamphet-
amine, cocaine and her-
oin. A citizen reported
suspicious activity in a
vehicle outside the post
offi ce. Offi cers contacted
Johnson, who consented
to a search of her vehicle.
Offi cers found drugs, par-
aphernalia, cash and pack-
aging before arresting
Johnson.
•
Astoria
police
arrested Elizabeth Till, 18,
of Astoria, on Sunday for
disorderly conduct. Police
responded to the Bayshore
Apartments, where Till
was observed scream-
ing from a balcony . Till
was believed to be under
the infl uence of LSD and
bit a responding offi cer,
according to police.
Burglary
•
Astoria
police
arrested Genine Celeste
Tuifua, 39, of Astoria, on
Saturday for fi rst-degree
burglary. Police received
three calls Saturday about
Tuifua breaking into an
Astoria residence and
trespassed her. On the
third call, she had gone
through an open window
and was eating candy
and drinking soda. Tuifua
claimed someone told her
the house was her own,
according to police.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
TUESDAY
Clatsop County Planning
Commission, 10 a.m.,
Judge Guy Boyington
Building, 857 Commercial
St., Astoria
Port of Astoria Commis-
sion, 2:30 p.m., special
session, Port offi ces, 10 Pier
1 Suite 209.
Seaside Library Board,
4:30 p.m., Seaside Public
Library, 1131 Broadway.
Warrenton City Commis-
sion, 6 p.m., City Hall, 225 S.
Main Ave.
Clatsop Community Col-
lege Board, 6:30 p.m., Co-
lumbia Hall Room 219, 1651
Lexington Ave., Astoria.
Lewis & Clark Fire De-
partment Board, 7 p.m.,
business meeting and
budget hearing, main fi re
station, 34571 U.S. Highway
101 Business.
WEDNESDAY
Clatsop Soil & Water Con-
servation District Board,
10 a.m., 750 Commercial St.,
Room 207.
Clatsop County Board of
Commissioners, 6 p.m.,
Judge Guy Boyington
Building, 857 Commercial
St., Astoria.
Wickiup Water District
Board, 6:30 p.m., 92648
Svensen Market Road,
Svensen.
Astoria School Board,
5:35 p.m., budget hearing,
7 p.m., regular meeting,
Capt. Robert Gray School
third-fl oor boardroom, 785
Alameda Ave.
Warrenton-Hammond
School Board, 7 p.m., War-
renton High School library,
1700 S. Main Ave.
THURSDAY
Seaside Civic and Conven-
tion Center Commission,
5 p.m., Seaside Civic and
Convention Center, 415 First
Ave.
Cannon Beach Academy,
5:30 p.m., 3781 S. Hemlock
St.
Gearhart Planning Com-
mission, 6 p.m., City Hall,
698 Pacifi c Way.
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Attendees listen to presenters at the Astoria Pride block party.
Rainbows were a theme at Astoria Pride.
Westport man dies
in Highway 30 crash
The Astorian
Coast Guard
Cmdr. Daniel Ursino, the new commander of the Coast
Guard cutter Steadfast, salutes crew members after taking
over Sunday at Tom McCall Waterfront Park in Portland.
Cutter Steadfast
changes commanders
The Astorian
PORTLAND — Cmdr.
Alain Balmaceda of the
Coast Guard cutter Stead-
fast handed command
to Cmdr. Daniel Ursino
at Tom McCall Water-
front Park in Portland on
Sunday.
Ursino reports to the
Steadfast from Coast Guard
Training Center Petaluma,
California. As the facili-
ties engineering depart-
ment head, he managed
shore facilities and infra-
structure on an 837-acre
installation where roughly
one-third of the Coast
Guard’s enlisted workforce
receives training.
Balmaceda, who has
more than 11 years of com-
bined sea time on several
cutters, will report to the
Air War College at Max-
well Air Force Base in
Montgomery, Alabama.
Under his command
over the past two years, the
Steadfast’s crew traveled
more than 53,000 nauti-
cal miles on fi ve patrols
along the west coasts of
North and South America.
During those patrols, the
Steadfast’s crews rescued
seven mariners; caught 16
vessels and 52 narcotic
smugglers; and seized
more than 57,200 pounds
of illicit drugs worth an
estimated $1 billion.
The Steadfast is a 210-
foot medium endurance
cutter homeported in Asto-
ria. The ship focuses on
homeland security, search
and rescue, marine envi-
ronmental response, rec-
reational boating safety,
port safety and security
missions.
Astoria Vacation Bible School
“SHIPWRECKED: Rescued by Jesus”
Monday – Thursday, June 24th – 28th
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
A cooperative effort of several downtown churches
Register at www.fpcastoria.org
Deadline to register online is June 14th
Registration in person will be allowed June 24th
Friday Beach party June 28th at 5:00 p.m.
A Westport man died on
Sunday after his car left U.S.
Highway 30 near Tongue
Point and struck a tree.
Oregon State Police
determined James Olson,
25, was traveling east when
his Volkswagen left the road
for an undetermined reason,
rolled on a steep embank-
ment and struck a tree.
Olson died at the scene.
The crash briefl y closed
Highway 30.
Oregon State Police
James Olson, 25, of Westport,
died Sunday after his car left
Highway 30 and struck a tree.
Johnson amendments
would revamp carbon bill
By TED SICKINGER
The Oregonian
State Sen. Betsy John-
son threw a last-minute
bomb into Oregon’s pro-
posed carbon cap-and-trade
policy last week, sponsor-
ing a 19-page list of amend-
ments that would eviscerate
one of her fellow Demo-
cratic leaders’ highest-pri-
ority bills.
What remains to be
seen is what kind of pay-
load it carries to undermine
the vote count on the bill,
achieve some signifi cant
changes, or to run out the
clock in a session expected
to end in two weeks.
Johnson, a Scappoose
Democrat who’s co-chair
of the Legislature’s key
budget writing committee,
introduced her kitchen-sink
collection of industry griev-
ances a day and a half
before the bill was sched-
uled for a work session and
possible vote in the joint
Ways and Means.
And it set off a fl urry of
lobbying in Salem as envi-
ronmental groups sought to
protect their prize bill from
further weakening after
years of pushing the legis-
lation to the point of actu-
ally getting a fl oor vote.
A work session on the
bill was pulled from Fri-
day’s Ways and Means
hearing.
A coalition of industry
groups representing truck-
ers, loggers, manufacturers,
farmers and others devel-
oped the amendments. Now
they are putting a full-court
press on legislators to con-
sider them before a com-
mittee vote takes place. In
a letter to legislators, they
said they’d raised concerns
countless times in commit-
tee and in meetings with
legislators and made a good
faith effort to help shape the
program, to no avail.
They said the amend-
ments would retain the
structure of House Bill
2020 but “blunt some of the
harshest impacts” that reg-
ulated industries and con-
sumers would see under the
current version of the bill.
Those
groups
also
have asked Oregon’s larg-
est business group, Ore-
gon Business & Industry,
to support the amendments.
OBI sent an email to mem-
bers of its energy and envi-
ronment steering commit-
tee Friday evening seeking
feedback before discussion
of the issues at the group’s
board meeting on Tuesday.
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