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THE ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2019
IN BRIEF
Army Corps of Engineers seeks
public comment on Westport park
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers seeks public
comment on a dock replacement for the proposed
Westport county park.
Clatsop County plans to demolish a boat ramp
built in the 1970s and build a new one roughly 20
feet upstream. The boat ramp revitalization is part of
a larger plan to develop on the thinly shaped 27-acre
property along the Westport Slough.
Georgia-Pacifi c Wauna Mill donated the property
in 2015 and gave $20,000 for a playground and pic-
nic area.
Email comments to Brad.A.Johnson2@usace.
army.mil or mail them to: U.S. Army Corps of Engi-
neers, Regulatory Branch A, Mr. Brad Johnson, P.O.
2946, Portland, Oregon 97208-2946.
Comments must include a Corps reference num-
ber — NWP-2019-93 — and the commenter’s name
and address. Comments are due by July 11. For
more information, visit www.nwp.usace.army.mil/
Missions/Regulatory/Notices/
— The Astorian
Chapman confi rmed winner
in transit district election
The fi nal results are in from the May election, and
one race that was too close to call is fi nally decided.
John Chapman defeated Katharine Parker for a
post on the Sunset Empire Park and Recreation Dis-
trict board by eight votes.
The results were certifi ed June 6 by Clatsop
County Clerk Tracie Krevanko.
Chapman received 332 votes, or 25.8%, while
Parker received 324 votes. Marti Wajc followed with
317 votes and Shirley Yates received 304 votes.
— The Astorian
Washington AG Ferguson sues
Trump EPA over water rule
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson sued
the Trump administration for the 39th time last week,
in this case to retain water-quality standards that the
Washington Farm Bureau and other trade groups
say will cost billions of dollars but won’t benefi t the
public.
Ferguson claimed the U.S. Environmental Protec-
tion Agency bowed to industries, including the farm
bureau, when it rescinded the Clean Water Act protec-
tions set by the EPA under President Barack Obama.
“(President Donald) Trump’s EPA cannot change
important water-quality protections at the whim of
industry interests,” Ferguson said in a written state-
ment. “We keep beating the Trump administration,
and we haven’t lost yet. I don’t plan on starting now.”
The standards, commonly summarized as the
fi sh-consumption rule, limit pollutants that can be
discharged into water in Washington. The protec-
tions now backed by the Trump EPA were developed
by Gov. Jay Inslee’s administration, but were mostly
rejected by the Obama EPA.
The farm bureau and seven other organizations
petitioned the Trump EPA to reverse course and
accept the state’s standards. The farm bureau said it
feared restrictions on industrial sites would trickle
down to farmers. The Trump EPA granted the peti-
tion in May.
The Inslee administration proposed the standards,
but has lashed out at the Trump EPA for accepting
them.
— Capital Press
DEATHS
June 11, 2019
LOVERIDGE, Steph-
anie, 66, of Seaside, died
in Seaside. Hughes-Ran-
som Mortuary is in charge
of the arrangements.
June 10, 2019
CAMERON, Joyce
Marie, 82, of Astoria, died
in Astoria. Caldwell’s
Luce-Layton Mortuary of
Astoria is in charge of the
arrangements.
June 9, 2019
OLSON, James Dan-
iel, 25, of Clatskanie, died
in Astoria. Caldwell’s
Luce-Layton Mortuary of
Astoria is in charge of the
arrangements.
PLETSCHET, Fern
Ann, 83, of Beaver-
ton, died in Beaverton.
Caldwell’s
Luce-Lay-
ton Mortuary of Asto-
ria is in charge of the
arrangements.
June 8, 2019
WELCH, Jenny Kay,
59, of Gearhart, died
in Gearhart. Caldwell’s
Luce-Layton Mortuary of
Astoria is in charge of the
arrangements.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
THURSDAY
Astoria City Council, 1 p.m.,
work session, City Hall, 1095
Duane St.
Seaside Civic and Conven-
tion Center Commission,
5 p.m., Seaside Civic and
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The state is investigating a workplace death in May at Bornstein Seafoods in Astoria.
State probes death at Bornstein Seafoods
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Astorian
The state Occupational
Safety and Health Division
is investigating Bornstein
Seafoods after a worker fell
and died in late May at the
company’s seafood-process-
ing plant in Astoria.
Magdalena
Blandina
Ramon Guzman, 63, of
Seaview, Washington, lost
her balance while stand-
ing on a platform shoveling
leftover fi sh into a hopper,
according to a preliminary
state report. She fell nearly 7
feet from the platform to the
concrete dock.
“There are guardrails but
she fell through the area
where the ladder attaches
to the platform,” the report
said.
Guzman was taken to
Columbia Memorial Hos-
pital in Astoria and Oregon
Health & Science Univer-
sity, where she died. She was
buried earlier this month in
Veracruz, Mexico.
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Investigations can take up
to six months, but are often
wrapped up sooner, he said.
The state recorded three
workplace deaths in Asto-
ria since 2000 . The two prior
deaths involved a worker
crushed at a farm equipment
manufacturer in May 2018
and a distribution worker
killed in a motor-vehicle
accident in April 2018.
Seaside recorded seven
workplace deaths since
2000, Warrenton four and
Knappa one.
Bus hits Atlantis Auto Glass in Warrenton
The Astorian
Mark Dean Winheim
A bus crashed into Atlantis Auto Glass in Warrenton on Monday.
WARRENTON — A bus
rolled into Atlantis Auto
Glass in Warrenton on Mon-
day afternoon, causing sub-
stantial damage.
The Sunset Empire
Transportation District bus
was parked across the street
at Les Schwab Tire Center
awaiting service before the
bus drifted across Marlin
Avenue, striking the busi-
ness, police said.
No one was in the bus and
no injuries were reported.
The cause of the crash is
under investigation.
In Oregon, it will be paper, not plastic
Single-use bag ban
passes in Salem
By MARK MILLER
Oregon Capital Bureau
SALEM — When you
get takeout food from your
favorite restaurant, you
might be handed a thin plas-
tic bag, with foam containers
inside containing your meal,
plus a plastic straw or two if
you ordered a drink.
Those straws? Gone.
The bag? History.
The foam containers? Not
going anywhere.
State lawmakers deliv-
ered a split verdict on bills
cracking down on plastic
wares that comes from retail-
ers and vendors.
The state Senate on Tues-
day approved House Bill
2509, which bans plastic
checkout bags at stores and
restaurants statewide starting
next year.
Senators
last
week
approved Senate Bill 90,
prohibiting stores and restau-
rants from giving out plas-
tic straws to customers. Cus-
tomers can still ask for one
under the legislation, which
takes effect next year.
A third bill, House Bill
2883, that would have pre-
vented vendors from pro-
viding food to customers
in polystyrene containers
failed, 15-14. Three Demo-
cratic senators — including
state Sen. Betsy Johnson, of
Scappoose — joined all 11
Republicans in opposition. It
needed 16 votes to pass.
Most
Republicans
opposed all three bills. Some
argued that paper alterna-
tives to plastic straws and
bags are inferior.
Notably, the bag bill
requires grocers to sell
checkout bags for a nickel
each.
“The goal is to get people
to … bring their own bags,”
said state Sen. Michael Dem-
brow, D-Portland, who car-
ried all three bills on the Sen-
ate fl oor.
Sen. Brian Boquist,
R-Dallas, said banning sin-
gle-use plastic bags is a good
idea, but the fee will have
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Bornstein
Seafoods
co-owner Andrew Bornstein
was not immediately avail-
able for comment.
Aaron Corvin, a spokes-
man for the state agency,
said the state is interview-
ing witnesses, looking at
equipment and reviewing
company records and safety
measures.
“It’s a process of account-
ability,” Corvin said. “We’re
looking at whether safety
rules were or were not
followed.”
“unintended consequences.”
“We continue … to think
we cannot educate our peo-
ple and we must punish them
by fi ning them, punish them
by raising costs, instead of
actually talking to our cit-
izens rationally,” Boquist
said, arguing that adding a
mandatory fee on paper bags
would reduce their usage and
hurt paper mills and recy-
cling centers.
Since they were intro-
duced into widespread use
in the 1970s, plastic bags
have risen in popularity at
the expense of paper. One
study suggested that Ameri-
cans used more than 100 bil-
lion single-use plastic shop-
ping bags in 2014.
“Single-use
plastics,
in general, are polluting
our state and our planet,”
said Sen. Mark Hass,
D-Beaverton.
The plastic straw bill
doesn’t outright ban them,
but such straws would no
longer be the default option.
Customers can request a
plastic straw, but otherwise,
vendors won’t be allowed to
give them one.
By weight, straws make
up a tiny fraction of 1% of
all the plastic waste that’s
thrown away. It would take
more than two million plas-
tic straws to make a ton.
However, straws can
cause severe injury or death
when they’re eaten by marine
life. An international move-
ment to ban plastic straws
gained traction after a video
was circulated in 2015 show-
ing a straw being extracted
from a sea turtle’s nose.
SB 90 will prevent local
governments from com-
pletely banning plastic
straws on their own.
Disability rights advo-
cates argued that banning
plastic straws altogether
would be detrimental for
people who need them for
food and drinks.
Three Republicans —
Sens. Cliff Bentz, of Ontario,
Bill Hansell, of Umatilla
County, and Tim Knopp, of
Bend — supported the straw
bill.
The straw and bag bills
now head to Gov. Kate
Brown for signature.
All Republicans opposed
the polystyrene ban, and
when Democrats Johnson ,
Laurie Monnes Anderson, of
Gresham, and Arnie Roblan,
of Coos Bay, voted with
them, it was enough to kill
the bill.
One Oregon company,
Tigard-based Agilyx Corp.,
accepts foam products for
recycling. Sen. Alan Olsen,
R-Canby, argued that Ore-
gon should embrace efforts
to recycle more forms of
plastic.
“If we ban this, we are
giving up a worldwide
opportunity to recycle plas-
tic,” Olsen said.
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