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THE ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2019
Family honors Warrenton Grade School teacher
Hartley volunteered
for children’s charity
By NICOLE BALES
The Astorian
WARRENTON — Dee
Hartley, a second-grade
teacher set to retire from
Warrenton Grade School,
got a surprise on Tuesday
at the school’s year-end
assembly.
Alexis Joseph, Wade
Chosvig and their grand-
mother, Gail Antilla, hon-
ored Hartley in front of
faculty, students and their
families for her long time
service to Ronald McDonald
House Charities in Portland.
The recognition was
especially personal , as Hart-
ley spearheaded an effort
to support the family after
Chosvig was born with s pina
b ifi da and hydrocephalus on
June 10, 1999 .
From then on, Hartley
turned Ronald McDonald’s
p ull t ab p rogram into a math
project for her students. The
program invites schools and
other groups to collect pull
tabs from aluminum cans
and deliver them to their
local Ronald McDonald
Nicole Bales/The Astorian
Wade Chosvig and Alexis Joseph honor Dee Hartley at Warrenton Grade School’s year-end
assembly.
House. The h ouse melts and
recycles the aluminum to
offset expenses.
Hartley heard of Chos-
vig’s condition from Joseph ,
who was in her second-grade
class at the time. Hartley was
stunned when Joseph told
her they were not able to
bring her little brother home
as he was fl own to Port-
land shortly after delivery
at Columbia Memorial Hos-
Rates going up
in Warrenton
pital in Astoria. The family
spent the following year at
Ronald McDonald House in
Portland.
“Every year as Wade has
undergone multiple sur-
geries Mrs. Hartley at the
end of every June has been
there with a car full of pull
tabs, a hug and support,”
Joseph said at the assembly
in the school’s gymnasium.
“Thank you for being a shin-
Cap and trade: Cap
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A 5% hike for
water, 4% for sewer
By KATIE FRANKOWICZ
The Astorian
WARRENTON — Sewer
and water rates are going up
in Warrenton again, a com-
bination of escalating opera-
tional costs and the city play-
ing catch-up after years of not
increasing rates.
The water rate increase is
less than it was this fi scal year,
noted City Manager Linda
Engbretson at a City Com-
mission meeting Tuesday.
After next year, the increases
will be even less under the
city’s current schedule.
But some on the City
Commission are curious what
it would look like to take care
of the costs once and for all by
raising rates more drastically
to get the city up to the level
they say it should have been
at years ago.
The 5% proposed for next
fi scal year “is just enough that
most people don’t notice it,”
Commissioner Mark Bald-
win said. But the complaint
he keeps hearing, he said, is,
“Well, you’re going to raise
rates again.”
It’s sort of a “death by a
thousand cuts,” Mayor Henry
Balensifer said.
“What I’m saying is this is
a Band-Aid ,” Baldwin said,
asking, “Could we look fur-
ther down the road?”
City staff plans to come
back with a report on what an
“all at once” type of increase
might look like . Past commis-
sions had opted to ease the
increases in over time.
The City Commission
held a fi rst reading for a 5%
increase to monthly water
rates and a 4% increase to
monthly sewer rates. Both
increases would add only a
few dollars to the average cus-
tomer’s bill starting in July.
Costs are also going up for
recycling by just over 2% , as
are costs for the disposal of
hazardous household waste.
Clatsop County is nearing
completion on a permanent
facility for hazardous waste
and applies a surcharge of
$3.50 per ton to fund the haz-
ardous waste program.
The county requested that
Recology, which handles
recycling services for War-
renton and garbage and recy-
cling services for other cities ,
to increase the surcharge to $5
per ton to help cover the costs
of building and operating the
facility.
City c ommissioners noted
that, for now, people must
travel out of the area to deal
with hazardous waste and
agreed an increase to the sur-
charge made sense. But they
demanded Recology provide
wind latches for recycling
bins ahead of any increase to
rates for recycling services.
The latches keep the lids
closed and prevent recycling
from spilling down streets on
windy days.
“There’s no sense in hav-
ing recycling if your recy-
cling’s on the road,” Balen-
sifer said.
A Recology representative
at the meeting agreed and said
the company could provide
wind latches for all the recy-
cling bins in Warrenton ahead
of a rate increase.
ing light when the world
doesn’t seem so bright.”
Joseph and Chosvig pre-
sented Hartley with a plaque
and fl owers and she was
applauded and given a stand-
ing ovation.
“The school year has
always been a hard time for
me to say goodbye because
it’s an ending and we were
all excited for the birth of
her sibling and when she got
At about 20 minutes, it
was easily the shortest of
the 20 hearings the bill has
endured.
Business trade groups
have long opposed the bill,
but individuals working in
industry have also made
themselves seen in hearings
for months.
Wednesday was no dif-
ferent, as log truckers ral-
lied in front of the Capitol
before fi lling the hearing
room and overfl ow room,
dressed in their well-worn
pants, boots and suspenders.
They apparently didn’t feel
heard in the brief hearing,
so they took to their trucks.
For an hour and a half after
the hearing, they performed
an auditory assault on law-
makers, driving around the
building blowing their loud
air horns to make sure they
were literally heard.
Under the cap-and-trade
program, a 52 million met-
ric ton cap will be placed
over 80 percent of the
state’s emissions. It would
regulate nearly all sectors
of the economy, excluding
agriculture and forestry.
Entities regulated by
the cap which are emit-
ting at least 25,000 met-
ric tons of greenhouse gas-
ses per year will have to buy
allowances from the state
for each ton over the limit.
If companies overestimate
their need, they can sell
those allowances on a mar-
ketplace linked to Califor-
nia and Quebec, Canada. If
they don’t buy enough, they
can likewise purchase some
on the marketplace.
The state will make
fewer allowances available
over time, a mechanism
intended to force industry to
undertake conversions that
reduce emissions. The tar-
gets are a 45% decline from
1990s levels by 2035 and an
80% decline by 2050.
It’s a wildly progressive
proposal. Oregon’s plan is
in part based on Califor-
nia, but Oregon’s econ-
omy is much smaller. The
hope is to show other states
that such a plan can work
in smaller and more rural
states.
However, Republicans
have been staunchly against
the idea, saying it will dec-
imate the rural way of life,
where people work in mills
and factories that would be
hurt by cap and trade. They
drive longer distances, mak-
ing the estimated 16 cent-
per-gallon increase in gas
costs more signifi cant.
To that end, Republicans
made a last-ditch effort to
change the bill with amend-
ments drafted by industry
and one that would remove
the emergency clause. Both
those proposals failed on
party-line votes, as they
did the day before in the
Ways and Means Natural
Resources Subcommittee.
back she brought a picture,”
Hartley recalled . “With all
endings come new begin-
nings and that’s what it felt
like. This little boy’s life
was starting and when I saw
Alexis in the hall and learned
about Ronald McDon-
ald that seemed like a good
start to another start to help
something.”
Her students would use
the pull tabs over the school
year to help them learn to
count to the thousands.
Some years, her class col-
lected tens of thousands, and
in other years, hundreds of
thousands. Over time, sur-
rounding elementary schools
and high schools began to
collect pull tabs to donate to
Hartley’s class .
Hartley said in 20 years
her classes have collected
3. 2 million pull tabs.
“Every year there’s
always one person in the
class who says one of their
family members stayed there
... so they already know
about Ronald McDonald
House and it makes it real,”
Hartley said.
Every year, Hartley and
Antilla lay out all the tabs at
the year-end assembly and
tell everyone how much they
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“It’s fun and it’s a tra-
dition every second to the
last day of school we trot
them over there,” Hartley
said. “At the beginning of
the year, it brings everybody
into a team process to do
that, plus they love helping,
that’s our nature is to help.”
Growing up in a Coast
Guard
family,
Joseph
attended several different
schools. She said Hartley
was the most memorable
teacher she had .
With the support of Hart-
ley and other teachers, Chos-
vig has overcome many of
his own obstacles. He wants
to teach other kids in simi-
lar situations how to do the
same. Chosvig helps mentor
kids at Shriners Hospital for
Children as part of their rec-
reational therapy program.
Some of the kids also have
s pina b ifi da, while others
have cerebral palsy, D own
syndrome and Asperger’s
syndrome.
“Some of them are
younger and I have a lot more
experience, so I give them a
lot of advice that I’ve gone
through when I was their
age,” he said. “I’ve helped a
lot of kids doing that.”
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