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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2019
OBITUARIES
Cheri Jeanine Folk
Gearhart
Dec. 31, 1944 — June 26, 2019
Cheri Jeanine Folk died peacefully at ers Association b oard.
home in Gearhart, Oregon, on June 26, 2019.
Since retiring, Cheri served diligently
Cheri was born on Dec. 31, 1944, in Wen- with the American Association of Univer-
dell, Idaho, to Kenneth and Emily
sity Women, on the board of Lib-
Smith. She grew up near Sun Val-
erty Restoration Inc., Astoria
ley, Idaho. She graduated from Sea-
High School Scholarship Inc., the
side High School, and attended
Lewis & Clark National Historical
Linfi eld C ollege.
Park Association and the Astoria
Her brother, Jan, preceded her in
Golf & Country Club Ladies Golf
death, along with four half brothers,
Club. She previously served on the
and a half sister. She is survived by
board of the Assistance League of
her sister, Charline Smith, of Wen-
the Columbia Pacifi c, the Clatsop
dell, Idaho.
County Historical Society and as
She also leaves behind her hus-
director emeritus of the Columbia
band of 29 years, Del Folk; her two
Cheri Folk
River Maritime Museum.
daughters, Debbie Doughty and
Cheri served faithfully in her
son-in-law Jeff, and Jennifer Waldrip and membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of
son-in-law Dave; stepdaughter, Marci Utti Latter-day Saints in various volunteer leader-
and son-in-law Mark; stepson, James Folk; ship positions. She found great comfort in her
11 grandchildren, Jeffrey (Jamie) Doughty, faith and testimony of God and his son, Jesus
Alyssa Doughty, Stephanie (Mike) Moore, Christ.
Courtney Doughty, Katie (Todd) Coleman,
At her request, donations in her honor can
Benjamin Waldrip, Max Waldrip and Emma, be made to the American Association of Uni-
McKenzie, Allie and Maddie Utti; two versity Women or Liberty Restoration Inc.
great-granddaughters, Olivia Doughty and
Services will be held July 6, 2019, at 1 p.m.
Mayven Townsend; and stepsons, Eric and at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Brian Savage and stepdaughter, Rindy Shultz, Saints, 350 Niagara Ave. Astoria, Oregon.
and their families.
Dedication of the gravesite will be directly
After 37 years in banking, in 2009 Cheri after the service at Ocean View Cemetery in
retired as the president and CEO of the Bank Warrenton, Oregon.
of Astoria and member of the board of direc-
Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary is in
tors. Cheri was the fi rst female bank CEO in charge of the arrangements. Please sign our
Oregon. She also served on the Oregon Bank- online guest book at caldwellsmortuary.com
Oregon agency that studies
earthquakes could be abolished
By KALE WILLIAMS
The Oregonian
The state agency in charge
of earthquake study and
preparation, as well as mon-
itoring mining efforts in Ore-
gon, could be shut down after
going over budget for the
second time in four years.
The Department of Geol-
ogy and Mineral Industries,
widely known as DOGAMI,
will lose three staff members
and the g overnor’s offi ce
is considering whether the
agency should continue to
exist in its current form given
its fi nancial woes.
For the 2013-2015 budget
cycle, the agency needed an
extra $800,000 from the gen-
eral fund. For the 2017-2019
cycle, it needed $650,000.
Agencies needing more cash
is unusual, said John Terpen-
ing, a legislative analyst for
the state who reviewed the
budget proposal. Needing
more cash twice in as many
budget cycles is cause for
concern.
“This type of thing should
be very rare,” he told The
Oregonian.
The agency has two pri-
mary functions, both of
which are important. The
Geological Survey & Ser-
vices program studies earth-
quakes, landslides, coastal
erosion and other haz-
ards and develops plans to
reduce risk to the public.
Many disaster plans in Ore-
gon are based, at least in part,
on the work done by DOG-
AMI and that work is mostly
funded through grants and
state money from the gen-
eral fund. The agency is also
responsible for overseeing
mining in the state, which is
funded entirely by fees.
DOGAMI
The Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, which
studies geologic hazards around Oregon, could be abolished
after it went over budget twice in the last four years.
Besides going over bud-
get, the agency also fell well
short of inspecting the num-
ber of mining sites it is sup-
posed to. In 2018, the goal
was to inspect 50% of the
state’s mining operations “to
help prevent off-site impacts
or violations, and build pos-
itive working relation-
ships.” Last year the agency
inspected just 13% .
Brad Avy, director of the
agency, said there were a
number of factors that led
to the fi nancial problems
“including the need for an
improved accounting archi-
tecture and written fi nancial
policies and procedures.”
The funding model has
shifted over time, Avy added,
to more reliance on grants.
“(The agency) starts the
biennium without know-
ing how successful it will be
in securing grant awards to
meet its budgeted revenue,”
he said. “This results in a less
predictable funding structure
for our Geological Survey
and Services Program.”
Now, those cost overruns
will cost the agency three
natural resource specialist
positions in the next budget.
A few positions will be added
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or changed to ensure the
agency doesn’t run into fi scal
trouble again, Avy said, but
the net is still a loss of staff.
“The agency will lose sci-
entifi c capacity to execute
our mission which is to pro-
vide earth science informa-
tion and regulation to make
Oregon safe and prosper-
ous,” Avy said.
In a note on the prelimi-
nary budget proposal for the
agency, the Joint Ways and
Means Committee said the
g overnor’s offi ce would be
“evaluating if the d epartment
should continue to exist as an
independent or recommenda-
tions to abolish and move the
individual programs to other
entities.”
That drastic of a move
could come with big conse-
quences, Avy said.
“It would be incredi-
bly disruptive to staff and
it is likely that some on-go-
ing studies would be discon-
tinued,” he said. ”Oregon
would lose a valued agency
and may lose talented staff
in our Geological Survey and
Services Program which pro-
vides a focus on geologic and
mineral mapping and natural
hazard identifi cation.”
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
AP Photo/Susan Walsh
President Donald Trump walks to the North Korean side of the border with North Korean
leader Kim Jong Un.
Trump steps into history at DMZ
By ZEKE MILLER and
JONATHAN LEMIRE
Associated Press
PANMUNJOM, Korea
— With wide grins and a
historic handshake, Pres-
ident Donald Trump and
North Korea’s Kim Jong
Un met at the heavily for-
tifi ed Demilitarized Zone
on Sunday and agreed to
revive talks on the pariah
nation’s nuclear program.
Trump, pressing his bid
for a legacy-defi ning deal,
became the fi rst sitting
American leader to step
into North Korea.
What was intended to be
an impromptu exchange of
pleasantries turned into a
50-minute meeting, another
historic fi rst in the yearlong
rapprochement
between
the two technically warring
nations. It marked a return
to face-to-face contact
between the leaders after
talks broke down during a
summit in Vietnam in Feb-
ruary. Signifi cant doubts
remain, though, about the
future of the negotiations
and the North’s willingness
to give up its stockpile of
nuclear weapons.
The border encounter
was a made-for television
moment. The men strode
toward one another from
opposite sides of the Joint
Security Area and shook
hands over the raised patch
of concrete at the Military
Demarcation Line as cam-
eras clicked and photogra-
phers jostled to capture the
scene.
After asking if Kim
wanted him to cross, Trump
took 10 steps into the North
with Kim at his side, then
escorted Kim back to the
South for talks at Free-
dom House, where they
agreed to revive the stalled
negotiations.
The spectacle marked
the latest milestone in two
years of roller-coaster
diplomacy between the two
nations. Personal taunts
of “Little Rocket Man”
(by Trump) and “mentally
deranged U.S. dotard” (by
Kim) and threats to destroy
one other have given way
to on-again, off-again talks,
professions of love and
fl owery letters.
“I was proud to step
over the line,” Trump told
Kim as they met in on the
South Korean side of the
truce village of Panmun-
jom. “It is a great day for
the world.”
Kim hailed the moment,
saying of Trump, “I believe
this is an expression of his
willingness to eliminate
all the unfortunate past
and open a new future.”
Kim added that he was
“surprised” when Trump
issued an unorthodox meet-
ing invitation by tweet on
Saturday.
As he left South Korea
on his fl ight to Washing-
ton, Trump tweeted that
he had “a wonderful meet-
ing” with Kim. “Stood on
the soil of North Korea, an
important statement for all,
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and a great honor!”
Trump had predicted
the two would greet one
another for about “two
minutes,” but they ended
up spending more than an
hour together. The presi-
dent was joined in the Free-
dom House conversation
with Kim by his daugh-
ter and son-in-law, Ivanka
Trump and Jared Kushner,
both senior White House
advisers.
Substantive
talks
between the countries had
largely broken down after
the last Trump-Kim sum-
mit in Hanoi, which ended
early when the leaders hit
an impasse.
The North has balked at
Trump’s insistence that it
give up its weapons before
it sees relief from crush-
ing international sanctions.
The U.S. has said the North
must submit to “complete,
verifi able and irreversible
denuclearization” before
sanctions are lifted.
As he announced the
resumptions
of
talks,
Trump
told
reporters
“we’re not looking for
speed. We’re looking to get
it right.”
He added that eco-
nomic sanctions on the
North would remain. But
he seemed to move off
the administration’s pre-
vious rejection of scaling
back sanctions in return for
piecemeal North Korean
concessions, saying, “At
some point during the nego-
tiation things can happen.”
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