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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2019
IN BRIEF
States reopen Columbia River to
recreational coho and sturgeon fi shing
Recreational fi shermen will be able to catch white
sturgeon and coho salmon on the Columbia River mul-
tiple days in October.
Sturgeon fi shing can take place on Saturday and
Thursday between the Wauna power lines upstream to
the fi shing deadlines at Bonneville Dam.
People can also fi sh hatchery coho salmon through
Oct. 31. from the Tongue Point/Rocky Point line
upstream to The Dalles Dam.
The bag limit is one legal-sized white sturgeon for the
day and up to two for the year. For coho salmon, the daily
adult bag limit is two.
A legal-sized sturgeon is defi ned as measuring 44 to
50 inches from the tip of the nose to the fork in the tail
fi n with the fi sh laying on its side on a fl at surface and the
ruler positioned fl at under the fi sh.
Suspicious package
causes alarm in Seaside
SEASIDE — A suspicious package scare Thursday
afternoon closed Broadway between Roosevelt and Wah-
anna in Seaside for more than two hours.
Offi cials said an individual came to Seaside Fire and
Rescue with what they believed was an explosive device.
The device, wrapped in blanket, was placed in front of
the fi re house.
Technicians from the Oregon State Police Explosive
Unit examined the objects and determined they were
commercial fuses.
Parent-teacher conferences planned for nearby Broad-
way Middle School were canceled.
“The initial report was that someone believed this to
(be) an explosive device,” Police Chief Dave Ham said.
“The exposed portions gave us no reason not to take nec-
essary precaution and keep the public, our fi refi ghters and
police offi cers safe.”
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Civil rights groups seek to bar
ICE from courthouse arrests
SALEM — Attorneys for groups working on behalf
of immigrants are asking Oregon’s judicial branch to
prohibit civil immigration arrests in and around county
courthouses without a judicial warrant.
Offi cers with U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforce-
ment have been detaining people who appear for court
proceedings and are in the United States illegally.
The ACLU of Oregon, Innovation Law Lab and the
Portland law fi rm Stoll Berne planned to ask Oregon’s
Uniform Trial Court Rules Committee on Friday to adopt
a rule prohibiting such without a judicial warrant.
ICE spokeswoman Tanya Roman said the idea
that a state law can bind the hands of a federal law
enforcement agency is wrong. She said federal law pro-
vides ICE offi cers the authority to arrest people who are
in the country illegally without a judicial warrant.
Small quake strikes off Oregon Coast
A 4.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of
southern Oregon.
The Oregonian reported it happened shortly before
2 p.m. Thursday.
The U.S. Geological Survey mapped the earthquake
about 96 miles off the coast of Port Orford, a small town
in Curry County about 25 miles south of Coos Bay.
The quake was about 6 miles deep.
On Thursday morning, schools around the state,
including many on the coast, had ducked under their
desks for the Great Oregon ShakeOut, an annual state-
wide earthquake drill.
— Associated Press
DEATH
Knappa woman sentenced for
arson and attempted murder
By NICOLE BALES
The Astorian
A Knappa woman was
found guilty except for
insanity on Thursday on
charges of attempted murder
and guilty of arson.
Mona Lisa Heilmann, 57,
pleaded no contest to two
counts of attempted murder
in the fi rst degree and one
count of arson in the fi rst
degree.
She was sentenced to up
to 20 years in the supervi-
sion of the Oregon Psychi-
atric Security Review Board
for the attempted
and two adult chil-
murder charges and
dren were sleeping
seven years in prison
inside.
for arson.
Her
husband
If she is released
woke up to the noise
from the Oregon
and called 911. He
Psychiatric Security
was able to extin-
Mona Lisa
Review Board before
guish the fi re before
Heilmann
seven years, she will
emergency person-
fi nish her arson sen-
nel arrived.
tence in prison.
Heilmann’s family was
Last July, Heilmann was in Circuit Court during the
living with her sister in Chi- sentencing.
nook, Washington, when she
Afterward , Heilmann’s
drove to her family’s home sister, Lori Wirkkala, said
in Knappa in the middle of Heilmann has long suffered
the night and set the house from mental illness.
on fi re while her husband
She said there were lit-
Study says climate States, tribes call for
change threatens Superfund listing at
389 bird species
Bradford Island
By MONICA SAMAYOA
Oregon Public
Broadcasting
A national study says
two-thirds of North Amer-
ican birds are at risk of
extinction due to climate
change.
The National Audu-
bon Society released a new
report showing 389 out
of 604 birds are at risk if
greenhouse gas emissions
are not lowered by 45% by
2030.
According to the study,
across the state of Oregon,
without substantial climate
change mitigation, aver-
age temperatures during
the warmest months are
expected
to
increase
approximately 11 degrees
Fahrenheit, affecting 136
bird species by the end of
the century.
The most vulnerable
species threatened by cli-
mate change include the
rufous hummingbird, var-
ied thrush, ruby-crowned
kinglet, mountain blue-
bird, Vaux swift, greater
sage grouse and pygmy
owl.
“A lot of these species
have a high probability of
disappearing in the life-
times of our children and
our grandchildren. So it’s
not just rare and imperiled
species like the spotted owl
and the marbled murrelet,
By CASSANDRA
PROFITA
Oregon Public
Broadcasting
Associated Press
The greater sage grouse.
we’re talking about species
that we take for common,”
said Bob Sallinger, conser-
vation director for Portland
Audubon.
In addition to changes
in climate across North
America,
the
study
assessed the potential
impacts of other fore-
casted threats related to
climate change, including
sea-level rise, land use and
extreme weather events.
“We have massive,
massive amounts of data
to look at — looking at dif-
ferent models and in the
end they’re all telling us
the same thing, which is
birds are very imperiled.
Huge numbers of species
are at risk of extinction,”
Salinger said. “It’s time to
take action, we’re overdue.
The time is now.”
If greenhouse gas emis-
sions are lowered by the
end of the century, the
number of vulnerable spe-
cies falls to 92.
The Yakama Nation and
the states of Oregon and
Washington are asking the
U.S. Environmental Pro-
tection Agency to declare a
new Superfund site on the
Columbia River at Bradford
Island alongside Bonneville
Dam.
The federal govern-
ment used Bradford Island
as a dump site for decades.
It hosted a landfi ll as well
as discarded hydroelectric
equipment containing the
toxic pollutant polychlori-
nated biphenyl, or PCB.
Now the site is so con-
taminated with pollutants
that many of the fi sh liv-
ing in the area are too toxic
to eat. Fish advisories warn
people not to eat the fi sh
because of health risks,
but the area is still used
for tribal and recreational
fi shing.
Tribal
leaders
say
cleanup plans have been
delayed because the Trump
administration decided to
cut the funding.
“A delay in the cleanup
of the Bradford Island site
is unacceptable,” Yakama
Nation Fisheries Superfund
Section Manager Rose Lon-
goria said. “Current site
conditions pose a serious
Protest against
a pipeline
By MONICA SAMAYOA
Oregon Public Broadcasting
BIRTHS
Oct. 8, 2019
HALVERSON, Amanda, and DeLOE, Scott, of
Nehalem, a boy, Cooper Scott DeLoe, born at Colum-
bia Memorial Hospital in Astoria. Grandparents are
Bruce and Dawn Halverson, of Nehalem, and Charlie
and Sandy DeLoe, of Bay City.
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1095 Duane St.
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Environmental activists from Portland Rising Tide built a
tripod in the middle of a rail line to block access to Terminal 5
at the Port of Vancouver on Thursday.
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threat to human health and
the environment requiring
an expedited cleanup.”
Lauren Goldberg, with
the environmental nonprofi t
Columbia Riverkeeper, said
the area hasn’t seen any
active cleanup work since
2007, and testing of fi sh tis-
sue since then has shown
contamination levels have
gone up.
“There is an urgent need
for the government to get
its act together and clean
up that site,” Goldberg said.
“The resident fi sh there —
not salmon but fi sh like
bass and sturgeon — con-
tain the highest levels of
cancer-causing PCBs of
any fi sh in the Northwest.
They’re higher than the
Portland Harbor Superfund
cleanup area.”
In a letter sent to Oregon
and Washington earlier this
month, Goldberg’s group
and eight others urged
the states to seek Super-
fund status for Bradford
Island in response to years
of stalled and ineffective
cleanup efforts by the fed-
eral government.
An EPA spokesman said
the agency is considering
the request. Under the agen-
cy’s Superfund process, a
determination on the site’s
priority status would likely
be made by 2021 after a
rulemaking process that
would include public input.
Activists block rail line at Port of Vancouver
Oct. 16, 2019
SKIPPER, Violet F., 95, of Astoria, died in Asto-
ria. Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary of Astoria is in
charge of the arrangements.
MONDAY
Astoria City Council,
7 p.m., City Hall, 1095
Duane St.
TUESDAY
Sunset Empire Park and
Recreation District Board
tle to no resources to help
her sister. Wirkkala said she
is committed to fi nding and
working with local groups
to create more mental health
resources in the community.
In court , Heilmann tear-
fully thanked her husband for
taking care of their children .
“Mrs. Heilmann, I’m
so sorry that you’re here,”
Judge Cindee Matyas said.
“There’s been so much
suffering. You do have such
a strong and supportive fam-
ily. I hope that will continue
to give you the strength and
support you need.”
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VANCOUVER, Wash.
— More than a dozen envi-
ronmental activists blocked a
rail line at the Port of Vancou-
ver on Thursday, as they were
trying to stop the transporta-
tion of pipes that would be
used for the construction of a
Canadian oil pipeline.
The group, Portland Ris-
ing Tide, is calling on gov-
ernment leaders to terminate
the construction of Cana-
da’s Trans Mountain Pipeline
Expansion Project.
The pipeline carries crude
and refi ned oil from Alberta to
the coast of British Columbia.
If the expansion is com-
pleted, it will triple the pipe-
line’s capacity to nearly 3
million gallons a day and add
more than 600 miles of new
pipeline.
“There is a lot of aware-
ness and knowledge now
about the climate crisis that
we’re facing,” Kelsey Baker,
an organizer with Portland
Rising Tide, said. “Extract-
ing more tar sands and dirty
energy from the ground and
burning it is not the answer or
the solution.”
Baker said the proposed
pipeline route would also go
through i ndigenous peoples’
land.
“We’ve seen a lot of pub-
lic support, I think especially
in the Pacifi c Northwest and
along the West Coast. Folks
are on the same page about
not building any more fossil
fuel, dirty energy projects,”
Baker said.
Activist Nick Haas said he
wants Washington Gov. Jay
Inslee to act now and switch
to 100% renewable energy,
including solar and wind.
“He ran for president
under the guise of being very
climate friendly, that was his
entire platform, he needs to
act like it,” Haas said.
Inslee’s offi ce did not
respond for a request for
comment.
Port of Vancouver director
of communications Heather
Stebbings said her organi-
zation was aware of the pro-
testers and was closely mon-
itoring the situation. No
operations or shipments were
affected by the protests.
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