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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2019
IMPRESSIVE SHOW
IN BRIEF
Teenager arrested on sex abuse
charges in Warrenton
A 15-year-old male was arrested on charges of sex-
ual abuse in the Forest Rim neighborhood in Warrenton.
The suspect was released to the Clatsop County Juve-
nile Department.
Since June, the suspect has reportedly sexually
abused three children who live in the neighborhood.
Police believe there may be more victims.
People who have information can contact Detective
Tyler Johnston at the Warrenton Police Department at
tjohnston@ci.warrenton.or.us.
— The Astorian
Pacifi c County razor clam digs
get go-ahead to start
LONG BEACH, Wash. — The Washington Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife announced Thursday evening
that razor clam digging is good to go from Cape Disap-
pointment to Westport this weekend, after tests revealed
that shellfi sh from coastal beaches are safe to eat.
Testing conducted by the Washington Department
of Health on Thursday showed domoic acid levels were
low enough for the digs to go ahead, said Dan Ayres, the
state coastal shellfi sh manager.
“The health and safety of clam diggers is always our
fi rst concern, so we appreciate people’s patience while
we worked with our partners at WDOH to confi rm that
these clams are safe to eat,” Ayres said. “We hope that
everyone is able to get out and enjoy safe, productive
digs at these beaches.”
— Chinook Observer
Dems highlight complaints in Mitchell recall
Cryptosporidium found
again in Portland water
Portland’s water bureau is warning that residents who
have weakened immune systems should talk to their
doctors before drinking city tap water, after tests from
the Bull Run Watershed found two units of cryptospo-
ridium in a 50-liter water sample Tuesday.
Water bureau offi cials said drinking from the tap
should be safe for most people. There’s a small risk of
diarrhea, vomiting and other stomach problems, but peo-
ple with healthy immune systems should recover with-
out medical treatment.
People with AIDS, cancer or other immune condi-
tions could be at risk of life-threatening gastrointestinal
illness if they ingest the water. The water bureau sug-
gests they should consult with medical professionals
about whether it is safe for them.
The warning extends beyond Portland city limits to
other communities that obtain all or some of their drink-
ing water from Bull Run, including Sandy, Tualatin,
Gresham and surrounding water districts that collec-
tively serve close to a million people.
— Oregon Public Broadcasting
New bridges installed
on Eagle Creek Trail
PORTLAND — The Eagle Creek Trail has two new
bridges, but it could still be months before it reopens to
the public.
The Oregonian reported the U.S. Forest Service
installed two new footbridges on the fi re-ravaged hik-
ing trail Wednesday, replacing bridges that burned as the
Eagle Creek fi re tore through the Columbia River Gorge
in 2017.
Helicopter pilots airlifted the Fern Creek Bridge and
High Bridge onto the trail, where crews will now work
to install them. The same process was used to install the
Tish Creek Bridge before the wildfi re in 2017.
While the new bridges make the Eagle Creek Trail
safer to hike, it will remain closed due to threat of rock
fall and landslides, according to the forest service, espe-
cially as seasonal rain and snow approaches.
— Associated Press
DEATH
Oct. 22, 2019
DERRICK, Katherine Lee, 72, of Warrenton, died
in Portland. Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary of
Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
ON THE RECORD
Rape
• Amy Chen, 19, of
Seaside, was indicted
Wednesday on four
counts of rape in the third
degree.
Theft
•
Gregory
Scott
Adams, 37, of Ham-
mond, was arrested Fri-
day at Walmart for theft
in the second degree.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
MONDAY
Seaside City Council,
7 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broad-
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The surf at Waikiki Beach in Cape Disappointment State Park put on an impressive show last week as waves spawned by a
Pacifi c Ocean typhoon crashed into the cliff s below the lighthouse.
TUESDAY
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By SAM STITES
Oregon Capital Bureau
The Democratic Party
of Oregon is calling atten-
tion to a trio of complaints
fi led against the two political
action committees involved
in the effort to recall state
Rep. Tiffi ny Mitchell .
In a press release Thurs-
day, the party outlined allega-
tions made in three separate
complaints fi led by voters
against the leaders of two
political action committees
heading the recall against
the Astoria Democrat. That
included Darren Mead of the
Recall Tiffi ny Mitchell PAC,
as well as Andrew Miller and
Carol Russell of #Timbe-
rUnity PAC.
Ben Hamar, Ken Pot-
ter and Linda Martin — all
three of whom are electors
of the N orth C oast district —
say that materials mailed to
voters in House D istrict 32
and found on social media
include false information
regarding her voting record
on two bills that never made
it to a vote.
That would constitute a
violation of the Oregon s ec-
retary of s tate’s recall man-
ual, which says all statements
of fact in recall campaign
materials must be true.
Hamar’s complaint out-
lines an allegation that #Tim-
berUnity has not reported
campaign expenditures on
Facebook
advertisements
they’ve purchased urg-
ing voters to sign the recall
petition.
Martin’s
letter
also
alleges that the campaign
has directed circulators of
the recall petition to gather
signatures from people even
if they’re unsure whether
By FEDOR ZARKHIN
The Oregonian
Vaping has made signif-
icant inroads with young
Oregonians in the last two
years, with nearly half of
11th grade marijuana users
getting high off vape oils,
not fl ower, new data shows.
While marijuana use
stayed steady at one in fi ve
11th graders, the propor-
tion of those who get high
by smoking the plant versus
those who vape an oil extract
changed dramatically.
Two years ago, about
one out of 10 Oregon 11th
graders who used marijuana
vaped oils. This year, it’s
nearly one in two, at 44%,
the Oregon Health Author-
ity said Thursday.
“This is alarming,” Ore-
gon’s top public health
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they’re actually voters within
Mitchell’s district, also a vio-
lation of the state recall man-
ual and Oregon law.
“As this group abuses the
recall process in an effort to
overturn the will of the vot-
ers, it is no surprise that they
are uninterested in following
the rules,” said KC Hanson,
chair of the Democratic Party
of Oregon. “With a short
time for them to collect sig-
natures, we are urging Sec-
retary of State Bev Clarno
to act swiftly in investigating
these complaints.”
According to Elections
Division Director Steve
Trout, the s ecretary of s tate’s
o ffi ce has launched a formal
investigation into the com-
plaints, but he wasn’t able
to comment any further as
the investigation is ongo-
ing. Trout said there are both
civil and criminal penalties
for violating state elections
rules.
“We are not surprised that
Tiffi ny Mitchell’s supporters
are throwing up every road-
block they can think of to dis-
tract from her horrible voting
record,” Mead, the owner of
Action Sign Works in Miles
Crossing, said in an email.
“The problem is, while we
are following the rules, they
are not.”
Mead said a complaint
has been fi led against a
group opposing the recall
that has apparently not dis-
closed spending.
“We are honest, hard-
working people standing up
in the only way we know
how to stop politicians from
destroying our way of life,”
Mead said. “These com-
plaints are nothing more than
a distraction from the anger
Tiffi ny Mitchell has caused
with her atrocious voting
record.”
Miller, the CEO of Stim-
son Lumber Co., could not
immediately be reached for
comment. Russell said she
could not comment because
she just does the books for
the #TimberUnity PAC.
Molly Woon, a Demo-
cratic Party spokeswoman,
said the party has mobilized
to bring attention to the com-
plaints due to the severity of
the allegations brought for-
ward by these three individ-
uals, as well as the ticking
clock. Supporters of the peti-
tion to recall Mitchell have
until Dec. 4 to submit the
required 4,883 signatures for
a vote to be called.
“We can’t let instances
like this that are so egregious
and so clearly false go with-
out notice,” Woon said. “We
have to call attention to it,
and we have to do something
to try to stop this behavior.”
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Bureau is a collaboration
between EO Media Group,
Pamplin Media Group and
Salem Reporter. Nicole Bales
of The Astorian contributed
to this report.
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products can get young peo-
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Youth nicotine vaping
climbed as well, the state
said, with an 80% rise in
nicotine vape use since
2017, going from 13% to
23%.
The report comes from
the Oregon Healthy Teens
survey, which the state does
every two years. The newest
survey was done this year
and was compared to data
from the 2017 survey.
The survey results are
likely to add to the alarm
over vaping that has gripped
Oregonians for two months
amid a nationwide lung ill-
ness epidemic connected to
the products. The federal
government has connected
many of the 1,604 lung ill-
ness cases to vaping prod-
ucts with THC, marijuana’s
high-inducing chemical.
Oregon was one of the
fi rst states to be hit by the
epidemic particularly hard:
The second vaping-related
death to be reported in the
country — out of a total of
what is now 34 deaths —
was in Oregon. That per-
son bought marijuana prod-
ucts at two legal marijuana
retail stores, health offi cials
have said.
Twelve Oregonians have
fallen ill with the vaping-re-
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