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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JULY 20, 2021
IN BRIEF
Westport man dies in Highway 30 crash
A Westport man died early Monday morning in a
two-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 30 about 10 miles
east of Astoria.
Police say Joshua Johns, 36, was heading eastbound
when he crossed into the westbound lane and collided
into another vehicle.
Johns sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced
dead at Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria. Johns’
passenger, as well as the driver and passenger of the other
vehicle, were taken to Columbia Memorial for injuries.
The highway was closed while law enforcement
investigated and reconstructed the crash, which was
reported at about 12:50 a.m.
New chairman selected
for Seaside school board
SEASIDE — Brian Taylor was named the new chair-
man at a special meeting of the Seaside School District
Board of Directors on Thursday.
Taylor, who served as the board’s vice chairman,
has represented Cannon Beach’s Zone 2, Position 2
seat since 2013. Taylor is co-owner of Bruce’s Candy
Kitchen in Cannon Beach.
He replaces Mark Truax, whose term on the board rep-
resenting Zone 4, Position 2 in Gearhart runs until 2023.
“I just want to say real quick thanks everybody for
all the assistance they gave me for the last 2 1/2 years,”
Truax said.
Michelle Wunderlich was named vice chairman for
the board. Wunderlich, owner of the Seaside Coff ee
House, represents the at-large Zone 7, Position 1 board
seat. She won election to the board in 2017 and was
reelected this year.
The Zone 3, Position 1 seat remains vacant after the
winner of the May election, A.J. Wahl, stepped down to
assume a judge position. People wishing to be consid-
ered for appointment to the seat have until the end of
July to apply.
— The Astorian
Union workers at Fred Meyer
vote to authorize strike
Fred Meyer warehouse workers have voted unan-
imously to authorize a strike, which could disrupt
food distribution at 180 locations across the Pacifi c
Northwest.
KOIN reported that contract negotiations between
Teamsters Local 117 and Fred Meyer have been
underway with little progress. Union offi cials say
Fred Meyer rejected a proposal to allow workers to
refuse a task that would put themselves or the pub-
lic in danger.
The strike authorization vote was on Saturday.
Teamsters Local 117 represents roughly 500 ware-
house workers with Fred Meyer, servicing stores in
Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Idaho.
Fred Meyer offi cials told KOIN they plan to continue
negotiations.
— Associated Press
DEATHS
July 17, 2021
In KLAFFKE,
Brief
Richard
78, of Seaside, died in
Seaside. Hughes-Ransom
Deaths
Mortuary is in charge of
the arrangements.
PARKER, Scott, 72,
of Astoria, died in Sea-
side. Ocean View Funeral
& Cremation Service of
Astoria is in charge of the
arrangements.
ON THE RECORD
LIVING
HISTORY
Luke Whittaker/Chinook Observer
DeWayne Pritchett portrayed U.S. Army Pvt. John Collins as the Pacifi c Northwest Living Historians interpreted the Lewis and
Clark Expedition in Knappton this month.
Family of drowned Tacoma
man appeals for fi nancial help
Man’s son needs
special care
By PATRICK WEBB
Chinook Observer
LONG BEACH, Wash.
— A campaign is under-
way to help the family of the
Tacoma man who drowned
near Beard s Hollow in June .
Family friend Andy
Anderson is asking people
contribute to a $12,000 cam-
paign to aid the family of
Mark Bishop. An appeal with
family photos listing details
of expenses has been set up
online at GoFundMe.
Bishop, 44, and his
21-year-old son, Billy, were
vacationing on the Long
Beach Peninsula with Mark’s
girlfriend and her children in
late June . Reports were that
they were trying to make
their way along the side of
the main fi shing rock when
they got into diffi culties.
Mark Bishop was pulled
from the ocean by beachgo-
ers who attempted to revive
him.
Pacifi c County Fire Dis-
trict No. 1 personnel took
him to Ocean Beach Hospital
in Ilwaco. Family members
Mark Bishop, of Tacoma, with his son, Billy.
said he was fl own by heli-
copter to a Portland hospital,
where he was pronounced
dead .
Billy Bishop is a dis-
abled and autistic adult who
requires legal guardianship,
his older brother, Jeremy,
notes on the website. He and
his partner, JJ Knapp, have
committed to provide a home
for him with them in Minne-
apolis, but seek funds to help
provide specialized equip-
ment needed to cope with his
disability, including sensory
soothing items.
“They want to get him
back and settled with the least
amount of grief,” Anderson
said.
The couple face a gap
in state disability fi nancial
aid with the transfer from
Washington to Minne-
sota. Both have lost income
while making the arrange-
ments and must pay to ship
Billy’s belongings.
“As a young homeowner
I need to make some modi-
fi cations and updates to our
century-old home in the low-
er-income neighborhood of
north Minneapolis for basic
safety and Billy’s accessibil-
ity,” Jeremy Bishop noted.
One update is replacing the
1920s newspapers previously
used as insulation for the sec-
ond-fl oor room where Billy
will sleep.
Billy Bishop grew up in
Washington and recently
graduated from high school.
He worked at a Walgreen’s
drugstore.
“Helping Billy recover in
a safe and loving environ-
ment so he can live his happi-
est life will mean so much to
our budding little family,” his
brother noted.
Mark Bishop is survived
by his parents, three sisters
and seven children. A funeral
was held in Lakewood last
week .
Jeremy Bishop noted that
their father had died helping
others. “Thankfully, his heart,
liver, kidneys and eye tissue
were all viable for donation,
and he was able to save even
more lives,” he noted. “My
dad truly died a hero.”
Criminal mischief
DUII
On
• Neil the
Lincoln Record
Fisk,
• Lavon Lee Sargent,
51, of Gearhart, was
arraigned Monday on
charges of criminal mis-
chief in the fi rst degree,
menacing and recklessly
endangering
another
person.
Theft
• Debra Lee Reed, 52,
of Astoria, was arrested
Friday at Walmart in
Warrenton for theft in the
second degree.
51, of Astoria, was arrested
Friday on U.S. Highway
30 for driving under the
infl uence of intoxicants,
reckless driving and driv-
ing while suspended.
Driving while
suspended
• Joseph Efraim Stil-
lick, 29, of Warrenton,
was arrested on Friday
for criminal driving while
suspended.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
TUESDAY
Clatsop County Board of Commissioners and Planning
Commission, 10 a.m., work session, (electronic meeting).
Astoria Historic Landmarks Commission, 5:30 p.m., City
Hall, 1095 Duane St.
WEDNESDAY
Astoria City Council, 1 p.m., work session, City Hall, 1095
Duane St.
Seaside Tourism Advisory Committee, 3 p.m., City Hall,
989 Broadway.
THURSDAY
Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce Council, noon,
(electronic meeting).
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Lawsuit seeks more spill over dams for salmon
By NICHOLAS K.
GERANIOS
Associated Press
SPOKANE, Wash. —
The record-shattering heat
wave in the Pacifi c North-
west prompted fi shing and
conservation groups to ask
a federal court to order more
spill from dams on the lower
Snake and Columbia rivers
next spring, which could aid
the migration of endangered
salmon and steelhead runs.
Earthjustice, on behalf
of a coalition of fi shing and
conservation groups, asked a
federal court in Portland on
Friday for more water to be
released to help the fi sh nav-
igate a series of dams in the
river basins. Increasing the
amount of water helps fl ush
young fi sh along their river
migration to reach the ocean
where they mature.
But increasing spill also
means that water is not
available later to generate
power.
The groups are also seek-
ing lowered reservoir levels,
which are routinely too hot,
to help speed fi sh migration.
“Right now we’re back
in court asking for another
stop-gap measure to slow
the trend toward extinction
of these fi sh,” Earthjustice
attorney Todd True said.
The Columbia River
basin was once the great-
est salmon-producing river
system in the world. But all
remaining salmon on the
Snake River, its largest trib-
utary, now face extinction.
Four dams in eastern Wash-
Ted S. Warren/AP Photo
The Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River is seen from the air near Colfax.
ington state — Ice Harbor,
Little Goose, Lower Mon-
umental and Lower Gran-
ite — slow passage along
the lower Snake River, a
major migration corridor
linking pristine cold-water
streams in central Idaho to
the Columbia River and out
to the Pacifi c Ocean.
The dams plus rising
water temperatures in the
reservoirs make the passage
increasingly deadly, con-
servation groups contend.
Many are calling for the four
dams to be breached.
In 2015, some of the ear-
liest and hottest weather on
record produced warm river
temperatures that killed more
than 90% of all adult sock-
eye salmon returning to the
basin, conservation groups
said. State agencies have
since had to limit or cancel
fi shing seasons to protect the
dwindling population. This
summer could be a disaster
for Snake River salmon with
its record-breaking heat, the
groups said.
Climate change has made
the West much warmer and
drier in the past 30 years,
and scientists have long
warned that the weather
will get wilder as the world
warms. Special calculations
are needed to determine how
much global warming is to
blame, if at all, for a single
extreme weather event.
The litigation challenges
the most recent plan for
dam operations issued by
the Trump administration in
late 2020. That plan called
for the same operations the
courts have consistently
rejected for more than two
decades.
Numerous groups that
use the river system have
opposed breaching the four
dams, along with mostly
Republican politicians in the
region who argue the dams
provide many benefi ts, such
as electricity to power air
conditioners during the heat
wave.
Kurt Miller, the executive
director of Northwest Riv-
erPartners, which opposes
breaching, said the injunc-
tion is poorly timed.
“At a time when the
Pacifi c Northwest is emerg-
ing from the pandemic, expe-
riencing historic heat that
has led to drought, wild-
fi res and signifi cant loss of
life, and is faced with ram-
pant homelessness, it is dif-
fi cult to imagine a group fi l-
ing a motion that will greatly
increase the electricity costs
for millions of residents,
decrease our clean energy
generation and double the
risk of regional blackouts,”
he said.
The request for a prelim-
inary injunction allowing
more spill lists the National
Marine Fisheries Service, the
U.S. Army Corps of Engi-
neers and the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation as defendants.