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THE ASTORIAN • SATuRdAy, NOvEmbER 6, 2021
SPORTS
Local teams
honored for
academics
The Astorian
Local sports teams per-
forming well on the field
also scored well in the
classroom this fall, with
numerous teams making
the top 10 lists for grade
point averages.
Warrenton
foot-
ball had the top grade
point average (3.63) of
all football teams at the
3A level, one of several
Warrenton teams plac-
ing in the OSAA’s top 10
academically.
The Warrenton volley-
ball team turned in a 3.88
GPA, which ranked fifth
among all 3A volleyball
teams in the state. War-
renton boys cross-country
— one of the top teams
in the state on the course
— tied for fifth in 3A
cross-country with a 3.82
GPA.
The Knappa football
team’s 3.62 GPA was
second-best for 2A foot-
ball, and the Knappa boys
cross-country squad had
a combined 3.73 GPA for
third in the state at the
2A/1A level.
Elsewhere,
Astoria
boys cross-country posted
a 3.73 GPA for third in the
state; and Astoria boys
soccer was fourth with a
3.60 grade point average.
Astoria youth basketball
programs begin
The Astorian
The Astoria School
District will be facilitating
the Astoria Youth Basket-
ball program this year for
grades one through six.
This school-based pro-
gram will replace the
Astoria city-league pro-
gram for the 2021-22
school year. Register by
Nov. 12.
Online links to regis-
ter include: https://forms.
gle/euEF5G1y5kyJaL7c6
and
https://forms.gle/
mpRvmTGcj1LRQDoq6.
The program will run
during November and
December, evenings and
weekends. Program spe-
cifics will be based on
grade-level. First through
third graders will partici-
pate in an open-gym for-
mat with skill instruction;
and students in fourth
through sixth grades will
be on organized teams and
will participate in prac-
tices and games.
Participation in the pro-
gram is free to all Astoria
students.
The school district is
looking for parent volun-
teers to coach or assist the
teams. For more informa-
tion, call 503-325-6441.
OBITUARIES
Diane Mabel (Bushnell) Black
Gearhart
Nov. 7, 1945 — Oct. 24, 2021
Diane Mabel (Bushnell)
Black was taken by heart
failure on Oct. 24, 2021.
Diane was born Nov. 7,
1945, in Aberdeen, Wash-
ington, to Leo Bushnell and
Clara (Hubbard). She had a
younger brother, Randy. All
have passed away.
After living in the Toke-
land/Grayland, Washing-
ton, area, the family moved
to Warrenton about 1951.
Diane went to Warrenton
schools, graduating in 1963.
Diane married Rodney
Black in 1968, and they had
one son, Shawn, in 1972.
Rod and Shawn survive.
Diane worked for J.C.
Penney before her son was
born, sold Avon, worked at
a holiday store and, for 27
years, worked the front desk
at The Tides By The Sea.
She loved visiting with all
of those who became her
friends while working at
The Tides.
She enjoyed puzzles,
solitaire, crochet, rocks and
looking for gold and watch-
ing wildlife. She donated
what little she could to sev-
eral charities and wildlife
groups.
Diane and her family
lived together in Gearhart
for over 44 years. In addi-
tion to her husband and son,
she leaves a nephew, Chet,
his wife, Stephanie, and his
children, Natalie and Ash-
ton; a niece, Crystal, and her
girls, Addison and Aubree;
and extended family and a
multitude of friends.
She wanted no service.
Please donate to the
American Heart Associa-
tion and the National Kid-
ney Foundation.
Caldwell’s Funeral and
Cremation Arrangement Cen-
ter in Seaside was in charge of
the arrangements. Please sign
the online guest book at cald-
wellsmortuary.com
SEVENDAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TODAY
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Matt Rourke/AP Photo
A syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic at the Reading Area Community College in Pennsylvania in September.
US mandates vaccines or
tests for big companies
By DAVID KOENIG
Associated Press
Tens of millions of Amer-
icans who work at companies
with 100 or more employ-
ees will need to be fully vac-
cinated against COVID-19
by Jan. 4 or get tested for the
virus weekly under govern-
ment rules issued Thursday.
The new requirements are
the Biden administration’s
boldest move yet to per-
suade reluctant Americans
to finally get a vaccine that
has been widely available
for months — or face finan-
cial consequences. If success-
ful, administration officials
believe it will go a long way
toward ending a pandemic
that has killed more than
750,000 Americans.
First previewed by Presi-
dent Joe Biden in September,
the requirements will apply
to about 84 million workers
at medium and large busi-
nesses, although it is not clear
how many of those employ-
ees are unvaccinated.
The Occupational Safety
and Health Administration
regulations will force the
companies to require that
unvaccinated workers test
negative for COVID-19 at
least once a week and wear a
mask while in the workplace.
OSHA left open the pos-
sibility of expanding the
requirement to smaller busi-
nesses. It asked for pub-
lic comment on whether
employers with fewer than
100 employees could han-
dle vaccination or testing
programs.
Tougher rules will apply
to another 17 million people
working in nursing homes,
hospitals and other facili-
ties that receive money from
Medicare and Medicaid.
Those workers will not have
an option for testing — they
will need to be vaccinated.
Workers will be able to
ask for exemptions on medi-
cal or religious grounds.
The requirements will not
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
apply to people who work at
home or outdoors.
Oregon is one of 21 states
and Puerto Rico that have
their own workplace safety
agency. Oregon’s Occupa-
tional Health and Safety
Division will have 30 days to
write its own vaccine rules.
They must be “at least as
effective” as the federal rule,
but need not be identical —
and could be more restrictive.
On Thursday, the state did
not commit to matching the
national Jan. 4 deadline.
“It is too early yet to say how
the timeline will take shape in
Oregon,” said Oregon OSHA
spokesperson Aaron Corvin.
The state’s homegrown
workplace safety program
means the federal rule won’t
have any effect in Oregon
until Oregon OSHA’s own
rule is in place.
Biden framed the issue as
a simple choice between get-
ting more people vaccinated
or prolonging the pandemic.
“While I would have
much preferred that require-
ments not become neces-
sary, too many people remain
unvaccinated for us to get out
of this pandemic for good,”
he said in a statement.
Biden said his encourage-
ment for businesses to impose
mandates and his own previ-
ous requirements for the mil-
itary and federal contractors
have helped reduce the num-
ber of unvaccinated Amer-
icans over 12 from 100 mil-
lion in late July to about 60
million now.
Those measures, he said,
have not led to mass firings or
worker shortages, adding that
vaccines have been required
before to fight other diseases.
OSHA said companies
that fail to comply with the
regulations could face pen-
alties of nearly $14,000 per
violation.
The agency will face
enforcement
challenges.
Even counting help from
states, OSHA has only 1,850
inspectors to oversee 130
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
million workers at 8 million
workplaces. An administra-
tion official said the agency
will respond to whistleblower
complaints and make limited
spot checks.
The release of the rules
followed weeks of regulatory
review and meetings with
business groups, labor unions
and others.
OSHA drafted the rules
under emergency author-
ity meant to protect work-
ers from an imminent health
hazard. The agency estimated
that the vaccine mandate will
save more than 6,500 worker
lives and prevent more than
250,000 hospitalizations over
the next six months.
The rules set up potential
legal battles along partisan
lines between states and the
federal government. Several
states and Republican gover-
nors threatened to sue, con-
tending that the administra-
tion lacks the power to make
such sweeping mandates
under emergency authority.
OSHA’s parent agency,
the Labor Department, says
it is on sound legal footing.
The department’s top legal
official, Seema Nanda, said
OSHA rules preempt con-
flicting state laws or orders,
including those that bar
employers from requiring
vaccinations, testing or face
masks.
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Seattle
51 43
49 41
52 44
53 46
56 48
Cloudy, rain
possible
A little morning
A shower and
Periods of rain
Breezy with rain
rain
t-storm
56 50
Rain possible
58 49
Rain
Aberdeen
Olympia
49/43
49/42
Wenatchee
Tacoma
Moses
Lake
UNDER THE SKY
TODAY'S TIDES
Astoria through Thursday
Tonight’s Sky: Low north before
midnight, the Big Dipper is an
“asterism” a group of stars that
forms an “spoon.”
Astoria / Port Docks
Temperatures
High/low ................................ 58/49
Normal high/low .................. 56/42
Record high .................. 69 in 1923
Record low .................... 29 in 1961
Precipitation
Thursday ................................. 0.75”
Month to date ........................ 1.92”
Normal month to date ......... 1.24”
Year to date .......................... 52.23”
Normal year to date ........... 49.77”
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
Sunrise today .................. 8:04 a.m.
Sunset tonight ............... 5:54 p.m.
Moonrise today ........... 10:29 a.m.
Moonset today .............. 7:15 p.m.
Full
Last
High (ft.) Time Low (ft.)
3:06 a.m.
2:29 p.m.
New
2:40 a.m.
2:05 p.m.
2:52 a.m.
2:17 p.m.
7.7 7:49 a.m. 2.2
9.7 8:41 p.m. -1.9
7.9 8:11 a.m. 2.0
9.9 9:02 p.m. -2.1
Warrenton
3:01 a.m. 8.0 8:27 a.m. 2.1
2:24 p.m. 10.0 9:22 p.m. -1.5
Knappa
3:43 a.m.
3:06 p.m.
Depoe Bay
Nov 11 Nov 19 Nov 27 Dec 3
7.6 8:43 a.m. 2.0
9.7 9:38 p.m. -1.6
Cape Disappointment
Hammond
SUN AND MOON
First
Time
7.9 9:44 a.m. 1.8
9.9 10:39 p.m. -1.3
1:54 a.m. 8.0 7:17 a.m. 2.4
1:17 p.m. 10.1 8:13 p.m. -2.1
City
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Dallas
Denver
Honolulu
Houston
Los Angeles
Miami
New York City
Phoenix
San Francisco
Wash., DC
Sun.
Hi/Lo/W
59/39/pc
52/38/s
58/43/s
68/46/s
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85/75/pc
69/45/s
76/54/pc
78/59/c
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62/50/c
58/44/pc
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy,
c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms,
r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice.
46/32
Kennewick Walla Walla
51/37 Lewiston
58/40
51/37
Hermiston
The Dalles 57/38
Enterprise
Pendleton 49/25
53/35
51/39
La Grande
50/29
52/44
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Hi/Lo/W
Pullman
51/31
49/43
Salem
47/32
Yakima 52/36
Longview
51/43 Portland
52/44
Spokane
45/31
49/40
47/40
Astoria
ALMANAC
Senate
Republicans
immediately launched a peti-
tion to force a vote to over-
turn the vaccine mandate, but
with Democrats controlling
the chamber, the effort is
nearly certain to fail.
The rules will require work-
ers to receive either two doses
of the Pfizer or Moderna vac-
cines or one dose of the John-
son & Johnson vaccine by Jan.
4 or be tested weekly. Employ-
ees testing positive must be
removed from the workplace.
Companies won’t be
required to provide or pay for
tests for unvaccinated work-
ers, but they must give paid
time off for employees to get
the shots and sick leave to
recover from side effects that
prevent them from working.
Requirements for masks and
paid time off for shots take
effect Dec. 5.
Employers covered by
the requirements must ver-
ify their workers’ vacci-
nation status by checking
documents such as CDC
vaccination cards, records
from doctors or pharmacies,
or even an employee’s own
signed declaration.
Associated Press writ-
ers Paul Wiseman, Hope
yen, Tom Krisher, dee-
Ann durbin, Stacey Plai-
sance-Jenkins, matt O’brien
and The Oregonian contrib-
uted to this report.
Corvallis
51/41
Albany
50/42
John Day
Eugene
Bend
52/42
46/36
49/29
Ontario
57/34
Caldwell
Burns
48/21
58/34
Medford
52/38
Klamath Falls
46/25
City
Baker City
Brookings
Ilwaco
Newberg
Newport
Today
Hi/Lo/W
50/24/c
52/44/r
50/46/t
50/43/r
50/43/t
Sun.
Hi/Lo/W
47/24/pc
53/44/r
49/45/r
49/38/r
51/42/r
City
North Bend
Roseburg
Seaside
Springfi eld
Vancouver
Today
Hi/Lo/W
54/45/r
53/42/r
50/45/t
50/42/r
51/44/r
Sun.
Hi/Lo/W
53/44/r
51/37/r
48/41/r
50/34/r
48/41/r