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THE ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2021
OBITUARIES
Mary June Mathews
Christopher Brad Moore
Buhl, Idaho
Feb. 20, 1953 — Nov. 22, 2021
Seaside
March 17, 1980 — Nov. 26, 2021
Mary June Mathews was growing everything under the
born in Astoria to Palmer and sun, canning, working cows
June Hennigsen.
or fi nding time to run a con-
After
attend-
cession stand at the
ing Olney School
many
ballparks,
and Astoria High
where she never
School, she went on
missed a game,
to get her nursing
even with her busy
license from Eman-
schedule.
uel Lutheran Hos-
In lieu of fl ow-
pital in Portland.
ers, Mary would
She then packed
prefer you take a
her car and headed
fl ower to a friend,
east, and found her-
share a hug or
Mary Mathews
self in Emmett ,
spread some love
Idaho, where she
to your neighbor.
acquired her fi rst
Donations can
nursing job before
also be made to any
she could fi nish fi ll-
Farmers Bank loca-
ing out the appli-
tion for the Buhl
cation. She went
American Legion
to work, and never
Baseball Program
stopped.
or in her mem-
This is where
ory to the Mater-
she met the love of
nal Child — OB
her life, and after
Education
Fund
some time in the
through the St.
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Luke’s Health Foundation
at St. Luke’s Boise Medi- online at stlukesonline.org,
cal Center in Boise, Idaho, by mail at P.O. Box AK, Twin
she married Don Mathews in Falls, ID., 83303, or by phone
1977.
at 208-814-0038.
The two settled in Buhl,
Mary was survived by
Idaho, to build an amazing her husband of 44 years,
life that would end up being Don; son, Seth, and his wife,
a 44-year career in nursing Amber, and their three kids,
for St. Luke’s Magic Valley Lauren, Patrick and Lydia; as
Regional Medical Center and well as her two sisters, Bonnie
St. Luke’s Twin Falls that she (Don) Fisher and Judy (Ed)
never wanted to leave.
Fisher.
There is still some debate
A memorial service will be
on the exact number, but the held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at
amount of babies she’s deliv- the 7th Street Gym, 215 Sev-
ered in the Magic Valley enth Ave N., in Buhl, followed
is upwards of 15,000. The by an open house at the farm.
amount of lives touched can’t
Memories and condo-
be measured.
lences may be shared with
In the few hours she wasn’t the family on Mary’s memo-
at the hospital, she was always rial website at farmerfuneral-
busy on the family farm, chapel.com
Christopher Brad Moore, pher “Michael” Moore; his
41, of Seaside, passed away parents, Jo Ann and Mike
on Nov. 26, 2021, from Dimick and Mark and Eliz-
terminal
brain
abeth Moore; and
cancer.
his grandparents,
Christopher
siblings, nieces
Brad Moore was
and
nephews,
born in Garland,
aunts and uncles,
Texas, on March
cousins and many
17, 1980.
close friends.
After graduat-
Brad is loved
ing from Kerens
by so many, and
High School in
he will be missed
Kerens, Texas, in
dearly.
1998, he enlisted Christopher Moore
The
family
in the military,
wishes to express
serving 21 years
appreciation to
in the U.S. Air
everyone for all
Force and Army
the prayers.
National Guard,
A memorial
with a current rank of staff service will be held on Sat-
sergeant.
urday at 11 a.m. at Warrior
He was also an active Hall at Camp Rilea, 33168
member of the Clatsop Patriot Way in Warrenton.
County Sons of Beaches 4x4
Military funeral honors
Motorsports Club, which will be held at Dallas-Fort
is sometimes referred to as Worth National Cemetery in
Saviors in the Sand, where Texas at a later date.
he was well known for his
In lieu of fl owers, please
passion for helping people make contributions to the
stranded on the beach.
Wounded Warriors, Ameri-
Christopher Brad Moore can Legion Post 99 or Clat-
is survived by his children, sop County Sons of Beaches
Samantha and Christo- 4x4 Motorsports Club.
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CHIROPRACTIC
Harnessing solar power with skylights
New research shows
potential heating,
cost benefi ts
By JES BURNS
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Heating houses is a major
energy suck. Behind passen-
ger cars and trucking, it’s the
largest energy draw in the
United States.
But it turns out home-
owners looking to stay warm
don’t need to rely just on a
pile of electrons or a pipeful
of methane.
Research out of the Uni-
versity of Oregon shows that,
even on the cloudy western
sides of Oregon and Wash-
ington, a large chunk of heat-
ing needs could be met with
a few well-positioned (and
well-managed) skylights.
“I’ve been interested in
passive solar heating for quite
a number of years, but we
live in a cloudy climate. And
there has been a lot of skepti-
cism about how well passive
solar heating can work when
you have a winter that’s dom-
inated by cloud cover and
rain,” said study lead author
Alexandra Rempel, a build-
ing scientist in the Environ-
mental Studies Program at
the University of Oregon.
Ken Gates
New University of Oregon research shows the benefi ts of
using skylights to cut home heating costs.
Passive solar heating is
the warmth you feel when
you stand near a sunny win-
dow. It’s heat captured
indoors directly from the sun,
immediately warming the air
and heating surfaces that will
radiate that heat over time.
Home heating is a sig-
nifi cant contributor of car-
bon pollution. It contributes
approximately 8% of all cli-
mate change-causing carbon
dioxide emissions in indus-
trialized nations — including
the United States and Canada
— that are part of the Interna-
tional Energy Agency.
Passive solar heating is
one way to reduce reliance
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SATURDAY
on fossil fuels like natural
gas and heating oil to warm
homes. Rempel set out to
quantify just how much of
this solar energy is available
for use in locations across the
country.
“Just what is the size of
this resource we’re talking
about? Is it worth going after
or not?” she asked.
And according to the anal-
ysis, it is.
The researchers found
that there is enough solar
radiation available to pro-
vide about one-third of resi-
dential heating needs nation-
wide. The calculations were
based on homes having 100
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square feet of skylights ori-
ented towards the south.
To understand the poten-
tial, the researchers used
home energy consumption
data and paired it with sat-
ellite observations of solar
radiation.
“We can calculate that
on a surface of any given
area, at any given tilt, in any
given location across the
United States,” said Univer-
sity of Oregon earth scientist
Alan Rempel, who provided
the mathematical analysis.
“What we’re interested in is
not just the amount of energy
that’s coming, but the amount
of energy that’s coming at a
time when we need it.”
The passive solar energy
collected couldn’t take the
place of a heating system in
most climates, but it could cut
heating costs — especially in
the fall and spring when tem-
peratures aren’t so cold and
the days aren’t so short.
In western Oregon and
Washington there’s enough
solar radiation to provide
about three megawatt hours
of annual heating energy
relief for homes with 10
square meters of well-posi-
tioned, unobscured skylights.
This is enough to power the
average U.S. home for more
than three months in 2020.
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Seattle
49 37
A morning
shower
48 39
51 40
50 42
49 42
47 41
51 44
Cloudy, rain
A shower in the
Rain and drizzle
Mostly cloudy
possible
a.m.
Cloudy, rain
possible
Cloudy, rain
possible
Aberdeen
Olympia
48/34
48/37
Wenatchee
Tacoma
Moses
Lake
48/34
ALMANAC
UNDER THE SKY
TODAY'S TIDES
Astoria through Tuesday
Tonight’s Sky: High in the after
sunset, look for Orion, the Hunter.
Astoria / Port Docks
Temperatures
High/low ................................ 54/52
Normal high/low .................. 51/38
Record high .................. 63 in 1901
Record low .................... 24 in 1985
Precipitation
Tuesday ................................... 0.14”
Month to date ...................... 14.02”
Normal month to date ....... 11.05”
Year to date .......................... 64.33”
Normal year to date ........... 59.58”
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
Time
High (ft.) Time Low (ft.)
10:56 a.m. 9.5 4:56 a.m. 2.2
none
6:00 p.m. -0.7
Cape Disappointment
10:31 a.m. 9.5 4:06 a.m. 2.4
11:51 p.m. 7.4 5:08 p.m. -0.9
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
Hammond
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today .................. 7:39 a.m.
Sunset tonight ............... 4:31 p.m.
Moonrise today .............. 5:29 a.m.
Moonset today .............. 3:29 p.m.
New
First
Full
Last
10:43 a.m. 9.8 4:28 a.m. 2.2
11:59 p.m. 7.7 5:28 p.m. -1.0
Warrenton
10:51 a.m. 9.9 4:40 a.m. 2.3
none
5:44 p.m. -0.6
Knappa
11:33 a.m. 9.7 5:57 a.m. 1.9
none
7:01 p.m. -0.6
Depoe Bay
Dec 3 Dec 10 Dec 18 Dec 26
9:45 a.m. 9.8 3:33 a.m. 2.4
11:05 p.m. 7.5 4:39 p.m. -1.0
City
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Dallas
Denver
Honolulu
Houston
Los Angeles
Miami
New York City
Phoenix
San Francisco
Wash., DC
Fri.
Hi/Lo/W
70/50/s
54/41/r
58/36/pc
78/58/s
72/40/s
82/70/sh
77/58/pc
74/50/pc
80/63/pc
55/44/c
82/56/pc
66/50/s
63/47/c
74/52/pc
43/28/pc
48/31/pc
78/62/pc
62/34/s
80/65/t
76/61/c
69/48/s
79/67/pc
47/36/pc
78/53/s
61/49/s
58/41/pc
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy,
c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms,
r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice.
55/42
Hermiston
The Dalles 59/37
Enterprise
Pendleton 52/33
56/37
58/38
La Grande
53/35
54/37
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Hi/Lo/W
50/35
Kennewick Walla Walla
56/38 Lewiston
61/39
50/36
Salem
Pullman
57/31
Longview
49/37 Portland
53/38
49/34
Yakima 57/35
48/34
Astoria
Spokane
52/32
Corvallis
54/34
Albany
53/34
John Day
Eugene
Bend
55/37
57/38
58/39
Ontario
51/32
Caldwell
Burns
57/26
47/29
Medford
55/41
Klamath Falls
56/25
City
Baker City
Brookings
Ilwaco
Newberg
Newport
Today
Hi/Lo/W
51/30/c
60/45/pc
48/39/c
51/36/c
52/37/c
Fri.
Hi/Lo/W
49/29/pc
58/45/s
49/43/c
48/38/pc
50/41/pc
City
North Bend
Roseburg
Seaside
Springfi eld
Vancouver
Today
Hi/Lo/W
55/41/c
54/44/c
48/37/pc
54/37/c
51/37/c
Fri.
Hi/Lo/W
55/43/pc
56/40/c
48/40/c
54/40/pc
49/38/pc