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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 2022
OBITUARIES
John Malcom ‘Jack’ McRae
Theodore Thomas Bugas
Sandy
May 29, 1931 — Aug. 7, 2022
Portland
June 5, 1924 – Aug. 20, 2022
John Malcom “Jack” McRae was born deacon at the Manzanita Bible Church and
on May 29, 1931, in Portland, the young- First Baptist Church in Astoria, and taught
est of three sons of Donald and Veta (Bailey) Sunday school at Community Presbyterian
McRae. He died at home on Aug.
in Cannon Beach. He was a mem-
7 in Sandy.
ber of Toastmasters International,
Jack graduated from Garibaldi
a board member of the Astoria
High School in 1949. He was stu-
YMCA and chaired blood dona-
dent body president, and earned
tion eff orts for the American Red
varsity letters in football, basket-
Cross.
ball and baseball.
After retirement, Jack taught
Jack volunteered for the U.S.
Fifty-fi ve Alive senior driving
A rmy during the Korean War
classes for 20 years and, with
before earning bachelor’s and
Johni, volunteered as a reading
master’s degrees from the Ore-
tutor to Nehalem and Garibaldi
John McRae
gon College of Education. While
schoolchildren.
at college , he lettered in basketball
Jack and Johni lived in Man-
and baseball.
zanita from 1988 to 2011, then relocated
On Sept. 11, 1954, Jack married Gene- to Sandy, near their daughter, Beth, and her
vieve “Johni” Hughson, of Tillamook. They husband, Charlie, and niece, Leanne, and her
remained devoted to each other in marriage husband, Mike.
for 68 years.
Jack is survived by his wife, Johni; and
Jack began his professional career at their children and spouses, John Malcom
Estacada Grade School as an elementary (Bee), Doug (Joann), Laurie (Steve) and
school teacher and coach, and later as school Beth (Charlie). He is also survived by six
principal. In 1964, Jack was hired by the grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Neah-Kah-Nie School District as principal He was preceded in death by his grand-
at Nehalem Elementary School. In 1967, he daughter, Patricia.
became district superintendent.
At his request, Jack’s body was donated
Jack became assistant superintendent to Oregon Health & Science University.
for the Astoria School District in 1970. He Subsequently, his cremated remains will be
served there until 1988, when he retired as interred at the Jackson Family Cemetery.
superintendent of Astoria schools.
No public service is planned.
Jack always enjoyed athletics. He played
The family asks that donations be made in
semi-pro baseball in Portland, and later soft- Jack’s honor to Astoria High School Schol-
ball in Tillamook and Astoria. He enjoyed arships Inc. at AstoriaScholarshipFund.org
playing golf, and made six holes-in-one.
or Mount Hood Hospice at MtHoodHos-
Jack taught Sunday school, and was a pice.com
Theodore Thomas Bugas passed away in founder of Salmon for All, an advocacy
Portland on Aug. 20 following a brief bout group that seeks to bring together diff erent
with COVID-19.
factions fi ghting for access to the diminished
Columbia River salmon runs.
His wife, Patricia, preceded
He represented the state of
Ted in death, making her way
Oregon in trade delegations to
to heaven on Sept. 21, 2020. Pat
Asia and Latin America. And,
and Ted lived in Astoria until
after selling his seafood process-
2014, raising their 10 children and
ing business, he served as deputy
becoming fully engaged in the
director of the Port of Astoria.
community for 50 years.
Beginning in 1977, Bugas
Ted is survived by his brother,
was elected as a Republican, in
Paul; and by his children, Sue
a deeply Democratic district, to
(John Riles), Chris (Jim Kulik),
three terms as an Oregon state
Tom (Robyn Bluemmel), Patri-
Theodore Bugas
representative. He had friends
cia (Richard Schramm), Mark
on both sides of the legislative
(Terry), Stephanie (Billy Owen),
Andy (Maryann), Catherine (Duane Ack- aisle, and though he held strong views, he
erman), Dave (Naomi Pollock) and Bob believed in compromise. Ted’s work ethic
(Karen); by 24 grandchildren; and by 25 was to strike the best deal he could, get the
legislation right, and then get back to his day
great-grandchildren.
Ted was born on June 5, 1924, in Wam- job of running a business.
Bugas was a lifelong Catholic of deep
sutter, Wyoming, the ninth of 10 children
born to Andrew and Helena Bugas. His faith, and performed many diff erent roles
mother died when he was a young boy, and in the church. He also quietly, but deter-
the Bugas children learned to care for one minedly, argued with church leaders for
another, and took various jobs to support a greater role for women in the church. In
their family. After sixth grade, Ted moved retirement, he and Pat were active in the
to Laramie, Wyoming, to live with his elder Society of St Vincent de Paul, serving the
siblings and continue school as the Great poor of Clatsop County.
Ted came from a hardscrabble back-
Depression roiled the country.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, ground, and was empathetic to anyone who
Bugas signed up to join the U.S. Navy. was dealing with diffi culties. He and Pat
When he turned 18 the following June, he welcomed friends and strangers alike into
enlisted and was ultimately deployed to the their home for family dinners or to cele-
Pacifi c aboard the aircraft carrier USS Cor- brate holidays. Theirs was a loud, busy, joy-
ous and welcoming household. Ted adored
regidor as an aviation ordnanceman.
Prior to the war, he had met his future Pat, and their love for each other was mani-
wife, Patricia, and courted her throughout fest in their large, close-knit family and deep
the war; they were married in 1948, and friendships throughout their community.
Ted loved a new adventure, relishing the
celebrated 72 years of marriage prior to
her passing. Following the war, Ted grad- places, people and experiences he met along
uated from the University of Notre Dame the way. He and Pat made a winter home
Law School, where he and Pat started their in Palm Desert, California, for many years
where family visited regularly, and where
family.
Upon graduation in 1950, he joined the their open door policy ushered old and new
FBI as a special agent, as did three of his friends to their sunny home. He and Pat
brothers; a fourth spent his career in military traveled the world, with a lengthy trip to the
intelligence. The FBI moved the young and Holy Land being their favorite.
On frequent trips to New Orleans, they
growing family several times, ultimately to
would often join the “Second Line” of jazz
Astoria.
Rather than undergo a further move with funerals; Ted could people-watch in a New
the bureau, in 1960 Bugas took a job with York City deli for hours, and loved recount-
Bumble Bee Seafoods, overseeing labor, ing the days’ eccentricities he had witnessed.
public and government relations, the lat- He was a gifted storyteller, was quick to
ter of which frequently took him to Wash- laugh and loved to dance.
The family would like to thank the lov-
ington, D.C., as a lobbyist for the seafood
industry. He left Bumble Bee in 1974, when ing staff s of Holladay Park Plaza and Bristol
he partnered to purchase Barbey Packing, Hospice for caring for Ted and Pat in recent
years. The family intends to hold a com-
and then Union Seafoods, in Astoria.
Bugas was a natural entrepreneur, and a bined memorial service for Ted and Pat at
beloved boss: he regularly took a shift in the a later date.
In lieu of fl owers, they suggest a gift to
most demanding and least desirable jobs in
the plant so that workers knew that he knew the Society of St. Vincent de Paul or the
what he was asking of them. Bugas was a Columbia River Maritime Museum.
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West Coast attorneys general
seek to block natural gas project
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
West Coast attorneys gen-
eral oppose expanding a pipe-
line that crosses Idaho, Wash-
ington state and Oregon and
carries natural gas, including
biogas from a dairy.
The attorneys general on
Wednesday asked the Fed-
eral Energy Regulatory
Commission to deny TC
Energy a permit to upgrade
stations to pump more nat-
ural gas through the 1,377-
mile pipeline.
Increasing the supply of
natural gas could worsen
global warming, accord-
ing to Washington Attorney
General Bob Ferguson, Ore-
gon Attorney General Ellen
Rosenblum and California
Attorney General Rob Bo nta.
“This project undermines
Washington state’s eff orts to
fi ght climate change,” Fergu-
son said in a statement.
TC Energy said in a state-
ment the project will meet
increased demand for nat-
ural gas. Cascade Natural
Gas, Intermountain Gas Co.
and Tourmaline Oil Corp.
have contracted to use all
of the pipeline’s additional
capacity.
“This further demon-
strates the need for secure
energy to supplement renew-
ables as we work toward
a cleaner energy future,”
according to TC Energy.
The Gas Transmission
Northwest pipeline runs
from Kingsgate, British
Columbia, to Malin in south-
ern Oregon, and serves mar-
kets in Idaho, Washington,
Oregon and California.
In 2020, TC Energy
announced the pipeline was
taking biogas, or renewable
natural gas, from Threemile
Canyon Farms, a large dairy
in Boardman .
Northwest Gas Associa-
tion executive director Dan
Kirschner said upgrades to
transmission lines will make
partnerships between gas dis-
tributors and dairies possible.
“If you take what the AGs
are saying to its logical con-
clusion, we put the pipeline
system out of commission,”
he said.
“If you take away the
means by which renewable
natural gas is delivered, it’s
not a resource anymore. It’s
back to being a waste. ”
TC Energy proposes work
at pump stations in the Idaho
Panhandle, southeast Wash-
SEVENDAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TODAY
SUNDAY
MONDAY
ington and north-central Ore-
gon to increase the pipeline’s
capacity by 150 million cubic
feet a day.
In an environmental
review, Federal Energy Reg-
ulatory Commission staff
said they had no way to mea-
sure the project’s impact on
the climate.
They calculated that if
all the additional natural gas
were combusted it would
increase U.S. greenhouse gas
emissions by about 3 million
tons a year or 0.06% over
2020 levels.
In response, the U.S.
Environmental
Protection
Agency asked the commis-
sion to “avoid expressing”
the project’s greenhouse
gases as a percentage of
national emissions.
“This approach dimin-
ishes the signifi cance of the
project-scale GHG emis-
sions,” according to com-
ments attached to a letter
from EPA Region 10 chief
of environmental review
Rebecca Chu.
In its application , TC
Energy said increasing the
supply of natural gas could
displace fuels such as heat-
ing oil and lower carbon
emissions.
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
Class of 1980’s
42 nd Class Reunion
Saturday, October 8 th , 2022
Elks Lounge
5:00pm Cocktails (no host bar)
and 6:30 dinner
($25 per person to be paid at the door)
Teachers and past class years
are invited to attend at 7:30
to help celebrate
RSVP (for 1980 classmates)
by September 24th to
Sophia Anastasiadis Jacobs
Call or Text 503-969-5278
GO FISHERMEN!
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
REGIONAL FORECAST
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Seattle
69 57
A morning
shower
71 55
78 58
Partly sunny
74 59
73 58
71 58
Mostly sunny Periods of sun;
Mostly cloudy
and nice
nice
Some sun
72 53
Mostly cloudy
Aberdeen
Olympia
68/56
71/55
Wenatchee
Tacoma
Moses
Lake
71/53
ALMANAC
UNDER THE SKY
TODAY'S TIDES
Astoria through Thursday
Tonight’s Sky: At at magnitude
of 0, Vega of Lyra is the second
brightest star of the night sky.
Astoria / Port Docks
Temperatures
High/low ................................ 67/60
Normal high/low .................. 69/53
Record high .................. 91 in 2016
Record low .................... 43 in 1992
Precipitation
Thursday ................................. 0.00”
Month to date ........................ 0.22”
Normal month to date ......... 0.82”
Year to date .......................... 43.10”
Normal year to date ........... 38.82”
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022
Time
High (ft.) Time Low (ft.)
1:34 a.m.
2:42 p.m.
7.6 8:28 a.m. -0.8
6.9 8:32 p.m. 1.5
Cape Disappointment
1:11 a.m.
2:19 p.m.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
Hammond
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today .................. 6:30 a.m.
Sunset tonight ............... 8:04 p.m.
Moonrise today .............. 6:37 a.m.
Moonset today .............. 8:42 p.m.
New
First
Full
Last
1:23 a.m.
2:31 p.m.
Warrenton
1:29 a.m.
2:37 p.m.
Knappa
2:11 a.m.
3:19 p.m.
Depoe Bay
Aug 27 Sep 3 Sep 10 Sep 17
7.7 7:41 a.m. -0.7
6.7 7:40 p.m. 1.8
7.9 7:57 a.m. -0.9
7.1 8:02 p.m. 1.6
8.0 8:12 a.m. -0.7
7.3 8:16 p.m. 1.6
7.8 9:29 a.m. -0.7
7.2 9:33 p.m. 1.3
12:24 a.m. 8.1 7:08 a.m. -0.6
1:34 p.m. 7.1 7:07 p.m. 2.2
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Honolulu
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Los Angeles
Miami
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Phoenix
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Wash., DC
Sun.
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77/66/s
83/68/pc
92/78/pc
91/64/s
87/75/s
90/75/t
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72/58/pc
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c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms,
r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice.
78/54
Hermiston
The Dalles 80/55
Enterprise
Pendleton 72/42
77/50
77/59
La Grande
75/45
76/53
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Today
Hi/Lo/W
71/43
Kennewick Walla Walla
77/54 Lewiston
83/56
70/56
Salem
Pullman
77/50
Longview
69/57 Portland
74/58
74/51
Yakima 79/53
71/49
Astoria
Spokane
76/57
Corvallis
77/52
Albany
76/52
John Day
Eugene
Bend
79/51
75/43
79/44
Ontario
88/55
Caldwell
Burns
82/40
87/53
Medford
84/55
Klamath Falls
83/42
City
Baker City
Brookings
Ilwaco
Newberg
Newport
Today
Hi/Lo/W
76/41/pc
71/55/s
68/59/c
74/53/pc
66/52/pc
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Hi/Lo/W
77/40/pc
72/55/s
68/56/pc
79/55/pc
65/53/pc
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Roseburg
Seaside
Springfi eld
Vancouver
Today
Hi/Lo/W
69/55/s
81/55/pc
69/57/c
78/50/pc
73/57/pc
Sun.
Hi/Lo/W
70/54/s
85/58/s
70/54/pc
79/52/s
77/59/pc