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GMO mediation bill
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during a work session last
month.
Now that HB 2509 is
SALEM — After an before the Senate, however,
uncontroversial start, legis- WKH QRQSUR¿W JURXS DQG
lation that would require other GMO critics are asking
mediation for disputes over lawmakers to reject the
biotech crops in Oregon is proposal because they say
now facing opposition from farmers who are harmed by
cross-pollination
critics of genetic engineering. biotech
House Bill 2509, which should not be forced into
would direct the Oregon mediation.
“It strikes us that medi-
Department of Agriculture to
PHGLDWHFRQÀLFWVRYHUJHQHW- ation should be a choice
LFDOO\ PRGL¿HG RUJDQLVPV farmers make, not a mandated
didn’t initially meet with situation,” said Ivan Maluski,
objections and passed the policy director of Friends
House by an overwhelming of Family Farmers, during
the recent hearing before
margin.
The bill arose from a work the Senate Committee on
group convened by Rep. Environment and Natural
Brian Clem, D-Salem, that Resources.
If a dispute over genet-
evaluated a range of GMO
ically engineered crops
proposals.
During a May 20 legisla- occurs between farmers, the
tive hearing, Clem said he’s bill calls for ODA to provide
surprised by the recent surge mediation to seek a coexis-
of antagonism toward HB tence solution. If a grower
2509, which emerged from refuses mediation and later
the concerns of GMO critics loses a lawsuit in the dispute,
who worried that biotech they’d be required to pay the
farmers wouldn’t agree to opposing party’s legal costs.
While Friends of Family
mediation.
“This came from the Farmers believes mediation
anti-GMO community,” he may be useful in some
said. “This was designed to circumstances, the group has
be helpful for people worried decided to oppose the bill
about being interfered with because mandatory media-
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by GMOs.”
Friends
of
Family burden on small growers.
The mediation require-
Farmers, a group that favors
stronger GMO regulation, ment may delay a timely
participated in the work court decision when a farmer
group negotiations and cred- faces market rejection of his
ited the bill with providing crop due to cross-pollination,
an incentive for mediation the group claims.
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Bureau
Controversial ODFW
appointees approved
the Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife.
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SALEM — The Oregon commissioners serve four-
Senate voted Thursday to year terms and are appointed to
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sional
districts.
appointees to the
Brown appointed
Oregon Fish and
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Wildlife Commis-
the position repre-
sion.
senting Oregon’s
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sport
1st Congressional
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and some recre-
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anglers
left that position
lobbied hard to stop
vacant for more than
Gov. Kate Brown’s
two years.
appointment
of
Buckmaster
Astoria
resident Buckmaster
previously owned
Bruce Buckmaster
to the commission because a salmon feed company
of his work on behalf of the and served on the board of
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but the Senate voted 18-12 UHSUHVHQWV FRPPHUFLDO ¿VK-
WR FRQ¿UP %XFNPDVWHU ermen, processors and other
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WR FRQ¿UP -DVRQ $WNLQVRQ Columbia River. Buck-
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commission. Senators voted lobbyist while serving on
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other appointments by the and although Buckmaster
governor to various boards said he was never paid for
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and commissions.
During a committee this should preclude him
hearing earlier this week, from serving as a commis-
VSRUW ¿VKHUV VDLG WKH\ ZDQW sioner.
the governor to appoint a
commissioner who works in
their industry. It is unclear
how Brown might respond
to that request, but the
Senate Committee on Rules
held back the governor’s
two
reappointments
to
the commission — Holly
Akenson of Enterprise, and
Michael Finley of Medford
— because senators said they
were concerned commis-
sioners did not do enough to
prevent budget problems at
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
Saturday, May 23, 2015
19 long-dead Oregon hospital
patients get military honors
By GOSIA WOZNIACKA
Associated Press
PORTLAND — They
served in the Civil War,
the Indian Wars, the Span-
ish-American War and World
War I — but for decades,
their ashes and those of
thousands of others lay aban-
doned in corroded urns in an
outbuilding at Oregon’s state
psychiatric hospital.
The Oregon National
Guard on Friday offered a
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at Willamette National Ceme-
tery to honor 19 veterans and
the spouses of two others
who were patients at the now
132-year-old hospital and
died there.
Their cremated remains
were discovered a decade
ago, along with those of
about 3,500 other people.
Dubbed the “forgotten
souls,” they became a symbol
of the state’s dark history of
treating the mentally ill at
Oregon State Hospital, where
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rest the veterans and spouses
whom time and society had
forgotten,” hospital superin-
tendent Greg Roberts said at
the ceremony.
The military honors are
part of an effort to pay respect
to those who died, to reunite
their remains with surviving
relatives and to honor those
eligible with a veteran burial.
Lawmakers discovered
the urns by chance while
on a tour of the dilapidated
hospital in 2004. Senate State
President Peter Courtney,
who found the canisters, said
he did not want these people
to be forgotten.
Thus far, the hospital has
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veterans among the remains.
It handed four of the urns to
the Oregon Department of
Veteran Affairs three years
ago, and they were interred.
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an additional 88 remains
eligible for a burial with
military honors.
Between 1914 and 1971,
more than 5,000 people
were cremated at the
hospital. They were born in
different states and coun-
tries. Most were patients
at the state psychiatric
hospital, while others died
at other institutions.
Courtney and other
lawmakers pushed to fund
a respectful way to honor
the remains and to replace
the existing psychiatric
hospital.
Using records and
genealogy research, the
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the dead and four years ago
published their names in an
online database.
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The Oregon National Guard on Friday offered a rifle salute and played
“Taps” at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland to honor 19
veterans and the spouses of two others whose cremated remains were
discovered at the Oregon State Hospital a decade ago.
1931 at age 54.
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in the Spanish American
War and is listed as a cook
in Company C in the 2nd
Regiment Muster in Eugene
in 1898. He was born in Iowa
in 1859, and died in Oregon
in 1926 at 67.
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was a farmer and a private in
Company A, 1st Brigade of
the Oregon Militia. Records
indicate he fought in the
Modoc Indian War in the
Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP
early 1870s. Sevedge was
The urns that contain the cremated remains of 19
veterans at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland. born in Illinois 1858, and
died in 1935.
The hospital has matched
A
bagpiper
played
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302 urns with families. A ³$PD]LQJ *UDFH´ 7KH a veteran of World War I.
total of 3,348 still have not 1DWLRQDO *XDUG WZLFH ¿UHG Documents note he served in
been claimed.
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Last summer, the hospital morning.
was honorably discharged
unveiled a memorial on
No eulogies were given; in May 1919. According to
its grounds to honor the the men’s records are sparse. KLV ¿OH KH KDG D VFDU IURP
unclaimed remains.
Some had a mental illness or a gunshot wound received
Those who served the were dealing with post-war during the war. Oaks, who
country would be honored traumas, while others were was born in Tennessee in
and buried like other veterans. admitted to receive better 1895, never married and died
At the cemetery, Mike medical care.
in Oregon in 1955 at age 60.
Allegre of the state’s Depart-
Arthur B. Hunter was a
The urns with the remains
ment of Veterans’ Affairs read private in an Indiana infantry of those four men, along with
the roll call of names. Four regiment that served in the 17 others, will be interred in
had served in the Civil War, Union Army during the a memorial wall at the ceme-
six in the Spanish American American Civil War. Hunter tery. The remains of 70 other
War, six in the Indian Wars was born in Kansas in 1877. veterans will be interred at a
and two in World War I.
He never married, and died in future date.
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