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Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Astoria food pantry helps federal workers
Times. There are an estimated
9,600 federal employees in Oregon
furloughed or working without
pay. The Coast Guard was last
paid on Dec. 31.
There are more than 42,000
Coast Guard personnel working
without pay, including most of
the 500 in Sector Columbia River.
Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read,
a spokesman for Sector Columbia
River, said that between the begin-
ning of the shutdown and Saturday,
the agency had gone on 36 cases,
saving 12 people in imminent
danger and assisting another 53
needing towing and other services.
Capt.
Jeremy
Smith,
commander of Sector Columbia
River, said the response by the
community has been phenomenal.
The agency has been ensuring
personnel know about all the finan-
cial and other support available,
while trying to wrap in support for
the employees of other shuttered
federal agencies.
Senior Chief Matt Gerber, pres-
ident of the Lower Columbia Chief
Petty Officer Association, said
the group has gathered more than
$27,000 in donations. The group
distributes the money to personnel
from Grays Harbor, Washington,
to Tillamook and inland to units in
Portland.
“What we owe (the community)
when we come out of this, I don’t
know where to start,” Gerber said.
Joshua Shaffer, a helicopter
mechanic and hoist operator at
Air Station Astoria, volunteered
at the pantry over the weekend.
By EDWARD STRATTON
EO Media Group
More than 1,300 federal
employees and their families left
in economic limbo by the govern-
ment shutdown lined up Saturday
and Sunday outside the Astoria
Masonic Lodge for the Be the
Light food pantry.
Inside, a small army of volun-
teers shepherded them through a
main hall lined with food, toilet-
ries and other daily living needs
donated by civic groups, busi-
nesses and residents over the past
week.
Stacey Benson, a Coast Guard
spouse, organized the pantry with
the help of volunteers from other
Coast Guard families, MOMS
Club of Astoria, local Boy Scouts
and other groups.
Volunteers counted 1,374
attendees, almost entirely from the
Coast Guard, with several from
other agencies like the National
Park Service.
Boy Scout Troop 211 from
Astoria helped gather donations
for the Coast Guard over the past
week. They and some other scouts
from Portland were on hand over
the weekend to help move supplies.
“A lot of people affected by
this are my friends at school,”
said Kegan Rascoe, a senior patrol
leader with Troop 211. “They’re
struggling to feed their families.”
The average federal worker
lost more than $5,000 in pay
during the first month of the shut-
down, according to The New York
The Daily Astorian/Edward Stratton
Hundreds of federal workers and their families affected by the government shutdown went to the Be the Light
food pantry Saturday and Sunday at the Astoria Masonic Lodge.
He has been on about five search
and rescue cases this year and said
the Coast Guard remains diligent
regardless of the shutdown.
Many active-duty Coast Guard
have been hesitant to talk publicly
about the effect of the shutdown.
But while he and others remain
ready to serve, they need to take
advantage of every opportunity to
keep themselves and their fami-
lies safe and fed, Shaffer said. “We
can’t be effective if we’re worried
about our family,” he said.
Benson said the food pantry
will come back next weekend
and as long as the shutdown and
community support continue.
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The line
of federal
workers
and their
families
outside
the food
pantry
at times
stretched
down
Franklin
Avenue.
Clackamas County deputies shoot
man after he kills four in family
PORTLAND (AP) —
A rural Oregon man killed
four members of his family
at the home they shared and
was shot by sheriff’s depu-
ties as he tried to kill an
8-year-old girl, authorities
said.
Mark Leo Gregory
Gago, 42, killed his parents,
his girlfriend and their
infant daughter Saturday
night before deputies shot
him, the Clackamas County
Sheriff’s Office said.
The victims were not
shot,
The
Oregonian
reported. Sheriff’s Office
Sgt. Brian Jensen said the
causes of death will be
investigated.
“We’re not sure what was
used at this time,” Jensen
told reporters Sunday.
“I’ve been told that there
were
numerous
weapons, swords,
things of that
nature in the resi-
dence. The inves-
tigators are trying
to determine what
Gago
exactly was used to
kill each person.”
The sheriff’s office iden-
tified the victims as Olivia
Gago, 9 months, Shaina
Sweitzer, 31, Jerry Bremer,
66, and Pamela Bremer, 64.
The home is about 20
miles south of Portland
and northeast of the city of
Woodburn.
The sheriff’s office took
an emergency call from a
resident of a home at about
10:15 p.m. Saturday. The
caller described a violent
and hectic scene, Jensen
said.
“I’ve
talked
to
investigators,
20-year veterans, and
they’re saying this is
a shocking scene,”
Jensen said.
They found a
woman dead outside
the
home
and
Gago attacking the child,
Sweitzer’s daughter from a
previous relationship.
A
roommate
also
survived. She suffered
what deputies described
as injuries and was being
treated at a hospital.
Gago had been arrested
in August on a weapons
charge.
Jensen said by email
that Gago was booked on a
charge of unlawful posses-
sion of a weapon, but he did
not know details.
Walden talks border, taxes at meeting
BEND (AP) — Rep. Greg
Walden, the only Repub-
lican in Oregon’s congres-
sional delegation, held his
first town hall in Bend in
nearly two years to discuss
national and local issues
facing his 2nd Congres-
sional District.
The Bulletin reports a
crowd packed into Moun-
tain View High School
on Saturday to hear from
Walden. Before fielding
questions Walden said:
“Let’s be civil to each other
as Oregonians.”
A big issue was Walden’s
thoughts on the federal
government shutdown.
Walden earned applause
from the crowd when he
reminded them he recently
voted with Democrats to
reopen much of the govern-
ment. He also told the audi-
ence he supports Presi-
dent Donald Trump’s views
on strengthening border
security.
“We have a humanitarian
crisis on the border, and
we have a broken immigra-
tion system in the interior,
and we need to fix both,”
Walden said.
Walden received push-
back from the audience when
he described his support for
the federal tax cuts that some
say benefit corporations
more than individuals.
“It is no secret I supported
them, and I think they have
had a strong effect on the
economy,” Walden said as
audience members bellowed
in unison, “No.”
22 cases of measles in Clark County
VANCOUVER, Wash.
(AP) — Health officials
say they have 22 confirmed
measles cases in Clark
County since the start of the
year.
Clark County Public
Health said Monday it is
also investigating three
suspected cases of the infec-
tion. Officials say 19 of those
infected were not immu-
nized, while the three others
are not verified to have had
the vaccine.
Seventeen of the cases
are for children under 10
years old, four cases are for
youth 11 to 18 years old, and
one person is between 19
and 29 years old.
Those who are infected
visited several public places
while contagious, including
the Portland International
Airport, IKEA, health care
facilities and schools.
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