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As we parked our car, the three little girls stopped their game and approached us shyly. :H H[FKDQJHG JUHHWLQJV DQG Âż UVW names, repeating theirs to make sure — Karen (“almost 12,â€? she told me), Jaquelyn (“almost nineâ€?) and Leah (“fourâ€?). Their father came striding out of the house next door. “Hola!â€? he welcomed. “Call me Rosas. That’s what they call me here,â€? he said as we introduced ourselves. “Go in! Go in!â€? he said gesturing toward his place. He stopped to speak to the girls, and then said as we went up the steps, “It might be messy. It was Karen’s turn to clean.â€? There was a twinkle in his eye as he teased her with the easy affection of a proud father. A mop and bucket stood at the end of the couch, silent witness to the girl’s housekeeping duties. Clean and homey — just enough clutter to look well lived in. “It’s not right that they took Gladys,â€? Rosas says. “Daughters need their mother. They don’t need their father. The ICE should have taken me.â€? A grim silence follows, all of us thinking what might happen next. What if both parents were taken? What then? Gladys was the 22nd person from the Long Beach Peninsula to be arrested by ICE. The VHFRQG ZRPDQ WDNHQ 7KH Âż UVW mother of young children. Her arrest rocked the local Mexican community. And, even though friends and relatives have rallied ’round to help out, the stress Rosas feels is obvious.

‘She told me they had her Mama and she told me not to come. Over and over she told me not to come or they would get me, too. But I said, she is my wife. I have to come.’

will need papers. A‌â€? and she looks to Erin for help with the word. “A dossier — all kinds of paperwork. Does Gladys have an attorney? He will tell you what you need to get for her.â€?

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“Yes, her sister in Seattle got someone. She paid him $500.â€? “You need to talk to him. Soon. Her court date is less than will be sent home on bond or three weeks away.â€? Rosas’ troubled face cleared deported to Mexico. Her court date is soon. And, by then, there as a little dog approached. “She will be a plan in place for the is a chihuahua, but see how quiet she is? Chihuahuas always girls.â€? yip-yip-yip-yip,â€? he laughs. “But Born in Mexico not this one. She is so quiet.â€? The two youngest, both U.S. His cell phone rings. “It’s FLWL]HQV FDQ Ă€ \ WR 0H[LFR RQFH Gladys,â€? he says with a big smile. they have their passports — “She calls three or four times a if Gladys is deported. And, if day‌â€? Gladys is deported, Karen will We left soon afterwards, have to go by bus which disap- feeling unsettled. And, as it points her. She was not born here turned out, for good reason. Two and the traveling rules are strict. days later the news came. Gladys She is a bit annoyed that her little had signed the voluntary deporVLVWHUV PLJKW JHW WR Ă€ \ DQG VKH tation papers. Already she was won’t. in Arizona. On her way back Where in Mexico, we ask. ‘home.’ Leaving her daughters “Near Puerto Vallarta,â€? Rosas — her “queensâ€? she calls them says. “An hour and a half away. — still here and preparing to go. About as far as Longview is from And Rosas still here. Hoping to here. It is beautiful!â€? and his eyes stay. For the work. Hoping to go. light up. “Really beautiful! Have For his family. you been there? I love Mexico!â€? EDITOR’S NOTE: Increasing “Would you be safe there?â€? immigration enforcement since we ask. He grows solemn. “There the inauguration of President DUH PDQ\ NLOOLQJV 7KLUW\ Âż YH Donald Trump is an important last week the Mexican paper stor\ in PaciÂżc &ount\ and else said. But my mother said it was where in the nation. But it’s a actually 75. It is the cartels. But difÂżcult stor\ to tell because the sometimes regular citizens get people most affected ² undoc killed too.â€? umented immigrants — are Suddenly, he changes the often afraid to speaN to author subject. “When I grew up in ities including the news media. Mexico, I was called ‘Balta.’ &hinooN Observer columnist and I didn’t like that name. It was retired teacher Sydney Stevens is short for Baltazar. I don’t like writing this series ÂłStories from that name either. Rosas is a girls’ the heart ´ in an unconventional name,â€? he laughs. “I don’t know way that will mostly avoid specif why they call me that here.â€? ically identifying the people she About then his sister-in-law is reporting about. Their quotes comes in. She talks with him are real their stories are real. about what Gladys will be We hope it will help illuminate needing for her court appearance this issue that is having profound — “Letters of reference from impacts on PaciÂżc &ounty’s fami U.S. citizens. And the lawyer lies culture and economy.

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obvious. “Today at noon I was at Okie’s,â€? he tells us and the ICE guy was there. I thought he was coming for me and so I asked him, ‘Do you want me?’ ‘No,’ he said, ‘I just wanted to say hello.’ Like we were friends!â€? He shook his head in disbelief. “They are here all the time. They are staying at a hotel in Long Beach. For a month or more they have been here every day. He is the one who arrested Gladys. In the parking lot at the bank. The 11-year old, she called me on her telephone. She was crying. She told me they had her Mama and she told me not to come. Over and over she told me not to come or they would get me, too. But I said, she is my wife. I have to come. The girls were very upset — seeing their Mama taken away like that!â€? Gladys had driven to the bank in Ocean Park with her daughters and some piĂąatas that they had made. Together. A family project. A man had called and asked to meet there. A buyer. He said he was interested in the piĂąatas. But the minute Gladys was out of her car, the man approached. He spoke no Spanish so it was up to 11-year-old Karen to act as interpreter. PiĂąatas for Sale Rosas looked around distractFirst he sits — squats, really, edly. Perhaps thinking again with his back against the wall. about the responsibilities his Then he stands for a while, then young girls have to take on while squats again. “No. No, I’m good,â€? he works out on the clam beds. he says to the offer of a chair. His “Mi madre — la abuela, the FRQYHUVDWLRQ Ă€ LWV IURP VXEMHFW WR grandmother — is coming next subject — easy enough to follow week. On a visitor’s visa. For — some English, some Spanish one month.â€? By then, the family — but, that he is distracted is should know whether Gladys

A Teacher Speaks If Gladys’s three children leave for Mexico it will be a big blow to our schools. Ocean Park School already lost two Mexican kids last year. I think the Middle School and the High School also lost two. There are always ups and downs in enrollment but right now it feels like our Hispanic community is being targeted for deportation and it is clearly impacting our school district. I wonder how many of the people in our area know anything about the kids we serve. The district as a whole, according to Public School Review, had 1,007 students in 2016/2017. Our minority enrollment was 25 percent (mostly Hispanic). We’re proud of our diversity, even though it is low by statewide standards. The average enrollment throughout Washington for minority students is 43 percent of the population. I have a friend who teaches in South Bend and they haven’t lost a single Mexican student due to ICE issues — even though their minority enrollment is 61 percent of their student population! That’s more than twice ours. From what I understand, there has not been a single ICE arrest on that side of the bay, even though their Hispanic population is greater than ours. That seems very peculiar to me, especially since we’ve had at least 23 people taken, so far, on the Peninsula. If it continues, it will eventually impact employment in the school district. It’s the domino effect. As the school population decreases, so does the need for teachers and other adult personnel. It’s the same with funding. There was a time when we were getting enough money from the federal government to support a full-time ESL [English as a Second Language] teacher, plus teacher training and extensive summer programming‌ Now it is all bare bones and we do the best we can. I will be so sorry to see these little girls move. So capable! So interested and with such potential. Their loss is our loss, as well. They have been an important part of our school community. I hope they will be happy in their new school.

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Chinese mob blamed in pot bust Raids include north Pacific County communities ganized crime group that supplies drugs to the East Coast. The “unprecedentedâ€? bust began WASHINGTON — Po- on Nov. 28, when the Grays Harbor lice seized thousands of mari- Drug Task Force served about 50 juana plants and other contraband warrants in Grays Harbor, Thurston from more than 60 suspected ille- and King counties, according to JDO JURZ KRXVHV LQ 3DFLÂżF *UD\V Chief Criminal Deputy Steve ShuHarbor, Thurston and King coun- mate of the Grays Harbor County ties last week. Investigators believe 6KHULIIÂśV 2IÂżFH 0RUH VLWHV ZHUH the grows belonged to a Chinese or- searched later in the week.

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Andy Polos installed computer networking cables on Friday, Nov. 29 at Ocean Beach Medical Clinic in Ocean Park.

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OCEAN PARK — Federal agents have locked up a Mexican man who lives in Ocean Park, and he says they told him it’s because he talked to newspaper reporters after his longtime girlfriend’s immigration arrest. Baltazar “Rosasâ€? Aburto Gutierrez spoke with the Chinook Observer and Seattle Times after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained his girlfriend in June. +H ZDV LGHQWLÂżHG E\ RQO\ KLV QLFNQDPH LQ the Observer, and not by name in the Times. Aburto Gutierrez, 35, told the Times in a phone interview from the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma that he was arrested last Monday morning in Ocean Park, where he lives and works as a clamdigger.

Three elected leaders give up bigger paychecks to help balance budget By AMY NILE anile@chinookobserver.com Western Construction Services superintendent Steve Lilly looked over draft drawings as construction continued on the ground floor of the new clinic and pharmacy in Ocean Park on Monday, Dec. 4.

in Long Beach. Fortunately, work crews had already turned their focus indoors before soggy conditions could delay construction. “We anticipated it and got all of our site work done early,� Lilly said. “We had the asphalt done in early September, then our parking lot striping and landscaping.� Small adjustments were made along the

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6287+ %(1' ² 3DFLÂżF &RXQW\ÂśV elected leaders will have fatter wallets starting next year, except the three commissioners, who agreed to forgo their 2018 raises. Commissioners Lisa Ayers, Frank Wolfe and Lisa Olsen decided earlier this year to give up a $104-a-month increase in 2018. Instead, they chose to continue to earn their current salary of $5,201 a month or $62,412 next year. “That’s a decision they made to help with the budget,â€? Financial Analyst Paul Plakinger said. The commissioners are scheduled to take See RAISES Page A9

LB abandons $4M tsunami shelter project New science shows city would need to build a much taller berm the city’s plan to build a 32-foottall cement berm behind Long Beach Elementary School. LONG BEACH — The city is The city last month received the halting work on what would have HDUO\ ¿QGLQJV RI D VWXG\ WKDW LQGLEHHQ WKH ¿UVW WVXQDPL VKHOWHU RI LWV cates the berm would need to be built 62.4 feet above average high kind in North America. 1HZ VFLHQWL¿F UHSRUWV DQG SUH- tide to keep people safe during a OLPLQDU\ ¿QGLQJV RI D VWXG\ IRLOHG worst-case tsunami. That’s a conBy AMY NILE

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Protesters lined Bay Avenue is support of Baltazar “Rosas� Aburto Gutierrez on Friday, Dec. 8, in Ocean Park. Aburto Gutierrez, a local shellfish worker without official residency status, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after speaking to news media. The protest location was selected because arrests have been made in that general vicinity; no local businesses were specifically involved either in support or opposition to the rally.

Authorities urged to get rid of criminals, leave hard-working immigrants alone By AMY NILE anile@chinookobserver.com

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Help from south of the border After Aburto Gutierrez, 35, was arrested, diplomats from the Mexican consulate in SeatWOH VWHSSHG LQ WR KHOS KLP ÂżQG a lawyer, access assistance and protect his rights, spokesman Luis Mingo said. Now, Stephen Robbins, an immigration attorney from Yakima, is taking his case for no fee. The Northwest Immigrant Rights Project is also working on his behalf. Robbins plans to ask the judge to lower Aburto Gutierrez’s $25,000 bond at his hearing on Jan. 4. Until then, he’s likely stuck in the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. The weeks-long wait for a court date, however, isn’t what 5REELQV ÂżQGV SHFXOLDU DERXW the case. He said Aburto GuitLHUUH] LV WKH ÂżUVW FOLHQW KH VHHQ taken to the federal lockup without having any record of past run-ins with immigration or law enforcement authorities. “Usually, there’s something,â€? Robbins said. “In this case, there’s really not. ‌ He says they told him it was because he was in the newspaper.â€? ICE spokeswoman Lori Haley told the Times the agency doesn’t retaliate as a rule. When pressed about Aburto Gutierrez’s case, she declined to comment.

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One man, who asked to remain anonymous, showed his support for President Donald Trump near the end of the protest of Trump’s deportation policies.

Protesters marched Friday, Dec. 8, along Bay Avenue in Ocean Park in support of Baltazar “Rosas� Aburto Gutierrez.

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and international headlines. “It just seems so wrong,� said Sandy Nielson, of Nahcotta.

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“The persecution is worrisome in a land of immigrants,� said Gonder, of Ocean Park. “If we can stand up to injustices, we have to do it.�

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immigration agents should be removing dangerous criminals who are in the country illegally. The president promised to get rid of the “bad guys,� Leah Gonder said. Instead, federal agents are letting them get away while they use “Gestapo tactics� to take her hard-working neighbors away, she said.

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he detention of 15-year Ocean Park resident Baltazar “Rosasâ€? Aburto Gutierrez by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ought to worry even those who vigorously defend the Trump administration’s deportation policies. It chews away at essential American values. Aburto Gutierrez spoke to Chinook Observer contributor Sydney Stevens for the Aug. 9 chapter of our series “Stories From the Heartâ€? about local ICE arrests and their impacts on residents lacking formal immigration status. With his consent, we published his story under a nickname but he was also easy to identify from the circumstances of his story, which can be read at tinyurl. com/Rosas-Aburto-Gutierrez. He was later included, anonymously, in a Seattle Times article about ICE’s activities in PaciÂżc County, where undocumented immigrants are employed in the aquaculture, farming and hospitality industries. After his arrest, Aburto Gutierrez said an agent told him “0y supervisor asked me to come Âżnd you because of what appeared in the newspaper.â€? With one old 1 trafÂżc ticket to his name, Aburto Gutierrez has a cleaner record than some locals who applaud his arrest. He is in no sense one of the serious criminals ICE is supposed to prioritize. Why was Aburto GutiWAS HIS errez arrested? Was it in retaliation for daring ARREST to be an “uppity MexMEANT TO BE icanâ€? willing to speak up? Was his arrest A WARNING meant to be a warning TO ALL OTHER to all other immigrants to keep their mouths IMMIGRANTS shut? “Yesâ€? is the obTO KEEP THEIR vious answer to both questions.

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The 2010 U.S. Census counted 1,677 Hispanic residents in the county, undoubtedly a signi¿cant underestimate since many of those without documents are known to avoid enumerators. Around 50 have now been detained by ICE this year. This hardly quali¿es as a wholesale roundup. However, its impacts extend far beyond simply those 50 individuals. In Aburto Gutierrez’s case, the initial arrest and deportation of his partner, Gladys Diaz, broke up a stable family. Diaz and the couple’s three girls — ages 4, 7 and 12 — are now getting by in a beautiful but crime-infested area of Mexico’s Paci¿c Coast. The two youngest girls are U.S. citizens. The 12-year-old and 7-year-old will no longer be taught in Ocean Beach School District. The shell¿sh operation that relied on Aburto Gutierrez is without a highly regarded worker. Gladys’ little business making piùatas is no more. The family will probably adjust to its new circumstances. But the Long Beach Peninsula is poorer for their loss.

Why care? Judging from social media comments about the Aburto Gutierrez story, there are many who regard informal immigration as an unforgivable crime. Often ignorant about how their own ancestors arrived in America, they nevertheless are supremely judgmental about others. In fact, many of our families arrived here without ofÂżcial permission from any government. Why might those who support forced deportations want to reexamine their opinions with regard to this case? “Family valuesâ€? voters should care about breaking up families and about the school district losing kids. Those who are about our area’s economic viability should care about depriving industries of good workers. And we should all be troubled when a government agency targets someone for telling their story to the news media. As the Times said in its editorial, “These actions send a terrifying message to people who have been living in the United States for years and actively contributing to their communities. ‌ ICE’s crackdown on otherwise law-abiding immigrants undermines those efforts. It dissuades them from reporting crimes, becoming active in their children’s schools and interacting with their neighbors. Effectively, it consigns them to the shadows.â€? This makes us all less safe.

Rights are for all Contrary to what some apparently believe, American constitutional rights apply to everyone here, not just citizens. Being able to speak our minds without fear of government retribution is one of the rights that make American great. We protect even the least powerful among us. Imagine the well-justi¿ed howls of outrage that would result if a Democratic presidential administration began selectively prosecuting rural gun owners after they wrote critical letters to the editor. This is the kind of risk we take when a government agency is permitted to selectively decide who to go after for exercising a fundamental human right. ICE’s actions deliberately chill press and free-speech freedoms, which are guaranteed to all in our nation, not just citizens. This is unacceptable.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Pay now ‌ or later I might be observing an effect that the article on the derelict RV problem is having in my own neighborhood. At least one residence has been improved. But there is a much bigger problem with vacant and abandoned deteriorating structures. Money seems to be the underlying problem. From a legal and liability stand point, I’m reminded of an old commercial. A mechanic told his

customer “You can pay now, or you can pay later.� KAREN DELESSERT Ocean Park

GOP tax cuts won’t create jobs The Republican tax plan reminds me of the story about the Wizard of Oz. The Great Oz bellows out from behind the curtain that Americans will get a

wonderful Christmas present of tax relief. He adds the corporate tax cuts will create countless jobs. He states he and his family will receive no personal ¿nancial bene¿t from the plan. His chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn, says their wealthy donors will be very happy. His budget director, Mick Mulvaney, says the plan has a lot of gimmicks. Let’s pull back the curtain and take a See LETTERS Page A8

ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR‌

In the days of camisoles and bloomers By SYDNEY STEVENS Observer columnist

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don’t think my grandmother was ever introduced to a bra. But, if she had been, would she have burned it? By any stretch of the imagination, could she have been termed a feminist? Whatever would she have thought of “The Silence Breakersâ€? who were given the 2017 Time Magazine “Person of the Year Award?â€? Helen Medora Richardson was born in 1878 to a genteel California family. Her father, the assistant postmaster in San Francisco, wrote poetry and hobnobbed with the likes of Bret Harte and Joaquin Miller. Her mother had been raised in Mexico City in an expatriated Southern family and taught her eldest daughter to arrange Ă€owers, cook fancy desserts, sew a Âżne seam, and little else. Obviously, ending up at “the jumping off placeâ€? in Oysterville, Washington, was not in the plans for the gently bred Helen Medora. In fact, it’s hard to imagine what was in my great-grandmother’s mind concerning her daughter’s future. Shortly before the lovely 19-year-old Helen and my 21-year-old grandfather-to-be were married (after a suitably long courtship and engagement), Harry found it necessary to go to his future mother-in-law with a rather delicate problem. “Helen,â€? he said, “does not yet know where babies come from. She needs to know that before our wedding. Either you tell her, or I will — though I prefer it would be you.â€?

The Birds and The Bees I’m not sure how the rest of the conversation went except that Harry did mention that his own mother had never faced such a problem. His sisters, after all, were farm girls and they knew all about the birds and the bees. Whatever ensued, Helen and Harry were steadfast in marriage for the next 57 years and were devoted parents to seven children. As Helen’s chronic “female troubles� compounded with the birth of each child, I wonder if it ever occurred to her to ‘just say no.’ What meaning would “a woman’s choice� have had for my Granny? And, what if her last child (my mother) had not been born? When they moved from East Oakland in 1901 with its gas lamps and trolley cars and all the amenities of “the gay 90s,� Helen hoped it would be for a short time. Instead, she was in Oysterville for the duration — at “the end of the known universe,� as she called it, without elec-

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At 18, gently bred city-girl Helen Medora Richardson did not yet know where babies came from. “Shall I tell her, or will you?� her groom asked his future mother-in-law.

tricity or indoor plumbing until 1936. She never complained. She adored Harry and she was of the generation that believed a woman’s fortunes were tied inexorably to her man’s. Whatever was best for Harry was best for her and their family‌ “till death do us part.â€? Helen was content in the knowledge that her place was in the home. She became an accomplished cook and seamstress, she played the piano and mandolin, she guided her children in their intellectual development, wrote poetry and short stories. She became Harry’s unofÂżcial secretary/assistant during the years he served in the Senate in Olympia as well as for the 40 years he served as justice of the peace in Oysterville.

A Woman’s Place I think about my grandmother quite often these days and wonder what she would have to contribute to the many conversations regarding sexual harassment. Despite her Victorian upbringing, she was not oblivious to the possibility of untoward behavior by the opposite “gender.� (And what would she have made of our free and easy usage of the word “sex?�) I know for a fact that she was ever vigilant with regard to her own daughters. When Grandpa Espy, the patriarch of Oysterville was in his dotage, he began to have “an eye for the ladies.� Occasionally this became a problem, particularly for the younger women of the family. His grandfatherly hugs were just a bit too amorous; his comforting pats a bit too lingering. As long as he was in Oysterville under the watchful eye of his third wife, “Aunt Kate,� he behaved himself. But out of her sight, he was not to be trusted. If Grandpa was feeling up to the journey to Astoria or Portland, perhaps to do some doctoring or take care of a little business, family members quickly spread the word. The girls and women made themselves scarce or, if necessary,

enlisted one of the male relatives to do escort duty. On more than one occasion, Helen wrote to her eldest daughter, who was a student at Portland Academy: Just heard [grand]Father is going to Portland. Don’t “go outâ€? with him at all. Have a previous engagement or have to study — anything, but do not go. I can hardly imagine what my grandmother would have to say about the Âżnger-pointing and accusations that are spewing forth from every corner these days. “How do you think we came to this, Granny?â€? I’d like to ask. Would she, in turn, ask, “How did these women Âżnd themselves in such compromising circumstances?â€? Or perhaps she would wonder about their upbringing. “What were their parents’ expectations — for them and for others?â€?

Butterfly Toys In 1915, when her 16-year-old daughter, Medora, worried about a rather brazen newcomer to her boardinghouse, Helen wrote: One thing you have not lived long enough to realize (and tho it is so, I never will know why) is that all masculine gender old and young will play with a frivolous girl. Often a Âżne lad will associate madly with a girl, who if his sister chummed with, would make him indignant. But this is always a superÂżcial attraction. In their hearts they do not respect these women. Often a physical infatuation exists, but rarely a Âżne man either loves or marries his butterĂ€y toys. My grandmother died when I was a sophomore in college — 1954. I adored her and had spent more time with her than with any other adult except my parents. We shelled peas together, read books together, talked politics together‌ but, as is always the way, there are so many topics now, 60-some years later, that I would love to have broached. Topics that would never have occurred to either of us at the time. “Granny, what do you think of co-ed dorms?â€? I might have asked had she lived a few years longer. And what would she have said? Would she have responded with one of her gentle questions — “to what purpose, Muffet?â€? (That was what she called me, always, as in Little Miss‌). Or would I have asked what she thought of the latest clothing styles for women? Or, maybe a question about how she and Papa counseled their boys so that they grew into manhood with great respect for themselves as well as for the girls and women in their lives. Hindsight is always easy. So, apparently, is revisionist memory and revisionist history. Or so it seems to this octogenarian whose memory goes back a long way‌ but a little differently.

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‘The Gillnetter’ sinks

Magazine chronicled once-vital industry

By KATIE FRANKOWICZ EO Media Group

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had owned it. But, Westerholm would often note, “He’s gone now.â€? 7KH RIÂżFH RQ *DWHZD\ $YHQXH ZDV D collection of vanished and vanishing things. For years, Westerholm kept the union ofÂżFH RSHQ DV D YROXQWHHU ,Q DGGLWLRQ WR HGiting and publishing the Gillnetter, he also coordinated a recycling program to gather up old gillnets. But at 83 years old, he is transitioning into a different phase of his life. A new issue of the Gillnetter hasn’t gone out since 2015. “I’m not ready to throw in the towel,â€? said union president Darren CrookVKDQNV D FRPPHUFLDO ÂżVKHUPDQ EDVHG RXW of Longview. At 49, he’s the union member Westerholm and secretary Jack Marincovich call “the young guy.â€? For more than 140 years, the Columbia 5LYHU )LVKHUPHQÂśV 3URWHFWLYH 8QLRQ ÂżUVW as an aid organization and later as a union,

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OP man released from ICE lockup Gutierrez was jailed for 39 days after telling his story to local newspapers By AMY NILE anile@chinookobserver.com

7$&20$ ² 7KH 3DFLÂżF &RXQW\ LPPLgrant who was locked up after sharing his family’s story with journalists was set free on Friday from the dingy, concrete-walled Northwest Detention Center near the billowing smokestacks and busy shipping yards at the industrial Port of Tacoma. Baltazar “Rosasâ€? Aburto Gutierrez had been stuck behind the looming razor-wire fences that surround the grim immigration prison for 39 days. The 35-year-old couldn’t wait to get out, KDYH D JRRG PHDO DQG JR KRPH WR 3DFLÂżF County, his attorney Stephen Robbins said, after a judge reduced his bond on Thursday morning. Aburto Gutierrez had been in the U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement lockup since his Nov. 27 arrest. Federal agents picked the Mexico native up outside of Okie’s Thriftway Market in Ocean Park, where he made an early-morning stop for coffee and eggs after getting off work. Since he came to the country 16 years See ICE Page A9

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ILWACO — The city attorney is hotfooting it away from City Hall after she was rebuked in a vehement email by a longtime Ilwaco councilman. Heather Reynolds decided not to continue her contract in 2018 after serving as the city’s lawyer for eight years. Former Mayor Mike Cassinelli said a Nov. 28 email from Councilman Fred Marshall was among her reasons for leaving. “She said, ‘I don’t have to put up with this,’� Cassinelli told the Observer. Reynolds, an Astoria Heather lawyer, declined to comReynolds ment on the email but said she enjoyed working with the mayor and staff at City Hall. Marshall, 78, dismissed the incident as nothing more than a “tempest in a teapot.� “I really think this is a nit, a tiny thing that doesn’t deserve much,� the fourth-term councilman and computer consultant said.

Gillnet boat races were an exciting part of the Astoria Regatta in the mid-20th century. It was a chance for the Columbia estuary’s hardworking gillnet salmon fishermen to have a day of fun and glory. Now, the end of The Gillnetter, a local magazine devoted to the fishery, may signal one of the last death rattles of this once-proud endeavor.

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Inslee lashes back at Sessions on marijuana

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After Aburto Gutierrez’s bond hearing, South Bend City Councilwoman Janice Hall Davis left $100 on the books for another Pacific County man who has been locked up at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma since September. Diantha Weilepp, also of South Bend, helped Davis navigate the automated system. They said they wanted to leave money for commissary items or so he has some cash if he’s released or deported. The two activists plan to return to the for-profit immigration prison for his court hearing on Jan. 12.

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Continued from Page A1 ago, he’s spent much of his time digging oysters and clams along Willapa Bay. He and his girlfriend of more than 11 years, Gladys Diaz, were raising three girls together in Ocean Park. The family was separated in June, when Diaz was detained and later deported to Mexico.

A long wait for freedom Almost six weeks after Aburto Gutierrez’s arrest, he appeared before Judge Charles McCullough, who was appointed by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in August. A thinner Aburto Gutierrez, wearing a baggy navy-blue prison uniform, ÂżOHG LQWR WKH VPDOO FRXUWURRP with several other inmates who were dressed in various colors. Detainees with lower security risks wore blue and green, while higher-risk prisoners had red or orange uniforms. Guards escorted them to wooden benches, where they waited their turn to see the judge. Half a dozen immigration activists and journalists who’d come for Aurto Gutierrez’s hearing sat across the aisle from the detainees. The judge called his case ÂżUVW ,&( DWWRUQH\ 1HLO )OR\G asked McCullough to set no bond, which would have extended Aburto Gutierrez’s stay at the detention center. Floyd said the immigrant has no legal way of dodging deportation because his two daughters are currently with their mother in Mexico. Robbins argued Aburto Gutierrez has a strong case for an exception. The Yakima attorney told the judge his client’s detention is causing GLIÂżFXOW\ IRU KLV \HDU ROG daughter because she needs medical care for stomach pain that sometimes keeps her out of school. Before Aburto Gutierrez ZDV MDLOHG WKH VKHOOÂżVK LQdustry worker had been sending money to Mexico to pay for her healthcare and other needs. Robbins said his client planned to bring the girls, who are U.S. citizens, back to Ocean Park after they visited their mother. But after their father was locked up, they couldn’t come home. McCullough said Aburto Gutierrez was not a threat to the public and lowered his bond from $25,000 to $5,000. By Friday afternoon, he’d paid the money and was being processed for release. Aburto Gutierrez will now be allowed to apply for legal status, McCullough said. After the judge’s ruling, Aburto Gutierrez had a decision to make. If he chose to stay in detention, his case would be heard in Tacoma, likely within weeks or months, and he’d could possibly get a green card. His other option was to pay the bond and wait up to six years for a court date in Seattle. “He just wants out,â€? Robbins said. His client didn’t want to endure another meal at the detention center where KH HVWLPDWHV SHUFHQW RI WKH

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The privately run, for-profit Northwest Detention Center stands on the tide flats at the industrial Port of Tacoma. Baltazar “Rosas� Aburto Gutierrez, of Ocean Park, was locked up behind the razor-wire fences that surround the immigration prison after his Nov. 27 arrest. He was released on Friday after a judge lowered his bond from $25,000 to $5,000.

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Robbins volunteered to represent Aburto Gutierrez pro bono after learning about his arrest. The story made international headlines and raised questions about whether ICE was retaliating against him for talking to the press. Aburto Gutierrez told his attorney and others that an ICE agent who arrested him said, “You are Rosas. You are the one from the newspaper.â€? His nickname appeared in an interview that ran in the Observer on Aug. 9 about Diaz’s arrest. Aburto Gutierrez also anonymously recounted the experience in a Nov. 9 Seattle Times article. ICE Director Thomas Homan insisted Aburto Gutierrez was not the target of retaliation during a late-December phone conversations with Gov. Jay Inslee, who pressed the federal agency for an explanation, the Times reported. ,&( RIÂżFLDOV VD\ WKH agency is focused on getting rid of criminals but no one who’s in the country illegally is exempt from the federal crackdown. 5REELQV FRQÂżUPHG $EXUWR Gutierrez has no criminal history, other than entering the U.S. from Mexico in 2001. During his bond hearing, Robbins objected to an accusation in ICE’s arrest report that his client was a regular methamphetamine user. Aburto Gutierrez “vehemently deniesâ€? the allegation that apparently came from a July tip from the public, his lawyer said. ICE agents did not provide evidence or turn the matter over to local law enforcement. Floyd argued the accusation is important in explaining why ICE took action. His arrest came six months after Diaz was picked up. An ICE agent posing as a buyer answered an online ad she posted to sell her homemade piĂąatas. When Diaz went to GHOLYHU KHU FDQG\ ÂżOOHG KDQGiwork, she was arrested in front of her daughters. Before the agents took her away, Aburto Guttierez said, they walked her home so she could drop the girls off with him. Since he was also in the country illegally, he asked: “Why you don’t take us all?â€? The acting ICE director

told the governor that’s when the agency learned of Aburto Gutierrez’s status, the Times reported. Agents didn’t arrest him then so he could stay behind to care for the children. When ICE later learned the girls had joined their mother near Puerto Vallarta, agents returned for Aburto Gutierrez, Inslee said. Since his arrest, Diaz has been left to try to make ends meet for the family with little to no income. Immigration activists are raising money to help him and his family at gofundme. com/sw4ua-help-the-gutierrez-family. So far, supporters have donated more than $3,500.

Supporting a split family Robbins told the judge Aburto Gutierrez’s employer is “ready and willingâ€? to hire him back. 3DFLÂżF &RXQW\ÂśV VKHOOÂżVK industry has taken a hit from President Donald Trump’s immigrant roundups. Business owners say they’re having trouble replacing workers taken by ICE. A carload of Aburto Gutierrez’s supporters from South Bend and Raymond left before dawn Thursday morning to make it to Tacoma for his hearing. South Bend City Councilwoman Janice Hall Davis, along with fellow immigration activists Stephanie Serrano, Diantha Weilepp and Marilyn Wilson had come prepared to protest if they didn’t agree with the judge’s ruling. The unexpected good news brought tears to Serrano’s eyes. “Mucho bueno, mucho bueno,â€? she said, reaching out to squeeze Aburto Gutierrez’s hand as he passed her on his way out of the small courtroom. “No touching,â€? the guard who was escorting him ordered. Serrano and the others didn’t have to hold up their handmade protest signs on Thursday, but their work isn’t over. After the hearing, they left money for others who were taken from PaFLÂżF &RXQW\ DQG DUH VWLOO ORFNHG XS ZDLWLQJ WR ÂżQG RXW if they’ll be deported. “This whole immigration thing is not only inhumane, EXW LWÂśV DOVR SURÂżWDEOH ´ 6HUrano said. “This is a sad place.â€?

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Former GOP candidate charged with vote fraud Man accused of voting for years in two states By NATALIE ST. JOHN nstjohn@chinookobserver.com

6O8TH B(ND — Political analysts say fewer Americans are voting, but one former Ocean Park man and county commissioner candidate might be bucking the trend. Rudolph

De6wart, , is allegedly such an enthusiastic voter that he voted in Washington for several years after moving to Oregon — even though he also voted in Oregon elections. De6wart, who now lives in 6alem, was one of 74 Washington cases of potentially fraudulent voting identi¿ed in a recent study of ballots cast in ¿ve states during the November 01 General Election. The study was conducted by the nonpro¿t Electronic

Registration Information Center, or ERIC, a group dedicated to ensuring accuracy in voter roles and simplifying the registration process.

A matter of integrity In 6eptember, the Washington 6ecretary of 6tate’s of¿ce noti¿ed auditors and prosecutors in the counties where potentially fraudulent activity was found. The Paci¿c County 6heriff’s Of¿ce conducted a brief in-

vestigation. Prosecutor Mark McClain subsequently charged De6wart with four counts of intentionally voting in more than one state. While it is legal to vote in one state while staying in another, it is not legal to vote in more than one state in the same election. In the 1 0s, a series of 8.6. 6upreme Court cases established the concept of “One person, one vote� as one of the core values of American democracy.

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“When he’s voting in both states in both the primary and the general, he clearly is doing it to vote more than once,� McClain said on Oct. . “I think the integrity of the election requires us to take these kinds of things seriously.�

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Ex-aide accused in Hilltop sex case ‘Lunch lady’ said to serve inappropriate photos to youth By NATALIE ST. JOHN nstjohn@chinookobserver.com

ILWACO — A former Hilltop lunch lady is accused of making sexual advances toward a middle-school boy via cell phone and social media. According to court and police documents the 3aci¿c County 3rosecutorœs of¿ce on 6ept. charged %rittini 5. )ord of Astoria, with one count of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes of a sexual nature, a Class C felony that carries a penalty of up to , and ¿ve years in prison.

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Charlotte Hashimoto, 3, hands a razor clam to her mom, Elise, as her father, Clifton, watches.

taking an average of 1 . clams per digger home. On Long Beach, 10,400 diggers averaged 11. clams per digger and the best digging was from Oysterville north.� Photos posted on social media sites over the weekend showed large clams and full limits between 6urfside and Leadbetter. The naturally occurring marine toxin domoic acid played havoc with fall seasons the previous two years. In 01 , clamming was off limits from October through mid-spring, when clam meat at last consistently dropped below 0 parts per million. This allowed 11 days of digging in late April and early May. Domoic levels also were too high for digging in fall 01 before dipping to 1 ppm or less in mid-December. “Our latest surf zone plankton counts show that the domoic acid-producing diatom (Pseudo-nitzschia) is still present, but there is very little domoic acid showing up in our water samples,� Ayres said. However, a NOAA 8niversity of See CLAM Page A9

Long Beach Police opened an investigation in early April, after staff and students alleged that Ford had acted inappropriately with students — in particular, with a boy who was 13 at the time. The investigation took several weeks. Meanwhile, Ford was terminated See HILLTOP Page A8

Seeking cash to ease ICE impacts Details emerging about immigration arrests in county By AMY NILE anile@chinookobserver.com

P(1I168LA — 1eighbors are trying to come up with cash to help families of immigrants who’ve been rounded up in federal raids across Paci¿c County. A newly-formed local group, the Immigration Assistance Committee has given more than $4,000 to help eight affected families with expenses, such as rent, food and moving costs, volunteer 6andy Nielson said. Now, the advocates are asking for help. See ICE Page A8

Voters vet hopefuls for Ilwaco mayor Longtime city leader faces challenge from newcomer, four council candidates run unopposed By AMY NILE anile@chinookobserver.com

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ILWACO — The two candidates for mayor both want to bring the once-bustling small town back to life. That’s why Gary Forner and challenger 6am Lund are competing for a four-year term at Ilwaco’s helm, they said during an Oct. 3 forum. The two hopefuls answered questions from a crowd of more than 30 at the Columbia Paci¿c Heritage Museum. Forner, a longtime volunteer ¿re¿ghter and retired park ranger, has served as a city councilman since 010. Lund, a health educator and retired nurse, represented the city of Maywood Park, Ore-

gon as a councilwoman for eight years before she came to Ilwaco. 6he moved into her vacation home full-time a few years ago. Although the candidates share similar positions on many issues, Lund, , said, she offers Ilwaco a fresh perspective, combined with experience from a small town that’s now surrounded by Portland. Forner, 70, contended his involvement since he made Ilwaco his home in 1 7 has given him the institutional knowledge and know-how to lead the city.

A big, stinking problem The two challengers both said they want to keep utility rates low, while

working to Âżx the city’s ongoing troubles with its aging sewer system. If elected, Forner said, he’d make sure the wastewater-treatment plant was being run properly. “I’m not afraid to jump in and help,â€? he said, pointing out his experience wading in sewage at state parks. “That doesn’t scare me.â€? Lund said she’s heard about problems with the sewer but she doesn’t know enough about them to offer solutions. “I’m not going to pretend to be an expert on this,â€? she told voters. “8nlike Gary, I’ve never had to walk in them.â€? See VOTERS Page A9

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Volunteers in an exercise last week learned a little about what it’s like to survive a month without enough money to meet needs.

Fictional businesses were set-up throughout the church. Bonnie Ward of Ocean Park, portrayed a pawnshop broker where people could sell items to get the cash needed to make ends meet. (Ward is also active in Ocean Park Food Bank and Overnight Winter Lodging located in Ocean Park).

Participants who were unemployed needed to see Greg Pothier of Seaview to fill out a torrent of paperwork.

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So far, the group’s donations have gone to mothers and fathers who are struggling to raise children with little to no income after their spouses were taken from PaFL¿F &RXQW\ E\ 8 6 ,PPLJUDtion and Customs Enforcement agents, Nielson, of Nahcotta, said. Many worked in the shell¿VK LQGXVWU\ 7KHLU IDPLOLHV UHlied upon their incomes. Employers were counting on them too, Nielson said. Volunteers hope to raise at least $10,000 for affected families through donations at gofundme.com/immigrants-long-beach-washington.

Snapped in ICE sweeps The committee counts 35 immigrants who have been picked up on the Peninsula in 2016 and 2017, volunteer Ann Reeves said on Friday. The advocate from Long Beach said the group has learned in the past few weeks of at least four

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Continued from Page A1 in Washington after buying property north of Ocean Park in 2001. During his time there, he served as president of the Sunset Sands Homeowners’ Association. He also took an interest in local politics. DeSwart ran as a Republican in the 2004 county commissioner race, but lost to Norman “Budâ€? Cuffel. In 2010, he moved to Salem, where he registered to vote, according to a probable cause statement. Voter records show that he arranged to have his Washington ballots mailed to his Salem address. It appears that DeSwart made an effort to continue voting in Washington long after he moved to Oregon — in 2015, he moved to a different house in Salem, and updated his Washington voter records to the new address. According to the investigation report, “DeSwart has voted in Washington six times since he registered to vote in Oregon.â€? Oregon elections RIÂżFLDOV WROG WKH LQYHVWLJDWing deputy DeSwart has voted 10 times in Oregon since registering there. By cross-referencing voter records from both states, the deputy determined DeSwart had allegedly voted in both states during the November 2010, 2012 and 2016 General Elections, as well as the 2016 May Primary Election.

others who were taken around South Bend and Raymond. 3DFLÂżF &RXQW\ KDV DW OHDVW 23 open cases in U.S. immigration courts, according to a 2017 analysis of records obtained from federal agencies and courts by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. The data shows 15 pending cases from around Raymond and six from the Peninsula. Some of those who’ve been arrested are locked up at the IRU SURÂżW 1RUWKZHVW 'HWHQtion Center in Tacoma, leaving their families without income for meals and housing, let alone money to post bond for their loved one, Nielson said. Others want to reunite their families after being split up by deportations. They need help with travel documents and expenses. “These families have been torn apart,â€? another advocate Robert Brake said. “We can’t sit by and do nothing.â€?

A Fed-fighting fiesta Brake, and his wife, Gwen, are organizing a celebration of Hispanic culture to help raise money for immigrant neighbors. The Ocean Park couple

some other type of paperwork from the state. “I am a property owner in Oregon and Washington, and I bank in Washington,â€? DeSwart said. “To my knowledge, the only issues that we did anything with were when it would affect my property.â€? A search of state and county property records did not turn up any properties in his or his wife’s names, other than the property sold in 2010. DeSwart said he has a health condition that affects KLV PHPRU\ PDNLQJ LW GLIÂżcult for him to recall exactly what happened. “I couldn’t say, because I don’t know,â€? he said.

plans to auction colorful pinaWDV ÂżOOHG ZLWK 0H[LFDQ FDQG\ and other items, and donate the proceeds to affected immigrants and their families. “It’s the right thing to do,â€? Brake said. “We’ll make it a OLWWOH ELW RI D ÂżHVWD LQ WKH PLGVW of a tragedy.â€? The admission-free fundraiser is scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m. on Oct. 20 at Chautauqua Lodge in Long Beach, 304 14th St NW. Gwen Brake acknowledges that the people being picked up did commit a crime by coming into the country illegally. But, the Ocean Beach afterschool program teacher said, arresting and deporting parents punishes children. Families, including those who’ve been part of the community for decades, and businesses that rely on the work of immigrants are also suffering. “They’ve been our friends and our neighbors,â€? she said. “They’re the people who’ve held up our little corner of the world.â€?

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President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton because “millions of peopleâ€? illegally cast ballots. “I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and even those registered to vote who are dead‌â€? he tweeted on Jan. 25. In May, he formed a special commission to investigate whether voter fraud inĂ€XHQFHG WKH HOHFWLRQ 6R IDU however, the commission has Two states, been largely tied up in dealing two votes with lawsuits from states and Most suspected voter fraud groups who fear the inquiry cases uncovered by the ERIC could violate citizens’ privacy study involved people who al- rights, according to various nalegedly voted in more than tional media outlets. one state. There were 30 cases Other organizations have where Washington voters ap- found only a handful of isopeared to have also voted in lated cases of fraud in recent Oregon. A smaller number of past elections. According to cases involved people who analysts at the nonpartisan voted more than once in the Brennan Center For Justice at same state. In Cowlitz County, New York University, the odds one person apparently voted are much higher that an Ameron behalf of a dead person. ican citizen “will be struck by “People make all kinds of lightning than that he will immistakes in elections. They personate another voter at the sign the wrong ballot. That’s polls.â€? not the kind of thing we’re The ERIC study, which worried about,â€? said McClain. also included Colorado, DelAs prosecutor, he serves aware and Maryland, was on the county’s canvassing planned well before Trump board; the body that helps en- made his allegations, ERIC ofsure local ballot counts are ac- ÂżFLDOV KDYH VDLG ,W DOVR IRXQG curate, and conducted in com- that voter fraud was exceedpliance with the law. State law ingly rare. In both Oregon and No recall about allows prosecutors to treat Washington, just 0.002 percent elections suspected voter fraud as ei- of the votes cast in the 2016 2Q 2FW D 3DFLÂżF &RXQW\ ther an infraction, or a Class C General Election were suspect. Superior Court judge issued a felony, depending on whether In Oregon, that worked out to summons ordering DeSwart or not it appeared to be inten- about 1 in 38,000 ballots, acto appear on Nov. 3. On Oct. tional. In this case, McClain cording to Oregon Secretary of 6, he said he had not received thought the allegedly consis- State Dennis Richardson. DeSwart hinted that the althe summons yet, and no one tent pattern of double-voting had called him during the in- MXVWLÂżHG WKH VWLIIHU FKDUJH ,W legations about his own voting vestigation. DeSwart said FDUULHV D SHQDOW\ RI XS WR ÂżYH conduct could be fake news. “I don’t know anything he did not want to comment years in prison and a $10,000 about that,â€? DeSwart said. in depth without reading the ÂżQH “Had he just voted in the “For all I know, that’s fake as charges against him, but speculated that he might have same year he moved? OK,â€? well, but I will certainly check mixed the ballots up with McClain said. “But over and into that.â€?

county “readily available,â€? spokeswoman Virginia Kice told the Observer in August. She provided combined counts for her agency’s three-state PaFLÂżF 1RUWKZHVW UHJLRQ In Washington, Oregon and Alaska, ICE picked up almost twice as many immigrants with no criminal history from October to June than during the previous 12 months. During the 2016 budget year, 1,395 foreign nationals were deported from the region with no prior convictions.

a third were convicted of drivLQJ XQGHU WKH LQĂ€XHQFH WKH UHlease said. Offenses included assault, marijuana possession, VH[ FULPHV DQG WUDIÂżF YLRODtions, among others. The authorities were back in the region late last month. They nabbed almost three dozen immigrants around Seattle during a four-day sweep.

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Sheriff Scott Johnson said ICE gave his requests the cold shoulder for months until the Agency aims for newspaper raised questions criminal aliens, or not DERXW ZK\ IHGHUDO RIÂżFLDOV Of the 84 foreign nation- weren’t sharing information als who were arrested during with local law enforcement. The agency has recently a federal immigration raid in the Northwest earlier this year, started to provide at least some about a quarter had clean crim- details about arrests, Johnson inal records, according to the said. The sheriff said ICE last agency’s March 30 news re- reported making an arrest in lease. It listed no arrests in Pa- the county on Friday. The Observer has reFLÂżF &RXQW\ GXULQJ WKH WKUHH GD\ RSHUDWLRQ 2IÂżFLDOV VDLG quested public records under agents were targeting crim- the Freedom of Information inals, immigration fugitives Act that could reveal more deand people who’ve come into tails about the federal agency’s the U.S. illegally more than local activities. The sheriff’s RIÂżFH LV DOVR H[SHFWHG WR SURonce. The agency released the vide information. “most seriousâ€? past conviction Poof, immigrants out of each person arrested. About

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food for a small group of mostly male students, and Continued from Page A1 sometimes interrupted lessons to pass out treats. Staff members thought in the spring, when an independent Ocean Beach School Ford seemed to be taking a District investigation found particular interest in the althat Ford had repeatedly leged victim and his best shown questionable judgment friend. In early 2017, she bein her interactions with stu- came an increasingly disrupdents, and had violated sev- tive presence while “helpingâ€? one teacher in her classroom. eral district policies. Ford, who is married to a The teacher said Ford often member of the Coast Guard, sat next to the two boys, began working for the dis- loudly whispering with them trict as a lunch aide at Long during lessons. She comBeach Elementary, according plained to former Hilltop to the Long Beach Police De- Principal Darin Adams in partment investigation report. March, after Ford allegedly In November 2016, she trans- “spent the class on her phone, IHUUHG WR ÂżOO D YDFDQW SRVLWLRQ her feet up on the table and a DW +LOOWRS WKH GLVWULFWÂśV ÂżIWK lollipop in her mouth.â€? Staff through eighth-grade campus. also said they had witnessed In a police statement, former )RUG DFWLQJ LQ D ³ÀLUWDWLRXV´ Intervention Specialist Sean manner with the two boys. Bresnahan said Ford’s priGrooming mary duties were supervising lunch, recess and transitional In early March, Bresnahan periods during the day. learned Ford had been spendLocal police and Coast LQJ ÂłVLJQLÂżFDQW DPRXQWV RI Guard investigators found timeâ€? with the boys at her that Ford’s husband was not home on the Coast Guard involved in the alleged mis- base. A week later, Ford took conduct. the boys on an unauthorized Superintendent Jenny Ris- trip to Warrenton in her perner did not respond to email sonal vehicle during school and phone requests for com- KRXUV 6KH ZDV ÂżUHG $GDPV ment. and Bresnahan began the internal investigation, and subJunk food, lollipops sequently informed the poInitially, staff members lice. “It was rather clear [the thought Ford’s friendly interactions with students were an victim] was being groomed appropriate attempt to build E\ %ULWWLQL ´ 2IÂżFHU 'RQ 7DUrelationships. However, after diff wrote in his report. At Christmas break, staff said, ÂżUVW 7DUGLII VDLG WKH DOOHJHG she began acting more like a victim mowed Ford’s lawn student than a staff member. for pocket change, with his Teachers told administrators mother’s permission. HowFord was shirking her duties ever, in early spring, he and DQG ÂżQGLQJ RSSRUWXQLWLHV WR his friend began spending spend time with students out- more time at her home, often side of her assignment areas, playing video games and even pulling them out of class going on fast-food runs. According to the boys, without permission on a few during at least one of these occasions. By the end of January, visits Ford allowed them to Bresnahan said, “It was very look at nude pictures of herclear that Brittini was hav- self that she stored on her ing boundary issues with stu- phone. According to the vicdents.â€? Several teachers told tim, she also allegedly alhim Ford made trips off-cam- lowed him to view a video of pus to buy fast food and junk her dancing in the nude.

Despite the recent step towards transparency, immigrants on the Peninsula aren’t counting on shadowy enforcement relenting anytime soon, Nielson, the Nahcotta volunteer, said. She knows one man who’s saving money in case he needs to bail himself out. “He expects to be picked up anytime in a raid,� she said. “Most of the people have been here a long time. Their families and employers depend on them, then — they’re gone.�

Links: • ICE provided numbers: www.chinookobserver.com/ co/local-news/20170830/local-police-shut-off-from-iceinfo ‡ )RU SUR¿W 1RUWKZHVW 'Htention Center in Tacoma: www.ice.gov/detention-facility/tacoma-northwest-detention-center • March 30 release: www. ice.gov/news/releases/19-arrested-northern-washington-ice-operation-targeting-convicted-criminal-aliens • Amazing map of immigration cases by county and area: trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/addressrep/

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A turning point came when Ford allegedly urged the victim to download the Snapchat app on his phone. Snapchat is a message and picture-sharing tool that has a distinct advantage for teens who are trying to keep their social lives private — messages and pictures sent via the app disappear permanently after a short time. An unintended consequence is that adult predators use the app to communicate with minors, knowing their messages are unlikely to become evidence. One night, shortly before VKH ZDV ÂżUHG )RUG DOOHJHGO\ texted the victim a message saying, “I’m bored,â€? and then allegedly proceeded to send him a photo of herself in panties, followed by three more ÂłVHOÂżHV´ LQ LQFUHDVLQJ VWDWHV of undress. The boy said she also requested photos of him, and offered to perform oral sex on him. He told investigators that he cut off contact with her after that. Through her attorney Nicole Dalton, Ford invoked her Fifth Amendment rights, and did not grant police an interview. Dalton did not respond to a request for comment.

Elusive evidence 'XH LQ SDUW WR WKH ÀHHWLQJ nature of Snapchat communications, investigators were not able to secure photo or text evidence. However, prosecutor Mark McClain said the friend witnessed, or was aware of, each of these interactions. In interviews, the friend’s statements corroborated those of the victim and other parties. If the case goes to trial, he may be called as a witness. The Prosecutor’s Of¿FH UHTXHVWHG EXW ZDV QRW granted a warrant for Ford’s arrest. Instead, she was issued a summons to appear in PaFL¿F &RXQW\ 6XSHULRU &RXUW on Oct. 20.

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No more Margaritaville for Long Beach go-cart fugitive Attorneys tussle in court over new bail amount: $800,000 By NATALIE ST. JOHN nstjohn@chinookobserver.com

SOUTH BEND — Former amusement park operator, suspected gun and drug dealer and fugitive Robert Anthony “Tony� Merrill is no longer wasting away in Margaritaville.

Last week, his stay in Mexico came to an abrupt halt when U.S. Marshals apprehended him at a Western Union outlet in Cabo San Lucas. Local and IHGHUDO ODZ HQIRUFHPHQW RIÂż FLDOV KDYH been pursuing Merrill since he disappeared in May, after his family bailed KLP RXW RI 3DFLÂż F &RXQW\ -DLO ,Q 3DFLÂż F &RXQW\ 6XSHULRU &RXUW on Oct. 23, Prosecutor Mark McClain charged Merrill, 52, with a new count of bail-jumping and asked that he be held on a total of $1.5 million bail. However, visiting Court Commis-

sioner Bill Faubion set Merrill’s bail in his two ongoing criminal cases at a total of $800,000. 2Q 7XHVGD\ PRUQLQJ D 3DFLÂż F &RXQW\ 6KHULIIÂśV 2IÂż FH RIÂż FLDO VDLG the Marshals Service has thus far provided few details about Merrill’s time in Mexico, or how he was captured. “I just know that we’ve been working on the U.S. Marshals on it,â€? Chief NATALIE ST. JOHN/Chinook Observer Criminal Deputy Pat Matlock said. “We got a call that he was in custody, Robert ‘Tony’ Merrill appeared in Pacific County Superior See GO-CART Page A10

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LONG BEACH — Change is on its way to City Hall. There’s competition for two of the three City Council seats on the Nov. 7 ballot. Kevin “Isaâ€? Cline and John Nechvatal are vying to serve a four-year term in Councilwoman Natalie Hanson’s seat. She is stepping down at the end of her term in December. Councilwoman Holli Kemmer was appointed to the council in 2016 to replace Jerry Phillips, after he was elected mayor. His opponent in 2015, then-fellow Councilman Mark Perez, is now challenging Kemmer Holli for the four-year Kemmer term. Perez’s unsuccessful run for mayor cost him his seat on the council, too. Tye Caldwell, D YROXQWHHU Âż UHÂż JKWHU ZDV HOHFWHG LQ 2015 to the position Perez had served in since 2012. Caldwell resigned from council so he could start a job as a city utility worker in February. Councilwoman Tina McGuire, 51, was appointed in March to replace Caldwell. McGuire, the Corral Drive-In owner, is now running unopposed for a two-year term.

Nechvatal vs. Cline John Nechvatal, a cashier at Sid’s Market in Seaview, applied for the open council seat after Caldwell resigned but lost the appointment to McGuire. So he took her seat on the city’s volunteer Planning Commission. See COUNCIL Page A13

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Aylin, 4, eyed a pinata before volunteer Deborah Wells, of Ocean Park, took it to the highest bidder during a Friday evening auction to raise money for families affected by federal immigration raids in Pacific County. Miriam Naranjo, of South Bend, made the sparkly, bright-pink pinata and four others that were bundled with art, gift certificates and other items and sold as packages during the Oct. 20 benefit at Chautauqua Lodge in Long Beach.

People pull together support for families affected by ICE raids By AMY NILE anile@chinookobserver.com

ONG BEACH — Backlash against beefed-up federal immigration enforcePHQW ZDV D WKHPH RI D ¿ HVWD )ULGD\ HYH ning at the oceanfront Chautauqua Lodge. Recurrent raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have left dozens of fam-

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LONG BEACH — The city has a problem that could turn into a real VWLQNHU LI OHDGHUV GRQœW ¿ QG D VROXWLRQ soon. State authorities earlier this month told Long Beach it has to stop spraying treated sewer sludge over a stretch of woods along 67th Place. City leaders have been working on a tight, two-year timeline to make changes to wastewater treatment, before stricter state mandates take effect next year. The Washington Department of (FRORJ\ LQ JDYH RI¿ FLDOV IURP Long Beach, Ilwaco and elsewhere WZR \HDUV WR ¿ JXUH RXW KRZ WR HLWKHU WXUQ WKHLU ZDVWH LQWR D EHQH¿ FLDO SURG uct that’s safe to handle or deal with more restrictions on processes they use now. Starting in January, cities are barred from spraying treated sludge on land during the wintertime. That means if Long Beach and Ilwaco wanted to keep treating waste the same way, they will either have to store it from October through April, or haul it away. Since neither is cost-effective, the two neighboring towns decided to work together on a long-term plan. They have proposed building a $7 million plant, where treated waste from both cities could be turned into garden mulch. It would bring both cities into compliance with the law and splitting the cost would save money, Glasson said.

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New medical info system adopted at OBH to make critical patient care decisions without knowing a patient’s detailed medical history. Approximate cost of the “Epicâ€? Starting around 2009, the federal software program, a new patient By NATALIE ST. JOHN government began pushing hospitals medical records system at OBH. nstjohn@chinookobserver.com to switch to electronic systems, saying they would result in more personalILWACO — Ocean Beach Hospi- KRVSLWDO Âż UVW EHJDQ XVLQJ LQ LQ UH ized patient care, fewer errors and bettal and Medical Clinics are using a new sponse to a federal mandate. ter medical decisions. OBH had to meet “electronic health recordsâ€? (EHR) sys“This is just a game-changer in our a deadline for adopting an electronic tem that promises to provide easier, community, with respect to improving records program to continue receivfaster access to important medical infor- quality and access to care. That’s really ing federal funds that make up a major mation for both patients and providers. the driver for this,â€? CEO Larry Cohen part of its budget, Cohen said, but at the Starting on Oct. 21, OBH staff of- said on Oct. 24. time, there were no affordable programs Âż FLDOO\ EHJDQ XVLQJ WKH 3URYLGHQFH that met the needs of both small hospiA false start healthcare system’s customized version tals and clinics. Until just a few years ago, many of a software program called “Epicâ€? to Ultimately, OBH leaders chose the create and maintain patient medical re- healthcare providers still kept patient best of the options within their budget: cords. The new program, which cost UHFRUGV LQ SDSHU Âż OHV ,W ZDV FKHDS an outpatient program for the clinics OBH about $2.2 million, replaces a dif- and easy, but had limitations. Records See RECORDS Page A10 ferent electronic records system that the got lost, and doctors sometimes had

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Naselle school board considers levy options, names new building NASELLE — NaselleGrays River Valley School District directors on Oct. 17 discussed recent state legislation and the need for a new school levy. The current threeyear levy runs out at the end of 2018. With the legislation in mind, directors discussed potential levy amounts and the length of a future levy. They decided to wait until Educational Service District 112 provides more detailed information. Superintendent Lisa Nelson noted a levy resolution needs to be submitted by Dec. 15 in order to undergo the needed legal reviews and be placed on the February ballot. Following the rules for naming a school building, the board was presented with three possible names for the newly constructed multipurpose building. The choices were:

Grabenhorst-Hall Fieldhouse; Veterans’ Memorial Fieldhouse; and, Grabenhorst-Hall Veterans Fieldhouse. After discussing the merits of each choice, the board decided to name the new building the Grabenhorst-Hall Fieldhouse in honor of long time school superintendent Dick Grabenhorst and Merle Hall, who had been the school’s maintenance superintendent and an ardent supporter of Naselle athletics. 1HOVRQ QRWHG WKH ¿HOGKRXVH ÀRRU ZDV EHLQJ LQVWDOOHG DQG should be completed within the next week or so. She also related the positive reaction WKH UHSUHVHQWDWLYH RI WKH 2I¿FH of the Superintendent of Public Instruction provided when she inspected the new building. OSPI provided the initial grant that assisted in construction.

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Tony Merrill, left, conferred with his lawyer, David Mistachkin, during an Oct. 23 hearing in Pacific County Superior Court.

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Generally, Washington law says people can only be held without bail in capContinued from Page A1 ital punishment cases, but McClain tried to argue that there was a legal precedent IRU KROGLQJ D NQRZQ Ă€LJKW ULVN OLNH 0HUand he was here shortly after.â€? rill without bail. Cart-operator makes tracks Âł+H Ă€HG WKH FRXQWU\ KH Ă€HG :DVK0HUULOO ZDV ÂżUVW DUUHVWHG RQ VXVSLFLRQ ington and California,â€? McClain said. of dealing heroin and other drug-related â€œâ€Ś Somehow he was able to do this offenses in the spring, after police raided while not having his passport.â€? Furtherhis former home and go-cart and moped more, McClain said, Merrill allegedly indicated in a recorded jail phone call that rental businesses in Long Beach. Superior Court Judge Doug Goelz set he still has an independent income, poshis bail at $250,000 and allowed him to sibly from the recent sale of the family’s travel to California, where he was sup- downtown businesses. That increases the posed to enter “Fresh Start,â€? a private FKDQFHV RI 0HUULOO Ă€HHLQJ DJDLQ 0Fdrug treatment center. In an April letter Clain said. Merrill’s attorney, David Mistachto the court, a Fresh Start representative said Merrill would be carefully super- NLQ RI WKH $EHUGHHQ ODZ ÂżUP ,QJUDP vised while in treatment, and escorted by Zelasko & Goodwin, pushed back, calling the request for a no-bail hold “basestaff to any court appearances. His attorney also promised Merrill less.â€? “These charges are non-violent drug would return for court dates, but that did not happen. Instead, he disappeared, for- offenses and property crimes,â€? MistachIHLWLQJ KLV ERQG 0F&ODLQÂśV RIÂżFH VXE- kin said. Faubion agreed, saying Mersequently issued a warrant for his ar- rill still had the legal right to a reasonrest and Commissioner Faubion issued a able bail amount. However, he said that the bail should still be steep. When Mis$500,000 warrant. While Merrill was on the loose, Pa- tachkin called the original amount set by FLÂżF &RXQW\ VKHULIIÂśV GHSXWLHV HVWDE- the court “excessive,â€? Faubion replied, lished his involvement in an Ocean Park Âł,W FDQÂśW EH H[FHVVLYH LI LW ZDVQÂśW VXIÂżburglary and the later sale of guns from cient to keep him here.â€? that burglary. That led to a second, sep‘Zero’ money? arate criminal case, in which he was charged with gun, burglary and possesMcClain then asked for $1 million sion of stolen property charges. A new $1 bail in the drugs case. million arrest warrant was issued. “It’s clearly excessive. It’s clearly a SXQLVKPHQW IRU 0U 0HUULOO Ă€HHLQJ WKH MXNo-go on no-bail hold risdiction,â€? Mistachkin said. He claimed During the Monday afternoon hear- his client doesn’t have the independent ing, Faubion reviewed the charges and means to get himself out of jail. “Mr. Merrill has absolutely no money. release conditions for both cases. Merrill Zero, and the state can’t prove otherhas pleaded “not guiltyâ€? to all charges.

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have to be hauled away, Glasson said. But, so far, he hasn’t found anywhere to take it.

took soil samples from the forested site Long Beach has fertilized for years with treated waste. Two weeks ago, the state told the city it couldn’t continue the practice due to concern about possible environmental damage, he said. The sudden deadline switch leaves Long Beach in a situation that stinks. The city has enough space to store about another week’s worth of sewer sludge before it will

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Glasson checked options in Raymond, Longview and Vancouver. He also looked into possibilities in Warrenton and Roseburg, Oregon but struck out on both sides of the state line. In some cases, the cost to haul the city’s sludge to another site and pay have it processed was exorbitant, Glasson said. In others, the plant

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Fernando Rodriguez, of the Lower Columbia Hispanic Council, urged people to ask their elected representatives to vote in favor of immigration reform. “It’s not for politicians to say, ‘No, I don’t want to do that right now,� he told the crowd of more than 60. “You’re here because you care about the community. You’re not here to win a pinata.�

Stop stalking Erin Glenn, a Spanish teacher for Ocean Beach Schools, said she knows of 38 people who were picked up by ICE on the Peninsula in 2017 and 2016. Several others were taken

More charges could follow In an Oct. 20 press release, McClain praised PCSO Detective Ryan Tully for his diligence, saying Tully “continued to work every lead to its conclusion and fed the information to the marshals in order to locate Mr. Merrill.â€? He too had little information about how, exactly, the marshals caught Merrill, but said local and federal efforts to “follow the moneyâ€? were key to cracking the case. Investigators suspect one or more people in the U.S. may have helped Merrill escape, or supported him during his south-of-the-border sojourn. If so, charges could follow for those individuals, McClain said. As of Tuesday morning, Merrill rePDLQHG LQ 3DFLÂżF &RXQW\ -DLO +H LV scheduled for a three- to four-day trial in November. However, Mistachkin indicated that the trial will likely be delayed until late 2017 or early 2018.

wouldn’t take waste from Long Beach unless it was went through a more extensive treatment process. “Of course, none of this is in the budget,� the administrator said.

Ilwaco to the rescue? On Friday, Glasson said, he’d only found one potential cost-effective option to deal with the changed deadline. He wants to get permission from Ecology for Long Beach to haul its sludge to Ilwaco. Both cities could then spray treated waste on Ilwaco’s site east of

around South Bend and Raymond in the past few weeks. Continued from Page A1 She told the crowd many were stalked by federal agents who folThe Ocean Park couple collected lowed them into places, such as post a variety of donated items, such as RIÂżFHV DQG JURFHU\ VWRUHV WR DUUHVW FRORUIXO SLQDWDV ÂżOOHG ZLWK 0H[LFDQ them in public. “And most sickening to me, in FDQG\ DUW DQG JLIW FHUWLÂżFDWHV IRU VLlent and live auctions. They also lined front of their children,â€? Glenn said. up people to talk about their experi- Âł7KH ÂżHVWDV KDYH HQGHG ÂŤ 7KH ences under current immigration and only ray of hope has been the people who’ve come together.â€? border-security policies.

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wise,� Mistachkin added. Faubion set bail at $400,000, then turned to the newer guns and burglary case. In that case, he lowered the original bail of $1 million to $400,000. With a total amount of $800,000, Merrill’s family would have to come up with about $80,000 to get him out of jail. If he were to be released, he would be required to live with his parents, abstain from drugs and alcohol, regularly check in with the court, and stay away from all other parties in his criminal cases. However, Mistachkin claimed that this time, his client is likely to stay in lockup until his trial. “His parents are not going to bail him out again,� he said.

U.S. Highway 101 until they can get their shared mulch plant up and running in Long Beach. In the meantime, Glasson said, the potential temporary solution would likely involve some investment in road improvements and equipment but wouldn’t cost near as much the other sites he’s considered. “It’s really the only option that makes sense,â€? Glasson said. +H H[SHFWV WR ÂżQG RXW whether Ecology will approve the plan this week.

looked into two of the 38 arrests Glenn mentioned. He found neither had a criminal background. Both of their records showed “minor infractions,� an insurance ticket and a driver licence violation, the sheriff said.

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Journalists, advocates and others have questioned ICE’s transparency and willingness to share information with the public, too. Start talking The Observer has requested reSheriff Scott Johnson said he’s cords under the Freedom of Inforseeing a little light after being kept mation Act that could include more in the dark for months, despite his re- details about the agency’s local activSHDWHG UHTXHVWV IRU ,&( RI¿FLDOV WR ities. An ICE spokeswoman told the share certain information with local law enforcement. Authorities in the newspaper in August it’d be months past few weeks have started report- before the agency might be able to ing the number of arrests made in the provide information about arrests county and each immigrant’s age and PDGH LQ WKH FRXQW\ (YHQ DIWHU ¿OLQJ a request and waiting in a long line JHQGHU WR KLV RI¿FH However, Johnson said, ICE IRU LW WR EH KDQGOHG WKH RI¿FLDO VDLG won’t provide their names or dates of it might reveal few to no new details. The Observer put in the federal rebirth. Without those details, he said, it’s hard to verify the activities of fed- quest and later asked the sheriff’s ofHUDO DJHQWV LQ WKH FRXQW\ DQG FRQ¿UP ¿FH WR SURYLGH GRFXPHQWV XQGHU WKH whether people are getting a straight state Public Records Act that might shed some light on the circumstances story from the public agency. Johnson told the crowd he had surrounding federal immigration

Providence provides its version of Epic through a division called “Community Connect,â€? called “Next Gen,â€? and an in- that specializes in meeting the patient program for the hospi- administrative needs of small healthcare facilities like Ocean tal called “Health Land.â€? Numerous studies have Beach. The move to adopt their VKRZQ WKH EHQHÂżWV RI VZLWFK- records system does not signal ing to electronic systems, in- a deepening relationship or pocluding fewer medication er- tential merger with Providence, rors and lower mortality rates Cohen said — it just makes among chronically ill patients. good sense for OBH. +RZHYHU DIWHU WKH ÂżUVW SUR“It’s just a way that Provigrams went live, it quickly be- dence is supporting communicame clear to OBH staff that ties to better link caregivers toWR UHFHLYH DQ\ UHDO EHQHÂżW gether,â€? he explained. He noted the hospital and clinic needed that numerous other indepenan integrated system, Cohen dent hospitals in the Northwest said. About a year ago, OBH have also recently adopted the leaders began the process of program. switching to Epic. Continued from Page A1

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Second time’s the charm Epic should do a better job of serving the many patients who use both the clinic and the hospital, Cohen said. Now, when a clinic patient goes across the parking lot to get lab tests or x-rays at the hospital, their doctor’s orders will already be waiting. Additionally, patients will no longer have to register separately at each facility. “It’s more seamless for the patient,� Cohen said. Now, providers at Ocean Beach and Providence facilities will have immediate access to the same up-to-date, comprehensive medical records, Cohen said. That is helpful because many local people go to Providence facilities to see specialists or receive advanced care. Additionally, Ocean Beach staff will be able to see some important medical records, such as allergy and medication lists from other regional healthcare providers that use Providence’s version of Epic. These include the Family Health Center in Klipsan Beach, The Vancouver Clinic, and PeaceHealth, Legacy Kaiser and Kaiser facilities, according to an OBH press release. In all, Epic will connect records from 34 hospitals and 475 clinics, from Montana to California.

RELATED LINKS ICE shaky on info: www.chinookobserver.com/ co/local-news/20170830/localpolice-shut-off-from-ice-info For profit Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma: www.ice.gov/detentionfacility/tacoma-northwestdetention-center Amazing map of immigration cases by county and area: trac.syr.edu/phptools/ immigration/addressrep/

sweeps in the county. A 2017 analysis of federal records obtained by researchers at Syracuse University found at least 23 cases from the county were open in U.S. immigration courts. It showed 15 pending cases from Raymond and six from the Peninsula.

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The Epic contract gives OBH access to two other programs designed to improve efÂżFLHQF\ DQG FRPPXQLFDWLRQ Lawson helps administrative staff with human resources, billing and supply chain-related tasks. A secure, online system called the “My Chart patient portalâ€? will make it possible for patients to easily request appointments, view test results and communicate with their providers, Cohen said My Chart is active now, but like Epic, it will take time to get up to full speed, Cohen said, because the programs will only integrate records created after the system went live. “The old systems are still alive and well in the background. They provide historical information,â€? Cohen said. “We are actually working on archiving them into a whole new database that will merge that information together.â€? The database should be complete by late spring, 2018, he said. Cohen acknowledged that adopting Epic was an ambitious, time-consuming project. But overall, he thinks the switch to the new system is going “really, really well.â€? Hospital staff â€œâ€Ś are still kind of in shock over a big change,â€? Cohen said, “but the SXEOLF ZLOO VHH D VLJQLÂżFDQW EHQHÂżW IURP LQWHJUDWHG DFFHVV to their own medical records through MyChart.â€?

tion Center in Tacoma, leaving their families with little to no income for meals and housing, let alone money to post bond for them, Glenn and other advocates said. Parents are struggling to care for children after their partner, often the breadwinner, has been arrested. Others want to reunite their families after being split up by deportations. They need help with travel documents and expenses, advocates said. Increased arrests and deportaWLRQV KDYH OHIW VRPH 3DFLÂżF &RXQW\ businesses in a pinch too. The shellÂżVK LQGXVWU\ KDV ORVW H[SHULHQFHG workers.

Neighbors lend a hand 0LG ÂżHVWD RUJDQL]HU 5REHUW Brake said donations had already exceeded the evening’s $2,000 goal. After the two-hour event wrapped up, money and support for kept coming in from neighbors and others who wanted to do something to help heal communities that have been hurt by strengthened enforcement. “It’s just inconceivable that a civilized country would be doing this,â€? said Diantha Weilepp, of South Bend.

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OP residents reach tipping point Burned-out trailer sparks pleas to make enforcement bigger priority become a dumping ground. “There’s ‘crapola’ that’s arriving down here GDLO\ ´ VDLG UHVLGHQW *ORULD %XFN The newly revamped Village Club attracted a standing-room-only crowd to hear Tammy Engel, code enforcePHQW RIÂżFHU IRU 3DFLÂżF &RXQW\ GHscribe a complex tangle of laws and regulations.

IURP WKH :DVKLQJWRQ 'HSDUWPHQW RI Ecology. Engel left a somewhat more secure desk job with the county to OCEAN PARK — Residents on take over the enforcement duties — the north end of the Long Beach Pendespite the precarious nature of grantinsula are ready to declare war on funded government positions. trash. 6KH KDV RSHQ FDVHV LQ D They are tired of junk cars, dilapicounty covering 1,224 square miles. dated motorhomes and other dumped :KLOH SHRSOH DWWHQGLQJ MRLQHG 3DFL¿F &RXQW\ 6KHULII 6FRWW -RKQVRQ LQ debris blighting their neighborhoods. One-woman battle The recent discovery of a burnedDSSODXGLQJ (QJHO IRU KHU ]HDO PDQ\ RXW WUDLOHU RQ 8 6WUHHW VSDUNHG DFWLRQ 0DQ\ DWWHQGLQJ ZHUH DJKDVW WR expressed frustrations that enforcePATRICK WEBB/For the Observer 6RPH QHLJKERUV SDFNHG )LUH learn that Engel wages a one-woman ment was inadequate. Tammy Engel, code enforcement officer, right, speaks to residents District No. 1’s meeting room Thurs- battle enforcing county and state junk Engel said public health issues attending the Village Club meeting in Ocean Park on Thursday about day night to make their complaints laws. And she is just a three-quarefforts to enforce trash dumping regulations in Pacific County. She is the KHDUG 0DQ\ EHOLHYH 2FHDQ 3DUN KDV ter time employee, funded by a grant See JUNK Page A12 lone enforcement officer and has 100 open cases.

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Where’s Dad? ICE detention roils another Peninsula family

Budget deal saves Klipsan clinic By AMY NILE anile@chinookobserver.com

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Eleven-month-old Oscar is a happy baby, his mother Kendra Williams-Reyes said, but he didn’t understand why his father, Alfredo Reyes-Garcia suddenly went away, and that has made him more anxious than usual.

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&($1 3$5. ² )LYH \HDU ROG 6RSKLD :LOliams didn’t know what to do after federal agents took her stepdad and aunt away. +HU PRP .HQGUD :LOOLDPV 5H\HV ZDV asking the other grown-ups a lot of questions, so she slipped out the door of the family’s yellow house in north /RQJ %HDFK WR VHH ZKDW VKH FRXOG ÂżQG RXW Âł0DPD ZDV FU\LQJ EHFDXVH $OIUHGLWR ZDV JRQH ´ 6Rphia said, after she checked the yard for “cluesâ€? about her stepfather’s sudden absence on Jan. 30.

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Kendra WilliamsReyes’s flowchart shows the many steps and fees involved in the process of seeking legal residency for her husband, Alfredo ReyesGarcia.

OCEAN PARK — People will continue to have more affordable access to healthcare on the Peninsula now that Congress has approved a deal on the budget. After a short federal government shutdown, President Trump on Friday signed the agreement that raises caps on domestic and military spending by a total of about $300 billion over the next two years and increases the debt limit. The budget includes $3.8 billion for community health centers in 2018 and $4 billion in 2019. The money will allow Maria the North Beach Clinic Cantwell in Ocean Park to keep its doors open. During a meetLQJ RQ )HE RIÂżFLDOV WROG 8 6 6HQ 0DULD Cantwell it might have to close if federal dollars didn’t come through fast. “It breaks my heart to say if we lose this IXQGLQJ WKLV FOLQLF ZRXOG EH WKH ÂżUVW WR close,â€? said Jim Coffee, chief operating ofÂżFHU IRU &RZOLW] )DPLO\ +HDOWK &HQWHU QHWwork. 7KH QRQSURÂżW VHUYHV DERXW SDWLHQWV DW FOLQLFV LQ 3DFLÂżF :DKNLDNXP DQG &RZOLW] FRXQWLHV LQFOXGLQJ DW 1RUWK Beach. People can get primary and preventative medical care, family planning, See CLINIC Page A12

Keeper sturgeon season possible this spring Limited catch considered for Lower Columbia By LUKE WHITTAKER lwhittaker@crbizjournal.om

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Kendra Williams-Reyes took her 11-month-old with her as she ran errands on Feb. 1. Right after her husband was arrested, she started looking for ways to raise money toward his legal defense.

Left: On Jan. 30, Renee Liphardt, right, did her best to distract her 11-month-old grandson Oscar, as his mother, Kendra Williams-Reyes, told the story of her husband’s arrest by ICE officers earlier that day. Center: Sophia, 5, entertained herself by decorating a salvaged Christmas tree on Jan. 30, while the older members of the family talked inside. Sophia said she wanted to look for the ICE officers who arrested her aunt and stepfather that morning. Right: Volunteers Jan Davis, left, and Stephanie Serrano, center, spoke with Kendra Williams-Reyes on Feb. 1. The women are part of a nonprofit group that formed to support families affected by the local increase in ICE activity.

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Continued from Page A1 Alfredo Reyes-Garcia, and his sister, Lidia Venegas-Garcia were picked up by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement early that morning, just after leaving home for work at Willapa Bay canneries. ,&( RI¿FHUV QRWL¿HG WKH 3DFL¿F &RXQW\ 6KHULIIœV 2I¿FH DW 5:02 a.m. that they were doing VXUYHLOODQFH QHDU WKH IDPLO\œV home, dispatch records and call recordings show. They called back at 6:09 a.m. WR UHSRUW WKDW WKH\œG DUUHVWHG D ZRPDQ 7KH WZR RI¿FHUV GHWHUmined she was 30, based on her 1980 birth date, according to the public records obtained by the Observer under state law. $W D P RI¿FHUV WROG GLVpatch they were leaving the area with a man, 32, in custody. Reyes-Garcia, 32, and Venegas-Garcia, 37, both Mexican immigrants, were taken to the IRU SUR¿W 1RUWKZHVW 'HWHQWLRQ Center in Tacoma. ³, GLGQœW ZDQW LW WR EH WUXH ´ Williams-Reyes, 36, said.

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support-alfredo-family. Williams-Reyes met with immigration attorneys and advocates to learn how to help her husband and sister-in-law. After their arrests, WilOLDPV 5H\HV FRXOGQÂśW ÂżQG KHU VLVWHU LQ ODZÂśV EODFN $FXUD DQG VKH KDGQÂśW KHDUG IURP KHU Around noon the next day, WilOLDPV 5H\HV FDOOHG WKH VKHULIIÂśV RIÂżFH DQG UHSRUWHG WKH FDU VWROHQ 5HFRUGV VKRZ WKH VKHULIIÂśV RIÂżFH FDOOHG ,&( RIÂżFHU /RQQLH 0LOOHU He said it was on the 2200 block RI 2FHDQ %HDFK %RXOHYDUG Williams-Reyes said she wonders what would have happened to the car had she not been a U.S. FLWL]HQ ZKRÂśV FRPIRUWDEOH FDOOLQJ law enforcement.

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Her husband came to the United States about 12 years ago, Williams-Reyes said. Venegas-Garcia lived in the country for a while, then moved back to Mexico before her recent return WR 2FHDQ 3DUN Williams-Reyes grew up in Western Montana and across the ULYHU LQ 2UHJRQ 6KH ZDV GDWLQJ 5H\HV *DUFLDÂśV IULHQG ZKHQ WKH\ ÂżUVW PHW Her other relationship eventually ended but she and Reyes-Garcia remained friends. After about three years, they started dating. They had been together as a cou-

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2012, encouraging news for managers and anglers. Still considered to be an unhealthy total, the abundance of adult spawner-sized sturgeon has also increased from 5,950 in 2016 to 10,400 in 2017.

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ple for about two years when they married in June. Everything seemed to be falling into place, Williams-Reyes said. It was a relief to have a partner she could count on after years of struggling as a single mother. “He wanted a life and a famLO\ ´ VKH VDLG +LV MRE DW D VPDOO 1DKFRWWD cannery provided for them with some extra left over to send to his mother and relatives in Mexico. When Venegas-Garcia returned about a year ago, she took a job at another cannery so she could help support the family and provide and education for her daughters.

Labyrinth to legal status Williams-Reyes said she and KHU KXVEDQG ZHUH SODQQLQJ WR ÂżOH paperwork to start the arduous process of getting legal status for him this month. “I kept telling him, ‘We need to get this application in — I have D IHHOLQJ ϫ :LOOLDPV 5H\HV VDLG 6KH IRXQG WKDW WKH ÂżUVW VWHS LQ the complicated process would cost them more than $1,000 for application and attorney fees. There are then various hoops to jump through and waiting time before steps two and three, she said. Each part of the years-long process comes with more fees, paperwork and other costly requirements.

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Fear of being forced apart Stephanie Serrano, an advoFDWH IRU 3DFLÂżF &RXQW\ LPPLgrants, has been working with the family. She was in the courtroom with Williams-Reyes during her KXVEDQGÂśV ÂżUVW KHDULQJ DW WKH 7Dcoma immigration prison on Friday. When the judge set Reyes-GarFLDÂśV ERQG DW KLV IDPLO\ DQG RWKHUV ZKRÂśG FRPH WR VXSport him were shocked, Serrano, of South Bend, said. “Kendra was in tears and AlIUHGR ORRNHG OLNH KHÂśG EHHQ SLVWRO ZKLSSHG ´ VKH VDLG Reyes-Garcia was released on Friday. Venegas-Garcia is still in the lockup, waiting for a hearing date. Serrano said she and other YROXQWHHUV IURP 3DFLÂżF &RXQW\ ZRXOG FRQWLQXH WR ÂżJKW IRU WKH family and immigration policy changes. Âł,&( LV WDNLQJ JRRG SHRSOH ´ she said. “These are not crimiQDOV ´

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We’re all wrong, though. All of us. They came here illegally and they knew it. I knew it, too, but I hired them. We were working on borrowed time. And, when you come right down to it, even though these guys have been here and working hard for 15 or 18 years, that doesn’t give them any more rights than Mexicans who might be waiting to come in legally. I got one guy back. He had worked for me for 15 years and they let him out on a $20,000 bond. He’d been saving his money so he could pay it when the time came. Now he’s going to be getting a working number and that’s the best possible outcome. Now he has a path to becoming legal. Something’s got to happen for the good of the agricultural community. I don’t mean just here. I mean all over our country. We depend on our Mexican labor force. It they are all sent back, our agricultural community will collapse. You’ll see the prices in the grocery stores go up. It will be a disaster‌

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‘I don’t know what to do. My head aches so badly, all I can do when I get home from work is lie on the cožch. I feel like my head will fall oě of my neck. I cannot think.’

A migrant educator speaks For our immigrant families, one of the most positive and effective interfaces with the greater community is through the federally funded Migrant Education Program. It seems totally ironic that many of those very same immigrant families are being ripped apart by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — also a federally funded program. Hope and trust versus fear and uncertainty — all mandated and paid for by federal monies. The migrant program focuses on helping students in the school setting and also has a strong outreach component. The migrant educator is part recruiter, reaching out to new families, acquainting them with the community and how to go about their daily lives — how to access health services, banking facilities, where to catch the bus, etc. — in general, how to interface with their new community. The services of the State Transitional Bilingual Educational Program, in contrast, are more focused on student success in school through developing competence in English. For years our school district has participated in the statewide Migrant Education Conference in Yakima. It’s D WZR GD\ FRQIHUHQFH VSHFL¿ FDOO\ IRU PLJUDQW HGXFDWRUV and members of some of the migrant families they serve. There are speakers, activities, and leadership training opportunities for all age levels — students, parents, and teachers. Last year, a family of seven went from the Peninsula. It is a program totally funded by the federal government and Ocean Beach School District has embraced the opportunities provided. This summer, not even a year after last year’s Migrant Education Conference, the father of that very same family of seven who attended in 2016 was taken by ICE and subsequently deported. Actually, the situation goes far beyond irony. It is an embarrassment of monstrous proportions, all supported by federal dollars!

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was doing, he told me that he was the man of the house now that Papa was gone. One morning he took a roll of paper towels from the shelf and headed outside. ‘Voy a lavar el carro,’ — ‘I’m going to wash the van. It’s what Papa would do.’ Every day, every day he asks me, ‘Where is Papa?’ For 10 days now, ‘Where is Papa?’â€? 6RÂż D ZRUNV DW D PRWHO in Long Beach. This summer, three of her children — all born in the United States and, therefore, all U.S. citizens — are in Mexico visiting her parents. They are Vanessa, 9, David, 8, and Paola, 6 — on summer vacation from schools in the Ocean Beach School District. But, PRVW OLNHO\ 6RÂż D VLJKV WKH\ will not be coming back here when school starts this year. “My parents live in a different village from where Manuel is now that he has been deported. He is where we lived after we were married, before we came to the United States.â€? Not close enough, apparently, for Manuel to visit his three middle FKLOGUHQ EXW 6RÂż D WKLQNV WKDW it is where the family will eventually reunite. Eventually. She looks around the house — stacks of clean, folded laundry along with toys and groceries seem to cover every surface. In the middle of the dining table, a EULJKW ERXTXHW RI Ă€ RZHUV LV an island of normalcy in the midst of chaos. “I don’t know what to do,â€? she says. “My head

aches so badly, all I can do when I get home from work is lie on the couch. I feel like my head will fall off of my neck. I cannot think.â€? What about Manuelito, we ask. Is he also stepping XS WR Âż OO KLV IDWKHUÂśV VKRHV" Fourteen-year-old Manuel — ‘Manuelito’ (Little Manuel) — his father’s namesake and the oldest of the children, hopes to begin his sophomore year at Ilwaco High School in a few weeks.

Angry and scared “No, he is just angry,â€? 6RÂż D VD\V KHDYLO\ Âł$QJU\ that his father was taken. Angry that his father was deported. Angry that he will have to leave school in Ilwaco. And probably scared, too.â€? She talks about doing the paperwork so her boys will be safe if ICE also takes her. Again, she says how much her head hurts her. And there are bills to pay and plans to make. “I don’t know what to do,â€? she says again, and again. Do you have any relatives here, we ask. Or any good friends who can help you? “No,â€? is the answer. Âł1DGLH ´ DQG KHU H\HV Âż OO with tears. The family has been here for two years. In California for 13 before that. Busy years IRU 6RÂż D ² ZRUNLQJ KDYLQJ babies, caring for her family and household. Little time to learn English. Less time, still, to develop friendships. Through the doorway we see TomĂĄs, leaping and run-

ning and shouting happily with a neighbor friend, his Papa responsibilities forgotten for the moment. Or are they? As soon as we step outside, he looks anxiously toward the doorway? “Is Mama all right?â€? his eyes seem to ask. “Do I need to go to her now?â€? TomĂĄs: four-and-ahalf going on 40. EDITOR’S NOTE: Increasing immigration enforcement since the inauguration of President Donald Trump is an important story in PaciÂżc &ounty and elsewhere in the nation. But it’s a difÂżcult story to tell because

the people most affected — undocumented immigrants — are often afraid to speak to authorities including the news media. &hinook Observer columnist and retired teacher Sydney Stevens is writing this series ÂłStories from the heart ´ in an unconventional way that mostly avoids speciÂżcally identifying the people she is reporting about. Their quotes are real their stories are real. We hope it will help illuminate this issue that is having profound impacts on PaciÂżc &ounty’s families culture and economy.

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hree brothers ² SantLago Armando and 'avLd. Among them almost 63 years Ln resLdence on the 3enLnsula and the same number of cumulatLve years as employees of tZo maMor oyster companLes based Ln 1ahcotta. The men are part of a bLg vLsLble famLly here and Zhen 'avLd the youngest Zas arrested by ,C( a feZ ZeeNs ago they decLded they Zould speaN out. “<es use our names ´ they saLd though 'avLdÂśs attorney cautLoned otherZLse. “We NneZ somethLng ZasnÂśt rLght one mornLng a feZ ZeeNs ago Zhen Armando Zas stopped on hLs Zay to ZorN. ,t Zas early Ln the mornLng and the ,C( stopped and asNed for hLs ,'. But they sent hLm on hLs Zay. Wrong man ´ says SantLago. At he Ls the oldest and Ls sometLmes the spoNesman for the group. He seems to be a Âľman of feZ Zords Âś yet hLs eyes smolder ZLth deep concern and une[pressed anger. “The ne[t day ,C( got 'avLd on hLs Zay to ZorN. HeÂśs the only one of the three of us Zho Ls not yet documented. Seems odd that they stopped Armando Âżrst. And later a sherLff shoZed up at my place. 9ery strange. Too many coLncLdences maybe.´ “,t Zas the same afternoon that 'avLd had been arrested ² about Âżve oÂśclocN. , found that a sherLff had parNed on my drLveZay. My place Ls a lLttle remote ´ SantLago says “and , have Âľ1o TrespassLngÂś sLgns posted. He shouldnÂśt have been there unless he had busLness ZLth me. But Zhen , approached hLm and he saZ Zho , Zas he had a story ready. He saLd he Zas looNLng for some

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off-road vehLcles or dune buggLes that someone had reported.´ SantLago stops speaNLng for a tLme. ThLnNLng Lt over and vLsLbly angryÂŤ “So Zhy Zas he parNed on my road"´

Racial profiling SantLago dLd not use the Zords “racLal proÂżlLng´ but he dLd mentLon the neZs storLes Ln ZhLch SherLff Scott -ohnson denLed any NnoZledge of ,C( actLvLtLes here. “But ,Âśm not the only one Zho has seen the sherLff department vehLcles Zhere you ZouldnÂśt e[pect them. ,Âśm not the only one Zho has ZonderedÂŤ. “Most people are afraLd to speaN out. They have famLly members Zho are vulnerable. Mothers perhaps Zho are scared they ZLll be separated from theLr chLldren. )athers Zho are the famLlyÂśs maLn source of Lncome. “OrdLnarLly our famLly Ls very prLvate. We ZorN and Ze spend tLme ZLth our frLends and relatLves but Ze donÂśt have much ÂľpublLc presence.Âś , go to ZorN and come home and have alZays tended to my oZn busLness. 1oZÂŤ LtÂśs tLme to speaN out ´ SantLago says. “Even though many say they donÂśt see Lt there Ls racLsm all around us Ln thLs communLty ´ the brothers say. “We feel Lt all the tLme ² from employers from CaucasLan coZorNers everyZhere.´ ,t has alZays been here the men say though Lt Ls more notLceable noZ. “The communLty needs to NnoZ that Ze are here to ZorN. That Ls all. They need

to NnoZ that Ze are ZLllLng to taNe the Mobs they donÂśt Zant. They need to NnoZ that ZeÂśve alZays felt safe Ln thLs communLty ² untLl the last tZo years or so. 1oZ thLngs have changed.´ But SantLago poLnts out “We are not the ones Zho have changed. We stLll ZorN hard. We stLll taNe care of our famLlLes here and Ln Me[Lco. We Zant to be good cLtL]ens. But our people are beLng harassed and folloZed by ,CE on a daLly basLs. The ,CE cars are parNed at the 3ort of the 3enLnsula at /a Sentry ONLeÂśs Sentry MarNet and /a Country -acNÂśs Country Store Ln Ocean 3arN and near the recyclLng center at the LntersectLon of SandrLdge Road and Bay Avenue. We are beLng annoyed at ZorN and at places Zhere Ze do busLness. We are no longer sure Zho to trust. ,t Ls a neZ and unpleasant feelLng here.´

The attorney says As soon as 'avLdÂśs call came ² “,CE has me´ ² Armando and SantLago began ZorNLng toZard hLs release. Through theLr actLvLst frLends and relatLves they contacted an attorney ² an attorney ZLth a good tracN record for gettLng undocumented Me[Lcans bonded bacN Lnto theLr communLtLes. “We trust hLs Mudgment and Zant to do Zhat he says. And yetÂŤ Ze are not sure he Ls rLght. “He says not to gLve our real names ² not even our Âżrst names ² to anyone Zho mLght be goLng to re-tell our story.

A Blogger Speaks 'ear 3atty Murray 'ear MarLa CantZell My name Ls Sydney Stevens. , lLve Ln OystervLlle WashLngton a vLllage of 1 fulltLme resLdents. My famLly has been here sLnce 18 ² long before WashLngton Zas a state Zhen Lt Zas a neZly created terrLtory. , am one of your constLtuents. Our corner of the Zorld stLll feels remote from the maLnstream. ,t taNes a concerted effort to get here and an even greater determLnatLon to lLve here year-round to Âżnd ZorN here to provLde for a famLly and to taNe care of our elderly. /LNe rural communLtLes everyZhere Ze struggle Ze cleave together Ze looN after our oZn. And Ze depend upon you to looN after our Lnterests Ln the Âľother WashLngton.Âś We are your constLtuents. RLght noZ our neLghbors are under sLege. Day before yesterday a mother of three young chLldren lLttle gLrls all under 12 Zas taNen by ,CE. She Ls the 22nd person to be snatched from our lLttle corner of the state by laZmen Zho sLt Ln unmarNed cars and ZaLt. And Zatch. UntLl theLr target steps from prLvate property onto publLc land. And then they pounce. The frLends and relatLves of these vLctLms are your constLtuents. , am a contemporary of Anne )ranN. The year she and her famLly Zere taNen by the Gestapo Zas the year , began fourth grade. ,t Zould be some tLme before any of us here Ln Âľthe land of the freeÂś NneZ of the horrors that had been occurrLng Ln Europe Ln the name of Âľthe laZ.Âś And noZ my oZn communLty Ls under sLege. <our constLtuency Senators Murray and CantZell. <our constLtuency Ls Even Lf those people Zant to help. But Ze have heard over and over agaLn from others Zho have been arrested that ,CE already NnoZs everythLng. They NnoZ our names Zhere Ze lLve Zho our famLly members are ² even Zho our employers are and the names of the creZ members Ze ZorN ZLth. Why should Ze Neep our names a secret Zhen they NnoZ all about us already"´ SantLago sloZly shaNes hLs head as Lf dLsbelLevLng hLs oZn Zords. “TLme after tLme those Zho have been detaLned tell us that the arrest tooN place Ln front of a store Zhere they

under sLege. , am told that the per capLta number of arrests by ,CE Ln our lLttle corner of WashLngton far e[ceeds that of other comparable areas. , donÂśt NnoZ Zhy or even Lf that Ls true. Our local neZspaper stopped coverage of the problem at the Âżrst tZo arrests. , donÂśt NnoZ the Zhy of that eLther. Our Âľgrass rootsÂś LnformatLon Ls spotty at best and comes dLrectly from our /atLno neLghbors Zho dare to speaN ² Ln ZhLspers to trusted frLends Ln the hopes that someone can help. Can Ze" HoZ" What help can you provLde" Do your constLtuents need to ZhLsper too" Do you" I wrote this open letter to oXr Senators on -Xne It was my ÂľOysterville DaybooN’ blog post that day I followed it Xp on -Xne with hard copies of the letter to each Senator sent by U S 0ail I have never heard bacN from either one of them $nd yes I sent the letter to many other ofÂżcials — elected and otherwise — in both Washingtons No replies were forthcoming

On the other hand the local focXs on the sitXation and the oXtpoXring of concern in response to this ¾Stories from the +eart’ series have been Xne[pected and overwhelming The &hinooN Observer has carried several front-page articles aboXt the problem commXnity advocacy groXps have formed and as the arrests have escalated the coXnt is now concrete help has been offered to victims and their families Once again my own reasons for living in a small commXnity — in particXlar in T+IS small commXnity — have been reinforced many fold ThanN yoX SS

shop freTuently or on a ÂľbacNÂś road they taNe to ZorN. ,CE seems to brag about all the personal LnformatLon they have collected. 1o ´ he shaNes hLs head more vehemently. “ThLs Ls Zrong 1o one should lLve lLNe thLs ² lLNe Ze are made to feel ,t Ls not rLght ´ There Ls resentment and e[asperatLon Ln hLs tone. Anger. And sadness too. /ots of Lt. ContaLned but barely beloZ the surface. “We may use other names for noZ but Ze ZonÂśt be sLlent. There Ls too much sLlence.´ EDITOR’S NOTE: This series has chronicled a few of the iPSacts on 3aciÂżc &oXnty’s Seo-

ple from the increase in immigration enforcement since the inaXgXration of 3resident Donald TrXmp &hinooN Observer colXmnist and retired teacher Sydney Stevens wrote oXr series ³Stories from the heart ´ in an Xnconventional way that mostly avoided speci¿cally identifying the people she reported aboXt in the interest of candor and to avoid e[posing them to additional scrXtiny by Immigration and &Xstoms Enforcement agents There are many more stories we coXld tell bXt these have been representative of these challenging times :e plan additional follow-Xps in the fXtXre

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stress due to acLdL¿catLon. Most respondents felt that ocean acLdL¿catLon Zas happenLng globally 8 percent along the 8.S. Zest coast 8 percent and Ln theLr local estuary 8 percent . The level of concern reported by Lndustry consLsted of: • 36 percent of respondents Zere e[tremely concerned • 3 percent of respondents Zere very concerned • 20 percent of respondents Zere someZhat concerned • percent of respondents Zere not too concerned • and only 1 percent of respondents Zere not at all concerned. 5esults of the onlLne survey conducted by researchers at Oregon State 8nLversLty OS8 appeared Ln a 2 -page report publLshed by Oregon Sea Grant called The

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ogLst George Waldbusser lead LnvestLgator on the study. “Others are antLcLpatLng the effects of acLdLÂżcatLon and Zant to NnoZ Must Zhat ZLll happen and hoZ long the Lmpacts may last.´ “Because of some of the success ZeÂśve had Ln helpLng some hatcherLes adapt to

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asNed Zho should taNe the lead Ln respondLng to the challenges of acLdLÂżcatLon. TheLr strong preference Zas the shellÂżsh Lndustry Ltself folloZed by academLc researchers. A maMorLty saLd that any governmental regulatLons should be led by federal agencLes folloZed by the state and then local government. “As a Zhole the Lndustry felt that they should be ZorNLng closely ZLth the academLc communLty on acLdLÂżcatLon Lssues ´ Waldbusser saLd. “,n the spLrLt of full dLsclosure there Zere some people Zho reported a dLstrust of academLcs ² though ZLthout any specLfLcs ² so Ze clearly have some ZorN to do to establLsh credLbLlLty ZLth that subset of the Lndustry.´ “One thLng that came out of thLs survey Ls that Ze learned that not only Ls the shellÂżsh Lndustry e[perLencLng and acNnoZledgLng ocean acLdLÂżcatLon ´ Mabardy saLd “they are commLtted to learnLng about the Lssue and Lts LmplLcatLons for theLr busLness. They Zant to share theLr LnsLghts as they are forced Lnto actLon.

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Karen Humber, left, accepted an award from WellSpring Vice Chair Kelsey Hopstad.

Pastor Karen Humber, Salt Hotel honored as ‘Asset Builders’ PENINSULA — WellSpring Community Network awarded Karen Humber with the Asset Builder Award on Feb. 13. Humber is a pastor at the Peninsula Church of the Nazarene and was recognized for her work with Overnight Winter Lodging (OWL). OWL is a collaboration among Peninsula Poverty Response (PPR) and local churches to provide a warm, safe place to sleep over the cold, winter months. As a member of the OWL Taskforce, Humber was a key player is OWL’s development. Humber and her congregation have also taken the lead on a number of initiatives, including supervising the PPR AmeriCorps volunteer, coordinating dinners with His Supper Table, providing a Poverty Simulation Training, and supplying personal hygiene packs for the entire alternative high school. These awards are given to individuals and businesses who strive to improve the lives of youth by supporting the 40 Developmental Assets, which have EHHQ LGHQWLÂżHG DV GHYHORSmental building blocks for healthy, caring, and respon-

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was less than a block away there was never a day when his mother did not walk there with him to wait for the bus’ arrival, or to be there when he returned. We felt fortunate to have them for neighbors‌â€? She paused for a moment. Listening, perhaps. “It was a major detriment to our neighborhood’s social structure when they left. We miss their hello waves and broad smiles. We regret their loss and the political environment that has forced them to return to Mexico. Our street is way too quiet these days.â€?

The Neighborhood A neighborhood is a geographically localized community within a larger city, town, suburb or rural area. Neighborhoods are often social communities with considerable face-to-face interaction among members. —Wikipedia With a total population of 20,990 and the number of SHRSOH SHU VTXDUH PLOH DYHUDJLQJ 3DFLÂżF &RXQW\ UHVLdents tend to think in terms of “communitiesâ€? rather than of neighborhoods. “Neighborsâ€? might live a mile or two away and frequent “face-to-face interactionâ€? often takes SODFH DW WKH SRVW RIÂżFH RU DW WKH QHDUHVW JURFHU\ VWRUH UDWKHU than over a back fence. Mailing addresses, not physical adGUHVVHV GHÂżQH ZKHUH SHRSOH OLYH DQG ERXQGDULHV EHWZHHQ communities are blurred. Nevertheless, when neighbors go missing on the Long Beach Peninsula, even the greater community notices. Last \HDU LPPLJUDWLRQ RIÂżFHUV DUUHVWHG PRUH WKDQ 3HQLQVXOD residents and took them to the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. Of those taken, a dozen or so have been bonded back into the community; the rest have been deported to Mexico. Usually, family members have not been long in joining them. Two years ago, in 2016, the U.S. Census bureau reported that 9.4 percent of our Peninsula population was of “Hispanic origin.â€? The vacant homes and missing families in neighborhoods throughout our communities bear silent witness to changing statistics. (PSOR\HUV DUH ÂżQGLQJ WKHPVHOYHV KDUG SUHVVHG DV RQH by-one, their Hispanic employees “go missingâ€? — often arrested on their way to a job they have held for years. “Some of my most dependable workers have been taken,â€? said an HPSOR\HU LQ WKH VKHOOÂżVK LQGXVWU\ Âł:H GRQÂśW KDYH D OLQHXS out there waiting for these jobs.â€? The lament is the same from restaurant kitchens and cranberry farms and from behind the scenes in tourist-driven hospitality businesses. The ZRUNIRUFH LQ 3DFLÂżF &RXQW\ LV VORZO\ EHFRPLQJ GHSOHWHG However, it is the children who are most directly affected by the ICE arrests. Whether they were born here and are U.S. citizens or came to this country as infants, if they are underage when a parent is deported, the children will likely follow as soon as transportation can be arranged. Since March 2017, 63 Peninsula children have been affected by the arrest of a parent. In the Ocean Beach School District, 25 students no longer answer at roll call. An entire classroom ‌ empty. ,Q 3DFLÂżF &RXQW\ ZH PD\ EH KDUG SUHVVHG WR GLVWLQJXLVK one neighborhood from another. We are increasingly aware, however, that our neighbors are disappearing at an alarming rate. Our communities are changing. Our diversity is diminishing. Our county is suffering.

“Sometimes I feel like we’re still playing hide-andseek,â€? she said. It wasn’t like her to be so serious, even though she’s almost 9 now. “I think if I call olly olly oxen free, they’ll come out from Little Tijuana wherever they are. I wish they In the trailer court known could. I wish they could just as Little Tijuana, it is quiet, run over here from Mexico.â€? My young friend has lived too. “Way too quiet,â€? a forher whole life here. Her whole mer resident told me. “We left life in one of the many little because we thought we’d be neighborhoods on the Penin- safer off the Peninsula,â€? she sula that once included a Mex- said. “Or at least feel safer. ican family right next door. And, in a way, we do. Safer “I miss them,â€? she told me. from ICE. But not safer from “They were my best friends. other things — you know, the And I was learning Spanish, unknown things that lurk out too‌â€? there in the bigger world.â€? Her A few miles away, over smile says she is teasing‌ a near Willapa Bay, a woman little. Her eyes, though, are senearly 10 times older than my rious. “Before — I’m talkin’ a freckle-faced friend told me much the same thing. “When year ago — it was all Mexiwe bought this house several cans and maybe three others living there. years ago, this Now, there neighborhood ‘THE QUIET are only three was mostly Mexican older couSPILLS OUT, ples. We were families left. pleased when YOU KNOW.’ They keep a younger their kids infamily moved Referring to loss of lively neigh- side. Now, across from borhoods due to ICE activities not even the owner goes us. Children to enliven the neighborhood!â€? there. Before, he was always She smiled. Remembering. there working on projects and “We loved the boy’s excite- the guys would be out helpment when our own grandchil- ing and visiting. Sometimes dren arrived for weekend vis- I’d take a tray of cookies its. He’d dash across the street, out. All of us women would so happy to have playmates. make something good to eat We watched him running be- and share it with each other’s side his mother when she families. Our plate cupboards ZDONHG WR WKH WLGH Ă€DWV WR GLJ were always a combination clams. And, when he was old of one another’s dishes.â€? She enough for kindergarten and laughed, remembering. school, although the bus stop We listened to the rain for

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The tears slipped softly down Gloria’s cheeks even as she ushered us into her home. Her smile of welcome ran counter to the pain in her eyes. “What can I tell you?â€? she asked. “Ahora son los abuelos,â€? she said — “Now it’s the grandfathers. Ricardo is the second grandfather the ICE have taken in the last few days.â€? Ricardo: husband, father of Âżve, grandfather to one years old here for years and during all of that time employed by one of the big oyster companies in Nahcotta. “They arrested him Wednesday morning right out there on 227th Street near the road to Sunset Sands,â€? Gloria says softly. “He was on his way to work.â€? She took a breath and then seemed to retreat to safer territory. “I had just given him his blended drink and coffee at : . /ike every morning.â€? And she described what might be called a smoothie, with fresh fruit and healthful supplements. “He has that every morning‌â€? and her voice trailed off.

‘They got me’ “Just after that he was arrested — just a minute or so after he left the house. They gave him permission to call me. ‘They got me,’ he said. ‘Come get the car.’ It was Gabriel who went. He saw three ICE cars surrounding his father. Two people in each car.â€? The tears began again when she described the package Gabriel found on the passenger seat of his father’s car. “It was his bread left over from breakfast, wrapped up in a paper towel with ‘DAD’ written by Ivan in dark letters‌â€? Now -year-old Juanita was softly crying, too. Gloria and Ricardo have been on the Peninsula since . They came with their three oldest boys — Ricardo, Jr. (father of a baby daughter), Mateo, and Gabriel, who are now, 27, 2 , and , respectively. All three are Ilwaco High School graduates. All three have jobs in the area. All three are enrollees in the pro-

gram called DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). All three had already been to Tacoma to the Northwest Detention Center to see their dad‌ to take him his medicine and to tell him they are standing by, ready to help. Still living at home are school-aged Juanita and Ivan, both of whom were born here and are U.S. citizens. Juanita is looking forward to her quinceaĂąera next year, “If my father can be here for it,â€? she says quietly. Ivan, a fourth grader, didn’t put in an appearance during our visit. He was busy on the trampoline with a friend. But he’s had a hard time we were told — full of fear that his mother may also be taken. For him, coming home from school each day is an agony of not knowing — day in and day out.

An empty house 2n the very Âżrst day after his father’s arrest, Ivan found the house empty when he got home. Panic! Did they have his mother, too? Where was she? Who could he ask? In the turmoil of the last 2 hours he had forgotten that his mother would be at work that day, as usual. She cleans houses. “And she is a wonderful cook,â€? offers Juanita. “Everyone comes to our back porch on Tamale Day! She is famous for her tamales!â€? Of the family members still on the Peninsula, Gloria is the only one in direct jeopardy now. Their DACA status protects the three oldest “for nowâ€? and U.S. citizenship by birthright protects the two youngest. Though ‘protection’ for themselves does not prevent living in hourly uncertainty about their parents. And, too, there is a matter of the bills‌ We sit at the dining table — a focal point in this neat-as-apin home. At Gloria’s place is a fat. well-thumbed notebook. “It shows what we owe, month by month,â€? Gloria says. “And this part shows our income. Without Ricardo here, we will not be able to keep up‌â€? Her voice trails off and the tears begin again. Juanita leans in and wraps her arms around her mother and we are all quiet for a bit.

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I am a ‘Dreamer.’ Yet, I live in a nightmare not of my own making. I came to this country when I was a child. /ike , other children, I entered the United States with parents who were seeking safety and a better life for their families. So far, there has been no legal pathway for us to become citizens. To try to solve this situation, a piece of legislation called the DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) was Âżrst introduced to congress in 2 . If the legislation ever passes, it would ensure a route to citizenship for those of us who were brought to United States as children without documentation. Meanwhile, we are known as ‘Dreamers’ and we wait for our nightmare to be over. /ike all Dreamers, I am American in every way. Except on paper. I grew up in this country. I went to school here. Everything I know is here. Yet, I am not a citizen I cannot do all the things a na-

‘So much money‌’ To our question of “What next?â€? Gloria’s expression turns determined. “He’s already had a preliminary evaluation. That cost 2 . Now, he will need an attorney and that will cost , to begin with — a down payment on the full cost of , . His employer says he will help us. But I don’t know‌ So much money‌ How we can ever get enough? How can we pay it back?â€? After Ricardo’s unlawful entry in , he was deported for Âżve years. There is no record of his re-entry. According to the preliminary evaluation, that makes his case more complicated, but he’s been told that he has a percent chance of being bonded back into the community. And, if not? “He will stay at the detention center and Âżght his case,â€? says Gloria. “He has spoken to an attorney who has given us hope. The Âżrst hope. Even if they don’t bond him out, he will stay inside the prison and Âżght from there. He has a right to due process. Except for the deportation years ago, his record is absolutely clean. Not a DUI. Not a trafÂżc ticket. Nada.â€? She takes a deep, shaky breath. “He has to be strong for

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our children. We both do.â€? When asked about going back to Mexico, Gloria said that is not an option. “We are from MichoacĂĄn — the worst part. All our relatives there have died or they have moved to California. Only my brother is still there,â€? Gloria says. “When ‘they’ learned that my brother had relatives in the United States, the Commander of Police began extorting money from him. ‘They’ think we are rich because we live in the United States. They think we will send money to my brother if they threaten him. If we went there, they would kidnap one of our children for ransom‌â€? Her voice trails off for a moment. “No,â€? she repeats. “We will not be going back, no matter what. We are the grandparents. We need to stay strong.â€?

Our average age on entering the United States was six. The oldest of us are now in our mid- s the youngest, in our mid-to-late late teens. We have come out of the shadows. We have built our lives here. We have careers, families, aspirations. We wait for a pathway to lawful status. In recent weeks, our circumstances have become more uncertain. Right now, we are being told that we have nothing to worry about for six months. We are told that Congress will be working on the situation. We are told that, if our work permits will expire before the six-month-period is up, we can still apply for a renewal — if we apply by Oct. . We watch the news and we worry. Unless things change, we will begin losing our protections on March , 2 . Our next steps are still unclear. We are the Dreamers‌ living in a nightmare not of our own making.

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Lawsuit promised Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz joined the governor in lambasting the Department of the Interior’s decision, and Ferguson promised legal action should plans progress any further. “The bottom line is this: If they go forward, they will see us in court,â€? Ferguson said. “There is a reason why we have yet to lose a court decision with this administration.â€? A few days after the federal government released its plan, Zinke announced that Florida would be exempt from offshore drilling, a move that drew bipartisan criticism from governors in coastal states. Along with Inslee, governors from Oregon, New York, New Jersey and the Carolinas said they don’t want offshore drilling in their states. Regarding Florida’s exemption, Inslee did not hold EDFN IURP SRLQWLQJ WKH ÂżQJHU at Republican Gov. Rick Scott, who Inslee said is a friend of Trump. The president in September said he hopes for a U.S. Senate campaign bid by Scott, and Inslee said such a campaign could be behind Florida’s exemption. While Scott has yet to announce whether he will run for a spot in the Senate, a term limit prevents him from seeking re-election, and his current

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term as Florida governor ends this year. The Washington state governor also indicated Trump’s ownership of the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida as a potential motivator. Ferguson and Inslee each wrote a letter to Zinke Monday morning, with the governor asking Zinke to visit Washington state and experience the 3DFL¿F 1RUWKZHVW FRDVWOLQH for himself. The attorney general similarly invited Zinke to the state and presented a number of economic statistics that demonstrate the importance of a healthy coastline.

struck a bird and had to return to base. “Another helicopter was not launched due to diminishing search and visibility conditions,â€? Norcross said. The ground crew looked for Reinke until dark without ÂżQGLQJ DQ\ WUDFH RI KHU As they were wrapping up their search in late afternoon, a person discovered a body on the beach near Westport, in Grays Harbor County. Local DXWKRULWLHV TXLFNO\ FRQÂżUPHG that it was Reinke.

Coastal recreation A document prepared by WKH JRYHUQRUœV RI¿FH FODLPV that 4.1 million recreational trips take place on Washington’s coastline each year, bringing in an estimated $481 million. The governor said that there are 11,422 jobs in recreation in coastal counties, and 2,830 jobs in the commercial ¿VKLQJ DQG VHDIRRG LQGXVWULHV In his letter Ferguson also reminisced about his own experience with the coastline, where he said 20 years ago he spent a week hiking from the Hoh River to Shi Shi Beach, a journey more than 80 miles in

length. Department of the Interior Press Secretary Heather Swift, in response to Inslee’s FRPPHQWV FDOOHG WKH ÂżYH \HDU plan an “open and public process,â€? and said Zinke plans to meet with governors in coastal states to further discuss the matter. Swift also said the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has 23 public meetings planned in which citizens from coastal states can provide their own feedback. There is currently no oil or gas production in Washington state. Historically, 600 gas and oil wells have been drilled, but

there has never been a largescale commercial production, according to the Department of Natural Resources. A small amount of oil was produced near Ocean City between 1957 and 1961. Ocean Shores on Jan. 22 EHFDPH WKH ÂżUVW FLW\ LQ :DVKington to adopt a resolution banning offshore drilling, citing the need for clean water and abundant wildlife. “We are gravely concerned by efforts in that other Washington to open up our coast,â€? Ocean Shores Mayor Crystal Dingler said. “If the oil rigs comes, most of us won’t be

a few tides a month, and even fewer that occur outside of Continued from Page A1 work and school hours. “We think about good low State Parks and Department of tides that fall around weekends,â€? Ayres said. “We don’t Fish and Wildlife responded. often have much to choose Matlock said they searched from.â€? the shoreline from the OysDAN AYRES,Čą ČąÂ˜Â—ČąÂœÂŽÄ´Â’Â—Â?ČąÂŒÂ•ÂŠÂ–ČąÂ?Â’Â?Âœ terville approach all the way There are a few night-time to the tip of the Peninsula and clam tides each year, and it’s “We checked the beach and to their vehicles in the dark, not unusual for them to coincombed the dunes in the area surf line and went into Grays Matlock said. But he noted that cide with poor weather, bewhere she disappeared, but did Harbor County,â€? Matlock said. there were numerous boats not cause the dates are set long QRW ÂżQG DQ\ VLJQ RI WKH PLVVing woman. By late evening, “We checked the roads to see far from shore that also had before weather forecasts are the tide was inbound, it was if she would be walking and lights on. It’s possible that one available. Nonetheless, even dark, and fog had settled over checked the state park nearby.â€? or both of the women became the dark and stormy winter digs are generally well-atthe area, Matlock said. Edward Leseman contin- disoriented, he said. Sharon Leseman ued searching for his wife Local responders asked the Authorities also noted that tended, and business people Dispatchers learned of Sha- in the early hours of Feb. 3. Reinke was wearing hip wad- like them because they draw Coast Guard to send a helicopWHU DW 3HWW\ 2IÂżFHU 7KLUG ron Leseman’s disappearance Around 5:38 a.m., a beach- ers, which pose a drowning tourists during the off-season. Class Amanda Norcross said from the beach in North Cove comber discovered Sharon risk because they can quickly “Especially in the Long in a Feb. 5 email. However, when her husband, Edward Reinke’s body on a beach be- ÂżOO ZLWK ZDWHU Beach area, the business comBoth deaths occurred in re- munity said, ‘If you could the Coast Guard declined the Leseman, called 911 around tween the Cranberry and Midmission, citing unsafe weather 10 p.m. At the scene, the Gray- way beach approaches, near mote areas. The only way to offer a little bit of digging reach the place where Reinke each month, it would really conditions. Local responders land resident told a deputy his Grayland. “It was almost exactly iden- disappeared is to drive on the help our people,’â€? Ayres said. suspended the search in the ZLIH ÂżQLVKHG FODPPLQJ QHDU WDFW encourages clamearly hours of Saturday morn- Warrenton Cannery Road tical to what happened down beach for several miles. Leseman vanished in the sparsely mers to take proper safety ing. around 6:45 p.m. Like Jeri Re- there,â€? Matlock said. inke, she planned to go back to populated area known as precautions, and the agency Searching in vain Far from help their vehicle to wait. She gave “Washaway Beach,â€? where has occasionally issued alerts Around 20 to 25 respond- her lantern to her husband Responders aren’t sure rapid erosion constantly alters when extreme weather or ers and volunteers began and headed toward their ve- how the women ended up in the topography and the water other potentially dangerous searching again the following KLFOH ZKLOH KH ÂżQLVKHG FODP- the ocean, and they may never is full of debris. Cell phone re- conditions coincided with morning, Matlock said. These ming. When he got back, she know. There have been cases ception is poor in both places. clam tides. But, Ayres said, included relatives of the Re- wasn’t there. He went to their where people suffered serithe agency’s role in clamming Winter tides inkes, and others who learned home to see if she had gotten ous medical events and were season is monitoring the availof the search through Face- a ride from someone else, then subsequently washed out to When setting dates for ability and safety of clams, book. Around 10 a.m., county returned to the beach to search sea. Another common cause clam tides, Department of and upholding harvesting regdispatchers asked the Coast for her. He called 911 about an of beach drownings is the )LVK DQG :LOGOLIH VWDII ÂżUVW ulations. That’s not likely to Guard to send a helicopter hour after she went missing. “sneaker wavesâ€? that can un- assess the health and avail- change. “We don’t want people from Sector Columbia River, Since the Coast Guard had expectedly swamp the beach. ability of clams, Dan Ayres, and a search party from Coast already declined to help with However, the tide was still FRDVWDO VKHOOÂżVK PDQDJHU ZLWK coming to us for weather inGuard Station Cape Disap- WKH ÂżUVW UHVFXH GLVSDWFKHUV GLG outbound when the women the Washington Department of formation or safety inforpointment. Four local coasties not ask them to help with the disappeared, and people at Fish and Wildlife, said on Feb. mation. That’s not our role,â€? helped with the ground search. second. Matlock said person- the scenes said the water was 5. Then, they look for times Ayres said. “We look to The helicopter crew launched nel from north county agencies fairly calm. during the season when the county agencies. If they see shortly before noon. However, and State Patrol assisted with Both parties left lights on to tidal conditions will be right something dangerous enough, around 1:30 p.m., the crew that search. make it easier to navigate back for digging. That leaves just they need to make that call.â€?

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calls, and paying them overtime for alerts that weren’t urgent ate up county money. Dispatchers are now sup“So,â€? he continued, “I don’t posed to log the information in know if he’s just not aware of one place and text a supervisor. that or something? But he’s 7KH WZR ,&( RIÂżFHUV consistently saying we’re not who’ve been working in the communicating with you guys county also usually follow up and we really try to do our best ZLWK WKH VKHULIIÂśV RIÂżFH DIWHU they leave an area, records with that.â€? Miller told the Observer he show. The calls often include couldn’t comment and referred more details about their work, questions to the ICE press such as the number of immiRIÂżFH 6SRNHVZRPDQ /RUL grants they’re hauling away in +DOH\ FRQÂżUPHG RIÂżFHUV XVX- handcuffs. ally notify local dispatch when 'XULQJ WKH ÂżUVW QLQH PRQWKV they’re around. RI RIÂżFHUV UHSRUWHG DW least 20 arrests in the county. ICE wake-up calls When dispatchers asked, they Miller’s comment gave the names of the immiprompted Johnson to change grants they’d picked up. Based on surveillance spots WKH ZD\ KLV RIÂżFH KDQGOHV LQformation from ICE, emails ICE reported to the county show. Dispatchers started call- GXULQJ WKH ÂżUVW KDOI RI RIing a supervisor immediately ÂżFHUV IRFXVHG KHDYLO\ RQ 1DKafter hearing from ICE, but the cotta and Ocean Park, often policy was dropped after a few picking people up near the Port of Peninsula or outside Okmonths. Supervisors’ sleep was ie’s Thriftway Market. They being interrupted for routine also frequently made arrests in Continued from Page A1

‘We think about good low tides that fall around weekends. We don’t often have much to choose from.’

Long Beach and Seaview and occasionally nabbed immigrants in Chinook. In August, Miller emailed Johnson to let him know federal enforcement would be expanding to the Raymond and South Bend area. 7KH RI¿FHU RIIHUHG WR WH[W the sheriff when ICE was working, but Johnson told him to keep calling dispatch instead. Miller also requested a meeting to discuss an Aug. 30 newspaper report in which Johnson said federal authorities weren’t sharing information with local law enforcement.

custody.’â€? At the time, Johnson suggested he’d pressed ICE to crack the silence with a letter he sent to the agency twice, once in April and again in August. “The power of the pen,â€? he wrote in an Aug. 31 email. Johnson also met with 0LOOHU DQG DQRWKHU RIÂżFHU DQG ODWHU ZLWK WKH DVVLVWDQW ÂżHOG GLrectors from ICE’s Seattle and 3RUWODQG RIÂżFHV At a meeting on Sept. 12, they agreed to let the sheriff’s RIÂżFH NQRZ ZKHQ ,&( ZRXOG EH LQ WKH DUHD ZKHQ RIÂżFHUV left and whether arrests were made. Corey Heaton, the PortAll versus any ODQG ÂżHOG GLUHFWRU ZURWH DQ Still, Johnson continued to Oct. 5 letter to Johnson that tell the public and the press summarized ICE’s committhat ICE did not start provid- ment to providing basically the ing information until Sept. 22. same information dispatch was Âł7KLV ZDV WKH ÂżUVW WLPH already getting. A few days after making ever (I think) that ICE notiÂżHG XV ´ -RKQVRQ ZURWH LQ D the agreement, Johnson told Sept. 25 email to the Observer. the Observer, federal agents “They provided few, if any, FDPH LQWR KLV RIÂżFH LQ 6RXWK details, pretty much a ‘one in Bend without warning to arrest

a man at the front counter on Sept. 15. Records show dispatch was QRWLÂżHG MXVW D FRXSOH RI PLQXWHV EHIRUH RIÂżFHUV DUULYHG They also advised the sherLIIÂśV RIÂżFH WKH\ ZHUH ZRUNLQJ nearby earlier that day. During a Jan. 29 interview, Johnson said dispatch takes “thousands and thousands of callsâ€? and he’s generally not involved. He trusts his staff to convey information to him as needed. :KHQ KH VDLG KLV RIÂżFH wasn’t getting any information from ICE, he meant he wasn’t — and still isn’t — getting all of it, Johnson explained. “I’ve never tried to mislead anyone,â€? he said. “I’ve tried to be totally transparent on this issue.â€?

Information still lacking The sheriff said he wants the name and birthdate for each immigrant who’s taken from the county. That would

able to see them, but we will see the effect of their presence.� Inslee said no businesses have expressed an interest in drilling for Washington oil, and he plans to keep it that way. The governor said that while he cannot explicitly prevent drilling from taking place, the prospect could become unattractive to oil companies through a number of legislative techniques like heavy taxes. “This is a bicoastal, bipartisan revulsion,� Inslee said. “I believe ultimately we will be successful.�

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Despite the dangerous conditions that sometimes arise during the season, clamming-related drownings appear to be rare. The last local drowning occurred in late January 2004. Longview resident Gene Lafever, 57, and his friend, Castle Rock resident Janette Caron, 54, disappeared while digging for clams at Leadbetter State Park. The next day, someone spotted their abandoned truck and called a tow-truck driver. Suspecting something was wrong, the driver called police. Volunteers and responders from numerous agencies searched for three days before calling it quits. Caron’s body was recovered near Tokeland, but Lafever’s body appears not to have been recovered. Ayres said he and his colleagues plan to meet to talk about the drownings and review their policies. The agency might do more to educate the clamming public about safety precautions, he said, but he doesn’t think they will make any major policy changes. “Given the overall track UHFRUG RI WKH ÂżVKHU\ , ZRXOG doubt it,â€? he said. Still, Ayres agreed that the women’s deaths should serve as a reminder that people must always be vigilant about safety when working or playing on Washington beaches. “My heart goes out to people who went out and came home with a tragedy in their family,â€? Ayres said.

allow him to check their backgrounds to see if ICE is arrestLQJ WKH FULPLQDOV IHGHUDO RIÂżcials promised to get rid of, or if the agency is taking people who’ve done nothing wrong, other than overstaying a travel visa or coming into the country without permission. Johnson said he also needs to know who’s being taken so KH FDQ FRQÂżUP ZKHWKHU VRPHone has been arrested or if they’re missing when neighbors call with concerns. 2IÂżFHUV KDYH UHFHQWO\ started to include the number of arrests along with the gender and age of each person they take to the Northwest DeWHQWLRQ &HQWHU D IRU SURÂżW LPmigration prison in Tacoma, January dispatch records show. “We believe they’re continuing to provide that information every time they’re here,â€? Johnson said. “It’s a step in the right direction to JHW WKRVH ÂżUVW IHZ WKLQJV %XW it’s still an awkward situation for us.â€?

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Following the American Civil War, Capt. Richard Taylor (1834-1880) and his wife Rachael Medora (Pryor) Taylor (1839-1872) fled from the war-torn South and moved to Mexico City with their three teenaged children.

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