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Pricher said the team went in knowing the dangers. “There was a combination of low humidities (below 20%), sustained winds over 15 mph and gusts over 25 mph,” he said. “It was hot. The terrain is very steep and with the smoke, visibility was limited. The temperature firefight ers are exposed to with all of the firefighting gear is very taxing.” The fire activity in the condi tions that the local crews experi enced were significant, according to Pricher.“Thetype of fire behavior is more dangerous than in previous years as a result of drought, cli mate change and significant fuel loading,” he said. Pricher provided the following brief synopsis of what the team was able to accomplish: Day 1 - Aug. 3 Initial attack providing struc tural protection for the Juniper Flats Fire station. Day 2 Aug. 4 Mop up around structures. Mop up is a systematic method of making sure that all hotspots are identified and mitigated. Mop up includes strengthening firelines but putting out fire from the fire edge to different interior distances depending on safety factors and fire intensity. Depending on the slope, water bars are created to prevent erosion from fall rains on the newly created firelines.
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The Clatskanie City Council may soon begin reviewing steps to address city and business operators concerns about recreational ve hicles (RVs) parked on city streets and on private property without legalClatskanieconsent.
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Chief photo Clatskanie may soon develop an ordinance to deal with citizen complaints about transient and abandoned recreational vehicles.
Several members of Columbia County fire agencies, including Clatskanie Fire and a team from Banks Fire, are back home after joining the battle against the nearly 11,000-acre Miller Road wildfire in Wasco County. The local team of 14 personnel had responded to Maupin early Wednesday morning, Aug. 3 to assist other firefighters.
The Columbia County team includes, Columbia River Fire & Rescue, Clatskanie Rural Fire Protection District, Mist-Birken feld RFPD, Vernonia Rural Fire Protection District and Scappoose Fire.Columbia County is one of five structural task forces that had been sent to the Wasco County wildfire.Scappoose Rural Fire Protec tion District Chief Jeff Pricher told The Chief as the local team left for the wildfire that all of the responding county firefight ers and apparatus would be part of the initial attack firefighting force.That attack included responsi bility for holding established fire lines, providing structure protec tion, executing triage of structures in the fire area (identifying the fire safety charastics of threatened structures, survivability in the interface zone of structures and performing mitigation measures (when possible) to prevent fire from destroying property), creat ing fire lines, coordinating with other resources in a coordinated effort for full fire suppression.
Courtesy photo Chapter presiding officer Janis Allen and chapter member Sarah Hinkelman deliver the funds to Clatskanie Middle/High School Coach Rob Kingery.
The Clatskanie chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star (OES), Wabanang Chapter #127, has donated $500 to the Clatskanie Middle/High School. The donation will go toward the school’s athletic fund for athletic scholarships.OESisafraternal organization for men and women. OES Members are guided by agreed upon values, morals, and laws. Members form friendships that last for years, ac cording to the chapter organizers. “The charitable nature of the organization can be seen through the millions of dollars raised to support national, jurisdictional, and local charities,” the local chapter states in a release. “The chapter is dedicated to uplifting the commu nity through fellowship and service together. To that end, the Wabanang Chapter held different fundraisers between Sept. 2021 and June 2022, which allows the chapter top make donations.”Thefundraisers included a rum mage sale, Bunco night, and a silent auction.“Clatskanie and the surround ing community were very gener ous during the fundraisers which allowed the chapter to make this donation,” the release states. The Wabanang Chapter was founded in Clatskanie in 1917. Members meet monthly at the Clatskanie Masonic Lodge. The chapter’s next fundraiser, a Bunco Night, is scheduled to be held in October. To find out more, visit the chap ter’s website, terclatskanieoes,www.tinyurl.com/orcontactthechapatwabanang127@gmail.com. REPORT chiefnews@countrymedia.net prompt city review
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City Manager Greg Hinkelman said he has been reviewing consistent complaints about transient and abandoned RVs.“The transient RVs park at dif ferent places all over town,” Hin kelman said. “They move around so that are not technically violat ing city law, but they are parking and not hooking up to required services. There is also the issue of abandonedHinkelmanRVs.”said the city wants to take a proactive approach in ad dressing the citizens’ concerns. “So, we are looking at this as public safety issue,” he said. The City of Rainier recently passed an ordinance to address citizens’ concerns about RVs in that community. Hinkelman said Clats kanie’s city council could review that ordinance to see if it might be adaptable in his city. According to the City of Rainier’s ordinance, the purpose is to limit the use of camper vehicles and other nonpermanent structures for permanent human habitation. “Because it is the determination of the city council that their use in the city for permanent habitation is deleterious to the health, safety and welfare not only of the persons residing therein, but, additionally, of the public at large,” the Rainier ordinance ordinanceScottRainierstates.CityAdministratorJorgensensaidhiscity’swasdevelopedwith
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the input of the city council and the city planning commission. Portions of the Rainier RV ordinance were patterned after similar ordinances in other jurisdictions, including Longview, Washington and Aurora, Oregon.“The city and council have been receiving complaints from citizens about people living in RVs for prolonged periods of time,” Jorgensen said. “It was felt that the concerns about the RVs needed to be addressed from a public health standpoint. There’s also the issue that RVs take up a lot of room when they’re parked on the sides of streets in residential neighbor hoods.”Jorgensen said the Rainier City Council and the city’s planning commission still wanted to enable people to have visitors in their RVs on a short-term basis, or for visitors to bring their RVs onto residents’ properties, so provisions were included in the Rainier ordinance to allow for those instances. Abandoning a vehicle is against the law, according to the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT).Theregistered vehicle owner could be held responsible even if they sold the vehicle but failed to file the proper paperwork with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), The registered owner could be subject to a Class B Traf fic Violation as well as cost to remove and dispose of the vehicle, according to ODOT. In other Clatskanie news, the city council has voted to send a two-year ban on psilocybin prod ucts within the city limits to voters. Oregon Measure 109, which legalized the use of psilocybin products to those over 21 in a con trolled clinical setting, was passed by Oregon voters in November 2020.During the regular monthly Clatskanie City Council meeting Aug. 3, the council members voted 3-2 to refer the ban to voters in the November General Election. Coun cilor Gary Jones abstained, saying he needed more information before making his decision. “There were a lot of people who testified against the ban during the council’s meeting,” Hinkelman said. “Those opposed to the ban were very much in favor of having the psilocybin products available for their medicinal purposes.” Hinkelman said the two-year ban would allow the Oregon Health Authority to define and adopt rules to help guide cities and counties in regulating the psilocybin products.
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Oregon businesses are on the verge of fully recovering all jobs lost from the COVID-19 pandemic recession.AsofJune 2022, total nonfarm employment levels were only 0.9% below the previous peak. When looking over the recovery by industry we see a fairly large disparity. For some industries, employment is now far higher than prepandemic levels, such as construction; transportation, warehousing, and utili ties; real estate, rental, and leasing; and professional and technical services. Meanwhile other industries remain below their previous peak, such as educational services; leisure and hospi tality; other services; and localThesegovernment.disparate trends are not surprising. The pan demic recession was not an equal opportunity offender. The largest job losses were concentrated in restaurants, hotels, tourism facilities, personal care services, and education. Employment in accommodation and food services, the sector that includes hotels and restau rants, remains roughly 6% below the previous peak. The industry is sitting with 6,200 fewer jobs than before the pandemic, yet there were nearly 10,800 new unique job ads between April and June as these em ployers try to ramp back up. Frustratingly slow Clearly the demand exists to lead the state’s accommodation and food services into a full recovery, but that recovery has been frustratingly slow for many employers with 77% of Oregon vacancies identified as difficult to fill this past spring. The most com mon response when busi nesses were asked why their vacancies were difficult to fill? A lack of applicants. If these restaurants and hotels remain far from re covered and yet the demand for workers is high, it begs the question: where did all the restaurant and hotel workers who were working in the industry before the pandemic go? To answer this question, we tracked the cohort of pre-COVID accommodation and food services workers (employed in the industry in first quarter 2020) through the end of 2021 using wage records and unemployment insurance (UI) claims. If an Oregon business re ported payroll earnings for a worker or a worker was on an Oregon UI claim, this worker showed up in our data. Unfortunately, we don’t know anything about those workers who dropped out of the labor force (re tired, back to school, etc.) or moved outside the state. Of the 181,700 workers who had a primary job in accommodation and food services before the pandem ic in early 2020, roughly 45% were still employed in the industry by the end of 2021. To put it another way, over half the workers churned out of the indus try after nearly two years. Churn or turnover is very common in this industry as it is highly seasonal, employs large numbers of young workers, and tends to offer lower-paying jobs on average. To get an idea about how normal the turnover was for this COVID-19 impacted cohort of restaurant and hotel workers, we looked back at a cohort of workers from early 2018 and tracked their employment patterns over the same amount of time. The churn was high for this 2018 cohort of restau rant and hotel workers by the end of 2019, with only 52% of the workforce still primarily employed in a restaurant or hotel. Reten tion of these workers in the COVID-19 cohort was around 7 percentage points lower than our comparison cohort from 2018. The first place to look for workers who left the industry is to check if they are still employed in Oregon, but in a different industry. Around 26% of the COVID-19 cohort of restau rant and hotel workers had moved their primary job to a different industry by the end of 2021, a higher share than 24% of the cohort from 2018. There was increased job hopping into differ ent industries during the pandemic. Where did the workers go? The industries that received the most restau rant and hotel workers by the end of 2021 were retail trade (6.5% of the original cohort); professional and business services (+3.9%); health care and social assis tance (+3.9%); and manu facturing (+2.3%). There are not a lot of patterns to draw from this industry changing. Industry hop ping tended to be towards industries less impacted by pandemic closures, higher paying industries, and less seasonal taurantThoseindustries.wholeftresandhoteljobs to different industries during the pandemic only account for about one-third of the increased churn out of the industry compared with a more normal period of time. The other large difference in churn in this period is movement to an unemploy ment insurance claim. In the fourth quarter of 2021, 7% of the COVID-19 cohort of restaurant and hotel workers claimed at least one week of unemployment insurance. This was a considerable increase over the 2% of the 2018 restaurant and hotel workforce on UI. The high er share of restaurant and hotel workers on an unem ployment insurance claim in fourth quarter 2021 explains roughly two-thirds of the drop in retention compared with the 2018 cohort. There are a couple of reasons why a higher share of COVID-19 impacted restaurant and hotel workers were claiming unemploy ment insurance nearly two years later. This COVID-19 cohort experienced mass layoffs in the spring of 2020. In late 2021, hiring demand waned modestly for restaurants and hotels due to the surging Delta vari ant. Despite the massive layoff shock at the onset of the pandemic, it is still surprising to see 7% of the workforce claiming unem ployment at a time when labor demand was high for these workers.
Why has it been difficult for restaurants and hotels to find workers? Much of the workforce left the industry. A higher share of workers moved to different industries com pared with a more normal period during non-pandemic times. We also saw a higher share of these workers claiming youngingthatindustriesmandworkforce.businessesborcontributingHowever,telployedtheendegonworkersworkforce.likelymanyInUIwhichunemploymentahire.manysentemployeddemandinsuranceunemploymentevenafterlaborrebounded.UnworkersrepreanopportunityforthebusinessestryingtoLookingforworkisprerequisiteforgaininginsurance,meansthosefolksonwereactivejobseekers.fact,wherewearetodayofthoseworkershavelandedbackintheThenumberofonaUIclaiminOrdropped31%fromtheof2021toJune2022.Thiswasananalysisofexistingworkforceembyarestaurantorhojustbeforethepandemic.anotherpotentialfactorofthelashortagefacedbytheseistheincomingWithahighdeforlaboracrossmanyitisalsopossiblemanyworkersentertheworkforce(largelypeople)whowould typically find a job in a res taurant or hotel are finding work in different industries with more consistent hours and less seasonality. Damon Runberg is a regional economist with the Oregon Employment Depart ment. He may be reached 0779.oregon.govdamon.m.runberg@employ.atorat541-706did all the hotel and restaurant workers go?
These counts don’t tell us the length of UI claims, only that at least one week was claimed in fourth quar ter 2021. It is possible that increased business failures, changes in ownership, and other reorganizations could affect the share of the work force claiming UI in the stretch between jobs after a layoff that occurred much later than the initial CO VID-19 mass layoff events. Some of these claimants could have worked for a restaurant or hotel that closed or changed owner ship in summer or fall 2021, and their claim would show up here. We don’t yet have complete data on business dynamics through 2021, but it has certainly been a tough time to be in the restaurant and hotel business, charac terized by labor shortages, unsteady supply chains, and rapidly increasing business costs. One thing we known for certain By fourth quarter 2021, the expansion of unemploy ment insurance through the CARES act and other federal legislation had ex pired. Workers who claimed unemployment in fourth quarter 2021 were no longer receiving the more generous weekly UI benefits. Around 78% of the prepandemic accommodation and food services workers have been accounted for by the end of 2021. There were those who remained employed in the industry (45%); those who are now employed in a different industry (26%); and those who had an unemployment insurance claim (7%). The remaining 22% are no lon ger working a payroll job or claiming unemployment insurance in Oregon. They may be
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For the elderly in Colum bia County, and in cities and towns across the nation, get ting from here to there can be challenging.Researchby the Oregon State University (OSU) College of Engineering and Portland State University (PSU) suggests a trio of roadway treatments would enable people age 65 and older to travel on foot more safely.The study is important because older pedestrians are among the most likely to be killed in traffic accidents, according to the National Safety Council. In the United States in 2020 there were 709 pedestrian fatalities in the 65-74 age group – 20% of total road-user deaths in that age bracket. The project used data from Oregon collisions but is likely applicable in other areas, and it provides a framework for jurisdictions to develop their own safety recommendations, said David Hurwitz of the OSU College of Engineering.
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What crash data reveals Hurwitz and Monsere, whose collaborative back ground includes a recent up date of the Safety Investiga tion Manual for the Oregon Department of Transporta tion, combed four years of Oregon crash data for loca tions where older pedestrians were andgerpracticesthenationalviewandsioncrossingabilitymayAndriskslowlyans“AsgineeringHurwitz,ingfatalityareinvolving“Motorover-represented.vehiclecrashesolderpedestriansmorelikelytoresultinthanthoseinvolvotheragegroups,”saidatransportationenresearcheratOSU.agroup,olderpedestriaremorefrail,walkmoreandareatincreasedoffallingwhilewalking.someofthosepeoplealsohaveaninhibitedtomakesaferoaddecisionsduetoviorhearingimpairmentscognitivedecline.”Afterconductingareofbestpracticesfromandlocalsources,researchersmappedthosetotheOregondanspotsforpedestrians65overandcameupwith
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As a group, older pedestrians are more frail, walk more slowly and are at increased risk of falling while walking.
Steve Lundeberg is a researcher and writer for Oregon State University Rela tions and Marketing. He may be reached at berg@oregonstate.edu.steve.lunde
Entombed together: Rare fossil flower, parasitic wasp make amber artwork
Courtesy photo from OSU The ‘petite’ flower represents the Art Nouveau style that emphasiz es elegant curves and long lines.
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Fast Fact In the United States in 2020 there were 709 pedestrian fatalities in the 65-74 age group – 20% of total roaduser deaths in that age bracket.
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As Columbia County’s new K9 Bravo begins spe cialized training for the job, County Sheriff Brian Pixley has announced the retirement of K9 Lars from the law enforcement agency. Lars is an 8.5-year-old Belgian Malinois who has served the community for more than seven years and contributed in the apprehen sion of hundreds of suspects and drug finds, according to Pixley. Lars has retired due to a medical condition and his last day of service was JulyLars1. has been adopted by a local family and will be spending his retirement in the community that he knows Krueger will continue as the department’s K9 handler. Krueger has already started training with his new K9 partner, Bravo. See The Chief’s original story with this update at thechiefnews. com.Krueger and Bravo will attend six weeks of training before being certified through the Oregon Police Canine Association. After complet ing his training, Bravo will work with Columbia County Sheriff’s Office CCSO’s Enforcement Division. His duties will include suspect apprehension, tracking, and article and building searches. Bravo, a one-and-a-halfyear-old German Shepherd, was born in Romania in training consisted of police apprehension, tracking, and obedience. He was pro cured for Columbia County by Adlerhorst Kennels in Southern California. CCSO purchased Bravo using gen erous donations from com munity members and local businesses.Krueger began his law en forcement career in Klamath Falls, Oregon. He was hired as a police officer and served on the SWAT team, as a field training officer, as a police reserve coordinator, and as a member of the honor guard with the Klamath Falls Police Department. Krueger joined the Columbia County Sher iff’s Office as an enforcement deputy in July of 2021. Bravo readies for action, K9 Lars retires Courtesy from Columbia County K9 Bravo and Sheriff Brian Pixley give a demonstration during the Columbia County Fair.
Slow turn wedges He also notes that some cities including Portland and New York have been using “slow turn wedges” and “hardened center lines” as a way to enhance pedestrian safety by forcing left-turning vehicles to slow down and take a proper route. A wedge, outlined by pylons in the intersection, makes drivers turn more sharply and thus not as fast. A hardened center line, constructed of bollards, ac complishes the same thing by preventing drivers from crossing the center line be fore they are supposed to. The moves are coun termeasures against the increased danger pedestri ans of any age face from left-turning vehicles, which nationwide account for roughly 25% of all incidents involving a vehicle striking someone on foot. Among pedestrians 65 and older, the proportion of serious-injury crashes hap pening when the person is in the roadway is greater than for pedestrians ages 25 to 64, which suggests shortening crossing distances increases their safety by reducing their exposure time. That can be done through pedestrian islands in the me dian, curb extensions, raised crosswalks and road diets –i.e., reducing the number of car travel lanes in an area. “From the perspective of universal design, a benefit is that treatments aimed at making older pedestrians safer enhance the safety of all pedestrians,” Hurwitz said. “Our main objective was identifying low-cost treatments that could be widely implemented but looking at ways to address speeding may also help improve older pedestrian safety and should be a focus of future work.” Jason Anderson and Sirisha Kothuri of Portland State also took part in the research, which was funded by the Oregon Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Adminis tration.Findings of the study led by Chris Monsere of Port land State were published in the Transportation Research Record. Steve Lundeberg is a researcher and writer for Oregon State University Relations and Marketing. He may be reached at lundeberg@oregonstate.edu.steve.
Nadine Long of Ocean Park, Washington, passed away in Corvallis, Oregon on July 26, 2022. She was born July 8, 1932 in Corval lis to Minnie (Thompson) and Edward Harmsen and raised in Blodgett, Oregon. She graduated from Cor vallis High School in 1950. She enrolled and graduated from Oregon State Uni versity in 1954 and began a 27-year career as an elementary school teacher in the state of Oregon, first in Perrydale, then Grand Rhonde, next was Clats kanie — where she spent the majority of her career and raised her family — and finally Knappa. Nadine was an avid traveler who went on numerous jour neys throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. She touched many people through both her travel, ca reer and friendships. She re tired from teaching in 1987 to move to Ocean Park. She was preceded in death by her husband, George Long, who she met while in Perrydale, and her sister Darlene (Dude) Anderson.Sheissurvived by her sister Charlotte Frank of Tucson, Arizona; son Tom Long of Camas, Washing ton; daughter Cindy Long of Ashland, Oregon; son Jim Long (and wife Susan) of Corvallis, Oregon; six grandchildren, Kacy Strip ling, Jared Long, Willie Long, Jon Long, Rob Straw, and Ryan Long; and three great grandchildren, Mac Stripling, Nadine (Nadi) Stripling, and Layla Long. Memorial contributions in lieu of flowers may be made to the Arthritis Foun dation. A celebration of life will be held at a later date. McHenry Funeral Home in Corvallis, Oregon is han dling the arrangements.
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Oregon State University (OSU) fossil research has revealed an exquisite merger of art and science: a longstemmed flower of a newly de scribed plant species encased in a 30-million-year-old tomb together with a parasitic wasp. “Based on interests, back ground and current environ ment, everybody has their own way of interpreting visual images in the natural world,” OSU College of Science’s George Poinar Jr. said. “Thus, an organism can be described, given a scientific name and then stored away in a taxo nomic hierarchy. The same organism can be regarded as an art object and even assigned to a particular art period.” The study by Poinar, pub lished in Historical Biology, reports the first description of a fossil flower of the Euphorbia ceae family in amber, in this case amber from the Domini can Republic, home to some of the world’s clearest fossilized treeMembersresin. of Euphorbia ceae, also known as the spurge family, grow worldwide, with 105 of its 300 genera, and 1,800 species, found in tropi cal regions of the Americas. “Fossil flowers of members of this family are quite rare,” Poinar said. “I could only find one previously known fossil, from sedimentary deposits in Tennessee.”Examples of members of this family include the rubber tree, the castor-oil plant and the poinsettia. Many members contain a milky latex while some species are useful as a source of oil or wax. Poinar, an international ex pert in using plant and animal life forms preserved in amber to learn about the biology and ecology of the distant past, named the new flower Pluke netia minima. It’s the first record of the genus Plukenetia on the island of Hispaniola, home to Haiti and the Domini can Republic, and also the first fossil record of the genus. Poinar said the mature female flower is noteworthy for its small size but lengthy stalk, which at the tip has four distinct capsules. The wasp, Hambletonia dominicana, was described by Poinar as a new species in a separate paper published in 2020 in Biosis: Biological Sys tems. It’s an encyrtid, a group of wasps known for attacking a wide range of insects. In the current study, the flower has already bloomed and contains four maturing seed pods or capsules. One of the pods contains a develop ing fly larva. “In many cases, unrelated organisms become entombed together in amber just by chance,” Poinar said. “But I feel that in this case, the wasp was attracted to the flower, either for obtaining nectar or in attempts to deposit an egg on the capsule that contains the fly larva.” The wasp egg would then hatch, enter the pod and de vour the fly larva, Poinar said, enabling the wasp to survive in the ecological niche cre ated by the vegetation and flower heads of Plukenetia. “Both of the fossils can be associated with two 20thcentury art movements that appeared in fine art, design and architecture,” Poinar said. “The ‘petite’ flower represents the Art Nouveau style that emphasizes elegant curves and long lines. The ‘dancing’ wasp represents the Art Deco style that stresses sharp angles and decorative shapes.”
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• Shorten crossing dis tances.“Twenty percent of the crashes we looked at hap pened in the dark at places with limited street lighting,” Hurwitz said. “Eight percent occurred at dawn and 5% at dusk, times of day when ambient lighting is low. Bet ter lighting at intersections and near crossing locations, rapid flashing beacons and other devices like ‘Pedestrian Crossing’ warning signs with flashing LEDs would likely help a lot.” So would, he added, converting “permissive” left turns for drivers at certain lo cations into “protected” ones. Executing a permissive left turn at an intersection means watching for a break in the oncoming traffic, which has the right of way. In a pro tected left turn, the motorist is signaled by a green arrow that it’s safe to turn. “In a permissive left turn, drivers can become so focused on looking for a gap in the traffic that they don’t see pedestrians,” Hurwitz said. “Increasing the use of protected left turns in loca tions where a permitted turn may be difficult can improve the safety of older drivers as well as pedestrians because it reduces one of the more complex driving tasks.”
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• • In loving memory and with heavy hearts we an nounce the passing of our beloved mother. In the presence of her daughters, grandchildren, and a beloved family friend, Lorna Ann Shores concluded a life well lived and went to be with the Lord on May 24, 2022.Born June 10, 1957 in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Lor na, the third of three children grew up in a now nonexis tent milltown once called Bradwood, Oregon. Raised in Bradwood, her parents instilled in her family values, the appreciation of family, hard work, independence, and her love for the Lord. All of which would set the foundation for God’s plan for her. She grew up fishing and hunting, a 42 lb. salmon was her record catch. She lived a humble country life with her parents in Bradwood. Lorna graduated Knappa High School in 1976. She later traveled the Holy Land with her aunt and uncles, which impacted her life greatly. Later while attending business college she met her future husband and love of her life, Dale. They mar ried in 1978, went on to have three children together, later to be blessed with ten grandchildren. They traveled by motorcycle to The Four Corners, Las Vegas and Cali fornia. They enjoyed bicycle rides, and many boating adventures together. Lorna was graced with 42 years of marriage to Dale, of which they lived in Clatskanie for over 30 years. Lorna cared for her husband Dale until he left us to be with the Lord in March of 2020. Lorna was always doing God’s work, as she also cared for both her parents and her two brothers until their last breath. She was the caretaker of the fam ily, always putting other’s needs above her own. Lorna enjoyed spending time with her grandchil dren and her family she had created. In life she enjoyed traveling, holidays with her family, making ceram ics, gardening, camping, canning, cooking, picnics, horseback riding, and puz zles. What she enjoyed most importantly was her family, caring for and helping her children and grandchildren in all ways that she could. As she continued to do, until her last days with us, just as her parents had instilled in her growing up on the wooden sidewalks of Bradwood. Lorna and the wooden sidewalks of Bradwood may be gone now, yet they both live on in the memories they both blessed us with. She is with the Lord and her family now. Until we meet again momma - we love you, a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck.Lorna is preceded in death by her husband Melvin Dale Shores II; parents, Veo and Ethel Puckett; and broth ers, Herb Blanchard and DavidSheMcFall.issurvived by her three children and her ten grandchildren.Alldonations may be sent in Lorna’s name to: The Gateway Worship Center, 610 NW 5th St., Clatskanie, Oregon.Atremendous Thank You to Loren and Esther Dummer of The Gateway Worship Center for all their love, prayers and help in Lorna’s last days. You were a light in our darkest hour, may God bless you. A celebration of life for Lorna and Dale Shores will be held at 2 p.m. on Sept. 3, 2022 at the Legion Hall in Clatskanie, Oregon.
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Most cane berries have an unusual growth cycle. Canes produced this year will fruit next year. Boysen and Marion berries are almost done. Some varieties are still several weeks from first har vest. Once a row is done, you can remove all the canes that bore fruit this year and trellis the new ones for next year’s crop. They are easier to work now than they will be in a month or so as they seem to get more brittle. Raspberries are usually topped at about 6-7 feet and tied to the wire. Blackberry type canes are longer and generally wrapped around the trellis wire (see picture). But here is the big exception: If you have everbearing (also called fall bear ing) raspberries, they bloom and fruit first in August/Sep tember on the top of the new canes. Then next July, they fruit on the lower portion of those canes, after which the canes die. Prune the top por tion of first year canes that bore fruit this year. Usually, that top section starts to die back after fruiting, so it is easy to see. After the lower portion of the canes fruit again next July, you remove those canes entirely. Late blight on tomatoes: With the slow tomato start, it would be awfully cruel if late blight were to show up early. This disease, which affects both toma toes and potatoes, is driven by extended cool and wet weather. It can destroy most of your tomato and potato plants over the course a few constantly moist, windless days. It is the disease that caused the famous Irish po tato famine in the mid-1840s. I have seen it happen here. While long-term weather forecasts are often incorrect in our turbulent and complex weather landscape, they are slowly getting better. With that in mind, there are some forecasts for cooler, rainy weather as we move into the second half of August. So late blight could be an issue. Few tomato varieties are completely resistant to late blight, though there are modest levels of resistance in some. What you can do is keep your vines open for pruningtiveselecsomebytionlacucirairgood that doesn’t reduce your tomato crop too much. In addition, spraying a copper fungicide before the rainy weather hits will slow the disease. Generally, in a four day misty period you will lose some treated varieties but others will come through and bear until Oc tober if the weather cooper ates. Most copper sprays are considered organic and are readily available in garden centers and stores that have garden sections.
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The Rainier Oregon Historical Museum (ROHM) is open from noon - 4 p.m. Saturday (except major holidays weekends). ROHM is located inside Rainier City Hall at 106 W B Street. For more in formation, call 360-751-7039. The Rainier Public Library is open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Fridays and 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Saturdays. It will be closed Sundays and Mondays. Avamere at St. Helens hosts a Virtual Dementia Sup port Group – 3rd Wednesday of each month from 2 to 3 p.m. For more details, contact Jenny Hicks/Avamere at St. Helens at 503-366-8070. To list an event in the Com munity Calendar, email details with a phone number that may be published, to callsifieds@countrymedia.net,chronicleclasor503-397-0116.
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The Oregon National Guard band General Dischord is scheduled to perform at 3 p.m. Aug. 14 at Birkenfeld Theatre, 75 S. Nehalem in Clatskanie. Although this performance is free, seating is limited to 160. Attendees are asked to reserve tickets. Call Elsa Wooley at 503-7283403 (leave a message and she will confirm your ticket reservation) or email her elsawooley1@gmail.com.at Ongoing Farmers Market
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Despite the 80-90 plus degree daytime temperatures, vegetable and berry gardens are doing well. Here are a few things to pay attention to: Pruning and raspberriestrainingandblackberries:
A series of four family friendly movies will be shown with thematic activities and events each night. For up-to-date information about the events, visit the Movies by Moonlight website link, Facebook page, or contact Jeff Weiss 503543-7123. Food vendors will be on site with snacks and full meals available for purchase. All movies start at dusk with pre-movie events beginning at 7 p.m. In the event of rain, the showing will be rescheduled. Alcohol and smoking are not permitted in the park. Lower Columbia River Watershed Council Meets at 7 p.m. every other second Tuesday. Meetings are currently held elec tronically by Zoom. For more information, contact Council Coordinator Allan Whiting at E-mail: allan@whitingenv. com, or call 503-789-9240. Visit the council’s website for agenda postings and Zoom events-page.www.lowercolumbiariver.org/at
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When to harvest corn: Corn is catching up fast in the warm weather. The best way to check corn maturity is to pinch a few kernels. If they squirt white, juicedays.juice,milkytheyareprimeforeating.ClearjuiceindicatesitneedsafewmoreNomeansitis getting a little starchy. It can still be good but not sweet corn perfection. Many Extension publica tions available online Are you putting up sal sa, saving seeds, or think ing about planting kiwis? OSU has a large number of its publications available for free download. Just go to https://catalog.exten sion.oregonstate.edu. Click on publications and start exploring. OSU Master Gardener™ signups being taken for 2022-23 class to be held in St. Helens Assuming we get enough interest, the OSU Extension office in Colum bia County will be offering a mostly in-person OSU Master Gardener™ train ing starting this fall at the OSU Extension office in St. Helens.This year, we are trying a new schedule that allows people that work to attend. The classes will be held on alternate Saturdays from 9 a.m. - noon starting on Sept. 10 through Thanks giving. Then there will be a winter break. The classes will start again in early February and go through the end of April. There will be classes on vegetable gardening, growing fruit, plant identification, under standing your soil, insects, diseases, plant propagation, composting, household pests, managing deer and other animals in your gar den, plant and weed identi fication, and much more. Cost of the program is $100, which includes a large resource book. Schol arships are avail-able. OSU Master Gardeners™ are re sponsible for volunteering to work on gardening edu cation projects for partial payback for the training. If you think you might be interested in the pro gram, call the Extension office at 503-397-3462 for more details or email Chip Bubl, OSU Extension Agent/Columbia County directly at oregonstate.edu.chip.bubl@
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The Clatskanie People’s Utility District Board Direc has scheduled the next regular Board meeting for Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 6:00 pm in the community room of the District’s adminis tration building located at 495 E Columbia River Highway, Clatskanie. A Board Work shop will be held at 5:30 pm. An executive session may be called at the workshop and/ or meeting, pursuant to: ORS 192.660 (2) (f) information or records that are exempt by law from public inspection. CLATSKANIE PEOPLE’S UTILITY DISTRICT BOARD WORK SHOP Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 5:30 P.M. I. JOINT USE UPDATE: Josh Custer, Distribution Engineer & Car son Horton, Joint Use Engineer II. POLICY REVIEW: Policy 316 Power Theft III. RESO LUTION 22-04 RENEWAL OF CFC EMERGENCY LINE OF CREDIT IV. STAFF REPORTS UPDATE CLATS KANIE PEOPLE’S UTIL ITY DISTRICT REGULAR BOARD MEETING Wednes day, August 17, 2022 at 6:00 P.M. I. PUBLIC COMMENTS II. CONSENT AGENDA · Minutes of Board Workshop, July 20, 2022 · Minutes of Regular Board Meeting, July 20, 2022 · Review payment of bills for July 2022 III. ACTION ITEMS · Policy Review: #313 Financial Policy · Resolution 22-04 Renewal of CFC Emergency Line of Credit IV. DISCUSSION / INFORMATIONAL ITEMS · Board Comments & Calendar V. EXECUTIVE SESSION VI. ADJOURNMENT CLATSKANIE PEOPLE’S UTILITY DISTRICT MEETING NOTICE CC22-1677 Probate Department In the Matter of the Es tate of KIM COLLEEN HARRIS, Deceased. No. 22PB06403 NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the under signed has been appointed personal representative of this estate. All persons having claims against the estate are required to present their claims, with vouchers attached, within four months after the date of first publication of this notice to the representativepersonalatP.O. Box 459, Rainier, OR 97048, or the claims may be barred. All persons whose rights may be affected by the proceedings may obtain ad ditional information from the records of the Court, the personal representative or the attorney for the per sonal representative. Dated and first published July 29, 2022. Lee Colleen Ohler, Personal 97048.P.O.L.L.C.STEPHENRepresentative.D.PETERSEN,AttorneyatLaw,Box459,Rainier,OR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF COLUMBIA
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The Seventh Edition of the Clatskanie Garlic Festi val is scheduled for Satur day, Aug. 20, from 10 a.m. to 2Thep.m.festival will be held at the Clatskanie Farmers Market (CFM), in Copes Park on Lillich Street in Clatskanie.Thevendor roster, pro jected menus, and musical entertainment promises to make this a day to remember. First, a word about gour met garlic. Grocery store vegetable sections always have garlic. It is has become a staple they import and always keep in stock. But in the winter, things get pretty bleak with soft neck bulbs from afar, and our interest in the allium wanes as its flavor is lost. Big time international producers have to offer strains that can endure the demands of shipping and their main attribute is that the bulbs last a long time before they turn to dust. The festival will feature at least twenty-six different strains and eight varieties of delicious gourmet garlic. Some have high concentra tions of allicin, a naturally occurring antibiotic ele ment. Others have very high concentrations of Sulphur that translates to intense hot spiciness when eaten raw and rich savory sweetness when roasted. Some are very mild, and others present that classic benchmark garlic flavor we all recognize when we taste it. If you want to distinguish between an arti choke variety and a porcelain strain (and you will), ask a grower. If you see a garlic with red stripes and are wondering what it has to of fer in addition to good looks, the grower will likely say something like “oh, that’s a Vietnamese Red. It is mildly spiced and sweet to the taste. It’s a hard neck variety and it makes the best pesto ever.” You get the picture. This year the festival will spread out a bit to make room for the new growers. The festival will have twice as many growers special izing in garlic as last year with literally thousands of bulbs to choose from, who will personally officiate the activities at their booths. For one day, Clatskanie will be the garlic capital of the Northwest.Thatalone is reason to visit the market on that day, but that is just the begin ning of the fun. Our musi cal guests for the day are the world-renowned Gypsy (Rroma) jazz trio, Jump, Jive and Django. Festival orga nizers first heard this group a couple of years ago and have been hounding them for this slot in their schedule ever since. They will definitely amp up the proceedings. Carola Wines Hard Apple Cider will be on hand for the over 21 set and, of course the Wild Locals will have plenty of non-alcoholic jun, known as the champagne of fer mented beverages, which has become an essential on these hot summer Saturdays. As usual the festival will also feature the work of lo cal artists and makers, fresh local produce, eggs, home made toffees, and absolutely fresh baked goods. That must be more than a hundred reasons to join your neighbors and friends at the CFM Garlic Festival this year. It is always the biggest market day of the year, and really- when else can you eat all the garlic you want and never have to worry about, well, a thing? See you on Saturday the 20th! Visit our website at forcom,clatskaniefarmersmarket.www.orourFacebookpagemoreinformation.
