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Clatskanie Middle/High School Key Club recently received a $1,000 donation from the Kiwanis Club of Clatskanie. The funds are for the School Share Shed. The Shed started out in a small room to provide basic sanitation and clothing needs for students in order to ensure students have what they need to be prepared for class. This year, the Shed has moved into a classroom and besides basic needs, the Shed allows students to obtain proper attire for job interviews, prom and more. These much-needed funds will be used to purchase items that cannot be recycled such as hygiene products, shoes, underwear and other items as needed. The students, along with members of the community have worked hard to make this project reach as many students as possible to help them thrive in school. Courtesy photo
Kristie Ward from Georgia Pacific presents $1,000.00 to the Clatskanie Middle/High School Key Club.
Rainier Cemetery District benefits from grant cemeteries throughout both Rainier and Clatskanie, has tried three times in recent years to increase the property tax which funds the district. As of now, the tax is set at seven cents per $1,000 of assessed value, a rate left over from the 1950s, according to Warren. Each time they have tried to raise the property tax, including during the most recent November election, the measure has failed. Warren said the funding the district receives from its current property tax is not much, and more funds would be needed to hire people to take care of other work that needs to get done at all the cemeteries. Kevin Crawford, the sexton and manager for the district, is usually in charge of general maintenance for all of the cemeteries, and his day-to-day tasks involve doing burials and keeping the record up to date. When he has time, he levels gravestones and clears brush, but as one person, he often can’t keep up with the work, and he said the district receives complaints from people about gravesites being overlooked, especially in outlying places. Leveling gravestones, which means straightening up grave markers that have become slanted over time, involves using a lot of good-quality dirt, Crawford explained. So the first step of the project was getting entire truckloads of it. Three, to be exact, all hauled to the main cemetery, Stewart Creek. “We used up all about a yard of it, and these are 15yard loads,” Crawford said. Leveling out the sites involved taking a tractor and lifting up headstones using four-by-four blocks, marking the place where the headstone rested, cataloging where the headstone was going to be, then packing it down and resetting it. “A lot of them had to be tipped over, some of them were just leaning. We did a
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Cyndi Warren, district manager for the Rainier Cemetery District, along with the district’s sole employee, Kevin Crawford, sexton and manager, have known for a long time they needed more assistance with general upkeep of the district’s 12 cemeteries. This past summer, they got that chance, after receiving the Internship Matching Grant, a grant from the Special Districts Association of Oregon (SDAO), for $2,700, which the district was able to match to hire an intern to assist with leveling, repairing and documenting all gravesites or markers at some of the district’s cemeteries. That intern was meant to be a college student. However, after posting the position and not getting any responses, Cyndi Warren asked the SDAO for
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One of the many grave markers Cade Warren, intern and Kevin Crawford, sexton for Rainier Cemetery District, repaired over the course of the month-long internship.
permission to expand the parameters a little and allow high school students to apply. Permission was granted,
and the chosen intern ended up being Cade Warren, Cyndi Warren’s son, who is now a senior at Clatskanie Middle/
High School. He and Crawford worked from the end of July through all of August not only doing needed work, but
also documenting each step of their progress along the way, a requirement of the grant. The district, which has
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Public forums discuss CC Rider service cuts CHRISTINE MENGES chronicle2@countrymedia.net
Columbia County Rider, or CC Rider, the county’s public transit service, will present to the county on Jan. 8 their final recommendations about service cuts after collecting information at three public forums throughout the county last week. The transit service has been running in the red for years, according to Todd Wood, Transit Director for Columbia County. CC Rider, which operates on grant funding, fare revenue, contracted revenue and contributions from the county and others, tried to establish a permanent source of funding by establishing a transit district via ballot measure this past November. The measure failed, with 63 percent of county residents voting against it. Had it passed, the revenue from the property tax would have been approximately $1 million per year, according to a document Wood shared with city councils this past year. CC Rider has also previously made major cuts to service in February of this year. At a public forum held at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 12 at the Scappoose Public Library, eight people gathered to hear a presentation from Wood on service cuts that CC Rider is considering.
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Todd Wood, Transit Director for Columbia County, presents service cuts coming to CC Rider in January.
Wood delivered the same presentation on the night of Dec. 10 in St. Helens, and another on Saturday, Dec. 14 in Rainier. It costs $2.84 million to operate CC Rider annually, while the transit service receives about $2.5 million in the form of grants, fares and contributions per year, according to a press release from the county. This leaves a budget deficit of $313, 943 that CC Rider must now counterbalance. “We came up with some ideas of how we could shore up our budget gap by looking through the lines that are
available to cut, and some of their inefficiencies to see what we can do,” Wood said at the Dec. 12 forum. CC Rider is looking to cut service from Line 1, which goes to Portland; Line 2, which goes to Portland Community College – Rock Creek; Line 3 “Flex” which goes to Scappoose, Columbia City and St. Helens and their Dial-aRide service, which serves the elderly and those with disabilities. CC Rider had previously made major cuts to Line 1 in February of this year, reducing its then-14 trips
per day to eight trips. At the Dec. 12 public hearing, Wood said Line 1 is already fairly efficient, but it is likely the line’s Sauvie Island run could be taken out, saving the transit service about $18,000. The Line 2 run could possibly be completely eliminated, Wood said, or they could have one morning and one afternoon run. For the Line 3 Flex, the transit service might eliminate about 6.3 hours per day, which would save up to $115,000. For Dial-A-Ride, Wood said it was most likely
necessary to eliminate nine hours, which would save $166,000, because the service is fairly inefficient. Wood said they would stop providing service within one mile of the fixed route. The system is also looking for ways to make the fare system simpler and cheaper, Wood said. As of now, it costs $5 to ride in one zone, $6 for two zones, and $7 for three or more zones. For a new system, the service district has brainstormed a couple of options, Wood said. The most popular option, according to Wood, would be a system where fares are $1.50 to stay in the county, and $3 for journeys outside the county. Whatever is decided, fare restructuring would begin March 1, according to Wood. After the presentation, audience members were invited to give their input. One of them was Deanna Petersson, who commented that she has not seen a lot of advertising for CC Rider on the PCC website. “It talks about TriMet, it talks about their inner campus shuttle and it talks about riding your bike to school. But nowhere on that page, there’s not even a little blurb that says CC Rider, Columbia County,” Petersson said. Petersson, who has children attending PCC Rock Creek, said she thinks ridership, and revenue, would be
increased for Line 2 if more PCC students knew that a CC Rider bus was available to them. There are other expenses for CC Rider as well, Wood explained at the public hearing. Buses have a lot of miles on them, with some of them having about 400,000 miles apiece, and the older they get the more they cost to maintain, Wood said. Ideally, CC Rider would be replacing one bus a year, something that is not possible when funds are lacking, Wood said. Complicating the matter is the fact that matching funds for grants have to come from local sources, Wood explained. While Columbia County provides some money, that is one of the transit system’s only matching sources, according to Wood. Wood said he believes CC Rider has enough funding from the last state transportation improvement funding cycle to match some grants for some buses in 2021, meaning they will be able to replace some buses. Wood also said the transit service is not looking to go for another ballot measure. He said voters have made it clear that the existing system is not one they’re interested in riding. “Our focus is, how do we take the information we got from voters and run with it,” Wood said.
Tech Tuesday Tips: Holiday travels Welcome to the Oregon FBI’s Tech Tuesday segment. Today: Building a digital defense as you head over the river and through the woods to grandma’s house for the holidays. The kids are getting out of school this week, and you are packing your bags for the big trip to the in-laws. Now is not the time you want to talk about cyber security, but we do have a few
travel tips to keep you safe while you are on the go. • Don’t allow your phone, computer, tablet, or other devices to autoconnect to that free wireless network while you are away from home. This is an open invitation to bad actors to access your device. He can then load malware, steal your passwords and PINs, or even take remote control of your contacts and camera.
• If you do need to connect to a public hotspot – such as at an airport or hotel – make sure to confirm the name of the network and the exact login procedures. Your goal is to avoid accidentally connecting to a fraudster’s WiFi that he is trying to make look legit. • If you absolutely have to use an unsecured hotspot, avoid doing anything sensitive like accessing your
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their vulnerabilities from your sensitive data. • Disable location services – including those on your social media accounts and in your camera settings – that tell people where you are. • Finally, as hard as this may be in a world of oversharing – consider NOT pushing out pictures and posts about your grand adventures. Yes, your kids are adorable and Christmas
morning was the best ever – but do you really want to tell the world that you are away from home? From the FBI family to your family - enjoy your travels, and stay safe. As always, if you have been victimized by a cyber fraud, be sure to report it to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center at www. IC3.gov or call your local FBI office.
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Clatskanie Baptist Church 415 South Nehalem St., 503-728-2304 Senior Pastor Kirk Bennett Clatskanie Presbyterian Church 215 South Nehalem Street Clatskanie, OR 97016 Phone: 503-728-2300 Clatskanie Presbyterian Church is a community of Christian faith that expresses a relationship with God, and the Holy Spirit for everyone individually and collectively. Sunday Dec. 22, 2019 Pastor Erik Huget Old Testament: Psalm 80: 1-7, 17-19 New Testament: Romans 1: 1-7 Reading for today: Eight Whopping Lies by Brian Doyle Sermon Title: Let Your Face Shine Adult bible study at 9:15 a.m. in the Fireside Room Christmas Eve service on 7 p.m. on 12/24/19 Mayger-Downing Community Church 80071 Life Lane, 503-728-2305 Pastor John Thomas St. John the Baptist Catholic Church 100 SW High Street 503-556-5641 Great Vow Zen Monastery 79640 Quincy-Mayger Road, Clatskanie, Oregon 97016 Sunday Morning Program 10am 503-728-0654 Faith Lutheran Church 1010 5th Street, Clatskanie, Oregon 97016. 503-728-4604 Pastor - Mary Anthony
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Alston’s Corner Assembly of God 25272 Alston Rd. 503-556-1961 Pastor Steve Berry Nativity Of The Blessed Virgin 204 C St., E Rainier 503-556-5641 Rainier Assembly of God 74950 Rock Crest St., 503-556-8211 Pastor Jeff McCraken Rainier Community Church of God 321 W C St., Rainier, 503-556-5661 Rainier United Methodist Church Corner of 1st & ‘C’ St., 503-556-3440 Pastor Michele Holloway
Riverside Community Church 305 West C Street, Rainier 503-556-1216; Pastor Paul Rice Columbia Bible Church 10:30 a.m. Sunday 407 East Second St. Rainier, OR 97016 Robert Klukas 360-501-4060 Heritage Bible Church, Rainier Senior Center, 48 W 7th St., Rainier, Oregon 97048
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Ascension Evangelical Lutheran Church 1911 Columbia Blvd., 503-312-1072 Pastor Burkhardt Calvary Lutheran Church 58251 Division Rd., St. Helens 503-397-1739 Pastor: Mark Dennis Columbia River Foursquare Church 555 Commons Drive, St. Helens 503-397-0069 Senior Pastor Mike Cooke Christ Episcopal Church 35350 E. Division Rd., St. Helens 503-397-1033 Rev. Jaime Sanders Columbia Christian Center 235 S 15th St., 503-366-8028 Pastor Terry Luttrell St. Helens Community Bible Church 35031 Millard Rd., St. Helens Pastor Max Snook www.sthelensbiblechurch.org Christian Church 185 S. 12th St., St. Helens 503-397-2151 Pastor Justin Bruner First Lutheran Church 360 Wyeth St. 503-397-0090 Interim Pastor Randy Sinn First United Methodist Church 560 Columbia Blvd., 503-397-0061 Pastor Jared Maddox Plymouth Presbyterian Church 2615 Sykes Rd., 503-397-0062 Pastor David Hutchinson St. Frederic Catholic Church 175 S. 13th St., 503-397-0148 Father Nicolaus Marandu The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 2755 Sykes Road, St. Helens St. Helens 1st Ward Bishop Kent Dery 971-225-8727 St. Helens 2nd Ward
Bishop Paul Erickson 971-8134000 Scappoose Ward Bishop Lorin Fielding 503-987-2179 Sunset Park Community Church 174 Sunset Blvd, St Helens Pastor Aaron Hiller St. Helens Church of Christ 295 S. 18th St., St. Helens Pastor Ivan Bissell 503-366-0967
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whales and to answer questions about the animals. (View the site map at thechroniclenews. com) Oregon Parks and Recreation Ranger Luke Parsons gives some insight into the whales’ migration: Photo: Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.
A gray whale rises out of the ocean. JEREMY C. RUARK jruark@countrymedia.net
Thousands of gray whales will be making their annual migration south along the Oregon Coast this month, promising to attract plenty of visitors, include residents from Columbia County. An estimated 25,000 gray whales are expected to swim past the shores over the next several weeks, part of their annual migration south to the warm calving lagoons near Baja, Mexico. The end of December is the peak time for their migration, with roughly 30 whales passing by per hour. The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department highlights the migration through its annual Winter Whale Watching Week, Dec. 27-31. Trained volunteers from the Whale Watching Spoken Here program will be stationed from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. each day at more than 20 of the best whalewatching sites along the coast, ready to help visitors spot
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The Chief: What is it about the whales that attracts people to the Oregon Coast? Luke Parsons: Seeing a whale is usually a pretty unforgettable experience. Most people remember exactly where they were the first time they spotted a whale. I’m not sure exactly why we have such a fascination with them, but many people are just awestruck by their immense size. And once you start to learn about their behaviors and intelligence, you just really start to appreciate how amazing these animals really are. In other parts of the world, to go whale watching, many times you have to venture out in a boat for many miles. Here along the Oregon coast, you can go to almost any of our beautiful state parks, have a picnic with your family and look for whales at the same time, something that is pretty special. The Chief: How is the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department using the annual migrations to help educate the public about the whales and the coastal environment? Parsons: We work with
many of the state’s finest researchers to train our volunteers about gray whales, and other Oregon coastal animals, each year. Our volunteers are some of the most passionate people I have ever met. They care deeply about whales, our coastline and how to protect them both. The other thing we stress, of course, is beach safety. Winter storms can produce hazardous conditions all along the shore. We make sure to pass along some good safety messages, because many folks who visit the ocean this time of year may not be from the area. The Chief: Give us a summary of the most interesting and important facts about the gray whales’ winter migration. Parsons: The gray whales we see traveling south right now are swimming about 100 miles per day. They don’t stop to sleep at all for around 60 days during this part of the migration. Another fun fact is that these whales will not eat for several months now. They are all relying on the blubber, or fat, that they have accumulated during the summer feeding season. Sometimes, a gray whale may go four to five months or more without eating. Parsons said the winter whale watch is all about finding a site with good elevation. He encourages beach visitors to look for the Whale Watching Spoken here sites and find a safe point above the beaches to view the migration.
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Nov. 28, 1948 ~ Dec. 12, 2019 Darla K. Johnson 71, of Gig Harbor, Washington, passed away Dec. 12, 2019 in Gig Harbor, Washington.
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Oregon unemployment rate drops to 3.9 percent In November, Oregon’s unemployment rate dropped below 4 percent for the first time since comparable records dating back to 1976. This puts the rate slightly above the November U.S. rate of 3.5 percent. Oregon’s unemployment rate has been hovering near historical lows of near 4 percent for the past 37 months.
Meanwhile, total nonfarm payroll employment shot up by 6,300 jobs in November, following an upwardly revised gain of 6,500 jobs in October. October was revised upward by 2,100 jobs. So far in 2019, monthly employment gains have averaged 2,600 jobs, which is slightly slower than in 2018 when monthly growth aver-
• Toy N Joy committee says thanks The Merchants’ Toy N Joy Auction Committee would like to thank everyone who helped make our 37th annual auction, “A Heroes Christmas,” such a success.
aged 3,000 jobs. The tight labor market, and perhaps the unusually mild and dry weather in November, seem to have influenced seasonal trends in the major industries. Industries that normally shed a lot of workers during the autumn months didn’t cut back as much as normal. In November, the following
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We consider each one of our generous guests, volunteers, and the many local businesses, agencies, and individuals who donated cash and auction items as heroes for making the holiday season brighter for local children and families in need. The Merchants’ Toy N Joy Auction, held on Dec. 7th, grossed $48,000 this year.
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industries cut back less than normal, and therefore posted seasonally adjusted job gains: construction (+2,200 jobs), manufacturing (+1,900 jobs), and professional and business services (+1,400 jobs). On the flip side, the tight labor market may have inhibited certain industries from hiring as many workers as normal in November. Gov-
ernment and retail trade both normally add a substantial number of jobs in November, but each industry hired a few hundred jobs fewer than normal for the month. Oregon’s over-the-year job growth of 1.6 percent closely matched the U.S. job growth of 1.5 percent. Most of Oregon’s major industries have expanded by about 2
percent since November 2018. The primary exception of an industry growing faster was education and health services, which grew by 9,900 jobs, or 3.3 percent. Conversely, the only major industry that contracted substantially over the past 12 months was retail trade, which cut 1,800 jobs, or -0.9 percent.
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Funds have been distributed to the following Columbia County agencies: Columbia River Fire & Rescue Volunteer Firefighters (Toy & Joy); Kiwanis Club of St. Helens (Holiday Hope); and Scappoose Fire Department (Share & Care). The Columbia Pacific Food Bank received $7600, from the evening’s paddle raise which is traditionally donated
to them. We wish to especially thank several of the key contributors to the evening’s activities: Santa Merle Pence, for his HoHoHo duties; Columbia River Fire and Rescue Volunteer Firefighters for the support throughout the evening as well as set-up; St. Helens High School Kiwanis Key Club for their service;
and Mrs. Schaffer, 2nd grade teacher at Lewis and Clark Elementary, who assembled students’ hero quotes featured in our decorations. And, of course, no local auction would be complete without the auctioneering talents of Mark Kuhn – many thanks to Mark. Additionally, I personally wish to thank our committee’s board and volunteers. It
is truly an honor to work with such a dedicated team who put in countless hours each year to make the evening magical. Save the date (and that ugly Christmas sweater – as that’s our 2020 theme) for next year’s auction on Dec. 5th.
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10. *Tom Kha Gai and Gaeng Daeng, e.g. 11. Horned birds 12. Classic TV series “_*_*_*_” 15. Israeli money 20. African sorcery 22. *Chinese pan 24. Egg white 25. *Coddle and soda bread, e.g. 26. Another word for Bingo 27. Not hidden 29. Regrettably 31. Exclamation of disgust 32. Absurd 33. Innie or outie 34. *Spanokopita, e.g. 36. Do like exhaust pipe 38. Wall support 42. Encourage, two words 45. Whimpering 49. Flapper’s accessory 51. Funds 54. True inner self 56. Number of planets 57. Metal enemy 58. “Do ____ others...” 59. Rotisserie skewer 60. Cosine’s counterpart 61. Mischievous fairies 62. Gel-producing plant 63. Hatchling’s home 66. *Typical U.S. fare, acr. 68. Second solfa syllable, pl.
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DOWN 1. Grass bristle 2. Shingled house part 3. Pakistani language 4. Nonchalantly unconcerned 5. Rhymes at rap battling 6. One of Five Ws 7. Lungful 8. Tetanus symptom 9. Got an A
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION For Sale by public auction at 10:00 am on Monday, December 23, 2019: Abandoned Mobile Home formerly belonging to Sandra Elmore. The mobile home is located at Westport Villas II Mobile Home Park, 91155 Old Mill Town Road, Space
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WESTPORT-WAUNA FIRE DISTRICT NOTICE OF SALE OF SURPLUS PROPERTY The following vehicles have been declared surplus, and the public is invited to place bids. 1985 Ford Ambulance. VIN# 1FDKE30M7KHB94492. Minimum bid $1,000, 1989 Chevrolet Brush truck
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Wyden, Merkley welcome legislation for rural counties On Dec. 12, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. welcomed passage of legislation by the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources to ensure much-needed funding for rural counties, as well as legislation to boost recreation opportunities in Southwestern Oregon and on the Molalla River in Clackamas County and strengthen wildfire prevention work in both of those regions. Both bills are now eligible to be considered by the full Senate. The Committee passed S. 430, legislation introduced by Senators Mike Crapo, RIdaho, Wyden, James Risch, R-Idaho, and Merkley to authorize the Secure Rural School Program for two years. The program expired at the end of FY2018. The Committee also passed an amendment, negotiated by Wyden, that ensures counties receive a ten percent increase in funding, efficient and timely appointments to Secure Rural School Resource Advisory Committees, and that no program funds are used for lobbying. The Committee also passed an amendment to allow Secure Rural School funds to support rural broadband projects. “Congress desperately needs to extend this lifeline for rural communities in Oregon,”
Wyden said. “A two-year extension will provide rural counties the resources they need now to support schools and roads, and it will also lay the groundwork to create a permanent solution – my bill to create an endowment fund to get these communities off the financial roller coaster once and for all.” “Secure Rural Schools payments provide a muchneeded lifeline for critical services ranging from schools to roads to public safety,” said Merkley. “Our rural communities shouldn’t be left in the dark about whether the federal funding they need for these vital services will be gone from one day to the next. That’s why I’m pleased that the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted today to pass a two-year extension of this program, and I’ll be fighting to get this funding across the finish line and signed into law.” The Committee also passed the Oregon Recreation Enhancement Act, legislation introduced by Wyden and Merkley that would create the Rogue Canyon Recreation Area and the Molalla Recreation Area, expand the Wild Rogue Wilderness Area, and prohibit destructive mining on pristine rivers in Southwestern Oregon. Provisions, negoti-
ated by Wyden and based on local feedback, also passed that further strengthen wildfire mitigation by requiring the Bureau of Land Management to implement wildfire risk reduction plans for the recreation areas and consultation with the Oregon Governor’s wildfire council to prepare studies and plans. “The ORE Act builds on our state’s proud legacy to protect our special places for future generations,” Wyden said. “Importantly, this legislation will be a huge boost to outdoor recreation in Southwestern Oregon and in rural Clackamas County, while continuing and strengthening critical wildfire prevention and forest health efforts and helping local communities prepare for wildfire.” “These areas are among Oregon’s most breathtaking landscapes,” Merkley said. “Not only do they fuel a robust outdoor recreation economy, they also are part of who we are as Oregonians. This legislation emphasizes that it is our responsibility to protect these lands from degradation, increasingly intense wildfires, and other impacts so our greatest resource is available to future generations, and I’m looking forward to it coming to the floor for a full Senate vote.”
“Southwest Oregon’s wild rivers are the heart and soul of our tourism and recreation economy,” said Pam Marsh, Oregon House of Representative, District 5. “They bring people from all over the world that spend money that ripples throughout our communities. Thank you to Senators Merkley and Wyden for stepping up to protect the Wild Rogue Wilderness and pass legislation to stop strip mines threatening the Smith and Illinois Rivers.” “Our business, the Motel Del Rogue, credits our iconic, majestic Rogue River for its name and rich history of housing fishermen, fisherwomen, rafters, kayakers, hunters, hikers, adventurers, tourists and all lovers of nature for generations,” said Kevin and Constance Marr, Owners, Motel Del Rogue. “The health of the river and surrounding lands is vital to our business, our family, our employees and their families, and by extension our entire local economy.” “My business, South Coast Tours, depends on clean, healthy rivers and access to public lands, and my family and town care about these things too. For these reasons, I support the Oregon Recreation Enhancement Act. I’m grateful that Senator Wyden is working to protect our wild rivers from the threat of strip mining,” said
Dave Lacey, owner of South Coast Tours, resident of Gold Beach. “Protecting the Rogue River and its tributaries promotes not only the health of the ecosystem, but the health of the Southern Oregon economy. Tourism on the Rogue supports outfitters like us, but also restaurants, hotels, transportation services, and more. A healthy Rogue River means more jobs and more business growth for the region. Thanks to Senator Wyden for his efforts to protect the special lands and rivers in Rogue basin,” said Kate Wollney, OARS Oregon Regional Manager “The rivers of the South Kalmiopsis are some of the most unique and special rivers in the world. I want to thank Senators Wyden and Merkley for working to protect these rivers as well as the famous Rogue and Molalla Rivers with the Oregon Recreation Enhancement Act. Without protections, development would degrade our lands, which would greatly impact our rivers,” said Zach Collier, owner of Northwest Rafting Company. “As the largest trade association of commercial fishing families on the west coast, we thank Senators Wyden and Merkley for working to protect
the headwaters of Oregon’s Wild and Scenic Illinois, Rogue and Smith Rivers,” said Glen Spain, NW Regional Director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (PCFFA). “If we want salmon to continue to exist, we have to protect their home streams. These key salmon-producing rivers are no place for strip mines.” “From fishing to rafting and boating, to hiking and camping, our Rogue supports tourism and our economy,” said Dave Strahan of Big Rock Sports. “The lower Rogue is a huge community asset, contributing up to $30 million annually to the local economy. While some of the Rogue canyon is protected, most is not. We owe it to our children and grandchildren, and our economy, to expand the protection of this irreplaceable resource. Thanks to Senator Wyden and Merkley for their efforts to protect this special place.” “The stretch of the Wild Rogue between Grave Creek and Foster Bar is something to hand down to our children and grandchildren. It is our local treasure — it is the lifeblood of so many of us — and it deserves our best efforts to protect it,” said Alyssa WarrenWood, Owner, Rogue Infinity Outfitters.
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As a result of their efforts, Crawford said the work was caught up through the fall. If anything, Crawford, who usually works alone, was able to enjoy the company of another individual. He was especially pleased with Warren’s work. “This student, he had a good work ethic, and was eager to learn. It wasn’t about the money, you could tell he was there to work and get things done and make a difference in the community he lives,” Crawford said. Crawford is also grateful
for the help. “When I have help I get a lot more work done than I would have gotten done otherwise, especially in the time frame we did it. I’ve been working alone on this job. Before they had a sexton it was one guy and nine cemeteries, but with 12 cemeteries that is a lot harder to do, so those little things don’t get done at all,” Crawford said. Working amongst old gravestones was a history lesson for both Crawford and Warren. One of the oldest death years they saw was
1890. The oldest in the district is from 1879, according to Crawford. There are other graves that are probably older, but they haven’t been recorded, Crawford said. Crawford said he and Warren had a lot of conversations about what the people buried there may have lived through. One of the sites contains the remains of a Titanic survivor, a fact Crawford had known since he started working at the district. Should the district get the chance to benefit from this grant, Crawford said he hopes
they will take them up on the offer. “We didn’t get everything done by a long shot. We did what we could do in a month,” Crawford said. More work needs to get done, like leveling and brush clearing, and general maintenance that will always need to get done, Crawford explained. Warren said the way grants work through SDAO, those who have been granted one year are less likely to receive it the next year. In the future, Warren said the district is considering a
name change, because having just “Rainier” in the title of their district makes people think that they don’t have property in Clatskanie as well. “We’ve had to prioritize the cemeteries he can take care of on a daily basis. We have a couple that don’t even have burials anymore. It’s just one of those things where people don’t understand the need,” Warren said.
From Page A1 lot of hands-on work, did a lot of brush clearing,” Crawford said. Crawford and Warren did work in a lot of cemeteries in the district, but mostly in Stewart Creek, according to Crawford. In total, Crawford estimates the two did work at 110 sites. As part of the project, they had to take “before” and “after” pictures of each grave site they improved.
Those interested in volunteering at the Rainier Cemetery District should contact their office at (503) 556-9697.
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Offbeat Oregon History: Asahel Bush crossed swords with Oregon’s first woman doctor, and lost Chief guest column by FINN J.D. JOHN
On any list of Oregon “firsts,” there’s one name that almost never pops up: Dr. Adaline M. Weed. Which is understandable, because although Dr. Weed was the first female physician in the Oregon Territory, she was not a “regular” doctor – she was a hydropathist, a practitioner of “water cure”; and although she was Oregon’s first female public intellectual on the lecture circuit advocating for women’s issues, she didn’t start seriously talking about women’s suffrage until much later. Also, in reviewing the exchanges of letters-to-theeditor she had with newspaper editors, it’s clear that she was a little too smart and articulate for her own good. Editors would, with a paternalistic and self-indulgent chuckle that one can almost hear while reading their words, poke a little fun at “madame the doctress”; she would reply in a letter rebutting every point with perfect professionalism but absolute mercilessness; and, shocked and stung at being called out for intellectual dishonesty by someone he never dreamed would be smart enough to recognize it, the editor would write something truly nasty before slamming the door shut on any further correspondence. This happened at least twice, in different Northwest communities: once in Salem, and again several decades later in the “Seattle Post-Intelligencer.” It probably happened in other places, too, because newspaper coverage of the Weeds was always thin and sparse. It’s hard to be remembered when one is shut out of the “rough draft of history” for being too smart to cross swords with. Ada Weed and her husband, Gideon, were both hydropathic physicians — graduates of Dr. Russell Trall’s Hygeio-Therapeutic College in New York City. Trall’s institute had, at that time, just started up. It taught a blend of hydropathy and hygienic medicine not too dissimilar from the preferred lifestyle of Seventh-Day Adventists today: whole unmixed foods, processed as minimally as possible; fresh, smoke-free air; absolutely no alcohol or tobacco; loose-fitting clothing; regular exercise; and proper rest. Like other “alt-medicine” trends in the 1800s, Trall’s school was a bitter foe of what he called “allopathic medicine” — the practice of attacking disease by giving patients drugs. This, of course, was the school that eventually won; but that happened primarily because of the drugs that became
Image: Oregon Historical Quarterly
Drs. Gideon and Adeline Weed as they appeared later in their lives, circa 1890.
Image: Oregon Historical Quarterly
When they first arrived in Salem, Drs. Adeline and Gideon Weed rented an office on the second floor of this book shop, in 1858.
available after 1880 or so, which quickly made allopathy the most effective approach. But in 1856, when the Weeds graduated from Trall’s school, that was hardly the case. Almost everyone knew someone who’d gone to a traditional doctor and died after a week or two of enduring copious bleeding, blistering chest poultices, “heroic” purgatives, and other unpleasant therapies. (By the way, “Allopath” is a loaded term today — when it’s used, it’s usually intended as an insult, like “quack doctor” — but for convenience, I’m going to use it in this article to refer to pre-GermTheory mainstream physicians.) Water-cure doctors like Ada and Gideon did as well as or better than the allopaths. The allopaths, who were much more numerous, had noticed this, and it sharpened their antipathy. Upon graduation, Ada and Gideon set out for San Francisco to set up their practice there. When they got
there, though, they found an established practitioner whose business they didn’t want to horn in on; so they headed north to Oregon. When they arrived, the two of them settled into Salem — then Oregon’s second-largest city — and hung out their shingle. That was in 1858. They also immediately started giving public lectures, and it was in the course of those that Ada ended up in her first fight with a newspaper editor: the redoubtable Asahel Bush, editor of the Salem Statesman and leader of the “Salem Clique” of Democrats. Bush attended one of Ada’s first lectures, and covered it in a breezy, lazy editorial headlined “A Woman’s Sphere.” It basically pats Ada on the pretty little head, complimenting her on her “generally correct intonation” and “tolerable manner,” before remarking that “the whole lecture was leavened with ‘women’s rights’ and other modern ‘reform’ humbugs” and going on to opine that
such things were fine so long as Woman was not led to think she could forsake the kitchen and nursery to contend with the “sterner sex” in the courthouse or on the quarterdeck. It’s worth looking the whole passage up (there’s not room to reproduce it here, but you can find it in the Nov. 23, 1858, issue.) That’s especially true for old newspaper editors, who will immediately recognize it as the kind of fluffy, unimportant fill one bangs out on deadline when there’s a hole in the paper and nothing to plug it with. Old newspaper editors will also know, from bitter experience, that those are the most dangerous parts of the paper, because the attack, when it comes, is completely unexpected and usually rocksolid. One doesn’t usually make a bad mistake when one’s full attention is being paid to the job at hand; it’s the casual nobody-could-possiblyobject-to-this puff piece that, dashed off halfheartedly and quickly forgotten about, will contain the poison pill of error
that will ruin your day. This appears to have been exactly what happened here. Bush found himself completely “pwned,” as modern gamers say, in the pages of his own newspaper. Ada pointed out that “women’s rights” had not been part of her talk at all, and that the cherry-picked example he’d cited had been an obvious sarcastic remark that he had chosen to pretend she had meant seriously. Bush’s response was positively petulant. Accusing her of trying to gin up a newspaper controversy for publicity, he addressed a couple of her points very unconvincingly and then, declaring he had no interest in wasting any more time debating with such an obvious simpleton, declared that no further correspondence from her would be printed. It was a bad mistake, really, for both of them. Bush, who would grow into his job and become one of the best journalists in Oregon history, surely didn’t come out of this smelling like a rose (although it’s hard to say, since he cut off the topic so curtly in his letters-to-the-editor section). And for the Weeds, who had in Salem’s allopaths and homeopaths a pre-existing and well-connected army of enemies, Bush was maybe the one person in town they could least afford to antagonize. But the bigger problem was, as hydropathy practitioners, the Weeds needed a fairly expensive facility — they basically needed what we’d recognize today as a luxury spa, with hot tub, cold pool, showers, and steam room, in addition to residential rooms for long-term patients. They just never managed to connect with an investor who saw enough value to justify the outlay; and their own attempts to raise the money on the lecture circuit weren’t panning out — their free lectures were well attended, but the paid ones weren’t. The pointed silence from the city’s newspaper made it hard to get the word out about what they were doing, and their well-connected professional enemies kept the local “coconut telegraph” buzzing with rumors that they were killing patients and going bankrupt. It was all too much, and in 1860 the couple pulled up stakes and left Salem, embarking on a long lecture tour that ended with them opening their practice in Sacramento. In Sacramento, things went OK; they went better when the couple followed one of the gold rushes into Nevada. But they never really “arrived” until 1869, when Gideon went back to medical school and earned an allopathic degree, and, armed with that, the two of them traveled to Seattle to set up shop.
There, they billed themselves as basically a “Dr. and Mrs.” couple. The combination of the two medical proficiencies made Gideon a powerful package, and gave Ada cover to give hygienicmedicine advice and lectures without making powerful enemies. They quickly rose in social prominence, and Gideon ended up serving two terms as mayor of Seattle. Ada’s advocacy of temperance, of course, made her a cornerstone of the local Women’s Christian Temperance Union. On women’s suffrage she didn’t have much to say until after other activists persuaded the Washington Territory’s legislature to extend the vote to women in 1883, when she suddenly realized that women, once enfranchised, voted overwhelmingly for prohibition. So when the territorial Supreme Court struck the law down in 1887, she rallied with other progressive women to oppose the decision. But she was always a prohibitionist first, and a suffragist second. Eventually the couple moved back to Sacramento, where Gideon practiced medicine until he suffered a paralytic stroke in the early nineteen-aughts; Ada cared for him and kept busy doing things for the community and working for Prohibition. And the two of them at last enjoyed the full respect and admiration of their community. “She has always been foremost in religious, philanthropic, and moral reform work,” wrote Frederick James Grant in his 1891 book, “History of Seattle, Washington.” “She is a lady of culture and possesses literary taste and ability of a high order.” She died of cancer in 1910, an esteemed and respected member of society. And it’s entirely possible that her smooth re-integration into the upper echelons of West Coast society is why, today, when asked who the Oregon Territory’s first female physician was, most people who think they know the answer (including, until just last week, me!) will say, “Bethenia Owens-Adair, in 1874” — and be wrong. (Sources: “Dr. Ada M. Weed, Social Reformer,” an article by G. Thomas Edwards published in the March 1977 issue of Oregon Historical Quarterly; archives of Salem Statesman, November 1858) Finn J.D. John teaches at Oregon State University and writes about odd tidbits of Oregon history. His book, Heroes and Rascals of Old Oregon, was recently published by Ouragan House Publishers. To contact him or suggest a topic: finn@offbeatoregon. com or 541-357-2222.
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U.S. 20 Corvallis-Newport Highway hazard tree clearing Travelers should expect delays up to 20 minutes on U.S. 20 Corvallis-Newport Highway as hazardous trees are removed near the road and a lane is closed in the work zone. The work zone will move between milepost 9 and 17 over five weeks, beginning Monday, December 16. Crews will be working 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday
through Thursday. Travelers should watch for flaggers and crews in the area. Trees are removed to enhance safety. Some trees can become a danger to travelers, especially in the winter. The Oregon Department of Transportation proactively identifies trees that may be vulnerable to wind or are growing too close to the road and removes them.
City of Rainier holiday closures Rainier city hall offices will be closed Tuesday, December 24 and Wednesday, December 25 in observance of the Christmas holiday. Offices will also be closed
Wednesday, January 1, New Year’s Day. The Rainier Public Library will be closed from Saturday, December 21, 2019 through Thursday, January 2, 2020.
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Sand bag pits are available to the public at two locations in Rainier.
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With a prediction of possibly unusual heavy amounts of precipitation beginning December 18 and lasting possibly through December 23, the City of Rainier Department of Public Works has opened sand bagging pits for use by the public without charge. Sand, bags, and shovels are in place at two locations—to the west of the city wastewater treatment facility on West A Street (in the RV parking area) and across West 2nd Street from the Rainier Fire Station. Both locations are open 24 hours a day and are completely self-service.