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Captured in California

Adam Corey Fleming.

JULIE THOMPSON chronicle1@countrymedia.net

After an almost two-week long manhunt, the man suspected of shooting two people in St. Helens was taken into custody on Monday, July 15, in Sacramento, California with the help of the U.S. Marshals Service.

Adam Corey Fleming, 31, originally fled the scene of the shooting reported at approximately 10:15 p.m. on July 2 at residence on Cowlitz Street. Following the report, officers with the St. Helens Police Department (SHPD) located two gunshot victims on scene, along with a 7-year-old girl that was found unharmed.

Both victims survived, one was shot in the upper arm and the other had sustained multiple gunshot wounds to his lower extremities, and were transported to a Portland area hospital.

It is unconfirmed how, exactly, Fleming was brought into custody, but the SHPD credits the U.S. Marshals for their assistance.

“The U.S. Marshals Service is a federal law enforcement agency that has access to many resources that we do not have at the local level,” public information officer Crystal Farnsworth said.

“Through their partnership and resources, we were able to locate Fleming.”

Farnsworth added the SHPD plans to extradite Fleming back to Oregon, but do not yet have an extradition date.

Prior to Fleming’s California arrest, he was last seen in Clackamas, Oregon around 2 a.m. on July 3 near a Denny’s restaurant.

According to court documents, Fleming is also charged with 15 counts of Encouraging Child Sexual Abuse in the First Degree in Clackamas County, alleged to have occurred on or between Feb. 21, 2017 and March 24, 2017.

Clackamas County’s Chief Deputy District Attorney, Chris Owen, said the charges relate to the downloading of child pornography. In court documents, a video involving explicit acts with an 8-year-old child is cited specifically.

In a May 20 affidavit in support of a motion to continue,

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Serving the Lower Columbia Region since 1891

New principal at Clatskanie Elementary think that the district staff and the school staff that I’ve met are really kind, welcoming, hard-working educators, and I’m excited to work with them.”

CHRISTINE MENGES chronicle2@countrymedia.net

Clatskanie Elementary School has a new principal.

Tiffany O’Donnell was hired to fill the position on July 1, according to an email from Cathy Hurowitz, Clatskanie School District Superintendent. The former principal, Brad Thorud, resigned on May 13 of this year, as The Chief previously reported.

The Chief talked with O’Donnell about her background and her plans for the future as the new principal.

3. What are your goals as the principal?

1. Can you briefly describe your educational and career background?

“I went to Lewis and Clark College my first year out of high school, then I moved to Warrenton, and I had my first child with my husband, and then we moved to northern California. There, I attended Solano Community College, then I transferred to UC Davis, and I got a BA in psychology.

I moved to southern Oregon and went to Southern Oregon University (SOU) and got my license to teach, and then I went to Portland State University and I got my educational administrator license and my master’s degree, an MS in Educational Leadership. After that, I went to SOU for continuing education.

“I was a middle school teacher, and I started out in Grants Pass, Oregon for one year. Then I was a middle school teacher in Beaverton, Oregon. Then I became a teacher on special assignment for Reynolds School District in Fairview, Oregon. Then I became an assistant principal in Eagle Point

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Tiffany O’Donnell became the new school principal for Clatskanie Elementary on July 1.

School District, Oregon. Then I was a principal at K-8 schools in Shady Cove, Oregon. Then I was a part-time administrator at an alternative school in Eagle Point.

Then I was an assistant principal at the same school for two years.

For the last five years, I’ve been an elementary school principal at a K-6 elementary school in Oakridge School District in Oakridge, Oregon.

“Altogether, it’s been eight years of being a middle school teacher, and 15 years of being an administrator.”

2. How is Clatskanie different from other school districts where you’ve taught? How is it similar?

“It’s similar in that it’s a small school district. Oakridge was smaller. It’s also rural. Oakridge was rural, so was Shady Cove.

I’ve spent most of my career in rural communities in Oregon. The differences are the school days, which are five days a week here.

I came from a four-days-a-week school. I’m really excited for five days a week, because I think that’s what’s better for our students. We have five shorter days, rather than four really long days.

We also have early release here.

That gives us uninterrupted time in our schedule to do planning.

It’s a K-6. CES has a gorgeous, well-supported stocked library, which I think is really important.

I think that’s going to help with our push to improve our literacy. I

“First, I want to work with the staff to help us define, or redefine, what is their vision, and with our community, what is the vision that this community has for our elementary students? So that defines our mission. Then, start developing our plan to improve our math scores. Spend some time looking at the research to see what steps we should make for improvement. A lot of that is going to come from our planning time, our early release time. And keep focusing on standards, defining it really clearly, having common assessments during the year. What are we going to do when kids can do it, what are we going to do when they can’t do it? It really gets down to the nitty gritty of planning and instruction. We’ll figure out where are they struggling, and what can we do to help kids get there?”

4. What are you most looking forward to?

“Why I’m really excited about CES is, it’s kind of like you’re a cook and you’re coming into the kitchen, and you look around in the kitchen, and you’re like, “wow, the kitchen in Clatskanie is pretty awesome.” The early release means I’m going to have some time to prepare this meal.

When I look in the cupboard,

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The fair has returned CHRISTINE MENGES chronicle2@countrymedia.net

The Columbia County Fair and Rodeo began on July 17, and will run through July 21 at the Columbia County Fairgrounds.

“I think the fair as a whole is something that everyone looks forward to,” Amanda McFeron, Vice President of the Columbia County Fair Board said.

This year’s theme, according to McFeron, is “Barn in the USA.” The fair will include all the traditional events that people look forward to each year. Some of these standard events include wild cow milking, music entertainment, animal barns, a pie eating contest, quilting, canning, photography, the My Fair Lady Pageant, the Junior Rodeo, the Northwest Pro Rodeo Association (NPRA) Rodeo, the Market Auction and of course, the carnival, with many different rides and attractions.

There will also be Vendor Village, selling both food and crafts.

There are new events on the schedule this year as well, McFeron said. One of the biggest new attractions is the demolition derby, which will take place on Sunday from noon to 3 p.m. There are also many new performers, like Jackson Michelson, who will be performing on Friday and Saturday from 9:30 to 11:30 p.m. Sara McMahon, originally from Vernonia, will be performing on Saturday from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Jessie Leigh will be performing on Friday from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. There will also be the “Piano Juggler,” who will be strolling along the fairgrounds starting at noon on all of the days except for Wednesday. Rich Aimes, another strolling entertainer, will be at the fairgrounds through Sunday. There will also be music performances from the St. Helens Public Library Ukulele Orchestra, as well as the Scappoose High School Alumni Band.

McFeron said the average attendance for the fair and rodeo each year is between 22,000 and 25,000 people.

While it is impossible to predict exactly how many people will buy tickets for the fair this year, McFeron already has a good idea that a fair amount of people will turn out.

One of the things that has recently changed is how tickets are sold, with last year being the first year that the fair did online ticket sales, according to McFeron. Already, McFeron can see an improvement with online ticket sales compared to last year.

“Last year was not as good as we would have liked it. But this year we have probably tripled the sales online already than we did last year,” McFeron said.

Part of the reason, McFeron said, is that the system is no longer new, and people now know that buying tickets online is an option. However, those who have not yet purchased their tickets can still purchase tickets at the door.

The fair is funded mostly from proceeds from each year’s fair, and from sponsorships, McFeron said. This year, the county has also started to contribute toward the fair budget to fund some improvements.

The county stopped contributing to the budget in 2011, but has made small contributions since then, McFeron said.

But a big portion of the work behind bringing the fair to Columbia County is done by volunteers.

Last year, the fair had 315 officially recorded volunteers, according to records from the Fair Board.

As for the future of the Columbia County Fair and Rodeo, McFeron said that the board is always open to new ideas. That’s part of the reason why the Demolition Derby came to the fair this year, because that’s something a lot of residents indicated in the surveys that the fair board runs each year, McFeron said.

“We always want to expand. We always want to continue to grow and to continue to keep the fair going,” McFeron said.

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Members of the Columbia County Fair and Rodeo Court at the 2018 Columbia County Fair and Rodeo.

Gate Admission: Adult (18-59) $9 Senior (60+) $6 Youth (7-17) $6 6 and under FREE Fair opens at 10 a.m.

Wednesday, July 17, Saturday, July 20, and Sunday, July 21; and 12 p.m. Thursday, July 18 and Friday, July 19

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A little boy clings to a sheep in the Junior Rodeo at the 2018 Columbia County Fair and Rodeo.

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Assessing Oregon’s tobacco retail environment, statewide and locally JULIE THOMPSON chronicle1@countrymedia.net

The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) recently worked with multiple county health department staffs to conduct a statewide assessment of Oregon retailers that carry tobacco to study tobacco industry marketing and the product’s reach – specifically where minors are concerned.

The report generated by the OHA highlights ads and products designed to appeal to youth, as well as heavy marketing to communities of color and people living with lower incomes. It also included recommended strategies to help move retailers to a healthier position.

“The tobacco industry spends more than $100 million per year to market its products in Oregon communities,” Lillian Shirley, director of the OHA Public Health Division said. “It pours most of this money into convenience stores, grocery stores and other retailers where people shop daily.

They know that kids who see tobacco marketing are more likely to start smoking and that tobacco ads trigger cravings for people trying to quit.”

Locally, the County Tobacco Prevention and Education Program (TPEP) coordinator and the Alcohol and Drug Prevention (ADPEP) coordinator made the visits to 38 retailers out of the county’s 40 local stores that carry tobacco.

In Columbia County, officials found that three in eight retailers advertised tobacco or e-cigarettes outside the store, and 97 percent sold flavored products. 17 percent of those stores sold products within a foot of toys, candy, gum, slushies and sodas, or ice cream.

“I think one thing that was surprising was the amount of flavored tobacco advertising,” Columbia Health Services (CHS) prevention coordinator Heather Oliver said. “In Oregon, nine out of ten tobacco retailers sold fruit and candy flavored e-cigarettes or cigarillos.”

The research conducted

by CHS and other officials found that e-cigarettes are

being sold locally in such flavors as “Pebbles Donuts” and “Tropical Fusion” which they say are aimed squarely at youth and young adults.

According to Smokefree Oregon’s report, a national study of youth and adults that examined flavored tobacco product use found that four out of five youth and young adults who have used tobacco started with a flavored tobacco product.

“Flavored tobacco products can mask the harshness of tobacco and tend to attract youth,” Oliver said.

Among 11th graders in Columbia County, e-cigarette use was higher than cigarette smoking in 2017, according to the report. It also found that by 8th grade, six percent of Columbia County’s students had used cigarettes. 13 percent of the county’s 8th graders had reportedly used e-cigarettes.

One of the problems Oregon faces, Oliver said, is that it is one of the few states that does not have statewide tobacco retail licensure. According to the report, having a system that tracks tobacco retailers and enforces laws that keep kids from buying tobacco is critical to reducing tobacco use.

“Tobacco retail licensure is the first step in addressing some of these concerns,” Oliver said. “Having a system in place so we know who is selling tobacco can help ensure that tobacco products don’t get into youths’ hands.”

Recommendations to combat tobacco industry marketing and advertising Aside from recommending that Oregon have a tobacco retail licensure that has meaningful fees and penalties, the report recommends the following: Raising the price of tobacco products: According to the report, raising the price of tobacco is the most effective way to reduce tobacco consumption. Approaches in this area would include prohibiting discounts, multipack offers and coupons that keep tobacco cheap. Statewide, 64 percent of retailers used these discounts, which officials said make tobacco more accessible to youth and people with lower incomes.

Regulating flavored tobacco products: The OHA said flavored tobacco is attractive to kids and masks the harsh taste and feel of tobacco products. The report recommends policies that restrict flavors in order to make tobacco products less appealing to youth. Statewide, 93 percent of retailers sold these products.

Proximity and density policies: The OHA suggests that zoning restrictions can cap the number of retailers in an area, and a minimum distance between retailers should be required. Retail locations near schools or other areas youth frequent should also be prohibited, the report said.

Tobacco free pharmacies: The report recommends prohibiting the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies where people go for medicine, flu shots and health care advice.

In 2018, Oregon began enforcing a new tobacco minimum legal sales age of 21. According to the OHA, initial results of the law show it may reduce the number of youth who start smoking.

Some cities and counties, like Klamath Falls and Multnomah County, have begun using tobacco retail licensure to track the sale of tobacco products, ensure retailers comply with the new sales age, and keep tobacco products out of the hands of children. Clatsop County is reportedly considering a similar proposal.

“Clatsop County school officials and public health staff have reported students using e-cigarettes and other nicotine-delivery devices at alarming rates,” Clatsop County health promotion specialist Julia Hesse said.

“It seems inconceivable that we need a license to sell Christmas trees and own dogs in Oregon, but not to sell tobacco or nicotine products. We need a better way to hold retailers accountable if they illegally sell to youth.”

To learn more about the retail assessment results, broken down by county, and the ways communities can get involved, visit: https:// smokefreeoregon.com/whatyou-can-do/.

New port commission approves lease extensions and land exchanges

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Kindle recipients at Hudson Park Elementary.

Hudson Park students receive Kindles after meeting reading goals For the fifth year in a row, Hudson Park Elementary students participated in a schoolwide reading incentive program, Kindles for Books, sponsored by Rainier Masonic Lodge No. 24. For the second year in a row, the Masonic Lodge donated 28 Kindles.

In order to be entered into the drawing, students in kindergarten through second grade had to read (or have been read to) a minimum of five books per month. The books had to be in addition to the regular curriculum.

Students in grades three through six had to meet their individual Accelerated Reader (AR) points goal each quarter.

As a school, Hudson Park students met their reading goals 484 times this year.

In the five years we have

had the Kindles for Books program, Hudson Park students have met reading goals 3,885 times.

The school said it would like to thank the Masonic Lodge for their continued support with encouraging reading and for the generous donation of the Kindles.

Kindle Recipients: Kindergarten Cora Heil Jewels Kamppi Gracie Polston Elliot Wilder

Tristan Johns Keeley Rininger Hailey Turner Third Grade Miyah Hass Alora Jefferson Sheilynn Parcel Ethan Peterson Fourth Grade Kacen Hamilton Bailie Jennings Faith Langhorne Braxton Mattinen Fifth Grade Joseph Elliott-Bach Savanah LaRue Vivian Shulda Hannah Stogner

First Grade Alex Ebert Thomas Hoeschen Gracelyn Nelson Jasmine Robb

Sixth Grade Miley Cook LillyAnna Langhorne Ina Lever Kasey Neal

Second Grade Zari Abel

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Miriam House, Property/Operations Assistant Manager for the port, explains a resolution to port commissioners.

CHRISTINE MENGES chronicle2@countrymedia.net

The Port of Columbia County unanimously passed two resolutions at their Wednesday, July 10 meeting.

The first resolution concerned a fourth amendment to the lease for U.S. Pipe Fabrication, LLC, located at Multnomah Industrial Park. The second resolution concerned a land exchange closing extension with Scappoose Industrial Airpark.

Resolution 2019-35 was a fourth amendment to the U.S. Pipe’s lease, originally established on Jan. 23, 2014, according to port records.

The amendment both extends their lease and reduces the extension terms for the lease from five-year terms to three-year terms.

According to Miriam House, Property/Operations Assistant Manager for the port, the reason for the decreased extension terms is to give the company’s new management personnel time to understand their business.

“We normally have a five-year lease, they wanted one year, so we negotiated a three-year lease,” House said.

House also said that the company’s next lease will be re-evaluated for an extension

renewal, meaning that after three years, it is possible for the company to request to go back to five-year terms.

Included with the lease amendment was an early termination right, including fees for terminating early, which is a portion of their annual base rent.

Resolution 2019-36 was a land exchange closing extension for Scappoose Industrial Airpark, LLC (SIA).

During the July 10 meeting, Craig Allison, Property and Operations Manager for the port explained that this amendment was for an agreement that the port had

previously negotiated with SIA about a land exchange.

Port documents indicate that the original closing deadline for the land exchange was June 30 of this year. The resolution grants a closing date of Sept. 30, 2019.

Allison said during the meeting that the land exchange requires a review and approval of the agreement by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and that the project requires three more months to complete it.

The port granted the extension, passing the resolution.

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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.

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

RAINIER

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

ST. HELENS

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 Michele Holloway 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

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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

SCAPPOOSE

Grace Lutheran Church 51737 Columbia River Hwy., Scappoose 503-543-6555 Joshua Wiley Scappoose Foursquare Church 33404 SW JP West, Scappoose 503-543-5069 Pastor Daniel Schmoll St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church 51555 SW Old Port Rd., Scappoose 503-543-2110 Chuck Wood

WARREN

Bethany Lutheran Church 34721 Church Rd., Warren 503-397-2050, Pastor Scott Grace Baptist Church 58690 Ross Rd., Warren 503-397-0405 Pastor Dean Christensen Warren Baptist Church 56799 Columbia River Highway, 503-397-1005 Pastor Randy Thomas Warren Community Fellowship 56523 Columbia River Highway, 503-397-4387 Pastor Cary Wacker

•O bituaries • • Karen Nolan

Nov. 18, 1959 ~ July 14, 2019 Karen passed away peacefully at her home surrounded by family on July 14, 2019, after a short but courageous battle with cancer. She was born on Nov. 18, 1959 in Astoria, Oregon, to Beverly and Johnnie Palm. A lifelong resident of Clatskanie, she graduated from Clatskanie High School in 1978. She married Gary Nolan on March 3, 1979.

Karen was an amazing cook and had a sharp sense of humor. She could often be found working outside or alongside her husband in their wood shop. She enjoyed collecting record albums and listening to a wide variety of music. Most of all, she loved spending time with her

family.

Karen was preceded in death by her father Johnnie Palm.

She is survived by her husband of 40 years Gary; daughter Samantha Nolan

White (Derek); son Jonathan Nolan (Jessica); mother Beverly Palm; brothers Rick Palm (Norma), Gary Palm (Gayle), Donald Drayton (Mary), and Bruce Palm; sister Vicki Remick (Howard); sister and best friend Cheryl Palm; grandson Harlan, for whom she hung the moon; as well as many cousins, nieces, and nephews.

A celebration of her life will be held at 2 p.m. on Sat., July 20, 2019 at the residence of Duane Nolan on Jolma Road. Please follow signs.

In lieu of flowers, the family would greatly appreciate donations to support the incredible work of Community Home Health and Hospice in Longview.

Marilyn Gertrude Beckham May 11, 1930 ~ June 18, 2019

Miss Marilyn Gertrude Beckham passed away on June 18, 2019 at Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital. There will not be a service per her request.

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VERNONIA

Nehalem Valley Bible Church 500 North St., 503-429-5378 Pastor Gary Taylor Vernonia Christian Church 410 North St. 503-429-6522 Pastor Sam Hough St. Mary’s Catholic Church 960 Missouri Ave., 503-429-8841 Father Dale Waddil, Father Luan Tran

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Rainier Mayor Jerry Cole (right) swears in Officer Peter Manning as the new sergeant for the Rainier Police Department at a July 8, 2019 Rainier City Council meeting.

Rainier Police patrolman Peter Manning was sworn in as a sergeant with the agency at a Rainier city council meeting on June 8, 2019 by Mayor Jerry Cole.

Manning was promoted to the vacancy which occurred when veteran officer Ryan Murphy was selected as Chief Deputy with the Columbia County Sheriff’s

Office.

Beginning as a reserve officer with the Rainier Police Department in 2000, Manning became a full-time officer in 2005.

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Dr. John’s Corner: How dangerous is your blood pressure?

Chief guest column by DR. JOHN BRIGGS

When looking at metaanalysis of those on blood pressure medication against those not on blood pressure medication, the studies found no measurable difference as far as protection against stroke, congestive heart failure, or mortality. In actuality, in several categories, patients did slightly worse on the drugs as opposed to using placebos.

Treatments for high blood pressure has been one of the greatest conspiracies directed toward getting patients on drugs for the rest of their lives. Studies which have been manipulated to shine a positive light on the drugs used, have been presented to well meaning physicians as a means of promoting these chemicals.

Instead of observing the patient to establish the cause of hypertension, we see, as in

most of modern medicine, the use of a chemical to bypass correcting the cause. For most of the medical field, the cause of hypertension goes unknown.

Salt is not the cause. Cutting fat and salt out of the diet can only lower your blood pressure by an average of only 2.8 off the systolic and 1.1 on the diastolic.

When we look at the liver and it’s influence on blood pressure, other drugs which seriously influence the liver are more suspect of raising your blood pressure than fat and salt.

The one greatest influence on blood pressure happens to be age. As we age, systems of the body change, and seeing a very high blood pressure in an older individual is expected over the teen. When your doctor tries to get your blood pressure to the level of a teenager, chances are, you won’t feel so good. Energy levels tank, and delivery of nutrition the all the cells of your body

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The love of sugars and other arterial damaging foods create vascular narrowing from the inflammatory response. When blood flow to the kidneys becomes compromised, they secrete chemicals which raise blood pressure. There are natural ways to open these vessels without surgical intervention using stents or bypasses. Your body has an innate ability to restore normal function if treated correctly with foods and enzymes.

Obesity is another cause of hypertension. Because of the increase in tissue, the heart has to pump harder to insure blood makes it to every tissue.

When insulin is elevated due to type two diabetes, we see increased vascular damage and elevations in blood pressure. Something as small as a 20 pound weight loss can lower systolic blood pressure from 10 to 16 and diastolic from 8 to 13 points. This is far superior to taking a

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Senator Johnson’s firm opposition stopped the rush to push this flawed legislation onto the public.

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damaging drug for the rest of your life. Changing your diet to one of low carbohydrates and elimination of commercial wheat products, while improving weight bearing exercise can be a real game changer.

Of course, stress is one of the greatest causes of hypertension. Anxiety, (which runs rampant in our society today as evidenced by the dramatic amount of medications dispensed for it), establishes a corresponding secretion of adrenalin resulting in vasoconstriction. This narrowing of the vessels is often mistaken for plaque build-up, but is transient and the result of anxiety. Beta blockers are used to block the neurological signals from the brain to the arteries to relax them.

Stress relief through deep breathing and learning how to let go of the fear, worry, and negative emotions is a far better way to counter this one.

Often times, the over consumption of simple carbohy-

drates results in the adrenal glands having to right the ship with additional cortisol and adrenalin, resulting in more high blood pressure.

When the liver is overloaded, it’s like having a plugged filter causing the heart to have to beat harder to compensate.

The various drugs used initially to lower blood pressure put an added burden on the liver resulting in higher blood pressure. What can’t be adequately cleared by the liver is then shunted to the kidneys for clearance. Again, we see the clogged filter comparison in this one.

When this is the case, the twenty one day purification protocol we use here in the office is a good way to clean the slate and re-evaluate the underlying cause of hypertension. Again, slight elevations in blood pressure as you age aren’t signs that you must take a drug to avoid cardiovascular damage.

The most common of conditions where just the

systolic (top number) is elevated, that’s primarily a condition of obstruction. Here is where assisting the liver and gallbladder being cleared can make the greatest impact.

This is an area where a good purification program to aid in restoring normal function to the liver, gallbladder, kidneys, and gut can make all the difference in the world. We have the tools and technology to pull this one off. Now you just have to exercise discipline to do it.

Dr. John Briggs is a 1980 graduate of the National College of Naturopathic Medicine and longtime northwest practitioner. His practice involves diagnostic and therapeutic modalities that he says have stood the test of time.

He believes that each person exists dynamically as a spirit being, possessing a soul made up of their mind, will, and emotions, living in a body which requires specific care and nutrition.

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your ballots at the end of July. Read the biographies of the candidates. Decide who has the history and Chief knowledge to help make the necessary changes needed. FINN Remember, the Co-op is Sen. Betsy Johnson T not accountable to any state deserves thanks and credit The or federal organization, only for her courageous stand in to the Board of Director you Rice opposing HB 2020. With vote into office! If we don’t Cart over 100 amendments, it the h do something different, was obvious that HB 2020 things that are unsustainable grea Scott McMullen had many problems. Even will stay the same. Is this out o Astoria though some industries what you want? Remember, grou were able to get some relief, purs member-owners are the it was obvious that large It only entity with the power increases in energy costs Burr to initiate change. I can’t Erika Paleck would negatively impact tell you how to vote, but I some Vernonia all Oregonians. Fuel prices as a can introduce you to two would likely rise over 20 people who can, from the gold cents per gallon in the first knowledge of the candidates Snak year of implementation, and Long power outages initiate change. A vote for ho an only get worse each year as are dangers to our health, Jennifer Johnston District 5 got t the supply of carbon credits livelihoods and quality of life. and Dave Crawford District from shrinks. It is understandBoard of Directors’ policy 2 is a vote for change. You legen able that so many businesses and priorities are crucial asthe G can vote in both districts. were considering leaving pects of how this is managed.

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I am running for the T You will soon be receivSen. Johnson recognized District 5 Board of Directors ends Mary Stockeras m ing your invitation to West that we need to reduce fossil seat, but all members vote for Oregon Electrics annual North Plainsas th fuel use in ways that don’t all directors. My goals and near a lon mou SUBSCRIPTION RATES: The Chief (USPS 116-360) is published POSTMASTER: the r Send address changes to One Year Columbia County & Eastern “T weekly by Country Media, Inc. The Chief Clatsop County: $52/year tradi 148 N. Nehalem St., P.O. Box 8 PO Box 8 One Year Out of County: $72 tavus Clatskanie, Oregon 97016 Clatskanie, $3 senior discount for yearly sub long Periodicals postage paid at OR 97016 was Clatskanie, OR 97016 the r perfo pass with that pass cano D India Editorial Policy: Opinions expressed on this page are independent of The Chief views and are solely those of the writers expressing them. tunn Letters Policy: The Chief welcomes letters of 250 words or fewer. Letters are subject to editing for length, clarity or grammar. They should be concise, to the point and original. Letters dealing with disputes or containing criticism of trepi private individuals or businesses will not be published. All letters must be signed (unless emailed) and include the author’s full name, address and daytime telephone number (for verification purposes only). Letters will be published “T at the editor’s discretion. Letters also may be published on our website.

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My promise: to meet members directly at least 3 times a year in different locations in the district (all members welcome), bringing managers along. If we can’t answer your concerns immediately, we’ll take your contact information to get you solid answers.

I won’t promise to magically drop the rates, but I’m open to new cost-effective technologies. Rates are primarily based on indispensable personnel and equipment—both maintenance and replacement. We still pay for recent massive storm/flood damage. FEMA payouts only cover 75%, and only for locations declared Disaster Areas. The only source of income for the coop is what we members pay.

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Clatskanie Grows: The bees knees and clobbering leaf miners Chief guest column by CHIP BUBL

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Columbia County Fair: July 17 – July 21 Columbia County Beekeepers Group: Monthly meeting on Thursday, July 18 at 6 p.m. at the OSU Columbia County Extension office in St. Helens.

July 27, Bee Education Day. Clatskanie Farmers Market, 10:00 a.m. - 2 p.m. Copes Park, Clatskanie. Bee there for the buzz and honey.

Food Preservation classes: Jam and jelly season is officially here and gardens are starting to yield vegetables too.

Get yourself ready to preserve your harvest by joining OSU Extension Educator Jenny Rudolph for a talk on safe home food preservation methods.

This event will also provide an opportunity for you to have your pressure canner gauges tested for free. Gauges should be tested for accuracy each year before using. So bring your canner with you.

Fern Hill Grange Food Preservation Talk & Pressure Gauge Testing July 31 at 6:30 p.m.

Other food preservation classes: Contact the Extension office (503 397-3462) for de-tails. To register online go to: http://bit.ly/ColumbiaFoodPreservation.

These classes are $20 apiece. Secret to Perfect Pickles (8/6), Making Herb Infused Jelly (8/13), Drying Fruits, Vegetables, and Meat (8/20), The Science and Art of Canning Salsa (8/28). All will be held at the Columbia Soil and Water Conservation District Office, 35285 Millard Rd, St Helens, OR 97051 Hunt to Home: Game Processing Saturday, 9/21/2019, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m., Columbia Soil & Water Conservation District office at Mil-lard Road in St. Helens. $40 Are you a novice or seasoned hunter looking to improve your butchering and processing skills? Class includes hands-on butchery instruction, freezer wrapping, and a pressure canning demonstration. Preregister.

Got food preservation questions? Give us a call at 503-397-3462. Food Preservation recipes and fact sheets can be accessed online at: https:// extension.oregonstate.edu/ food/preservation Beets and chard clobbered by leaf miners Every year, insects surprise us. Sometimes, it is by their absence. So far, there have been few stink bugs and yellow jackets. But this summer, chard, spinach, and beet greens were attacked by an explosion of the beet/spinach/chard leaf miner. Why so may this year?

We really don’t know but the general consensus is that the mild winter may have played a role in getting them off to an early start.

Leaf mining starts with small gray to black flies with yellow stripes. You probably will never see them. The adult flies mate and the female deposits her 3 or 4 hexagonal eggs on

standpoint, leaf miner damaged leaves are unsaleable and can represent quite a loss. An intrepid home gardener will eat the undamaged portions of the leaf with no concerns.

On sugar beets, the maggots reduce the amount of sugar produced.

After feeding, the maggots pupate.

Sometimes they

Clatskanie Grows the undersides of nice leaves.

Sometimes, she sucks sugar from the leaf herself. Eggs hatch in 3 to 10 days and the little legless maggots burrow into the leaf and then proceed to mine out all the juicy bits between the upper and lower leaf surface.

What they leave, besides some frass (aka poop), are sizeable papery leaf epidermis blotches.

These blotches can get quite large when several maggots sometimes join in a feeding frenzy. From a farmer’s

stay within the leaf, comforted by its protection. But generally, they drop to the ground and seek out a crack ~ two-inch crack in the soil to hide them while they undergo their conversion to a fly. That takes 1025 days. There can be three to four generations per summer.

The last set of maggots winter over in the soil and emerge in late April to early May. Usually, damage is worse on your first crop since they are often attacked just when they are

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really starting to grow.

So what can a gardener do? Since the maggots often overwinter in the soil below their feeding site, rotate spinach, beets, and chard each year. Protecting the crop with row co-vers from start to finish works great if you rotate your plots. Otherwise, you trap the soil emerging flies inside the cover. Insecticides don’t really work for home gardeners since the proper timing is hard to determine. Other methods that may help include squishing the tiny maggots in small blotches when you first see them.

Alternatively, remove and destroy large, infested leaves.

Since this leaf miner will eat lambsquarters (a fairly tasty weed when young). Remove them to reduce alternate hosts.

Sometimes tiny beneficial wasps will attack the maggots but they are fairly protected inside the leaf. I have seen yellow jackets trying to get to active leaf feeding maggots to eat them.

Chip Bubl OSU Extension/ Columbia County: 503 3973462, 505 N. Columbia River

The Oregon State University Extension office in Columbia County publishes a monthly newsletter on gardening and farming topics (called County Living) written/edited by yours truly. All you need to do is ask for it and it will be mailed or emailed to you. Call 503 397-3462 to be put on the list. Alternatively, you can find it on the web at http://extension.oregonstate.edu/columbia/ and click on newsletters.

Many Extension publications available online Are you putting up salsa, saving seeds, or thinking about planting grapes? OSU has a large number of its publications available for free download. Just go to https://catalog. extension.oregonstate.edu/ .

Click on publications and start exploring.

The Extension Service offers its programs and materials equally to all people.

Contact information for the Extension office Oregon State University Extension Service – Columbia County 505 N. Columbia River Highway St. Helens, OR 97051 503 397-3462, Email: chip.bubl@oregonstate.edu

Offbeat Oregon History: Was the Bridge of the Gods a real thing? Almost certainly, yes

Photo: Eric Prado

The southern face of Table Mountain, including the cutaway area from which the Bonneville Landslide split off.

Chief guest column by FINN J.D. JOHN

The opening scene of The Warlord of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ third “John Carter of Mars” book, has the hero paddling up the great River Iss as it flows out of a long, dark underground passage, in hot pursuit of a suspected spy.

It is very likely that Burroughs — who spent some time in the late 1800s as a cowboy and later a gold-dredge operator in the Snake River country of Idaho and Eastern Oregon — got the idea for this feature from the Native American legends of the “Bridge of the Gods,” on the Columbia River.

The legend — or legends, rather, since there are as many different versions as there were Indian tribes near the river — tells of a long tunnel beneath a mountain, through which the river once ran.

“The Indians here have a tradition,” wrote Rev. Gustavus Hines in 1859, “that a long time ago the mountain was joined together over the river, and that the river performed a subterraneous passage for some distance, with a slow current, and that their people used to pass up and down with their canoes without difficulty.”

During this time, the Indians apparently used the tunnel with considerable trepidation, though.

“The Klickitats on the Yakima Reservation told their friend Lucullus McWhorter, probably 30 years ago (circa 1920), about their ancestors’ method of travel through the gorge,” Ella E. Clark wrote in her 1952 article in the Oregon Historical Quarterly. “All

occupants of the canoes, except those necessary to man the oars, would land when they neared the bridge or tunnel, walk around to the opposite side, and reembark there. The oarsmen always told their friends goodbye, fearing that the destruction of the bridge, prophesied by the medicine men, might take place at any moment.”

An elderly woman from the Wishram tribe, interviewed in 1927, said her family legends say the tunnel was so long, and so dark, that tribe members had to tie their canoes together to avoid crashing into each other.

Then one day, she added, one of her ancestors, fishing from the bank by The Dalles, felt the earth shake, and saw fire blasting from the mountains.

“Soon the water began to rise higher and higher, the river to become deeper and broader,” Clark writes.

“Then an Indian runner appeared. ‘The bridge has fallen!’ he called out. ‘The Great Spirit has spoken!’”

Another Indian legend, recounted by a railroad surveyor named George Gibbs, also says the collapse was accompanied by a double volcanic eruption: “Mount Hood and Mount St. Helens, they said, were man and wife,” Clark writes. “They quarreled and threw fire at one another, St. Helens being the victor.

Since then Mount Hood has been afraid, for St. Helens has a strong heart and still burns.”

Pioneer James Strong, who spent 1854 in Yakima country and got to be good friends with a very old Yakima man, quotes him saying, “When I was a small boy, my grandfather, then an old man, told me that he

remembered perfectly well when the Columbia at the Cascades ran under the land and there were no rapids.

The spirit of Mount St. Helens and the spirit of Mount Hood used to go across the natural bridge to visit each other. But one day the spirit of St. Helens became angry and shook it down.”

There are many more legends of the Bridge of the Gods, most of them featuring some sort of romantic triangle or marital discord among the nearby mountains that resulted in the destruction of the bridge. They differ in many ways, but every single one of them includes the underground-river feature, and the collapse forming the Cascades — the twomile stretch of rapids in which early pioneers on the Oregon Trail had so much trouble. The Cascades were submerged by the impoundment behind Bonneville Dam in the 1930s, but while they existed they were a formidable obstacle; the river narrowed to 450 feet wide and dropped 40 vertical feet in just two miles.

Being as the Cascades were two miles long, it seems likely that the tunnel, if it existed, was at least that long.

But, did it exist?

The scientific consensus is largely skeptical about the tunnel story. Geological evidence shows that around 1450 A.D. a massive landslide off Table Mountain, on the Washington side, buried the river under a massive heap of debris, covering 5½ square miles and rising 200 feet above the river — three times the height of Bonneville Dam. The river then slowly rose behind this obstacle

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An illustration titled “Wrecked in the Rapids,” showing an Oregon Trail emigrant party coming to grief in the Cascades, from Frances Fuller Victor’s book Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains.

Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

The top of the Cascade rapids as they appeared in 1929, shot from an airplane flying around 2,000 feet. The mountainous toe jutting out from the right is the Bonneville Landslide; the broad expanse of river in the foreground is what remains of the impoundment the landslide formed.

— taking, perhaps, years to do it — creating a lake-like impoundment and flooding a bunch of forest land. Finally, the river overtopped the barrier at the southern end; rapid erosion carved a new narrow channel between rocks (releasing a great flood downstream) and forming the Cascades.

And all of this would have happened in the mid-1400s.

So far, no one has found actual geological evidence of the Columbia going underground. But, of course, absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence.

Moreover, the structure of Table Mountain is like a great tilted birthday cake, with thick layers of Columbia basalt sandwiching layers of softer clay and rubble.

“What you’ve got is a deck of cards that is pointing and sliding toward the river,” Alex Bourdeau, an archaeologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, told an Oregonian reporter

in 1999.

It’s not hard to imagine the great slabs of granite falling into the old riverbed, leaving a tiny core of soft clay and soggy river silt running all the way through at the base of the great dam; the mounting pressure of the impounded water slowly making headway through it; and, eventually, a drop or two leaking out the other side.

Once that happened, it would have been a matter of time, and not much of it, before the entire river was roaring through that little hole in the hillside.

And in fact, there is one Indian legend that follows that scenario with almost uncanny precision: “Among the Colvilles,” Clark writes, “is the tradition that a lake once covered what is now the valley of the Columbia and its tributaries — a vast lake separated from the Pacific Ocean by the Cascade Mountains. Coyote, hero and demigod in hundreds of

Indian tales, dug a tunnel through the mountains in order to make it possible for salmon to come up to his people. The draining of the lake formed the Columbia River. The rocks over the tunnel were shaken down by an earthquake; thus the rapids were formed.”

Science has not yet found confirming evidence that the Columbia River flowed, like Edgar Rice Burroughs’ fictional River Iss on Mars, through a miles-long underground channel. But to believe that it never did, one has to ignore the folkloric testimony of every Native American culture that would have experienced such a tunnel firsthand.

Now, granted, one piece of folklore is pretty poor evidence, and two are not much better. But when every single folk tale tells the same story, and there’s no hard geographical evidence to rule it out — what are the odds it’s not true?

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Mondays: • Oregon Hunters Association Columbia County Chapter membership meetings are held the second Monday of each month at the Kozy Korner Restaurant in St. Helens.

Meetings start at 7 p.m. or come early at 6:30 p.m. for some good food and visiting.

• Community Action Team Board of Directors meetings take place on the fourth Monday of every month unless the meeting would fall on a holiday, from 2 – 4 p.m. in the CAT boardroom, 125 N. 17th St., St. Helens.

• The American Legion Post 68 meets the second Monday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Legion Hall, 930 SE 5th St., Clatskanie.

Tuesdays: • The VFW meets on the second Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. at 960 SW 5th St., Clatskanie.

Wednesdays: • Rotary Club of Columbia County – St. Helens meeting is held at the Warren Country Inn at 12 p.m. For more information, call 503-397-2341.

Thursdays: • The Veterans breakfast is held the first Thursday of the month at 10 a.m. at the Legion Hall, 930 SE 5th St., Clatskanie.

• The regular monthly Rainier Chamber of Commerce meeting is held on the second Thursday of every month at 12 p.m. at the

United Methodist Church. Lunch is provided for a suggested $6 donation.

Saturdays: • NAMI Columbia County Support Group, National Alliance on Mental Illness, meets on the second Saturday of every month from 12 p.m.

– 2 p.m. at the Elks Veterans Bunker, 125 S. 13th St., St Helens, Oregon. For more information, contact Judy Thompson 503-397-6056 or contact NAMI Oregon at 503230-8009.

• The Rainier Historical Museum is open every Saturday from 12 p.m. – 4 p.m. It is located inside Rainier City Hall. Please enter the side entrance and take the elevator to the 3rd floor.

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Doug Hayes, Executive Director of the port, shows OMIC to conference attendees.

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Oregon Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici answers questions from the audience at an April 24 town hall in Clatskanie.

Today Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Chair of the Education & Labor Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services, applauded the House passage of the Raise the Wage Act. The Raise the Wage Act gradually raises the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour by 2025, indexes future minimum wage increases to median wage growth, and phases out the subminimum wages for tipped workers, youth, and workers with disabilities. The federal minimum wage has not been raised in more than a decade.

“The federal minimum wage has been stagnant

for too long, exacerbating income inequality, perpetuating wage gaps, and leaving too many individuals working full-time in poverty,” said Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici. “Today the House addressed the challenges faced by working families across the country by passing the Raise the Wage Act. All full-time workers should be able to afford basic needs like food, housing, transportation, healthcare, and childcare. The Raise the Wage Act is good for workers and good for the economy. I encourage my colleagues in the Senate to quickly pass this legislation.”

Recent analysis from the Economic Policy Institute

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found that raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour would benefit nearly 27,700 workers in Northwest Oregon. The Raise the Wage Act would raise wages for up to 33 million workers across the country. Today an individual working 40 hours per week and earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour earns only $15,080 annually, putting a family of two below the federal poverty level. Gradually raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour would lift millions of families out of poverty, address persistent wage gaps, help reduce poverty rates, and support working families.

The Port of Columbia County hosted the 106th Annual Conference of the Association of Pacific Ports (APP) on July 14-17. This is the first time the international conference has been held by the port. Over 75 delegates were in attendance, including port professionals, dignitaries, and maritime industry leaders from ports along the Pacific Rim in the U.S., British Columbia and Asia.

The conference was held in downtown Portland, Oregon, but attendees spent Tuesday touring the Port of Columbia County, with stops in Scappoose and St. Helens.

The port’s boundaries span 51 miles along the Columbia River, from the Clatsop County line in the northwest of Columbia County, to the Multnomah County line in the southeast.

Several public officials also attended the port district tour, with Senator Betsy

Johnson, D-Scappoose, giving the opening remarks at the welcome dinner on Sunday.

“It’s a big deal that we were selected to host this conference,” said Port of Columbia County Executive Director Doug Hayes.

“It allowed us to display the unique qualities of our port and show that we are a highly diversified driver of the economy in this region.”

Prior to the start of the conference, attendees could register to go either on a kayaking tour at the Scappoose Bay Paddling Center or golfing at Wildwood Golf Course.

“While the meeting sessions were held at a venue outside of our district, we made a point of planning local activities and using local vendors as much as possible,” said Hayes. “We really wanted to use this opportunity to showcase Columbia County and everything that we have

to offer to this international audience.”

This year’s busy conference agenda focused on port initiatives and technical presentations around Deteriorating Infrastructure, Financing, Energy Efficiencies, Environmental Impact, Logistics in the Pacific, and Sustainable Infrastructure.

APP is a trade association founded in 1913 for the purpose of bringing together leaders from ports and businesses from across the Pacific to build partnerships, share best practices and learn what is working and what is not, as ports throughout the Pacific face similar challenges in different environments.

Some current APP members include ports in Alaska, American Samoa, British Columbia, California, Guam, Hawaii, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Oregon, Saipan, Taiwan, and Washington state.

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CPCCO offers Finnish baby boxes to promote infant sleep safety

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New Clatskanie mom Sierra Sanders watches over baby Aryah in her new sleep box.

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The United States ranks 56th in the world in infant mortality, barely breaking the top 25 percent, falling behind

such countries as BosniaHerzegovina and Latvia. In an effort to decrease the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the Columbia Pacific CCO (CPCCO) has partnered with local health care provider Columbia

Health Services (CHS) to provide Finnish-style baby boxes to expectant mothers.

According to CPCCO, the baby boxes promote sleep safety and convenience for the family. They are made of water-repellent corrugated material with seamless construction, making them strong and durable.

They come equipped with a CertiPUR-certified mattress, a 100 percent cotton sheet and information on sleep safety.

“It’s such a simple idea – keeping your baby close while they sleep – and so convenient,” Safina Koreishi, MD, medical director for CPCCO said. “The boxes are designed by pediatricians and sleep safety experts. All of the components of the boxes meet or exceed Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) bassinet standards, yet they are lightweight to carry and very sturdy in terms of weight capacity.”

New Clastkanie mother,

Sierra Sanders, recently received a baby box for her two-month-old infant, Aryah Young.

“It’s very convenient,” Sanders said. “We went on vacation for about a week and we put all the baby stuff in it. It’s good for getting from point A to point B. Then the baby stuff comes out and he has a bed already there.”

Patti Atkins, CPCCO communication consultant, said the boxes are made in Portland, and it was a nurse in Portland who came up with the idea to hand them out.

“She was at Emmanuel hospital and became a specialist in children’s safety, which I think is really cool,” Atkins said. “In Finland they do these all the time, obviously.”

The Finnish-style baby box program was launched in 1938, when almost one in ten children died during their first year of life. The country has now achieved one of the

Earthquake: Ocean tremor near Bandon The U.S. Geological Survey reports no inland damage and no tsunami was generated by the 5.4 magnitude earthquake at 8 a.m.

Wednesday, July 17, off the Southern Oregon Coast.

The tremor followed a 2.7 magnitude quake shortly after midnight 152 miles west-northwest of Bandon at a depth of 8.5 miles.

“Because the mechanics and the depth of this earthquake, it did not displace water, so it did not cause tsunami,” USGS Geophysicist Julie Dutton told The Pilot. “This is not an unusual event. It is very common area for earthquakes. This is where two plates are running adjacent to each other.”

“This earthquake was too small and far to have any impact on shore,” USGS Media Representative Joan Gomberg said.

“This event is nothing out of the ordinary at all.”

Dutton said the shallow tremor is not connected to

SHOOTER From Page A1 Fleming’s court-appointed attorney, Leonard J. Kovac, stated, “we lost contact with the defendant after he was released from custody on 4/3/19 when he posted bail and went directly to the VA for treatment regarding his mental health concerns.

He contacted us Friday 5/17/19 for the first time since his release and verified that we will be receiving more records which are relevant to the resolution of this case.”

Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey S. Jones granted the continuance on May 28, 2019, and a trial hearing has been scheduled for Oct. 3, 2019.

According to Farnsworth, police are aware of allegations against Fleming

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July 8 • Craig Lee Roberts was arrested and sentences for contempt of court.

July 11 • Whitney Ann Bernsten was arrested and arraigned in Columbia County Circuit Court on a probation violation.

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recent larger earthquakes in Southern California and the Seattle area, but they are a reminder that people should be aware.

“These earthquakes are another reminder to be aware of where you live and the hazards around

you,” Dutton said.

concerning the 7-year-old girl found in the residence and she confirmed the victims knew the shooter.

“We’re currently still investigating the case and are not at a point where we can confirm anything related to those allegations,” Farn-

sworth said.

The girl was released to relatives following the incident.

The investigation remains ongoing and The Chief will update this story as additional information becomes available.

Look for more details about earthquakes and what you can do to be prepared, at the USGS website: https://earthquake. usgs.gov/learn/preparedness.php

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Fact Sheet: National Institute of Health safe-sleep guidelines • Put baby on their back to sleep – every time.

• Use a safe sleep surface, like a baby box, for every sleep time.

• Don’t let baby sleep on soft surfaces (like an adult bed, sofa or couch).

• Share a room, but not a bed, with the baby.

• Keep pillows, blankets, toys, and crib bumpers out of baby’s sleep area.

• Don’t smoke, or let others smoke, around the baby.

• Dress baby in sleep clothing – like footie pajamas or wearable blankets – not a loose blanket.

• Breastfeed if mom is available.

• Offer a pacifier.

For more information, visit https://safetosleep.nichd. nih.gov/resources/caregivers/environment/look.

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The red box on this map indicates the 5.4 earthquake occurred west of Brandon on Wednesday, July 17.

lowest infant mortality rates in the world, recording 2.3 deaths/1,000 live births in 2017, according to United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) data.

Exhausted parents are often attracted to sleepers that attach by sliding under the edge of their mattress or have a lip on them so they can be put in the middle of a bed, but those are not CPSC certified, according to Atkins.

“When you’re a new parent, you both are just so exhausted and sometimes you’re not making good decisions,” Atkins said. “Parents can put these boxes right next to their bed or in the middle of the bed to keep the baby close.”

The boxes can be picked up at the CHS office, located at 2370 Gable Road, by anyone on the Oregon Health Plan. CHS home visiting nurse Rachel Krager said the program is also being implemented in Tillamook and Clatsop counties.

PRINCIPAL From Page A1 everything is there, caring parents and staff. The opportunity is just really exciting here.”

5. What do you think will be the biggest challenges?

“I know that there were

July 12 • Guy Michael Lauterbach was arrested on two counts of unlawfully possession marijuana and an additional controlled substance offense.

July 14 • Brian Albert Martin was arrested and arraigned in Columbia County Circuit Court on a probation violation. He has additional charges of criminal trespassing some difficulties about a year ago, there was a lot of dissension in the district about the school and about the leadership, and I have experienced a lot of that.

There was a very similar experience in Oakridge. When I came in [to Oakridge], the community was upset that the last elementary school principal was leaving. There had been that rift in relationships. What I really love doing is building relation-

in the second degree and burglary in the second degree.

The police blotter relates to the public record of incidents as reported by law enforcement agencies.

All individuals arrested or charged with a crime are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Information printed is preliminary and subject to change.

ships. I think I can do the same thing here again.”

6. Is there anything else you’d like to add?

“I’m so grateful for how kind and wonderful everyone has been. Everyone’s been super awesome about welcoming me and making me feel like a welcome member of the community.

Everyone’s been really nice.“

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