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TUESDAY, JULY 5, 2022
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ring your dory boat, community spirit and patriotic colors for the 62nd annual Dory Days in Pacific City on July 16th. This year’s event promises long time traditions like the fish fry at the Kiawanda Community Center (11:00am - 5:00pm), traditional dory boat display by the hardware store (10:00am - 6:00pm) and an artisan craft fair (July 15th - 17th) at the four-way stop. Sea Q and the Sportsman Pubn-Grub are title sponsors for the annual fish fry so swing on by for fresh fish. For those of you joining the parade, this year’s theme is Stars and Stripes. The parade will begin at 11a.m. at the County Boat Launch by Bob Straub State Park and wind its way over the bridge and through the four-way stop to Chester’s Market. The fleet of dories and floats will be led by a familiar red and black dory that is often seen crashing through the waves at Cape Kiwanda, the Sea Q. In remembrance of Craig Wenrick, his wife Susie Wenrick, their children Dane, Kirsten, Derek, and Keenan & their family accepts the honor of Grand Marshal. Stepping in as royalty this year will be Craig’s three granddaughters Lainey Malcom (3), Maloree Malcom (14) and Maicee Malcom (18). For over 30 years, Craig dedicated himself to bringing the highest quality dory caught seafood to the Oregon Coast. In addition to
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Headlight Herald file photo of a parade float during Dory Days. commercial fishing, Craig was the co-chair of the Pacific City Dorymen’s Association and a familiar volunteer for community organizations. Cheer on the Wenrick family as they carry on the tradition and legacy of the Sea Q here in Pacific City and lead the Dory Days Festivities this year.
Want to support this annual event? One of the best ways to support the event is by joining in the fun. If you or a friend has a dory, please enter it in the parade. Parade line up and registration begins at 8:30 am. Non-dory participants are also welcomed to join via car, horse,
bikes, camels or whatever ‘floats your boat’ in the procession. We are looking for more volunteers for the fish fry, parade and youth activities. If you’re interested in volunteering for a couple of hours please contact Arica Sears, volunteer board member with the Pacific City Dorymen’s Association.
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ormer Oregon State Rep. Betsy Johnson is running for governor of Oregon as an independent in the November election. Her campaign is focused on improving public schools, affordable housing for workers and make Oregon appealing to job creators. Johnson served in the Oregon House and Senate for more than 20 years, retiring as chair of the Joint Ways and Means Committee to run for governor. She has a reputation as an advocate for her constituents. Johnson has also served on the boards of numerous local, regional and national organizations, including the Oregon Health
Sciences University Foundation, Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, Oregon Public Broadcasting Foundation and the High Desert Museum. She also ran a commercial helicopter company for 20 years. She is currently on the Board of Visitors of Northwest School of Law and serves as president of the Samuel S. Johnson Foundation, named after her late father. Johnson said she decided to run for governor because she has had a front row seat to the deterioration of the state she loves. There are issues of homelessness, crime, lawlessness in Portland, the education system lowering standards for students, lack of affordable housing, and more.
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COVID vaccine for children under 5 now available Zoe Gottlieb chronicle2@countrymedia.net
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hildren 6 months and older are the latest group to become eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine after the state granted its approval last month. The Office of Oregon Gov. Kate Brown reported Sunday, June 12, that the Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup had completed its review of the federal process and unanimously concluded that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are safe and effective for children as young as 6 months old. The Moderna two-dose vaccine series and the Pfizer three-dose vaccine series are now available to children 6 months to 5 years old, according to a press release from the Oregon Health Authority (OHA). The OHA informed healthcare providers that they could begin administering the vaccines as soon as Monday, June 13. The news comes after State
Epidemiologist Dr. Dean Sidelinger, joined by OHSU School of Medicine Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Dawn Nolt, announced the FDA’s approval of pediatric doses for the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines at a press conference held Friday, June 17. “Today is a monumental step forward in our nation’s fight against the virus, with virtually every American now eligible for the protections that COVID-19 vaccines provide,” President Joe Biden said. “For parents all over the country, this is a day of relief and celebration.” Children aged 6 months to 5 years are the last subgroup to become eligible for the vaccine. The pediatric vaccine rollout will expand eligibility to 230,000 Oregon children and 20 million children in the United States.
Pandemic outlook At the Mid-June media briefing, Sidelinger touched on several points, including the downward trend of COVID-19 hospitalizations and Oregon’s still high level of community spread. According to Sidelinger, COVID-19 test positivity rose slightly from 11.4% on May 16 to 11.7% on June 14, and during the last month, daily reported case counts have leveled, from a rolling seven-day average of 1,401 cases reported on
May 16, to 1,487 on June 14. “We assume these numbers are a dramatic undercount of the actual number of cases because we know many people are using at-home tests and not reporting the results,” Sidelinger said. “We also know many others are not getting tested. Trends in this state and around the country tell us there are higher levels of transmission.” As of Friday, June 17, there were 1,596 new COVID cases and six hospitalizations (309 overall).
Vaccine efficacy According to a CDC report on the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine efficacy for children aged 6 months to 4 years, vaccines were 41.5% effective against COVID-19 infection up to 2.5 months after receiving a second dose. The CDC reported similar findings with vaccine effectiveness for adults aged 18-64 years at the height of Omicron. The CDC’s COVID-19 Data Tracker shows that the Omicron variant was still the dominant variant the week of June 5 - June 11, making up 62.4% of infections in the United States. Learn more about vaccine efficacy for pediatric doses on the CDC website.
Back to masks? On Thursday, May 12, Multnomah County officials urged residents to consider readopting face coverings in public indoor spaces after the COVID-19 daily case count more than tripled from April to May. While the recommendation fell short of a mandate, after conducting interviews with OHA officials, The Chronicle learned that the possibility of reimposing mandates is not out of the picture. In an email correspondence, OHA Public Affairs Specialist Rudy Peter answered a question from The Chronicle as to whether there is a potential for mask mandates to come back in the fall should case numbers rise. “The Oregon Health Authority monitors communicable disease outbreaks, including COVID-19 case rates and hospital capacity,” Peter responded. “If hospital capacity is strained, unable to care for the public, OHA will take steps to ensure hospital care is accessible to those in need.” According to Peter, keeping a close eye on COVID-19 caseloads and hospital admission rates in service areas will be critical in determining whether hospital capacity
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or centuries, beeswax and Chinese porcelain have washed ashore on Nehalem Spit, on the north Oregon Coast. After years of research in archives around the world in combination with archaeological evidence, scholars were able to point to the Santo Cristo de Burgos, a seventeenth-century Manila galleon owned by the kingdom of Spain, as the mysterious vessel commonly known today as the “Beeswax Wreck.” On June 16, National Geographic announced that state officials had confirmed the recovery of timbers from the Santo Cristo de Burgos near Manzanita. In summer 2018, the Oregon Historical Society’s (OHS) scholarly journal, the Oregon Historical Quarterly (OHQ), published a ground-breaking special issue on this research, a powerful combination of archaeological and archival evidence solving this centuriesold mystery. In light of the recent discovery of remains from the wreck, OHS has recently made this special issue of OHQ, “Oregon’s Manila Galleon,” available for free online. “Our understanding of the history of the Beeswax Wreck is because of the knowledge and scholarship shared by dedicated individuals from across disciplines and centuries; everything from Native oral tradition to archival research to maritime archaeology has brought new information to the public about one of Oregon’s most fascinating mysteries,” said Oregon Historical Quarterly Editor Eliza E. Canty-Jones. “With this exciting discovery of timbers from the ship itself, OHS is proud to make this scholarship accessible to all to provide a more complete narrative of this fascinating piece of Oregon history.” Stories of a very large shipwreck began circulating during the earliest days of Euro- American presence in the Pacific Northwest, as fur traders and explorers learned from Native people that a large ship had long ago wrecked on Nehalem Spit, with survivors and cargo that included beeswax. The stories, shrouded by speculation and often contradictory Euro-American folklore, captivated treasure-hunters who searched for a century and a half on nearby Neahkahnie Mountain and the adjacent beaches. The archaeologist-led team of the Beeswax Wreck Project used geology, archaeology, and porcelain analysis, combined with documentation from Spanish archives, to pinpoint the ship’s likely identity. Beeswax stamped with Spanish shippers’ marks confirmed the wreck’s origin, and patterns on Chinese porcelain sherds allowed researchers to narrow the date range. The Spanish Manila galleon trade was the first global network, and close to 300 galleons left the Philippines for Acapulco carrying Asian goods during its 250-year span. The Project determined that the Beeswax Wreck was one of two galleons that vanished without a trace: the Santo Cristo de Burgos, which sailed in 1693, or the San Francisco Xavier, which left Manila in 1705. Mapping the location of beeswax deposits allowed Project members to assert with confidence that the ship almost certainly wrecked before the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
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