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Morning Press: Remembering grief, oil terminal, Herrera Beutler, protecting K9s

By The Columbian
Published: January 25, 2016, 6:15am

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In case you missed them, here are some of the top stories of the weekend:

Survivors of bombings recall life in WWII England

When Peter Stenhouse, Brenda Hall and the Greenberg girls were growing up in England, it wasn’t just clouds of war looming on the horizon.

Their homes were overshadowed by waves of German bombers.

Stenhouse, Hall and the two sisters — now Rita Stewart and Roma Ekstrom — are Vancouver-area residents who were born in England in the 1930s.

They were Blitz kids. They witnessed the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force fought the Luftwaffe for aerial supremacy in the skies over England. They survived the bombing onslaught known as the Blitz, when the Germans shifted their focus to punishing English cities. And even then, those kids still had four long years of war ahead of them.

Their childhood memories of World War II include makeshift bomb shelters, forced evacuations and random death.

“My father was killed by a V-2″ rocket, Stenhouse said.

 

Woman wakes from sedation to find husband died

Florence Muma knew she wasn’t feeling well enough to set a personal record Jan. 10. Still, she wanted to run the Resolution Run.

“She ran in the 5K on Sunday morning and came home and never woke up,” said Jennifer Baker, Florence’s daughter.

At a hospital on Monday, doctors found bacterial meningitis. She was sedated and intubated, the fluid drained from her nasal passages and several antibiotics started.

Florence wasn’t in the clear yet, but she was expected to survive. After a worrisome day at the hospital, family and friends convinced Florence’s husband of 43 years, Roger Muma, to return to their Hockinson-area home to get some rest. He went home that Monday night and climbed into bed.

Roger, 65, suffered a heart attack in his sleep and never woke up.

 

Attorney for state says oil terminal application underplays risks

The state attorney tasked with defending the environment took aim at the Port of Vancouver’s proposed rail-to-marine oil terminal in comments submitted Friday by asserting that the risks of train derailments are being underplayed.

Matthew Kernut, counsel for the environment, said the draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Vancouver Energy oil terminal understates the risk of oil train derailments and fails to consider the ability of first responders to deal with an accident.

“The (environmental review) underestimates and under-reports the risk of a crude oil-bearing train derailing along the route to or from the Vancouver facility,” wrote Kernut. He added the environmental review “does not address with enough specificity what training and equipment is necessary for first responders throughout Washington to adequately respond to an oil spill or fire as a result of train or vessel accidents.”

 

Herrera Beutler seeks third re-election

U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler told the crowd at her campaign kick-off that she would continue to fight the federal government’s overreach.

“The number of taxes you pay from the time you wake up, hit your alarm clock and flip it off and turn on the light, you pay an energy tax,” she said. “And when you flush your toilet you’re paying another tax, and when you go get in your car you drive to work, you’re paying another tax. That reach is so integrated into our lives, and the less of it, the better off we are.”

  

Public leaps to protect two sheriff’s dogs

It took less than a day for a local family and nonprofit organization to raise the money to purchase stab and gunshot-resistant vests for two police dogs at the Clark County Sheriff’s Office, Jango and Ringo.

Massachusetts-based Vested Interest in K9s, Inc. and the Tyger Family of Clark County are working to raise the money for vests for the two German shepherds.

Clark County Sheriff’s Office shared word of the effort Friday shortly before 1 a.m. The online fundriasing campaign — at Crowdrise.com under “ClarkCountyK9s” — had reached the $2,300 to purchase the vests by that evening.

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