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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2015
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Seaside man sentenced
for attempted jail escape
tember to more than six years
in prison.
The two in-
One of the two
mates attempted
to escape from
inmates who tried
the county jail
to escape from
by breaking off
Clatsop County
a shower drain
Jail in July was
grate, tying it to
sentenced to more
a bedsheet and
than eight years
swinging it against
in prison for the
a window about
escape and other
20 times until the
cases of identity
window shattered.
theft, burglary and
Anthony
A couple of
violating proba-
Craig Osborne
more swings and
tion.
Anthony Craig Osborne, they could have broken
25, of Seaside, pleaded no through the window, which
contest Friday to identity is large enough for them to
theft, second-degree bur- get through, according to the
glary and ¿rst-degree crimi- Clatsop County Sheriff’s Of-
nal mischief as part of a plea ¿ce.
The two men then Àooded
agreement.
The criminal mischief a toilet in the cellblock and
conviction stems from the added soap to make the Àoor
escape case. Other charges slippery for responding cor-
of attempted escape were rections of¿cers.
Their plan failed when
dropped.
Because of Osborne’s corrections of¿cers heard the
criminal history of repeated grate hitting the window. The
property crimes, the District of¿cers detained the inmates
Attorney’s Of¿ce was able and placed them in a more
to get a longer sentence for secure part of the jail.
Osborne was charged
criminal mischief than it
would have for the attempted with criminal mischief for
causing more than $1,000 in
escape.
Osborne was sentenced damage to the window and
to a total of 102 months in other jail property, according
to the indictment.
prison.
The estimated damage
The other inmate in the
escape attempt, Kevin Mi- cost between $4,000 and
chael Burnham, 26, of Sea- $5,000 to ¿x, according to
side, was sentenced in Sep- the jail.
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
Daily Astorian/File Photo
North Coast residents and visitors crowd the Astoria Column atop Coxcomb Hill.
Fees: Column parking goes to $5
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Eric Paulson, the president
and CEO of Lektro and the
treasurer of the Friends of the
Column, told the council that
the fee increase would help
make the Column self-sus-
taining. Private donors like
Portland real estate magnate
and philanthropist Jordan
Schnit]er have been ¿nancing
the renovations.
“We honestly don’t think
that $5 for a vehicle, for a
year, is an outrageous fee,”
Paulson said. “We think that
is very, very reasonable.”
Aquatic Center
The City Council also ap-
proved fee increases at the
Astoria Aquatic Center in
January that will help offset
the cost of pay raises for life-
guards. The city has closed the
center from 1 to 3:30 p.m. be-
cause of a lack of lifeguards.
The city will move to
monthly passes, instead of
quarterly passes, and raise
fees by approximately 12 per-
cent. Fees were last updated at
the Aquatic Center in 2009.
“We don’t want to raise
the fees so high that nobody
comes to the Aquatic Center
anymore or utilizes our facil-
ities,” Mayor Arline LaMear
said, calling it a “delicate
balance between charging
enough fees but not charging
so much that we lose patrons.”
In other business Monday
night, the City Council:
• Approved the Neighbor-
hood Greenway portion of the
city’s Riverfront Vision Plan.
Neighborhood Greenway
restricts new over-water de-
velopment along the Colum-
bia River in Alderbrook by
rezoning the land to aquatic
natural — from aquatic con-
servation — which essential-
ly prohibits all but docks and
piers no higher than the river-
bank.
New design standards will
also be imposed on multifam-
ily residential development
in Alderbrook, such as new
apartments, and commercial
development, like day care
centers.
Neighborhood Greenway
is the third of four sections
of the Riverfront Vision Plan,
which is intended to set land-
use guidelines along the river.
Civic Greenway, from 16th to
41st streets, and Bridge Vis-
ta, from Portway to Second
streets, have already been ap-
proved.
The Urban Core, from Sec-
ond to 16th, is the ¿nal leg.
• Voted 4-1 against award-
ing a $60,000 contract to a pri-
vate lawn maintenance com-
pany for weed removal and
reseeding at the city’s Ocean
View Cemetery in Warrenton.
The City Council had add-
ed money in the budget for the
work after complaints that the
cemetery had fallen into dis-
repair.
But City Councilor Russ
Warr, who had pushed for cem-
etery improvements, argued
against spending the mon-
ey because of concerns that
the city will not keep up with
maintenance after the work.
“And if we’re not going to
take care of it, there’s no sense
in spending the money,” Warr
said.
LaMear said the work
should be delayed until the
Parks and Recreation Depart-
ment completes a new master
plan for park priorities.
The discussion featured
the latest in a series of testy
exchanges between Warr and
Councilor Drew Herzig.
Herzig, who supported
spending the money to im-
prove the cemetery, took ex-
ception when Warr referred to
him as “Mr. Herzig” instead
of “Councilor Herzig.”
“Well, I really apologize.
Can you ever forgive me for
that?” Warr said with a hint of
derision.
“I forgive you already,”
Herzig said.
“Wow, that’s a horrible,
horrible mistake,” Warr said.
“I apologize Councilor Her-
zig.”
• Voted 4-1 to adopt
LaMear’s ground rules for
City Council meetings, in-
cluding limiting citizen com-
ments to three minutes for
each speaker.
Herzig voted against the
ground rules after councilors
declined to set time limits for
people or groups giving pre-
sentations, soften a provision
that citizens who disrespect
the council or staff will be
asked to leave, and add an
agreement that councilors
treat each other with respect.
LaMear said councilors
could discuss modi¿cations to
the ground rules later.
• Held a moment of si-
lence for William “Mitch”
Mitchum, the former city pub-
lic works director, develop-
er and community volunteer
who died in November.
• Heard from City Man-
ager Brett Estes that a rib-
bon-cutting ceremony for the
Astoria Senior Center will be
held Feb. 16. The center has
been undergoing a signi¿-
cant $1.7 million renovation.
• Received a presentation
from Liberty Restoration Inc.,
which led the renovation of
the Liberty Theater, about the
work done to the historic ven-
ue since the city contributed
a $1.3 million urban renewal
grant in 2000.
Rosemary Baker-Monaghan,
the theater’s executive director,
said the theater has been able to
leverage the grant to help attract
$10 million in investment to-
ward renovation.
She indicated, however,
that the theater may seek mon-
ey annually from the city’s
Promote Astoria fund to help
balance maintenance and op-
erations demands.
Warr and Herzig both said
they would need to see more
detailed ¿nancial information
on theater operations before
considering a request for
money from the fund.
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