SEASIDESIGNAL.COM • COMPLIMENTARY COPY
OUR 109th YEAR • January 9, 2015
SEEDS OF CHANGE
JOSHUA BESSEX PHOTO
Dorothy Wing listens via video link during her arraignment in
Clatsop County Circuit Court Jan. 2. Wing, the mother of the
2-year-old girl who died in Seaside Dec. 20, is facing charges of
murder by abuse, manslaughter and criminal mistreatment.
Mother, friend plead
not guilty to murder
More charges have been
fi led in the death of
Evangelina Wing, 2
By Kyle Spurr
KATHERINE LACAZE PHOTO
Karla Gann, managing director of the South County Community Food Bank, prepares volunteer Chuck Carlson for
his weekly bread run to Safeway for the food pantry. Except for an electrical inspection and a little more organiz-
ing, the food bank was on the verge of being operational last week. The opening date was scheduled for Jan. 7.
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A Seaside mother and
her live-in boyfriend plead-
ed not guilty Jan. 2 to
charges accusing the couple
of murdering the woman’s
2-year-old daughter at their
home Dec. 20.
Dorothy Ann Wing, 24,
and Randy Lee Roden, 26,
appeared via video link
from Clatsop County Jail
for an arraignment in Clat-
sop County Circuit Court.
See Murder, Page 6A
Food pantry opens its new permanent site
By Katherine Lacaze
Seaside Signal
The city of Seaside plans
to harvest 50 to 60 acres of
timber from its property in
the watershed of the Neca-
nicum River’s south fork in
order to buy more watershed
property.
JOSHUA BESSEX PHOTO
Conor Huseby, Randy Lee
Roden’s defense attorney,
listens during Roden’s ar-
raignment in Clatsop County
Circuit Court Jan. 2.
“We have been looking
around at opportunities to
increase our ownership of
the watershed,” said Seaside
Public Works Director Neal
Wallace. “To be quite frank,
there is only one way to raise
additional funds to purchase
land, and that is through the
(city’s Watershed Enhance-
ment Fund). ... We feel this
is a good place to start.”
See Timber, Page 7A
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The city of Seaside plans to harvest timber from about 50 to 60
acres of timber from its property in the watershed for the Necani-
cum River’s south fork. The city is contracting with consulting for-
ester Mark Dreyer who will contract with a logging company to
clear cut nearly 50 acres in one area, the edge of which is pictured
above, and about 10 acres in another area. The city selected the
two areas because they’re removed from the main body of the
Necanicum River and the project should clean up a large bound-
ary edge while requiring virtually no major road building.
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City plans to harvest
timber in watershed
Goal is to accumulate
more watershed property
Crews of volunteers spent the
past several weeks moving equip-
ment and food from the pantry’s
he South County Com- temporary location, at the former
munity Food Bank her- Coastal Research & Maintenance
alded the new year with building, to the new, 2,100-square-
a transition that marks foot building north of the Seaside
both an end and a be- School District’s bus barn. RM
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It’s the end of a years’-long pantry passed a plumbing inspec-
search for a permanent site for the tion last week.
food pantry and the beginning of an
The pantry closed its temporary
era in the pantry’s new building.
site, which the organization rented
For Managing Director Kar- for several months from Bank of
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is a relief, especially after it kept Volunteers distributed food from a
creeping farther away for several truck outside the new building in
months.
the interim before obtaining an oc-
“It’s been stressful for me,” she cupancy permit.
said.
The stress came from having to Long time coming
The food bank’s board of di-
juggle patrons’ needs at the food
bank’s temporary site and still rectors discussed the need for a
oversee the start-up at the new site. new building for several years and
“This time it feels good, because started seriously pursuing the idea
we know we don’t have to do this more than two years ago. When the
all again for a very long time,” she property where the previous food
pantry stood was sold, the pantry
said.
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cal inspection Tuesday, the food native. The Seaside School District
bank’s new permanent site at 2041 donated two portable classrooms
N. Roosevelt Drive was scheduled from the former Cannon Beach El-
ementary School.
to open this week.
By Katherine Lacaze
With about $65,000 in hand,
the board in June launched its
operational and capital fundrais-
ing campaign, themed “Imagine
a Community Without Hunger.”
The organization received several
donations and grants. Community
organizations, including the Ameri-
can Legion Post 99 and the Seaside
Rotary Club, held fundraisers ben-
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es and individuals donated about
$100,000 in in-kind services.
“It goes on and on and on as far
as how people have come through,”
said board member Mary Blake.
The food pantry exceeded its
goal, raising about $210,000, in
addition to the initial $65,000 and
in-kind donations. Blake said the
board was on budget for the rough-
ly $350,000 project, which includ-
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the portable buildings and buying
some new equipment. An open
house will be held soon to recog-
nize contributors.
Resuming operations
Last year, the pantry distributed
thousands of pounds of food to an
average of 470 families a month.
See Pantry, Page 8A
South County Communi-
ty Food Bank volunteer
Adrienne Panzer sorts
through bottles of sham-
poo, soap and mouth
wash to stock the shelves
at the food pantry’s new
location on North Roos-
evelt Drive north of the
Seaside School District
bus barn. Panzer is one
of numerous volunteers
who have worked during
the past few weeks to get
the food bank’s new site
operational by Jan. 7.
KATHERINE LACAZE PHOTO
Cub Scouts honor deceased veterans with boughs
Local pack places swags at
headstones in cemetery
By Katherine Lacaze
Seaside Signal
Seaside’s local Cub
Scouts made sure veterans
weren’t overlooked this
holiday season by placing
handmade hemlock swags
at the headstone of each
veteran buried in the Ever-
green Cemetery.
About a dozen mem-
bers of Pack 540 craft-
ed the simple but elegant
swags during their last den
meeting and at the group’s
Christmas party in mid-De-
cember. Immediately after
the party, Scouts and their
families went to the ceme-
tery, south of Seaside east
of U.S. Highway 101, to
place the decorations.
“We want the boys to
learn good citizenship, and
part of that is honoring the
people that have come be-
fore them and been good
citizens, and certainly some
of them have paid a lot
higher price than others,”
said Pack 540 Committee
Chairwoman Laurie Kautz.
Using a map provided
by Stan Gandy, scoutmaster
for Troop 642 and a mem-
ber of Seaside’s American
Legion Post 99, the boys
and their families identi-
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veterans buried in the cem-
etery.
Kautz said it is typical
for the Cub and Boy Scouts
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ans’ headstones for Memo-
rial Day. She decided to do
something similar for the
Local Cub Scouts, from left,
Hunter Kautz, Julian Bannon
and Angel Bannon help
place swags on the head-
stones of veterans buried in
Seaside’s Evergreen Cem-
etery. Pack 540 members
handmade the swags during
their den meeting and holi-
day party in December and
then went to the cemetery
with their families to place
them on the headstones.
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holidays.
While wreaths are more
common for veterans’
gravesites, Kautz opted for
a simpler variation so the
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Cub Scouts could to the
project with little help from
the adult leaders.
See Scouts, Page 3A