Wednesday, December 28, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Woman who drove through
Oregon market guilty, insane
EUGENE (AP) — A
woman who drove her SUV
down the aisles of a Spring-
field supermarket last summer
has been found guilty by rea-
son of insanity.
T h e R e g i s t e r - G u a rd
reported that Noella Fay has
been diagnosed with bipolar
disorder and could be sent to
the Oregon State Hospital.
Her convictions include
reckless driving, criminal mis-
chief, recklessly endangering
another person and unlawful
use of a weapon.
Lane County Judge Mus-
tafa Kasubhai made the rul-
ing Wednesday and will
decide next year whether Fay
should be sent to the state-run
mental hospital or allowed
to remain in the community
while receiving psychological
services.
The August 24 incident at
a Safeway Inc. supermarket
caused nearly $100,000 dam-
age and happened after Fay
got into an argument with
store managers who would
not let her write a large check
to purchase gift cards, police
said.
Fay, 42, parked a Chev-
rolet Tahoe in front of the
supermarket’s west doors —
then drove through them. Fay
then barreled down an aisle,
backed up the SUV and turned
it toward the deli and drove
between the aisle ends and the
checkout stands.
She then drove out the
store’s east doors and into the
parking lot, police said. No
one was injured.
Fay told a reporter Wednes-
day that she blamed the inci-
dent on a manic episode she
experienced after her doctor
adjusted her medication.
She is expected to return
to court in late January for a
hearing that will help Kasu-
bhai decide whether she must
go the mental hospital.
Lane County Assistant
District Attorney Paul Graeb-
ner suggested that he is likely
to argue in favor of Fay’s
hospitalization.
Fay’s attorney, Allison
Knight, said several doctors
will testify on her client’s
behalf.
PHOTO PROVIDED
Sam Mitchell, Chayse Sproat, Ethan Morgan and Jordan Pollard with donated foodstuffs.
Food drive scores big in Sisters
As winter settles in over
Sisters Country, many of our
families struggle to balance
basic needs with the expecta-
tions of the holidays.
In response to the
increased pressure on food
banks throughout Central
Oregon, the Sisters School
District and various local
businesses hold canned food
drives in an effort to help
keep the shelves full.
Aspen Lakes Golf Course
offers a canned food golf spe-
cial throughout the fall sea-
son, gathering non-perishable
food items in exchange for
discounted greens fees.
“We have many regular
players who look forward
to this time of year and are
extremely generous with
their donations. It’s their way
of giving back to the com-
munity while getting a great
deal,” said Laurie Farley,
group coordinator at Aspen
Lakes. “We have developed
a nice partnership with the
high school, where we donate
the stockpile of cans to their
annual food drive and the
students provide the labor
to transport it to the food
bank.”
This year Aspen Lakes
was able to contribute an esti-
mated 1,000 pounds of food.