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Marion County SWAT executes warrant
Virginia Barreda
Salem Statesman Journal
USA TODAY NETWORK
Deputies arrested a man and cited a
woman Tuesday evening after execut-
ing a search warrant at a residence out-
side of Silverton.
Jonathon Younce, 39, was arrested
on a parole violation warrant and taken
to Marion County Jail. Rachel Vaneeten,
42, was cited and released for a proba-
tion violation for second-degree crimi-
nal trespass out of Washington County.
Around 10 a.m., Marion County Sher-
iff ’s office deputies responded to a
house in the 11800 block of Silverton
Road NE to serve a court order related to
an active investigation.
The abandoned property, just west of
Silverton, has been the scene of numer-
ous police and fire calls for service dur-
ing the last year due to
squatters, according to
Sgt. Jeremy Landers, a
spokesperson with the
sheriff ’s office.
Multiple local law en-
Younce
forcement agencies have
responded to repeated
service calls on the property that have
included suspicious activity, thefts,
trespassing, assault, stolen vehicles,
warrant arrests and several reported
code violations.
Most recently, a large fire on April 30,
resulted in a barn, a travel trailer and
multiple vehicles being destroyed,
Landers said.
“It’s been quite the nuisance,” he
said. “The vast majority of the activity
out there has been very noteworthy in
the Silverton area.”
The court order was to allow officials
to assist building inspectors to assess
the condition of the building. The search
warrant was also based upon the belief
they’re were still additional people in-
side the building which were obstruct-
ing the ability to do the inspection,
Landers said.
When deputies tried to make contact
Tuesday, the residents refused to come
out of the house, preventing the order
from being served.
Authorities called the sheriff ’s office
SWAT team to assist with “safely secur-
ing the buildings on the property.”
SWAT negotiators made contact with
one of the residents by phone and were
able to get two people to come out of the
building just after 11 a.m.
Another man came out of the resi-
dence around three hours later.
Silverton Road between Brush Creek
Road and Rail Way NE was closed to
Council
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said Public Works Director Petra
Schuetz. “It’s stable, but the fish ladder
doesn’t function at all.”
Last summer, Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife employees, in town
working on the fish ladder, observed
water escaping through cracks in the
dam’s face and footing. City staff mem-
bers had noticed cracks too but hadn’t
taken action because “last time we
heard, to do an improvement to the dam
would trigger making improvements to
the fish ladder too,” Schuetz said.
The price tag on a fish ladder over-
haul? An estimated $2.5 million, she
said. So, with the state’s interest in re-
establishing passage for winter steel-
head, spring Chinook and Coho salmon,
the question is whether it might be more
cost-effective to remove the dam and
re-site Silverton’s water intake further
upstream.
For now, there are more questions
than answers, but councilors agreed
with staff that it’s worth spending some
money to get fourfold the investment
back in grant dollars to learn more.
“We were surprised with this oppor-
tunity, one we’d be able to afford and
that would be better for fish and the
whole ecosystem,” Schuetz said.
At the city’s secondary source of
drinking water, Silver Creek, a $2.3 mil-
lion project is still on-budget but six
months behind-schedule. Environmen-
tal permitting has been slower than ex-
pected, pushing completion out from
spring 2021 to December 2021.
The project means Silverton’s getting
an updated intake system at Silver
Creek and new 16-inch pipe to pump the
water from the creek to the city’s water
treatment plants atop the hill on Ames
Street.
Constable
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The state’s memorial contains the
names of 187 men and women who died
in the line of duty while serving as law
enforcement officers since the 1880s.
The memorial includes officers from
city, county, state, tribal and federal law
enforcement agencies who have served
as law enforcement officers, corrections
officers, and parole and probation offi-
cers.
The Oregon Law Enforcement Me-
morial Fund raised funds to build the
state memorial more than 20 years ago
and hosts the annual ceremony.
This year’s memorial is closed to the
Abiqua Falls from the trail along Abiqua Creek.
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A federal grant is paying half the cost;
the other half is coming from System
Development Charges, or SDC’s, the
fees collected by the city from builders
for infrastructure expansion associated
with growth.
Lastly, at the sewage treatment plant
on Schemmel Lane, city workers are fi-
nally ready to install the $285,600 ma-
chine purchased last year to solve stor-
age capacity problems. Sludge — that
chunky liquid left after sewage treat-
ment — has to be stored through the
spring and summer at the plant until it
can be sprayed on contracted farmers’
fields in fall.
The screw press purchased is de-
signed to remove water from the sludge,
turning it from a 1.5-percent solid into a
17-percent solid. This dewatering proc-
ess yields a much drier material that can
be scooped and stacked, rather than
pumped and sprayed. Best of all, it takes
up less space.
Silverton’s screw press was delivered
at Christmas, about three months late,
because its Japanese manufacturer was
affected by the June 18 tsunami,
Schuetz said.
Also, crews at the Silverton plant
spent time last year switching the sys-
tem’s chemistry, said Steve Starner, wa-
ter quality supervisor. For 20 years,
crews had used hydrated lime to control
pH at the plant. Last summer, suddenly
pH levels registered too high. Operators
couldn’t let that happen too many times;
otherwise the microorganisms that re-
duce ammonia “wouldn’t be happy,”
Starner said.
Crews researched alternatives, se-
lected magnesium hydroxide as an al-
ternate pH regulator, built a pilot plant,
tested it and brought the news process
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public due to the current COVID-19
health crisis.
The memorial will be a shortened
version of the traditional ceremony,
with honor guard, bagpiper, bugler and
roll call. The ceremony is scheduled at 1
p.m. on Tuesday, May 5th.
DPSST plans to video record the cer-
emony and post it after so family mem-
bers, co-workers and friends of the fall-
en can watch.
For more information on the Oregon
Fallen Law Enforcement Officer Memo-
rial may visit the DPSST site.
Virginia Barreda is the breaking
news and public safety reporter for the
Statesman Journal. She can be reached
at 503-399-6657 or at vbarreda@states-
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❚ Silverton’s July 3 fireworks show at
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due to the social distancing measures
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traffic for about one and a half hours
while SWAT entered the buildings to
make sure no others were left hiding in-
side.
The road was reopened once the
“property was safe and secure,” just be-
fore 6 p.m., Landers said.
Investigators are working with Mar-
ion County Office of Legal Counsel and
other county departments to resolve
community concerns.
Younce was previously convicted of
fourth-degree assault in 2014 in Marion
County.
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