THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2015
NORTH COAST
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South County Community
Westport
Food Bank opens its doors couple accused
of sodomizing
their child
By KATHERINE LACAZE
EO Media Group
SEASIDE —The South
County Community Food Bank
heralded the new year with a
transition that marks both an end
and a beginning for the Seaside
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
It’s the end of a years’-long
search for a permanent site for
the food pantry and the begin-
ning of an era in the pantry’s
new building.
For managing Director Karla
a relief, especially after it kept
creeping farther away for sever-
al months.
“It’s been stressful for me,”
she said.
The stress came from having
to juggle patrons’ needs at the
food bank’s temporary site and
still oversee the start-up at the
new site.
“This time, it feels good, be-
cause we know we don’t have to
do this all again for a very long
time,” she said.”
The food bank’s new per-
manent site at 2041 N. Roos-
evelt Drive will be open this
week.
Crews of volunteers spent
the past several weeks moving
equipment and food from the
pantry’s temporary location, at
the former Coastal Research &
Maintenance building, to the
new, 2,100-square-foot build-
ing north of the Seaside School
District’s bus barn. RM Russell
touches on the building. The
pantry passed a plumbing in-
spection last week.
The pantry closed its tempo-
rary site, which the organization
rented for several months from
of December. Volunteers distrib-
uted food from a truck outside
the new building in the interim
before obtaining an occupancy
permit.
Long time coming
The food bank’s board of
directors discussed the need for
a new building for several years
and started seriously pursuing
the idea more than two years
ago. When the property where
the previous food pantry stood
was sold, the pantry board was
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KATHERINE LACAZE — EO Media Group
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.
Seaside School District donated
two portable classrooms from
the former Cannon Beach Ele-
mentary School.
With about $65,000 in hand,
the board in June launched its
operational and capital fund-
raising campaign, themed
“Imagine a Community With-
out Hunger.” The organization
received several donations and
grants. Community organiza-
tions, including the American
Legion Post 99 and the Sea-
side Rotary Club, held fund-
-
try. Businesses 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 exceed-
ed its goal, raising about
$210,000, in addition to the
initial $65,000 and in-kind do-
nations. Blake said the board
was on budget for the roughly
$350,000 project, which in-
cluded buying the land, retro-
and buying some new equip-
ment. An open house will be
held soon to recognize contrib-
utors.
Resuming operations
Last year, the pantry distrib-
uted thousands of pounds of
food to an average of 470 fam-
ilies a month. The food is pur-
ing “Clatsop” in the search
box. Users must go through
a short registration process to
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chased mostly with donations or
obtained from the Oregon Food
Bank through the Clatsop Com-
munity Action Regional Food
Bank.
The pantry’s 77 volunteers
are the driving force behind
getting food to the people who
need it. Patrons must meet in-
come requirements established
by the U.S. Department of Agri-
culture. For a family of four, the
maximum income is $3,631 per
month or $43,568 per year.
Gann said the pantry is sus-
tained by the generosity of com-
munity members, both in time
and money.
“They do wonderful things
when they get together,” she
said. “It doesn’t matter if they’re
volunteers or the people that
come in — they all are a part of
this. They make this work.”
project,” she said.
Paving and landscaping with
edible plants will be done in the
spring; solar panels will be add-
ed to the roof; picnic tables will
be installed; and other projects
are planned, some required to
obtain a permanent occupancy
permit.
An informational meeting is
planned for 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Jan. 22 at the Seaside Public Li-
brary to line up instructors and
volunteers to help with a six-
week adult class called “Seed to
Supper,” an Oregon Food Bank
and Oregon State University
Extension Service program. The
course, which the South County
Community Food Bank wants
to host this spring, is aimed at
teaching people fundamentals
of vegetable gardening.
Blake said the board then
will meet in February to ask,
“What’s up now?” Tentative
plans, according to Blake,
include working with the
Oregon Food Bank, Master
Gardeners, Friends of Clatsop
County Community Gardens
and the North Coast Food
Web and other agencies to
continue strengthening food
security and sustainability in
the community.
“We aren’t done by a long
shot,” Blake said. “This is just
the start of some other really
wonderful things that will take
us to the next level of compas-
sionate work, and really great
sustainable work.”
The pantry is open from 8
a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays to re-
ceive donations and from 2 to 4
p.m. for people to receive food.
For more information, contact
the pantry at 503-738-9800.
more timely manner, with the
goal of returning additional
funds to the county.
For more information con-
tact Chief Deputy Paul Wil-
liams at 503-325-8635.
Gardeners needed
Although the organization
has property, a building and op-
erational funds in the bank, this
is just the beginning, Blake said.
“That is one of the things
is a constant working with the
community and writing grants.
WESTPORT — The
parents of a 2-year-old girl
are accused of being sexu-
ally inappropriate with her
multiple times within the
past two years.
Mackully Anthony Ja-
cob, 21 and Bethany-Ann
Jessup Jacob, 21, of West-
port, are both accused of
Bethany-Ann Jacob
alleged oral sex with their
daughter on two occasions
since Jan. 1, 2013.
At about 9 a.m. Jan. 3,
Longview (Wash.) Police
responded to St. Johns
Hospital in Longview
where Mackully Jacob
arrived at the emergency
room with his parents
and admitted to hospital
staff that he and his wife,
Bethany-Ann Jacob, had
inappropriate relations
with their daughter.
Mackully Jacob had
made suicidal statements
and admitted to the sod-
omy to his parents prior
to arriving at the emer-
gency room, according to
a Longview Police report.
He told police the in-
appropriate action hap-
pened twice in one night
at their home on Old Mill
Town Road in Westport
while he and his wife
were high on Adderall.
The incident happened in
May 2013 when the girl
was about 9 months old,
police later discovered.
“I need to go to jail for
what I’ve done. I’m cra-
zy, I need counseling,”
Mackully Jacob told po-
lice at the hospital.
Longview Police ar-
rested and booked Mack-
ully Jacob Jan. 5 on a
fugitive warrant, filed by
Clatsop County District
Attorney’s Office.
Clatsop County Depu-
ty District Attorney Ron
Brown said the extradi-
tion process is underway
to have Mackully Jacob
transferred from Cowlitz
County Jail to Clatsop
County Circuit Court for
arraignment.
Meanwhile on Jan.
5, Clatsop County Sher-
iff’s Office arrested and
booked
Bethany-Ann
Jacob at her home in
Westport on the sodomy
charges.
She is scheduled to
appear in Clatsop Coun-
ty Circuit Court at 1:15
p.m. Tuesday for an ar-
raignment. She was in-
dicted Thursday by a
grand jury for two counts
of first-degree sodomy.
She told the Sher-
iff’s Office that she and
Mackully Jacob had been
married for two years
and decided to get mar-
ried in part due to her
being pregnant with their
daughter, according to
the incident report. She
claims they split up a
week ago.
While they were
high on Adderall, Beth-
any-Ann Jacob said,
Mackully Jacob would
talk about molesting
their daughter, the re-
port said. Those types of
comments compelled her
to take their daughter and
run away to Idaho in June
2013. She got a restrain-
ing order against her hus-
band while in Idaho.
When asked by an
officer about the couple
sodomising their daugh-
ter, Bethany-Ann Jacob
got emotional, started
to cry and said she felt
guilty for a long time, the
report says.
“Yes, it did happen. I
hate myself,” she said.
The 2-year-old girl is
staying with Mackully Ja-
cob’s parents in Columbia
County.