THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2015 NORTH COAST 3A 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 The Clatsop County Sheriff’s Office is auction- ing six vehicles through the online auction site Gov- Deals.com Those interested in bidding can see the vehicles by visit- ing GovDeals.com and enter- 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. 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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.