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Knappa win streak hits 21 The Coastal Edge WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS • 8A FRIDAY EXTRA • 1C FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015 142nd YEAR, No. 228 ONE DOLLAR Kidnap ordeal ends, police nab fugitive He was found behind a locked gate in a privately owned wood- ed area south of Cannon Beach. Russell Wayne Deviney, the A passer-by saw Deviney and (YHUHWW :DVK PDQ DFFXVHG RI called the Cannon Beach Police kidnapping a 15-year-old Cali- Department. fornia girl Saturday, was caught When Deviney was asked his Thursday just outside Cannon name, he simply said, “I’m the Beach. guy you’re looking for.” Cannon Beach Police and Deviney is being charged with FBI agents arrested Deviney, 48, ¿UVWGHJUHHNLGQDSSLQJ¿UVWGH at about 11:15 a.m. JUHH UDSH ¿UVWGHJUHH XQODZIXO By KYLE SPURR The Daily Astorian Astoria Police Chief Brad Johnston speaks at a press confer- ence regarding the arrest of Russell Devin- ey Thursday. JOSHUA BESSEX The Daily Astorian VH[XDO SHQHWUDWLRQ ¿UVWGHJUHH VRGRP\ DQG ¿UVWGHJUHH VH[XDO abuse. A nationwide felony warrant had been issued out of Clatsop County Circuit Court for his ar- rest. “We cannot go into specif- ic details about the informa- tion we’ve obtained during See SUSPECT, Page 10A Russell Deviney A kick National park hikes fees in the wallet Lewis and Clark entrance fees go from $3 to $5 By KYLE SPURR The Daily Astorian Visitors to Lewis and Clark Na- tional Historical Park will notice a slight increase in entrance fees next year. Beginning Jan. 1, visitor en- trance fees at the national park will increase from $3 to $5 per person. The annual pass will increase from $10 to $20 per person. The fee increase, which was ¿UVW SURSRVHG ODVW IDOO IROORZV D directive from the National Park Service to update entrance fees at 131 of its 401 public properties for WKH¿UVWWLPHVLQFH Scott Tucker, Lewis and Clark National Historical Park superin- tendent, calls the change a modest increase considering the original NPS proposal was to hike day-use fees from $3 to $10 and annual fees from $10 to $40. “After carefully considering the impact of a fee increase on visitors and community members, we came to the conclusion that this is the right course of action to improve facilities and services important to visitors,” Tucker said. The park received 80 com- ments during a monthlong public comment period that ended in De- cember. Of the 80 comments, three were fully supportive of the in- crease, 40 wanted a lower increase and 37 were not supportive. Based on the input, Tucker recommended the lowest possible increase to the UHJLRQDO 136 RI¿FH ZKLFK IRU warded it to Washington, D.C. Tucker received word that his recommendation was approved and will go into effect next year. Other national park fee increases will be- gin as early as Memorial Day. Taxpayers to get $473 million kicker; state gets $264 million more to spend By PETER WONG Capital Bureau JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Visitor fee increases will be used for improving roads and trails — including the Fort to Sea Trail shown here— and help fund handicap accessibility at Lewis and Clark National Historic Park. Visitor experience Submitted photo Doug Graham, with the National Park Service, works on the historic steel fence panels at the Salt Works in Seaside Jan. 22. The panels were removed and taken to a local metal fabrication shop, where they were sandblasted, areas of corrosion rebuilt, galvanized, and painted. The increase will not impact the America the Beautiful Nation- al Parks and Federal Recreation- al pass, senior, access or military passes. Children under 16 are al- ready admitted free. Tucker said all revenue from the visitor fees goes toward projects directly tied to the visitor’s experi- ence at the park. For instance, renovating his of- ¿FHZRXOGQRWEHGRQHZLWKYLVLWRU fees, Tucker said, but improving trails and roads would be a focus of visitor revenue. Previous fee-based projects included the Kwis Kwis Trail ex- tension and South Slough Trail construction, canoe landing im- provements at Netul Landing, sum- mer camps, local youth employ- ment and community outreach. Annually, the park brings in about $125,000 from visitor fees. The upcoming fee increase would add $50,000 annually to the park. The additional funds will be used for upkeep at the Fort to Sea Trail, See FEES, Page 10A Warrenton faces steep rate jumps City had put off double- digit water, sewer hikes was approved for this year. The city’s re- luctance to agree By DERRICK DePLEDGE to more signif- The Daily Astorian icant rate hikes was exacerbated :$55(1721 ² 6K\LQJ DZD\ by the loss of wa- from politically unpopular water and ter revenue over sewer rate increases has caught up with the past few years Warrenton, where the proposed city DIWHU D 3DFL¿F Kurt EXGJHWIRUQH[W¿VFDO\HDUFDOOVIRUVWHHS Coast Seafoods Fritsch hikes. processing plant Water rates would go up 15 percent. burned down and Camp Rilea and Gear- Sewer rates would rise 2.5 percent. A hart turned to other sources. storm sewer service fee would double “We’re playing catch up from what to 20 percent of a customer’s sewer ZHZHUHDGYLVHGWRGR¿YHDQGVL[\HDUV charge, up from 10 percent. ago,” City Manager Kurt Fritsch said at a A household that uses 4,000 gallons city budget committee meeting Thursday of water a month would pay $115.28, QLJKW³$QG,UHDOL]HLW¶VGLI¿FXOWWRGRWKDW DFFRUGLQJ WR FLW\ ¿QDQFH VWDII FRP politically every year and people don’t pared with $104.86 today. like to see these increases.” Rate studies had recommended dou- Fritsch suggested the city consider ble-digit increases to help pay for the new water and sewer rate studies that city’s water infrastructure. But the city might provide a road map for future in- had mostly opted for a more conservative creases. track until a 10 percent water rate hike Some residents had complained last DON’T MISS OUT! Subscribe to the Daily Astorian E-mail Newsletters and stay informed on the topics that matter most to you. Visit www.DailyAstorian.com/Newsletters and sign up today! year about rate increases and could be stunned by the recommendations in the budget. “My concern is that I just don’t want to see 15 percent (rate increases) every sin- gle year,” said Paul Mitchell, a spokesman for Columbia Memorial Hospital who serves on the budget committee. 0LWFKHOO VDLG WKH FLW\ KDV WR ³¿QG D way to sell the story, make sure people understand it so they’re not just feeling that you’re shoving it down their throats.” He said residents need to have own- ership in the reasons behind the rate in- creases. “Give them ownership of it,” he said. “If they have ownership, it won’t be as hard to swallow it. They’ll under- stand it more.” Overall, the proposed city budget for WKH¿VFDO\HDUWKDWVWDUWVLQ-XO\LV PLOOLRQXSIURPPLOOLRQWKLV¿V cal year. The city budget committee, which will meet again Thursday, will make a recommendation to the City Commis- sion. The commission is expected to take up the spending plan in June. State economists are projecting both a $473 million rebate to taxpay- ers next year and up to $264 million more for the state budget in the next two years. “There is a substantial improve- ment in the Oregon economy,” said Josh Lehner, senior economist with WKH 2UHJRQ 2I¿FH RI (FRQRPLF Analysis. He and state economist Mark McMullen presented Thursday what McMullen called “an aggressive forecast” to lawmakers on the House and Senate revenue committees. The additional $264 million is likely to fuel spending on schools and state services. Although Democratic majorities pushed through a state school fund of $7.3 billion in April, Republican minorities and school advocates say the fund should be at least $7.5 bil- lion. When lawmakers passed that budget, they also committed at least 40 percent of any additional money from the forecast to schools. That amounts to $105 million, not count- ing anything else lawmakers may do. As soon as McMullen started explaining the kicker projection, a group of students started chanting, “No kicker, no cuts, no ifs, ands or buts.” Oregon State Police escorted them out of the hearing room, and eight of them were arrested later as they continued chanting in a hallway and declined to disperse. Projected kicker The rebate to individual taxpay- ers, known as the “kicker,” is a result of actual tax collections exceeding 2013 projections by 2 percent or more. The projected amount is $473 million, up from $349 million in the See KICKER, Page 10A Everyday People MONDAY College captain