142nd YEAR, No. 229
MONDAY, MAY 18, 2015
ONE DOLLAR
$1 million
bail for
Deviney
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charged with rape,
sexual abuse, more
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
EDWARD STRATTON — The Daily Astorian
Life Flight Network touched down its helicopter next to the Red Building in Astoria during last week’s launch of its first coastal base of
operations. In the background is Pier 1 and the Crystal Symphony, the seventh cruise ship to dock at the Port of Astoria.
Life Flight to the rescue
Air medevac service
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base in Warrenton
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
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ARRENTON — Late Thursday after-
noon, pilot Rick Holbrook landed a
blue Agusta A109E Power helicopter
on the tarmac at the Astoria Regional Airport, a
white, mountainous Life Flight Network insig-
nia emblazoned on its sides. Pilots and medics
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living quarters recently positioned next to electric
tug company Lektro’s hangar, to greet Holbrook
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Warrenton.
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the straightforward mission of getting people to the
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Based in Aurora in the northern Willamette
Valley, Life Flight has 18 locations throughout the
Columbia, Willamette and Snake river watersheds
in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. War-
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The base in Warrenton serves the coast from
Aberdeen, Wash., to Tillamook, either of which it
can reach in less than a half an hour. Life Flight
will transport patients from the scene of an emer-
gency to a local or regional hospital, or in between
hospitals.
While thanking local municipalities and hos-
pitals for their help at a welcoming dinner held by
Life Flight Thursday in Astoria, Dalstra singled out
Mike Weston, director of business development and
operations for the Port of Astoria and a main man-
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airport.
“There’s a lot of work that went in on the City
Council level,” Weston said about getting Life
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will likely have its own permanent hangar within
the next year or two.
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Life Flight Network’s new base in Warrenton
is meant to serve the coast from Aberdeen,
Wash., to Tillamook, transporting people to
local and regional hospitals.
EDWARD STRATTON — The Daily Astorian
CEO Michael Griffiths of the Life Flight Net-
work said Thursday that patients who might
not have survived before might now with
one of its helicopters. The air medevac ser-
vice is now stationed at the Astoria Region-
al Airport in Warrenton.
Life Flight’s addition boosts activity at the air-
port, Weston said, but more importantly provides a
critical service that could save lives.
As industrial and commercial activity increases
at the airport, the Port is looking to lease some of
its land at an adjacent, undeveloped industrial park,
Weston said. It is also waiting on a proposal from
tenant Brim Aviation, an air taxi service delivering
Columbia River Bar Pilots to incoming and outgo-
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the airport.
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includes a pilot, a nurse and a paramedic.
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four pilots, four nurses, three full-time paramedics
and four part-time shifts. Clinical Manager Chris
Redling said the operation is stocked with the same
capabilities as any ambulance, emergency room or
intensive care unit.
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100-by-100-foot area, but can’t hoist people like the
U.S. Coast Guard, which is right next door with two
of its own helicopters. It has a history of working
in conjunction with the air medevac service on res-
cues.
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surfer to Portland who was rescued by the Coast
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low visibility using its instruments. The company forest clearing, where Tillamook Fire and Rescue
spent months getting approved for instrument-rated crews took one to the local hospital and Life Flight
approaches to local hospitals, from Grays Harbor medevaced another to Portland.
Community Hospital in Aberdeen, Wash., to Tilla-
See LIFE FLIGHT, Page 10A
mook Regional Medical Center.
Teacher takes the Forerunner’s helm
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or his job, Clatsop Community College instructor Chris
Jacobsen gets to take students out on the water.
Jacobsen started a year ago as an underway instructor run-
ning the college’s training vessel, Forerunner, up and down
the Columbia River on research missions and student train-
ing.
Before joining the college,
the Rhode Island native had
been working with the Nation-
al Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration for eight years
in research fisheries. Jacob-
sen said he’d been a student
at the college, taking classes
to strengthen his able-bodied
certifications.
“Everything I was taking was a requirement of this job,”
said Jacobsen, adding he has a master’s in education from a
decade ago, along with a captain’s license to operate vessels
up to 100 tons.
Students travel from all around the region to spend a
See JACOBSEN, Page 10A
EDWARD STRATTON — The Daily Astorian
Chris Jacobsen has been the underway instructor
for Clatsop Community College’s maritime scienc-
es program for the past year, helping students train
on its vessel, the Forerunner.
Bail was set at $1 million Friday for
Russell Wayne Deviney, the Everett,
Wash., man accused of kidnapping and
raping a 15-year-
old California
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who was cap-
tured Thursday
just outside Can-
non Beach, ap-
peared in Clatsop
County Circuit
Court via video
link from Clat-
Russell
sop County Jail.
Deviney
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A nationwide felony warrant had
been issued out of Clatsop County Cir-
cuit Court for his arrest.
“The allegations are he kidnapped
and sexually abused a 15-year-old
girl from California,” Clatsop County
District Attorney Josh Marquis said in
court.
Deviney’s bail was initially set a
$500,000. However, Marquis said he
was concerned Deviney would be able
to post the required 10 percent amount
of $50,000.
“We learned a little bit more about
his background. He has assets that
might not make the ($500,000 bail) a
deterrent,’ Marquis said.
Judge Paula Brownhill appointed de-
fense lawyer James von Boeckmann to
represent Deviney, and ordered Deviney
to have no contact with the victim.
An arraignment on a grand jury’s
indictment is scheduled for 1:15 p.m.
Friday.
Cannon Beach Police and FBI
agents found Deviney behind a locked
gate in a privately owned wooded area
south of Cannon Beach after a pass-
er-by reported seeing him and called
Cannon Beach Police.
See DEVINEY, Page 3A
Securing
the power
to impeach
Legislators press
impeachment
measure forward
By PETER WONG
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Lawmakers have ad-
vanced at least one proposal emerging
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under pressure three months ago.
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vote of the full House after the House
Rules Committee approved it on a bi-
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If it clears both chambers — and
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general election — Oregon will join
every other state with an impeachment
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According to the National Conference
of State Legislatures, Oregon is the
only state without it.
Under the proposal, 60 percent of the
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bring one or more articles of impeach-
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votes) would be required for removal of
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Impeachment is considered a politi-
cal process and does not affect criminal
investigations.
See IMPEACH, Page 10A