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NORTH COAST THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 3A Memory center nears occupancy Facility will help care for dementia patients By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian WARRENTON — Nicole Williams, CEO of Clatsop Care Center Health District, said she is receiving calls ev- ery day from people wanting to know when a memory care center will be open. The health district took possession of the new 32-res- ident community center Tues- day from Dolphin Partners LLC and hopes to start mov- ing Alzheimer’s and other de- mentia patients in by July 20. “I would describe it as four neighborhoods and two com- mon areas,” Williams said of the 22,0000-square-foot se- cure residential facility, which looks more like a high-end motel, with its pitched roofs and central courtyard. The center was intention- ally designed, with the help of the health district, to serve dementia patients. Each side of the building is a mirror im- age of the other, with common areas at either end. The entire facility is secured by keycard entries and fences around the outdoor areas. The neighborhoods inside are each painted in different color schemes, which Wil- liams said helps patients re- member where they are. With- in the neighborhood are one semi-private (20-by-15-foot) and seven private (10-by-10- foot) units. The health district is gath- ering art, crafts and antique JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Nicole Williams, CEO of Clatsop Care Center Health Dis- trict, shows the dining room of the memory care facility in Warrenton. Residents are expected to begin moving into the facility July 20. furniture and other activi- ties for the common areas to keep residents continually engaged, which Williams said is a key to memory care. The center will start with 15 resi- dents and 20 staff and gradu- ally increase the population. Coast Guard rescues boaters from Sand Island The Daily Astorian CAPE DISAPPOINTMENT, Wash. — The U.S. Coast Guard rescued three distressed boaters after their boat ran aground on Sand Island in the Columbia Riv- er Thursday afternoon. One of the boaters contacted the Coast Guard’s Station Cape Disappointment at 11:30 a.m., re- porting their vessel was disabled on Sand Island, near Station Cape Disappointment in Washington. The Coast Guard station dis- patched a 29-foot small response boat and 47-foot motor lifeboat. Two MH-60 Jayhawk helicopters already in the air were also divert- ed to provide assistance. Shallow water prevented boat crews from reaching the grounded vessel. One of the he- licopters landed on Sand Island and transferred the stranded boaters to Station Capt Disap- pointment with no reported inju- ries. A marine salvage company was contacted to remove the vessel from Sand Island. Photo courtesy of Petty Officer 1st Class Shane Abold The U.S. Coast Guard rescued three distressed boaters. The Astoria man found guilty last week of stabbing an- other man and threatening four others was sentenced to nine years in prison during a hearing Thursday in Clatsop County Circuit Court. Dylan Douglas Snook, 33, was found guilty on 13 counts after a three-day trial last week. The charges included ¿rst-degree assault, ¿ve counts of unlawful use of a weapon against another person, and ¿ve counts of menacing and fourth-degree assault. An at- tempted murder charge was re- duced to attempted ¿rst-degree assault. Prosecutor Scott McCrack- en recommended a nearly 14- year sentence at the hearing Thursday. Dylan Douglas Snook “This is a very serious inci- dent. A lot of people were af- fected by it and will be affected for many years going forward,” McCracken said. Snook’s defense lawyer Jer- ry Widawski asked for the min- imum sentence of 90 months, or just over seven years. Widawski noted Snook’s minor criminal history, which was completely clean the past four years prior to the stabbing incident in Seaside last summer. The defense lawyer described the incident as a perfect storm of bad events that occurred. College to open search for new leader in fall By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Clatsop Community Col- lege wants to advertise for a new long-term president by October. At the college’s board re- treat Thursday, members talk- ed about the search to replace President Lawrence Galizio, whose last day is Wednesday. Galizio will move to Cali- fornia to be president and CEO of the Community College League of California, a non- pro¿t public bene¿t corpora- tion. After interviews June 25, the board unanimously voted to appoint Gerald Hamilton in- terim president for at least the next year. Galizio starts in Sac- ramento July 24, and Hamilton starts at the college Aug. 1. JoAnn Zahn, vice president of ¿nance and operations at the college, will serve as interim president between when Gal- izio leaves and Hamilton starts. The college is reviewing companies to help search for a permanent president. Rosemary Baker-Monaghan, the college’s board chair- woman, said companies will make presentations at the college’s next meeting July 14. The college is spending less than $50,000 on the search, she added, and does not need to go out publicly for bids. The college also has a search committee, including board members Karen Burke, Bob Duehmig and Tessa James Scheller. Monaghan said the search committee would help create a job description, add- ing the latest the college wants to advertise for a president to get desired candidates is Oc- tober. Multiple board members shared their concerns that, with how localized the college is, it should use an outside ¿rm “90 months is going to ruin his life anyway, so we ask the court for the minimum amount as possible,” Widawski said. Snook was arrested and booked Aug. 18, a day after the stabbing incident that occurred near the 300 block of Broad- way Street in Seaside. Snook stabbed one man and threat- ened four others with the knife. All ¿ve victims testi¿ed at trial. The stabbing victim, who had two punctures near his back, reported the stabbing to of¿cers. “Although I maintain my position that, at the time, I was defending myself from what I believed to be serious bodily harm, possible death, if I could make that night not happen, I would,” Snook said at the sentencing hearing. Snook’s mother, Susan Wheeler, also spoke at the hearing Thursday. As part of his sentence, Snook was directed to have no contact with the victims and pay $2,297 in restitution. Judge Philip Nelson re- minded Snook that had the stabbing victim died, Snook could have been facing mur- der charges. “A lot of things could have been a lot worse, it’s bad enough as it was,” Nelson said. W A NTED Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber N orth w es t H a rdw oods • Lon gview , W A Contact: Steve Axtell • 360-430-0885 or John Anderson • 360-269-2500 to conduct the presidential search. “I think it will be full,” she said, adding that the state’s transition to more home- based care might negate the need for further memory care space. The health district operates its 71-bed, long-term care fa- cility on 16th Street in Astoria, inside the nearly 100-year-old former Columbia Memorial Hospital. It also runs Clatsop Retirement Village and Clat- sop In-Home Care Services. A previous attempt at memory care came with an On the Move grant from the state in 2009 to build a community-based care cen- ter at Mill Pond. But a state employee misrepresented the project, and the 50-50 grant was pulled days be- fore groundbreaking, cost- ing the health district about $500,000. Eugene stadium ¿re Elamed on Eoys The Associated Press Man gets nine years for Seaside stabbing By KYLE SPURR The Daily Astorian Williams previously esti- mated the room and board at $5,500 to $7,000 a month, de- pending on the level of care. The health district plans to ¿ll a percentage of the memory community with Medicaid recipients, she added, based on the percentage of people in the region accessing the health program for the poor and disabled.. Former health district CEO Anita Schacher previously es- timated about 40 people in Clatsop County with demen- tia who are not being served. The health district serves a small population of dementia patients at Clatsop Care Cen- ter in Astoria. Williams has said some locals are forced to place family members in Port- land facilities and are already looking to move them back to the coast. PORTLAND — Eugene investigators say four boys were playing with ¿re in the press box of the town’s his- toric Civic Stadium, but the Àames got out of control and burned down the ballpark. Investigators say that as Àames spread Monday night, the panicked boys jumped a chain-link fence, hopped on their bicycles and Àed. But parents of a ¿fth boy who left before the ¿re tipped off police on Wednesday. The four are to be charged with arson. One is 10, the others 12. Investigators said Thursday they don’t be- lieve the boys intended to destroy the park, but hav- en’t given coherent reasons for using a lighter to ignite material such as wood, dry- wall and leaves. 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