THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2015
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Fire district adds ‘new-used’ ladder truck, virtually free
Acquired through military surplus program
it with the other engines and
trucks when responding to
By KATIE WILSON
calls.
the ladder truck was avail-
Then, about a year ago,
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“It was essentially turn-
able, it would head north. If it the department heard a ladder
key for us,” Brundage said.
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The 1998 ladder truck has
With more multi-story buildings with the ladders and techniques erty Program, managed by
been well-maintained and
received close to $250,000
going up on the Long Beach on hand.
the Washington State Depart-
in upgrades and servicing
Peninsula, a ladder truck recent-
“If someone had to evacu- ment of Natural Resources.
before the department got it.
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The naval base upgraded all
Fire District 1 through a federal don’t have a ladder big enough surplus, Brundage said. Often
of its hoses and cables.
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The truck is not in service
important addition to the de-
Long Beach has always to other federally managed
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yet. The department is wait-
engines and trucks, Fire Chief der truck and crew, but Fire an reservations for example.
ing until it is fully equipped
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Jacob Brundage says.
District 1 responds to more of Sometimes they are sent to
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partment has relied on the Long said, and added that, in such ular truck was in use at a na-
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it hopes to have the truck in
Beach Fire Department’s lad- emergency situations, every val submarine base in Bangor Fire Chief Jacob Brundage checks out a “gently used” fire action by the end of Septem-
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the gas to get up there and bring ment and breathing appara- District 1’s six pumpers, four
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as condos or apartments, they
This recent acquisition was said.
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would call on Long Beach. If not in the budget.
It only cost the department things like extrication equip- as well as how to integrate a 25-year-old pumper.
Clatsop County
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resources post
The Daily Astorian
Clatsop County Manag-
er Scott Somers announced
Tuesday the hiring of a new
human resources manager
for the county.
Elizabeth Lawless has
nine years experience in
human resources and per-
sonnel work with various
organizations. Most recent-
ly, Lawless worked as the
human resources director
for a health care provider in
Wichita, Kan.
She is a graduate of the
University of Oregon.
“I am thrilled to join the
team,” she said. “It sounds like
an exciting place to work.”
Lawless is expected to
begin on or around Sept. 1,
and will oversee human re-
sources for the county’s 202
employees.
She replaces former Hu-
man Resources Manager
Dean Perez, who left Clat-
sop County earlier this year
to become HR director in
Bothell, Wash.
Astoria home invasion suspects reach plea deals
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
Two of the six suspects
connected to an Astoria
home invasion in April have
reached plea agreements.
Tasha H. Van Dolah, 34,
of Tillamook, and Kevin
John Morse, 26, of Astoria,
recently pleaded to a lesser
charge of third-degree rob-
bery. Both were originally
charged with 13 counts of
robbery, assault, burglary,
unlawful use of a weapon,
theft and menacing.
Morse was sentenced
Tuesday to three years pro-
bation. If he violates the
probation, he will face four
years in prison.
Van Dolah has a sentenc-
ing hearing in August, when
she will receive the same
sentence.
She and Morse acted as
lookouts during the home
invasion where Anthony
Victor Lane and Joseph
Vernon Armstrong entered
the residence on the 300
block of Alameda Avenue
wearing masks and de-
manded money and cell-
phones, according to court
documents.
Armstrong, 31, of Tilla-
mook, and Lane, 30, of St.
Helens, allegedly struck
two men with firearms and
batons and took items from
the home. They then re-
portedly stole two purses, a
cellphone, a stereo speaker
and fled the residence in a
Oldsmobile Bravada, court
documents state.
The assaulted men had
significant head and body
injuries. Two other women
were injured in the resi-
dence from pepper spray.
Armstrong and Lane
have court hearings sched-
uled in October.
Amanda Maye Preston,
26, of Tillamook, an alleged
getaway car driver, has a
court hearing Thursday. She
is being offered the same
plea deal as Van Dolah and
Morse, according to the
Clatsop County District At-
torney’s Office.
Leticia Vivian Westfall,
21, of Astoria, another al-
leged lookout, is the only
one not charged with the
same 13 counts.
She is charged with two
counts of hindering prose-
cution, and is due back in
court in October.
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Judge Nelson suffers heart attack
The Daily Astorian
Clatsop County Circuit
Court Judge Philip Nelson suf-
fered a heart attack Saturday.
It is unclear when he will re-
turn to court.
In his absence, Trial Court
Administrator Lee Merrill will
have to decide if it is necessary
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Court Administrator and request
a judge to preside temporarily.
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from a pool of retired judges
across the state through a Judge
Member Program. Judges are
able to retire early if they agree
to give a certain number of days
each year on assignment wher-
ever they are needed.
Nelson became a Circuit
Court judge in 1992, and is the
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in Clatsop County. He is up for
re-election at the end of 2016.
He is one of three Circuit
Court judges in Clatsop County
along with Paula Brownhill and
Cindee Matyas.
County seeking volunteers
for property tax appeal board
individuals. One consisting of
Applications must be com-
the governing body’s designee pleted and turned in by 5 p.m.
The Clatsop County Board or a member of the governing Monday, Aug. 24 to be con-
of Commissioners is seeking body, and the second com- sidered.
applications for those inter- SULVHG RI QRQRI¿FH KROGLQJ
ested in serving on the county residents of the county from
Board of Property Tax Ap- which the county clerk selects
peals for the 2015-16 term.
three to serve on the appeals
The property tax appeals board. Training is provided.
board hears petitions from
The committee holds sev-
taxpayers seeking to decrease eral daytime meetings be-
their real market or assessed ginning the first Monday in
property values. The board February to hear petitions.
also considers requests to ex- The committee adjourns no
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of real or personal property with the term ending June
returns.
30, 2016.
Applicants must be Clat-
Application forms for the
sop County residents, but can- appointments are available
not be employees of the coun- online at www.co.clatsop.
ty or of any tax district within or.us or the Clatsop County
the county.
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Dodge! Where
College offers outdoor
photography course
with the basics and progress-
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Clatsop Community Col- modern cameras.
lege offers an intensive out-
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“Outdoor Camerawork” from Myers said he has enjoyed
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through Friday with well- voices to explore the joys and
known photographer David challenges of life. In his decade
Lee Myers.
at Clatsop Community College,
Each day, participants will Myers introduced a fully digital
go out and photograph a series curriculum. He has lived and
in a variety of locations. The photographed in the Colum-
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ing making effective images. used, but the college does not
Results will be reviewed in have developing facilities.
class, along with technical The workshop uses the graph-
tools and settings.
ics lab classroom, with Photo-
Sprinkled in will be shop on iMacs. Participants
demonstrations of how the may use those, though Myers’
camera controls work and will teach digital processing
how to use the camera for and printing the following
effective expression, starting week.
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