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Reliving the Civil War Fishermen score a comeback win PAGE 3A SPORTS • 4A 143rd YEAR, No. 49 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 ONE DOLLAR The fast and the curious Ranchers fault land management, firefighting tactics in fires By DAN WHEAT and SEAN ELLIS Capital Press Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Kyla Hernandez, 2, smiles as she drives her Doc McStuffins-themed toy car while her mom, Chelsea, left, watches during the Go Baby Go event. The Go Baby Go program provides modified, ride-on cars to young children with disabilities so they can move around independent- ly and socialize with their peers. Program helps children build motor, social skills By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian I t didn’t take long for 2-year- ROG.\OD+HUQDQGH]WR¿QGKHU SLQN 'RF 0F6WXI¿QVWKHPHG car inside Astoria’s Clatsop Service Center Friday. Nor did it take long for Kyla to make a run for the con- vertible, climb in behind the wheel, buckle her seatbelt and take off, bopping the steering wheel as she zoomed across the room, shouting and smiling with excitement. Kyla’s part of a new effort, called Go Baby Go, that puts chil- dren with developmental disabil- ities in the driver’s seat of small electric cars, a proven method to build both their motor and social skills. 6KHDQG¿YHRWKHUNLGVUHFHLYHG free ride-on cars Friday, after they ZHUH DVVHPEOHG DQG PRGL¿HG WR be hand-accelerated by a volunteer corps that included family, friends, high school and college students and educators. Riley Ricks, a student at Astoria High School, adopted Go Baby Go as his senior project. JOHN DAY — The 105,000-acre &DQ\RQ &UHHN &RPSOH[ ¿UH VRXWK of John Day has burned a massive swath through grazing allotments in the Malheur National Forest, leaving ranchers worried about how they will ¿QGHQRXJKJUD]LQJODQGDQGKD\WR make it through the fast-approaching fall and winter. It’s the main concern of ranch- ers around the West who are reeling IURPZLOG¿UHV “It’s burned right through the heart of quite a few allotments,” said Seneca rancher Alec Oliver, president of the Grant County Stock- growers. 7KH¿UH²WKHODUJHVWLQ2UHJRQ this year — tore through the Canyon Creek area, where it burned at least 43 homes and blackened grazing land. “A lot of hay was lost up through that area,” Oliver said. “There are a lot of (grazing) permittees up there and … a lot of summer ground was lost this year. (They) are going to KDYH WR ¿QG VRPHZKHUH HOVH WR JR next year.” $V ODUJH ZLOG¿UHV EHFRPH PRUH the norm in Western states, ranchers who are forced to watch their live- lihoods go up in smoke argue that mismanagement of federal and state lands is an underlying cause and that it’s time for government policies to change. A little over 2.8 million acres KDYHEXUQHGLQ¿UHVLQ2UHJRQ Washington state, Idaho and Califor- nia this season, according to the Na- tional Interagency Fire Center. Fuel loads add up At the Haeberle Ranch, between the towns of Okanogan and Con- conully in north central Washing- ton state, Rod Haeberle, 66, and his daughter, Nicole Kuchenbuch, 36, and son-in-law Casey Kuchenbuch, See FIRES, Page 10A Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Amanda Lowenberg, left, works on the seatbelt of a small BMW toy car for her 1-year-old son Mason. Cynthia Barlow, an early child- hood specialist with the Northwest Regional Education Service Dis- trict in Astoria, secured a grant from the Wheel to Walk Founda- tion in Portland that bought four of the cars. Norm Stutznegger, owner RI 3DFL¿F &RDVW 0HGLFDO 6XSSO\ paid for three others. Closing the gap “The mission of our lab is to give children with disabilities the opportunities to be troublemakers like their peers,” said Sam Logan, an associate professor at Oregon State University’s College of Pub- lic Health and Human Sciences. He traveled Friday to Astoria, hoping to create another community hub for Go Baby Go. Logan started at Oregon State last fall. With him came Go Baby Go, an effort started by University of Delaware professor Cole Gal- loway. Logan headed the program in Delaware before moving to Or- egon. +H ¿UVW SRLQWHG RXW WKH REYL- ous disparity in physical and so- cial mobility between babies and toddlers with disabilities and their peers. A powered wheelchair for such young children, he added, can See GO BABY GO, Page 7A Andrew Fick: He’s a runner’s coach Astoria’s cross-country coach leads — and runs — by example Accused kidnapper seeks access to texts Social media records may be at heart of kidnapping case By DANI PALMER EO Media Group here’s a famous quote about cross-country coaches that goes something like this: “It’s the easiest job in the world. All you do is blow a whistle and your kids run off into the woods.” Well, it isn’t always that easy for a cross country coach. Some- times they run with their athletes. “I try to run with them every single day,” said Andrew Fick, the new cross country coach at Astoria High School. “Being out on the road, keep- ing an eye on things and making sure everyone is working hard. It’s been good, and every day is a little different. “A lot of people think, ‘you just go out there and run Gary Henley/The Daily Astorian Russell Wayne Deviney’s attor- ney said Friday he is still waiting on evidence that may very well “change the nature of the case” involving the accused kidnapper and rapist. Deviney, 48, of Everett, Wash., appeared before Clatsop County Cir- cuit Judge Paula Brownhill on Friday morning in a gray, striped jumpsuit and shackles for a status check. Both the defense and District Attorney’s 2I¿FH DUH EHLQJ GHOD\HG E\ D ODFN of evidence, including surveillance footage from a Wal-Mart in Salem. Deviney allegedly kidnapped a 15-year-old girl in Sanger, Calif., in May before leaving her and his 2004 Nissan pickup at the McDonald’s in Astoria two days later. A nationwide felony warrant was issued for Devin- ey’s arrest. See FICK, Page 10A Andrew Fick, left, with a few of his runners in the recent Astoria Fall Sports Day team pictures. See DEVINEY, Page 7A T