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8A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2015 Wildlife: Volunteers still needed Continued from Page 1A Drawn to birds Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard Amanda Calvert, a former student at Umpqua Communi- ty College, helps to spell the initials of the school with candles during a vigil at Stewart Park in Roseburg, after a fatal shooting at the school Thursday. Shooting: Sheriff Hanlin chose not to say shooter’s name “All he ever did was put ev- eryone before himself, he want- “I know the folks there,” ed everyone to be happy,” she said Hamilton, the former pres- told KCBS-TV. ident of Klamath Community Hanlin, the sheriff, said College. “I know the admin- Thursday that he was not go- istration there. I worked with ing to say the shooter’s name them on some projects. I was because that’s what he would with a group or presidents and have wanted. board members at a meeting “I will not name the shoot- (during the shooting), and it er. I will not give him the credit was very emotional.” he probably sought prior to this 7KHNLOOHUZDVLGHQWL¿HGDV KRUUL¿FDQGFRZDUGO\DFW´VDLG Chris Harper Mercer, accord- a visibly angry Hanlin. LQJ WR D JRYHUQPHQW RI¿FLDO Hundreds went to a candle- who was not authorized to light vigil Thursday night, with speak publicly and provided the many raising candles as the name on condition of anonym- hymn “Amazing Grace” was ity. The gunman died following played. a shootout with police. Police Sam Sherman, a former were not saying whether they student, said the school helped knew of any motive. broaden his opportunities. Mercer lived in an apartment “That’s all I could think complex in nearby Winchester, about today. There’s 10, 9 kids where investigators found a who won’t get those doors QXPEHU RI ¿UHDUPV 'RXJODV opened,” he said. County Sheriff John Hanlin said 5RVHEXUJ LV LQ 'RXJODV )ULGD\ 'HWDLOV DERXW WKH QXP- County, a politically conser- ber and type of guns would be vative region west of the Cas- released later, he said. cade Range where people like A neighbor, Bronte Harte, WR KXQW DQG ¿VK %XW LW¶V QR told The Associated Press that stranger to school gun violence. Mercer “seemed really un- A freshman at the local high friendly” and would “sit by school shot and wounded a fel- himself in the dark in the balco- low student in 2006. ny with this little light.” After Thursday’s shooting, Harte said anguished a woman she parents and believed to other relatives ‘I will not be Mercer’s rushed to sur- name the mother also viving stu- lived upstairs dents. shooter. I will J e s s i c a and was “cry- ing her eyes not give him Chandler was out” Thurs- desperately day. the credit seeking infor- Social pro- mation about ¿OHV OLQNHG WR he probably her 18-year- Mercer sug- old daugh- sought gested he was ter, Rebecka fascinated by prior to this Carnes. the IRA, frus- “I don’t horrific and know where trated by tra- ditional orga- she is. I don’t cowardly nized religion know if she’s and tracked wounded,” act.’ other mass Chandler said. shootings. Carnes’ John Hanlin T h e r e best friend Douglas County sheriff didn’t seem told Chan- to be many re- dler that her cent connections on the social GDXJKWHUKDGEHHQÀRZQE\KH- media sites linked to Mercer, licopter to a hospital. with his MySpace page just Students described utter showing two friends. fear and panic after hearing the In addition to the MySpace shots. page, Mercer appeared to have Sarah Cobb, 17, was in a at least one online dating pro- next-door classroom. She heard ¿OH D WRUUHQWV VWUHDPLQJ DF- a shot. A teacher said they need- count and a blog. ed to get out, and the class ran On a torrents streaming out the door as she heard two site and blog that appeared to more shots. belong to Mercer, posts refer- “I was freaking out. I didn’t enced multiple shootings and know what to think, what to downloads included several do,” she said. KRUURU¿OPVDQGDGRFXPHQWD- Before the Roseburg shoot- ry on a mass shooting at Sandy ing, a posting on the mes- Hook Elementary School in sage-board site 4chan included Newtown, Connecticut. A blog a photo of a crudely drawn post urged readers to watch the frog used regularly in Internet online footage of Vester Flana- memes with a gun and warned gan shooting two former col- other users not to go to school leagues on live TV in Virginia, Thursday in the Northwest. while another lamented mate- The messages that followed rialism as preventing spiritual spoke of mass shootings, with development. some egging on and even offer- A MySpace page that ap- ing tips to the original poster. peared to belong to Mercer It was unclear if the messages included several photos and were tied to the shooting be- graphics of the Irish Republi- cause of the largely anonymous can Army as well as a picture of nature of the site. 0HUFHUKROGLQJDULÀH Investigators went door to Mercer previously lived in door in the neighborhoods near the Los Angeles-area suburb the college and the shooter’s of Torrance with his mother. apartment seeking clues, Han- Neighbors there recalled him as lin said Friday. uncommunicative. The sheriff has been vo- His father, Ian Mercer, said cal in opposing state and fed- late Thursday that it’s been a eral gun-control legislation. “devastating day” for him and In 2013, Hanlin sent a letter his family, and he has been to Vice President Joe Biden talking to police and the FBI after the shooting at a New- about the shooting. He spoke town, Connecticut, elementary to KABC-TV and several other school, declaring that he and media outlets gathered outside his deputies would refuse to his house in Tarzana, Califor- enforce new gun-control re- nia. strictions “offending the consti- Step-sister Carmen Nesnick tutional rights of my citizens.” said the shooting didn’t make The Daily Astorian con- sense. tributed to this report. Continued from Page 1A “Sharnelle told me ‘they’re all attitude and no gratitude,’” said Laurel Berblinger, a volunteer with the center for more than six years, noting the nicks and cuts she’s received handling birds. “And they should be. They’re wildlife, not pets.” Berblinger and Saranpaa organize morning shifts of volunteers who make their way down the row of cag- es, feeding, medicating and transferring seabirds to re- ceive time in the water to exercise and condition their waterproof plumage for floating on the high seas. By all accounts, the cen- ter has been a success. It grew over the years to take in between 2,000 and 3,000 birds a year, and last year, Saranpaa said, managed to release 65 percent of them back into the wild. “The gulls are reward- ing to release, because we almost never get to re- lease them,” Saranpaa said. “They get hit by cars, and their bones shatter like cra- zy.” Coralie Crayne, a volun- teer for the past year at the center, said she originally came on a tour to appease Beck, a friend of hers. Crayne said she originally expected volunteering to be like housekeeping. But like other volunteers, she was surprised to find herself immediately handling and feeding a sometimes exotic cross section of more than 100 bird species alongside Fee and Saranpaa, the cen- ter’s two certified animal rehabilitation specialists. “I didn’t know anything about birds,” said Ami Kreider, a part-time librar- ian and forest firefighter who read about the center in an article. “I guess I’ve al- ways been concerned about humans’ impact on the en- vironment. It just felt like something concrete I could do.” Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian Josh Saranpaa, the new director of the Wildlife Center of the North Coast, watches a red-shouldered hawk fly by. Saranpaa said it is only the second such hawk he has seen in nearly eight years of working with the center. Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian A surf scoter, a type of sea duck, rehabilitates at the Wildlife Center of the North Coast, one of the only cen- ters specializing in seabirds. Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Common murres stretch their wings after being released by Laurel Berblinger near the maritime memorial Monday. CELEBRATION FOR FEE There will be a celebration of Sharnelle Fee from 3 to 5 p.m. Oct. 10 at the Warrenton Community Center, at 170 S.W. Third St. In transition, in need “We have enough vol- unteers for transport (to the center), but we need more volunteers to come work with wildlife,” Saranpaa said. “We’re trying to have an afternoon shift, so we can get every cage clean. It takes a special person will- ing to cut fish, get bit, feed birds.” The center also needs donations to help fix the water filtration system in its enclosures that hasn’t worked in seven years. Saranpaa said the stagnant water with bird feces is hurting the birds’ ability Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian A common murre swims away into the Columbia River after being released. to develop waterproofing, which can be deadly on the ocean. 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