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Smith: The trial is set for June 2016
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She ordered that the state’s
evaluation take place 2ct. 13
and 14, as previously set.
Falls countered he’d
rather wait until Morgan is
available, prompting Matyas
to ask why he’d agreed to
the date in the ¿rst place, if
Guastadisegni ended up cer-
ti¿ed for the job.
Falls said he plans to ¿le
notice of when Morgan is
available, adding it is Smith’s
constitutional right to have
all counsel present during
such an evaluation.
Matyas noted the dates
could change if there was
mutual agreement between
the defense and prosecution.
“These are time-consum-
ing evaluations,” she said.
“The exchange of informa-
tion is critical for both sides.”
She also granted Falls per-
mission to video the evalua-
tion after discussion, as long
as an unedited copy is made
for the District Attorney’s
2f¿ce.
Marquis expressed con-
cern in that neither he nor his
deputy attorneys will be there
for that evaluation while the
defense has already stated
it’s not going to allow Smith
to answer questions that may
incriminate her.
If Falls objects to ques-
tions about Smith’s marriage
or her upbringing, he added,
then there’s no point in doing
an evaluation.
“This is not an elaborate
chess game,” Marquis said.
“We’re trying to expedite
discovery in a complicated
case.”
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
Jessica Smith is led into a status hearing at the Clatsop County Courthouse on Friday.
Matyas said the parame-
ters the state sets forth should
be enough, and that she’s not
going to “micromanage” the
evaluation.
Deputy District Attorney
Dawn Buzzard brought up
defense-hired Dr. Beth How-
ell, who’s visited Smith in jail
half a dozen times since July,
according to jail records.
Falls objected and called
the information irrelevant as
the defense has not ¿led her
as an expert witness. He add-
ed the state cannot force the
defense to “¿le evidence of
a particular nature” until he
receives a report and decides
to use it.
The District Attorney’s
2f¿ce ¿led a motion to com-
pel discovery 2ct. 1.
“This case is going slow-
er than the state and, I think,
court want,” Marquis said.
He noted Howell worked
with the defense on the
Adrien Wallace case in 2014,
in which the state didn’t re-
ceive discovery until the trial
began, delaying the case.
Wallace, of Lake 2swego,
was convicted of murdering
his 71-year-old mother and
teenage nephew in 2012, and
sentenced to life in jail, ac-
cording to court records.
Marquis added he doesn’t
want his of¿ce to be put in
the same situation if the de-
fense decides to put Howell
on the stand.
Matyas said she’ll con-
sider the compel motion, but
needs to give Falls a chance
to respond ¿rst.
“Today, I don’t believe,
would be the day,” she said.
The trial is set for June 2016.
Kicker: ‘The boys were actually really accepting of me’
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The night before her first
practice, she was not so
confident, though. Expect-
ing the worse, she stayed
up watching videos of pro-
fessionals giving tips for
point-after kicks, so she
could learn as much as pos-
sible, she said.
“You have to be precise
and do the same thing every
time,” she said.
Because football sea-
son coincides with soccer
season, Westerholm spends
about 45 minutes at football
practice before heading to
the soccer field. She consid-
ers soccer her primary sport.
She boasts a 4.0 grade-point
average and hopes to study
viticulture at the University
of California at Davis. While
she may not try out for a
team sport, she would like to
compete in intramurals.
Westerholm has not faced
resistance from her football
teammates.
“The boys were actual-
ly really accepting of me to
start off,” she said, adding
they offered her support and
instruction.
She and Barnes, friends off
and on the ¿eld, sometimes
feel a little removed from the
football family, or that “we’re
just the kickers,” Westerholm
said. However, that doesn’t
stop them from approaching
their role with determination
and a desire to do their best.
“The other boys put so
much work in to succeed,”
she said. “We just make the
load a little lighter when we
do our job and make our
3ATs and make ¿eld goals.”
Jeff Ter Har/For The Daily Astorian
Whitney Westerholm is the SHS football team placekicker and homecoming queen.
Wolfe: ‘My best case
scenario is that I have
a positive impact on
the community’
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Daily Astorian/File Photo
Astoria Police Chief Brad Johnston speaks at a press conference in May.
CCC: Texting is the best way to communicate
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two minutes for the ¿rst of¿-
cers to reach campus.
During a shooting, John-
ston said, Astoria Police will
be heavily equipped and by-
pass injured people as they
focus on preventing any fur-
ther injuries or deaths. Bags
will be suspicious to of¿cers
so people are advised to hold
them up in the search process.
“You think these things
can’t happen here,” Johnston
said, then told about when
a man set off bombs at the
Dutch Cup restaurant (now
Stephanie’s Cabin) and the
Pig ’n Pancake in 1996.
Johnston and college staff
stressed that people should re-
port suspicious behavior that
might lead to violence.
Four years ago, a student
was recruiting partners online
for a mass shooting at Astoria
High School. A friend from
Warrenton High School re-
ported his behavior to Asto-
ria administrators, potentially
averting a mass shooting.
The college can’t make
many guarantees, Hamilton
said, but he guaranteed the
college would take reports of
threats seriously.
All involved said texting
is the best way to communi-
cate in an emergency, because
phone lines get swamped with
calls.
The college provides Ban-
dit Alerts, text noti¿cations
in any type of emergency, at
www.clatsopcc.edu/alerts.
(Sign up for ClatsopAL-
ERTS!, Clatsop County’s
emergency noti¿cation sys-
tem, at http://tinyurl.com/
pmckxn3)
Dean of Students Chris
2usley urged students to keep
their personal information
with the college up to date to
help with identi¿cation and
communication with the au-
thorities.
For the future
Holly Tumbarello, a nurs-
ing assistant instructor and a
member of the college’s safety
committee, said the commit-
tee is looking into adopting
the Standard Response Pro-
tocol, a streamlined, uni¿ed
emergency response method-
ology used in Astoria schools.
The protocol was created by
John-Michael Keyes through
the “I Love U Guys” Founda-
tion, named for the exact last
words his daughter texted him
before she was murdered in a
North Platte, Colorado, school
shooting. It covers procedures
for lockout, lockdown, evacu-
ation and taking shelter.
Attendees at Friday’s fo-
rum questioned the college’s
lack of cameras or a security
guard.
JoAnn Zahn, the college’s
vice president of ¿nance and
operations, said the college is
looking into safety measures
like locks on the insides of
doors, improving classroom
communications and adding
cameras.
Greg Dorcheus, the col-
lege’s facilities manager, said
it recently ordered the equip-
ment to bar the doors into
buildings.
The consortium class-
room, now in its third year,
started in Knappa and is now
in its second year at Warren-
ton. Mark Jeffery, superin-
tendent of Warrenton-Ham-
mond School District, said
the districts realized there
was a growing need for ther-
apeutic support to students
and secured money through
the Northwest Regional Ed-
ucation Service District for
the classroom.
“I do a lot of talking with
the kids individually,” Wolfe
said. “I’ll also observe inter-
actions and make notes.”
Wolfe acts as a teaching
assistant and a therapist to
students in the classroom,
without letting on that she
is a therapist. If there’s an
escalation with a student,
Wolfe said, she debriefs
with the teacher afterward
and talks about the contrib-
uting factors and what can
be done differently to avoid
the escalation.
“Trauma-informed care
is approaching the students
from the mindset that stu-
dents who have experienced
trauma will be wired dif-
ferently,” Jeffery said. “If
you try to approach a child
impacted by trauma, you’ll
get a very different reaction
than with other students.”
The ultimate goal of the
consortium classroom is
to help kids improve their
coping skills to the point
of leaving the specialized
classroom and heading
back into the general stu-
dent population. Jeffery
said Wolfe’s position is
foundational to kids getting
the support to succeed aca-
demically.
Wolfe, a U.S. Coast
Guard spouse, moved to
Astoria for a four-year
tour a year ago from Ha-
waii with her husband, who
works in Sector Columbia
River’s engineering depart-
ment. They have three kids,
including a daughter in her
¿rst year of high school, a
son in second grade and a
son in kindergarten.
“My mom was a teach-
er,” said Wolfe, a Los An-
geles native who earned a
bachelor’s in elementary
education. “That’s what I
saw myself doing. I’m good
at it. I’m good at working
with kids.”
Wolfe said she always
wanted to attend graduate
school, and her frustration
with children’s unmet emo-
tional needs led her toward
the psychology ¿eld. 2nce
she moved to Hawaii on a
four-year tour, she had the
time to obtain a master’s in
marriage and family thera-
py.
“My best case scenar-
io is that I have a positive
impact on the community,”
Wolfe said.
At the end of the school
year, she said, districts will
re-evaluate her impact.
— Edward Stratton