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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2015 Surfsand catches a wave amid blustery weather No one hurt as wave hits Surfsand Resort By R.J. MARX The Daily Astorian A string of heavy storms and winds pounded the North Coast over the past several days, lead- ing to high waves in Cannon Beach. One of those breached a concrete barrier and slammed through the ground Àoor of the Surfsand Resort Friday after- noon, Ryan Snyder, president of Martin Hospitality, said Sunday. Eleven rooms were impact- ed. No one was hurt. The wave was the “perfect culmination” of elements, Sny- der said, . “It’s happened before in the past,” he said. “We’ve had water hit the sea wall. There was no wind at the time of the breach, and so there was no wave being knocked down by wind. It was the perfect culmination. We just got hammered.” Guests and staff were never in danger, Snyder said. Staff was able to reassign guests to other accommoda- tions. “They were very under- standing,” Snyder said. Throughout the weekend, R.J. Marx/The Daily Astorian Damage from water and de- bris at a beachfront room at the Surfsand in Cannon Beach. trucks worked to pump debris from the ¿rst Àoor, working through scattered downpours Saturday and Sunday. “It’s nature taking its course,” Snyder said. “We have systems that are in place to help remediate this when it hap- pens, but obviously we need to re-evaluate all of those, so that’s kind of what we’re doing. We’re getting those rooms cleaned out right now and trying to assess what we’re going to do going forward.” Meanwhile, high winds, partial power outages and road closures across the region, with Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Jax, a 7-year-old German Shepherd and chocolate Labrador mix, plays in flooding near the road along Highway 202. a high wind alert throughout Saturday and Sunday. The worst damage in the area was south toward Tillamook County and Nehalem, which faced Àooding and road closures. On Saturday afternoon, the state Department of Transporta- tion reported the road surface on U.S. Highway 101 in Wheeler had collapsed. Drivers were di- verted to alternate routes. Entrances to the Columbia River are only accessible to commercial traf¿c after the U.S. Coast Guard placed restrictions in response to severe sea condi- tions, heavy rain, Àooding and large amounts of debris in the water. Peninsula churches Man sentenced to more than six to house homeless years for Astoria home invasion people this winter ‘The Collector’ ‘I have the Paci¿c County hopes to land $220,000 grant for permanent shelter By KATHERYN HOUGHTON EO Media Group LONG BEACH, Wash. — This winter, the peninsula’s homeless population will have access to an overnight shelter for the ¿rst time and, come spring, the possibility of a move into long-term housing. The Peninsula Poverty Response announced this month they are pairing with the Peninsula Church of the Nazarene and St Mary’s Cath- olic Church to host people in Paci¿c County who otherwise would sleep outside. The churches will host on a rotation and the shelter will be open ¿ve nights a week in January and February, said PPR’s AmeriCorps member Nichole Lopez. “Right now, we have the attitude that ¿ve nights a week is better than nothing and we’re excited to offer that much,” Lopez said. “That number could increase as we ¿nd more volunteers and hosts.” Shelter for those in need The shelter, known as Overnight Winter Lodging, is a combined effort by PPR, the county and community mem- bers, said Katie Lindstrom, the county’s deputy director of Public Health and Human Services. Lindstrom, who is also a member of PPR, said the shel- ter is using December to try and secure volunteers. PPR aims to have at least two vol- unteers at the shelter through- out the night on four-hour shifts, meaning eight to 10 volunteers each night. Lindstrom said the county is also trying to secure a state grant of $220,000 a year to provide permanent housing for people who are homeless. The grant, known as the Hous- ing and Urban Development Bonus Fund, could support 18 people who live outside to move indoors. “The idea is that we can build connections with the people we serve in the shelters this winter, and work to move them into homes in March,” she said. Good chances for grant The top four counties that applied for the grant are ex- pected to receive funding, and Paci¿c County ranked No. 1, Lindstrom said. The county is now waiting to see if the state receives the needed federal funding to support the pro- gram. Lindstrom said if the coun- ty receives the grant, they will partner with local organiza- tions, like Willapa Behavioral Health, to connect people with case managers after they are housed. “It’s hard to expect some- one to get clean from addiction or whatever else if they’re liv- ing outside,” Lindstrom said. “We want to meet their most basic need and then connect them with other services.” Lopez said when PPR an- nounced their goal to form the winter shelter, she was wor- ried about the community’s response. “It’s the ¿rst time the coun- ty is doing this, and I know it’s a big commitment, but the peninsula has already shown so much support,” she said. Working together Karen Humber, the co-pas- tor at the Peninsula Church of the Nazarene, said her church agreed to be one of the hosts for the shelter because they viewed it as an opportunity for the community to work for its neighbors. “We hope to see a lot of people step forward,” she said. “Nobody wants to sleep in the rain and now our county has the chance to help house whoever needs it for whatever reason.” had a lengthy criminal history By KYLE SPURR The Daily Astorian Anthony Victor Lane, the convicted felon who orches- trated an armed home inva- sion at an Astoria residence in April, was sentenced to more than six years in prison. Lane, 31, of St. Helens, pleaded no contest Friday in Clatsop County Circuit Court to three counts of second-de- gree robbery as part of a nego- tiated plea agreement. He also pleaded no contest to felon in possession of a ¿rearm from a previous incident in March. “I have the impression that you were the ringleader,” Judge Paula Brownhill told Lane. “That you planned this whole thing. That you carried it out.” Brownhill sentenced Lane to 70 months for the robbery and another 12 months for the ¿rearm possession. He will get credit for time already served in jail. Lane and Joseph Vernon Armstrong, 31, of Tillamook, entered a residence on the 300 block of Alameda Avenue wearing masks and demanded money and cellphones. Arm- strong was armed with a .40 caliber pistol and Lane had a baton he used to beat two men in the house. The assaulted men had sig- ni¿cant head and body inju- ries. Two women were pepper sprayed. Armstrong was sentenced in September to 70 months in prison. Lane and Armstrong Àed the scene in an Oldsmobile Brava- da, which a Seaside detective found unoccupied hours later at Arnie’s Cafe in Warrenton. Astoria Police found a 74-year-old man who suffers from dementia after he was missing for more than four hours Monday morning. Willard Shinabery was found near the New Youngs Bay Bridge roundabout after being last seen leaving the Astoria Cleaners on West Marine Drive around 6:30 a.m. on foot. Clatsop County Search and Rescue and Astoria Community Emergency Re- sponse Team assisted in the search. The U.S. Coast Guard also searched for the man, scan- ning the Astoria waterfront with an MH-60 Jayhawk he- licopter Monday morning. Anthony Victor Lane Call to Tillamook County Jail Lane became a suspect, in part, after he made a phone call to an inmate in Tillamook County Jail the day of the as- sault and robbery and said he was “in trouble and that he was hiding in a swamp,” ac- cording to court documents. Lane went on to tell the inmate he “had gone to do a hit on a guy and that both his name and the inmate’s name had been given out over the radio to police.” A Tillamook County detec- tive overheard the phone call and informed the Astoria Po- lice. Oregon State Police found Lane about three weeks later in Seaside. Astoria Police Deputy Chief Eric Halverson said his depart- ment collected multiple pieces of evidence connecting Lane to the crime, including DNA, cell- phone records and statements from the co-defendants and witnesses. “All of them expressed that they were afraid of Lane,” Halverson said. L IF T CHAIR $ 5 P urcha s e a 20 G ift C a rd $ a nd get a $ 5 G ift C a rd FR E E G rea t Sto cking Stuffer B EST D ESSER T I ro n C hef 2015 8 N . C o lum b ia in S e a s id e Judge Paula Brownhill Known as the ‘The Collector’ Police were familiar with Lane from the ¿rearm posses- sion case in March. Lane was stopped by police in Seaside while driving with a woman in the passenger seat. The case was initially investigated as a kidnap- ping, but Lane was only charged for possessing a handgun. The woman in the vehicle referred to Lane as “The Col- lector,” a nickname that hints at Lane’s alleged history of collecting drug debts for him- self and others. A victim in the home in- vasion case called 911 saying “Tony Yeaho” had just at- Others involved have been convicted The four other people in- volved in the home invasion have all been convicted. Two lookouts — Tasha H. Van Dolah and Kevin John Morse — and getaway car driv- er Amanda Maye Preston were each sentenced to three years probation. Leticia Vivian Westfall, an- other lookout, pleaded no con- test to hindering prosecution and was sentenced to 18 months probation. 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