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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.
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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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that you
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ringleader,
that you
planned
this whole
thing. That
you carried
it out.’
tacked them. “Tony Yeaho” is
another alias for Lane.
Lane has a lengthy criminal
history that extends into Co-
lumbia County, where at one
time he was arrested for a war-
rant out of Tennessee.
After the sentencing Friday,
the prosecution and police ex-
pressed frustration.
Chief Deputy District At-
torney Ron Brown said he had
pursued a longer sentence, but
the case had too many unre-
liable witnesses and co-de-
fendants. At least three of the
co-defendants are at large right
now on warrants, he said.
Had the case gone to trial,
it would have been extremely
dif¿cult to get the witnesses
and co-defendants in the same
courtroom on the same day. And
many had conÀicting stories.
“We wanted to get some-
thing out of this case that was
concrete,” Brown said.
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