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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2016 Goodding: Fallen Badge Foundation is paying for event Continued from Page 1A Gov. Kate Brown will pres- ent the medal and an American ÀDJWR*RRGGLQJ¶VZLIH$P\DW a memorial Friday afternoon at the Seaside Civic and Conven- tion Center. Thousands of people are expected to attend the service DQG SD\ WKHLU ¿QDO UHVSHFWV WR Goodding, who was shot Fri- day night while trying to arrest a suspect on a felony warrant. He died Saturday morning. Goodding is the 183rd Ore- JRQODZHQIRUFHPHQWRI¿FHUWR die in the line of duty since the 1880s. Memorial service Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian OR A ST The Oregon Fallen Badge Foundation is working with the Seaside Police Department to host the memorial. The service takes place at the convention center, but that facil- ity is reserved for the Goodding IDPLO\IHOORZRI¿FHUVDQGHPHU- gency responders. Organiz- ers are requesting community members go to Seaside High School or North Coast Family Fellowship on Wahanna Road, where the service will be simul- cast. Other venues in Astoria, Gearhart, Seaside and Cannon Beach will stream the memo- rial live. “We’re anticipating a few The flag at the Seaside Police Department flies at half-staff above flowers left to honor Sgt. Jason Goodding. thousand people here, well over the capacity of the convention center,” Sgt. Eric Bunday of the PROCESSION ROUTE CO Hillsboro Police Department LUM • From Patriot Way, proceed south on U.S. Highway 101 and Oregon Fallen Badge Foun- BIA • Proceed on the highway to Gearhart Lane dation told Seaside City Council • Turn right on Gearhart Loop and proceed west to North Marion RI on Monday. VE Avenue • Continue south on North Marion Avenue Goodding’s death immedi- HAMMOND P AC • Turn left on North Pacific Way and proceed east ately elicited a response from IF IC • Turn right on Highway 101 and proceed south through Seaside BOAT the local community, govern- BAS IN • Turn right on Broadway PHQW RI¿FLDOV ODZ HQIRUFH- R R E PE T DA LE • Turn right on North Columbia Street IRE ment agencies and emergency • Turn right on First Avenue and proceed east to the convention responders, who were mobi- center. YOU NGS BAY E HA RB OR OL]HGWRPHPRULDOL]HWKHRI¿FHU and support his family. IA - M EGL ER RD BRI DG R E 30 RD ASTORIA ST IVE R K AR S & CL EE R IVE YO U NG S R LE W OO LE W I D P OP R L A R K RD L AT S RD R L IS & C 101 A partner organization, WARRENTON LA BIS KE CAMP RILEA called Concerns of Police Sur- vivors, also sent a team of sur- viving family members of fallen RI¿FHUVWRZRUNGLUHFWO\ZLWKWKH N SU N SE T BE AC H Goodding family and help take W E R care of their needs, Bunday said. VE RI E The Soup Ladies, another vol- S unteer organization from Wash- ington state, has been in town pre- S N SDULQJIRRGIRUWKH¿UVWUHVSRQGHUV U LO 101 and others arranging the service. MEMORIAL PROCESSION ROUTE* SURF PINES Organizers are expecting fel- ORZ ODZ HQIRUFHPHQW RI¿FHUV DEL REY Begins: Friday, Feb.12, 10:45 a.m. BEACH Camp Rilea from Oregon and out of state to 33168 Patriot Way, Warrenton attend the event. GEARHART GEARHART &LW\ RI¿FHV ² LQFOXGLQJ Ends: Seaside Convention Center 415 1st Ave., Seaside Seaside City Hall, the Seaside Visitors Bureau, Seaside Pub- * Procession is for emergency vehicles only. PACIFIC The public is encouraged to stand along the route, lic Library and Seaside Public but please do not park along the procession route. Works Department — will be closed Friday in honor of Good- For more information, visit oregonfallenbadge.com 101 1 ding’s memorial. Regular hours SEASIDE will resume Saturday. Clatsop BROA DWAY &RXQW\6KHULII¶V2I¿FHLVRSHQ Friday but with limited services. There will be no concealed handgun applications or renew- BE ER M A N C RE EK DOVSURFHVVHGDQGQR¿QJHUSULQW- LQJDYDLODEOH3ROLFHDQG¿UHVHU- vices will remain available at all Submitted Photo times. The route for the procession honoring Sgt. Jason Goodding. FT C RD PACIFIC O CEAN BE RR Y RD AN KL ASK te) GAN RD LO iva IN RD ( pr RD RD CL A RK MARION AVE RD LN WAY WA H A NN ST A RD M B IA IVER C O LU ARK R LE W IS & Gearhart Elementary School LE WI S & C L dation is paying for the event. “The family doesn’t pay a dime,” according to founda- tion member Sgt. David Peter- son of the Benton County Sher- LII¶V2I¿FH Providence Seaside Hos- pital, where Goodding’s wife works as a nurse, is assisting with volunteer coordination for the service. Bunday told city councilors the foundation is “here for you, we are here for the Goodding family and we are here for your community.” “We are so sorry we have to be here,” he added. “We don’t want to be here. But we are honored and humbled that you asked us to come in and help.” Since arriving in Seaside and experiencing the city “in this hour of grief,” Bunday said, he and Peterson have seen “a very resilient, amazing community that bonded around their police department and the Goodding family with love and support.” “It’s a testament to you folks, so thank you for welcoming us in,” Bunday said. LO LOO P RD R SK VE O RI ER alt KE E 101 WALL O WA L OS G S R IV Goodding remembered in Cannon Beach. Also, bus routes may be delayed because of Friday memorial. See Page A5. OOR D EL M P RD LOO Many donations The Fallen Badge Foun- E RD A public safety motorcade procession, involving family and hundreds of public safety and emergency response vehi- cles, will precede the service. The procession begins at 10:45 a.m. at Camp Rilea Armed Forces Training Center in War- renton and ends at the conven- tion center. The southbound lane of U.S. Highway 101 will be closed from Patriot Way in Warrenton to Broadway during the procession. The northbound lane of High- way 101 will remain open, but will be partially detoured around Seaside from Avenue S to Wah- anna Road. Area travelers should EH SUHSDUHG IRU WUDI¿F FRQJHV- tion and delays along the high- way and streets in Seaside, Gear- hart and Warrenton. The Oregon Department of Transportation will post temporary signs advis- ing motorists of closures, delays DQGGHWRXUVIRUWUDI¿F Members of the public attending the event are encour- aged to carpool, walk or ride a bicycle. Parking will be extremely limited. YO U N RIDG MORE ON MEMORIAL Procession RD Dangers: ‘We are constantly sending people to trainings’ multiple times, often people with a history of aggressive behavior don’t know if they’re armed, toward law enforcement. and so obviously you have a The state Department of high awareness all the time,” Public Safety Standards and he said. “And when you’re Training sets a minimum num- obviously dealing with some- ber of required training hours for one who may have a record of RI¿FHUVRQD\HDUE\\HDUEDVLV “We constantly are send- DVVDXOWLQJDSXEOLFVDIHW\RI¿FHU as Mr. Ferry did, you’re going ing people to trainings, whether to treat that with a lot more LW¶V IRU ¿UHDUPV RU IRU KRVWDJH caution.” negotiations, or for whatever it might be,” Bergin said. Each law enforcement Training for DJHQF\GHFLGHVKRZLWVRI¿FHUV¶ confrontation With so many warrants of training is provided and regu- varying severity but so few beds larly updated, Johnston said. In Seaside and elsewhere, in the Clatsop County Jail, the sheriff’s department has little RI¿FHUV JR WKURXJK D UHJXODU choice but to release the inmates mini-academy: three days of least likely to reoffend to make scenario-based training in which room for the most high-risk RI¿FHUVOHDUQWRKDQGOHGLIIHUHQW offenders — a less-than-ideal confrontational encounters. They learn to watch the sub- situation that allows some career criminals, like Ferry, back on the ject’s eyes (“Is she looking for an street without ever really hold- escape route?” “Is he eying my ing them accountable, Clatsop gun?”), body language (“Why is County Sheriff Tom Bergin said. he removing his jacket?”) and, “That’s where we run into most importantly, the person’s a lot of problems,” he said. hands, because “that’s what “Unless we hold people account- going to essentially kill you,” able, we’re going to continue to Schermerhorn said. “Mr. Ferry was not presenting his hands.” have these types of events.” $QGLWPHDQVORFDOSROLFHRI¿- cers will continue dealing with ‘Life is precious’ people they’ve already dealt with In his career, Bergin has Continued from Page 1A been hit and spit on. He’s had guns and knives pulled on him. He’s been bitten to the bone and poked with syringes, he said. “We see so much, and we tend to want to throw up walls and protect people, especially our closest families and friends,” said Bergin, a friend and neigh- bor of Goodding’s family in rural Seaside. %XW RI¿FHUV KH VDLG NQRZ they’re doing good for their communities, because it is a necessary job, one that most people wouldn’t want to do. “Who wants to deal with a suicide? Who wants to deal with someone who’s gone through a windshield and might not be in a complete piece,” Bergin said. “Who wants to talk to a family DERXW ¿QGLQJ WKHLU FKLOG VRPH place with their head blown off?” “You do become a little bit hardened,” he said. :KHQDIHOORZRI¿FHULVNLOOHG VRPH RI¿FHUV HVSHFLDOO\ \RXQJ ones, may question whether this is the right profession for them. And ROGHURI¿FHUVPLJKWVWDUWZRQGHU- ing whether it is time to get out, Warrenton Police Chief Mathew Workman said. However, “there’s a call- ing to be in police work that’s GHUIXO RI¿FHU DQG IULHQG EXW WKHQ KDYLQJ DQRWKHU RI¿FHU ZKR KDV EHHQ LQ DQ RI¿FHULQ- volved shooting. These are two KRUUL¿F WKLQJV WR KDYH WR GHDO with, and it’s all falling on one department.” Though talking about the H[SHULHQFH DOORZV RI¿FHUV WR return to their jobs more quickly, they can’t help but carry the tragedy around with them. “I can tell you that we’re all grieving at the moment,” John- ston said. “Jason, because he was on the (Clatsop County Drug Task Force) and also on the Major Crimes Team, spent a lot of time in all of our police departments, and was well known to all of us and well liked by all of us, and it affects us.” Pulling together $QGIRUWKHRI¿FHUVUDLVLQJ In the wake of Goodding’s GHDWK RI¿FHUV DQG HPHUJHQF\ children in a coastal commu- responders have attended crit- nity where such violence hardly ical incident stress debrief- ever happens, Goodding’s death ings, a time when they discuss means something else. “We have to explain to our the ordeal and the feelings of trauma they may be working kids, ‘It does happen here, and it can happen here,’” Scher- through, Schermerhorn said. ³,W¶VGH¿QLWHO\DVWUXJJOHIRU merhorn, a father of two, said. everybody involved, especially ³7KDW¶VDGLI¿FXOWWKLQJWU\LQJWR Seaside and their department explain to your children.” now,” he said. “They have two different things they’re strug- Community support gling with, having lost a won- But to see the commu- hard to explain,” Workman said. “Everybody gets into the pro- fession for different reasons, but there’s still that desire to help people and that desire to make a difference.” “Every day,” Bergin said, “we put on the uniform and go back out to work because it’s something that we know — as a person, or as an individual — that’s what we’ve dedicated our life to do. “And occasionally things go wrong. However, most of the time they go right, and there’s a lot of satisfaction,” he said. “We just want to make sure that peo- ple always have a safe place to go home at night.” nity in general, and the law enforcement community in particular, pull together this week to support the local departments, and the family of their fallen comrade, has made a great difference, John- ston said. “You wouldn’t believe the number of agencies that have offered help, that are helping, the number of things that local RI¿FHUV DQG RI¿FHUV IDU DQG wide have volunteered to do. It’s pretty outstanding.” Workman led a tsunami drill at Warrenton Grade School Wednesday. At one point, a lit- tle girl, about 6 or 7 years old, walked passed him and said, ³6RUU\ SROLFH RI¿FHU GLHG´ Workman recalled. “I heard her say that and told her ‘thank you’ as she walked by.” “You see all these kids out in the cold and the rain and the drizzle, smiling at you, thank- LQJ \RX ¿VWEXPSLQJ \RX saying, ‘Hello’ ... it really puts a smile on my face,” he said. “Some called me ‘chief,’ some FDOOHGPHµRI¿FHU¶DQGLWMXVW really reinvigorates me.” And it reminds him why he chose his line of work: “We are making a difference.”
