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143rd YEAR, No. 159 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2016 ONE DOLLAR ,QYHVWLJDWLRQ¿QGV6HDVLGHVKRRWLQJMXVWL¿HG 2I¿FHU¿UHGDW Ferry after fellow RI¿FHUZDVVKRW Officer David Davidson Phillip Max Ferry was then shot by Davidson and later died. Clatsop County District Attor- ney Josh Marquis, the Oregon State Police and Clatsop County Major Crime Team released the ¿QGLQJV DQG LGHQWL¿HG 'DYLGVRQ By KYLE SPURR D6HDVLGH3ROLFHRI¿FHUVLQFHODWH The Daily Astorian 2012, during a press conference 7KH ¿QGLQJV RI WKH 6HDVLGH today at the Judge Guy Boyington shooting investigation show Sea- Building in Astoria. “The purpose of the investi- VLGH 3ROLFH 2I¿FHU 'DYLG 'DYLG- son was legally and morally justi- gation deals primarily with the ¿HGLQVKRRWLQJDQGNLOOLQJ3KLOOLS VKRRWLQJ RI 0U )HUU\´ 0DUTXLV said. “The murder of Jason Good- Max Ferry. Ferry was being arrested on ding was not the primary focus, a felony assault warrant Feb. 5 not because it doesn’t profoundly when he shot and killed Seaside affect us, but because the legal Police Sgt. Jason Goodding. Ferry LVVXHLVZKHWKHUWKHVXUYLYLQJRI¿- Talking FHU ZDV MXVWL¿HG LQ XVLQJ GHDGO\ IRUFH´ According to the investigation, ERWKRI¿FHUVFDPHDFURVV)HUU\D known felon, at about 9:20 p.m. in downtown Seaside. Goodding YHUL¿HG WKHUH ZDV D ZDUUDQW RXW for Ferry’s arrest. He called out repeatedly to Ferry by name, iden- WL¿HG KLPVHOI DV D SROLFH RI¿FHU and told him to take his hands out of his pockets. Ferry refused and kept saying, ³<RXDLQ¶WJRLQJWROLNHLW´ Goodding told Ferry he was under arrest. Davidson took out his Taser, announced the weapon DQG ¿UHG LW WRZDUG )HUU\ ZKR seemed to drop to the ground. Goodding moved in, at which SRLQW )HUU\ ¿UHG D VLQJOH JXQ- shot from a semi-automatic pistol. Goodding was wearing a bullet- proof vest, but the bullet came in under the vest. An autopsy conducted by Ore- gon State Medical Examiner Karen Gunson determined Good- ding’s injuries were immediate and fatal. Medical intervention could not have saved him. 'DYLGVRQ ¿UHG VHYHUDO URXQGV from his service weapon, accord- ing to the investigation, striking Ferry in the hand, arm and but- tocks. The shots that struck Ferry appeared less serious at the scene. Ferry continued to yell at the SROLFH RI¿FHUV +H ZDV WUDQV- ferred by ambulance to Columbia Memorial Hospital, where emer- gency doctors worked on him for about half an hour before pro- nouncing him dead. Goodding was transported to Providence Seaside Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A fourth man was at the scene downtown, but has not been iden- WL¿HGRUFKDUJHGZLWKDQ\FULPHV “Every piece of evidence, every witness, leads us to the same con- clusion — that Phillip Ferry, with a long history of resisting arrests DQGDVVDXOWRQSROLFHRI¿FHUVZDV See SHOOTING, Page 10A Trash Local efforts prolong life cycle of trash Courtesy of Ingrid Klaaborg Phillip Max Ferry, left, with Ingrid Klaaborg in 1993. Ferry’s ex-wife speaks of a damaged man By ERICK BENGEL The Daily Astorian Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian A worker drives an excavator around piles of recovered item at Trails End Recovery. Reclaiming construction materials, recycling FDQVIRUEDQGKHOSNHHSWUDVKRXWRIODQG¿OOV Second of two parts By ERICK BENGEL The Daily Astorian O n Friday, The Daily Astorian traced the jour- ney of Clatsop County’s curbside trash and recycling. ¶ The fate of the trash is pretty straightforward — a one-way trip via Recol- ogy Western Oregon from the curb, to the Astoria Transfer 6WDWLRQWRWKH5LYHUEHQG/DQG¿OOLQ0F0LQQYLOOH7KLVMRXU- ney forms the path of least resistance for the county’s dis- carded materials, unless individual and business intervene to keep the reusable materials out of the “waste VWUHDP´ ASTORIA BAND BOOSTERS The nonprofit Astoria Band Boosters holds a can-and-bot- tle drive from 1 to 3 p.m. on the first Sunday of each month as a fundraiser for the band programs in the school district. The Boosters own a 26-foot reconditioned U-Haul truck (dubbed “The Moosemobile”) and typically collect close to a truck-full of empty beverage cans and both glass and plastic bottles, according to Kathleen Strecker, a member of the nonprofit’s advisory board. Community members drop off their donations at Astoria High School, while band students and their parents sort them by material and pack them into the truck. The Boosters feed the kids pizza, and then one or two parents make an appointment to drive the Moosemobile to the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative in Portland, which pays them the standard 5-cent or 10-cent return rate. “Even with the cost of the pizza and the fuel for the truck, it’s worth it to not have to stand at the bottle return machines locally, plunking them in one at a time,” Strecker said in a message. The Boosters usually earn between $750 and $1,000 a month from the can drives, an amount that funds instru- ments, music, transportation, contest fees, equipment and anything else for the band programs at the high school and middle school that the school district no longer pays for, she said. See TALKING TRASH, Page 10A SEASIDE — The ex-wife of Phillip Max Ferry — the felon involved in the fatal alter- cation with Seaside Police Sgt. Jason Good- ding — remembers him mostly as a loving and well-intentioned man who was damaged and wanted to be better. Ingrid Klaaborg, a 61-year-old Seaside res- ident originally from Switzerland, met Ferry in 1991, married him and gave birth to their twin girls in 1993. She divorced him in 1996 but saw him regularly until about 2001, when he began retreating further into drug abuse. ³3DUWRIWKHPJRDZD\´VKHVDLG³7KH\¶UH XQUHDFKDEOH´ )RUWKH¿UVW\HDUVRIWKHLUUHODWLRQVKLS WKRXJKVKHWULHGWREHDSRVLWLYHLQÀXHQFHRQ Ferry. “I did better than average, I know that. But you can always do better, right? So maybe I FRXOGKDYHPDGHDELJJHUGLIIHUHQFH´VKHVDLG “I tried for a long time, because I loved him. $QGZHVWLOOORYHKLP´ When Goodding attempted to arrest Ferry on a felony assault warrant in downtown Sea- VLGHRQ)HE)HUU\SURGXFHGD¿UHDUP DQGVKRWWKHRI¿FHU$VHFRQG6HDVLGHRI¿FHU then shot Ferry. )HUU\¶V IDPLO\ ZDV QRWL¿HG WKH QH[W morning. “It’s a very tragic incident. It’s very tragic when the end of a story is like that. You keep KRSLQJWKDWWKLQJVGRQ¶WWXUQRXWWKLVZD\´VKH said. “I’m really sorry for everybody that got KXUW´ A week later, many of Ferry’s relatives and some neighbors gathered at Klaaborg’s homestead on U.S. Highway 26 to pay their respects. “There (were) people I didn’t even know. 7KH\MXVWVKRZHGXS´VKHVDLG³,WZDVTXLWH VRPHWKLQJUHDOO\´ See EX-WIFE, Page 10A A spoiled salmon, a judge and an unlikely bond ¿VK´)LFNWKHRZQHURI)LVKKDZN)LVK- eries, remembered Monday. The mix-up was the beginning of an unlikely bond between the Astoria ¿VKHUPDQ DQG WKH FRQVHUYDWLYH OHJDO By DERRICK DePLEDGE lion, who died Saturday at 79 of natural The Daily Astorian causes while on a hunting trip in Texas. Fick, who got to know Scalia U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia snagged a wild salmon on the through attorney Brian Donato, spoke Clackamas River in 2007, but, unfor- with the judge on the phone, lunched WXQDWHO\WKHDYLGKXQWHUDQG¿VKHUPDQ with him in Washington, D.C., and KDGWRWKURZWKH¿VKEDFNEHFDXVHLWZDV toured his chambers at the Supreme Court, where a trophy elk head was a threatened species. When Steve Fick heard the story, he proudly on display. “That was one of the things we had sent a fresh salmon to Scalia’s home in Virginia as consolation. There was one LQFRPPRQ´KHVDLG³:HERWKKDYHD problem, though. The judge and his wife SDVVLRQWRKXQWDQG¿VK´ They were also both sons of immi- were out of town, so when they returned, grants. Scalia’s father came to the United WKH\ZHUHJUHHWHGE\DURWWLQJ¿VK “So I’m the only guy that’s ever sent States from Italy; Fick’s from Germany. Scalia was known for embedding an an Italian Supreme Court judge a dead Fick, Scalia struck up friendship originalist view of the Constitution in legal philosophy, and while he could be cutting in his opinions, he was often dis- arming off the bench. On that visit to Oregon in 2007, Sca- lia, in a speech at the University of Port- land, spoke of applying the “Shake- VSHDUH SULQFLSOH´ WR FRQVWLWXWLRQDO ODZ The judge told the story of a Jesuit high school classmate who was rebuked by a SULHVWDIWHUFULWLFL]LQJ³+DPOHW´³:KHQ \RX UHDG 6KDNHVSHDUH´ WKH SULHVW KDG said. “Shakespeare’s not on trial. You DUH´ Fick recalls once telling state Sen. Betsy Johnson, D-Scappoose, who is known for her bluntness as well as her accessibility, that she reminded him of Scalia. See SCALIA, Page 10A Courtesy of Bob Toman U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, right, caught a wild salmon on the Clackamas River in 2007 with guide Bob Toman. The judge had to throw the fish back because it was a threatened species. Bruce Buckmas- ter, an Astoria fisherman, took the photo with Toman’s camera.
