143rd YEAR, No. 159
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2016
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ney Josh Marquis, the Oregon
State Police and Clatsop County
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2012, during a press conference
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shooting investigation show Sea- Building in Astoria.
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son was legally and morally justi- gation deals primarily with the
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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
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in downtown Seaside. Goodding
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for Ferry’s arrest. He called out
repeatedly to Ferry by name, iden-
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and told him to take his hands out
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Goodding told Ferry he was
under arrest. Davidson took out
his Taser, announced the weapon
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seemed to drop to the ground.
Goodding moved in, at which
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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.
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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
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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-
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“Every piece of evidence, every
witness, leads us to the same con-
clusion — that Phillip Ferry, with
a long history of resisting arrests
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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
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A worker drives an excavator around piles of recovered item at Trails End Recovery.
Reclaiming construction materials, recycling
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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
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ney forms the path of least resistance for the county’s dis-
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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.
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then shot Ferry.
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morning.
“It’s a very tragic incident. It’s very tragic
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said. “I’m really sorry for everybody that got
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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.
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See EX-WIFE, Page 10A
A spoiled salmon, a judge and an unlikely bond
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eries, remembered Monday.
The mix-up was the beginning of
an unlikely bond between the Astoria
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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
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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
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grants. Scalia’s father came to the United
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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-
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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.