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Gearhart: City receives letters on vacation-rental issue daily
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would also be required.
Owners would be required
to provide neighbors within a
200-foot radius with contact
information, a parking plan
and the city website where the
information is also posted.
“Good neighbor” policies
and emergency information
Sweet said the city is
receiving letters on the short-
term rental issue every day.
One letter in the Wednes-
day City Council packet urged
the board to “enact regulations
that are being considered.”
‘Meat left on bone’
Another advised the coun-
cil to consider the noise, safety
and destruction of “the neigh-
borhood fabric,” as a result of
short-term rentals.
Property owners and rent-
ers opposed to new rules said
“a few disgruntled homeown-
ers does not a problem make.”
Others asked the council to
consider “responsible home-
owners who care about Gear-
hart, their neighbors and take
rentals seriously.”
Sweet said he expects up to
50 people at Thursday’s 6 p.m.
meeting at the ¿rehouse ²
chosen as a location because
of the anticipated larger crowd.
“I think people should par-
Trial: Roden could face death penalty
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Judge Paula Brownhill
said she will take the argu-
ments and testimony into
consideration and make a
ruling within the next few
weeks.
Roden, who is facing the
death penalty if convicted,
watched the hearing via
video link from prison, where
he is serving an eight-year
sentence for violating proba-
tion from a previous domes-
tic violence conviction. At
one point, he became agitated
with defense lawyers Conor
Huseby and Robert Axford,
and had to be muted.
“I can’t believe you are
Àipping a coin and throwing
my life away,” he said.
Expert testimony
The prosecution called
¿ve expert witnesses Clat-
sop County Medical Exam-
iner JoAnn Giuliani; Dep-
uty State Medical Examiner
Clifford Nelson; Oregon
State Police forensic sci-
entist Chrystal Bell; Cath-
leen Lang, who specializes
in child abuse pediatrics; and
Richard Fixott, a forensic
odontologist.
The defense did not call
any witnesses, claiming their
expert ² Janice Ophoven, a
pediatric forensic pathologist
² was unavailable. Roden’s
lawyers are basing their case
on Ophoven’s claims that
the children’s injuries were
from a dangerous Àesh-eat-
ing virus known as methicil-
lin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus infection. She says
the toddler likely died from
complications of the infec-
tion, rather than from blunt-
force trauma. The two broth-
ers also showed signs of the
infection, she said.
Because signs of the infec-
tion were never investigated,
the defense wants Roden’s
case dismissed.
“In failing to do any
meaningful testing to con¿rm
the presence of a massive and
deadly bacterial infection in
this case, the state has failed
Mr. Roden and put his life in
jeopardy,” his lawyers wrote
in a court ¿ling.
Graphic evidence
At the hearing, state
experts said the infection
was present on the chil-
dren, but did not account for
the physical abuse and bro-
ken bones. Court documents
reveal Evangelina Wing was
found with injuries around
her entire body, including
two black eyes, a broken
arm, bruises over her entire
face and chest and hemor-
rhaging around her head.
Patrick Wing had a broken
bone in his pelvic region and
extensive bruising. Peydon
Kahclamat-Harding
made
statements to doctors about
people lighting paper on ¿re
in his nose and ears.
“The defense has a novel
theory
that
Evangelina
Wing’s death was caused by
MRSA,” prosecutors wrote
in a court document. “This
is made up from whole cloth.
They are trying to whitewash
the terrible physical evidence
that exists.”
Peydon, who was 5 at the
time, told investigators “they
chained him and locked him
in a cage like a dog.” Inves-
tigators found a metal bed
frame that was barred on the
sides in the hallway, and pos-
sibly used as a cage. In addi-
tion, investigators believe the
crawl space in the apartment
may have been used to trap
the children.
Chrystal Bell, who doc-
umented the bloodstain evi-
dence at the scene, testi-
¿ed there was blood spatter
in every room, including on
holiday decorations and on
the wall behind a Christmas
tree. The ¿ndings told her the
blood was in Àight and likely
came from people of “shorter
stature.”
Bell said the spatter in
the bathroom was not con-
sistent with a story Roden
told police about Evangelina
falling from the toilet onto a
child’s plastic potty.
Prosecutors say the case
relies heavily on the graphic
evidence and expert opinion,
since there are no eyewit-
nesses other than the children
and defendants.
Dorothy Wing, 26, pleaded
guilty earlier this year to
¿rst-degree
manslaughter
and two counts of ¿rst-de-
gree criminal mistreatment.
She was sentenced to more
than 15 years in prison, con-
tingent on her truthfully testi-
fying at Roden’s trial.
The prosecution believes
the evidence points to Roden,
while the defense says it
points to Wing.
Both Roden and Wing
told investigators about
incidents where Evangelina
fell coming from a bus stop,
fell off of a toilet and got
in tussles with her broth-
ers. Before her sentencing,
Wing said, she wished she
never left her children with
Roden.
Intellectually disabled
Roden has pleaded not
guilty to 15 charges. He is
accused of aggravated mur-
der for the intentional maim-
ing or torture of the toddler
and having a pattern and
practice of assault.
His defense lawyers
argued at the hearing this
week that he does not qualify
for the death penalty because
he is intellectually disabled.
They explained how the
Georgia native was held back
in grade school and never
graduated high school. When
he lived with Dorothy Wing,
the defense said, he gave her
his money because he was
unable to pay bills on time
and handle his ¿nances.
The defense said he
always relied on Wing, and
did not know the children
needed medical attention.
“The defendant in this
case suffers from an inabil-
ity to function in day-to-day
life,” the lawyers wrote.
If Roden was mentally
disabled, the prosecutors
said, they would agree he
would not be eligible for the
death penalty. But prosecu-
tors do not believe he is men-
tally disabled.
Prosecutors noted he did
poorly in school because of
his bad behavior and delin-
quency. As an adult, they say,
he held a high-paying job
working on bridges, includ-
ing the Astoria Bridge.
“He was a user (of
women),” Deputy District
Attorney Dawn Buzzard said.
“That’s how he was able to
get by.”
ticipate, based on two of the
more restrictive items in the
proposal draft, only 35 avail-
able permits and seven-day
reservation blocks,” Sweet
said. “That was added on fairly
recently.”
As for the rules that will
eventually be adopted, “Any-
thing is an option,” he said.
“This is where we’re start-
ing the discussion for the
public meeting,” Sweet said.
“We’ll see what survives and
gets forwarded to the City
Council. There will be meat
left on the bone for the Plan-
ning Commission to adjust
prior to pushing it up to the
council.”
Awards: ‘This award
really is for everybody’
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Lum, the dealership’s market-
ing and community outreach
manager, helped oversee the
recent restoration of the Asto-
ria Column.
“They didn’t do it on
their own, but they were
the team captains and made
our town a little bit better,”
former Mayor Willis Van
Dusen said in a statement.
The women ² third-gen-
eration Chinese-Americans
² serve on local boards and
committees, and have set up
community giving programs
for their employees. Lum’s
programs focus on children,
education and health-and-
wellness issues.
“Who
would
have
thought that Dave Lum
could produce daughters
like this?” Christine Lolich,
vice president of the the-
ater’s board, wisecracked.
“I mean, we knew Shirley
could, right?”
Taking on the world
The Lum sisters took
over the family business
from their parents, Dave
and Shirley Lum, who orig-
inally founded Lum’s in
1969 as Toyota of Asto-
ria. Together, the couple
raised their daughters to be
community-minded, busi-
ness-savvy and “ready to
take on the world,” Hel-
ena
Barbey
Lankton,
the award presenter, said.
“On a national scale,
almost 90 percent of fam-
ily businesses fail on the
transfer from the first gen-
eration to the next,” Lank-
ton said.
Though many local busi-
ness have beat those odds,
“what is unique in this situ-
ation is that an automobile
dealership has success-
fully transitioned down,
not to just a woman, but
to three women who hap-
pen to be sisters involved
in a highly predominantly
male business, where they
have taken charge, moved
forward, flourished, while
preserving,
celebrating
and advancing their proud
Chinese heritage,” she
continued.
Women own and oper-
ate only about 5 percent of
dealerships, Lankton said.
“Obviously, there’s more
work to be done to get more
women in the upper-level
jobs. But we do need to cel-
ebrate the success of those
women shattering glass
ceilings and changing the
playing ¿eld,” she said.
With
their
parents
watching them proudly
² and their father chok-
ing up ² the Lum sisters
thanked their fellow volun-
teers, philanthropists, and
civic and business leaders
in attendance who, in their
own ways, have made the
North Coast a better place.
“It takes a community
to have a community, so
thank you,” Julie Lum said.
“This award is really for
everybody.”
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