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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2016
Tongue Point: ‘People have been FBI investigating whether
Orlando killer was a club regular
waiting for the big development
at Tongue Point for 54 years’
By JASON DEAREN and
TERRANCE HARRIS
Associated Press
Continued from Page 1A
Alex Pajunas/The Daily Astorian
The Port is in talks with a potential developer for North
Tongue Point.
ardous, corrosive or caus-
tic,” Bly wrote. “It is not coal,
petroleum, LNG or some other
petrochemical.”
Big opportunity
North Tongue Point used to
be home to a U.S. Navy base
that closed in 1962. The U.S.
Coast Guard housed a helicop-
ter base at Tongue Point until
1966.
Bly said his irst introduc-
tion to North Tongue Point was
in 1980, when he was practic-
ing law in Portland and read an
article about the state acquiring
the land for $2 million from the
federal government. In 2000,
the site was acquired by Wash-
ington Group, which in 2009
leased it to the Port until 2019.
Since the Port’s lease
started, the site has played
host to a number of proposals,
from ship dismantling and car
imports to refrigerated agricul-
ture shipping and a proposal for
two new Coast Guard cutters.
“People have been wait-
ing for the big development
at Tongue Point for 54 years,”
Bly said. “At some point, you
have to look at whether the
puzzle can be solved. That’s
what attracted me.”
Ruling: City has a sprawling collection of parks
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“The legislative ix would
be to make it clear that recre-
ational immunity applies to
the use of the land and it car-
ries over to the employees
and agents of the owner,” said
Mike McCauley, the executive
director of the League of Ore-
gon Cities. “It’s not an immu-
nity just for the owner.”
The Supreme Court’s ruling
in Johnson v. Gibson was in
response to questions from the
federal 9th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals, which was review-
ing a lawsuit from a legally
blind jogger who was injured
after she stepped into a hole at
a city park in Portland in 2009.
The jogger sued the city and
city maintenance workers.
The Oregon Public Use
of Lands Act shields pub-
lic and private property own-
ers from liability when they
allow the public to use recre-
ational land for free. The Legis-
lature adopted the law in 1971
to encourage property owners
— like timber companies —
to open up more land for rec-
reation, and expanded the law
in 1995 to also protect public
landowners.
But the Supreme Court held
that the Legislature did not spe-
ciically extend immunity to
the owners’ employees.
Citycounty Insurance Ser-
vices, which insures local gov-
ernments, wrote in the June
edition of Local Focus, the
League of Oregon Cities’ mag-
azine, that given the court’s
ruling it is “absolutely critical
for each city in Oregon to put
maintenance plans in place”
and document routine inspec-
tions and repair work.
In Astoria, City Coun-
cilor Drew Herzig cited the
Supreme Court ruling when
he unsuccessfully sought more
money for maintenance on the
Riverwalk during deliberations
on the city budget for next is-
cal year.
Astoria has a sprawling
collection of parks, includ-
ing some, like the Riverwalk
and the Astoria Column, that
appeal to tourists as well as
locals.
City Attorney Blair Hen-
ningsgaard, however, does not
believe the court ruling puts
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the city at substantially higher
legal risk.
“We make every effort to
operate our parks safely,” he
said. “I don’t think that it cre-
ates a greater degree of liability
in either the city or employees
than existed beforehand.”
Citycounty Insurance Ser-
vices took a less optimis-
tic view in a primer on the
Supreme Court decision.
While recreational immunity
technically still applies to cit-
ies and counties, CIS wrote,
the practical outcome in a neg-
ligence suit against an individ-
ual worker “is just like the city/
county is being sued directly, as
if recreational immunity never
existed.”
McCauley said some cities
may close off recreational areas
as a precaution unless the Leg-
islature clariies the law.
“That’s going to be the
pitch,” he said. “That if
you’ve got areas, and you say,
‘OK, you can go walk, you
can go hike, you can go do
whatever it is.’ And we’re not
charging you for it. Then we
shouldn’t have to deal with
lawsuits.”
Jane Tyska/Oakland Tribune via AP
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee pauses after placing a can-
dle at a memorial on Castro Street and 18th Street during
a vigil at Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro district of San
Francisco Sunday. The vigil was held for victims of the
Orlando, Fla. nightclub shooting.
answered: “I’ll be right there.”
President Barack Obama
will visit Orlando on Thurs-
day to pay his respects to the
victims and stand in solidarity
with the community, the White
House said.
The Orlando Sentinel
and other news organiza-
tions quoted other regulars
from Pulse as saying they, too,
had seen Mateen at the club
repeatedly.
“Sometimes he would go
over in the corner and sit and
drink by himself, and other
times he would get so drunk he
was loud and belligerent,” Ty
Smith told the Sentinel. He said
he saw Mateen inside at least a
dozen times.
Gay dating app Jack’d did
not immediately return a call for
comment, Grindr oficials said
they “will continue to coop-
erate with the authorities and
do not comment on ongoing
investigations,” and Adam4A-
dam spokesman David Lesage
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conversations and proiles in
the Orlando area for any activ-
ity by Mateen but hasn’t found
anything yet.
Asked about reports that
Mateen may have been in the
club before, his father, Sed-
dique Mateen, said from his
home in Port St. Lucie, Flor-
ida, that his son may have been
“scouting the place.” Asked
if his son was gay, the Afghan
immigrant replied: “No. No.”
He said that he was not
aware of his son having any
mental health problems and
that he never saw any signs
he had become radicalized.
If he had seen anything dif-
ferently, he said, “I would
have called law enforcement
immediately.”
The elder Mateen said that
apart from the time his son got
angry a few months ago over
seeing two men kissing, he
never saw any anti-gay behav-
ior from him.
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But Bly said the circum-
stances are right to develop
a terminal. In a memo to Port
commissioners and Knight,
Bly wrote that he is interested
in a purely success-based com-
pensation agreement.
“If the new marine termi-
nal is completed many months
from now and the freight starts
moving through the facility,
then I will be compensated as
part of the expense of trans-
porting the freight,” he wrote.
“If that does not happen, I will
not be paid.”
In his memo, Bly wrote
that Genesee & Wyoming esti-
mated the cost of repairing
the rail line between Wauna
Mill and Astoria at $12 mil-
lion, with a long-term rate of
5,000 loaded freight cars a year
needed to justify the expense.
He said he has found a large
block of attractive, long-term
cargo that could lead to the rail-
road’s rehabilitation.
“The freight is not lam-
mable, explosive, toxic, haz-
ORLANDO, Fla. — The
FBI is investigating reports that
Orlando gunman Omar Mateen
had been a regular at the gay
nightclub he attacked and had
used gay dating apps, a U.S.
oficial briefed on the case said
Tuesday.
A number of possible expla-
nations and motives for the
bloodbath that left 49 vic-
tims dead have emerged, with
Mateen professing allegiance
to the Islamic State group, his
ex-wife saying he was mentally
ill, and his father suggesting he
was driven by hatred of gays.
The picture grew more com-
plex as patrons of the Pulse
came forward to say that they
had seen the 29-year-old Amer-
ican-born Muslim there a num-
ber of times or that he had been
using gay dating apps. Mateen
had a wife and a 3-year-old son.
Jim Van Horn, 71, said
Mateen was a regular at the
club. “He was trying to pick up
people. Men,” Van Horn told
The Associated Press. While
acknowledging he didn’t know
Mateen well, Van Horn said: “I
think it’s possible that he was
trying to deal with his inner
demons, of trying to get rid of
his anger of homosexuality.”
The oficial who said the
FBI is looking into those
reports was not authorized to
discuss the investigation pub-
licly and spoke on condition of
anonymity.
Wielding
an
AR-15
semi-automatic rile and a
handgun, Mateen opened ire
at the club early Sunday in a
three-hour shooting rampage
and hostage siege that ended
with a SWAT team killing him.
It was the deadliest mass shoot-
ing in modern U.S. history.
During the attack, he called
911 to profess allegiance to the
Islamic State group.
Six of the more than 50
wounded were listed in criti-
cal condition Tuesday and ive
others were in guarded con-
dition, Dr. Michael Cheatham
of Orlando Regional Med-
ical Center said at a hospi-
tal news conference in which
doctors recalled victims arriv-
ing in “truckloads” and “ambu-
lance-loads” the night of the
rampage.
A choked-up Dr. Chadwick
Smith described calling in addi-
tional staff members and telling
them, “This is not a drill, this is
not a joke.” He said everyone
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