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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2016
‘Pokemon Go. Do you get it?’
“It’s good that kids
are outside again.
Instead of playing
video games inside,
they’re out walking
around.”
“I get it, but I don’t do
it. I geocache because
then I’m actually fi nd-
ing an object instead of
just wondering around
aimlessly at nothing.”
George Sekavec, Hammond
“I just started like an
hour ago. I live out in
the country so there’s
not much to be doing.
There’s one thing, to
get out of the house.”
Tristan Fitch, Astoria
Katherine Dobny, Hammond
THE DAILY ASTORIAN // QUESTION OF THE WEEK
New plant species identifi ed on mountain near Arch Cape
T hree new plant spe-
cies were identified this
month on Onion Peak, the
third-tallest point in Clatsop
County at 3,057 feet.
“It’s significant because
it tells us a little more about
the biodiversity of the site
and we’re constantly learn-
ing more about all lands,
both conserved and not con-
served,” Reich said.
Certain species found
on the mountain, located
east of Arch Cape, have
not been found elsewhere
in the region. Although the
recently discovered plants
Three species
discovered on
Onion Peak
By LYRA FONTAINE
The Daily Astorian
CANNON BEACH —
Onion Peak — similar in hab-
itat to Saddle Mountain —
is home to many rare plants,
since some species special-
ize in high elevations near the
coast, North Coast Land Con-
servancy Stewardship Direc-
tor Melissa Reich said.
The Daily Astorian/Submitted Photo
Amy Hutmacher and Melis-
sa Reich in the field.
are not new to the region,
they are new to Onion Peak.
The new species are Caro-
KNAPPTON, Wash. —
The Knappton Cove Heri-
tage Center and the Pacifi c
Northwest Living Historians
are presenting a living his-
tory program from 11 a.m. to
4 p.m. Friday, and 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. Saturday.
The
Heritage
Center
museum, inside the historic U.S.
Quarantine Station building, is
open from 1 to 4 p.m. both days.
Dressed in clothing of the
style and materials worn by
the voyagers of the Corps of
Discovery in 1805, the liv-
ing history interpreters will
demonstrate loading and fi r-
ing fl intlock fi rearms, skin-
ning game, fi re starting with
fl int and steel, camp cooking,
making clothing from leather
and making canoe paddles.
Visitors will also learn
the history and stories of the
Lewis and Clark expedition,
including the native peo-
ple they met, the unfamil-
iar territory they traveled and
mapped, and the new animals
and plants they discovered.
Complex case
ends in plea deal
By NATALIE ST. JOHN
EO Media Group
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Chambers’ paintbrush.
Looking south from Can-
non Beach, Onion Peak is
distinctly rounded at the top,
Reich said.
Onion Peak is located
in a coastal edge conserva-
tion initiative area, a region
between Tillamook Head
and Nehalem Bay with
unusual biodiversity, accord-
ing to the North Coast Land
Conservancy.
Reich said finding new
plant species in an area is
rare, but they will proba-
bly continue to find more at
Onion Peak.
ever, he noted that law enforce-
ment offi cials still felt it was a
good resolution, because it is
fairly unusual for defendants to
plead guilty to murder charges.
According to McClain, Ayala
Silva agreed to the deal in
order to avoid a potentially
even tougher penalty. Had
he been convicted in a trial, a
judge might have imposed an
“aggravating factor,” which
would have resulted in even
more prison time.
According to court doc-
uments and statements from
McClain, emergency respond-
ers were called to a home on
Willapa Avenue in South Bend
in September for an unre-
sponsive 11-month-old girl.
Medics transported the girl
to Willapa Harbor Hospi-
tal, where she was later pro-
nounced dead.
A South Bend Police offi -
cer, who had observed two
lacerations behind the child’s
ear and bruising on her chest,
opened an investigation. The
subsequent autopsy revealed
that the child had suffered a
cranial fracture. She also had
several broken ribs that were
in various stages of heal-
ing, indicating that the inju-
ries had occurred at different
times. A medical examiner
said it appeared that the
child’s chest had repeatedly
been squeezed.
South Bend Police offi cer
Ryan Miskell arrested Ayala
Silva on suspicion of homi-
cide by abuse. He was booked
into Pacifi c County Jail and
held on $2 million bail.
While investigating the
girl’s death, Miskell learned
that Ayala Silva had another
child, and decided to fi nd out
whether that child, too, had
been abused. Instead, Miskell
learned that the child’s mother
was a teenager when she got
pregnant. “... the mother
would have been too young to
have consented to the sexual
relationship with Ayala Silva
...,” McClain said. He said
that the child’s mother does
not feel that she was the vic-
tim of a crime, and plans to
testify on Ayala Silva’s behalf
at his sentencing hearing.
Ayala Silva remains in the
custody pending his sentenc-
ing hearing .
Coast Guard coordinates sailor’s rescue
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SOUTH BEND, Wash. —
A Raymond High School grad-
uate who is accused of killing
his infant child and sexually
abusing a teen girl will not
face trial.
Instead, Aaron Ayala Silva,
27, of South Bend, agreed to a
tough plea deal that could send
him to prison for as long as 20
years when he is sentenced in
August.
Ayala Silva pleaded guilty
Friday in Pacifi c County Supe-
rior Court to second-degree
murder, third-degree assault of
a child, and third-degree rape
of a child, according to Pacifi c
County Prosecutor Mark
McClain. The rape charge was
added after his arrest, based on
information gathered during
the investigation.
“Will there ever be an
amount of ( prison) time that
makes sense for this case?
Never,” McClain said . How-
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the summit for conservation.
Timber cannot be harvested
in that area.
Although
discover-
ing new species increases
knowledge of lands, Reich
noted that Onion Peak is pri-
vate land and access is lim-
ited to protect the sensitive
habitat. North Coast Land
Conservancy only visits the
site once a year.
A subalpine forest and
meadow habitat, Onion Peak
has open treeless meadows
called “balds.” Other spe-
cies found on the peak are
Q ueen of the F orest and
South Bend child killer gets 20 years
Heritage of Lewis and Clark on display
The Daily Astorian
lina bugbane, Pacific water-
leaf and kneeling angel-
ica. The plants were not yet
in bloom. The discoveries
bring the plant species or
subspecies identified on the
peak up to 271.
Reich, botanist Kathleen
Sayce, North Coast Land
Conservancy Conservation
and Stewardship Manager
Amy Hutmacher, and wet-
lands ecologist Doug Ray
were on the trip.
Although two timber
companies own Onion Peak,
North Coast Land Conser-
vancy manages 387 acres at
WARRENTON — The
U.S. Coast Guard on Tues-
day coordinated the rescue
of a sailor in distress more
than 990 miles west of the
Columbia River using the
Automated Mutual-Assis-
tance Vessel Rescue system .
Responding to a request
from the Coast Guard, the
crew of the 1,098-foot con-
tainer ship Oocl Utah altered
their course to retrieve
the distressed sailor, who
reportedly did not have a
life raft or emergency radio
beacon. The ship is taking
him to the next port of call
in Busan, South Korea.
“The AMVER system
was created for events just
like this one,” Petty Officer
1st Class Michael Brown,
an operation specialist at
the Coast Guard 13th Dis-
trict Command Center, said
in a statement. “Thanks
to the merchant mariners
who volunteer for this pro-
gram, help can be pro-
vided to those in need even
when they are hundreds of
miles away from traditional
assistance.”
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July 17, 2016
TAYLOR, Roy David, 77,
of Twin Falls, Idaho, died in
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July 18, 2016
LANDWEHR,
Richard
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July 18, 2016
CARR, Carol Dianne, 51,
of Warrenton, died in War-
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