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144TH YEAR, NO. 16 ONE DOLLAR WEEKEND EDITION // FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2016 SETTING SAIL ON A NEW LIFE EXPERIENCE A SIDE DISH OF TRUTH OPINION • 4A FRIDAY EXTRA! • 1C Local GOP cheers Trump ASTORIA COLUMN 1926-2016 Republicans welcome a political outsider By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian The Astoria Column was dedicated on July 22, 1926. The 125-foot column by architect Electus Darwin Litchfield and artist Attilio Pusterla celebrates westward expansion and the region’s history. The landmark is still undergoing renovation, but the city plans a celebration of the 90th anniversary later this year. Conservatives gathered at BJ’s Pizza Pal- ace in Seaside Thursday night to celebrate Donald Trump’s victory lap at the Republi- can National Convention. “I’m among those of the anyone but Hil- lary (Clinton) camp,” said Patricia Rob- erts, president of the North Coast Repub- lican Women and a MORE Trump supporter. “He INSIDE is viable alternative. He is not a traditional Trump vows politician. ‘law and order’ “If the movement Page 7A is bigger than Trump, he’ll do very well,” she said. “People have been dissatisied for a long time, and there hasn’t been a choice. Now there’s a choice.” See LOCAL GOP, Page 8A Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian The Astoria Column underwent its first major restoration in 20 years in 2015. Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson speaks to an audience at- tending a Think & Drink event organized by Oregon Humanities on Thursday at Fort George Brewery in Astoria. Daily Astorian/File Photo Clatsop County Historical Society An aerial view of Astoria from the Astoria Column to the Asto- ria Bridge is shown in 2011. A postcard photo of the Astoria Column from the 1920s or 1930s. Jim Stanovich/The Daily Astorian The Astoria Column Christmas Day in 2014. on Defense lawyers attempt to humanize Roden Accused of murder and torture in Seaside child-abuse case By KYLE SPURR The Daily Astorian Defense lawyers for Randy Roden will try to humanize the accused murderer at his trial this fall with testimony from friends, family and teachers who say he was a peaceful per- son who overcame a traumatic upbringing in Georgia. Lawyers Conor Huseby and Robert Axford iled a request this week to have a dozen out- of-state witnesses from Geor- Pulitzer Prize-winning author discusses racism and the Great Migration gia, North Carolina and Ten- nessee testify at the trial and possible sentencing. Roden, 28, is facing the death penalty if convicted. The testimony could be essential in deciding Roden’s fate. He is accused of murder- ing his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter and abusing and tor- turing her two sons in their Seaside apartment in 2014. An autopsy found the tod- dler, Evangelina Wing, appar- ently died of battered child syndrome with blunt force trauma to her head. The chil- dren’s mother, Dorothy Wing, 26, pleaded guilty in January to irst-degree manslaughter and two counts of irst-degree Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian The racial tensions surging in the United States cannot be fully understood without knowing about the country’s history and leg- acy of racism, Isabel Wilkerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, believes. Wilkerson, the irst black woman to win the award for journalism, talked about her much-decorated 2010 noniction book, “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration,” at Fort George Brewery’s Lovell Showroom on Thursday evening. The event was part of the Oregon Humanities’ statewide Think & Drink series, which seeks to strengthen communities by encouraging dialogue across differences. Hosted by Adam Davis, the organiza- tion’s executive director, the discussion See RODEN, Page 8A Randy Roden, right, walks out of court fol- lowing a hearing in 2015. See OURSELVES, Page 8A 2016 Clatsop County Fair August 2-6 Facing ourselves For more information go to www.clatsopfairgrounds.com e Blu on! b Rib By ERICK BENGEL The Daily Astorian Enter your largest veggie, handmade quilt, or your best tasting pie in Open Class for your chance to earn a Blue Ribbon!