144TH YEAR, NO. 16
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WEEKEND EDITION // FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2016
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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!