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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2016
Couple: If indicted, the suspects will be extradited here
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The couple had been sus-
pects in the murder for several
days, according to the Clatsop
County Major Crime Team.
A Sheriff’s Ofice detective
and Seaside Police detec-
tive lew to Arizona to gather
more information.
Wilkins and Copell were
arraigned on the stolen vehi-
cle charges in Justice Court in
Flagstaff, Arizona, Wednesday
morning. Their bail was set at
$150,000 each and an extradi-
tion hearing is scheduled for
Friday.
Clatsop County District
Attorney Josh Marquis said
he iled the murder and stolen
vehicle charges Wednesday.
The case will proceed before
a grand jury in Circuit Court,
he said.
If
indicted,
Marquis
said, the two suspects will
be extradited here.
Both Copell and Wilkins
had recently struck up a rela-
tionship with Vinge prior
to the murder, according to
investigators.
While disposing of Vinge’s
body, investigators said, the
suspects encountered a man
and woman in a black car. The
suspects were spotted during
daylight hours at the turnout
east of mile marker 92 on U.S.
Highway 30, near Fernhill
Road east of Astoria.
Neither Copell or Wilkins
have a criminal history in Clat-
sop County. Wilkins, an Asto-
ria resident at the time, was
charged with driving while
suspended and uninsured in
March. Wilkins and Copell
each have been in the Wash-
ington state court system.
Wilkins faced theft charges in
Paciic County in December,
for example.
Economy: The aim is for a diversiied local economy
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Community Development
Director Kevin Cronin, the
“Advance Astoria” project
manager, said the city plans
to incorporate the panel mem-
bers’ ideas into the develop-
ment strategy.
Diversify
Astoria — whose econ-
omy was once wedded to ish-
ing and logging and is now
entrenched in tourism — must
be careful not to depend on
a small basket of industries,
particularly those subject to
booms and busts.
Cities like Roseburg and
Ashland offer cautionary tales
in this danger, Busse said.
Busse grew up in 1970s
Roseburg, which was famous
as the timber capital of the
nation.
“It was a really great time
to be a Roseburg-ian,” he said.
“There was money there, and
you didn’t have to come from
money to make money.”
As the timber industry
diminished, however, the city
never found a “second act,” he
said.
Ashland, where Busse later
lived, has a monoculture of a
different sort: tourism, “which
is a great business to have
when the economy is good,
and it’s a terrible business to
have when the economy is
bad,” he said.
The lesson is that a local
economy should be diversi-
ied enough to withstand mar-
ket shocks.
Shared vision
Knight, executive director
of the Port of Astoria, said the
city will need community part-
nerships to help create a vision
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Clatsop Community College President Chris Breitmeyer
spoke about the college’s role in training the workforce.
industry must be able to pic-
ture themselves actually living
in the town. That’s one reason
why brew pubs are so import-
ant: They help create the sort of
atmosphere that prevent young
folks from leeing, he noted.
Fundamentals
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Jim Knight, executive director of the Port of Astoria, urged more community partner-
ships to create a vision to rally around, as Kinesis CEO Shawn Busse listens.
Astorians can rally around.
A successful economy, he
said, will allow the market
to choose its direction. But,
although it is natural to aspire
to grow bigger and wider, this
activity should not occur at
the expense of the communi-
ty’s quality of life, which it can
market and pass on to descen-
dants, he said.
For example, a great deal of
property along the waterfront,
he noted, is undeveloped.
“And there’s good reasons
for it. Some of that develop-
ment probably should not take
place because of a desire for
view corridors and the pres-
ervation of the Astoria River-
walk, or the preservation of the
quality of life that people come
to this area for — to see the
beauty of the Columbia River,
to see the grandeur of nature
that surrounds us.”
The challenge for Astori-
ans will be to igure out how
to balance the two pressures:
the pressure to let industry
expand, and the pressure to
preserve what makes the city
unique and livable.
Personal story
about itself and its business
trajectory — a narrative that
will attract outside industry —
regardless of how many differ-
ent components make up the
entrepreneurial scene.
“What you have to be
able to do is tell a story that
gets people’s attention,” he
said, “and it has to be a pretty
cogent story about who you
are and where you want to go.”
In addition, the sort of peo-
ple — namely, 20- to 40-year-
olds — who drive the econ-
omy and bring in new kinds of
Certain background con-
ditions must be in place for
entrepreneurs with families
to want to move into a town,
Knight pointed out.
Ideally, the roads must be
smooth, the sidewalks clean,
the environment secure, the
transportation reliable, the
education robust, the health
care strong and emergency
services irst-rate. Where these
areas need improvement in
Astoria, the community should
work to improve them.
“The way that we sup-
port entrepreneurship, and the
way that we retain good peo-
ple in our community, is that
the community itself comes
together to ensure that our
infrastructure is sound, that
it’s safe, that it can improve,”
Knight said. “If we don’t have
that, then we’re probably
going to end up with a revolv-
ing door of entrepreneurs and
businesses.”
And near the top of Asto-
ria’s priority list, in Knight’s
view, should be the creation
of more housing options, the
scarcity of which touches
all income levels, affecting
six-igure earners and low-
wage employees.
Meanwhile, part of Clatsop
Community College’s role,
Breitmeyer said, is to respond
to the needs of burgeoning
businesses by training the
workforce they require.
“What I would hope to see
is, as we develop this eco-
nomic plan and igure out
what’s next, that we would
play a central role in being able
to say, ‘Yes, we can do that —
we can train folks,’” he said.
Zimmerman of Craft3 said
Astoria must be able to tell a
clear and compelling story
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