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Before dawn on most
weekday mornings, she walks
from her Uppertown home —
where she has lived since the
early 1960s — to the Asto-
ria Safeway and, before many
customers have arrived, power
walks the inside perimeter.
“I think the latest I’ve ever
seen her come in is around 8,”
said Debbie Cutlip, a Safeway
store clerk who has known
Law for years.
“She’s a wonderful lady,”
Cutlip added.
For about 40 minutes, Law
does full laps, hitting the far
corners of the store. Afterward,
Law treads along the Astoria
Riverwalk with her equally
avid walking buddies, com-
pleting her daily regimen.
“Because I have the time,
and I’m not working any-
more, I ind that I try to get in
between 2 and 5 miles a day,”
she said.
Family by her side
Completing a 6-mile hike
in one session is not some-
thing Law is used to, but
she’ll have the support of her
family — which is really what
she’s most looking forward to,
she said.
Law, who worked as a
nurse for many years at the
Astoria Clinic, Columbia
Memorial Hospital and St.
Mary’s Hospital, began to
take walking seriously back in
the early 1980s, she said.
“I just enjoyed being out-
doors. It’s something you can
do, you know, even at my
age,” she said.
But she doesn’t call her
walking “serious.” “I call it
fun!” she said. “In fact, it’s
a kind of a challenge to me
because I wonder how much
longer I can do this.”
Asked how it feels to be
turning 90, she said, “No
different than my younger
years.”
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A view from West Grand Avenue shows runners and walk-
ers at the Great Columbia Crossing in 2013.
HEALING OREGON with KINDNESS and COMPASSION
“I am running for
House District 32 to bring
new ideas to the state and
bring forth the kindness and
compassion my constituents
feel is needed to solve
problems.”
- Dr. Bobek
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Randy Roden’s defense attorney Conor Huseby questions Dorothy Wing on the stand
Thursday in Clatsop County Circuit Court.
Trial: Case is expected
to last about two months
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Roden is already serving
an eight-year sentence after
violating his probation from a
2013 domestic violence con-
viction by possessing mari-
juana, oxycodone and metha-
done and failing to report that
he moved in with Wing.
Wing a victim?
Roden’s attorney, Conor
Huseby, has accused Wing
of causing her daughter’s
death through abuse, along
with complications from the
lesh-eating virus, methicil-
lin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus infection.
He spent hours Wednes-
day and Thursday cross-exam-
ining Wing, looking to reveal
inconsistencies in her previous
interviews and testimony. He
painted Wing as dishonest and
a shoddy mother with a his-
tory of abusing her children,
whose life and relationship
with Roden was falling apart
around the time of her daugh-
ter’s death.
Wing had been charged in
January with murder by abuse
and six counts of criminal mis-
treatment, Huseby said, and
faced life in prison with parole
after 25 years. “You pled guilty
(to manslaughter) not because
you felt responsible, but you
didn’t want to serve a life sen-
tence,” he said.
Brown asked Wing about
losing her daughter.
“It’s ruined my life,” she
said. “It’s taken a part of me
that I will never get back.”
She admitted to lying to
police at times to protect her-
self and avoid jail, and that she
caused her daughter’s death
by not getting her the help she
needed. But she denied killing
the child.
After the abuse
On Thursday, the prose-
cution called the boys’ foster
parents in Seaside and adop-
tive parents in San Diego,
who described heavily abused
children who have nonethe-
less gotten better over time.
Wendy French, a foster parent
with her husband Todd in Sea-
side, picked the boys up from
Randall Children’s Hospital at
Legacy Emanuel shortly after
their sister’s death.
French said she didn’t have
concerns about the lesh-eat-
ing disease, but that neither of
the kids were comfortable with
being touched or taking their
clothes off, hiding in small
areas like the dryer and dish-
washer. But the two got bet-
ter over time, she said, and she
never saw the older brother
harm his younger sibling.
The prosecution called Dr.
Andre Nye, a family practi-
tioner who assessed all three
of the children between April
and July of 2014. Nye noted
no injuries and only minor skin
issues with the boys such as
eczema. He would have been
required by law to report any
child abuse.
Prosecutors are expected
to continue calling witnesses
into the middle of next week.
The case, which started Oct. 4,
is expected to last about two
months.
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