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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2016
Bonamici: ‘It’s Author’s hearing is postponed until 2017
a win-win for
the community’
By KATIE FRANKOWICZ
For The Daily Astorian
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said Conservancy Associate
Director Jon Wickersham.
An analysis after the first
year of the project showed
that the floodplain restoration
prevented the road from hav-
ing to close at least three times
that winter, Reich said. When
the highway was closed else-
where during last winter’s big
rainstorm, it was passable by
Circle Creek, she said.
Since the summer 2013
project, the land conservancy
has planted 10,000 trees each
winter, Reich said.
“It’s a win-win for the
community because it not
only addressed the flooding,
but also provided the resto-
ration and recreation opportu-
nities,” said Bonamici, adding
that the project was an exam-
ple of finding “smarter, better
ways to do things.”
The habitat
The land conservancy
acquired the 364-acre Circle
Creek property in 2004. The
site now includes the Circle
Creek Conservation Center
event venue and two walking
trails that are publicly acces-
sible daily.
Circle Creek is home to
native wildlife such as coho
salmon, red-legged frogs,
salamanders, beaver, coy-
ote, waterfowl, nesting bald
eagles and an elk herd. The
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Matt Love appears in court with his
lawyer for an arraignment on the
charges of luring a minor and official
misconduct in August at Clatsop Cir-
cuit Court in Astoria.
Lyra Fontaine/The Daily Astorian
U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonami-
ci visited Circle Creek and
Boneyard Ridge to see
the floodplain restoration
project Monday.
winter floods encourage more
wildlife to come onto the land,
according to the organization.
In July, the land conser-
vancy purchased the 340-acre
Boneyard Ridge property,
just west of Circle Creek. The
acquisition connects 3,500
acres of conserved land.
Wickersham
told
Bonamici about the conser-
vancy’s plan to acquire 3,300
acres of timberland at Onion
Peak within the next five
years and informed her of
the organization’s 30th year
anniversary.
“We’ve seen our base
of supporters grow tremen-
dously, even in the last five
to 10 years,” Wickersham
said. “We really started tak-
ing our message out to the
community.”
Monument: ‘We hope to
make this happen, but we also
have to be fiscally responsible’
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Mathews said he’s will-
ing to work with the city on
a corporate sponsor. “It’s
going to delay us a little bit,
and I think we were anxious
to move forward,” he said of
a city decision.
Some on the City
Council have asked whether
the city is being too restric-
tive toward a project that
would honor Astoria’s rich
A final hearing for author and former
Astoria teacher Matt Love accused of lur-
ing a minor has been reset for Jan. 13.
At a hearing Tuesday, Love’s attorney
Jack Green said the state prosecutors han-
dling the case had requested more time to
prepare.
Love, 52, is accused of allegedly send-
ing explicit messages to a former student
in an attempt to convince the student to
engage in sex with him. The victim was 18
at the time, was not a former Astoria High
School student and does not live in the area
The charge of “luring a minor” is a Class
C felony. He also faces a charge of official
misconduct, a class A misdemeanor.
Love pleaded not guilty to the charges
against him in August following his arrest
and an indictment by grand jury in July. He
had been placed on administrative leave by
his employer, the Astoria School District,
in May and later resigned.
As a condition of his release from jail
this summer, he is to have no contact with
minors or with the victim in this case and
her family.
Love, who lives in Astoria, has writ-
ten and published a number of books about
Oregon.
After a period of silence on social media
following his arrest, Love has started to
again advertise writing workshops on his
Facebook page.
Scandinavian heritage.
“We seem to be getting our
back up over an issue that we
should be supporting,” City
Councilor Russ Warr said.
Mayor Arline LaMear said
a Scandinavian monument is
important for the city, but so
is following the parks master
plan. “We hope to make this
happen, but we also have to
be fiscally responsible,” she
said. “So let’s figure out a way
where we can do both.”
Roden: Jurors relieved the trial is all over
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The two boys have physi-
cal and emotional scars from
the abuse and their sister’s
death that they will carry their
entire lives, said prosecutors
and family members.
Over the objections of
Roden’s attorney, state pros-
ecutors had several witnesses
sworn in to testify about
Roden’s character. A former
girlfriend told the judge how
Roden abused her when they
dated in high school; another
former girlfriend talked about
how Roden mistreated her
puppy. And family mem-
bers, including Evangeli-
na’s grandmother and father,
spoke about their loss. They
urged Judge Brownhill to put
Roden in prison for as long as
possible.
In a prepared statement she
read over the phone, Melissa
Smith, Evangelina’s aunt,
talked about the photos of
Evangelina’s battered body.
“I will never be able to burn
these things from my mind,”
she said. “… My family has
forever been changed.”
Roden was given a chance
to make a final statement, but
chose to say nothing.
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Evangelina Wing’s grandmother, Teresa Thorsen, reacts as
she listens to Randy Roden’s sentencing on Monday. Evange-
lina was murdered by her mother’s boyfriend, Randy Roden.
After Judge Brownhill
read his sentence, however,
he had plenty to say as he was
escorted from the court house,
all of it unprintable.
Difficult trial
Nine jurors watched the
sentencing. Afterward, they
said they were glad they had
come, but they were even more
relieved that it was all over.
The verdict had been a hard-
fought decision, one juror said,
and everyone was feeling the
effects of a long trial with brutal
evidence and a tragic subject.
Those involved in the
investigation and trial say it
was one of the worst cases of
child abuse in Clatsop County
they had ever seen. Evangelina
and her two brothers had mul-
tiple injuries, with Evangelina
bearing the most extreme of
the injuries. An autopsy deter-
mined she died from blunt
force trauma.
Following the jury’s ver-
dict, Brownhill told the jurors
they would be offered coun-
seling services if they felt they
needed to talk through what
they had heard, seen and felt
during the trial. Several jurors
present at the sentencing said
they attended these counseling
sessions and that they did help,
a little.
Deputy District Attorney
Ron Brown who prosecuted
the case for the state said there
was another layer, too.
One of the chief investi-
gators of the case was Sea-
side Police Sgt. Jason Good-
ding, who was shot and killed
outside a restaurant in Seaside
earlier this year while attempt-
ing to take a man into custody.
Throughout the trial, the court
heard Goodding’s voice on
recorded interviews he con-
ducted with Roden.
“Every day was a reminder
of Jason Goodding,” Brown
said in October following the
jury’s verdict. “His absence
was very present.”
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