DailyAstorian.com // TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2016
144TH YEAR, NO. 128
SGT. GOODDING CHOSEN AS OREGON PERSON OF THE YEAR
ONE DOLLAR
‘Beach
Hunters’
comes to
Gearhart
Homebuyers featured
on national series
By EVE MARX
For The Daily Astorian
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
GEARHART — “Beach Hunters” show-
cases a Portland couple’s hunt in and around
Gearhart for the perfect beach home.
Rinda Shea, a broker with Windermere
Stellar in Gearhart, said HGTV reached out
to her colleague Lynn Brigham, a principal
broker with the agency, about Shea’s ocean-
front listings. Their quest will be presented
on New Year’s Day at 6 p.m.
Nathan Charlan, executive producer with
Warm Springs Productions, an independent
company working with HGTV, said the pro-
ducers were drawn to the Oregon C oast and
Gearhart specifi cally.
“We were planning two special epi-
sodes for the ‘Beach Hunters’ series because
we wanted to feature one episode on the
West Coast and one on the East,” Charlan
said. “We were drawn to the Oregon Coast
because the coastline itself provides a great
contrast to coastlines in the East. The huge
rocks that jut out from the waters and the
dramatic cliffs, how the mountains meet the
ocean — these are just some of the reasons
we found Oregon to be such a special place.”
An officer stands watch by Sgt. Jason Goodding’s casket before a memorial service In February. The Seaside Police sergeant
who was killed in the line of duty was chosen by readers as The Oregonian’s 2016 Person of the Year.
See GEARHART, Page 4A
By JIM RYAN
The Oregonian
In Europe,
GMOs
embraced
by farmers
D
ean Goodding has heard many stories
about his son over the past 11 months.
There’s the Tillamook building
renamed in tribute to his service. The crimi-
nals who gave street offi cers a hard time but
let his son arrest them because he showed
them respect. The way his boy checked on
homeless people, blankets in tow, and gave
food money to those in need.
“That’s his legacy,” Dean Goodding said.
Jason Goodding, a Seaside P olice sergeant
killed by a wanted felon in February, is T he
Oregonian’s 2016 Ore-
gon Person of the Year.
His vigil and public
‘We’re
memorial drew crowds
totaling more than
very
3,000 overall. Many
proud
people sent support to
P olice. And
of him.’ Seaside
more than 43 percent of
Oregonian/OregonLive
Dean
voters picked him for
Gooding
the posthumous honor.
father of slain
Such responses , the
Seaside Police
elder Goodding said,
Sgt. Jason
mean a lot to the family.
Goodding
But the remembrances
bring a renewal of the
pain of losing a loved one. It’s like ripping off
a scab that will eventually heal with time.
“We’re very proud of him,” Dean said.
Goodding, a 39-year-old police veteran
and married father of two, was fatally shot
while trying to arrest a felon outside a down-
town restaurant Feb. 5. His partner returned
fi re, hitting the felon three times. The two men
died at separate hospitals. Flags across the
state were fl own at half-staff for Goodding.
He was the 10th Oregon offi cer killed in
the line of duty since 2007.
Consumers take a
different view, though
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
EO Media Group
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
Gov. Kate Brown presents the Medal of Ultimate Sacrifice to Sgt. Jason Goodding’s
wife, Amy, at his memorial at the Seaside Civic and Convention Center.
Flowers and
notes from the
community are
seen on Broad-
way in Seaside
where Sgt. Ja-
son Goodding
was killed.
Joshua Bessex
The Daily Astorian
See GOODDING, Page 7A
European consumers don’t approve of
genetically engineered crops, but European
farmers are eager to feed them to their live-
stock, according to a U.S. Department of
Agriculture report.
As a result, Europe poses an economic
opportunity for U.S. farmers while the threat
of a consumer-driven trade disruption looms
over exports of biotech crops, experts say.
“As the global cultivation of GE crops
expands, it is increasingly diffi cult for Euro-
pean importers to source non biotech soy-
bean products. Their availability is declining
and prices are on the rise,” according to the
new report from USDA’s Foreign Agricul-
tural Service.
Soybeans are a common livestock feed in
the European Union, which is trying to boost
its production of conventional and organic
varieties of the crop, the report said.
See GMOs, Page 7A
Longtime entrepreneur moves base to Gearhart
Couple loves
the beach
By R.J. MARX
The Daily Astorian
OUR NEW
NEIGHBORS
HIGHLIGHTING PEOPLE WHO ARE NEW TO THE COMMUNITY
G
EARHART — “We
moved here in May, but
we’ve had a house here in Sea-
side for 20-some years,” Gear-
hart’s Andrew Stein said at the
Pig ’N Pancake in mid-De-
cember, where he was partici-
pating in a meeting of the Sea-
side Downtown Development
Association.
Stein and his wife, Peggy,
live near the site of the old
drive-in theater in Gearhart,
not far from the elementary
school. “We’ve been coming
down every other weekend,
Thursday to Monday.”
Stein and his wife are from
West Linn and were both
raised in the Portland area.
“We’ve been coming down
here every other weekend for
I don’t know how long,” Stein
said. “My wife loves it here.
She’s a beach person, just
loves the beach. We both work
from home and can work from
anywhere. So why not here?”
Stein’s clients at Logotek
Inc. are largely based in Port-
land, but many are nation-
wide. “Our mission is to pro-
vide the most creative, state of
the art promotional advertising
ideas and products at fair and
reasonable prices, on time and
See STEINS, Page 4A
R.J. Marx/The Daily Astorian
Andrew Stein moved his base from the Portland area to
Gearhart. Stein’s company, Logotek Inc., makes promo-
tional advertising products.