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144TH YEAR, NO. 156 ONE DOLLAR WEEKEND EDITION // FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2017 ‘NEVER WANT TO FORGET’ SGT. GOODDING SEASIDE POLICE CHIEF HAM REFLECTS ON FALLEN OFFICER AND FRIEND Seaside Police Chief Dave Ham Danny Miller The Daily Astorian Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Investigators work the scene of an officer-involved shooting on Broadway Street in Seaside Feb. 5. By R.J. MARX The Daily Astorian O ne year ago, Seaside Police Chief Dave Ham lost not only a valued member of the Seaside Police Department, but also one of his best friends. Sgt. Jason Goodding, 39, was gunned down and killed on Broadway in Seaside on Feb. 5 while serving a felony warrant on Phillip Max Ferry. Fellow offi cer David Davidson returned the fi re, resulting in Ferry’s death . Goodding was the 183rd law enforcement offi cer in Oregon to die in the line of duty since the 1880s. The shooting came in a week of police shootings around the country — in Clayton County Georgia; Fargo, North Dakota; Memphis, Tennessee; Mesa County, Colorado; and Abingdon, Jason Maryland. Goodding In tribute to Goodding, offi cers from the Oregon Fallen Badge Foundation organized a memorial that brought offi cers and fi rst responders from around the country to the Seaside Civic and Convention Center. A memorial service brought tears and tributes for a man who loved his family, his job and his community. Seaside Police forged a bond, but in many ways their grief was private. A year later, Chief Ham remembers his friend, lessons learned and refl ects on moments cherished. Q: Take me back to the night you received the phone call. How did that go down? A: I was preparing to go to bed. The phone rang and it was the police department. I had, for lack of better terms, a very distraught dispatcher — very poised and professional — but from the tone of voice something was obviously very seri- ously wrong. I was told there was a shoot- ing and we had an offi cer down. As I’m trying to get my gear together and head in, I asked who it was and was told it was Jason. INSIDE FEBRUARY 2017 PUBLISHED THE FIRST FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH Q: You came to the scene of the shooting? A: I went directly there. They were still working on him, but he hadn’t been trans- ported yet. Q: Did you know if this was an iso- lated incident or did you think there might be something else going on? A: The information I got didn’t lead us or lead me to think there were multi- ple people involved. That was one of the fi rst questions I asked when I got on scene. ROCK SOLID INTERVIEW ON PAGE 3 INSIDE GE 8 ock shop hits stride in third season. COAST RIVER BUSINESS JOURNAL See CHIEF HAM, Page 6A Joshua Bessex The Daily Astorian Cafe Uniontown Lindstrom’s Danish Maid sold to hotelier closes oven door for good Landmark MUSIC was going to MEND be an Irish pub MAN 22-YEAR-OLD TAKES UP ROGER THOMPSON’S 40-YEAR INSTRUMENT-REPAIR TRADITION Brad Rzewnicki hugs Tobi Boyd during a candelight vigil to remember and honor fallen officer Jason Goodding at Broad- way Field. “(Good- ding) was just an all-around amazing person,” Boyd said. “I know people say that a lot, but he was genuine, an all- around stand-up guy. He was an amazing friend and coach.” By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian The former Cafe Union- town, a local landmark that was most recently the site of a failed Irish pub, has been sold to the owner of the Hol- iday Inn Express & Suites Astoria. Blue Heron Properties, run by David and Linda Weber, purchased 210 W. Marine Drive last month for $200,000 from Jim Wilkins. Caroline Wuebben, the general manager of the Hol- iday Inn Express, said in an email that the plan is to use the restaurant as a comple- ment to the hotel’s meeting space and as meal service for guests. Wilkins bought the build- ing in 1992 from the late Rae Goforth, who was nick- named the unoffi cial mayor of Uniontown. Goforth ran the Fiddler’s Green Irish Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian Lindstrom’s Danish Maid Bakery, a local mainstay on Commercial Street, is ending a long run. The shop has been owned since 1986 by Jan Lindstrom and her husband, John, who died in October. Lindstrom was unavail- able for comment, but had previously remarked that her husband did most of the baking and worked at the shop six days a week. See LANDMARK, Page 7A After a long run downtown, Lindstrom’s Dan- ish Maid Bakery has closed permanently. See BAKERY, Page 7A Sweet shop misses its baker, who died last year By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Brown signs orders to thwart Trump immigration policies By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau SALEM — Gov. Kate Brown signed an executive order Thurs- day barring the use of any state resources to enforce federal immi- gration policy and called on the state Attorney General’s Offi ce to sue the Trump administration over the president’s executive order on immigration. “The president’s recent exec- utive orders that divide and dis- criminate do not refl ect the values enshrined in the U.S. Constitu- tion or the principles we stand for as Oregonians or Americans,” Brown told reporters Thursday. “I want to make it very clear that here in Oregon, where thousands have fought for and demanded equal- ity, where millions have put down roots and become integral to our economy and to our culture; we will not retreat.” The governor said her order was a response to Trump’s tem- porary ban on refugees and visa holders from several predomi- nantly Muslim countries, but also a proactive step in anticipation of further action by the Trump administration. “We are hearing rumors of the fact that the federal government may consider creating a Muslim registry,” Brown said. “This would forbid our state agencies and our state agency workers from partic- ipating in that.” Reviewing cases Deputy Attorney General Fred Boss said the state justice depart- ment has not yet fi led any lawsuits See GOV. BROWN, Page 7A Gov. Kate Brown
