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.
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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.
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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