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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JULY 14, 2017
Seaside residents
arrested for
heroin trafficking
Supervising
children, dogs
and 11 puppies
Submitted Photo
Puppies were found in a
Seaside house where two
people were arrested on
suspicion of heroin traf-
ficking.
Austin
Michelle
Randall
Renee Brelin
Perry-Wenner
gree child neglect. They also
may be charged with animal
abuse after further evidence
analysis.
Brelin is scheduled to be
arraigned on an indictment in
Circuit Court next week. Per-
ry-Wenner, who has already
pleaded not guilty, is sched-
uled to appear later this
month.
Warrenton Police
search for boat thief
at Skipanon Marina
By JACK HEFFERNAN
The Daily Astorian
Warrenton Police are
searching for a man who
allegedly stole a boat
Wednesday morning that
was docked at the Skipanon
Marina.
The
man
allegedly
entered the boat at 11:15 a.m.
carrying a number of bags.
He then allegedly drove the
boat south on the Skipanon
River but could not continue
past the Eight Street Dam.
Directions key in
an emergency
By BRENNA VISSER
The Daily Astorian
By JACK HEFFERNAN
The Daily Astorian
Two Seaside residents
who
were
supervising
numerous children and pup-
pies were arrested Wednes-
day on heroin trafficking
charges.
The Clastop County Sher-
iff’s Office and Seaside
Police found Austin Ran-
dall Perry-Wenner, 24, and
Michelle Renee Brelin, 45,
in possession of heroin, dig-
ital scales, packaging mate-
rial, a stun gun and a black
Sig Sauer replica handgun.
Three children, two dogs
and 11 puppies also were
located inside a residence at
841 Second Ave. Two of the
children were placed under
the care of state Child Pro-
tective Services, while the
other was returned to her par-
ent or guardian. The animals
were taken to the Seaside
City Kennel.
The two were charged
with delivery of heroin
within 1,000 feet of a school
and two counts of first-de-
Grant to finance wayfinding
signs after quakes, tsunamis
The boat was found sub-
merged near the dam along
with a number of items the
man was carrying.
The man has a full beard,
a bald head with a birthmark
on top and hair on the back
and some scrapes. He was
wearing blue shorts, white
tennis shoes and gray shorts.
Anyone who may have
information about the case
can contact Warrenton Police
Officer Alfonzo Fontana at
503-861-5622 or afontana@
ci.warrenton.or.us.
When it comes to surviv-
ing a tsunami on the North
Coast, there are a number of
signs that tell you where it is
safe and where it is an inunda-
tion zone.
But what about the signs
that help you get there?
“We’ve got a sign that
tells you that you’re in dan-
ger, and a sign to tell you that
you are safe, but we don’t have
enough signs telling you how
to get there if you don’t know
where you are going,” Clatsop
County Emergency Manager
Tiffany Brown said.
Providing more wayfind-
ing signs to guide people in
the right direction while they
are on an evacuation route is
one problem Brown hopes to
solve with a recently secured
$30,000 state homeland secu-
rity grant.
The grant, which should be
available by October, will fund
what Brown calls the “Tsu-
nami Evacuation Sign System
Assessment” project, and will
focus on adding more signs as
well as creating a geographic
information systems data-
base to track where evacuation
route signs are placed through-
out the county.
“A wayfinding sign would
help in a situation where you
aren’t from around here, and
it’s the middle of the night and
you are at an intersection try-
ing to remember where to go,”
Brown said.
The evacuation routes and
high-ground locations in Clat-
sop County were previously
identified by way of a com-
munity planning project led by
the state Department of Geol-
ogy and Mineral Industries in
2012, Brown said.
A limited number of signs
were installed to reflect the
newly established inundation
levels and evacuation routes
designed in 2013, however,
and the stakeholder group
tasked with defining where
signs were needed found many
of the routes had inadequate
signing because they were sto-
len, damaged or out of date,
Brown said.
“It’s about getting an inven-
tory about signs we have, filling
in gaps of where we still need
them and then creating this
GIS database so we can main-
tain all of them,” Brown said.
“Right now it’s hard to deter-
mine what is missing because
we don’t have a baseline.”
The county does not have
clear records of how many
signs exist and where they
Celebration of Life
Sunday, July 16 th , 2017 at 2 PM
Betty Kendall
Family, friends & acquain-
tances are cordially invited to
join together at the Seaside
American Legion to remem-
ber our beloved Betty. She
was employed by Post 99 in
August 1977, as a bartender, and remained in that
capacity for nearly 40 years. She was much loved,
and is dreadfully missed by all of us. There will be
a complimentary spaghetti buffet
starting at 4 PM. Some of you have
offered to bring potluck dishes. If you
are interested in bringing a hot dish or
whatever, that will be great.
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Man dies in
Tillamook
logging
accident
A A A O R E G O N/I DA H O 2 01 8 P R E S I D E NT ’ S C R U I S E
Helicopters to
drop trout into
mountain lakes
Brenna
Visser/
The Daily
Astorian
are placed along the 90 estab-
lished evacuation routes. Part
of the grant will include hir-
ing a planning consultant who
will work with 15 stakeholder
groups from school districts,
homeowner associations and
representatives from five cit-
ies to perform an initial assess-
ment of route signage to iden-
tify wayfinding gaps.
The consultant will then
make final recommendations
and create a database for sign
types and locations intended
to make future system main-
tenance and additions easier,
Brown said.
“If you live here, you are
aware of the hazards in the
place you’ve chosen to live,”
Brown said. “If you are vaca-
tioning here, that reality is not
something you necessarily
understand. It may be our only
shot at saving their lives.”
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Authorities are investigat-
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killed a man in Tillamook.
The Tillamook County
Sheriff’s Office says 32-year-
old Casey Schlundt of McMin-
nville died Wednesday when
an unexpected log shift caused
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Schlundt fell about 50 feet. He
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An evac-
uation
route sign
at the end
of Pacific
Way in
Gearhart.
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