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DailyAstorian.com // MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2017 145TH YEAR, NO. 66 ONE DOLLAR HORROR IN LAS VEGAS At least 58 killed in deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history By SALLY HO and REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press LAS VEGAS — A gunman perched on the 32nd fl oor of a Las Vegas hotel-casino unleashed a hail of bullets on an outdoor country music festival below, killing at least 58 people as tens of thousands of concertgoers screamed and ran Las Vegas police sweep through a convention center area during a lock- down Monday at the Tropicana Las Vegas following an active shooter situation on the Las Vegas Strip. for their lives, offi cials said Monday. It was the deadliest mass shooting in mod- ern U.S. history. At least 515 others were injured in the Sun- day night attack, authorities said. SWAT teams using explosives stormed the gunman’s hotel room in the sleek, gold-colored Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal See SHOOTING, Page 5A A DOWNTOWN HUB GETS A FACELIFT Grant support helps brighten the Riviera Astoria man featured in ‘Band of Brothers’ By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian I n 1997, Uriah Hulsey and Jeanine Fairchild purchased the 72-year-old Riviera Building, one of the fi rst movie houses built after a devastating fi re destroyed much of Astoria in 1922. Over the years, the building has become a hub downtown with the Columbian Theater, Voodoo Room and Columbian Cafe. And with an infusion of grant money from the Oregon Heritage Com- mission, the building is being restored to its historic glory. Fairchild and Hulsey fi rst became tenants of former Riviera owner Ron Brott in 1980, when Hulsey took over operation of the Columbian Cafe. In 1997, the building went up for sale. “I didn’t want to move, so we formed a little LLC and bought the building,” Hulsey said. They operated the Columbian The- ater and turned a smaller screening Courageous World War II paratrooper dies at 96 Associated Press and The Daily Astorian Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian Pedestrians walk by the construction site at the Riviera Building in down- town Astoria. The historic building is undergoing work to restore the facade. room in front into the eclectic Voo- doo Room. Over the years, they had largely done patchwork on the build- ing, until being approached recently by Sarah Lu Heath, director of the Asto- ria Downtown Historic District Associ- ation, with an opportunity to do some- thing bigger. “It’s a great landmark building, with owners that were operating really good businesses,” Heath said of the Riviera. “The building just needed some help.” See RIVIERA, Page 7A The present-day Columbian Theater originally opened June 2, 1925, as the Riviera Theater. A restoration is bringing back the facade of the Riviera Building, designed by architect Charles T. Diamond in a Mediterranean R evival style. SALEM — Donald Malarkey, a World War II paratrooper who was awarded the Bronze Star after parachuting behind enemy lines at Nor- mandy to destroy German artillery on D-Day, has died. He was 96. Malarkey, who was born in Astoria, was one of several members of “Easy Company” to be widely por- trayed in the HBO miniseries, “Band of Brothers.” He died Saturday in Salem of age-re- lated causes, his son-in-law John Hill said Sunday. Malarkey fought across Donald France, the Netherlands and Malarkey Belgium and with Easy Com- pany fought off Nazi advances while surrounded at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944. He was often praised for his actions during the war, and was presented with the Legion of Honor Medal — the highest honor awarded by the French government — in 2009. See MALARKEY, Page 7A Clatsop County Historical Society Out-of-control driver kills one in Seaside crash SUV rams into bus stop By BRENNA VISSER The Daily Astorian Retired printer leaves lasting mark SEASIDE — One man was killed and another person was critically injured after the driver of a Dodge Durango traveling north- bound on U.S. Highway 101 crashed into a bus stop shelter outside McDonald’s restaurant in Seaside Saturday night. The accident occurred about 9:50 p.m., according to Oregon State Police Sgt. DeAnn Rzewnicki. The driver sustained minor injuries and was sent to Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria. The critically injured pedestrian was sent to a Portland hospital. The man killed in the crash has not been pub- licly identifi ed. See CRASH, Page 7A Grimm has seen dramatic changes in print industry By JACK HEFFERNAN The Daily Astorian A fter a 50-year printing career involving dramatic changes in the industry, a longtime Asto- rian is putting his work to bed. Tom Grimm, who worked for EO Media Group based in Astoria for 41 years, retired from the company last week. He announced his retirement in July and has since been closing out his small print shop in The Daily Astorian building. “I just fi gured it was time,” Grimm said. “It’s a long two- week notice.” Grimm, 69, graduated from Benson Tech High School in Portland, where his fi rst glimpse at the profession came when he took shop classes in printing and photography. After his 1967 gradu- ation, Grimm worked for Erick Bengel/The Daily Astorian Submitted Photo Tom Grimm retired from EO See GRIMM, Page 7A Media Group after 41 years. One person was killed and two injured af- ter a Dodge Durango drove into a bus stop shelter in Seaside Saturday night.
