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.