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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2018
Clatsop College
nursing ranks
high in Oregon
Alleged thief arrested in
Warrenton after tussle
The Daily Astorian
While he was taken to
Columbia Memorial Hospi-
tal, Kitzman allegedly tried to
A local homeless man kick out the back window of
allegedly stole a motorized the police car. The Warrenton
shopping cart Monday night police officer pulled over to try
from Fred Meyer in Warrenton, to restrain Kitzman, who then
sparking a series of events that began to fight. The officer was
landed him and a police officer punched in the head multiple
in the hospital.
times as he struggled with Kitz-
Jacob Martin Kitzman, 26, man on the ground.
Oregon State Police and
allegedly drove the cart out
of the store shortly after 5:30 the Clatsop County Sheriff’s
Office also responded
p.m. After briefly roll-
ing into a Ross Dress
to the scene and used
for Less in a nearby
a stun gun multiple
lot, he drove the cart
times before subduing
into Rite Aid, where
Kitzman.
he allegedly stole a
Kitzman also tried
DVD player. Police
to kick hospital staff
were called after he left Jacob Martin before he was treated
the store and bumped
and taken to the Clat-
Kitzman
sop County Jail. An
into a parked car in the
open container of alco-
parking lot.
By the time police hol was found on Kitzman and
responded, Kitzman was driv- later in the back of the police car.
ing the cart east near Pizza Hut
The injured officer was
toward Shilo Inn.
taken to the hospital, treated and
“Those things don’t move released for a possible concus-
very fast,” Warrenton Police sion. Other officers on the scene
sustained minor injuries.
Chief Mathew Workman said.
“It got to be quite the show
Kitzman allegedly placed
the DVD player in the cart’s out there, I guess,” Workman
front basket before concealing said.
Kitzman was charged with
it as police arrived. He allegedly
was verbally aggressive but resisting arrest, assaulting a
entered the police car without public safety officer, second-de-
gree theft and third-degree theft.
incident.
Clatsop Community Col-
lege was ranked second out
of 27 nursing programs in
Oregon by RegisteredNurs-
ing.org, an online resource
for registered nurses.
The college’s nursing
program, offering an associ-
ate degree, scored nearly 96
out of 100 on the website’s
ranking system, behind
only Clackamas Commu-
nity College.
The rankings looked
at the passage rate of stu-
dents on the nursing licen-
sure exam over the past five
years.
PUBLIC
MEETINGS
THURSDAY
Northwest Oregon Hous-
ing Authority, 10 a.m.,
NOHA office, 147 S. Main
Ave., Warrenton.
Warrenton-Hammond
School Board, 6 p.m., special
meeting on school bonds,
Warrenton High School
library, 1700 S. Main Ave.
FRIDAY
Astoria City Council, 8
a.m., work session on goal
setting, City Hall, 1095
Duane St.
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MEMORIALS
Friday, Feb. 2
JENKINS, Mary Eve-
lyn — Visitation from 1 to
5 p.m., Caldwell’s Luce-Lay-
ton Mortuary, 1165 Franklin
Ave.
Saturday, Feb. 3
JENKINS, Mary Evelyn —
Funeral at 11 a.m., Caldwell’s
Mortuary Chapel, 1165 Frank-
lin Ave. Burial follows at Ocean
View Cemetery in Warrenton.
DEATH
Jan. 28, 2018
PARKS, Roberta Mae, 81, of Portland, formerly of Warren-
ton, died in Portland. Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary of Asto-
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• At 10:13 p.m. Tuesday, Derek Gascoigne, 57, of Seaside,
was arrested by the Clatsop County Sheriff’s Office on Anderson
Lane near Brownsmead and charged with driving under the influ-
ence of intoxicants and reckless driving.
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