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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2018
Youth: Homeless task force will meet again
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Clatsop County has an
estimated 161 homeless and
unsheltered youth ages 18
to 24, according to the 2017
point-in-time count — an
increase over prior years, said
Astoria Mayor Arline LaMear,
who brought the letter of sup-
port to the City Council for
approval at a meeting Monday
night.
“Establishing a coordinated
approach for these youth is a
community issue, requiring a
multifaceted approach which
includes stakeholders, service
providers, resource managers
and other levels of local and
state government,” the letter
stated.
The letter of support sug-
gested a variety of ser-
vices the grant money could
fund, including youth shel-
ters, drop-in centers, indepen-
dent-living training, job train-
ing and educational services.
“No one specific service
has yet been identified — this
will be the role of our commu-
nity partners who deal with
youth,” the letter stated.
LaMear and the other city
councilors have struggled to
find concrete ways for the city
to address homelessness. Some
councilors have noted that one
of the best things the city can
do is support other organiza-
tions’ efforts to provide hous-
ing and outreach programs.
In January, LaMear signed
a letter that supported Helping
Hand’s purchase of a build-
ing in Uniontown. The Seaside
nonprofit wants to expand into
Astoria, establishing re-en-
try programs and a temporary
housing facility for homeless
people struggling to get back
on their feet.
A task force led by LaMear
and Police Chief Geoff Spald-
ing has explored policies and
solutions. A previous itera-
tion of the task force linked
a lack of public bathrooms to
increased instances in peo-
ple using downtown areas and
parks to relieve themselves.
That task force’s recommenda-
tion resulted in the installation
of several portable bathrooms
along the Astoria Riverwalk.
Public urination and def-
ecation issues came up again
this winter, however.
The task force will meet
again April 16. The meetings
so far have focused around
education and discussion about
the many facets of homeless-
ness and the challenges of
addressing it across communi-
ties in Clatsop County.
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
The Astoria City Council has backed a federal grant to help homeless youth.
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Police looking
at ‘red flags’
in cliff crash
By GENE JOHNSON
and PHUONG LE
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Investigators
said Monday they were exam-
ining “red flags” in a Washing-
ton state family’s past in hopes
of explaining why their SUV
went off a 100-foot cliff in an
apparent suicide plunge.
The wreckage was discov-
ered last week on rocks along
the coast near Mendocino,
California, a few days after
child welfare authorities in
Washington began investigat-
ing whether the children were
being abused or neglected.
The Hart family’s two
moms and three of the six
adopted children were found
dead; the three others are miss-
ing and presumed dead, possi-
bly washed out to sea.
Police said Monday that
social service authorities in
Oregon contacted the West
Linn Police Department about
the family in 2013 while they
were living in the area.
The questions were referred
to the Oregon Department of
Human Services, which cited
privacy laws in refusing to
confirm or deny the agency
was involved.
Long before the crash,
Sarah Hart pleaded guilty in
2011 to a domestic assault
charge in Minnesota over what
she said was a spanking given
to one of her children. And last
month, concerned neighbors in
Woodland, Washington, con-
tacted child welfare authori-
ties, saying the children may
have been going hungry.
On Sunday, authorities
announced that data from the
vehicle’s software suggested
the crash was deliberate.
The SUV had stopped at a
pull-off area then sped straight
off the cliff, Capt. Greg Baarts
of the California Highway
Patrol said. Baarts said that as
far as he knew, investigators
had not found a suicide note.
Marcus Mazza, an engineer
and accident-reconstruction
expert with Lancaster, Penn-
sylvania-based Robson Foren-
sic, said investigators could use
data to determine factors such
as the speed of the vehicle; the
engine speed; how much force
the driver was exerting on the
gas pedal; and whether the
driver had depressed the brake.
In interviews with friends
and relatives, “there have been
red flags,” Baarts said. He did
not elaborate.
Days before the wreck was
discovered, neighbors called
Washington state child-wel-
fare authorities to say one of
the youngsters had been com-
ing to their house almost daily
asking for something to eat
and complaining that his par-
ents were withholding food as
punishment.
Investigators last week
obtained a search warrant for
the family’s home in Wood-
land and looked for itineraries,
bank and phone records, credit
card receipts, journals or other
documents that might shed
light on the case.
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