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Tsunami
refuge
facilities
needed
Study calls for dozens
of elevated platforms
By TOM BANSE
Northwest News Network
If you are on the Pacifi c Northwest
c oast when the next Cascadia megaquake
strikes, the standard advice is to run for
higher ground as soon as the shaking
stops.
But in some low-lying places such as
Ocean Shores and Long Beach, Wash-
ington, and Warrenton and Seaside, the
closest high ground could be a long walk
away over buckled roads.
According to a new state study, doz-
ens of elevated evacuation platforms are
needed along the Washington state coast
to ensure people can escape a tsunami
spawned by a major earthquake on the
off shore Cascadia Subduction Zone fault .
“There’s just no way for a lot of folks
to get to high ground within time,” said
Maximilian Dixon, the geologic hazards
supervisor for the Washington Emer-
gency Management Division. “It’s not
physically possible given the 10 to 15 to
20 minutes before the fi rst wave arrives
See Tsunami, Page A2
GEARHART
ZIP code
discussion
points to
divide
Some residents depend on
Seaside Post Offi ce
By R.J. MARX
The Astorian
GEARHART — Is a package destined
for Seaside or Gearhart? Postal workers
and delivery drivers can’t always be sure.
Both cities share the 97138 ZIP code, and
each has addresses of numbered and let-
tered streets.
Mayor Paulina Cockrum and city
councilors want the U.S. Postal Service
to assign Gearhart a unique ZIP code,
and came prepared to issue a resolution
to that eff ect at last week’s City Council
meeting.
Erick Bengel/The Astorian
Virginia Shepherd, with photographs of her husband, James D. Shepherd, an Oregon State Police offi cer who was murdered
in 1980.
A state trooper’s family wants killer to stay in prison
‘It never goes away’
By ERICK BENGEL
The Astorian
M
ore than 41 years ago, Sgt.
James D. Shepherd of the
Oregon State Police was
murdered in Knappa during an off -
duty motorcycle ride.
T his month, the Shepherd family
plans to remind the Oregon Board of
Parole and Post-Prison Supervision
why the killer, Michael Edward Sture,
should remain locked up.
On Nov. 17, Sture has a parole hear-
ing to determine whether his projected
release date in May should be his
actual release date.
The default decision would be to
release Sture unless the board fi nds
reasons not to do so — for example,
severe emotional disturbance, or a
lengthy history of disciplinary reports,
according to Dylan Arthur, the execu-
tive director of the parole board.
“They would need to fi nd a reason
to hold him in,” Arthur said.
On May 22, 1980, Shepherd, a
23-year veteran of the state police, was
riding a neighbor’s dirt bike near his
Knappa home.
“Jim thought somebody was grow-
ing marijuana,” his widow, Virginia
Shepherd, recalled. “He didn’t know
who it was, but he was going to go and
check it out.”
As Shepherd approached, Sture
shot the offi cer in the chest, then twice
in the head.
The 23-year-old Sture had recently
done time for stealing a vehicle and
later said he was worried Shepherd
would fi nd the marijuana he was
growing.
Fellow offi cer Brian Johnson dis-
covered Shepherd’s body near a log-
ging spur. He encountered Sture, who
made the trooper lie on the ground at
gunpoint and rifl ed through his wal-
let, but left Johnson unharmed. Sture
escaped with the borrowed bike, recov-
ered near Williamsport Road.
‘We went bonkers’
Shepherd’s ambush-style murder
rattled local law enforcement agencies.
“We went bonkers,” said Mel Jas-
min, a retired Astoria Police Depart-
ment offi cer. Jasmin was one of several
dozen offi cers who hunted for Sture in
the Knappa woodlands.
“When that happened, I was on
patrol, and everybody and their brother
headed for the hills where he (Sture)
was supposed to be,” Jasmin said .
“Everybody got really uptight,
short-tempered,” he recalled.
“They wanted to catch this guy.
And then of course we found out that
he wasn’t even there.”
Sture had made it to c entral Ore-
gon and was arrested while hitchhik-
ing on a highway near Bend. He was
sentenced to prison for “a period of his
natural life.”
But unless a convict’s sentence pre-
cludes parole, there is the possibility of
release.
Although the Shepherd family is
confi dent the outcome will not favor
Sture, they make a point to show up at
his parole hearings with as many peo-
ple as possible, “just to make sure that
we can remind the parole board that
there’s people out there that are still
aff ected by this greatly,” said Carolyn
Shepherd, Jim Shepherd’s niece, who
was in her mid-20s when he was killed.
Sture’s lack of contrition and the
way he justifi ed his crimes unnerves
them. At his 2009 parole hearing, Sture
said he had to kill Shepherd to save his
own life.
“I have my own life because he lost
his,” Sture told them. “That brought
me to a place that, even though it was a
tragedy and it was wrong, it opened my
eyes to my own self.”
See Shepherd, Page A2
See ZIP code, Page A2
A boutique draws inspiration from Hollywood
Galiardo has a
history in fashion
By KATHERINE LACAZE
For The Astorian
SEASIDE — Tommyg is as
much of an artistic achievement
as it is an upscale boutique .
Each feature and decora-
tion — from the “Breakfast at
Tiff any’s” and “Arabesque”
movie posters to stylized fash-
ion illustrations and bird fi g-
urines from Rio de Janeiro —
reveals a piece of owner Tom
Tommyg carries an
assortment of classic, upscale
clothing and accessories.
Katherine Lacaze/For The Astorian
Galiardo’s long history in fash-
ion, as well as the experiences
and ideas that infl uenced his
taste and professional philoso-
phy surrounding contemporary
casual clothing and accessories.
“You’re actually seeing parts
of my life in here,” he said. “It’s
not just random.”
In his youth, Galiardo recalls
watching the fi lms “How to
Steal a Million” and “Break-
fast at Tiff any’s,” both of which
included wardrobes designed
by Hubert de Givenchy, and
being inspired by the fashions.
“Those were great infl u-
ences on me as a kid,” he said,
adding the actress Audrey Hep-
burn was singularly inspir-
ing as well. Growing up in the
1960s, “She was everything:
her clothes, the styles,” and her
look is clearly woven into the
collection of sweaters and out-
erwear carried at Tommyg.
Galiardo, who was born in
Croton-on-Hudson, New York,
also spent many years of his
adolescence in Europe, trav-
eling between Augsburg, Ger-
many, and Rome, Italy. He then
studied at the Fashion Insti-
tute of Technology, major-
ing in fashion illustration and
merchandising.
Galiardo’s
career
has
spanned several decades and
several companies — includ-
ing Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Ave-
nue and Neiman Marcus — and
several jobs, from manager and
buyer to selling designer salon
shoes.
“I have people say, ‘You
turned out to be a merchant,’ and
that’s exactly what happened,”
he said, adding he’s fi lled nearly
every role in the fashion indus-
try except designer. “I will dis-
play it, which I’ve done. I will
advertise it . I will sketch it. I
will promote it. I will sell it. I
will merchandise it, and I will
buy it. B ut I will not make it.”
Galiardo spent time in New
York and Dallas before migrat-
ing to the West Coast and work-
ing with I. Magnin & Co. in the
1980s. His last sales gig was
with Chanel in Nordstrom in
downtown Portland.
See Boutique, Page A2