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November 17, 2017
Flowers for mom, who loved to read
The Columbia Press
Peggy Massey was an
avid reader and would have
loved to see Warrenton
Community Library in its
new downtown location.
Massey, who was born
and raised in Warrenton,
died of heart problems in
May.
Friends and five gener-
ations of Massey’s family
gathered outside the library
Monday evening, on what
would have been her 76th
birthday. Despite blustery
weather, they planted chry-
santhemums and spring
bulbs in the planter boxes
they donated in her honor.
“She just gave so much
to everybody,” said Dawn
Rowden, whom Massey
See ‘Flowers’ on Page 6
Vol. 1, Issue 46
Man faces trial for giving
alcohol to teen who died
Mom and DA form partnership
to stiffen penalties for the crime
Cindy Yingst/The Columbia Press
Arianna Buckner helps Kimberlynn Young, 3, plant bulbs in planter
boxes their family donated to Warrenton Community Library.
Fort Pointe gets another green light
City looks again at ban
of ministorage units
The Columbia Press
An appeal to stop development at Fort
Pointe, a project that would put 480 homes
south of the KOA, was denied by the City
Commission on Tuesday.
Elizabeth Tagg, who owns property east of
the project, wrote in her appeal that logging
and drainage work in the area have caused
flooding and “ATV mudders and poachers
(need to be kept) from gaining new access
into hundreds of acres of wetland that is elk
calving and habitat.”
Documents Tagg gave to the city to support
of her claim show that much of the work done
in the area was at her request, Community
Development Director Skip Urling told the
City Commission.
“The more we looked at it, the more we were
convinced there was nothing done by Fort
Pointe property owners or its partners,” he
said. “She was the client for the work that was
done.”
No one spoke at the public hearing in sup-
port of Tagg’s appeal.
“Our initial design has avoided all wetlands,”
said Dale Barrett, a surveyor with Otak work-
ing on behalf of the developers. “We believe
it will be an environmentally friendly project.
… We are going to do our best engineering
practices to confirm we won’t have any more
issues with water running off.”
Fort Pointe will be built as a planned-unit
development, which means the entire 277-
acre parcel has been proposed in its entirety,
See ‘Fort Pointe’ on Page 5
was a gentle soul
who was kind to ev-
B y C Indy y Ingst
eryone, friends and
The Columbia Press
family have said.
The man accused of
“A precious life was
providing alcohol to a
lost
and it was taken
Warrenton High stu-
from
senselessness,”
dent who was struck
she
said.
“My son is
and killed later that
Trevor Secord
dead
because
a man
night on Highway 101
poisoned
my
kid
and
will stand trial.
the
only
thing
he
can
Richard
Edward
be
charged
with
is
Reinsch, 48, of War-
furnishing”
alcohol
renton pleaded not
to a minor.
guilty in August to
An adult who
two counts of fur-
has
sex with a mi-
nishing liquor to a
nor
faces statutory
minor. After several
rape
charges, but
attempts at an ear-
an
adult
who gives a
ly resolution con-
Reinsch
teen
enough
alcohol
ference, a judge last
to
kill
him
faces
a
mere
mis-
week set the case for trial in
demeanor,
she
said.
It
does
May.
Trevor Secord was just 15 not seem fair. If a 15-year-old
when authorities say he vis- isn’t mature enough to give
ited with Reinsch on Jan. 26 consent for sex, why would
and the parolee gave him al- anyone think a 15-year-old
cohol. About 11 p.m., while will make good decisions
a passenger in his brother’s about drinking, she asked.
“Kids cannot process al-
vehicle, Trevor attempted to
cohol,”
she said. “If it’s not
jump out of the vehicle on
your
kid,
you don’t have the
Highway 101 in Gearhart. His
right
to
give
it to them. … The
brother pulled to the side of
most
frustrating
thing for me
the road and the teen jumped
is
that
he
feels
no
remorse.
out and began running down
He
does
not
care
that
it hap-
the highway.
pened.
He
can’t
even
say,
‘I’m
He was struck by a pickup
so
sorry.’
Nothing.”
and died at the scene.
Reinsch did not respond to
“The last 10 months have
a
request
to comment for this
been horrible,” said his moth-
article.
er, Kristina Secord. “He was a
He is on probation for a
huge part of my family.”
2015
first-degree burglary
A freshman, Trevor played
conviction,
a Class A felony
baseball and football and
See ‘Trial’ on Page 6