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August 11, 2017 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com • 3A Cannon Beach National Night Out breaks record More than 150 attendees at event aimed to connect police and people COLIN MURPHEY/EO MEDIA GROUP Russell Wayne Deviney, center, was sentenced in Clatsop County Circuit Court for the 2015 abduction and sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl from California he met online. Deviney gets 30 years for rape, sodomy By Brenna Visser Cannon Beach Gazette In a record-breaking year, more than 150 people par- ticipated in Cannon Beach’s 4th annual National Night Out event Tuesday, Aug. 1. National Night Out is a countrywide event intended to build better relationships between law enforcement and the communities they serve. In Cannon Beach, connecting with the commu- nity took shape in the form of a BBQ, firefighter relays and a raffle. “It’s a great way to meet a lot of citizens we don’t see on a regular basis, and it’s a good way for people to ask us questions they would oth- erwise feel uncomfortable asking,” Cannon Beach Po- lice Chief Jason Schermer- horn said. He said in past years, most of those questions usu- ally are about how to report noise complaints, threats one might see to an empty vaca- tion house, or pets stuck in vehicles during a hot sum- mer day. “Answering these types Abducted the girl in California By Jack Heffernan EO Media Group COLIN MURPHEY/EO MEDIA GROUP A Washington state man was sentenced to more than 30 years in prison Wednesday for raping a California girl in 2015 and leaving her in a car in Astoria. Russell Wayne Deviney, 50, of Everett, Washington, pleaded guilty last week to first-degree rape, first-degree unlawful sexual penetration, first-degree sodomy and using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct. He originally was also charged with first-de- gree kidnapping, three counts of first-degree sexual abuse and second counts of the four charges for which he plead- ed guilty before eventually reaching a deal with the Clat- sop County District Attorney’s Office. Authorities say Devin- ey abducted the 15-year-old girl in Sanger, California, in May 2015 after posing as an 18-year-old man on Instagram. After fighting with her mother one night, the girl allegedly left her house and entered a 2004 Nissan pickup driven by Deviney, who had encouraged her to do so through the social media app. “I suffered and was tor- tured mentally,” the girl said in a statement read today Luke Forsberg, right, takes a shot at working a firehose with assistance from members of the Cannon Beach Fire Department as part of the fourth annual National Night Out event. The event in Cannon Beach drew approximately 150 participants and is part of a nationwide effort to foster better relationships between law enforcement and the com- munities they serve. of questions adds more eyes and ears for us in the com- munity,” he said. A new aspect of the event was representation from volunteer groups like the Medical Reserve Corps and Community Emergency Re- sponse Team. Representa- tives from both groups had tables with information in the hopes of recruiting more volunteers. Mick French, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthe- tists, joined MRC a year and a half ago after being asked by the coordinator, he said. “Being on MRC means being available in a medical crisis — fire, tsunami, tor- nado, all that. It’s all about helping people who can’t help themselves,” French said. Currently there are 22 members, but MRC member Susan Oxley said they can “never be big enough.” While events like tsuna- mis and fires aren’t common, having a healthy member- ship is advantageous in oth- er ways. Oxley said MRC members have been called on to work five, 12-hour days the weekend the solar eclipse is scheduled to happen. Because of the expect- ed surge of eclipse tourism, rural counties like Marion and Wheeler look to groups like MRC to help mitigate the spike in medical service demands counties this small usually don’t see. “We are trying to spread the word to recruit medical- ly trained people. The more hands the better,” French said. Power outage hits Cannon Beach and nearby areas EO Media Group A power outage hit War- renton, Seaside and Cannon Beach Tuesday night as a re- sult of a pole fire near a substa- tion in Seaside on Roosevelt Drive behind the outlet mall. BRANDY STEWART Pacific Power received Pacific Power substation in reports of the outage around Seaside, where a transform- 10 p.m. Warrenton returned er failure led to an outage to power shortly before 11:30 p.m. Cannon Beach returned Tuesday, Aug. 8. to power at 11:37 p.m. Seaside was the last to re- turn to power at about 12:40 a.m.. “There’s no obvious cause,” Tom Gauntt, a Pacific Power spokesman, said. “It doesn’t look like anyone had a bonfire down there.” He said birds or a chemical reaction after rain may have caused the substation breaker to fail. “It’s the same idea as the breaker box in your garage.” The pole was badly dam- aged. Crews were “able to work around it and isolated it using different circuits,” Gauntt said. Gauntt said 15,324 custom- ers were without power after the outage. Active Members of PUBLIC MEETINGS Tuesday, Aug. 15 City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. Cannon Beach Public Works Committee, 9 a.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. Tuesday, Sept. 19 Thursday, Aug. 17 Cannon Beach Parks and Commu- nity Services Committee, 9 a.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. Cannon Beach Design Review Board, 6 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. Thursday, Aug. 24 Cannon Beach Public Works Committee, 9 a.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. Thursday, Sept. 21 Cannon Beach Parks and Commu- nity Services Committee, 9 a.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. Cannon Beach Design Review Board, 6 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. p.m., work session, City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. Cannon Beach Public Works Committee, 9 a.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. Thursday, Oct. 19 Cannon Beach Parks and Commu- nity Services Committee, 9 a.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. Cannon Beach Design Review Board Meeting Thursday, Sept. 28 6 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. Friday, Aug. 25 Cannon Beach Planning Commis- sion, 6 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. Thursday, Oct. 26 Tuesday, Oct. 3 Cannon Beach Planning Commis- sion, 6 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. Cannon Beach City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. Friday, Oct. 27 Tuesday, Sept. 12 Cannon Beach City Council, 7 p.m., regular meeting and work session, Tuesday, Oct. 10 Cannon Beach City Council, 7 What is RMLS? As the Northwest’s largest REALTOR®-owned Multiple Listing Service(MLS), RMLS serves approximately 10,000 Real Estate Professionals in over 2,200 offi ces licensed in Oregon and Washington. Tuesday, Oct. 17 Cannon Beach Planning Commis- sion, 6 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. Cannon Beach Emergency Pre- paredness Committee, 9 a.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St. in court by Clastop County Deputy District Attorney Ron Brown. “No child should have to consider the question, ‘How do I kill this guy so I can go free?’” Deviney, authorities say, drove north without letting the girl leave the car. He raped her at a rest stop somewhere in Oregon and took pictures of her performing sex acts. He then parked at McDonald’s in Astoria, which police said was not his final intended destina- tion, and left the girl behind and fled. Police arrested him south of Cannon Beach later that week. The plea agreement includ- ed a presumed sentence rang- ing from more than eight years to more than 33 years in prison — or exactly 400 months. Following statements by Brown, the girl, her mother and Sanger Police Detective Romero Garcia, Circuit Court Judge Dawn McIntosh’s in- tentions were clear. “I just really want to say how sorry I am,” Deviney said. “I am a father and I do understand this situation was a bad situation. 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