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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
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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
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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. This situation
escalated into something I had
never intended.”
But McIntosh found the
rest of his statement to be too
centered on self pity rather
than remorse for the victim.
“I’m not going to lecture
you because, frankly, I don’t
think it will make much of a
difference,” McIntosh said.
Cannon Beach Emergency Prepared-
ness Committee, 9 a.m., City Hall, 163
E. Gower St.
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