14A • May 15, 2015 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com
Fund set up to help local family recover from theft
The Campuzanos had
about $30,000 worth of
items stolen earlier this
year
By Erick Bengel
Cannon Beach Gazette
To help a local family
recover from a recent theft
that set them back about
$30,000, a Cannon Beach
couple, Rex and Diane
Amos, have created The
Campuzano Family Fund.
Donations can be made at
any Columbia Bank branch
on the coast from Astoria to
Tillamook.
Down in Delano
Carmen and Victor Cam-
puzano, of Seaside, are still
grappling, emotionally and
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math of an incident that
occurred in early January
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and other family members
embarked on their annual
road trip to visit relatives in
Mexico.
At 3:31 a.m. on Jan. 4,
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inn in Delano, Calif., some-
one stole the couples’ 2003
Chevrolet Tahoe and the at-
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ing to the police investigator
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curity camera footage.
The culprit drove off and
looted the vehicles, taking
all of the family’s personal
belongings and gifts they
had collected during the
previous year to bring their
relatives south of the border.
Police managed to re-
cover the trailer, found
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and a plasma TV the Cam-
puzanos had purchased for
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& Grill, she as a server,
he as a busser. Both U.S.
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for Sleepy Monk Coffee
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ance is going to cover.
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But, on the positive
side of the ledger, the
family reunion finally
happened in Pátzcuaro,
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received “lots of hugs
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said.
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gifts for them, try to help
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no, Carmen Campuzano and Victor Campuzano.
This time, instead of
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Bixler, Calif., put them out
mated $4,000 in uncounted
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to return to Cannon Beach
identify the vehicle until
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mid-February.
ing his mother the money
to be delayed.
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As she told this part of
15-year-old Paola Campu- dered, the family reached the story, Carmen began
zano, Carmen and Victor’s out to loved ones and close to cry, suddenly overcome
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Paola had taken the trip — others’ spirits. “I tried to be said. “That helps to take it
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za Villa, and brother, Hector
Copies distributed throughout the year to north coast hotels, motels, chambers of commerce, visitors
Tobar; Carmen and Victor’s lice report, the family split
bureaus, campgrounds, restaurants and stores and inserted in The Daily Astorian & Chinook Observer
son, Julio Campuzano, of up. Some drove to Laredo, Uncertainty
Co n ta ct yo ur a d ver t isin g sa les co n sulta n t fo r m o re in fo rm a tio n :
Carmen and Victor,
Cannon Beach; their daugh- Texas, to register a truck in
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