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Wishing upon a wiener
The famous Oscar Mayer Wienermobile put smiles on people’s faces during a visit to Lincoln City on Sunday, Aug. 26. The sausage-shaped automobile, which has helped promote the company’s products for 76 years, stopped at Price ‘N Pride as part of a coastal tour that also took in Florence and Newport. See Page A3
Slow-brewed coffee Dutch Bros. is still planning to set up shop in Lincoln City despite a delay in the development of the N.W. 6th Avenue site
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INSERTS Chinook Winds; Rite Aid; Life Line Screening; Sears; Mills Ace Hardware; Safeway; Grocery Outlet; Roby’s Furniture; Walgreens
WEATHER GUIDE PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS High Low Prec.
Tues., Aug. 21 Wed., Aug. 22 Thurs., Aug. 23 Fri., Aug. 24 Sat., Aug. 25 Sun., Aug. 26 Mon., Aug. 27
66 66 64 65 61 62 65
0 53 55 0 54 0 51 0 48 0 48 0.2 52 0
Weekly Rainfall: 0.2 inches Yearly Rainfall: 56.17 inches
WEEKLY OUTLOOK It looks like the threat of showers will arrive on Wednesday. That clears the way for the weather to improve. With luck, Labor Day weekend should have close to perfect beach weather. Weather data provided by Roads End Weather Watcher Sheridan Jones
AUGUST 29, 2012 | WEDNESDAY
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LINCOLN CITY, OREGON
THE GREATEST GIFT
Deputy settles dismissal lawsuit
How the birth of a premature baby breathes life into one Lincoln City couple
JIM FOSSUM The News Guard
PATRICK ALEXANDER The News Guard
“We
had a call, a possible Code 99,” Lt. Dennis Knudson of North Lincoln Fire & Rescue District No. 1 said. “Cardiac arrest, newborn.” With that, the improbable tale of the premature birth of a son to Mary Chadwick, 21, and Gus Dummer, 27, of Lincoln City began. Continued, actually, because the circumstances surrounding the conception, birth and survival of 1-pound, 3-ounce Caden W. Dummer on May 3, 2012, barely four months into pregnancy, are about as startling as his arrival. Knudson said it was the most incredible premature birth he and Battalion Chief Doug Strange had encountered in a combined 65 years of service as first responders to emergency situations. “We went upstairs and found the mother in the bathtub with the baby delivered,” Knudson said. “He was a very, very small baby, but was moving a little bit and struggling to breathe, so we had something to work with.” As paramedics with more than 30 years experience apiece, Knudson and Strange knew immediately what they were in for. At just 24 weeks, Chadwick was barely over halfway through a regular, 40-week pregnancy. Bloody water filled the bathtub. Little Caden, speckled red and dripping wet, sat on Mary’s stomach. By the time the veteran rescuers arrived, father Gus, who missed the delivery while running an errand, was already there. So — to their amazement — was the baby. “Between the two of us, because of our experience, while other people might have been running around like chickens with their heads cut off, we were doing pretty good with each other around,” Knudson said. The paramedics struggled to clamp the unusually short umbilical cord so that Knudson could start resuscitation on the baby while Strange attended to the mother. After gathering the equipment they needed, they got the cord clamped and cut and Knudson took the baby in a towel to an ambulance while maintaining care of the child all the way to the Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital. Strange See GIFT, Page A2
A former Lincoln County sheriff’s deputy has dropped a lawsuit claiming wrongful arrest, defamation and wrongful termination after receiving a settlement of $50,000 from Lincoln and Polk counties. Colin Teem had initially sought damages of $1.6 million in relation to his arrest on suspicion of theft and subsequent dismissal from his post as a patrol deputy. Teem’s local attorney Stephen Lovejoy said his client, who now works in insurance, is trying to look forward rather than backward. “He’s embittered by it I’m sure because of the way he was treated,” Lovejoy said “He didn’t do anything wrong for God’s sakes. To be labeled a thief and all the stuff he had to go through — and losing his position with the sheriff’s office.” See LAWSUIT, Page A8
Wyden makes senior pledge PATRICK ALEXANDER The News Guard
North Lincoln County seniors have heard a pledge from U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden that he will fight to preserve federal funding for community care programs during the budget showdown that is expected to follow the general election. Wyden said federal legislators are preparing for tough choices as the nation approaches the “fiscal cliff” — a combination of tax increases and spending cuts that will come into effect automatically at the end of the year unless Congress can come up with another plan of action. Addressing a Lincoln City Senior Center audience alongside Oregon House Co-Speaker Arnie Roblan, Wyden said helping older people stay in their homes for as long as possible is the moral thing to do as well as being cheaper than institutional care. “Everyone just always talks about budget cuts,” he said. “Why don’t we start talking about how we can get more value for the same amount of dollars?” The “fiscal cliff” awaiting the U.S. is a combination of the expiration of the tax cuts enacted during the George W. Bush administration and the imposition of deep, across the board
COURTESY PHOTO
Mary Chadwick gives her newborn baby, Caden, a kiss after his birth in her upstairs bathtub just 24 weeks into pregnancy on May 3. The baby was born at 1 pound, 3 ounces.
Memorial fund opened for former Lincoln City student PATRICK ALEXANDER The News Guard
ing a dangerous weapon while under the influence of alcohol. He is scheduled to apThe mother of former pear for a preliminary hearLincoln City student A’Lisa ing on Oct. 16. Joy Weston has set up a meWeston, who was born in morial fund for her daughSalt Lake City, was buried in ter, who was shot and killed the Emery City Cemetery on in Utah on July 28. Aug. 4. According to reports in Weston’s mother, Melissa the Deseret News, Weston, Weston, said the family lived 22, died from a single in Otis from 2001 to 2008 gunshot in the home of an and that A’Lisa went to acquaintance named Randy school in Lincoln City and Behling in Ferron, Utah. Newport. The newspaper reports Anyone wanting to help that Behling called 911 to the family with legal and fureport that Weston had shot neral costs can donate to the herself in the chest with his A’Lisa Joy Weston memorial .40 caliber pistol. fund at any branch of Wells But investigators from Emery County District Attor- Fargo Bank. For full coverage of the inciney’s Office believe Behling dent, go to deseretnews.com. fired the shot and have COURTESY PHOTO ForWeston’s obituary, go to charged the 33-year-old Former Lincoln City student A’Lisa Joy Weston was shot and with manslaughter, reckless L10389 Power Ford 6x2 082212:Layout 1 8/20/12 3:57 thenewsguard.com. PM Page 1 endangerment and carrykilled in Utah on July 28.
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