On the Record A2 ALBANY (OR.) DEMOCRAT-HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPT, 23, 1998 CALENDAR Son convicted of attempted murder i awr-. ftl I if -J i the scissors, sat on his mother and started stabbing again. "He had me down and was trying to smother me," she said. "I remember blood running into my ear and I couldn't hear very well. He said if I just stopped struggling so hard, he'd get it done faster." The boy told Mainord he was killing her because his pregnant girlfriend's mother had kicked the girl, "she'd lost the baby and I had to pay." Albany Police Officer Dan Kloss testified that Mainord came to the door when he rang the bell, covered with blood, holding the scissors.
As she staggered to the driveway, she said, "My son is trying to kill me." Officer Eric Carter and Kloss found Lawrence barricaded in his bedroom, on the phone to his girlfriend, his wrists cut and bleeding. Carter said Lawrence was "very matter-of-fact" when he said he had stabbed his mother "at least 10 times." "I asked him why he did this," Carter said. "H6 said, 'I don't like the He made reference to just wanting to get the hell out. I asked had they been arguing. He said no.
Had she done anything to provoke him? I just got a mumbled response. He said his intentions were to kill his mother. He said it on more than one occasion." Mainord was hospitalized for six days and has lost some of the use of both hands because of the injuries. No witnesses testified for the defense. A jury of eight women and four men deliberated just over an hour to convict Lawrence of two counts of at- 1 I 1- BRIAN BUBAKDamocratH.rald Cory Porter gives Fran Campbell of Sweet Home a massage during the Parade of Trade.
Chamber's Parade of Trade gets rubbed the right way BY BRIAN BUBAK Albany Democrat-Herald y-- suspended chair massage. Porter gave 15-minute massages Tuesday. She felt the time and effort was a good investment in the future of her one-year-old company. "I thought it was well worth it," she said. "I was really impressed." Porter's fledgling business is growing steadily, she noted.
While still building a customer base, she expects Morningstar to become a viable full-time enterprise within a year. Porter runs her business out of the Miracles Hair Salon at 1981 Fescue St. in Albany, but also takes her chair and her hands on the road to do massages on location. She said she travels to local businesses to do relaxation message and to people's homes to do therapeutic message for the sick and injured. She can be reached at 928-5799.
Tuesday's Parade of Trade attracted 74 vendors and about 1,000 visitors. The last thing most visitors expected to get at the Albany Area Chamber of Commerce's Parade of Trade Tuesday was a massage. But that's just what they went away with if they stopped at Cory Porter's booth. Porter is owner and sole practitioner of Morn-ingstar Massage, an Albany company that specializes in Swedish massage. Porter, a licensed massage therapist, was giving free samples at the Parade of Trade, the Chamber's annual showcase of local businesses held at the Linn County Fair and Expo Center.
The show was sponsored by Northwest Natural. Porter's space, nestled near the main entrance among booths touting things like cellular phones, accounting firms and employment services, stood out as one of the more unusual displays. Porter often had a waiting line as people dropped in for a free Former Benton reserve BY MARILYN MONTGOMERY Albany Democrat-Herald Events TONIGHT 408 public bingo 6:30 p.m., Lebanon American Legion Hall on Second Street. Proceeds and children's and service programs. THURSDAY American Legion Bingo 6:30 p.m.
Public invited. American Legion Hall, 1215 Pacific S.E. Duplicate Bridge Club 11 a.m., American Legion Hall, 1215 Pacific Blvd. S.E.; public welcome. Lunch available, $3.
Info: 928 9067. Lebanon Book Buddies 11 a.m., Lebanon Library, 626 Second St. "Now I Know My ABCs." Opera lecture, preview 7:30 p.m., Walker Recital Hall, Benton Hall, OSU campus, Corvallis. "Rigoletto." Storytime with puppet enow 10:30 a.m., Main library, 1390 Waverly Drive S.E., Albany. Public Meetings TONIGHT Albany Council 7:15 p.m., 333 Broanalbin S.W., Albany.
Benton Commitaion 7-9 p.m. public hearing on urban growth boundary, Benton Plaza, 408 S.W. Monroe, meeting room. Lebanon Council 7:30 p.m., 485 S. Fifth Ave.
THURSDAY Albany School Board 7 p.m., 718 Seventh Ave. S.W. Juvenile Crime Plan 8-10 a.m. presentation of plan concepts, Albany Schools office, 718 Seventh Ave. S.W.
Organizations TONIGHT Albany Jayceet 7:30 p.m., Jaycee Hall, Timber-Linn Memorial Park. Mid-Valley Singles 6:30 p.m., dinner at Wyatt's, 21 1 First Ave. Albany. THURSDAY Albany Kiwanit Club noon, Mann's Buffet, Southwest Pacific Boulevard. Albany Women's Golf Club 9 a.m., Golf Club of Oregon, Spring Hill Drive.
Business Network 7 to 8:30 a.m., a business leads group, Spring Hill Country Club, Albany. Visitors welcome. Chess Club 6:30 p.m., Whitespires Berean Church, 510 Fifth Ave. S.W. Info: B.H.
Christensen, 926-9410. Corvallis Rotary noon, O'Calla-han's at the Ramada Inn, 1550 N.W. Ninth St. Job's Daughters 7:30 p.m., Masonic Hall, 738 Fifth Ave. S.E., Albany.
Lebanon Community Chorus 7:30 p.m. rehearsal, Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, 3111 S. Main Road. Info: 258-2742. Lebanon IOOF 8 p.m., 20 E.
Ash St. Valley Viewfinders 7 p.m., Albany Main Library, 1390 Waverly Drive S.E. Senior Centers THURSDAY Albany, 489 Water Ave. N.W. Calligraphy class, 9 a.m.; Quilters, 9 a.m.; History of Germany, 10 a.m.; Lunch program, 11:30 a.m.; Creative writing, 1 p.m.; Lite aerobics, 5:15 p.m.; Beginning French 6 p.m.; Creative watercolor, 6:30 p.m.; Alzheimer's Support Group, 6:30 p.m.
Lebanon, 585 Park St. Lunch program, 11:30 a.m. Sweet Home. 1214 Long St. Foot care by appointment, 9 a.m.
-4 p.m.; Woodcarvers, 10 a.m.; Senior Singer, 1-3 p.m.; Dinner with Daisy, 4:30 6 p.m. Yih re-election reception to be held A fund raising reception for State Senator Mae Yih's re-election campaign will be from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight, Sept. 23, at Spring Hill Country Club in North Albany. Three of Yin's key supporters in the agricultural community are hosting the party.
They are Bill KieweT of National Frozen Foods Paulette Pyle of Oregonians for Feed and Shelter, and Brian Glaser of the Linn County Farm Bureau. Yih has represented State Senate District 19, Including most of Linn County and the northeast portion of Benton County, since 1983. ALMANAC River levels Willamette at Albany Santiam at Jefferson 3.4 ft. 3.7 ft. Newport tides Thursday High 3 10 am.
7 3 ft. 3.07 pm. 7.9 Low 8 55 a.m. 2 0 ft. 9 29 p.m.
08 ft. CORRECTIONS The Democrat-Herald strives for accuracy. It is the paper's policy to correct errors as quickly as possible. If you spot an error, please call the city desk, (541) 812-6111 (from Harrisburg, 995-6217, Ext. 2111).
GAS STATION: The name of the Harrisburg gas station closing because of the underground fuel storage tank law is Winningham-Mor-gan Inc. It is owned by Jim Win-ningham and Fred Morgan. The name and ownership were incomplete in a story Monday. LOTTERIES Washington Dairy Game Tuesday's winning numbers: 6-7-2. MAMEPLATE PHOTO, Page A 1: The Shimanek Bridge east ofScio is one of seven remaining covered bridges in linn County.
BY MARILYN MONTGOMERY Albany Democrat-Herald A lfr-vear-old Albany boy who stabbed his mother 13 times with a butterfly knife and a pair of barber's scissors was convicted Tuesday of attempted murder and assault. John Anthony Lawrence was 15 on Aug. 25, 1997, when he attacked his mother, Donna Marie Mainord, at the duplex where they lived on Tudor Way Southeast. The case went to trial this week in Linn County Circuit Court. Mainord testified that she had had a good relationship with her son until about 10 months before the attack, when he had heard from his father for the first time since he was 2 years old.
Her son had wanted to drop out of school, had been stealing her car at night, and had become verbally abusive, she said. The two had been seeing a family counselor, and she had agreed to sign papers emancipating Lawrence when he turned 16, she said. The day of the attack had started out better than most, she testified. She had taken Lawrence to pick up his paycheck from a part-time job at a restaurant, he had opened a bank account and done some shopping. Mainord was walking down the hallway of the duplex to her bedroom after dinner that night when Lawrence, behind her, stabbed her near the spine at the base of her neck.
"I reached back and felt his hand and felt the knife," she said. "He was still trying to push down." The boy, 6-foot-l, weighing 220 pounds, pulled the knife out, then shoved his mother in the back, into the bathroom, came in after her, closed the door and continued to stab her, in the face, the hand, the ab- domen. "I thought, my gosh, what is he doing?" she said. "My gosh, he's hurting me. Oh my god, he's going to kUl me!" With only a few fingers on one hand still unhurt, Mainord eventually got the knife away from her son and threw it to the floor.
He grabbed her head and twisted it while hitting her with his fists. She fell, slipping in a pool of blood that was so deep it sloshed against the toekick under the sink, she said. Her son began rummaging through drawers in the vanity, found Corvallis couple dies near Clear Lake cutoff A Corvallis couple died Monday afternoon in a traffic accident near Clear Lake. Oregon State Police reported that Ronald R. Guerber, 42, and Patricia A.
Guerber, 44, were killed when their 1998 Chevrolet Suburban was crushed by a loaded commercial truck and trailer that tipped over while going in the opposite direction. The accident occurred at about 4:30 p.m. on Highway 126E, the Clear Lake cutoff, about nine miles north of the junction with Highway 242. The Guerbers were headed west. The truck, a 1993 Kenworth towing a trailer loaded with plastic water main pipe, was eastbound.
An OSP press release said the truck crossed over the center line and tipped over on top of the Suburban. The Guerbers were pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the truck Gregory Alan Cutler, 35, of Kennewick, Wash. was not injured. The truck was leased to Trucking out of Sunnyside, Wash.
The OSP Springfield Patrol Office is continuing the investigation. Don Hamblin said he's known Ron Guerber for about 20 years. He said Guerber owned United Seed Company, located on Oregon Highway 99W south of Corvallis. "I don't think there's a nicer guy in the world," he said. He described Guerber as someone who loved to hunt, fish and shoot sporting clay pigeons.
"He also liked to play a lot of practical jokes," he said. Another longtime friend of Ron Guerber described him as an avid outdoorsman. Guerber competed regionally in shooting competitions, said Stan Steele, who's known Guerber since 1974. He also described Guerber as always ready to help. Guerber was a Corvallis High School graduate and played football for the Spartans.
Patricia Guerber was originally from Albany. They were married about 10 years. The funeral arrangements are being handled by McHenry Funeral Home. nel conducted a routine check into the youth's background when he applied to be a reserve but found nothing unusual, Chilcote said. The youth was suspended on Sept.
1, the day the victim's mother contacted Chilcote. He was interviewed by Benton detectives and arrested on The case was then referred to the Lane County District Attorney's office to avoid conflicts of interest, Chilcote said. The victim, now 9, testified before the grand jury on Sept. 15. Williams was arrested a second time on two counts each of first-degree sodomy and first-degree sexual abuse.
Williams was released from jail after his initial court appearances last week. Further proceedings are scheduled in October. The Lane DA is continuing to investigate, aided by Benton detectives. Anyone with information about other victims is encouraged to contact the Benton County Sheriff's Office at 757-6858. CORVALLIS A former reserve Benton County sheriff's deputy has been suspended from duty following grand jury indictments from thealleged sexual "abuse of a 3-year-old girl for whom his aunt provided day care six years ago.
The Benton County Sheriff's Office is seeking other possible victims, Detective Lt. John Chilcote said Tuesday. Willie Joseph Williams, 21, of Corvallis, was living with his uncle and aunt, his legal guardians, when the abuse allegedly occurred, Chilcote said. The victim's mother contacted Chilcote in August when she learned that Williams had joined the sheriff's reserve program. The youth had a natural interest in law enforcement, Chilcote said, because his uncle and guardian, Jeff Williams, is a Corvallis police officer.
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Memberships Associated Press The Associated Press entitled exduswery to lh use lor republication of Ml the loctl news printed 01 Dvs newspaper 4 AuoK Bureau of Circulations Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Pacific Northwest Newspaper Association Newspaper Association of America Copyright Entire contents Copyright 1996 by the Albany Democrat Herald Vote Smart D-H and Gazette-Time CORVALLIS The Benton County Planning Commission on Tuesday approved Project Vote Smart's plans to build a community center northwest of Philomath near Wren. The commission's 5-3 vote came after about three hours of testimony and a consensus among commissioners that the building would qualify as a community center, said county planner Jim Minard. Project Vote Smart, a nationally-known political watchdog group, owns the 42-acre site where the community center is proposed. The group views a new community center as the key to being able to stay in Oregon. POLICE AND FIRE The center will harbor research and library facilities and become jthe place where student interns from across the country would come to help the group track thousands of candidates on issues and voting records.
But the construction plans drew opposition from the county's planning staff and a Wren citizen's group. The county's planning staff recommended the commission reject the plan mainly because the land it would be built on is zoned for farming. The community center also faced opposition from the Wren Citizen Advisory Committee, The committee decided the community center doesn't fit the community's vision for Wren, which includes main Injury Accidents ALBANY POLICE 4:26 p.m. Monday Two-vehicle collision, Seventh Avenue at Calapooia St. Southwest.
Driver: Tiffany Starr Baca, 18, Albany. Driven Reba Fay Stutzman, 21, with passenger Morgan Stutzman, 10 months, both of Albany. Morgan Stutzman checked for bruised forehead. 4:40 p.m. Monday Three vehicle collision, 34th Avenue at Pacific Boulevard Southwest.
Driver Travis Dean Stewart, 18, Albany. Driven Jorge Lopez Fernandez, 52, Albany. Driver Brian Allen Middelstadt, 29, with passengers Kathy Rae Middelstadt, 29, rand Morgan Nicole Middelstadt 2re)l of Al bany. Fernandez taken to Albany General Hospital for treatment of injuries. Burglaries, Thefts (Of more than $750) ALBANY POLICE Sony videocassette recorder, Sony computer equipment.
Sharp video camera reported stolen Monday from Rent-A-Cen-ter, 1903 Pacific Blvd. S.E. Value: $894. Arrests, Referrals ALBANY POLICE Trade Jeanne Sumpter, 28, Albany, taining farming and forestry as the primary land uses in the area. A new community center will allow the group to attract student interns from across the country and make up for a limited pool of liberal arts students at Oregon State University.
If the proposed community center had failed to win approval, Project Vote Smart may have had to move its base of operations somewhere else. Project Vote Smart tried to build a research building at the same site about two years ago. At that time, the nonprofit included student housing in the design of the building. Some neighbors opposed the application, and Project Vote Smart eventually dropped the proposal. Tuesday.
Charge: stalking. Released from custody; cited to appear in Linn County Circuit Court Oct. 14. Brent Robert Brummett, 32, Albany, Tuesday. Charge: failure to appear.
Lodged in Linn County Jail. LINN COUNTY SHERIFF Lucas Ryan McPherson, 19, Eugene, Tuesday. Charges: manufacture and possession of marijuana. Lodged in Linn County Jail. LEBANON POLICE Gregory Paul Jimmerson, 37, Albany, Tuesday.
Charges: driving with a revoked license, driving under the influence of intoxicants. Cited and released. LINN PAROLE PROBATION Richard Frank Rodriguez, 27, Corvallis, Tuesday. Charge: parole violation, Lodged in Linn County Jail. BENTON COUNTY SHERIFF Randy Edward Drake, 33, Corvallis, Tuesday.
Charges: failure to appear, parole violation. Lodged in Linn County Jail. James Mitchell Holland, 45, Corvallis, Tuesday. Charge: bigamy. Cited to appear in Benton County Circuit Court Oct.
22. Adam Ainsworth Miles, 32, Corvallis, Sunday. Charge: possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine). Booked and released. Reports DAD'S WRECK: Three Albany children riding the school bus home Tuesday afternoon watched their father drive through a chainlink fence as he followed the bus on Century Drive, according to Oregon State Police.
Witnesses told state police the man had been driving back and forth across both lanes of Century Drive, and had almost collided head-on with a dump truck before going off the road. Senior Trooper LeRoy Gibson said the driver "was obviously under the influence of something" when he contactedjiim at accident scene. Police searched the man and his pickup and found two syringes one empty, one full in his socks as well as a cotton ball and a small spoon that was tested for drugs and found to hold residue of methamphetamine. The man's children told their mother about the wreck when they got off the bus and she went to the scene, Gibson said. She told police her husband usually uses heroin but is trying to break the habit.
The man was arrested for driving under the influence of intoxicants..
