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April 3, 2020

Local stores coping as they can Kathleen Stinson

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he effect of Oregon Gov. Kate Brown’s recent emergency declaration on businesses in Cannon Beach varies from restaurants that remain open for take-out orders and delivery, to outright (albeit temporary) closures.

The city’s order to temporarily close the town to visitors also has had an effect on businesses here from hotels to restaurants to bars to retail stores.

After all, Cannon Beach’s main industry is tourism.

Chip MacGregor, owner of MacGregor’s at Cannon Beach and MacGregor’s Whiskey Bar, told The Gazette earlier this week that he temporarily closed both of his bars as a result of the state’s restrictions.

“It’s a hard time when the government tells you (to shut down) and you can’t make any money,” said MacGregor. “That makes it difficult.”

He added, “I had to lay 10 people off, 10 people who work for me.”

MacGregor said 60% to 70% of his product sales is alcohol, so remaining open simply for take-out food orders is not a practical

option.

“From talking to restaurants around here, most say they are doing about 10% of their (normal) business,” compared to full on-site dining, he said.

“We certainly would appreciate anything the government decides to do to try and help us out. This is more than about me paying the rent,” he said. “My closing is putting …people out of a job. That’s my concern.

That’s really the difficulty here.

“I think the city and chamber of commerce have

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A lone jogger practices social distancing while running the empty streets of Cannon Beach on a Monday morning. Gazette photo by Hilary Dorsey.

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Financial help for struggling CB businesses Kathleen Stinson

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(Top) A baker is up early at Sea Level Bakery + Coffee in Cannon Beach, making bread as the business moves to take-out.

Photo courtesy Nicole Mason. (Right) Coffee drinks can still be ordered as a carry-out item. Photo courtesy Jen Yin.

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usinesses continue to serve Cannon Beach, Manzanita and surrounding areas during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sea Level Bakery + Coffee and Clark Miller Therapy are just two of them, having adjusted their services to fit the current health crisis.

On March 19, Cannon Beach’s Sea Level Bakery + Coffee made the decision to temporarily close for regular service. Co-owner Jason Menke said he needed to take a step back and evaluate the best course of action for the staff, community and business.

“We love sharing our space with the

community and pride ourselves on doing our best to minimize the use of disposables,” Menke said. “The thought of going to carry-out was, and continues to be, tough to stomach.”

Menke said he began imagining what it might look like to open the doors again in a takeout-only format. He brainstormed with the team about ways to keep the staff and the community safe.

“Friends in our community offered to help,” Menke said. “Cannon Beach local Micah Davis offered to dig in and set up our online ordering system, a key component in our ability to minimize touchpoints.”

Davis, who runs e-commerce for

Danner Footwear, updated the entire website, which had not received much tuning since it was created in 2014, Menke said.

Cannon Beach local Jen Yih added fresh photos to the site. “Jen’s a multi-talented freelance marketer, who happens to have a passion for food/ beverage photography,” Menke said.

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ue to Oregon Gov. Kate Brown’s declaration of an emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a variety of businesses in Cannon Beach and statewide have had to close temporarily or limit the extent of their business.

Oregon restaurants are closed to onsite dining. Other businesses, such as bars, have had to close entirely, because their profits from the sale of food by delivery or take-out are not sufficient to allow them to stay open. (See related story.)

In an effort to provide financial assistance to such businesses, the U.S. Small Business Administration is taking applications to provide economic injury disaster-assistance loans.

Kevin Leahy, executive director of Clatsop Economic Development Resources (CEDR) and the Clatsop Community College Small Business Development Center, told The Gazette this week that the SBA has disaster loans available for businesses that have had to close temporarily, as well as for other businesses that are experiencing economic hardship as a result of the health crisis.

“The application process has been streamlined and the application is on the SBA website,” Leahy said.

Whether the loans will have to be repaid will vary depending on the applicant, he said.

Other resources, such as the new federal Paycheck Protection Program, will help companies retain their employees during the current economic downtown, he said.

For more information, go to bizcenter.org.

In addition, the Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce has information on its website about the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The chamber has put out a small-business emergency loans guide.

And the SBA.gov website describes an Economic Injury Disaster Advance Loan. “This advance will provide economic relief to businesses that are currently experiencing a temporary loss of revenue,” the website states. “Funds will be made available within three days of a successful application.”

“The U.S. Small Business Administration is offering designated states and territories low-interest federal disaster loans for working capital to small businesses suffering substantial economic injury as a result of the Coronavirus (COVID-19),” the website states.

“Upon a request received from a state’s or territory’s Governor, the SBA will issue under its own authority, as provided by the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act that was recently signed by the President, an Economic Injury Disaster Loan declaration.

“These loans may be used to pay fixed debts, payroll, accounts payable and other bills that can’t be paid because of the disaster’s impact. The interest rate is 3.75% for small businesses.

The interest rate for non-profits is 2.75%.

“The SBA offers loans with long-term repayments in order to keep payments affordable, up to a maximum of 30 years. Terms are determined on a case-by-case basis, based upon each borrower’s ability to repay.”

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Clark Miller Therapy is operating via video/audio connections from a distance.

Photo by Hillary Dorsey.

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than ever to be serving our community.”

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Clark Miller Therapy Clark Miller, a licensed clinical social worker at Manzanita’s Clark Miller Therapy, has implemented telehealth sessions for his clients. It involves interacting with a client over a video/audio connection from a distance, as with Skype, FaceTime and Zoom, for example.

“Like many other behavioral health providers, I’ve started using telehealth to provide sone level of supportive counseling and assistance through the crisis for individuals who are at elevated risk of contracting or spreading the virus,” Miller said.

“It’s easy to use from the patient’s home, and insurance payers are adjusting to cover the session as they would face-to-face sessions.”

If clients want to access a telehealth session, Miller said, he can be messaged through the portal or retrieve a voicemail at 971-3240061.

He added that if clients are not having symptoms indicating risk of infection, have not traveled out of the area, have not been exposed and are without other risk

“She was also in a Honda Super Bowl commercial.”

Aided by Cannon Beach’s newly found sleepiness caused by the temporary ban on short-term rentals, Menke said they felt cautiously optimistic about giving the new system a trial run.

Changes to internal operations included no public access to the building, order fulfillment via curbside pickup or at the door with greater than six feet of distance from staff members, reduced hours to limit the number of employees working at any given time, increased handwashing, and increased cleaning and sanitizing.

Customers can order ahead for curbside pickup through sealevelbakery.com/ order, order cashless at the front door with one at a time using the ramp, or call 503436-4254 to place an order.

“In a culture gripped by fear, it’s brought such joy to see our team rise to the occasion and find a way forward,” Menke said. “We’re moving forward the best and safest way we know how, while taking the situation seriously. We’re more grateful

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Winter is not this area’s peak tourist season, so this situation is not coming at a good time, just when the tourist trade would typically return to the area, said MacGregor.

Speaking for himself, he said, “We’ve done well and we can stretch this out. We can certainly survive.”

Aviv Hadar, co-founder and CEO of Oregrown, spoke to The Gazette earlier

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this week about business at his store locations in Cannon Beach, Bend and Portland.

Hadar said business at the Cannon Beach store has slowed since the city ordered a visitor evacuation.

“Since tourism has come to a halt, (the store) has been impacted in a pretty significant way,” he said.

Oregrown is considered an essential service by the state, so the business can remain open, he said. “We are committed to keeping people employed.”

The Cannon Beach location only recently opened, he said.

By contrast, business at

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factors, sessions are likely to continue face-to-face in Manzanita, with social distancing as prevention.

If a client does have an indication of risk factors, they can set up a telehealth session from their home. All is needed is a good internet connection, and a laptop or other device that provides two-way video and audio.

Miller’s home community is the Nehalem Bay and Wheeler/Manzanita area. He said he started his practice about a year ago and also has been commuting to work full-time four days a week in Forks, Washington.

“I left that position this week to return to this area, again full-time, where I will expand my hours at Clark Miller Therapy and will join a practice group in Astoria – Lagom – seeing patients there Thursdays and Fridays,” Miller said.

Current practice hours in Manzanita are all day Saturday through Monday, and Tuesday mornings. New clients can use the website to schedule a free initial meeting.

As a licensed behavioral health provider, Miller is a member of the Nehalem Bay Emergency Volunteer Corps and Medical Reserve Corps.

the company’s other two locations has increased, he said. Sales have “almost doubled.”

Hadar said some of Oregrown’s customers have sleep disorders and post-traumatic stress from experiences during a war.

The increase in sales is related to those customers stocking up.

Although business is slower at the company’s Cannon Beach location, all three sites remain open.

Oregrown has instituted curbside service for those who prefer that.

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ith coronavirus pillaging the land, politicians shut the gates on such social and cultural barns as public libraries.

Now, with the plague barring access to Cannon Beach Library, writing a column mostly dedicated to new books, authors and events at our library requires some ingenuity.

Fortunately, I checked out a new green-dot book to review before doors were shuttered. Moreover, being confined to house arrest in a beach community that Trip Advisor just ranked sixth-best in the country provides me time to scan my own shelves and read one or two books between these columns.

So, recently I finished a couple of books about the Sixties. In “Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties,” a memoir published in 1988 but still available at the Seaside Public Library, Richard Goodwin, an advisor and speech writer for both residents Kennedy and Johnson, writes about their promise and failures, as well as the dashed hopes of Americans from the election of Kennedy in 1960 through Johnson’s departure in 1969.

Having graduated first in his class from Harvard Law in 1958, Goodwin clerked for Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter before becoming counsel to the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, where he counseled the investigation of television’s quiz show scandal in 1959.

Goodwin began “Remembering America” with that scandal, and quickly described Robert Kennedy recruiting him for John Kennedy’s Senate office staff and 1960 presidential campaign.

your plans? How are you going to protect our community?

Dear Editor: Well, Cannon Beach mayor and City Council, after the Savor Cannon Beach fiasco, are we awake and listening?

I’ve spoken to numerous people from Seattle this weekend. I asked one why he chose to travel, and he shrugged and said, “We were tired of being cooped up at home. We just wanted to get out.”

Many assumed it was fine to come this weekend because Savor Cannon Beach chose to believe they were excluded from what the entire rest of the world is doing. Who is going to take responsibility for that?

As long as there is something for people to do here on the coast, they will keep coming.

Spring break is upon us. Those who can’t go to Florida for spring break will come here. What are

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adding that new security measures were being implemented.

“The county made every effort to avoid the payment of a ransom to the cyber attacker, including recovery through two independent backup solutions and hundreds of hours of retained and county resources; however, data critical to county operations could not be restored without paying the cyberattacker for decryption keys,” Baertlein said.

“While the county maintained redundant backup solutions that would

have protected our data in the event of a natural disaster, the cyberattack resulted in encrypted backups,” Baertlein said.

Commissioner Mary Faith Bell emphasized that the government was the victim of a crime, noting a new frontier of security hazards in the digital age. Commissioner David Yamamoto said while other municipalities have not disclosed

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March 14, to declare a local state of emergency due to the coronavirus outbreak. Most county offices will close to the public, operating by phone and email instead.

Tillamook County Commissioner Bill Baertlein said the declaration was necessary due to the rapidly developing situation around COVID-19. Commissioners Mary Faith Bell and David Yamamoto agreed with the necessity. No COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in the county at this time.

“Are we going to be infected,” Yamamoto said. “I can tell you pretty much yes, we will.”

Votes for a resolution declaring the emergency and enacting a contingency plan passed unanimously.

The state of emergency will last until April 1, when it will be reevaluated.

“This is a very fluid situation and things are changing rapidly,” Yamamoto said.

Concerned about the impact of a possible COVID-19 spread in the area, Bell said with only a few intensive care beds, Tillamook County lacks the capacity to handle a serious outbreak.

Access to the Tillamook County Courthouse will be screened.

County department offices at the courthouse will serve the public by appointment. The Community Development office will close to the public but will serve people by phone and email. County Public Works will be closed to the public, though the solid waste transfer stations remain open.

The north courthouse entrance will be closed. Those who need

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Hampton Lumber Mill Plant As of Monday, March 16, Manager Mark Elston issued a Elston said the employee’s test statement about the employee results had not yet been received. and the closure. In the statement, The mill was reopened for work he said the employee was tested after the temporary shutdown to at the local hospital and advised sanitize gathering areas. by medical professionals to County officials confirmed self-quarantine at home pending Friday, March 13, that tests for results.

COVID-19 were conducted in “The employee is following mTest kits are Tillamook County. izen.co that advice and has commitoastcit northc reportedly in short supply. ted to inform us of a positive or As of Friday, there were no negative result once known,” he confirmed COVID-19 cases in said. “We will let our employees know this result and will keep the Tillamook County. The Health Department tested two sick appropriate community leaders individuals, and both came back informed.” negative, according to a statement Elston said upon learning of the possible infection risk, Hamp- from county officials. Adventist Health has also tested patients ton Lumber closed shop to clean for the virus and is waiting for and sanitize areas the employee frequented. He said the relevant n See TESTING, Page A11 break rooms, restrooms, offices,

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“The county’s rapid and aggressive response to the incident mitigated the compromise and contained the encryption to 17 of 55 servers and five of 280 county workstations,” Baertlein said.

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technology, replaced many middle managers, while other supervisors slipped into lowskill positions.

Today’s workforce contains few high-paid managers and many low-paid employees, clearly contributing to a widening income gap.

Finally, to attract sophisticated management, corporations recognized the importance of locating in preferred metropolitan communities. This further separated low-skilled and high-skilled positions geographically.

Markovits argues that this emphasis on ever greater merit and efficiency has succeeded in creating dissatisfaction among both the lowskilled and the high-skilled.

Low-skilled employees resent their lack of status as well as low incomes.

High-skilled managers resent working 12-hour days and their loss of family time and development of personal interests.

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grade schools, and most recently the most-exclusive kindergartens and preschools.

They have wealth to provide their kids with summer camps focusing on science, art and sports; after-school programs and tutors; test preparation; world travel; and access to cultural events in major metropolitan areas.

Wealthy parents transfer their wealth to the next generation by investing in the human resources of their children in order to guarantee their admission to elite colleges and high-skill professions.

Meanwhile, corporations were cutting middle management by hiring highly competitive managers with specialized training from elite schools in engineering, finance and management systems, rather than promoting middle managers.

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more competitive, talented and higher-performing.

This improvement was not lost on law schools, medical schools and graduate programs at elite research universities. Nor was it lost on law firms, Wall Street financial institutions and sophisticated corporations.

Nor was this shift in admission criteria lost on America’s aristocratic and wealthiest families, who recognized that their elite status and wealth could no longer ensure their children’s admission to top schools.

But the wealthy are different. They have wealth to invest in the next generation, to prepare children to succeed at the best preparatory high schools, the best-resourced

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son’s Great Society programs, and healed division that yet remains from Vietnam and subsequent American militarism.

If the Sixties had matched President Kennedy’s inaugural vision, we might not now be isolated fearing this plague, first denied and then mismanaged by an unprepared government that dismantled health planning and refused hospitals testing kits and personal protective equipment available throughout the world.

So much for “Guns and Butter.”

A second title linked to the Sixties and the following decades is “The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite” by Daniel Markovits.

It’s available at the library when the doors reopen. Until then, check the library website about e-books.

Markovits’ analysis of the American myth that success depends on merit - either God-given or earned - offers a simple, logical argument.

But his prose presents a tough slog, Markovits argues that, following the Sixties, elite schools that formerly preferred students from wealthy and/or aristocratic families decided to upgrade by admitting more students to Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and so forth, down the pecking order, based on their high school records and SAT scores.

Their students became

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From this point on, Goodwin’s memoir describes his relationships with major figures of the Sixties: Robert, John and Ted Kennedy; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Lyndon Johnson; Eugene McCarthy; Ernesto “Che” Guevara; Hubert Humphrey; and a cast of “the best and brightest.”

No better description exists of Goodwin’s themes of hope, idealism, vision and failure than an oft-quoted passage from President Kennedy’s inaugural address on Jan. 20 1961: “Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

All 500-plus pages of “Remembering America” describe our aspirations, beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s, for a new frontier of discovery, peace, opportunity, civil and voting rights, and educational access.

Goodwin, who passed nearly two years ago, also relates how Johnson’s Vietnam War crushed his own Great Society.

Had Robert Kennedy lived, he likely would have defeated Richard Nixon in 1968, ended war in Southeast Asia, expanded John-

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The Cannon Beach City Council on March 22 passed a resolution that orders certain visitors to evacuate the city and not return to stay for a period of time.

City Manager Bruce St. Denis this week explained the reasoning behind the evacuation resolution: “The governor had issued a statement asking people to stay home to avoid the potential for exposure,”

St. Denis said. “Then, the following Saturday, the city was crowded as if it were summer. It appeared that most of the visitors were here just for the day.

“Folks from Cannon Beach were pretty good about maintaining physical distance and avoiding exposure, but the crowds made that hard to do.

“In addition, the city only has two small stores to serve our population.

The people coming into town pretty much cleared the shelves.

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That put the council in the position of discouraging day trippers which is the reason for asking them to leave and to close up the town so the appropriate downtime could occur in our town.”

Cannon Beach Mayor Sam Steidel stated later on the city’s website that, “We were caught behind the game Saturday. Who could have guessed so many folks would look to our beach as the salve for their own concerns?

“As Mayor and your neighbor, I ask you to “Hold On!” Follow the practices suggested and be safe.”

The Gazette asked Cannon Beach Chief of Police Jason Schermerhorn if the weekend’s visitors left the city without incident. “Visitors definitely left peacefully and there were no issues,” the chief said.

“So far, it has remained quiet in town, with everyone abiding by the rules put in place.”

One of the exceptions to the resolution is visitors who are invited here by a resident or property owner, as stated in a city Q&A press release on its official website.

The resolution states that a visitor is “any individual

who is spending time in the City for pleasure, recreation or nonbusiness reasons and is not a resident, property owner or business owner,” as stated in the release.

The city’s Q&A states: “Despite orders and recommendations by state and federal health authorities to reduce travel, limit congregating in large groups and abide by social distancing guidelines, dur- Sign at entrance to Cannon Beach. Photo by Hilary Dorsey ing the weekend of March 21-22, during times of declared Meantime, the evacuation 2020 the City of Cannon emergencies. order states that Clatsop Beach experienced a signifi“The City of Cannon County residents may travel cant influx of visitors from Beach is concerned that to Cannon Beach for essenoutside the immediate area. without additional action, tial services such as grocery “These visitors congrethe City will remain a desshopping. gated throughout the City tination for travelers during “Under the City’s code, without following social spring break and while if a facility is subject to the distancing guidelines, and schools are closed for an local transient lodging tax, caused a depletion of critical extended period.” it is subject to the order resources such as food and Jim Paino, executive dito close,” as stated in the supplies at local vendors. rector of the Cannon Beach release. “This includes all “Because many of the Chamber of Commerce, traditional hotels, lodging local residents of Cansaid in a press release sent houses, RV sites, and shortnon Beach are retired, the to The Gazette that, “We term rentals.” demographics of the City want to report to everyone Visitors were asked to skew older than the rest of the results of the Emergency leave “no later than 11:59 the population, and therefore City Council meeting this p.m. on Monday, March 23,” our residents are more vulevening. This will help us the release stated. nerable to the deadly effects keep our community safe “The restriction on hotels of COVID-19. and healthy. will remain in effect for “Moreover, the northern “We understand the ecothe duration of the state Oregon coast has limited nomic hardships that all our of emergency. The visitor medical resources, which members are facing during evacuation order is in effect further endangers the local these difficult times. The until April 6, 2020, when it population when there are best way to get through it is will be re-evaluated.” large influxes of visitors to work together.”

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Registration for CoastWalk Oregon, a three-day walk on the Oregon Coast Trail to benefit the North Coast Land Conservancy opened on April 1.

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Each year, CoastWalk Oregon follows a selected 30-mile stretch of the Oregon Coast Trail somewhere

between the mouth of the Columbia River and Siletz Bay at Lincoln City. This year’s route will be on the northernmost stretch of the trail, from the Columbia to Ecola State Park.

For 2020, event planners have added a bonus: a walk from Fort Clatsop to the beach on the Fort to Sea and Kwis Kwis trails.

CoastWalk Oregon is limited to 90 participants, so organizers are

encouraging early registration.

Given the current coronavirus emergency, they said a no-risk registration policy will apply. Should the event be canceled, registration fees will be rolled over and applied to CoastWalk Oregon 2021.

Participants in CoastWalk Oregon 2020 will walk roughly 10 miles a day on a combination of beach and trails.

The $379 registration fee covers wayfinding guidance, parking fees, shuttles to and from trailheads, snacks, and a celebratory lunch at the end of the third day. Lodging and most meals are not included.

Organizers said much of the registration fee represents a tax-deductible donation to the North Coast Land Conservancy, which is undertaking a $10-million project

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Lost Lake Road closure announced The Oregon Department of Forestry closed portions of Lost Lake Road in the southeastern Clatsop State Forest on March 23.

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Obituary Richard ‘Rick’ Wayne Bonn

Rick Bonn (Richard Wayne Bonn), age 52 of Newbury Park, CA graduated to heaven on March 19, 2020.

He leaves behind his wife of 25 years, Shanda Gibson Bonn, and children Fiona, Jacob and Joseph Bonn. He also leaves parents, Richard L. and Dolores Bonn, one sister, Julie Bonn Blank and family, and one brother, Jason Bonn and family. Rick and family resided in Cannon Beach from 2003 to 2016, and he was the final owner of Haystack Video before the video stores became a thing of the past. Although we know heaven has gained

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Rick had a passion for movies and bringing the love of Jesus to others through movies, both secular and spiritual. Rick began his career as a PA for Dick Clark on the Golden Globes in 1992 and from 2015 to 2019 was the Head of Development and Acquisitions for Pure Flix Entertainment, where he developed “The Case for Christ,” the project he was most proud of. During his 28-year career his focus was creative development, and he worked with such companies as Wind Dancer Films, Nickelodeon, Providence Entertainment, Keystone Films and PorchLight Entertainment. One of the many highlights of his career was the opportunity to consult on the 2018 film “Buttons: a Christmas Tale” with one of his childhood heroes, Dick Van Dyke. He was also a tal-

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He loved his family, Cannon Beach, Disneyland, comic books and musical theatre.

And he was captivated by the miraculous, the mysterious, and the unusual, from the lives of saints to aliens to Sasquatch and the Loch Ness Monster.

Rick impacted more lives than he realized. The words and tributes coming in from around the world are heart-felt and beautiful. His impact on all was significant, and lasting. He was a deep thinker who penned these words several months ago.

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