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Cannon Beach Veterans to be Honored on Memorial Day

OnMonday May 29th, Memorial Day, the “Veteran’s Bridge Ceremony” will take place as it has for many years. Please join Cannon Beach Post 168 and the Sons of American Legion and Auxiliary, military veterans, residents and members of Brigadier General James Thayer’s family in a memorial ceremony at 11:00

AM, on the bridge next to the old grade school at the north end of town, to honor veterans and our loved ones who have passed. The Cannon Beach Police Department will close the bridge to traffic as the flag bearers lead a procession onto the bridge. The Commander of the American Legion will make a few brief remarks, followed by the playing of taps accompanied by prayers. Participants will then

drop fresh flowers into Ecola Creek in honor of the fallen and the loss of loved ones. Many describe this annual event as very moving and emotional.

The American Legion is the largest military veterans organization in the country, with nearly 15,000 local posts and over 3 million members who care about America, veterans, their families and our nations youth. The goal of

every veteran is to keep Memorial Day sacred; to remember and honor the sacrifice of the members of our military.

The American Legion has a long and important history of cooperation with the City of Cannon Beach. In 1980 they donated wetland property near Les Shirley Park to the City of Cannon Beach. They continue to be active in the community by hosting many events

throughout the year

Everyone is welcome to attend the Memorial Day ceremony taking place at 11:00 AM, Monday May 29th on the bridge over Ecola Creek, next to Necus’ Park and the old grade school at the north end of town. Bring a fresh flower and together we will honor those we have lost and still hold dear in our hearts. Never to be forgotten...

Memorial Day Veterans Bridge Ceremony in Cannon Beach

Cannon Beach Remembers

Brigadier General James B. Thayer

James Thayer’s connection to Cannon Beach goes back to the 1920’s, where he spent time visiting with his parents while growing up in the Carlton area of the northern Willamette Valley. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, James and his wife Patricia spent their honeymoon at the Waves Cottages in 1954. The Thayer family vacationed in Cannon Beach for many years, staying at the Waves, Webb’s Cottages and Surfview (site of present day Hallmark) In the mid-1990’s, the Thayers purchased a home on Ocean Avenue; spending time with family and friends, and enjoying the area. The entire family has many fond memories of Cannon Beach, and it has always been a special place they loved deeply; with three of his four sons still owning homes here.

James Thayer was born in Portland, Oregon in March 1922. He is a descendant of Sylvanus Thayer, the “Father of West Point.” His parents divorced when James was four, and he was raised by his grandparents on their farm in Carlton. Graduating from Carlton High School in 1940, he attended the University of Oregon on a journalism scholarship. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 changed the direction of his life.

Thayer left college at the end of his sophomore year and enlisted in the Army in 1942. He was selected for Officer Candidate School and trained as a mine platoon leader at Fort Benning, Georgia. He was commissioned as a second lieuten-

ant in October 1944, and assigned to a front line anti-tank company in the 71st Infantry Division, which was operating in Normandy, France.

As a mine platoon commander, Thayer led his unit across France and into Germany, clearing minefields along the Maginot Line. He was then reassigned as a reconnaissance platoon leader. In early 1945, his platoon engaged German SS troops occupying a small Austrian town.

During the ensuing battle, 31 German soldiers were killed, and when reinforcements from his battalion arrived, 800 German soldiers surrendered. Thayer was later awarded a Silver Star

Thayer later said that “my main motive wasn’t to kill other people; it was to save my soldiers from being killed.”

In May 1945, Thayer ’s platoon was hunting for German ammunition dumps in Austria. While on a remote forest road, his platoon began to find dead, dying and emaciated people. They discovered

and liberated the Gunskirchen Lager concentration camp, which was part of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp complex. They saved approximately 15,000 Hungarian Jews and several hundred political

prisoners from starvation. Thayer said later that we were “just lucky to find them.” The discovery of the camp and what he witnessed stayed with him for years. Almost half a century passed before he began to find peace with what he had experienced. A study conducted by the “Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany” reported that 41 percent of Americans, and 66 percent of millennials, don’t know about the Auschwitz concentration camp where more than a million Jews and others were executed. Over 6 million people were killed during the Holocaust, and the monstrous and evil crimes committed against humanity are something that should never be forgotten.

Thayer earned a Bronze star for heroism during the war, and continued his military service in the Army Reserve after the war, eventually retiring as a colonel in 1982.

Thayer returned

to the University of Oregon, graduating in 1947 with a Bachelor of Science in economics. In 1954 he married Patricia Cunningham and together they raised 5 children. A year after getting married, he started a successful office supply business in Beaverton, Oregon named J. Thayer Company.

In 1989, Thayer was appointed Oregon’s civilian aide to the Secretary of the Army, and 1991 he was inducted into the Infantry Hall of Fame at Fort Benning, Georgia. A year later, he represented the Secretary of Defense at a World War II Commemoration ceremony held by the Austrian Government, where he was personally recognized for his role in liberating the Gunskirchen Lager Concentration Camp. After leaving that position in 1994, he was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. In 2000, Thayer was re-activated into military service, promoted to Brigadier General, and assigned as a commander of the Oregon State Defense Force, later named the Oregon Civil Defense Force.

James Thayer died at the age of 96 in September 2018; after a distinguished life of military service, a successful business career, and a civic leader, who helped raise 5 successful children that loved him dearly. He was instrumental in saving the lives of 15,000 men, women, and children during World War II. Even after a lifetime of awards and achievements, James Thayer was modest; insisting that he hadn’t

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ABOVE: General James Thayer honored as the Grand Marshall in the Cannon Beach 4th of July parade for many years / BELOW: General James Thayer at 4 years old in 1926

Women Making a Difference: Kelli Ennis

One of the women making a difference in Cannon Beach is Kelli Ennis, Director of the Haystack Rock Awareness Program (HRAP) for the City of Cannon Beach.

Born and raised in Mulino Oregon, Kelli attended Oregon State University, where she met her husband Steven Dailey, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in molecular biology. After graduating they moved to New Orleans, and then to Cincinnati Ohio. While her husband was finishing his Orthopedic Surgery residency, Kelli worked doing research in a cancer biology lab, while also earning a Masters Degree in Education.

After her husband finished his residency, they decided they missed Oregon and moved back to the Pacific Northwest to be closer to family. Her husband took a job at Providence Seaside Hospital while Kelli looked for a job that fit her degrees in science and education. Her passion was being able to link science, communication and education, and she found an online post for a position as the Director of HRAP in Cannon Beach. The job was the right fit and exactly what she was looking for, so she

applied and was hired. Her first day on the job was March 16th, 2020, just as the Covid shut-down was beginning. As a result of Covid, the HRAP budget was cut to a minimum, but it provided her with the time to adapt to her new job.

In 1984, Neal and Karen Maine, two north coast residents who were passionate about the environment, set up an interpretative program at Haystack Rock and presented it to the City of Cannon Beach. This program was the beginning of HRAP, which the City of Cannon Beach fully implemented in 1985. HRAP coordinates with several other agencies involved with managing the area and wildlife around Haystack Rock. Haystack Rock itself is part of the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, who also oversee the migratory bird populations. The surrounding beach areas

Women Making a Difference: Katie Voelke

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are under the jurisdiction of Oregon State Parks, the intertidal life around Haystack Rock are the responsibility of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) manages the marine life, while the air space is managed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

As the director of HRAP Kelli is responsible for coordinating with all of these groups. Each of these groups has different missions and rules and Kelli must have an understanding of all of them. Due to the limited staffing and large land coverage within these agencies, these groups rely on local programs such as HRAP.

Cannon Beach and Seaside are the closest coastal areas to the Portland metropolitan area, so the influx of visitors continues to increase.

Cannon Beach, along with the famous Haystack Rock, are a nationally and internationally recognized tourist destination, which creates challenges to educate visitors about protecting the marine resources surrounding Haystack Rock. HRAP is facing difficulties in recruiting enough volunteers and staff to fill all of the demand for a continuing educational

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Katie Voelke’s passion for nature started during her childhood in Central California, where much of her time was spent outdoors camping, collecting bugs and building forts. A seventhgrade zoology class where students used microscopes and dissected animals, along with other hands-on experiences, deepened her appreciation for the natural world. “That’s when I decided I was going to be a biologist’” says Katie Voelke, Executive Director of North Coast Land Conservancy (NCLC), a nonprofit that conserves coastal lands and waters from the Columbia River to Siletz Bay (south of Lincoln City)

Katie was further inspired to pursue ecological conservation by witnessing the rapid development around her family home. Today it’s just two acres of residential land surrounded by a concrete jungle of business parks, apartment buildings, and gated communities. “In my short little life, I saw things go away.” Her passion took her to the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she studied biology and took a field class in Yellowstone National Park. Being in the wilderness transformed scientific concepts from theoretical to tangible, and gave her a taste of on-the-ground, place-based scientific practice. “That was amazing and likely inspired my love of conservation ecology.”

It was while working for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and volunteering on the north Oregon coast in the early 2000’s that she recalls hearing from numerous people “you need to meet Neal Maine,” the executive director of NCLC. Katie got that opportu-

nity while volunteering with NCLC, and she viewed Neal as an example of someone who was actually making a positive difference, something she always wanted to do. This small group of passionate people were taking real, practical action in their corner of the world; planting native vegetation and conserving and restoring land.

Her first job with NCLC was a temporary seasonal position that was partially funded by the Nature Conservancy. It involved studying Oregon Silverspot Butterfly habitat on the Clatsop Plains, and creating a management plan for the Circle Creek Conservation Center, a reserve that NCLC purchased in 2004. Katie later became a full-time land steward with NCLC while working closely with Neal, whose guidance and mentorship was invaluable.

By 2008, Neal was looking to retire. At first, Katie wondered who her new boss would be. Then, she was struck by the idea of pursuing the position herself, while continuing to cultivate the ideas of conservation that Neal and other visionaries had planted on the Oregon coast. Despite being relatively young and inexperienced, not to mention 8-months pregnant with her first child, the board hired Katie as the new Executive Director. “I reflect on that now as being one of the most meaningful things that could have ever happened to me, because in a lot of places, I wouldn’t have even had an interview,” she

For Katie, that is just one example of the support she’s experienced within the NCLC community and the north coast community at large.

“People saw the potential and were willing to help me. I think there’s a culture of success around this organization that pulls in people who care, and we all work together to make it happen. There are not individual goals. People are not in it for themselves. They are in it for the collective good, so it lifts us all up.”

Katie said that when she started “it was a much smaller organization and that we have all grown NCLC together.” NCLC has grown significantly over the past 15 years, and the organization now has 12 employees and more than 70 fee-title properties and conservation easements. What has remained the same is the culture of positivity that the founders created. Katie Voelke has invested much time and energy nurturing that part of the NCLC culture, which she believes is a particularly effective attitude towards conserving land. “Even though we have lives that might be different from each other, when it comes to why we’re at NCLC, it’s always for the same very clear reason; place-based land conservation.”

Please feel free to contact North Coast Land Conservancy if you have any questions or would like more information.

North Coast Land Conservancy PO Box 67 Seaside, OR 97138 (503) 738-9126 nclc@NCLCtrust.org NCLCtrust.org

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Cannon Beach Fire District

Impacted by Increase in 911 Calls

The Cannon Beach Gazette recently talked with Cannon Beach Fire District Chief Marc Reckmann about the ongoing challenges facing our local fire district. Reckmann had just returned from the statewide Oregon Fire Chief’s conference, where he met with other coastal Fire Chief’s who are confronting the same problems as Cannon Beach. The large increase in the number of visitors to small coastal towns, with the resulting increase in 911 calls, is coinciding with a decrease in the number of volunteers; straining available resources and potentially impacting the ability to respond to emergencies.

Over a four-day period from May 12th to May 15th, as visitors flooded into the area during a stretch of hot weather over Mother’s Day weekend, Cannon Beach Fire District personnel responded to four surf rescues; three in Cannon Beach and one at Indian Beach. While three people were saved in three separate surf rescues, one of these incidents resulted in the tragic loss of a teenager’s life on the 12th. A high angle rescue along the Indian Beach trail in Ecola Park occurred just prior to another surf rescue on the 13th. Both of these types of rescues require large numbers of personnel using specialized equipment while putting rescuers lives at risk. All of these rescues required a joint response involving the Cannon Beach Fire District, Seaside Fire and Rescue and Nehalem Bay Fire and Rescue.

Over the past two years, the Cannon Beach Fire District has experienced a 37% increase in emergency responses. In 2022, the Cannon Beach Fire District responded to 634 emergency calls, with visitors living outside the area responsible for over 70% of these calls.

Chief Reckmann added that the Fire District has also been seeing an increase in night calls for overnight guests in hotels.

Like most volunteer Fire Departments across the country, the Cannon Beach Fire District is dealing with the problem of a declining number of volunteers. There are currently 13 volunteers on the Fire District roster, with around 8 responding to calls on a regular basis. Due to the lack of affordable housing, only four Fire District volunteers currently live in Cannon Beach, with the rest living in nearby communities.

With the additional revenue from the Prepared Food Tax approved by Cannon Beach voters in November 2021, the Cannon Beach Fire District was able to hire three full-time paid firefighters to staff the station 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for the first time since the formation of the Fire District in 1947; resulting in greatly

improved response times to emergency calls. Hired in mid-January, the three new firefighters currently staffing the station were all former Cannon Beach Fire District volunteers, and are required to be certified as Advanced EMT’s before January 2025. These new firefighters work three rotating shifts, with one on duty per shift.

For consistent, rapid

emergency response, within the next five years Chief Reckmann would like to have a total of nine full-time paid firefighters, in three rotating shifts, permanently staffing the Cannon Beach station.

Reckmann recently applied for a FEMA “SAFER” grant that would fund the hiring of three additional full-time firefighters for three years.

Reckmann has also applied for a State grant that would pay for one extra firefighter to staff the station 12 hours a day, 7 days a week during the busy summer months from July 1st through October 1st.

Due to the low Fire District permanent tax rate, the $770,000 in annual Prepared Food Tax revenue currently provides 40% of the Cannon Beach Fire District’s annual budget. The Fire District has started the process of hiring a Fire Marshal, and the Prepared Food Tax revenue has also helped to retain a grantfunded Fire District position after that funding ended in December 2022.

The Fire District recently signed a contract with the City of Cannon Beach to assume lifeguard responsibilities from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend. The District will provide a minimum of two lifeguards for 8-10 hours a day, 7 days a week, with one stationed in front of Haystack Rock, while the other roves the beach on a motorized vehicle.

The Fire District requires a diversity of vehicles due to the diversity of 911 calls, such as structure and wildland firefighting, emergency medical response, cliff rescues, surf rescues and motor vehicle accidents requiring hydraulic extrication equipment. Reckmann said that Oregon State Parks had been providing an annual $1,000 stipend to partially compensate for Fire District responses within local State parks, but that ended in late 2021. Oregon State Parks currently provides no funding or reimbursement for rescues in Ecola, Arcadia Beach, Hug Point, Oswald West or Saddle Mountain State Parks, with most of these rescues requiring large numbers of rescuers using expensive

specialty equipment. Oregon State Parks did provide the Fire District with a onetime $2,000 grant for rescue equipment.

Along with most other coastal towns in Oregon, one of the biggest problems facing our Fire District is the lack of affordable housing in Cannon Beach. It is negatively impacting the recruitment and retention of District volunteers, who will continue to be an important part of the ability of the Cannon Beach Fire District to respond to a wide variety of emergencies. The consensus of most coastal fire chiefs who are faced with a decreasing number of volunteers, and an increasing number of emergency calls, is that additional full-time paid fire department personnel will be needed to provide rapid emergency response when someone calls 911. The greatest fear among coastal fire chiefs is not having the personnel and resources available when someone calls 911, while the greatest unsolved problem facing these small coastal fire departments is how to pay for it.

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presence on the beach during low tide. HRAP supports and teaches environmental stewardship, and how to responsibly enjoy and observe the intertidal resources while being respectful of all of the fascinating creatures that live in the rocky areas and tide pools around Haystack Rock. Kelli’s mission at HRAP is to help get that message out while bringing awareness to visitors of why it is so important to care for our fragile ecosystems. Haystack Rock encompasses a unique ecosystem, and teaching

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visitors about awareness of responsible environmental stewardship can begin at Haystack Rock. Her passion and mission is to make a difference for ecosystems everywhere.

Kelli has a passion for conservation and education, and during Covid she was inspired to expand online education and outreach. HRAP began live-streaming virtual field trips to Haystack Rock so that people living in areas far from the sea, who may have never experienced the ocean, could learn about Haystack Rock and environmental conservation. The program is expected to release a free online education center on their website in

the near future. Partnering with the other organizations who have the same goal is important to Kelli. Her mission is to continue to love Haystack Rock and HRAP and to grow an awareness of conservation. Please feel free to contact HRAP if you have any questions or would like more information.

Haystack Rock Awareness Program

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DAR names Junior American Citizen state contest winner

Astoria Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution were pleased to recognize Chelsea Munyia Oros as the chapter winner and also the first-place state winner among 5th graders in the Junior American Citizens contest. Her Creative Expression short story was on the 200th Anniversary of the Santa Fe Trail. Chelsea attends Pacific Ridge Elementary School in Seaside. She received certificates on both the chapter and state as well as a check for her accomplishment. The Junior American Citizen contests are open to youth from pre-school through grade 12 and information is available each September. Astoria Chapter will hold a flag retirement program on June 14 at 1 pm at the historic area of Fort Stevens in Hammond, Oregon. People with flags to be retired may leave them at Astoria Lumber or with any chapter member. New officers of the chapter were elected in April and will begin their terms in May following the State Conference in Lebanon, Oregon May 19 to 21. Sue Glen and Evelyn Laughman will represent the chapter at the conference.

New officers are Regent

Macy Yates, Vice Regent Nonda Zwald, Chaplain Doris Dramov, Secretary KathyJo Sunseri, Treasurer Barbara Canessa, Registrar Sue Glen, Historian Evelyn Laughman and Librarian Robin Rhodes. Following the May 17th regular meetings will resume September 20. Women 18 and over may join. For more information, please contact Sue Glen (503)861-0574 or through our web page.

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Clatsop County Voters Reject Limits on Short Term Rentals

In the recent May 16th election, Clatsop County voters narrowly rejected a ballot measure that would have repealed a Clatsop County ordinance permitting short-term rentals (STRs) in 16 unincorporated areas of the county. Ballot measure 4-221 was the result of a citizen initiative that gathered 1,100 signatures to qualify for the county-wide vote, and if approved by voters would have repealed County Ordinance 22-05, passed by County Commissioners in June of 2022, allowing STRs as a permitted use in areas outside of city limits. A total of 107 STRs would have been affected, with their STR permits being phased out as they expired over the next few years, with an estimated loss of $700,000

of annual STR revenue to the county.

According to official county election results as of May 18th, a total of 9,243 voters weighed in on this ballot measure, with 4,577 voting in favor, and 4,666 voting to oppose it; a 1% difference of 89 votes. Less than a third of the 30,865 registered voters in the county cast ballots in this election.

Brian Olson of the group “Everyone for the North Oregon Coast” that opposed the ballot measure, and co-owner of Beachcomber Vacation Homes, said that he is in favor of improving the STR ordinance passed by County Commissioners last summer. He added that there are things that may need to be adjusted, like putting caps on STRs in some areas, saying that “we need to work at being better neighbors for each other.” Olson hopes the County Commissioners will sit down at the table and do the things that the Commissioners wanted to do all

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His son Tommy Thayer said that “at the top of his father’s list of priorities was the church and God. Next was family and the success of his family, and then the military. He was often concerned that the attention his military career garnered gave people the impression that it was most important to him. But in the end, he was just a humble man who loved spending time in Cannon Beach with his kids, his grandchildren, and friends. He often referred to himself as just a “green pea” from Carlton, Oregon who was in the right place at the right time. I think that sums up our dad very well.”

It is with great honor that we salute the life of Brigadier General James B. Thayer.

The Cannon Beach Gazette would like the opportunity to hear the stories of other Cannon Beach military veterans. You are an important part of our community and your stories matter.

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Tillamook Family Counseling Center (TFCC) seeks a Licensed Practical Nurse [Part Time 24 Hours per Week] as a health provider for its Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACT). The LPN provides health care coordination, client support, and triage in home and community settings to adults presenting with severe and persistent mental illness.

Tillamook Family Counseling Center is a drug free workplace and equal opportunity employer.  A Covid-19 Vaccine

Required Employer (per Oregon Healthcare statutes).

If you are interested in any of these positions, please apply online at http://tfcc.bamboohr.com/jobs. Be sure to submit an online application and upload your resume. Any questions, please visit us online at http://tfcc.org

Bilingual Certified Peer Support/Recovery Mentor (English/Spanish)

F.T. 40-Hours/week Position

Tillamook Family Counseling Center is currently looking to add a bilingual peer specialist to our Prime+ program. The mission of the Prime+ program is to prevent acute life-threatening outcomes of substance use which include reducing overdose morbidity and mortality by providing harm reduction centered overdose prevention education and facilitating access to Naloxone. We also strive to reduce injection-related infections by providing harm reduction centered infection prevention education and facilitating access to safer use supplies. The Prime+ program supports linkage to care, diagnosis and treatment of substance use related conditions and substance us related infections.

This position includes training that leads to state certification according to OAR 410-180-0305 (12) and (13). As a certified Peer Specialist, you will be a living example and role model of recovery life. As a peer you will be a provider of the life wisdom gained through your own lived experience of recovery as well as a change agent for hope.

Benefits:

Dental Vision and Medical-prescription coverage. HSA and FSA plans. 9 paid holidays a year, paid sick leave and vacation time. Vacation starts out at 8 hours a month with increases over time. Generous retirement program: non-contributory 403(b), we put in 9% of your salary and you are vested after 6 months.

To see our complete job description and to apply go to http://tfcc.bamboohr.com/jobs. Be sure to submit an online application and upload your resume. Any questions, please visit us online at http://tfcc.org or contact us at jobs@tfcc.org

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Residents and City Council Discuss New City Hall and Police Station

Cannon Beach residents gathered at City Hall on May 16th to express their opinions to the City Council and City Manager regarding plans for the new City Hall and Police Station. Contractors and architects were present at the meeting to answer questions.

Several residents expressed their desire to have the City Hall and Police Station remain in their current mid-town location. It was explained that the new require-

AT THE LIBRARY Rare Book Sale, Finding Your Voice, Oregon Wobblies & Whistle Punks

Some of you may have noticed the lack of an “At the Library” column these last few weeks.

Because of a routine medical procedure gone terribly wrong, on April 14, I woke up as I was being life-flighted to OHSU, where a group of cardiothoracic and vascular surgeons saved my life. I will be eternally grateful to them and to their talented medical teams.

I am also grateful to everyone at the library and in the community for their cards, well wishes and many acts of kindness.

In the weeks after surgery, I couldn’t get my act together enough to write a column.

Now that I am trapped in a skilled nursing facility as I heal, thinking about the library is a welcome break in the tedium of swallowing pills and suffering through PT.

ments of Oregon House Bill 2605, that went into affect January 2022, mandate that essential facilities such as Police Stations be built out of the tsunami inundation zone, or be subject to extremely expensive reinforcement and height requirements. The cost to build to these standards is prohibitive, and the consensus was that the Police Station should be moved out of the tsunami inundation zone to the South Wind site. Cannon Beach City Manager Bruce St. Denis discussed the history of the City Council reviewing all of the potential building sites in Cannon Beach; ultimately concluding that South Wind is the only suitable area with the tsunami restrictions. St. Denis explained that the cost of the projects had increased significantly in the four years

If just thinking about activities at the library brightens my day, think how much actually participating in those activities can brighten yours.

Indeed, the library’s annual Rare and Old Book Sale Fundraiser can brighten your whole Memorial Day Weekend. The sale will take place Saturday, Sunday and Monday, May 27 through May 29, from 12 to 4 p.m. each day, at the library, 131 N. Hemlock, in downtown Cannon Beach.

The library’s Book Pricing Committee has been combing through book donations all year looking for rare, old, signed and collectible adult and children’s books. The Pricing Committee has priced the books to sell. There is even a bonus sale; buy three books and the fourth book (of equal or lesser value) is free.

So whether you are a collector, reseller, book lover, hobbyist, or are just looking for a special gift or an interesting read, the Rare and Old Book Sale is worth a look. Especially since offerings include titles like the collector ’s edition of J.K. Rowling’s “The Tales of Beedle the Bard,” an 11-CD box set including digitally remastered editions of all John Lennon’s solo studio

since they began considering the new City Hall and Police Station. The soil at the current City Hall location requires deep concrete and steel pilings for the foundation to hold the weight of the new building, with the foundation requirements being similar at the South Wind location.

The cost to build both the Police Station and City Hall at the South Wind site is projected at $22 million. The cost to build the structures at separate locations, with City Hall remaining in mid-town and the Police Station at South Wind, is estimated at $25 million. The new City Hall would be about 10,000 square feet, while the new Police Station at South Wind would be around 6,000 square feet.

A geotech report for South

albums, a pop up book of scenes from the Broadway show “Wicked:The Musical” and a book commemorating the life and art of Charles M. Russell.

After creating a highly engaging summer reading program last year, Office Manager Jen Dixon and board member Peggy Thom are busily planning another summer of entertainment. The theme of this year’s Summer Reading Program is “Find Your Voice!” Residents, second-home owners and tourists, from pre-k to young adults, will be able to find their creative voices through crafts, music and reading.

Participants will each receive a summer reading bag and free book, as well as a game board, when they register, either in person or online on the library’s website, www.cannonbeachlibrary.org.

The program will kick off at the library with a “Find Your Art!” event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 17. Participants will make and decorate their own musical instruments with the help of artist Miss Karen.

At 11 a.m. on Wednesday, July 19, participants will “Find Your Music!” during a musical program led by

Wind was completed in 2019. Sensors installed at that time have not detected any ground movement, which shows that the location is stable. The City will be receiving another geotech report and survey, and are working with ODOT concerning vehicle access to South Wind from Highway 101.

One of the contractors mentioned a study indicating a 10-15% chance of a major earthquake and tsunami over the next 50 years. Safety in the event of a seismic event and tsunami is being considered in these projects.

Residents expressed their concerns regarding funding for the projects. One resident believed that the cost of the Police Station and City Hall should be funded by increasing property taxes for City residents, adding that the

musician Gabrielle Macrae.

And at 2 p.m. on Saturday, August 5, participants can “Find Your Oregon!” when Portland children’s author and illustrator Andy Bauer reads from his book “ABC’s of Oregon.” Program participants will decide what and how much they read during this eight-week program. For every seven days of reading, participants will bring their game boards to the library to receive a badge and a prize. At the end of the program, badges will be traded in for a chance to win an instrument, an art set or a gift certificate to the Cannon Beach Book Company.

Children aren’t the only ones who will have a chance to participate in a form of “Find Your Oregon!” this summer.

The Cannon Beach Reads book club will discuss “Wildmen, Wobblies, and Whistle Punks: Stewart Holbrook’s Lowbrow Northwest,” edited by Brian Booth, starting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 21. This is a hybrid meeting; participants can join in person in the library or online through use of Zoom and a webcam conferencing system.

Though virtually forgotten today, Stewart Holbrook

Prepared Food Tax and Transient Lodging Tax should not be increased, as visitors are paying enough with both of these taxes. A resident expressed support for the projects and felt that the $25 million is well worth the cost for our safety. Another resident said that the City has been very transparent in this process, even though she has been hearing rumors otherwise. Some residents expressed just wanting to just get it done as this has been going on for too long.

The City Council then weighed in, with Councilors Kerr, Hayes, Ogilvie, and Mayor Knop voicing support for keeping the City Hall in mid-town and relocating the Police Station to South Wind. They felt it was important to have the City Hall in midtown so that residents could

was the nation’s leading spokesperson for the Pacific Northwest during the mid1900s. A colorful dresser, witty storyteller and irreverent social critic, Holbrook was a journalist and historian who wrote “non-stuffed shirt” history

Born in New England, Holbrook arrived in Oregon in 1923, broke, unemployed and lacking a high school diploma. He got work as a logger, and began to submit work to the Lumber News, the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen’s 4-L Bulletin, as well as the Oregonian. His work caught on and was featured in The New Yorker for over thirty years.

Holbrook’s first major book, “Holy Old Mackinaw,” a book of descriptive vignettes about lumberjacks from Maine to Oregon, was an instant national bestseller in 1938. Holbrook went on to write 36 books, including books about people overlooked by academic historians (“Lost Men of History”) biographical sketches of the big names in the American West (Annie Oakley, Calamity Jane and Wyatt Earp) and studies of major aspects of the West (“The Story of American Railroads”).

Holbrook didn’t focus on

walk to City Hall without having to cross Highway 101.

Councilor McCarthy expressed support for locating both the City Hall and Police Station at South Wind, pointing to the $3 million in savings, and questioning if the new City Hall would even be usable after a tsunami if built in the current location. She also expressed concerns about the disruption to midtown as City Hall moves into a temporary structure during construction. The City Council invited residents to take a tour of the current City Hall and Police Station.

There will be a City Council meeting on May 30th, with architects and contractors present, to discuss and explain the budget for the two buildings before a final decision is made.

successful settlers or heroic pioneers; instead he romanticized loggers, underdogs, fanatics and visionaries. He emphasized the humorous and off-beat and poked fun at stuffed shirts and hypocrites. “Wildmen, Wobblies, and Whistle Punks” is a collection of two dozen of Holbrook’s best pieces describing forgotten scandals, crimes, forest fires and floods and telling stories of workers, scoundrels, underdogs and very colorful characters. Marjorie Macqueen will lead the discussion, which will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 21. The Zoom link for the meeting is available from Joe Bernt at berntj@ ohio.edu. Coffee and cookies will be provided. New members are always welcome. For reasons lost to history, the library’s fiscal year runs from May 1 to April 30, which makes April the end of the year. The library’s Acquisitions Committee celebrated the end of the fiscal year by splurging on some wonderful titles. Instead of the usual 20 books, they added ten fiction books, twelve mysteries and six non-fiction titles to the collection. A complete list is available at www.cannonbeachlibrary.org in the ‘Newsroom’ section.

Water Shut Off Moratorium Ending

Since early 2020 in response to the economic impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the City of Cannon Beach has been observing a moratorium on water shutoff notifications and fees on past due utility bills.

Per the May 2nd Council Meeting, the city will end the temporary moratorium and begin observing Ordinance 13.18.050 within the Municipal Code. The first water bill to be impacted will be June 2023. Notices will be sent by email.

Residents should make sure their current contact information including mailing address, phone number, and email are provided to the City Finance Department.

Anyone having difficulty paying their water bill should contact the Finance Department at City Hall to set up a payment plan at (503) 436-1581, Ext. 0.

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