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Independence Day Parade sure to spark your July 4th fun Remember, fireworks illegal in Cannon Beach City limits It could cost you up to $5,000

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Cannon Beach annual Independence Day Parade is back on this year with the Chamber of Commerce hosting the event.

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A celebration of our nation’s independence – Cannon Beach July 4th Independence Day Parade Monday - July 4, presented by the Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce

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he Independence Day Parade starts at 11 a.m. in Cannon Beach, ready to kick off the July 4th holiday.

The parade begins heading North on Spruce St. from the staging area between Gower and Monroe Streets. From Spruce, the parade turns east onto 3rd and them heads south on Hemlock, disbanding near the American Legion.

Kids, bikes, old cars, decorated entries, and walking groups are welcome to enter, with a special invitation to all veterans. No political entries please.

Free to spectators. There is a $10 registration fee for parade entries and signed waivers are required.

Registration is day of only and starts at 9 a.m. at the Cannon Beach Chamber and Information Center - 207 N. Spruce St. Like many large crowd events, for community safety, the annual parade was cancelled due to the pandemic. In years past American Legion Post #168 had organized the event. This year leadership at the Legion decided not to take on the liability.

After discussions with the City of Cannon

Beach and Cannon Beach Chamber board, the Chamber agreed to organize the event with the help of Nancy Teagle and other volunteers who’ve helped with previous parades.

For more information, call the Cannon Beach Chamber at 503-436-2623 or Nancy Teagle at 503-436-0424 / 503-440-0222.

A reminder that all fireworks are illegal in Cannon Beach. Other events on the 4th are the Great Puffin Watch and the Used Book Sale at the Cannon Beach Library.

The Coaster Theatre Playhouse celebrates 50 years of community plays, productions and music D

ust off your platform shoes, grab your cool threads and head to the Coaster Theatre Playhouse on Wednesday, June 29 to celebrate the theatre’s 50th birthday with a day of entertainment, groovy tunes from the 1970s, costume contest and silent auction.

The open-house party runs from 2 to 5 p.m. in the theatre’s courtyard and from 6 to 9 p.m. in the theatre.

In 1972, Maurie Clark, purchased The Coaster building, which housed a roller skating rink, and, after an extensive remodel, presented Cannon Beach with the Coaster Theatre Coaster Theatre Playhouse after remodel in 1972. Courtesy photos Playhouse.

Cannon Beach residents, with D.K. Smith and The Portland State University Carol. This began a tradition of producing comBill Steidel at the helm, put on the first commuSummer Stock Company opened at the newly munity plays and musicals throughout the year nity production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas remodeled theatre on June 29, 1972. That winter, for over the past 50 years. Generations of North Coast residents and visitors have participated on and off stage at the Coaster Theatre, often creating lifelong friendships and a few marriages.

In 2001, after Clark’s death, the Coaster Theatre became a nonprofit organization that continues to be dedicated to presenting live theatre and events that engage residents and visitors of all ages.

The Coaster Theatre is celebrating all year with a selection of shows and playwrights that are audience favorites. The theatre is also offering monthly special event concerts to celebrate this momentous anniversary. Details about the 50th birthday party, plays, musicals and special events are at coastertheatre.com

Coaster Theatre Playhouse fall of 2021. Courtesy photos

Upcoming shows and events at the Theatre • Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, July 6 - Aug. 6 • Auditions for Gramercy Ghost, July 25 & 26 • Clue: The Musical, Aug. 10 – Sept. 10

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n July of 2020 Cannon Beach City Council decided, based on the public concerns for fire danger as well as animals and sea birds, to ban all fireworks in the city limits of Cannon Beach. Firework fines can be up to $5,000.

This year, there will be added law enforcement to enforce the ordinance and the Cannon Beach Police Department will be working closely with Cannon Beach Fire Department, Oregon State Parks, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to ensure everyone has a safe and peaceful Independence Day. Cannon Beach Police Department remindeds via social media that all fireworks are illegal in Cannon Beach. The police department stated that during the upcoming holiday, officers will be enforcing the new city ordinances prohibiting all fireworks.

Cannon Beach City Council prohibited fireworks in the city in 2020 — all fireworks within the city limits of Cannon Beach and increased fines. According to the ordinance.

“Fireworks disturb the peace generally and particularly impact wildlife, people experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder and pets,” the ordinance states.

Cannon Beach is now a “safe zone” for wildlife and birds. Haystack Rock is part of the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge and is a state-protected marine environment that houses Tufted Puffins, Pelagic Cormorants, Western Gulls and more. Even legal fireworks can distress these birds and other wildlife.

Cannon Beach code had previously banned all fireworks on the ocean shore, but many people still used them. The city’s hope with the ordinance banning all fireworks in city limits and increasing the fines is that it will limit the use of fireworks in the city.

“Fireworks’ means any combustible or explosive composition or substance, or any combination of such compositions or substances, or any article which was prepared for the purpose of providing a visible or audible effect by combustion, explosion, deflagration or detonation,” the ordinance states.

Fireworks banned within city limits include, but are not limited to, ground and hand-held sparkling devices such as sparklers, aerial devices such as Roman candles, audible ground devices such as firecrackers, novelties, and trick noisemakers such as snake/glow worm and party poppers.

Fines have an escalating scale.

A level one violation involves discharging and novelties or trick noisemaker and is punishable by a fine of $100. A level two violation involves discharging any ground or handheld sparkling device, audible ground device or similar fireworks, with a fine of $1,000 per violation.

A level three violation involves discharging any aerial device or similar fireworks, with a fine of $5,000. The fine is also enhanced where the fire threat level is determined to be high.

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Man bikes from Seaside to New Jersey for kidney disease awareness Zoe Gottlieb Country Media Last Friday, a biker began his 3,811-mile, cross-country journey from Seaside to New Jersey in support of a cure for rare kidney disease.

At 11 a.m. on June 17, Will Kleemeier performed a wheel dipping ceremony in front of the End of Trail Lewis and Clark Statue in Seaside, OR, to mark the start of his venture from Seaside to Ocean City, New Jersey.

Kleemeier will bike an average of 65 miles daily, following maps provided by the Adventure Cycle Association, a nonprofit bicycling organization with 54,000 members.

The maps include information on campsites and different lodging along with rest stops.

“I’m not creating a route from scratch. I’m using something developed by bikers for bikers, so I know it’s going to be safe,” Kleemeier said.

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disease. I recommend that you guys get checked out.’

“At 40, I got checked out. I went to a nephrologist (who) specializes in PKD, and they did an ultrasound.

We talked about my family history, which up until that point, I knew very little about, but we determined that I had Polycystic Kidney Disease at 40.”

PKD is difficult to spot, and people often don’t know they have it, according to Kleemeier.

“People that have it start developing cysts when they’re young, and they just don’t know it,” Kleemeier explained. “They continue to multiply and increase in size until your kidney function has declined so dramatically, you either need to go on dialysis or get a transplant.”

Kleemeier said he was in denial until the symptoms began to affect his life.

“After a couple more years, my blood pressure went way out of control,” he said. “That’s when I started doing research on the disease myself and determined that I need to take this more seriously: alter my lifestyle, exercise more, eat healthier, and just be better, you know, more conscious of it.”

PKD impacts more than 600,000 Americans, according to Pedaling for Kidney Disease, a website Kleemeier founded in his efforts to raise community awareness for PKD. “As a quiet and private individual, sharing was a

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“I was living a normal life,” Kleemeier said.

“When I was 40, my mother talked to me and my siblings and said, ‘I have something called Polycystic Kidney Disease. It’s a hereditary

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The ride The bike route Kleemeier will follow passes through several states, including Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.

The journey will take approximately 318 hours from start to finish, according to trip details provided on Kleemeier’s website.

“My first route had to change because I was going to go through Yellowstone Park,” Kleemeier said. “It’s closed indefinitely, (but) I knew that in Missoula I (could) go straight east.”

While Kleemeier has trained rigorously for the multi-day journey, he admits he cannot prepare for every contingency.

“I’ve trained enough to really pay attention to my body to know whether or not I need to rest or bike a little slower, and some of the things that are actually going to be challenging for me in Pennsylvania I was not able to do,” he said. “I was able to duplicate hills, but I was not able to duplicate the altitude. I have to take (the challenges) as they come and then make plans when I reach that point.”

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transferred to shore with no injuries.

According to Operations Petty Officer Arron Harris who is stationed at Tillamook Bay and was the driver of the rescue boat, a fisherman trolling in the area, rescued the distressed fisherman just before his boat was fully engulfed in flames off the coast of Manzanita Beach Saturday.

“The captain called in to report the fire had started in the stacks, then we lost contact with him as he started to fight the fire,” Harris said in a phone interview. “The next contact we had was when he was safely aboard the fisherman’s boat who rescued him.”

Harris said the fisherman reported to them, the fire started in the stacks, (stacks are similar to a chimney in a home), the fire quickly spread to the wooden cabinetry, and from there the rest of the fiberglass structure. It took about five minutes to become fully engulfed in frames.

Harris said they received the distress call at around 6:30 a.m. and arrived on the scene a little after 7 a.m. “It took about a half-hour to get from Garibaldi station to about two nautical-miles off the shore near Manzanita,” he said.

When the USCG arrived, Harris said, the fisherman was

aboard the boat of the fisherman who came to his rescue, as both of them watched the flames and smoke billowing from the 42-foot fiberglass troller. The coast guard then brought the fisherman aboard their vessel and back to shore.

He’s reportedly safe and in good condition.

At around 8 a.m., the USCG crew sent out a tweet, saying they would remain on scene to enforce a 1,000-yard safety-zone around the boat.

At 2:46 p.m., the coast guard tweeted that the vessel had burned down to the waterline, and continued to smolder after drifting to about 1-mile west of Nehalem Bay State Park in Tillamook County. It is unclear at this time how the fire started in the stacks.

According to Harris, “the Coast Guard is handling this as a, ‘Serious Marine’ incident and will be working with Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to resolve the issue of any potential pollution from the incident.”

Sign up to help with the Library Book Sale We are reaching out to see if you are interested in volunteering for our Annual Fourth of July Used Book Sale fundraiser. We’re asking available volunteers to sign up as soon as they can. This will help us a lot in the planning process.

A sign-up sheet which includes days, time slots, and activities is available at the library. (Please note that we are requesting phone numbers for the purpose of making reminder calls. We will not share your phone number as the list is circulated.) You can email us back and indicate the days, shifts, and activities you would like in the body of your response email. You can also stop into the library to fill out the list (ask at the front desk).

We are especially seeking help for the caravan day on Thursday, from anyone who can help shift boxes of books, or has an automobile to help transport books from our storage units.

Thank you for considering volunteering your time. As you may already know, the Fourth of July Used Book Sale is one of our largest and most necessary fundraisers of the year. After a two-year Covid hiatus, your time and help will make all the difference, and is so appreciated!

This fundraiser is only possible with the help of volunteers like you. Thanks to those of you who have already signed up, and hope to hear from you soon.

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At the Library

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Volunteers still needed for Library Fourth of July Book Sale T

axes support most public libraries in the United States—including their buildings, employees, equipment and collections.

Not so the Cannon Beach Library, a member-owned nonprofit organization with a single part-time office manager and about 45 volunteers.

This lone office manager and these local and visiting volunteers open the doors; answer questions from visitors; provide access to computers and the internet; provide copy services; offer space to reading and study groups; develop children’s programs; catalog, order and shelve current fiction and nonfiction; and arrange presentations by bestselling pacific northwest authors.

The lone parttime office manager and many visiting and local volunteers also develop fundraising events to finance services on which Cannon Beach residents and visitors depend. The plague years have made maintaining library services more difficult than was once the case, but gradually the library has expanded the number of days and hours it safely serves patrons.

This slow return to normal continues. At its June Library Board meeting, members discussed increasing the number of days open each week from four to five.

This is under discussion because recently several talented new residents have joined existing library desk volunteers.

Several new residents have also heard the library’s call for volunteers to manage the Fourth of July Used Book Sale, which promises a record number of popular lightly used books on sale at bargain prices from Friday, July 1, through Sunday, July 3, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Monday, July 4,

from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

To encourage buyers, the library is offering a free fourth book with every three similarly priced books purchased; and, on Monday, July 4, everyone can fill provided paper bags with books for $5 a bag.

The library still needs residents and visitors to volunteer to work this epic book sale and become active members of the library community. This is a great opportunity to make lasting friends in Cannon Beach and leave feeling work has never been this much fun.

The library also invites crafters to donate examples of their work to the library’s Fall Festival, another fundraising event, scheduled for September, starting Labor Day weekend.

To volunteer to work a few hours on the July Fourth weekend or to donate homemade craft and art items for the Fall Festival, please do so by stopping by the library, calling the library (503-436-1391) or emailing info@cannonbeachlibrary. org and leaving name and contact information.

On Wednesday, July 20, at 7 p.m., Phyllis Bernt will lead members of Cannon Beach Reads in a Zoom discussion of “A Death in the Family” by James Agee, who died in 1955, two years before his classic depiction of the impact of an unanticipated death on remaining family members.

Agee’s beautifully written novel, based on Agee’s own experience, received the Pulitzer Prize in 1955.

Agee is equally praised for “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” a nonfiction study of sharecroppers in the American South, documented with photographs by Walker Evans.

Speaking of books. The Cannon Beach Library

Joseph Bernt added 21 new titles to the collection in May. Seven novels, seven mysteries and seven nonfiction books have joined the library’s green-dot shelves containing recently published items teasing summer patrons.

New novels added include “The Homewreckers”

by Mary Kay Andrews, “Trust” by Hernan Diaz, “The Sign for Home” by Blair Fell, “Woman, Eating: A Literary Vampire Novel”

by Claire Kohda, “The Book Woman’s Daughter” by Kim Michele Richardson, “The Good Left Undone” by Adriana Trigiani and “Remarkably Bright Creatures”

by Shelby Van Pelt.

New Mysteries added include “The Lioness” by Chris Bohjalian, “Every Cloak Rolled in Blood”

by James Lee Burke, “The Murder of Mr. Wickham” by Claudia Gray, “The Bangalore Detectives Club,” by Harini Nagendra, “Overboard” by Sara Paretsky, “The Investigator” by John Sandford and “The Love of My Life” by Rosie Walsh.

New non-fiction titles added are “The Mind and the Moon: My Brother’s Story, the Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches” by Daniel Bergner, “Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop that Changed History” by Jori Lewis and “Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World”

by Barry Lopez.

Other new nonfiction books include “The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened” by Bill McKibben, “Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library” by Amanda Oliver, “Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life” by Delia Ephron and “South to America: A Journey Below the MasonDixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation” by Imani Perry.

I recently read a timely memoir by a critic of policing practices in Portland, which was added to the library collection this spring.

“This Is Not for You: An Activist’s Journey of Resistance and Resilience,”

by Portland photojournalist and community-policing advocate Richard Brown and co-author Brian Benson, deserves greater notice.

“This Is Not for You” focuses on Brown’s long career in the Air Force as a radio and missile technician from the time he left Harlem until he retired with a military pension and settled in Albina, the historic Black community in North and Northeast Portland before it was gentrified into an upscale sports motel, bar and entertainment center.

Brown learned about successful activism while in the Air Force, mostly learned that success in life, really in anything, requires discipline, a willingness to stick to achieving goals. An obviously gifted technician, he found himself training others in the repair of essential communication systems as he watched subordinates receive promotions while his supervisors overlooked his own merit.

Brown learned to speak

up for himself, though, ultimately receiving promotion to sergeant and supervisory positions, including transfers to Clark Air Base near Angeles City in the Philippines, to Ramstein Base in Germany, to Grand Forks, North Dakota, and finally to McChord Air Force Base near Tacoma for his final two years before retiring in Portland.

Brown points to overt racism at Ramstein as causing his first serious activism.

He joined with other Black airmen to form the Black Action Committee as a social group that soon held weekly meetings and study groups to discuss books on race, racism and Black history. This pushed the base commander to create a civil rights committee that held training sessions and investigations of race-related offenses. Brown was asked to serve on this committee.

This became a familiar pattern for Brown in Portland. He became the photographer for the Portland Observer, a Black newspaper.

He photographed meetings, community events, business openings, street scenes, weddings and so forth.

Brown also attended meetings of the Black United Front and found half of his photographs for the Portland Observer were related to issues involving the Front. Gradually he became a regular participant in the group’s meetings and protest activities, especially the divestiture movement targeting apartheid South Africa.

During these protests, the Front regularly received death threats. To be safe the group cooperated with Portland Police, informing them of who was willing to be peacefully arrested during protests of the South African consulate. Portland

Police would accompany the protesters to the consulate, make peaceful arrests and negotiate the same procedure for the Front’s next protest.

Margaret Carter became, in 1984, the first Black woman elected to the Oregon House of Representatives, where she managed to get divestiture legislation passed that Governor Vic Atiyeh then vetoed. It became law, however, three years later.

Brown’s involvement in the Front, omnipresent camera and witnessing of police interactions with Black residents during nightly ridealongs with police served to place him between cops and Black citizens. Still recognized throughout the city as the Picture Man, Brown also was viewed as a fair witness by a growing number of police and community leaders.

This explains why Goose Hallow Inn owner and Portland Mayor Bud Clark in 1990 asked Brown to serve as his representative when Police Chief Tom Potter endorsed community policing by establishing his Chief’s Forum. The forum facilitated genuine and critical conversations about law enforcement practices and policies among Brown, other civilians and police leadership.

For Brown the 1990s and early 2000s—the years Tom Potter and Charles Moose were chiefs of police and Tom Potter and Vera Katz were mayors—represent the high point in police relations with Portland residents, including those in the Black community.

Brown’s memoir provides a context for Portland’s recent Black Lives Matter protests and controversial calls for defunding and demilitarizing police.

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Opinion

What is the Population of Cannon Beach, Part II?

home owners, incoming workers, hotel visitors, short term rental visitors and transient daily visitors.

The dictionary definition of population is simple – ‘the inhabitants of a particular town or area.’ As such 1,489 is our population.

His expanded definition is probably trying to describe occupancy. Its definition is more along the lines of ‘living in or using a particular place.’ This seems a better alignment with the categories above.

However, the 7,749 seems

The City Manager of Cannon Beach recently published a summary that attempted to expand the definition of population for Cannon Beach from the 1,489 level published by the census to what he described as an “effective daily population” of 7,749. The latter went onto include estimates of the town’s residents, 2nd

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a ‘theoretical maximum occupancy.’ It describes a level of occupancy never to be achieved in reality. All second home owners would never be in Cannon Beach at the same time. Our short term rental rules virtually prevents all STRs from being fully occupied at the same time. And if we are going to include all incoming commuting workers and transient visitors, it would be only fair to exclude Cannon Beach residents leaving to visit other towns or leaving to work elsewhere. The 7,749 figure seems does

The Champions of the Flyway birding competition takes place each year in Eilat, Israel and is a fundraising opportunity for BirdLife International partners throughout the Mediterranean. Since it began in 2014, over $500,000 has been raised for conservation efforts for species such as Steppe Eagles, a species that is subject to indiscriminate killing on their migration route.

The competition itself is the culmination of the Eilat Birding Festival which

attracts birders from around the world to see some of the desert species that can be found at the southern tip of Israel as well as the spectacular hawk migration with thousands of raptors heading towards their breeding grounds. The competition is no joke - it is a high stake, 24-hour race around southern Israel starting with midnight nightjars, morning with waterfowl, afternoon passerines, and finishing the night in search of owls and roosting

Dewey came in several years ago when his people had to move to a place that didn’t allow dogs. He was with us long enough for everyone at the shelter to fall in love with him. After five years in what we hoped was his forever home he came back because his person was moving. He’s older and slower, but still a very friendly, happy boy, and so patient.

At almost ten years old, Dewey still likes to chase tennis balls and go for walks with all of us before turning into a total couch potato. He’s also somewhat overweight, so a home where he gets enough exercise to slim down would be ideal. Dewey likes most dogs, but not cats. He’ll need a fully fenced yard.

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Thank you to the Chamber of Commerce for community support I wanted to give a shoutout to the Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce. This last week they presented to the CB City Council an overview of past, present, and future Chamber activities.

Not only was it very thorough and well-presented by the director, Jim Paino, it really showed the commitment that they have to the community.

Every business knows how supportive the Chamber is of its members and the greater community, but it is great to know the efforts that are being made to be responsive and transparent. Paino went over the history of this meeting and how it was postponed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic but is steadfast in his commitment to ensure that this contractually required meeting continues as stipulated, going forward.

Additionally, I want to thank to Chamber and Nancy Teagle for their efforts to continue the beloved Cannon Beach Independence Day Parade, while also recognizing the American Legion for its past leadership. I will be glad to see this tradition return.

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gulls. It is an adrenaline filled day and night as teams scour the desert to see the most species, they can so they can claim the title of “Champions of the Flyway”.

But seeing the most birds is just one component. In 2022, the conservation funds were raised to protect European Turtle-Doves which face many challenges as they move from south of the Sahara to breed in Europe. BirdLife Israel partners in Malta, Cyprus, and Greece will be granted the funds raised to protect European Turtle-Doves in on-the-ground initiatives and projects. The European Turtle-Dove is one of the most threatened long-distance migrants in the world, their population has decreased by over 30% in the last 15 years. The decline comes from habitat degradation, excessive bag limits, and illegal killing.

Local connection So, what is this have to do with the north Oregon Coast?

Well, the “Cannon Beach bird people” went over to Israel to represent North America on separate teams.

Hannah Buschert and Erik Ostrander are known locally and worldwide for their work as birding advocates and influencers. Hannah and Erik have competed in birding competitions for years and

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Pet meet and greets are by appointment only, so if you’d like to meet Dewey, call the shelter at 503-861-7387 to set up an appointment.

The shelter is open 11:00 to 4:00 Tuesday through Saturday.

You can also fill out an application at the shelter’s Adopting a Pet page: https://www.co.clatsop.or.us/animalcontrol/page/Adoptingpet.

Scroll to the bottom of the page for the application.

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ments -- with the ongoing small village needs the vast majority of the other times.

The Planning Commission will review it again on June 23rd prior to final review by the Council. Will Hemlock become a plaza?

How about roundabouts at the intersections? Will a new parking lot be created?

Paid parking? Permits for employees or residents?

What is the plan for the levels of parking in the neighborhood right-of-ways?

What should the city ask of OR State Parks with regard to Ecola or the Tolovana Wayside. The Plan currently lists specific items for $8M in projects (with other unspecified items leading upwards to a total of $10M.) Many community inputs were given. Go look to see how yours have gotten incorporated. The City says this version has high approval ratings.

My opinion is it needs more work – it is not yet a shared vision for where we are heading. But the city is pushing for a quick (conditional?) approval so it can immediately qualify for grant monies. I would prefer a plan that we all look at and understand.

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not represent the realities of Cannon Beach.

He does say the City must consider these types of factors when making planning or comparison purposes.

And this is true – we must factor in the tourism effect.

Each set of city, police and fire services and all types of physical plant capabilities must have an effective strategy to deal with a temporary peak capacity.

Some of these peak capacity moments happen only for a few days/weeks per year. And, there are many different types of strategies to apply besides building all capabilities to full peak needs. Also, peak capacity is not theoretical maximum occupancy. Not all occupiers will flush toilets at the same time, or turn on faucets or need emergency services.

We need to be smart, strategic and cost effective with realistic planning.

A good example underway right now is the Cannon Beach Transportation Strategic Plan. It was promoted as the solution to the town’s tourism parking and congestion problems. It was to create a shared vision, a path for the city to follow for the next 20 years. It needs to incorporate solutions that best fit for all of the categories of occupiers mentioned above – but it must also be a balance between the peak capacity needs of a few mo-

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took a chance at competing in the “big leagues” with the Champions of the Flyway.

Hannah joined the first international, all-women’s team to participate in this competition with teammates representing Israel, Uzbekistan, and the US. Erik teamed up with two expatriates whom he met for the first time the day before the big day was to take place.

April 5, 2022 was race day.

Teams took off at midnight to travel throughout southern Israel in search of birds.

They visited kibbutz’s known for Eurasian Scops-Owl, salt ponds for Greater Flamingos, Yeruham Lake for the Syrian Woodpecker, and many other spots for some incredible desert bird species. Hannah and Erik were both lucky to get to see some of the amazing sites that Israel has to offer, such as the Ben Gurion Memorial Site just south of Sde Boker which has stunning views of the Tsin canyon and Avdat highlands in the heart of the Negev, where Egyptian Vultures, Eurasian Griffons, buzzards, and eagles move along in their migration. The highways were dotted with different species of Wheatears and a surprise Cream-colored Courser! The teams met up for sunset at the beach in Eilat to view terns, gulls, and plovers.

Hannah’s team saw 136 species and Erik’s saw 118, the winning team saw 176 species in the 24-hour period.

While neither of our Oregonians won for most species seen, Hannah’s team did win the “Guardians of the Flyway” award for most money raised, $11,375, surpassing their goal of $5,000 – some of which was donated from members of the Cannon Beach community.

That is what it really is all about: fundraising to protect

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Timbers from 17th century vessel FREE recovered from sea caves near Manzanita Researchers believe they have found timbers from a 300year old Spanish galleon along Oregon’s north coast, according to the National Geographic.

“The extraordinarily rare hull remains were removed from sea caves near Manzanita earlier this week in a risky emergency recovery mission involving archaeologists, law enforcement personnel, and search-and-rescue teams from multiple state and local agencies,” National Geographic states in an online article.

The discovery was first made in 2019 after a beachgoer spotted the remains, but the pandemic and permitting requirements slowed retrieval of the timbers.

“The dozen timbers are believed to be pieces of the Santo Cristo de Burgos, a Spanish galleon that was sailing from the Philippines to Mexico in 1693 when it veered off course and vanished, most likely wrecking on what’s now Oregon’s coast. Its cargo included costly Chinese silk, porcelain, and blocks of beeswax for making candles,” the National Geographic online report states.

On June 14, state geologists traveled to the site to begin the recovery.

Nehalem Bay Fire & Rescue (NBFR) Chief Chris Beswick said he and a NBFR crew of four assisted state geologists in retrieving the timbers.

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caves where some artifacts had washed up, primary the wood pieces,” he said. “The main piece that we brought in looks like a main timber from the ship. It is about 6-feet long. It was very heavy.”

Beswick said his crew using jet skis navigated the large timber from the cave through the water to the beach, about 200-feet, then carried it to a waiting trailer on shore.

“We also helped bring in several other smaller pieces of wood,” he said. “The state geologist were very excited about them.”

Beswick said the timber recovery was a unique experience and a first-time event for him and the fire crew.

“I never expected in my career as a firefighter that I would be recovering artifacts from a ship wreck,” he said.

National Geographic reports that the timbers are now at the Columbia Maritime Museum to be documented and conserved.

Oregon State Parks spokesman Chris Havel said this can be a significant discovery that underscores the importance of Oregon’s history.

“Hands down, this is an exciting development,” Havel said. “It may well be true that it wouldn’t have been possible if the ocean shore wasn’t protected by the 1967 Beach Bill, so thank Os West and Tom McCall and all the people who worked in the past to make the ocean shore a public place, and who work day-in and day-out right now to keep protecting

it. We look forward to learning what researchers can tell us about the recovered timbers, so we can share that news with the people who visit.”

According to Havel, state parks protect lands that tell many human stories, starting with the tribes that have lived here for thousands of years, right up to today.

“It’s important to recognize the full breadth and depth of that experience and implore everyone to do their part to protect these places,” he said.

“As a visitor, that means respecting each other and any signs or warnings you may see and refraining from searching for artifacts or taking anything from the park other than the memories of a fun, safe visit.

It’s not just the law, it’s the right thing to do.”

Havel urges anyone visiting the state parks who may find a suspected cultural resource, either on the beach or the surrounding area, to leave the suspected resource in place, do not disturb them, and contact the park office.

“Cultural resources are protected under state law, both on public and private lands,” Havel said.

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ennifer Gloria Jackson Harrison passed peacefully at home on May 3, 2022, with her husband holding her hand and her in-laws at bedside. Jennifer pushed cancer back with incredible courage and grace for 3 years and made her own decision to discontinue treatment when she was ready to sleep forever.

She was born in Lima, Peru, on September 5, 1967, the 2nd of four children. Her family moved to Arequipa, Peru the next year. There, she attended Prescott Anglo American School (fostered by her father) until 1981. She loved telling stories of her childhood in Peru, many of which highlighted the beach town of Mejia, where the family summered for several weeks each year. She was always proud of her Peruvian heritage and was comforted by her joyous childhood memories. Cannon Beach, Oregon, reminded her of Mejia.

In 1981, her family moved to her father’s birthplace Malden, Missouri, and a year later relocated to Springfield, Missouri. There, Jennifer graduated high school in 1986, and then earned a B.S in Education in 1991 and a M.S. in Education in 1995, both from Southwest Missouri State University. She knew at 6 years old she wanted to be an elementary classroom teacher and never wavered.

She began her teaching career in 1991 in Springfield, Missouri and taught there for 8 years.

In college, she met her future husband, Jeff Harrison. They married in 1998 and the newlyweds moved to Portland, Oregon, the following year. Jennifer taught 4th grade in the Beaverton School District for 22 years.

She was a gifted, professional, and passionate educator and helped countless students who spoke English and/or Spanish. She made learning fun and focused on

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Jennifer Gloria Jackson Harrison Sept. 5, 1967 - May 3, 2022 family members in Springfield, Missouri and Peru. Jennifer is preceded in death by her father, Charles Jackson, who died in Naples, Florida in 2011.

A Celebration of Jennifer’s Life will be held for her late summer 2022 on the beach she loved most, Cannon Beach, Oregon. She is so very missed now and forever by so many.

She made the world a better and brighter place every day.

In lieu of flowers, Jennifer would smile with a memoriam donation to her local Humane Society. Please use https:// oregonhumane.tfaforms.net/ forms/view/33 or call 503802-6793. Use her name, Jennifer Harrison, and her email address: JGHPUB@ COMCAST.NET. Bless all who loved her.

making her classroom a place where kids felt safe, included, and valued. She wrote individual letters to each student most weeks, held dance parties, and presented each child with a, “year in review” book or DVD with pictures and music. She taught for 30 years and changed countless lives. Her kids loved her, their mothers wept in appreciation, and her peers were drawn to her for advice and support.

Multiple colleagues credit her as their inspiration to teach.

She battled cancer for 3 years but did not complain; self-pity was foreign to her.

The outpouring of love for Jennifer has been incredible and consistent. Almost every sentiment includes how brightly she shone, how ever-positive she was, and how her smile brightened the room and the day.

Hers was the most sought-after ear to bend and shoulder on which to cry. She inspired all who knew her and always put others’ needs before her own.

Jennifer loved beaches, doggies, kids, friends, family,

and her husband. She had a fulfilling life and left us much too soon. She loved life and life loved her back. She loved checking the tide tables for low tides and getting up early for long beach walks with her dogs (and often husband). She never met a beach she didn’t love. Beach days were magic.

Jennifer believed in fighting for what she loved. She actively worked with her husband to protect Cannon Beach’s most treasured resources from over-building, urbanization, and over-grading of beach dunes.

Jennifer is survived by her loving family, husband Jeff Harrison of Portland/Cannon Beach, Oregon, mother Gloria Jackson of Naples, Florida, sister Maria Jackson of Naples, Florida, sister Cecilia Jackson of El Portal, California, brother Charlie Jackson of Merritt Island, Florida, (along with sister-in-law wife Kelli, and nieces Sophia and Gabriella), in-law parents David and Sandra Harrison of Springfield, Missouri, and several other

In deference to an old favorite poem of uncertain authorship, here is a personalized version for Jennifer.

Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am the wave come in from the sea; I am the heart carved into the tree.

I am the puppy running off-leash; I am the grains of unspoiled beach.

I am the gentle showers of rain; I coat your face to soften your pain.

I blow forever in salty breeze; I will always be in all of these.

Look for me, find me, in white puffed clouds; I’m smiling, sing joyfully aloud.

Come stroll our beach, and relish your walk; Then sit with me, at Jennifer Rock.

Do not stand at my grave and cry.

I am not there; I did not die.

Bird watching is a popular way to get outdoors and see wildlife in its natural habitat. Many local species need your help and attention. Gazette file photo

n Birding Continued from Page 4 species so that current and future generations can see and appreciate wildlife like the European Turtle-Dove. There are many species locally that need our help too. Tufted Puffin on Haystack Rock are in decline and organizations like the Friends of Haystack Rock work hard to conserve their population by advocat-

ing on behalf of the puffins with state and federal governments. Portland Audubon has educated the public for years about sharing the beach with Snowy Plovers. So, whether it be near or far, wildlife needs our help everywhere.

For more about birding in Israel and the Champions of the Flyway, check out Hannah and Erik’s podcast: Hannah and Erik Go Birding, which can be found on all podcast streaming services and at www.gobirdingpodcast.com.

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