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Initiative filers can expect to pay for city staff time lot this year actually filed 18 separate versions of the petitions between December and March before they finally met the state requirements. In the end, Appicello RICK MARK noted, the approved initiarmark@countrymedia.net tive petitions were never submitted to voters for In response to a spring signatures and they were flood of initiative petitions never submitted for the in Lincoln City this year, May ballot. City Council this week Each of those submisbacked a plan that would sions had to be reviewed shift the cost of reviewing those petitions from the city by the city recorder, Cathy Steere, who serves as the to the petitioner. city elections officer, and by City Attorney Richard Appicello. Appicello told Council on The proposal before Monday that a petitioner who was attempting to put See COUNCIL, Page A2 three initiatives on the bal-

Council adopts $49 million budget

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Patrick Magada, who graduated from Taft 7-12 High School this month, aspires to be a musician.

Painting his own stripes: Taft graduate Pat Magada shoots for the stars CASSIE RUUD cruud@yahoo.com “Here I am. I remember the days when Mom would sing and I’d fall asleep. Nothing ever could hurt me,� begins Taft graduate Patrick Magada’s song “Paint Your Stripes.� The four-minute song celebrates, among other things, the anticipation of going out into the world after graduation. Magada performed the song live during his class’s 2016 graduation on June 4, to standing applause from the gathered audience. He said the inspiration for the song came from making the deci-

sion to graduate high school early. “I decided to graduate early about five months ago,� Magada said. “I could have stayed until next year but it would have meant take all of three classes and I realized that I’m ready to go out into the world and try to reach my dreams. I wrote “Paint Your Stripes� probably the second week of my second semester because I was thinking, whoa – this is my last year now.� The music video Magada created features seniors from the Taft graduating class of 2016. “It was the most stressed I had ever been during school,� Magada (who was responsible for the filming and editing) said, laughCOURTESY PHOTO/PAT MAGADA ing. “Seniors are probPat Magada’s original song “Paint Your Stripes� had over 1,600 ably the most – like, ‘Oh, views on YouTube as of press time. See MAGADA, Page A3

Citing health, Sprague resigns Council seat RICK MARK rmark@countrymedia.net

Roger Sprague, a Lincoln City business leader and a fixture on City Council for decades, has resigned from the Council, citing his health. “My doctors tell me that I must reduce my activities in order to keep stress to a minimum,� Sprague wrote in his June 3 resignation letter. “So it is with sincere regret that I must tender my resignation from my position on the Lincoln City Council effectively immediately. “I have enjoyed my many years on this and the other councils upon which I’ve been fortunate to serve. Lincoln City is special to me and having had a small say, during all

Roger Sprague those years, in the constructive way she has grown and progressed makes me proud to say ‘I live here.’� Sprague, who with Dale Isham operated the Isham and Sprague Insurance See SPRAGUE, Page A2

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to Lincoln City? West: Lincoln City, like the Oregon Coast, is its own attraction, its own best Would a TV show set in advertisement. Several of us Lincoln City be such a boon are native Oregonians. My to tourism that the city memories of the coast go should help fund the project? back farther than I’ll discuss; A television producer they’re part of my earlicame to town this week to est childhood. I grew up in ask the city for help in fundSalem, so for my family the ing his planned TV pilot. coast meant Lincoln City The show called “Coastal or the six communities that Disturbances,� which has once comprised it. As an unbeen in the planning and dergrad at the University of pre-production stages for Oregon, the coast provided years, would be set in fica haven for us; a quick run tional Nelscott City, a quaint over for a day in the sun, or beach town nestled between even the wind and rain, gave the ocean and mountains of us a respite when pressures Taft County. of various sorts became a bit TV producer Ron West NEWS GUARD PHOTO/RICK MARK overwhelming. was joined by state Rep. Interestingly, despite the David Gomberg this week as TV producer Ron West, left, and state Rep. David Gomberg pitched West’s project to City Council inevitable encroachment of this week. they pitched the project to commercialism, the coast at City Council. its heart remains what it althe city Visitors and ConvenWest: The woman owner West said he needs ways has been: a community tion Bureau, said cost savTNG: Are you envisioning of a regional Oregon Coast $80,000 to finish the last two of everyday people trying to ings at the VCB could allow a crime show seen from a newspaper heading toward weeks of shooting. make a fair living and keep the city to provide the other bankruptcy reluctantly hires newspaper angle? Are you Gomberg indicated that the area a good place to live. $40,000. looking for light-hearted an enigmatic veteran Chihalf of that funding could It’s not like most, or at least The News Guard asked moments as well? cago newsman. He converts come from the state film many, other coastal tourWest to describe his project. West: Essentially, all of the the drowning of a prominent commission, which proist areas in that sense. In its above; it’s a crime drama, local fi gure into a murder motes television and movie independence, its necessary The News Guard: What is with comic elements. investigation, and nothing production in Oregon. the premise for your show? TNG: What attracted you turns out to be as it seems. Ed Dreistadt, director of See TV SHOW, Page A4 RICK MARK rmark@countrymedia.net

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