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VRD proposals posted; comment invited next week Plan OKs unlimited nights in areas west of highway tourists. The law is an attempt to establish through zoning The long-awaited draft rules and license requireof proposed ordinances ments a way to keep VRD that set new rules for owners happy and profitvacation rental dwellings able, while preserving in Lincoln City have been some neighborhoods for posted on the city governfamilies. ment website. The ordinances try to The VRD ordinances, accomplish this by allowing the result of months of unlimited nightly rentals in planning, come after a the R-1-5 zone where VRDs series of public workshops are now popular, essentialin the spring where City ly west of Highway 101 and Manager Ron Chandler near the beach. But rentals explained the proposals to would be limited to as few interested citizens. as 30 nights a year in zones People were encouraway from the beach, those aged to send comments east of the highway and at with their concerns to City the north end of town. Hall to help in the process. The ordinances also This latest version of the put a cap on the number law is an attempt to settle a of VRDs that will eventuwide-ranging dispute that ally be allowed in the R-1-5 has simmered for years in zone. Under the proposal, this town, where nearly 10 no more than 12 percent of percent of the 6,000 or so the lots in that zone could dwellings are rented out to See VRD, Page A2 RICK MARK rmark@countrymedia.net
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Hanna Connett, executive director of Family Promise, holds her recent Certificate of Appreciation from the National Family Promise Foundation, the “Ed Award� from Community Days 2015, and the first article written about her when she came to the coast as an AmeriCorps volunteer five years ago.
A handprint on Lincoln City’s heart Hanna Connett bids farewell, talks about the future CASSIE RUUD cruud@countrymedia.net
When Hanna Connett came to Lincoln City five years ago, she arrived as one of three AmeriCorps volunteers. She still has the article announcing the arrival of the AmeriCorps staff and, underneath her name in bold, she is quoted as saying that one day in the future she hopes
to run her own nonprofit organization. Fast forward five years and Connett is the executive director of Family Promise of Lincoln County, a nonprofit agency dedicated to the betterment of families in need across the county. Family Promise is based in the Taft district of Lincoln City. Pastor Paul Hayden from the Chapel By The Sea Presbyterian Church spoke
during the Family Promise Two-Year Celebration last Thursday. He told of Connett’s vision, compassion, discipline and energy. “She has had foresight that not many young men or women at her age would have to be the founder of the program and see that program develop from a start-up to an organization that has a $160,000 budget, has ministered to over 100 individuals and families, has an 80 percent success rate of families entering into this program and going through the whole program with success,� he said. It is rare, he said, for someone to be able to stand up and say, “This is what I
have accomplished in my life,â€? because a person “had a vision and saw that vision become reality.â€? Connett will be leaving the program and Lincoln City at the end of July to marry her fiancĂŠ Benjamin Leen and move to California. Family Promise has many applicants for the executive director position, Connett said, and she will work closely with her replacement to make the transition seamless. Board member Sue Anderson presented Connett with a Certificate of Appreciation from the national Family Promise Organiza-
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Siletz Bay Music Festival Volunteers share their stories
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With the rapid growth of the Siletz Bay Music Festival over the past few years, requiring more and bigger venues, has come an increase in the need for volunteers. More than 80 volunteers will lend their assistance during this year’s festival, providing 386 room nights and 575 meals for the 55 musicians, orchestra members and actors who will perform at the event. In addition to providing housing for the performers, volunteers will be on call NEWS GUARD PHOTOS/CASSIE RUUD during the festival 24/7, said Volunteers (from left) Nancy Miller, Mark Robinson, Christine Tell and Mark Sanders prepare volunteer Mark Sanders. “It’s amazing, the comschedule bags for the Siletz Bay Music Festival Artists. munity really opens their hearts to this event,� he said. the artists – which included and participate as we add SBMF Board Chairperson Siletz Bay Music Festival more musicians, expand the the rehearsal schedules of for the last five years,� she and volunteer Christine Tell each artist and information program and add great new said. “The growth has been said her motivation to work about where to find food. volunteers.� amazing. We have gone with this program comes Miller and Robinson are Volunteers Nancy Miller from just four or five perforfrom a place of pride and from California, Tell said, and Mark Robinson were mances to two weeks worth loyalty. and after seeing the festival assisting Tell and Sanders in of performances. Every year “I’ve been part of the have decided to come and preparing schedule bags for it’s such a joy to volunteer
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