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June 17, 2016 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com • 7A High-schoolers ind ‘roots’ with senior projects A way for students to ‘reach higher,’ leave comfort zone By Lyra Fontaine Cannon Beach Gazette For their Paciica projects, Sea- side High School seniors devoted 50 to 100 hours to a range of activities. They organized events like Cinco de Mayo, plays and the school’s cen- tennial celebration. They tutored, coached sports, worked with Foster Club and food banks, spearheaded emergency preparedness efforts and more. Students presented their work to the community June 1, articulating how they balanced their time and found creative solutions to obstacles. Paciica Projects are “a place for students to excel, to reach higher, to get out of their comfort zones,” Paciica adviser and social studies instructor Mike Hawes said in his opening remarks. Microplastics removal Dana Ottem, Jesse Trott and Annuka Brown spent days iltering sand to remove microplastics — formed from larger plastic debris in the ocean breaking down over time — from local beaches. Mentor Marc Ward, founder of Sea Turtles Forev- er/Blue Wave, guided them. “Marine animals often ingest mi- croplastics mistaking them as food and cannot digest them properly,” Brown said. Toxins from the plastics are passed down the food chain. The presentation included a photo of a sea turtle with plastic stuck in its nose, and a bird necropsy that con- tained microplastics. For their Paciica Project, the students used a static-charge screen for plastic iltration patented by Sea Turtles Forever, which helps con- serve marine turtles and preserve their nesting and foraging habitats. The organization has sent screens to areas around the world. Community garden From their experiences commu- nity gardening and revitalizing the school’s garden, seniors Esteban Becerra, Joanna Ramos, Marilu Peon and Xitlali Bello hope to convey that growing your own food can be a fun, rewarding way to learn about plant biology, spend time outdoors and en- joy organic produce. The students learned about bal- ancing work and school, beneits of organic food and taking proper care of fruits and vegetables they plant- ed, with help from mentor Dorota Haber-Lehigh, English language learning and ethnobotany teacher. “We learned how to use different materials to enrich the soil and help the plants grow better,” Becerra said. Each student had roots in garden- ing or farming. They began working in commu- The students cleaned the trail, created 10 trail markers using recy- cled wood boards, then placed the trail markers in the ground through both digging holes and using a me- chanical auger. Festival of Trees LYRA FONTAINE/CANNON BEACH GAZETTE Seniors Paige Ideue, Alexander Barker and Abel Ryon helped Provi- dence Seaside Hospital with the fundraising event Festival of Trees. nity gardens like Green Angels Farm and Sunny Pool Gardens last spring, helping with weeding, watering, readying garden plots, planting low- ers to attract bees, planting and har- vesting vegetables, composting and more. The students fondly looked back on seeing their hard work blos- som into fruits and vegetables they could pick, eat and share with others in the community. Restoration station Brittany West, Danté Still and Jack Whittle worked with North Coast Land Conservancy, a nonproit that preserves and manages land and wildlife, to restore a trail. They worked with mentor Katie Voelke, North Coast Land Conser- vancy executive director, as well as land steward Eric Owen. “We wanted to give communi- ty members and visitors a place to experience the unique beauty of the northern Oregon Coast,” West said. North Coast Land Conservancy restored Seaside’s Circle Creek and made the land available for the pub- lic to enjoy through hiking, ishing and bird watching. The area is beau- tiful, the students said, and home to bird species, elk herds and salmon running in Necanicum River. However, the overgrown Legacy Trail was not clearly marked, leading to confusion. “The irst time we went to the trail, we had a hard time inding it,” Whittle said. Seniors Paige Ideue, Alexander Barker and Abel Ryon volunteered with Providence Seaside Hospital to help organize a major event: the 18th annual Festival of Trees gala, a December fundraising event and holiday tradition. The gala helped raise money for surgical equipment that allows the hospital to perform more complex surgeries. With help from their mentor, Providence Seaside volunteer coor- dinator Raven Brown, the students irst advertised the event, attended the hospital’s board meeting and called business donating trees and other auction items. For the event, they helped create the popular “Santa’s corner,” dec- orated cookies and trees, ushered guests, helped guard each tree and assisted during the tree auction. “To create a wonderful winter wonderland and have the public en- joy it made us feel accomplished,” Ryon said. “Our hard work and lex- ibility paid off.” The event raised $116,000. Ideue volunteered additional hours at the Jason Goodding memorial, handing out remembrance bracelets and ask- ing guests to sign a book. Residents voice objections to afordable housing options Housing from Page 1A Potential new sites, ideas City staff is considering the Tolovana Park site of the now-shuttered children’s center for a third possible workforce housing location, Barnes said. The building became city property after the children’s center closed in April. A con- cept design showed about nine units with parking. The 6 acres behind Sea Ranch Resort could be another potential affordable housing lo- cation, task force member Ken McQuhae said. Incentivizing affordable housing development for property owners of vacant lots throughout town is another op- tion, Barnes said. Former city planner Rain- mar Bartl and former mayor Mike Morgan suggested “park model homes” — factory-built homes under 400 square feet — as an alternative concept for affordable housing at the city’s RV Park. The homes, which include architectural details, could meet the needs of individual or two-person households and would be affordable for hospi- tality industry employees, Bartl said. “It’s scalable. You can start with a set number and see how that works,” Bartl said, adding that the homes would be about $90 per square foot and would “pay for themselves.” Silvis said park model homes could be a “potential tool in the toolbox.” “City Council is looking for an array of possible solutions from the task force,” Barnes said. ‘When it comes to afordable housing, nothing is easy. … If you’re committed to something, you have to give something else up.’ Former city planner Rainmar Bartl Community response Residents responded with both ideas and opposition to the concept designs introduced in May. Plans for affordable hous- ing will eat up downtown parking, and homes should be placed outside the tsunami zone, resident Douglas Wood told the Cannon Beach City Council Tuesday. “We would be able to re- cover as a community more effectively if we had a group of homes and residences up out of the inundation zone on stable high ground,” Wood said. “I see an opportunity to encourage workforce hous- ing in a less expensive, lower market-value area ... resulting in no change in character for the town.” A task force meeting Wednesday did not allow for public comment, unlike pre- vious meetings. The group agreed to permit public com- ment at the next meeting in August. “I don’t want to stile public comment,” task force member Brandon Ogilvie said, “but I hope people understand this is a work session and we are tasked with coming up with a solution.” “There was lots of lively public comment over the last few meetings,” Silvis said. “All of that is good informa- tion to gather.” Resident Ed Johnson said he objected to the denial of public comment at the task force meeting and he dis- agreed with the affordable housing concept being in- troduced “without public in- put.” “I think if you’re going to be on a committee, you have the obligation to ind out what the impact might be on those people who live adjacent to a new proposed project,” John- son said. “It seems like, if you want to build the city, you get the people on your side before you start out.” Johnson did not oppose af- fordable housing at other sites that would be “less impact- ing.” Resident Phil Massebeau said he objected to new afford- able housing units in general. ing the neighborhood as rea- sons for opposing the concept. 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