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OUR 109th YEAR • August 7, 2015
Th e ‘Luckiest’
North
Holladay
Drive to
get major
facelift
GENERATION
Proposed plan will
completely reconstruct
Seaside thoroughfare
By Katherine Lacaze
Seaside Signal
The city of Seaside plans
a major improvement project
on North Holladay Drive in
coming months. Renovations
are slated for portions of the
road from Second Avenue to
12th Avenue.
“We’re basically going to
taNe that street and taNe it all
the way down to the ground
and rebuild it from the ground
up,” &ity Manager MarN
Winstanley said.
The cost of the project still
is “a wild card at this point,”
because the city has not gone
out to bid, Winstanley said.
Overall, he expects the project
will cost about 00,000 per
blocN. The city believes the
bid will be awarded later this
month or in early September.
The total reconstruction
will include replacing all
utility lines under the road,
installing a new drainage sys
tem, laying new pavement
and sidewalNs, placing new
lighting for the road and land
scaping.
Several years ago, Win
stanley said, it came to the
city’s attention that all of
North Holladay Drive need
ed to be redone but it was
not feasible. In 2009, the
city chose to rebuild the road
from 12th Avenue to 24th
Avenue, because that section
was worse at the time than the
section from Second Avenue
to 12th Avenue, he said.
Now the city is in a po
sition to do the second half.
Since the water and sewer
lines under the road need to
be replaced, “we’d want to
repave anyway,” Winstanley
said. “But we thinN it would
be very advantageous and
maNe a huge improvement
for the city by redoing the
lighting and sidewalNs on that
road at the same time. It’s go
ing to maNe that section looN
a lot nicer.”
The city has de¿ nite plans
to reconstruct North Holla
day Drive from Sixth Ave
nue to 12th Avenue. If there
is enough money, the second
section from Second Avenue
to Sixth Avenue will be done.
Both sections, however, will
go out to bid at one time, Pub
lic WorNs Director Neal Wal
lace said. Whether the city has
enough money for the whole
project will depend on the val
ue of the bids that come in.
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See Road, Page 12A
‘Greatest generation’ also
considers itself ‘luckiest’
at Seaside class reunion
Seaside High School classes from
1941 to 1951 gather for ‘last huge
class reunion’
Story and photos by Katherine Lacaze
Seaside Signal
T
he United States was entering a
:RrOd :ar and danFers were À RFN
ing tR hear a \RXng FrRRner )ranN
Sinatra.
And at Wednesday’s Seaside High
School reunion for the graduating classes
of 1941 through 1951, memories of that
decade were shared once again. The event
showed the strength of longtime friend
ships, forged decades ago and carefully
tended between then and now.
2n -uly 9 at the Seaside (lNs /odge,
former classmates eagerly searched for
their friends to snap photographs of them
selves at the reunion in an atmosphere
reminiscent of the last day of high school.
2ld copies of Seaside’s yearbooN, the Sea
Breeze, from the 1940s and ’50s were
spread across tables, along with other
memorabilia.
Dozens of attendees enjoyed a picnic
lunch ² in addition to laughs and conver
sation ² surrounded by large blacNand
white photographs from an earlier era, as
young athletes, cheerleaders, class of¿ cers
and even freshfaced gradeschoolers.
3hotos of birthdays, reunions and par
ties throughout the years were shared at
the event.
Former students shared memories at the July 29
reunion.
Former Seaside High school students Carlysle Dehner
(Class of 1950), Sally McBride (Class of 1948) and Pat-
sy Kerwin (Class of 1950) perform the school’s alma
mater and offi cial fi ght song during a reunion of the
classes from 1941 to 1951 at the Seaside Elks Lodge
on July 29.
See Reunion, Page 9A
Highway 420 opens dispensary at long last The ever-changing cannabis
Owners look forward to
serving patients closer to
their homes
By Katherine Lacaze
Seaside Signal
After several years of per
severance amid medical mar
ijuana’s turbulent legal status
in Seaside, Highway 420 be
came the city’s ¿ rst of¿ cially
licensed dispensary to operate
as of July 15.
“We won,” said Steve *ei
ger, who coowns the business
with his wife, Evee. “We won
for the patients, and the pa
tients are now bene¿ ting.”
The couple moved to the
area in 2012, when they tried
opening a shop but relocated
twice because of complaints
from neighbors. At that point,
*eiger said, they just wanted
to have a glass shop.
Eventually, they found
their current location at 10
S. Roosevelt Dr., at the inter
section with Avenue S. The
spot met the criteria to be a
medical marijuana dispensa
ry, as per the Oregon Medi
cal Marijuana Program, and
the owners applied for that
status two years ago.
“It costs a lot of money
to become compliant with
the state,” *eiger said.
“They demand a whole lot
of things that are very ex
pensive. It’s not easy. It’s
not something you just
throw together.”
He described the paper
worN to register with the
Oregon Health Authority as
“a cross between a tax audit
and a mortgage agreement.”
Everything — video surveil
See Pot, Page 7A
industry: A grower’s perspective
By Katherine Lacaze
Seaside Signal
From an inhouse closet
grow dedicated to one pa
tient, then a garage and now a
threeroom Seaside worNshop,
cannabis grower Eric Sauce
do stands at the forefront of
the local marNet. A longtime
marijuana cultivator, he and
his two partners recently trans
ferred their grow operation in
an effort to maNe the business
more of¿ cial, secure and pro
fessional.
His end goal is to provide
a ¿ rstrate product to the lo
cal area and around the state.
“We’re hoping to set ourselves
apart with our quality and our
variety,” he said.
A Seaside resident, Sauce
do, 2, began growing medical
marijuana several years ago.
“As soon as I À owered the
¿ rst plant, my interest just Nept
growing,” he said. He quicNly
developed a NnacN for it, con
¿ rmed when he entered some
See Grower, Page 7A
Beach volleyball tournament
brings old, new faces in 2015
Former men’s open winner gets help from friends, fans to attend fi nal Seaside tourney
By Katherine Lacaze
Seaside Signal
Bring bacN Dana &ama
cho! That was the call from
Seaside volleyball fans this
summer. And their call was
heard.
This year, a standout play
er is returning for perhaps his
last Seaside tournament, with
a little help from his friends
and fans.
Known for a powerful
serve and his oncourt antics,
Dana &amacho, , of )lor
ida, has won the men’s open
division several times at the
Seaside Beach Volleyball
Tournament. But because
of ¿ nancial and logistical
problems, it seemed unliNely
&amacho would be able to
attend this year’s tournament,
which starts Friday and goes
through Sunday, Aug. 9.
&amacho gained fame for
his brash, hard play and tat
toos. He was the player fans
loved to hate.
³1ot too many people liNe
cheering for me,´ he told a re
porter int 00. ³But , liNe it
liNe that. , liNe to spice up the
crowd and get them going.”
Faced with the prospect
of a Seaside tournament
without &amacho, one of
his friends from 3ortland de
cided to rectify the problem.
Tim FoshNa started a *o
Fund0e account, called ³/et
Dana Play,” to fundraise for
&amacho’s plane ticNet and
lodging while he competes.
,n e[change, &amacho is
partnering with 9yearold
5oman 2nishchenNo, also of
Portland. 2nishchenNo has
tried to win the open division
at the Seaside tournament
since 004 without lucN, al
though he’s placed in the top
10 a few times, said FoshNa,
who is the player’s manager.
“My goal for this year was
to maNe two dreams come
true,” FoshNa said. “2nish
chenNo will get a chance to
play with someone at a very
SUBMITTED PHOTO
A grassroots eff ort brought volleyball great Dana Camacho
back to Seaside this year.
high caliber — arguably, the
highest in the northwest. And
Dana &amacho will get some
help from all of us who want
to see him play another day.
That is what the *oFundMe
is about. It’s not about the
money; it’s about us — the
people and who we want to
see again.”
Not realizing how many
fans &amacho had, the
group didn’t expect to get
anything, 2nishchenNo said.
To their surprise, by continu
ally spreading the linN to the
*oFundMe account through
social media, such as the
See Tourney, Page 12A