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March 17, 2017 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com • 5A Clatsop County needs ecologically sustainable jobs Clatsop County Commissioner Lianne Thompson provided this testimony to the Oregon Joint Ways and Means Committee March 3. C latsop County Commissioner Lianne Thompson Co-chairs Sen. Devlin and Rep. Na- thanson, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you tonight. My name is Lianne Thompson, and I’m a Clatsop County com- missioner. I appreciate the very great challenge before you in this session as you balance revenues and requests from all over Oregon. It’s no surprise that there are more of the latter than the former. It’s no surprise that many people are requesting — perhaps demanding — that you perform the impossible GUEST COLUMN LIANNE THOMPSON job of meeting every request with agreement and funding. I’m from the government, and I came to help. What I’m offering isn’t imme- diately possible, but it’s a direction forward. I’d ask your attention to wise investment in economic development that provides jobs in ecologically sustainable ways, jobs that grow the hearts and minds of the workers involved as they support our local and statewide tax base. Sen. Betsy Johnson has her Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center project in Scappoose. I’m in favor of supporting that project with whatever “ask” she has for funding. I trust her judg- ment. I’m also requesting that you consider investing in factories all over Oregon that will use cross-lam- inated timber or other mass-timber technology to produce value-added timber products from our private, state, and federal forests. I’d like to see us building modular housing using mass timber techniques. We don’t have specifi c requests at the moment, but they’re coming soon. Please give them consideration as they provide jobs in rural Oregon. You know that rural Oregon des- perately needs those ecologically sustainable manufacturing jobs, or we face becoming ghost towns or theme parks. Let’s instead put tools in workers’ hands, develop opportu- On your mark, get set … spring break! W ith spring break just weeks away, are you ready? We’ve seen a little bit of everything when it comes to our weather over the past few months. And this winter has brought more occurrences of snow than any of the previous six winters I’ve lived here. Many life-long residents have echoed my thoughts and told me that it’s one of the longest stretches of cold and wet weather they can ever remember. The mountains have reaped the rewards this year, much the way we did in 2015 where snow was scarce and sunshine and warmer temps were the talk of the town. Two years ago, that weather helped spark a surge of winter business, and lodging tax brought in 30 percent more than it did during the January through March quarter of 2014. This year, our tourism friends in the mountains are seeing a lot of the same increases we did just 24 months ago. The good news on the travel front is that spring break is kicking off for some this very week (University of Portland is closed from March 13-17). We’ll now see public schools and universities across the Pacif- ic Northwest breaking at different points all the way through the week of April 10-14, where most Seattle area schools get some rest and relaxation. The biggest spring break week hap- pens March 27-31 when most Oregon Last and perhaps most important for many is that this future will give us the means to also protect and preserve forests in Oregon as wild places, places that provide clean air and drinking water, allow recre- ational opportunities, and species and habitat protection. It’s a big dream, there’s a lot of collaborative work to be done, but it’s a dream that inspires both hope and com- mon purpose for our shared value, a thriving Oregon. Thank you again for your work. I am eager to work with you as we move forward. nity for good jobs, so they can pro- vide for themselves, their families, and their communities. The way forward in developing mass timber jobs, especially ones that will create modular housing (my personal fa- vorite), is not clear right now. We’re still in the early stages of develop- ing the concepts and implementing them. It’s not a “silver bullet,” and it’s not an immediate solution. But working toward a future that makes better use of Oregon forests allows multiple benefi ts. If we have secondary production on our timber products in local manufacturing facilities, we do more than provide good jobs. We also provide a way to pay for essential services, and I know you’re committed to that by your membership on this committee. Lianne Thompson is a long-time community activist who’s current- ly serving as the elected Clatsop County Commissioner for District 5, the southern half of Clatsop County. Cleanup team Deadline for tourism grant is getting near SIDE RAIL JON RAHL While spring break season is one thing that can help travel surge in our area, the City of Seaside Visitors Bureau’s tourism grant program is also designed to drive new tourism business. The tourism grant program has long dis- tributed funds towards both the Seaside Jazz Festival and Independence Day Fireworks. This year’s fi scal awards for the 2016-17 fi nancial year also went to Halloween Happenin’s – developed by the Seaside Downtown Development Association, and January’s A Capella Festival. Do you have an event you’ve been itching to develop during the September through May time period? That’s the preferred time of year for applying pro- grams, but if you have any idea to help increase tourism in Seaside, this may be the tool that helps get you going. The deadline to apply is Friday, April 14 and you can learn more at seasideor. com/industry. Have a thought or a question about tourism in Seaside, or maybe an idea for a future column? Drop me an email at jrahl@cityofseaside.us. Jon Rahl is the director of tourism for the Seaside Visitors Bureau and assistant general manager of the Seaside Civic & Con- vention Center. schools and universities, as well as the Boise and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho areas release for time off. Many Washingto- nians have breaks April 3-7, including Tacoma, Olympia and the Mt. Vernon area. Clark County and Vancouver also break the fi rst full week of April. With an uptick of weekday business expected through mid-April, are there things you do to get ready for the beach seekers? Much like many of us might do at home with a little spring cleaning after the winter months, I treat this time of year as an awesome opportunity to re- ally brush up on customer service skills and make sure Seaside visitors realize how much we appreciate them visiting. Consumers have loads of choices when it comes to travel and it’s a huge smorgasbord of options they can pick from. Our marketing efforts aim to keep Seaside as a top choice when it comes to vacationing but a nice string of good weather would complement those efforts greatly. I’d love to hear what you do to help kick off the spring season, so drop me a line at the email below if you have something you’d like to share. Kristen Harvey and 22 other employees from digi- tal marketing agency, Logi- cal Position, teamed up with the nonprofi t, Solve Oregon, and “stormed” a Seaside beach to help the environ- ment. Around 125 pounds of garbage were collected from the beach and properly dis- posed by the two groups. Kristen Harvey BUSINESS DIRECTORY L ANDSCAPING B oB M c E wan c onstruction , inc . E xcavation • u ndErground u tiitiEs r oad w ork • F ill M atErial s itE P rEParation • r ock owned and operated by M ike and C eline M C e wan 503-738-3569 34154 Hwy 26, Seaside, OR P.O. 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This property is the site of the current Hallmark Resort & Spa in Cannon Beach. With the success of the Surfview Motel, other motel ventures followed. Over the next 50- plus years, over 40 hotels were either newly construct- ed or acquired and renovat- ed. Mrs. Hay was very ac- tive with the business, and Georgiana Hay always traveled with her husband to scout locations for new hotels, or to look at existing hotels. Bill Hay passed away in 2002. Mrs. Hay is survived by a son, Gary A. Hay; daughters, Lynda J. Allred (William Allred) and Pamla MacLean (Frank); seven grandchil- dren; and six great-grand- children. Per Mrs. Hay’s instruc- tions, no funeral will be held, but a celebration of life will be held in mid-April when everyone in her fam- ily, and friends, can attend. Natalia Fife Torres (née Galvani) passed away on March 3, 2017. She was born Jan. 28, 1928, in Seaside, Oregon. Natalia (Pat or Patsy to her friends) grew up in Seaside, where her father, William H. 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