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OUR 113th Year September 18, 2020 SEASIDESIGNAL.COM County strike teams fi ght state wildfi res More than 40 dispatched to blazes By R.J. MARX Seaside Signal More than 40 Clatsop County fi refi ghters con- tinue to battle wildfi res across the state, Fire Chief Joey Daniels said Tuesday , with full task forces in the Estacada and Detroit areas, and two vehicles working in Lane County. Eight Seaside fi refi ght- ers, along with two trucks and a command vehicle, are performing tasks include road clearing, assistance with evacuations and extin- guishing hot spots. Nine personnel from Gearhart are among the county task forces, Chief Bill Eddy said , with three fi refi ghting apparatus. County tasks forces are rounded out by personnel and equipment from Asto- ria, Lewis and Clark, War- renton and Nehalem fi re departments. While 14-day tours Gearhart Fire See Fires, Page A5 Tasks include clearing roads, assisting with evacuations and extinguishing hot spots. minus a key ingredient Photos by R.J. Marx Mrs. Cane, the seamstress who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition on its Voyage of Discovery. She made uniform shirts for the men and did laundry. By R.J. MARX Seaside Signal This year’s Lewis and Clark Salt Mak- ers reenactment in the Cove came missing a key ingredient. As members of the Voy- age of Discovery in the winter of 1805-06 did, salt makers boiled salt water over a fire and scraped the remaining salt. But with a fire ban in place, this year’s reenactors camped out without the actual salt making. That didn’t stop the visitors to the south end of the Prom near Avenue U, said Steve Wright, president of the Seaside Museum and Historical Society. This year’s event, held Saturday and Sun- day, brought about the same attendance as years past, with about 20 to 30 people an hour coming down. “No fi re, but every- thing else,” Wright said, including the period clothing, shelter and encampment and the salt-making cairn. The event comes at an interesting time in U.S. history , reenactor John Orthmann said. At the University of Portland, repeated vandalism led staff to remove a statue of Capt. William Clark and York, Clark’s personal slave and the only Black on the expedition, from public display. Last year, in Charlot- tesville, Virginia, a con- troversy erupted over a statue of Sacagawea, Seaside grad’s home destroyed in Almeda fi re By R.J. MARX Seaside Signal Salt Makers return, Jackson County’s Almeda f ire destroyed the home they were rent- ing and with it, all of their belongings. In the aftermath, Katie Fawkes, a 2008 Seaside High School graduate, and who is portrayed crouching behind Clark and Capt. Meriwether Lewis. The City Coun- cil voted to remove the statue from the down- town core. “Some people say she’s crouched in sub- mission, others say she’s tending to her child,” Orthmann said. “There was controversy See Salt, Page A5 her partner of five years, Harlan Brooks, are safe and staying with friends, Harlan’s brother, Forrest, said last Saturday. “They will need your help,” Forrest Brooks, who lives in Beaverton, said in an online plea. “Their home was always See Fawkes, Page A5 R.J. Marx Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District board members Celeste Bodner, Su Coddington, Erika Marshall, Michael Hinton, Katharine Parker and Skyler Archibald. Recreation district to bid on middle school Property seen as a key landmark By R.J. MARX Seaside Signal Reenactors Sid Stoff els, Glen Allison and John Orthmann at Saturday’s Lewis and Clark Salt Makers event in Seaside. $1.00 The Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District will bid on the $2.9 million Broadway Middle School property. The potential purchase aims to improve commu- nity health and wellness, child care and recreational activity. Katharine Parker, the recreation district’s board president, described it as a “key landmark piece of property in the heart of our community.” In a unanimous vote, the board authorized Sky- ler Archibald, the district’s executive director, to work with a real estate agent and deliver an offer discussed in executive session to the Seaside School District. “The board recognizes the need to preserve pub- lic land in the public trust and to maintain indoor rec- reation space for our com- munity and our youth,” the motion stated . The middle school, located off of U.S. High- way 101 and Broadway, is among the school proper- ties relocating this fall to a new Spruce Drive location outside of the tsunami inun- dation zone. Of the 5.4-acre property, 3 acres are zoned residential and 2.4 acres are zoned for commercial use. The 73,000-square-foot building includes the main school with two gyms, caf- eteria and kitchen. Separately on Tuesday, the Seaside School District board approved a motion to negotiate and execute a property offer from Bashu Ventures LLC at the middle school. “We have an offer on the middle school and the board approved the autho- See School, Page A5 Ten added to Vietnam War Veterans Memorial By R.J. MARX Seaside Signal Ten new names will be added to the Vietnam War Veterans Memorial, bring- ing the total of those hon- ored to 111 Seaside men and women who served. “People keep calling up and saying, ‘My dad was there,’ ‘This guy was there,’” co-organizer Mark Hansen said. “I had a cou- ple guys look at it and say, ‘Hi, I was there.’” The names of Floyd Breitmeyer, Darcy Dobson, Dale Goodman, Joe Luth, Gary Martz, Jack Owen, Danny Robinson, Patrick Roshay, Mike Spillman and Doug Strong will be added. The granite monu- ment stands at the south edge of Seltzer Park in the Cove after the city’s public works department cleared, excavated and installed the memorial in March. Hansen teamed with John Alto, Ky Jennings and others in the community to lead the four-year fundrais- ing effort and make sure each of Seaside’s Viet- nam veterans received recognition. Seltzer Park, on the east side of Sunset Boulevard in the Cove, was chosen for its historical connection to the local community, view of the beach and accessibility to visitors. “One guy sent me a response, ‘This really makes me feel good, it’s like I’m coming home,’” Hansen said. The city continues to do concrete work at the site for greater accessibility compli- ance with American with Dis- abilities Act requirements. An offi cial opening is planned next year. Imagery on the memorial in the Cove honors Seaside’s Vietnam War veterans.