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environmentally aware guy. does his own
recycling'» finds its way into various
cardboard boxes carefully placed in the
corners of closets, and under tables, and
desks, where it is kept secure u n til it can
be entered, or downloaded, or whatever
else he imagines his imaginary secretary
does and then, hopefully, it is recycled W*»
hope this explains some of our problems
w ith correspondence, but we imagine our
imaginary secretary w ill eventually get
caught up T il then. I quess. use your own
imagination
Now & Then
Who the hell are these guys? Cascade
Trust? Trust people who won't even give
their names? Trust people who hide
behind lawyers and hired
environm entalists and hired archeologists
and real estate agents/developers who
call themselves public servants, we think
not' Trust people who say the w ild life
Agencies, the biologists, the native
peoples, the surveyors, and most
im portantly the citizens of Seaside,
Oregon are all wrong? Not a chance'
Trust people who appeal to the greedy by
promising m illio n s of dollars in tax
revenue, or threaten the costs of a
lawsuit to get their way?
Never'
There were attem pts to compromise, to
keep the development on the east side of
the land away from the salt marshes, the
heron rookery, the native village sites,
but no, the big ticket condos were the
ones w ith the ocean view So it looks like
a f ight for all the marbles
There were attem pts to work in the
system, but no, bulldozers started
punching a road and bringing in pilings to
build the damned bridge before the City
Council could even decide to not decide
There were attem pts to stop this insult
to the land w ith the law and the
democratic process, but no, those in
power didn't even follow their own laws
This is no more than an attempt by
some very r ich people to make more
money at the expense of the rest of us
Who prof its from this? The students and
citizens from Seaside who te s tifie d
aqainst it? The Native Peoples whose
ancestors graves may lie under the tennis
courts? The (as the Astorian calls them)
"stylish contingent from Cannon Beach",
who have spent their own time, money,
and energy to save the last of the salt
marshes in the area? Who? We know
lawyers are paid, and archeologists are
paid, and environmental consultants are
paid and real estate folks are payed And
of course Cascade Trust w ill p ro fit Was
anyone else paid? Are any of the folks
who had to decide yes or no investors in
Cascade Trust? We don t know No one
w ill te ll us They just say trust us. we
w ill take care of the pollution that runs
o ff the parking lots, trust us. we II take
care of the wetlands, trust us, if we find
any native graves, we II stop digging our
$?O m illio n dollar 69 unit Condos Trust
my ass'
So. by the soul of my Great Great Great
Osage Grandmother, I bring down the
wrath of the Father of all waters to wash
away this scab on the breast of Mother
Earth
Trust this. Cascade, the earth w ill
tremble, the winds w ill howl and the
great waves w ill wash it all away I have
seen this, it w illfJ e You build it and they
w ill come
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Ihe Sahallie City Council Meetings
As we end the year here on the Edge, we
are tempted to loot' back and celebrate
what success we have shared in over the
last year i ooking through past issues we
have several reasons to celebrate January
93 we did our last story about the Trojan
nuclear power plant ( it was shut down,
forever), our fir s t and only story about the
Western Youth Ranch in Lincoln City (it
didn t happen) In A pril, we began our firs t
three-part serial, the story of Sally's
great-grandmother roaming through Alaska
at the turn of the century We also began
our ser tes on the Cannon Beach Watershed,
which is ongoing
We have tried to let folks know that
though we are a small paper ,n a small
town, what goes on in the rest of the
wor Id is of concern to us, and what goes on
in this small town should be of concern to
the rest of the world, because we are
reflections of each other
Our Watershed here in Cannon Beach is
owned by a corporation based in England
The estuary that is being developed in
Seaside is rumored to be owned by folks
from the Middle East Our mam source of
revenue is from tourists from a ll over the
world Here in the bookstore we have had
customers from Russia, Japan, India,
Germany, an Opera singer from Ireland, a
poet from Thailand, a teacher from
Australia Some of them pick up the paper
and some subscribe, we have regular
readers in twenty states and Australia
So, though our home is on the Edge, we try
to speak of things that are common
throughout the country and around the
globe We hope you enjoy our work, and we
wish you and yours the very best in the
coming year
We would like to thank you all for your
warm support, both advertisers and
subscribers have showered us w ith
overwhelming numbers of checks (more
than four') And we promise to use that
money wisely (We are going to get our
paperwork together so we can send out
more b ills ')
Actually, what we call file s are in fact
piles The beloved rev apparently has an
imaginary secretary He w ill put papers in
the file basket, b ills in the out basket, and
his imaginary secretary goes on an
imaginary coffee break Eventually, all
paper that is not to be recycled (the
beloved rev , being a sensitive
Well, the Seaside City Council did it
again it refused to vote in public either
for or against the Sahallie project in
spite of the Oregon Open Meeting laws,
the council w ill vote in secret (do we
even qpt ’ o know who voted which way?)
Dec 13th W ritten testimony w ill be
accepted un til 5pm Dec 1st, then it is up
to the council to decide, fin a lly There
w ill be a candlelight v ig il held outside of
City Hall from 5pm u n til the decision is
made This is all that can be done for
now If this fru .tr ates folks they do have
one other chance to vent their spleens
Dec 7th. when the Seaside Planning
Commission (who started this whole
thing) meets at City Hall to decide on a
Conditional Use Permit for the Sahallie
Project The Planning Commission has a
new Chair (we are told the former chair
left the country) who has a background in
law, so hopefully the City Comprehensive
Plan might be brought up for a change
A a * n » h o is » r illin g to n t e l you h a lf v a y
is u s u a lly a poor |udge o f d istan ce
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