NORTH COAST
THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2015
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Olympia Sroufe Memorial Fountain to be repaired, relocated
Beach
oyster Cannon
to place drinking
fountain near library
story
on tap
By ERICK BENGEL
EO Media Group
In a Nature Matters pro-
gram presentation, Rose
Rimler tells the story of the
Olympia oyster Thursday
at the Fort George Lovell
room. There is no cost for
this event, and the doors
open at 6 p.m.
Rimler will discuss the
overharvest of the Olympia
oyster around the turn of the
20th century; the life cy-
cle of this species; current
efforts to restore the pop-
ulation to its former abun-
dance; and the ecological
benefits of a healthy popu-
lation of native oysters.
She is a recipient of the
2014-15 Oregon Sea Grant
Natural Resources fellow-
ship, which she is carrying
out at the Tillamook Es-
tuaries Partnership (TEP)
in Garibaldi. She has a
master’s degree in marine
biology and a bachelor’s
degree in integrative biol-
ogy, and has worked and
volunteered at three dif-
ferent aquariums. She is a
volunteer at the Haystack
Rock Awareness Program
in Cannon Beach.
Nature Matters is a pro-
gram from the North Coast
Watershed Association and
Lewis and Clark National
Historical Park in partner-
ship with the Fort George
Brewery and Public House.
CANNON BEACH — A foun-
tain that was created to honor an
active community resident 40 years
ago will be moved to a more promi-
nent location in his honor.
The Cannon Beach’s public art
committee aims to repair the Sroufe
Memorial Fountain and relocate
it from behind the Cannon Beach
Chamber of Commerce to the Can-
non Beach Library property.
The drinking fountain — a rough-
ly 3-foot-tall granite slab crowned
with a bronze oyster shell sculp-
ture atop several smaller bronze
shells — was built and dedicated
to Cannon Beach citizen-at-large
James Harley Sroufe shortly after
his death in 1964. It was designed
by prominent Portland architect and
Cannon Beach resident the late John
Yeon, a friend of the Sroufe family,
who owned property on Chapman
Point.
Harley Sroufe, who owned
Sroufe’s Grocery on North Hemlock
Street from 1951 until his death,
was a member of the city parks
committee and led the charge to es-
tablish Cannon Beach City Park.
“Our father was one of the main
movers to get that park created,” his
youngest son, Peter Sroufe, said.
“He was a highly respected and
loved man in the community.”
Out of the way
The fountain erected in Harley
Sroufe’s honor originally stood in
the city park he helped create, before
the play equipment was built, Public
Works Director Dan Grassick said.
ERICK BENGEL PHOTO
ERICK BENGEL — EO Media Group
The city of Cannon Beach plans to relocate the Harley Sroufe memorial
fountain from behind the Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce to the
Cannon Beach Library. It was dedicated shortly after Sroufe died in 1964.
For a time, the fountain sat near the
Christian Conference Center.
Its current location, between the
chamber building and the tennis
courts on East Second Avenue, is
not doing justice to the fountain or
to Harley Sroufe’s legacy, the public
art committee decided.
“Hardly anybody notices it’s
there,” Grassick said. “Especially if
there’s a car parked next to it, you
don’t even see it.”
Moreover, the “fountain” part
of the Sroufe memorial fountain
hasn’t worked for some time. The
city may rehab it “with frost-proof
plumbing ... so that it doesn’t freeze
in the wintertime,” former Mayor
Mike Morgan said. The city may
hire a contractor to do the repairs,
he added.
Once the design review board
approves the site plan for the li-
brary, the Public Works crew will
move the fountain to the library’s
southwest corner on city-owned
property adjacent to the sidewalk
and hook it up to water and sewer
services, Grassick said. The city will
continue to maintain it, according to
the agreement between the city and
the library.
The project, to be funded from
the public art committee budget, is
likely to cost between $3,000 and
$5,000, he said.
Morgan hopes the project will be
finished by April before the tourist
season begins.
“It’s going to be great because
there really is no water fountain
along Hemlock anywhere,” Morgan
said.
Functional art
Harley Sroufe saw the need for a
city park back when few people felt
Cannon Beach even needed one, his
middle son, Gerald Sroufe, said. After
all, “we had a whole beach, right?”
In those days, the area was swamp-
The full inscription that wraps
around the Harley Sroufe memorial
fountain reads: “Drink to the mem-
ory of Harley Sroufe. A toast from
his friends. 1964.” After repairs, it
will serve as a drinking fountain
once again.
sand, Peter Sroufe said, adding that,
nowadays, the city wouldn’t be al-
lowed to do that to a natural resource.
It is poignant that the fountain will
end up at the Cannon Beach Library
of all places: Harley Sroufe’s wife,
Margaret Sroufe, volunteered there for
many years, Gerald Sroufe said.
Paying respects
Wrapped around the fountain’s
granite trunk are the words: “Drink to
the memory of Harley Sroufe. A toast
from his friends. 1964.”
“There’s not that many people left
around here that knew my dad,” Ger-
ald Sroufe said.
In its new location, more people
will be able to see his father’s memo-
rial and pay their respects to his life
and work, he said.
“It belongs in the public,” Peter
Sroufe said. “It belongs in an area that
can be seen.”
Seaside Jewell School District to be part of leadership initiative
Elks host
Crab
Feed
SEASIDE — The Sea-
side Elks Lodge, 324 Ave-
nue A in Seaside, is holding
a fundraising Crab Feed at
6 p.m. Saturday. Only 100
tickets are available at $20
per ticket.
Dinner includes a 2.5- to
3-pound fresh crab, salad,
garlic bread and dessert. All
proceeds will be donat-
ed to Meadowood Springs
Speech and Hearing Camp
for children. A 50/50 Raffle
is also being held, with 50
percent going to the win-
ner and 50 percent going to
Meadowood.
Tickets must be pur-
chased in advance, and are
available at the lodge or by
calling 503-738-6651.
Providence
Seaside
offers pain
education
SEASIDE — A pain ed-
ucation class, “Understand-
ing pain: With Knowledge
Comes Power,” is being
offered from 12:30 to 2:30
p.m. Friday in Education
Center A (lower level) at
Providence Seaside Hospi-
tal, 725 S. Wahanna Road in
Seaside.
When people understand
how pain really works,
their pain decreases. This
class is designed to help
understand how pain works
in the body and brain.
Those attending will learn
about what pain really is,
and how much one’s own
actions and thoughts can
improve pain.
There is no charge for
the class, but registration is
required. To register, go to
www.providence.org/class-
es or call the Resource Line
at 800-562-8964.
For online
updates:
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PORTLAND —Aiming
for a cohort of 50 district ad-
ministrators, the Chalkboard
Project launches its school
leadership initiative with 71,
including the Jewell School
District.
Leading for Learning, a
two-pronged initiative fo-
cused on instructional lead-
ership and a shared commit-
ment to equity, will begin by
working with superintendents
and other district administra-
tors who supervise princi-
pals. For the second prong,
currently in the design phase,
Chalkboard will partner with
one or two nationally accred-
ited institutions to pilot new
approaches in administrator
licensure preparation pro-
grams for teachers aspiring to
enter school administration.
The 71 participants rep-
resent 31 districts across the
state, including 48 focus and
participants embark on an
18-month training that com-
bines seminar- and school-
based training with an in-
tentional focus on closing
achievement gaps. The
training—provided by the
nationally acclaimed Center
for Educational Leadership
from the College of Edu-
cation at the University of
Washington—will emphasize
the skills needed by principal
supervisors to develop in the
principals with whom they
work.
Foundations for a Better
Oregon/Chalkboard Project
is investing nearly $500,000
to jump-start Leading for
Learning by covering the
cost of design and training
by the Oregon Department of
Education. These leaders are
responsible for 41 percent of
Oregon’s K-12 students, 40
percent of who are students
of color.
“Ranging from large, ur-
ban districts such as Portland
Public Schools, to small, ru-
ral districts such as Jewell
School District, our reach is
truly statewide,” said Frank
Caropelo, vice president of
education policy at Chalk-
board Project.
Starting this month,
US Bank supports United Way
US Bank employees
Kevin LaCoste and Cindy
Johnson presented $5,500
to Stacey Brown, executive
director for United Way of
Clatsop County.
Among this donation,
US Bank also continues to
sponsor the Iron Chef Goes
Coastal event in Novem-
ber each year, which helps
financially support United
Way of Clatsop County’s 13
local nonprofit agencies, in
addition to their employee
giving campaign.
United
Way
has
reached about 50 percent
of its campaign goal for
2014-15 of $275,000.
“Corporate sponsorship
will be the key to reaching
our goal,” said Brown.
LaCoste added that US
Bank welcomes a friendly
competition amongst other
financial institutions.
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something that is so critical
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Full implementation of
both programs will require
additional state funding.
“Strong leadership is im-
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education system to increase
student outcomes,” said Rob
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equipped with the necessary
skills and training in order to
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The 40-40-20 goal ref-
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