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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2015
Proposal to pave streets causes dust-up
Councilors, residents worry
about maintaining Cannon
Beach’s unique ‘character’
By NANCY MCCARTHY
The Daily Astorian
CANNON BEACH — A
mild dust-up over a propos-
al to pave some of Cannon
Beach’s gravel streets oc-
curred between city coun-
cilors during a work session
Tuesday night.
Another work session will
occur to discuss the proposal,
and a public hearing will be
scheduled before any action is
taken on it, the council prom-
ised.
Public Works Director Dan
Grassick hopes to encourage
property owners along the
city’s abundant gravel streets
to pave those that present on-
going maintenance problems
by having the city pay 15
percent of the cost of asphalt
on projects initiated by local
neighborhoods. Projects initi-
ated by the city would be paid
for by the city, Grassick told
the council.
The proposal also calls
for approval by 51 percent of
the neighborhood’s property
owners in projects initiated
by the neighbors before a lo-
cal street is paved. Residents
-
posed street project by direct
mail; those not responding
within two weeks would be
considered in agreement with
the project. Payments from
property owners would be
due 30 days after the project is
completed, and those who fail
against their property.
Before the project begins,
the Public Works department
would conduct a neighborhood
meeting to go over designs,
cost estimates and schedule.
Grassick said he was
aiming at streets such as the
steep slope on North Lau-
Sixth streets, a small portion
curves or Viewpoint Terrace,
where washouts commonly
occur after heavy rains and
maintenance costs are high.
Other gravel roads in town
that are level and have rela-
tively few problems proba-
bly wouldn’t be targeted for
city-initiated projects, he said.
‘This has the
potential of
creating a lot of
animosity’
— Mike Benefield
Cannon Beach city councilor
But Mayor Sam Steidel
and Councilor Mike Bene-
They repeated what several
residents said in letters sent to
the city: Paved streets could
destroy Cannon Beach’s char-
acter.
“I have a lot of prob-
lems with this,” Steidel said.
“There are too many sec-
ond homeowners who you
wouldn’t know if they got
contacted.”
Instead of a simple ma-
jority of property owners, a
two-thirds majority would be
said. The city’s design re-
view board also should be in-
volved to give the community
a chance to discuss the pro-
posed paving of a local street,
the mayor added.
“This has the potential of
creating a lot of animosity,”
“vision statement” attached
to the city’s comprehensive
plan. The statement mentions
the city’s gravel streets and
talks about a “modest level
of growth” without disrupt-
ing the character of Cannon
Beach or its “relaxed pace of
life.”
“It raises a whole bunch
of problems that I don’t see,”
for this except the city?”
However,
Councilor
George Vetter, said he enjoys
living on a paved street. “I
don’t see that having a street
paved affects the town’s char-
acter,” he said.
Councilor Melissa Cad-
wallader expressed concern
that paving a street would re-
quire widening it or removing
some of the neighborhood’s
landscaping and changing
many of the narrow, winding
thoroughfares.
However, Grassick said
the “existing conditions”
would be maintained, even if
that meant winding around a
tree and maintaining a 12-foot
wide road.
Grassick added that few
residents have asked that the
city consider paving their
roads. “Only two people have
come to see me in two years,”
he said.
CCC seeks high-achieving
local high school students
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Clatsop Community College
President Lawrence Galizio last
year championed an honors pro-
gram as a way to improve the
academic reputation of CCC, to
attract high-caliber high school
students. The rigorous program
would have an “Honors” desig-
nation on the degree that would
transfer to similar programs at
the university level.
After the college’s board of
directors approved the creation
of the CCC Honors program in
May, it launched this fall and
has so far attracted 12 cohorts
from Knappa, Astoria, Warren-
ton, Seaside, Tongue Point Job
Corps Center and home-school.
Leading the program are
speech instructor Deac Guidi;
Library Director Candice Wat-
kins, the Honors program advis-
er; and Recruitment Coordinator
Monica Van Steenberg.
“We know that our pool of
high school students is shrink-
ing,” said Van Steenberg, point-
ing to a trend of people having
fewer children.
-
nitely heard from students and
their parents is that this (the
honors program) was a factor in
whether they came to Clatsop.”
Van Steenberg recruits stu-
dents at local high schools,
with the help of their advisers.
rough, with only three months
to recruit and ultimately only
18 applicants, 12 of whom were
selected.
This year, she started in Sep-
-
EDWARD STRATTON — The Daily Astorian
From left, Recruitment Coordinator Monica Van Steen-
berg, speech instructor Deac Guidi and Library Director
Candice Watkins head the new Clatsop Community Col-
lege Honors Program.
cantly increased response, espe-
cially when students hear about
the annual scholarship for being
accepted into the program, Van
Steenberg said.
The program includes a
maximum of 20 scholarships of
up to $4,000 annually for each
cohort. Each scholarship lasts
the two years the student is in
the honors program.
“We have juniors who are
now really thinking of us as
an option, said Van Steenberg,
who’s wrapping up recruiting,
Students applying for the
program must be admitted to
CCC, pursuing a two-year de-
gree, ready for Writing 121 and
exhibit academic readiness, in-
cluding at least one of the fol-
lowing:
• A high school GPA of at
least 3.5.
• A college GPA of at least
3.25, if the student has earned at
least 12 credits.
• A composite score of at
least 25 on the ACT college
readiness assessment.
• A score of at least 1,700 on
the SAT.
application, write an essay and
include two letters of recom-
-
tion, visit www.clatsopcc.edu/
honors
Honors curriculum
Watkins and Guidi taught
Honors 101 — “Introduction to
Academic Inquiry” — with the
focusing on a research theme of
privacy issues.
“Critical thinking is the key
to this class,” said Watkins, who
as library director at CCC focus-
es much of her time in an age of
information overload on teach-
ing information literacy: the
ability to recognize pertinent in-
-
curately evaluate and effectively
use it; and to clearly convey it in
multiple formats.
While she focused on the
building blocks of informational
literacy, Guidi taught students
to creatively convey the infor-
mation, in their case through a
podcast.
“If you speak it, it has to take
on a different tone,” said Guidi,
the college’s primary speech
instructor, trying to help his stu-
dents create something both in-
formative and engaging.
The result was a series of
short podcasts, some of which
he said will be airing on Coast
Community Radio with their
student narrators as guests.
In addition to Honors 101,
students take Honors 295 —
“Culminating Project” — in
which they complete an ex-
tended research paper or project
guided by honors program fac-
ulty.
The advanced curriculum
also includes more rigorous
honors courses in molecular bi-
ology, ancient world literature,
inferential statistics, an energy
project in physics and writing
for the college’s literary publica-
tion Rain.
“I think this is increasing our
enrollment, and this is increas-
ing campus involvement,” said
Van Steenberg.
Guidi added that the honors
program students will also be
part of his and writing instruc-
tor Nancy Cook’s Ales & Ideas
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