Nearby orca pod
struggles to survive
Spring Breakdown
on spinning wheels
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MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2015
142nd YEAR, No. 189
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Recording illegal, not prosecutable, says DA
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have a recording.”
By KATHERINE LACAZE
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Clatsop County District Attorney
Josh Marquis has received calls from
Josh Marquis
Chad Sweet
multiple people regarding the record-
ing Gearhart City Administrator Chad
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former City Councilor Joy Sigler and EHFDXVHRIWKHVSHFL¿FIDFWVLQWKLVFDVH
himself.
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Dianne Widdop
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With the Mayor” event at Gearhart City
Hall on Wednesdays. Sigler asked to
record the conversation, and all par-
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call effort to oust Widdop, said on his
recall petition statement that Widdop
attempted to distribute the recording.
Widdop has denied those allegations.
In her guest column in The Daily
Astorian published March 3, Widdop
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the city attorney and the Clatsop Coun-
ty district attorney had determined that
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and could be distributed to anyone.”
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alleged communication to our district
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ney Peter Watts.
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IN THE
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Cape D Coast Guard’s
Shane Abold named
sector’s Enlisted
Person of the Year
By KATIE WILSON
EO Media Group
Photos by JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
Warrenton’s Brock Johnson, No. 2, throws a pitch in the rain during fifth inning of the baseball game against Woodburn, Wash., at Sea-
side’s Broadway Field Friday.
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ome pretty good baseball teams from north of the
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annual Seaside Spring Break Invitational at Broad-
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inson and Hoquiam all took part in the eight-school tourna-
ment, hosted by the Gulls.
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ed a 7-3 victory over Warrenton, as the Washington schools
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runners.
Seaside’s
Dylan Wallis,
No. 3, runs to
first after a
hit in the first
inning of Sea-
side’s baseball
game against
Fort Vancou-
ver, Wash., at
Broadway Field
Sunday.
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the Columbia, Snake and Willamette
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station at Cape Disappointment in
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cer, partnership in education coordi-
nator and in many other capacities.
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distinguished himself in particular
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tions in a year,” he said in a phone
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operators.”
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ated boats on many rescue missions
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Art is about the practice, not the muse
Artists must be
‘stubborn and
persistent,’ says
Andrea Mace
Andrea Mace is the “post-
er child for the Cannon Beach
Arts Association,” she said.
Before becoming the ex-
ecutive director in 2007,
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sociation-run Cannon Beach
Gallery on South Hemlock
Street. And she has submitted
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ing artists and choose some
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Andrea Mace, executive director of the Cannon Beach
Arts Association, stands before a painting by Carl Annala,
whose work is on display in the Cannon Beach Gallery.
Mace works 20 hours a week at the gallery.
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stallation.
So, as a lifelong artist her-
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ist must be “stubborn and
persistent” and should “keep
putting yourself out there,”
she said.
Case in point: Mace applied
for the association’s Individual
Artist Grant three times before
receiving it in 2006.
Her grant project, “El-
emental Grace: Where the
Earth Meets the Sea,” com-
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fine art photographs of sites
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Indian Beach — developed
in a dark room, the “old-
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and beads.
See MACE, Page 11A