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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2015
Courtesy of the City of Seaside
A fire Sunday morning destroyed three homes and burned another.
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well,” Dugan said
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the scene overnight. Their
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last year,” Chuck LaDeRoute
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is still working.
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this weekend,” he added.
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Thanksgiving in that house a
Firefighters respond to a blaze in Seaside that destroyed three homes.
year ago.”
Seaside:µ+DYLQJPD\EHMXVWDWULÀHOHVV Steidel: He dedicated
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lifestyles.
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land or highland, that is the
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forecast for Seaside in June

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out West for the long-haul, in-
cluding a short stint at Disney,
and used his GI Bill to go back
to school.
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of his English course. It wasn’t
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the story was good.
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as a bus driver. He’d tried
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singing along, but received
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youth.
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book,” he said.
Steidel dedicated his book
to those who waited for it.
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who lives in a desolate village
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and destroys everything.
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