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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2016
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of¿cers noted Dennis’ growth
as an emergency medical
technician and his willingness
to show up, even for late-night
calls. Bulletset not only was a
dedicated responder, but she
also offers to help others and
with tasks around the facility,
like painting.
Fire of¿cer of the year,
presented by Dennis, went to
Daniels. During the selection
process, the ¿re¿ghters made
nominations and discussed
the options. One of the most
important aspects of being a
leader, they determined, is the
“ability to provide inspiration”
and “translate vision into
reality,” Dennis said.
“Once you adopt this
attitude, people will follow
suit,” he said.
Banquet lauds
volunteers, staff
By KATHERINE
LACAZE
EO Media Group
SEASIDE
—
The
camaraderie enjoyed by the
Seaside Fire and Rescue
personnel was on display
earlier this month, when staff,
volunteers and many of their
friends and family members
gathered at the Seaside Civic
and Convention Center for the
department’s annual awards
banquet and dinner.
The event recognizes the
department’s ¿re¿ghters and
emergency service providers
and the time they devoted to
training and responding to
calls during 2015.
“We do so much for the
city of Seaside, but also the
surrounding community,” said
Lt. Jeramy Houston, chairman
of the banquet committee.
“We’ve grown so far beyond
just ¿re¿ghting.”
In his remarks, Mayor
Don Larson also highlighted
the important role played by
family and friends, who are
committed to supporting and
encouraging the volunteers.
“You’re all vital to make
this system work,” he said.
Chief Joey Daniels —
who was honored with the
¿re of¿cer of the year award
— agreed with Larson’s
sentiment.
“Without them, we wouldn’t
have the volunteer department
we have,” he added.
The highlight of the event
was a number of awards
distributed to acknowledge the
accomplishments, small and
large, achieved by department
personnel throughout the year.
Capt. Gordon Houston and
Division Chief David Rankin
presented special recognition
Keeping the
department running
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Division Chief David Rankin and Capt. Gordon Houston distribute special recognition awards at the Seaside Volunteer
Fire and Rescue awards banquet and ceremony at the Seaside Civic and Convention Center.
awards, a set of humorous,
light-hearted recognitions such
as “The Tuckered Bear Award,”
“The Apparatus Destruction
Award” and the “Got To Go
Award.” The awards were
presented along with gag gifts
and amusing stories illustrating
the sense of companionship
fostered within the department.
Top service
The department holds
drills for about two to three
hours each Wednesday night.
Considering all volunteers
cannot make it to each drill,
Genessee
Dennis,
2015
president of the Seaside Fire
and Rescue Association,
estimated the department’s
38 volunteers still contributed
nearly 2,000 cumulative
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Doug Barker is retiring as a volunteer firefighter for Sea-
side Volunteer Fire and Rescue after serving 38 years.
training hours. The department
also responded to more than
1,000 calls throughout the
year; a majority of which for
emergency medical services,
followed by false calls, motor
vehicle accidents, ¿res, public
assistance incidents and
hazardous conditions.
“There is a lot of time
we will invest to serve our
community,” Dennis said.
Those with the best
attendance at drills received
service awards. They included
Evan Edwards, Matt Keefer,
Shane Mergel, Roy Dague and
Katie Bulletset, who attended
51 of 52 drills.
The top ¿ve call responders
also received service awards.
With 521 calls, Edwards was
the top responder, followed
by Mergel, Lisa Talamantez,
Colin Houston and Noble
Hutchinson.
“There are so many people
who offer so much to our
agency,” Daniels said.
Dennis was recognized
as the EMS provider of the
year and Bulletset received
¿re¿ghter of the year. The
The department, which has
three full-time staff members
and a part-time paid position,
depends on volunteers, like
many other departments in
Clatsop County.
During the ceremony,
Daniels recognized volunteers
who are retiring this year,
noting the department is losing
“a lot of years of experience.”
Among those retiring are
volunteers Lt. David Oxley,
Richard No¿eld, Susan Oxley
and Doug Barker.
Barker, who volunteered
for 38 years, said it has been
“a privilege and an honor”
to serve the community as a
volunteer ¿re¿ghter.
“Really, at the bottom, it’s
been a whole hell of a lot of
fun,” he said. “So thank you
for 38 years of fun.”
An empty table at the
banquet, with a single place
setting, served as a reminder of
Glenn Bard, a former volunteer
who died in 2012, as well as
others gone since the department
was established in 1904.
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Katherine Lacaze/EO Media Group
Katherine Lacaze/EO Media Group
An empty table at the Seaside Volunteer Fire and Rescue
awards banquet served as a reminder of Glenn Bard, a
former volunteer who died in 2012, as well as others gone
since the department was established in 1904.
Capt. Gordon Houston gives a special recognition award
to Mark Burke at the Seaside Volunteer Fire and Rescue
awards banquet Jan. 9 at the Seaside Civic and Conven-
tion Center.
Seaside Volunteer Fire and Rescue held its annual awards
banquet at the Seaside Civic and Convention Center. The
ceremony recognized the many accomplishments of de-
partment personnel throughout 2015.
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gave way. Tons of earth,
turf and pavement collapsed
into a small ravine that runs
between the cemetery and the
neighboring private property.
Though the damage looks
dramatic, as of Tuesday, the
landslide had only unearthed
one casket, and left one other
partially exposed. Both of the
affected caskets were interred in
the 1960s. Cemetery caretakers
do not believe that either person
still has close relatives in the
area.
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Hylton said the casket that
was uprooted by the slide will
be reinterred at a different site
in the cemetery, and board
members are making arrange-
ments to store vulnerable
headstones until the ground is
stabilized.
There are also about ¿ve
more gravesites very near the
edge of the slide that could
potentially be affected if the
ground moves again. The board
members are seeking recom-
mendations from a geologist
and other experts about how to
proceed. They planned to meet
to discuss their options on Jan.
26, Hylton said.
“(The geologist) may tell
us it’s gonna get worse. If it’s
gonna get worse, we may have
to be proactive,” Hylton said.
A “proactive” response
Hylton
said
board
members began working to
address the situation as soon
as they found out about the
landslide Friday.
“Within an hour, we met
up here and saw what was
going on. We realized we had
a problem and right off the bat,
we said, ‘Well, we better be
proactive,’” Hilton said. “We
took it from there.”
Hylton and two others
quickly called a tow-truck
driver, then slogged into the
knee-deep mud at the foot of the
slide to help the driver lift the
unearthed casket back to solid
ground. That casket is now
“under lock and key,” Hylton
said. Between Friday and
Monday, the board members
also ¿elded numerous calls
from concerned residents, tried
to track down the decedents’
family members, alerted state
and local authorities, closed
off the most unstable section of
the graveyard, consulted with a
state geologist, and dealt with
TV news crews.
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Now comes the truly hard
part — the caretakers must
¿gure out how to pay for a
potentially very expensive
stabilization project with a
strictly regulated budget that
isn’t even big enough to cover
the basic costs of running the
cemetery.
“This could be a quarter
million dollars. What are we
gonna do? We’re not gonna
just ¿ll it with jetty rock,”
Hylton said, explaining that it
could take advanced feats of
engineering to keep the whole
slope from sliding again.
“How are you gonna get
down there and do it? You’re
not gonna just come up here
and dump a bunch of dirt and
¿ll the hole.”
Hylton said he has contacted
the
Federal
Emergency
Management Agency, in hopes
that there is some type of
emergency funding available
for a project like this. He and
the other board members are
also seeking guidance from
the state Funeral and Cemetery
Board.
Hylton said he wanted to
assure family members of the
Ilwaco Cemetery decedents
that “everything is being done
properly,” and that work will
commence as soon as they
know how to proceed.
“We do care,” Hylton said.
“We care very deeply.”
Jessie’s: ‘Most of us haven’t had money
coming in for ¿ve months or more’
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Alber told Cutting he would
receive the rest of the money
Alber owed him by today.
Malchow
and
other
¿shermen said they were told
they would eventually receive
the full amount they were
owed, but that it will come
days after it was due.
That was the same thing
the owners of Jessie’s told
¿shermen last year. However,
Malchow said, in that case,
the money took weeks to
materialize.
The delay in payment
comes as a particularly hard
blow after domoic acid levels
delayed the crabbing season
well past its normal Dec. 1
start date. The commercial
crab ¿shing season launched
more than a month after that
date on Jan. 4. State health
and ¿sheries agencies also
cut short the 2015 season last
spring.
“Most of us haven’t had
money coming in for ¿ve
months or more,” Malchow
said.
Cutting echoed Malchow’s
sentiments, adding that she
and her husband employ
11 people, all of whom rely
on the now further-delayed
income.
It hit the Cuttings particu-
larly hard as well.
“We built a new boat, and
we have no savings,” Kim
said.
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Clatsop
Economic
Development Resources has
several workshops for small
business owners coming
in February at Clatsop
Community College.
Microsoft Excel: Level 1
is 8:30 a.m. at the college’s
South County Campus, 1455
N. Roosevelt Drive in Seaside,
and Excel: Level 2 is 5:30
p.m. in Towler Hall Room
105 on the college’s main
campus, 1651 Lexington Ave.
in Astoria. There will be two
more Excel: Level 2 classes
Feb. 23.
From noon to 3 p.m. Feb.
3, CEDR’s Lunch and Learn
workshop series, in Columbia
Hall Room 219 on the main
campus, covers how business
owners can automate portions
of their online marketing.
Ready, Set, Start Your
Business teaches budding
entrepreneurs how to get
started from 8:30 a.m. to
10:30 a.m. Feb. 10 at the
South County Campus.
At Transitions in Life and
Business, several presenters
will provide advice on how
to create a smooth business
succession
plan.
Both
sessions are Feb. 22. The ¿rst
is from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. in
Columbia Hall Room 219
on the main campus. The
second is from 1 to 4 p.m. at
the Cannon Beach Chamber
of Commerce Community
Room, 207 N. Spruce St.
All classes have preregis-
tration. For more information
or to register for class online,
visit
www.clatsoped.com.
For questions or help in
registering, call 503-338-2402
or email sbdc@clatsopcc.edu
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