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Cannon Beach: ‘People ... make it special’
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searches related to traveling,
like booking flights or reserv-
ing rooms.
The company looked at
those trends and compared
it with the annual baseline,
which sifted Cannon Beach
into the top five with other
destinations like Aspen, Maui,
Shenandoah Valley and the
Rocky Mountains, TurnKey
CEO T.J. Clark said.
Cannon Beach is no
stranger to winning travel-re-
lated accolades for its nat-
ural beauty and village-like
feel. While those are import-
ant factors in attracting visi-
tors, Clark said, what made a
location more popular in this
study was the relationship the
city had with the regulation
and availability of vacation
rentals.
“A lot of what makes a loca-
tion successful is how friendly
the location is for visitors, and
that can mean whether vaca-
tion rentals are allowed in the
area,” Clark said. “Those trav-
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From left to right: Adam Miller, Emily Herndon, Christi-
na Herndon and Kevin Miller pose for a group photo at
the Lewis and Clark Fire Department Station 2.
Tradition: Department
includes 29 firefighters
and two stations
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the walls, but were not able
to hear anything. Suddenly,
they saw a large man come
out of a bedroom and race
toward them.
“All I see is some dude
booking it down the hall-
way,” said Christina, who
joined in telling the story
after some pause. “I turn
around and my face was like
— white.”
Christina and Emily ran
out of the house. It turned out
the man was simply check-
ing on his mother in another
room. The woman was fine;
she likely rolled over on the
medical help button in her
sleep. But the story is a hit at
family gatherings.
The
Miller-Herndon
clan is a large presence in
the Lewis and Clark Fire
Department, which includes
29 firefighters and two sta-
tions. Kevin Miller super-
vises the firefighters —
including his family — at
the Logan Road station.
Having multiple gener-
ations of one family join a
volunteer department is a
much more common occur-
rence on the East Coast
than out West, former Asto-
ria Fire Chief Leonard Han-
sen said. For volunteer fire
departments, that line of suc-
cession can play a key role
in the organization’s health.
“They’re a huge pres-
ence,” Hansen said of the
Millers. “You don’t see it
that much out here.”
Kevin, whose experience
includes 25 years with the
Astoria Fire Department and
a stint at Medix, has been a
staple with the Lewis and
Clark Fire Department for 45
years. His mark can be seen
immediately after walking
into the Logan Road station,
where his firefighting-re-
lated murals, including one
of the American flag being
raised above ground zero
after 9/11, are on the walls.
“As a Christian, I believe
we’re all given specialties,”
Kevin said. “I believe the
Lord made me for emer-
gency services. The desire
was there to help people in
need.”
While Kevin leads,
Christina serves as an emer-
gency medical responder,
Adam drives trucks and
Emily — a junior at Astoria
High School — is a cadet.
Adam, who also provides
some medical and engineer-
ing services, said he appre-
ciates “just seeing the dif-
ferent things that they’re
able to do that I’m not able
to do.”
When asked about why
they joined, Miller’s chil-
dren and granddaughter
offered a similar sentiment.
They all said that, once they
became interested in joining,
they did not think too long or
prod Kevin with questions.
“It’s just natural, feels
natural,” Emily said.
As the family sat around
the firehouse, Haylee Hern-
don, Christina’s 12-year-
old daughter, wandered past
them. When asked if she
was interested in becoming
a cadet in the future, Haylee
immediately nodded her
head in approval.
elers are looking at vacation
rentals, and this city has been
friendly to vacation rentals.”
Studies like the one done
by travel market research
company Phocuswright sup-
port this logic, finding 34 per-
cent of U.S. travelers in 2015
used private accommodations,
compared to less than 10 per-
cent in 2010.
Cities that restrict vacation
rentals, like Portland, did not
rank as highly in the TurnKey
study, Clark said.
On the North Coast, resi-
dents in Gearhart are divided
over the city’s new regula-
tions on vacation rentals and
will vote in November on a
repeal. In Astoria, some have
called on the City Council to
take action to contain legal
homestay lodging and illegal
rentals.
Even in Cannon Beach,
the issue has had its ups and
downs.
Sixty percent of Cannon
Beach housing units are sea-
sonal or vacation rentals, with
about 200 vacation rental
licenses issued by the city as
of July, according to census
estimates.
In a citizen survey con-
ducted last year, 59 percent
of respondents reported it was
important that the city reduce
the number of short-term rent-
als in residential neighbor-
hoods to preserve a quiet,
local feeling.
City councilors consid-
ered suspending new licenses
for vacation rentals last year,
but decided against the move.
Cannon Beach still has some
of the strictest vacation rental
regulations on the North
Coast, with a lottery system
that keeps five-year rental per-
mits capped at 92 and build-
ing inspection requirements as
strict as those enforced on new
projects.
Court Carrier, the exec-
utive director of the Can-
non Beach Chamber of Com-
merce, said he thought the
city’s regulations played a
large role in people wanting to
travel to Cannon Beach.
“We have a strong vaca-
tion rental culture here with
well-defined ordinances to
encourage the process,” Car-
rier said. “We can take pride in
long-term property manage-
ment companies putting peo-
ple in the right places.”
While Carrier said he was
happy to see the regional and
national interest for Labor
Day weekend, it does not sur-
prise him. The chamber does
not invest a lot of advertis-
ing for Labor Day travel, and
instead is pushing for more
visitors to book rooms in the
slower season between Octo-
ber and April.
“Because of our lack of
advertising for this time, the
power of word-of-mouth is a
good indicator of our popu-
larity,” he said. “When people
talk about how special Can-
non Beach is, they’re talking
about the businesses maintain-
ing their properties, the city
enforcing design review, all
of these things. We’re special
because there are lot of peo-
ple out there trying to make it
special.”
Monuments: White House reviewing recommendations
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the president’s opponents, who
warned that vast public lands
and marine areas could be
stripped of federal protection.
But significant reductions
in the size of the monuments or
changes in what activities are
allowed on them could trigger
fierce resistance, too, including
lawsuits.
In an interview with The
Associated Press, Zinke said
he is recommending changes
to a “handful” of sites, includ-
ing unspecified boundary
adjustments, and suggested
some monuments are too large.
He would not reveal his rec-
ommendations for specific
sites but previously said Utah’s
Bears Ears National Monu-
ment needs to be reduced in
size.
The White House said only
that it received Zinke’s recom-
mendations and is reviewing
them.
Conservationists and tribal
leaders responded with alarm
and distrust, demanding the
full release of Zinke’s recom-
mendations and vowing to
challenge attempts to shrink
any monuments.
Gene Karpinski, president
of the League of Conservation
Voters, called Zinke’s review
a pretext for “selling out our
public lands and waters” to the
oil industry and others.
Jacqueline Savitz, senior
vice president of Oceana,
which has been pushing for
preservation of five marine
monuments included in the
review, said that simply saying
“changes” are coming doesn’t
reveal any real information.
“A change can be a small
tweak or near annihilation,”
Savitz said. “The public has a
right to know.”
Legal fight
Mike Noel, who has pushed
to rescind the designation of
Bears Ears as a monument,
said he could live with a roll-
back of its boundaries.
He called that a good com-
promise that would enable
continued tourism while still
allowing activities that locals
have pursued for generations
— logging, livestock grazing
and oil and gas drilling.
“The eco-tourists basically
say, ‘Throw out all the rubes
and the locals and get rid of
that mentality of grazing and
utilizing these public lands for
any kind of renewable resource
such as timber harvesting and
even some mineral produc-
tion,’” Noel said. “That’s a
very selfish attitude.”
A tribal coalition that
pushed for the creation of the
2,100-square-mile Bears Ears
monument on sacred tribal land
said it is prepared to launch a
legal fight against even a slight
reduction in its size.
Republican Utah state Rep.
Other sites that might see
changes include the Grand
Staircase-Escalante
monu-
ment in the Utah desert, con-
sisting of cliffs, canyons, nat-
ural arches and archaeological
Cascade-Siskiyou
sites, including rock paintings;
Katahdin Woods and Waters,
136 square miles of forest
of northern Maine; and Cas-
cade-Siskiyou, a 156-square-
mile region where three
mountain ranges converge in
Oregon.
The Washington Post
reported that Zinke recom-
mended reducing the size of
the Cascade-Siskiyou National
Monument.
Gov. Kate Brown said in a
statement that she is “deeply
concerned” about potential
changes to the monument.
The governor said any reduc-
tion “could have devastating
impacts on health of the old-
growth forestlands and incredi-
ble array of species that rely on
the land’s habitats.”
Brown said she would call
on state Attorney General
Ellen Rosenblum to “consider
all legal options necessary to
defend our Oregon values, and
to be ready to challenge any
overreach of executive power.”
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Crash: Repairs could take months
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Astoria Parks and Recreation
Department, said the 91-year-
old monument — listed in
the National Register of His-
toric Places — sustained major
damage.
The crash sent a small
light post flying about 20 feet,
cracked concrete edges at the
base of the monument and left
truck parts sprawled across
the ground. Another lamp post
was also taken down after it
was damaged, and there was
significant cracking above the
door to a restroom below.
“We’ll work as quickly as
possible, but it’ll likely be a
few months before the monu-
ment is repaired,” Cosby said.
“It’s sad to see a really import-
ant monument to our veterans
damaged, but our concern is
with the man involved in the
crash and his well-being.”
Cosby said the city will be
working on an estimate of the
damage and a repair plan after
specialists examine the site.
Renovation work on the mon-
ument that had been sched-
uled for early September will
be delayed.
Corbit said he and other
firefighters were driving west
on Marine Drive to complete
a separate errand when they
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