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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2017
What’s cooking this Thanksgiving in Seaside
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — Seaside
comes alive Thanksgiving
weekend, with food, races,
shopping and more.
The city’s events kick off
with the Turkey Trot, a 5K
walk/run sponsored by the
Sunset Empire Recreation
Park and Recreation District.
The run opens for registra-
tion at 9 a.m. and starts and
finishes at Quatat Park, 493
Oceanway. Cost is $10 per
person. Runners and walkers
can register online at sunse-
tempire.com.
The Bob Chisholm Com-
munity Center presents a free
traditional Thanksgiving meal
at the center, 1225 Avenue A
in Seaside. The dinner, from
noon to 2:30 p.m., is open to
all.
Jeff Ter Har/For The Daily Astorian
Solomon and MaryBeth Cruz, Eric Paul, Cliff Ellis, Pamela
Lum at Dough Dough for the November Wine Walk. More
great events are ahead in Seaside this weekend.
The Seaside Chamber
of Commerce presents the
“Parade of Lights” Friday at
7 p.m., immediately followed
by the Christmas lighting with
Santa at the Broadway Pocket
Park at 8 p.m. or thereabouts.
Chamber ambassadors pro-
vide free hot cider, cocoa and
cookies, along with caroling
visits with Santa.
Friday, Saturday and Sun-
day, the Seaside Artisan Gift
Fair comes to the Seaside
Civic the Convention Center
with a hand-crafted market-
place. Hours are Friday, noon
to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to
5 p.m.; and Sunday, 10 a.m. to
3 p.m.
Holiday shopping may also
be found at the Elks Lodge,
424 Avenue A, featuring inde-
pendent distributors on Satur-
day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Street parking will be pro-
hibited on Broadway start-
ing Friday at 3 p.m. From 6 to
8:30 p.m., Broadway, First to
Columbia, Columbia to Holl-
aday and Holladay to Broad-
way will also be closed to
traffic.
Holt is city’s longest-serving employee
By R.J. MARX
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — It may not be
a round number, but it’s a mile-
stone achievement nevertheless.
Police Lt. Bruce Holt
received special recognition
Monday night as he celebrated
his 34th year with the Seaside
Police Department, making
Astoria schools
receive grants
The Daily Astorian
Astoria School District has
received two of the 19 grants
recently awarded by the North-
west Regional Education Ser-
vice District Foundation.
The foundation gave out
$21,970 in grants to enhance
teaching and learning for
underserved children and those
with disabilities, birth to age 21.
John Jacob Astor Elementary
School received a $422 grant
for sensory materials to cre-
ate a calm room, while Astoria
Middle School received $846
to buy science textbooks for
English learners, students with
disabilities and students read-
ing below grade level.
Clatsop unemployment
numbers rise in October
The Daily Astorian
Clatsop County finished
October with a seasonally
adjusted unemployment rate
of 4.4 percent, up slightly
from September, accord-
ing to figures from the state
Employment Department.
The county had the
10th-lowest unemployment
rate in the state, tied with
Wasco County. Unemploy-
ment was slightly higher
than the statewide (4.3 per-
cent) and national (4.1 per-
cent) rates.
Regional
economists
expected a loss of 560 jobs
in October, but the county
only shed 450. The private
sector cut 620 jobs, and gov-
ernment employment rose
by 170. Leisure and hospi-
tality cut 380 jobs, manufac-
turing 80 and professional
and business services 70.
Local government education
added 200 positions.
October’s total non-
farm payroll employment
in October was 18,460,
280 more than the year
prior. Leisure and hospital-
ity added 200 positions over
the last year, along with
140 in retail trade and 60
in financial activities. Paper
manufacturing cut 50 posi-
tions over the year.
The state Employment
Department will release
November’s metropolitan
and county unemployment
data Dec. 26. For more infor-
mation, visit qualityinfo.org
Thanksgiving
him the longest-serv-
team,” Mayor Jay
ing employee in the
Barber said.
city of Seaside.
“You’ve given a lot
“Thirty-four years I
to this town,” Coun-
cilor Dana Phillips
began my law enforce-
ment career in Sea-
added. “You’ve given
side,” Holt said at the
a lot to this commu-
Lt. Bruce
nity, and it’s a real
City Council meeting.
Holt
pleasure to have you
“Today is my 34th-year
as the longest employee of this
employment anniversary.”
“Glad to have you on our town. Hats off to you.”
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