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Scholarships: ‘We’re here Housing: Housing authority is emerging from
to support the community’ a period of struggle in leadership and fi nance
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“There are so many barri-
ers to attendance for commu-
nity college students,” Chris
Breitmeyer, the college presi-
dent, said. “Community college
in general, and Clatsop in partic-
ular, is really trying to reach out
and address some of those things
that we’re hearing from our stu-
dents … We’re really trying to be
much more student-centered, and
not only on campus, but off cam-
pus and understanding that those
challenges are real.”
Targeting vocational
programs
Since the fundraiser in April,
the foundation has worked with
Davis and other representatives
from Hampton Lumber to dis-
cuss how to channel the funds
and what vocational programs
would “best align, not only with
Hampton, but all the contractors
that we use, but also just other
like-minded businesses like ours
around the county,” Davis said.
Hampton Lumber, which has a
mill in Warrenton and a tree farm
in Knappa, directed the compa-
ny’s donation to needy students
in vocational programs, such as
welding and automotive.
“Hampton fi rmly believes
that a skilled workforce equals a
healthy economy,” Davis said.
One focus of the foundation
is working with the community
and local industries to determine
the best way to direct funds that
will help prepare students for the
workforce.
“We’re here to support the
community. W e want to involve
the community as much as we
can,” Hunt said.
Davis said Hampton Lum-
ber is part of the eff ort to bring
a commercial driver’s license
course back to the college.
“The community college has
just spent many years and a great
deal of time creating partner-
ships and collaborations within
the community, especially with
the business community,” Davis
said. “They’ve been extremely
approachable.
“ … Really they have been
the touchpoint of the community
when it comes to being an eco-
nomic driver and helping develop
our workforce here.”
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As the topic of next steps came
up, county staff noted the absence
of the Northwest Oregon Housing
Authority.
The housing authority man-
ages properties for people with
low and moderate incomes in Clat-
sop, Columbia and Tillamook
counties. It runs a federal housing
choice voucher program that helps
low-income families and vulnera-
ble individuals fi nd places to rent.
County Manager Don Bohn
said that the housing authority,
unlike the county, has staff and
resources devoted to the housing
issue. “From my thinking, what’s
going to be important is to bring
NOHA along,” he said.
Bohn said the county, in con-
sidering what to do with its fed-
eral American Rescue Plan Act
funds, off ered money to the hous-
ing authority so the agency could
hire a housing development expert
who could represent the interests
of the county. He said t he housing
authority turned the off er down.
“We’re happy to give them
money today if they’re willing to
hire somebody who can provide
some of that leadership on the
housing side,” Bohn said.
Brent Warren, a Gearhart city
councilor, agreed that someone
should shepherd the process and
provide technical expertise, but
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A regional housing task force is exploring options.
questioned whether the housing
authority was in a position to do it.
The housing authority is emerg-
ing from a period of struggle in
leadership and fi nance.
An audit and review of the
housing authority’s housing choice
voucher program yielded a poor
rating in January 2020 that led to
a corrective action plan. Work-
ing with the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development,
the agency has improved its rat-
ing from “troubled” to a “standard
performer.”
At one point, the agency had a
budget defi cit that led to the sus-
pension of new vouchers. Little
more than a year ago, the housing
authority started issuing vouchers
again, The Astorian reported.
The housing authority recently
hired an executive director after
a long period with an interim
director.
Bohn told the group that he sees
the housing authority, and their
ability to fund experts that can fl oat
into the cities, as a “missing piece”
of the conversation.
“They can be kind of the con-
duit,” he said. “They could be fi g-
uring out where the commonalities
are, where the opportunities are.”
Fryer: Great-aunt dedicated life to caring for others
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Warrenton could expand to cover all of Hammond Marina.
Marina: Could lead to help
with acquiring future grants
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The city’s boundary reaches
the Hammond Marina, but does
not cover all of the surround-
ing recreational area, including a
section of Seafarers’ Park.
Around 40% of the camping
area and 60% of the park at the
marina viewpoint are outside the
boundary, Police Chief Mathew
Workman said. Park hours, park-
ing and other ordinances are not
enforceable in these areas.
The move would also ease any
city plans for future development .
“Seafarers’ Park will play a
very large portion of revitaliza-
tion of that marina, everything
from the fi shing pier to plans
(for) potential gathering places
there — everything that’s in the
Hammond Marina master plan
and what the marinas committee
have suggested they want to do
relies on getting that full marina
into our full land use control, as
well as enforcement,” Balensifer
said.
Having the boundary encom-
pass all of the marina could
also assist with acquiring future
grants , said Planning Commis-
sioner Lylla Gaebel, who is
also on the Marinas Advisory
Committee .
Shifting the urban growth
boundary line is a very involved
process, Cronin said, and could
take at least six months to a year
to achieve.
Cronin added that he has spo-
ken with the county’s community
development department and
their staff is willing to consider
the move and work with the city.
nearby seaside resort of Eastbourne.
Her birth date is recorded as 1832.
They had fi ve children, all born in
the same county, Sussex. An i nter-
net listing shows three boys, Henry,
Frederick and Arthur; a fourth, Sam-
uel, died at age 6 . One girl, Susanna
Isabelle, was born in 1864, although
there are no other details about her.
Henry Cane was a builder and
architect who erected a steepled
church in his neighboring county of
Surrey in 1865, which still stands
today. Fryer said he traveled to
India where he worked for mahara-
jas. His sister, Sarah, married a man
called George Cutlack who moved
to North America and sparked travel
interest in the Cane family.
Fryer said family records suggest
the three sons emigrated fi rst, possi-
bly in the late 1800s, and perhaps 10
years before their parents. Frederick
settled in n orthwest Oregon. It is not
known how long Henry Cane lived
in the United States, but Fryer spec-
ulates he moved in the very early
1900s when he retired.
A man of ability
The Columbia Pacifi c Heri-
tage Museum in Ilwaco maintains
an archive of historical records. It
includes an obituary for Cane pub-
lished in the Ilwaco Tribune news-
paper April 4, 1914.
Cane is described as “a represen-
tative of the sturdy British type.” He
died at the Jacobson home at Tioga
the prior week. “He was an architect
by profession and had considerable
ability as a sketch artist,” it reads.
The piece, under the headline,
“An old resident passes,” noted that
Cane’s wife had died six years ear-
lier. “And since then he has lived
around with his three sons. From
time to time he has returned to the
beach and the Jacobson home has
been a home to him. He was 77
years old at the time of his death and
was apparently hale and hearty.”
The obituary noted that son
Frederick traveled from Yamhill to
attend the funeral.
“Mr. Cane was held in high
esteem and nearly every family in
and around Long Beach was repre-
sented at the funeral.”
The service at the Jacobson
home was conducted by the Rev.
O.S. Barnum.
“The storm broke just as the
funeral party was leaving the house
and they rode for 2 miles in the
blinding rain.” Interment was in the
Ilwaco Cemetery, where his wife
had been buried in 1908.
HILMA
JACOBSON’S
HISTORY IS
BASED IN PART
ON NEWSPAPER
ARTICLES, MUSEUM
ARCHIVES AND
OTHER SOURCES.
Hilma Jacobson’s history is
based in part on newspaper articles,
museum archives and other sources.
The record doesn’t highlight art,
but paints a picture of a hard work-
ing woman who dedicated her life to
caring for others. She ran the Sea-
Rest on Washington Street, between
12th and 16th streets .
Jacobson was born to John and
Hannah Jacobson in 1874 in Chi-
cago. The family came West by ox
cart in 1882. “She helped run their
hotel in Garden Grove, which later
became part of Tioga, just north of
Long Beach,” the record notes. “The
Jacobson hospitality, fi ne cooking,
and music concerts became quite
famed and resulted in a very popu-
lar inn.”
When John Jacobson died in
1914, Hilma continued to run the
hotel then rented it to a cranberry
packing company for several years,
the record reads. In 1924, she trav-
eled the world for a year as a lady
companion to Elizabeth Lambert
Wood, a noted p eninsula-based
writer. When they returned, Hilma
built a rest home, in part using tim-
ber salvaged from a wrecked ship.
A caring career
The South Bend Journal noted,
“Visitors found Miss Hilma
Amanda, who mothers half a dozen
elderly men, not too busy to chat
and pass out some mighty good cof-
fee and homemade doughnuts.”
It mentioned the Jacobsons had
four daughters, but she was the only
unmarried one. “Friends whisper
that her sweetheart was drowned at
sea while returning from Alaska,”
the newspaper wrote. “Hilma arises
at daylight, milks three cows, and
tends the pig and chickens. She also
works her cranberry bog. In addi-
tion, besides nursing and doing
housework, she attends the Long
Beach (Community) Church and
helps with its activities.”
She took care of her younger
brother and their widowed mother.
“Hilma continued to take in board-
ers until around the end of the 1950s
when she moved into the Ocean
View Rest Home, where she later
passed away in 1963. She is bur-
ied in the family plot in the Ilwaco
C emetery,” the article noted.
While Barbara Pearl has no rec-
ollection of any artistic endeavors,
she recalled her great-aunt Hilma
with extreme fondness. “She was
very open to people, but she was not
the bubbly kind. … She never mar-
ried. She took care of her mother
and father,” she said.
“I was a very young girl when
she was around. I do remember the
people that she took care of.”
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