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Applebee
to retire
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chamber
FLORENCE, OREGON
Executive director
will step down in February
after nearly five years
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Florence Area Chamber of Commerce
announced that Executive Director Cal
Applebee will retire
in February after
nearly five years.
Applebee, 64,
moved with his wife
to Florence in 2005.
“It’s been a very
rewarding experience
and I’ve had a lot of
fun,” Applebee said.
“I love the pace and
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the variety, but the
reality is, as I’ve aged, I don’t have the
energy and the capacity like I used to.”
Applebee first joined the chamber in
2009, after he left the title and escrow
industry and started doing business devel-
opment. He soon joined the board of direc-
tors, and, in 2011, became executive direc-
tor of the chamber.
“I was in my second year on the board
when the position (became vacant). I ended
up throwing my hat in the ring. A couple
board members thought I would make a
good fit for the chamber since I already
knew the business community. I already
knew a lot about what was going on with
the chamber,” Applebee said.
Besides working with chamber func-
tions, Applebee and fellow military vehi-
cle enthusiast Tim Sapp started the
Veterans Day Parade. They were also inte-
gral in starting the momentum of the
Oregon Coast Military Museum, which
opened this year.
“I had a track record of seeing stuff that
needed to be done and rolling up my
sleeves and getting it done,” Applebee said.
While he has been executive director, the
chamber has nearly doubled its business
membership and increased the number of
events it sponsors for the City of Florence
and its constituents.
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undreds lined the streets of Old Town on
Wednesday for the annual Veterans Day
Parade in Florence.
“There is something really neat about the way
this community celebrates Veterans Day. There is
a lot of celebration for it, as there should be,”
said Florence Area Chamber of Commerce
Executive Director Cal Applebee.
This year’s Grand Marshals were Vietnam War
veterans. The parade began at the Florence
Events Center on Quince Street and ended at the
Veterans Memorial Park on Bay Street.
Military vehicles, led by Florence Police Chief
Tom Turner, opened the parade, followed by
marchers, Boy and Girl Scouts, Daughters of the
American Revolution, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
Disabled American Veterans and many more.
“It’s very gratifying that this is the 10th year of
doing this parade. Every year we’ve seen it grow
and expand,” Applebee said.
He helped found the parade when he realized
the number of veterans and active duty military
service members there are in the area.
CHAMBER 6A
SEN. ROBLAN MEETS WITH PORT, CITY OFFICIALS
State senator tours Port of Siuslaw, shares concerns
and future vision with local leaders
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Oregon State Sen. Arnie
Roblan (District 5) toured Port
of Siuslaw facilities this week
before meeting with Port of
Siuslaw staff and port commis-
sioner Nancy Rickard to dis-
cuss issues concerning coastal
ports on the local, state and fed-
eral levels.
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Mayor Joe Henry and city
councilors Ron Preisler and
Joshua Greene were also in
attendance. Rickard was the
only one of the five port com-
missioners to attend the meet-
ing on Nov. 11.
After a tour of port facilities,
the group met back at the port
boardroom for an informal
presentation and question and
answer session with Roblan.
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Interim port manager Dina
McClure said of the meeting, “I
was honored that Sen. Roblan
took time out of his busy sched-
ule to visit the Port of Siuslaw.
I learned so much from listen-
ing to the senator talk about
economic development, the
legislature and current issues.”
Greene, a former Port of
Siuslaw commissioner, told
Roblan, “There is a limitation
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to the percentage of land a
small port can use for develop-
ment of non-water-dependent
uses. We tried to introduce leg-
islature to change that. We
would like you to look into
that. The city and the port want
to know what our economic
development options are.”
Greene said that develop-
ment options for port property
needed to go beyond “a mill, a
cannery, an ice station or a
loading dock for fish.”
“We continue to look at
that,” Roblan said. “Last ses-
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sion, we (the state legislature)
did one on historic sites,”
referring to an Astoria hotel
complex developed on Port of
Astoria property.
Roblan said another concern
was the state and federal
restrictions on building new
structures within a tsunami
zone.
According to Roblan, devel-
oping new buildings able to
withstand a tsunami within a
tsunami zone will increase the
cost of the structure by approx-
imately 10 to 15 percent.
The conversation then turned
to fishing and crabbing.
“I used to be a commercial
fisherman in San Francisco
bay,” said port project coordi-
nator Richard Dreiling. “I
would tell other fishermen,
‘You know what happened to
the fish? We took them all and
we ruined the sub stream.’”
Dreiling continued, “From
Cape Arago to San Francisco,
they cut off crabbing this year
because of toxic algae blooms.”
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