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JANUARY 2, 2015 • VOL. 39, ISSUE 1 WWW.CANNONBEACHGAZETTE.COM COMPLIMENTARY COPY South Wind draft plan ready for council scrutiny ERICK BENGEL PHOTO Th e master planning committee for the city-owned South Wind property southeast of Cannon Beach spent its fi rst meeting touring the property along with other interested residents last January. A year later, the com- mittee is ready to submit a draft plan to the City Council. It may cost $5 million to develop the site before any structures can be built By Erick Bengel Cannon Beach Gazette A draft plan that calls for the development of the city’s 58-acre South Wind site may come before the City Council in February, but before any buildings can be constructed, at least $5 million may have to be spent for improve- ments. After a several-month hiatus, the master plan ad- visory committee, tasked with developing the South Wind site, met Dec. 8 to support the draft plan for the property. City of¿ cials hope that South Wind — located east of U.S. Highway 101, south of the Haystack Heights neighborhood — will be- come the future site of the city’s essential facilities. In the draft plan, the facilities the city plans to construct in the acreage are: • a police station (slightly less than 0.5 acres) • a ¿ re station (slightly more than 0.5 acres) • the Cannon Beach Food Bank (uncertain space needs) • an emergency shel- ter and base of emergen- cy operations (uncertain space needs) • the Cannon Beach Preschool & Children’s Center and — if the Can- non Beach Academy gets its charter proposal ap- proved — a grade school (2.1 acres total) See Council, Page 4A FOOD for a FEAST Gift “baskets” enable households to cook a traditional holiday meal By Erick Bengel Cannon Beach Gazette C hristmas came early for some residents of Cannon Beach’s Shorewood Apartments, Elk Creek Terrace Apartments and oth- er low-income households the morning of Dec. 23. Together, vol- unteers from the American Legion Post 168, Cub Scout Pack 540, Cannon Beach Fire and Rescue and Seaside High School, plus other community mem- bers, delivered boxes (or “gift baskets”) of food to people who might not otherwise have the mer- riest of Christmases. “I think it’s good to help other people around Christmastime be- cause some of them might not get Christmas presents,” said Jackson Schermerhorn, a 10-year-old Cub Scout from Pack 540. His father, Jason Schermer- horn is a Pack 540 leader and Can- non Beach police chief. At daybreak, the volunteers packed the boxes and loaded them into a U-Haul for distribution. In- side the boxes was enough food to prepare a tradi- tional Christmas meal: turkeys, See Food, Page 4A TOP: Seaside High School students Kirsten Lent, 15, and Lucy Bodner, 15, run gift “baskets” to apartments alongside Cub Scout Toby Takitt, 10, right. Additional volunteers from Cannon Beach Fire and Rescue, including Fire Chief Mike Balzer (in red and yellow) gather in the background. ABOVE: American Legion member Kelly Fitzpatrick, foreground, grabs a gallon of milk to top off a gift basket, while his wife, Sandy Fitzpatrick, places eggs in a box carried by Cub Scout Jackson ERICK BENGEL PHOTOS Schermerhorn (who is supported by Legion member Heidi Lent). Ecola Creek Forest Reserve looking to expand by 29 acres City seeking grant to buy land owned by Swigarts By Erick Bengel Cannon Beach Gazette PAID PERMIT NO. 97 ASTORIA, OR PRSRT STD US POSTAGE The city of Cannon Beach hopes to add an- other 29 acres to the Eco- la Creek Forest Reserve within the next couple of years by adding a parcel currently owned by Terry and Carmen Swigart. Last month, the city sent a letter of interest to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, which is administering a $228,000 grant for “land acquisition and resto- ration proMects that bene¿ t coastal watersheds” using funds from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. If the watershed board gives Cannon Beach the go-ahead this month, the city will submit a full grant application in Feb- ruary. The city will learn whether it got the grant next summer, City Plan- ner Mark Barnes said. The See Ecola, Page 5A ERICK BENGEL PHOTO Rodney Smith, center, of Seaside, helps his son, Ryan Smith. right, 10, and Jasmine Schemerhorn, left , 8, carry a box to the community room of the Elk Terrace Apartments. Smith said the Cub Scouts talk about the annual gift basket event long aft er its over and refl ect on the diff erent kinds of Christmases among families from diff erent income levels. Move in store for Sroufe memorial fountain City to repair and relocate historic drinking fountain near library By Erick Bengel Cannon Beach Gazette A fountain that was created to honor an active community resident 40 years ago will be moved to a more prominent location in his honor. The Cannon Beach’s public art committee aims to repair the Sroufe memo- rial fountain and relocate it from behind the Can- non Beach Chamber of Commerce to the Cannon Beach Library property. The drinking foun- tain — a roughly 3-foot- tall slab crowned with a bronze oyster shell sculp- ture atop several smaller bronze shells — was built and dedicated to Cannon Beach citizen-at-large James Harley Sroufe shortly after his death in 1964. It was designed by prominent Portland architect and Cannon Beach resident the late John Yeon, a friend of the Sroufe family, who owned property on Chapman Point. Harley Sroufe, who owned Sroufe’s Grocery on North Hemlock Street from 1951 until his death, was a member of the city parks committee and led the charge to establish Th e Harley Sroufe memorial fountain resides behind the Cannon Beach Cham- ber of Commerce near the tennis courts. It was designed by renowned Portland architect John Yeon. ERICK BENGEL PHOTO Cannon Beach City Park. “Our father was one of the main movers to get that park created,” his young- est son, Peter Sroufe, said. “He was a highly respect- ed and loved man in the community.” Out of the way The fountain erected in Harley Sroufe’s hon- or originally stood in the city park he helped create, before the play equipment was built, Public Works Director Dan Grassick said. For a time, the foun- tain sat near the Christian Conference Center. Its current location, be- tween the chamber build- ing and the tennis courts on See Fountain, Page 8A
