JANUARY 30, 2015 • VOL. 39, ISSUE 3
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Breakers Point
dune grading
project denied
Approving a
changed proposal
without public
input is ‘unfair,’
say the planning
commissioners
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Cannon Beach Gazette
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In the carpeted “registration room” of the food pantry’s new location where Lila Wickham, foreground, left ,
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food items that eventually went into the packing room in back. A former library for the now-closed Cannon
Beach Elementary School, the portable building provides the pantry about 1,710 square feet.
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Ken McQuhae makes his quiet voice heard
Retired engineer is soft-spoken,
but his persistence speaks loudly
By Erick Bengel
Cannon Beach Gazette
Ken McQuhae may be
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semiconductor industry for 30 years, fi rst in Ottawa, Cana-
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