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March 27, 2015 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com • 3A Homeowners consider suing city for property damage May be cheaper to just pay for damage themselves, though If their homeowners insurance can cover at least some of the dam- age, it may actually be cheaper for the Hadleys to just pay for the re- maining repairs themselves than to take the city to court. Right now, “we couldn’t afford to get the money together to make our case,” Hadley said. making it prohibitively expensive WR¿JKWWKHFLW\=XSDQFLFVDLG Kim Laramy, communications consultant for CIS, said the investi- gation is ongoing, so the company would not comment on the Hadleys’ case. washed out, and the yard is a grav- elly ruin. The Hadleys hired a building contractor and a landscape con- tractor to estimate the cost of the physical damage alone. Their By Erick Bengel combined estimate of $12,000 Cannon Beach Gazette doesn’t include Douglas Hadley’s Deluge WUDYHO H[SHQVHV ² KH KDG WR À\ A couple who owns a home in The trouble began when a out from their home in Charlevoix, north Cannon Beach may sue the Prohibitively expensive pipe that runs uphill from the Ash Mich., and rent a car in Oregon — When a city’s insurance compa- Street pump station to the north nor does it include the thousands city after a burst water line caused approximately $12,000 worth of ny denies a claim, “that can leave reservoir suddenly broke on the lost because the couple cannot rent exterior damage to their residence a property owner in a lurch,” said evening of Jan. 7. Within 10 min- out the house. in January, and the city’s insurance Christian Zupancic, the Hadleys’ utes, the reservoir’s 30,000 gal- Though the Hadleys’ home- company, Salem-based Citycounty Seaside attorney. CIS insures many lons of water emptied onto Ash, owners insurance may cover about Insurance Services, declined to cov- cities and counties in Oregon, and Seventh and Larch streets, ac- $6,000 worth of structural damage, if the company declines coverage, cording to Public Works Director like the compromised posts, that er it. But Douglas and Karen Had- “usually these folks who have prop- Dan Grassick. At least 100 homes “still leaves a lot of other damage” ley — whose West Seventh Street HUW\ GDPDJH WKH\ KDYH WR ¿JXUH LW were without water service until the couple would have to pay out SURSHUW\ZDVÀRRGHGZLWKZDWHUDQG out on their own as to how to cover around 2 a.m. Jan. 8, when the of pocket, said Douglas Hadley. debris when a city-owned PVC pipe the damage.” public works crew had replaced “We don’t have the cash for that. ruptured in January — have a tough Though Zupancic said he does that section of pipe. We don’t have cash sitting around ¿QDQFLDOGHFLVLRQWRPDNH not know why CIS denied the Had- The Hadleys’ house didn’t suf- for that purpose.” Filing a tort claim against the leys’ claim, he said that, in general, fer interior damage, but the deluge The Hadleys may return to city of Cannon Beach will require insurance companies will determine WKDW ÀRZHG XQGHU DQG DURXQG LW Cannon Beach in April to clean up them to spend thousands of dollars that their client did not cause active mangled a fence, damaged a brick their yard. For now, they are still on soils experts, hydrologists, indus- harm or behave negligently and, walkway, undermined a retaining hoping that either CIS or the city trial engineers and other well-paid therefore, is not liable for damages. wall, broke some skirting and sep- has a change of heart so the ma- professionals to assess the quality of For people like the Hadleys to arated four support posts from the jor repairs to the property can get the broken pipe and the conditions prove the city is at fault, “there’s ÀRRUMRLVWV7KHKRXVHKDVVWDUWHG underway. around it, Douglas Hadley said. usually a lot of experts involved,” to sag and settle. The garden was “We have to get it done so we can get it back onto the rental mar- ket,” Douglas Hadley said. ‘Very disappointing’ Both he and Zupancic said that Cannon Beach’s city staff has been great to work with. Zupancic, in particular, said WKDW ³FRQVLGHULQJ WKH GLI¿FXO- ty of the situation, I really am grateful to the city of Cannon Beach, and to CIS, for talking to me and for trying to work it out with me. They’ve been, by and large, cooperative, given the constraints that they’re operat- ing under.” Though City Attorney Tam- my Herdener has said that CIS may not want to involve the city, Douglas Hadley wishes the city could openly communicate with him about the incident and its af- termath. “It just seems so odd to me. I mean, come on, if something fails in my neighbor’s yard, and my house receives damage, it seems to me the neighbor fixes it, period. I don’t see why the city doesn’t think that way,” he said. “It’s very disappointing.” Nehalem mayor dies of stroke in her home she was everything a mayor should be and more,” Ne- halem City Manager Dale Shafer said. “She’s going to be irreplaceable.” Kalkhoven served as the city’s mayor for 10 years and served on the Nehalem City Council for 10 years before that. In August, the state of Oregon honored her with the Mayor’s Lead- ership Award, for which Shafer nominated her. Kalkhoven’s civic roles and accomplishments are extensive. She was the immediate past president of the Ore- gon Mayor’s Association Shirley Kalkhoven an ‘irreplaceable’ public servant Nehalem Mayor and longtime public servant Shirley Kalkhoven, 87, has died. She was found unresponsive in her home March 16 and was rushed to Providence Seaside Hos- pital, where doctors deter- mined she had suffered a stroke, according to local news reports. “I have served several mayors in my 25 years, and Publisher Steve Forrester Interim Editor Dave Fisher Reporter Erick Bengel Advertising Manager Betty Smith and a past president of the League of Oregon Cities. She was a member of the Northwest Regional Solu- tions Advisory Council and Chairwoman of the Tillamook County Futures Council. In addition, she had been the chairwoman of the Northwest Area Com- mission on Transportation since 2007, chairwoman of the League of Oregon Cities Water Wastewater Policy Committee, a mem- ber of the League of Ore- gon Cities Transportation Committee and a member of the Board of Col-Pac CANNON BEACH GAZETTE The Cannon Beach Gazette is published every other week by EO Media Group. Production Manager John D. 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He noted how rare it is for a person in her 80s to be as “active and vibrant and engaged in her com- munity, in her county and in her state” as was Kalk- hoven. “I wish we could all strive to achieve what she has done, to be as active as she has been.” A memorial service was held at the Port of Tilla- SUBMITTED PHOTO PRRN %D\ 2I¿FHUV 0HVV Hall in Tillamook on March Shirley Kalkhoven speaks at a meeting in 2009. 22. of county. THE NATIONAL AWARD-WINNING Postage Paid at: Cannon Beach, OR 97110 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Cannon Beach Gazette, P.O. Box 210, Astoria, OR 97103 Copyright 2015 © Cannon Beach Gazette. Nothing can be reprinted or copied without consent of the owners. Coastal Advantage In “THE COURTYARD” @ 219 N. 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