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Sand dunes, non-native grass invade beachfront views
Sand from Page 1A
“We don’t want to let the build-
inJ Vit theUe ¿Ye PoUe PonthV
waitinJ IoU a deFiVion´ he Vaid
Creeping sand
,n UeFent \eaUV an enoUPouV
YoluPe oI Vand haV beFoPe
lodJed in non-natiYe (uUoSean
dune grass along the Break-
ers 3oint beaFhIront Freating
dunes that rise in soPe SlaFes
alPost Ieet aboYe sea leYel
aFFording to 7oP +orning a lo-
cal geologist working with the
hoPeowners association 7hese
dunes haYe begun to block the
e[SensiYe oceanIront Yiews oI
Breakers 3oint SroSert\ own-
ers Wind gusts IreTuentl\ Sush
loose sand onto \ards decks
and Satios
7he Breakers 3oint Slan in-
YolYes rePoYing about
cubic \ards oI dune in Shases
oYer the ne[t Iew \ears there-
b\ saYing oceanIront Yiews
reducing sand inundation and
returning the sand to the coast’s
natural sediPentation s\steP
+oweYer the total aPount oI
sand to be graded and relocat-
ed is unSrecedented in &annon
Beach’s histor\ 7his Iact Sro-
Yoked signiIicant oSSosition
IroP the coPPunit\ at two
Slanning coPPission Peetings
and at the &it\ &ouncil Peeting
earlier this Ponth
6eYeral coPPunit\ PePbers
ERICK BENGEL PHOTO
The dunes west of the Breakers Point condominium complex block (what were once) the oceanfront views of
several property owners. The homeowners association has filed an intent to appeal the City Council’s decision
not to allow the association to relocate up to 73,400 cubic yards of dune.
sSoke out against aPong other
concerns what the\ SerceiYed
to be the destruction of a be-
loYed enYironPent that should
be considered a coPPunit\ re-
source
Breakers 3oint hoPeowners
“certainly don’t want this one
difference of oSinion to inter-
fere with their long-terP rela-
tionshiS with the city´ $lter-
Pan said “7hey’Ye been a Sart
of the city for a Yery Yery long
tiPe´
A tale of two proposals
Between the Slanning coP-
Pission’s 'ecePber Peet-
ing and its -anuary Peet-
ing Breakers 3oint chose to
Podify its SroSosal based on
criticisP froP the coPPission
and the coPPunity
,nstead of duPSing the graded
sand onto the shoreline where it
could sPother ra]or claPs )ran-
cis said the hoPeowners associ-
ation would deSosit it aboYe the
high-tide line
Instead of carrying out the
dune grading in two large Shases
oYer two years the association
said it would do it in increPents
of cubic yards eYery si[
Ponths until the SroMect was ¿n-
ished
$nd instead of duPSing sand
onto the ePbankPent of the es-
tuary to stabili]e the soon-to-be-
coPSroPised condo the associa-
tion said it could reYisit that issue
as Sart of a seSarate aSSlication
Though
Breakers
Point
fraPed the reYisions as a Patter
of giYing the Slanning coPPis-
sion different oStions to consid-
er the coPPission felt that they
were looking at a new SroSosal
entirely and denied it -
Planning &oPPission PeP-
bers &harles Bennett -oe Bernt
+ank -ohnson and /isa .err Yot-
ed to deny the reTuest and PeP-
bers 5yan 'ewey and &hairPan
Bob /undy Yoted to aSSroYe it
0ePber -anet Patrick a Break-
ers Point hoPeowner recused
herself
The aSSeal before /8B$ en-
coPSasses both the original Sro-
Sosal and the reYised one $lter-
Pan said
‘Get Lit’ event gives students a chance to interact with authors
Authors from Page 1A
cess Yolunteer and sSonsor
Watt &hildress said The
scholarshiSs coYer the full
cost of the eYent the )riday
receStion 6aturday Sresen-
tations and dinner and 6un-
day 4-and-$
While Post scholarshiSs
haYe gone toward local
schools and colleges “last
year we had SarticiSants
froP Paci¿c 1orthwest &ol-
lege of $rt in Portland´
&hildress said
“It was energi]ing for
students to Yisit with re-
nowned authors in a relaxed
setting and ¿nd out Pore
about the craft´ added 0ark
0i]ell an (nglish teacher at
6easide +igh 6chool
“I had a great tiPe last
year at the µ*et /it’ con-
ference where I Pet soPe
really great authors that
I felt connected with´
said .aylah Bridges a
scholarshiS reciSient
who is now a th grad-
er at 1eah-.ah-1ie +igh
6chool “I loYed how they
answered Py Tuestions
and really tried to relate to
Pe´
Interested
students
should contact either
&hildress at wattchil-
dress#yahoocoP
or
-- or eYent
coordinator Tracy $bel at
tracyabel#earthlinknet
or -- $ rec-
oPPendation froP a fac-
ulty PePber is adYised
‘Voice of the writer’
0ost book festiYal-tySe
eYents like “*et /it´ cen-
tered solely around a shared
loYe of the written word
are held in large PetroSoli-
tan cities rather than sPaller
Yenues like &annon Beach
said Brooks a 1ew <ork
TiPes bestselling author of
Pore than books
$t the suggestion of
then-Payor 0ike 0organ
Brooks co-founded “Get
/it´ with his wife -udine
and 9alerie 5yan the own-
er of &annon Beach Book
&oPSany who Sassed away
last year
“2ften readers and writ-
ers don’t haYe a chance to
get together like this and
their oSSortunities of ¿nding
coPPon ground on interest-
ing toSics of discussion neYer
coPes to Sass´ Brooks said
“+ere we offer all that´
Though he built a distin-
guished career writing eSic
and urban fantasy Brooks
said he tends to “read all oYer
the Slace Puch of it outside
the fantasy realP´
“I will read anything that
is well written´ he said “I
look for a good strong story
for eYidence of skill in us-
ing words and iPages and
for a hook of soPe sort that
I didn’t see coPing I ad-
Pire writers who know their
craft and can Pake Pe wish
I had written what they did
2r Pake Pe want to write
soPething Must as good´
)owler ² the author of
six noYels including the 1ew
<ork TiPes bestseller “The
-ane $usten Book &lub´
and three short story
collections ² said she Srefers
books “where I hear the Yoice
of the writer Books where I
feel deeSly ePbedded in the
writer’s iPagination These
coPe in all genres´
(-books Pay be on the
rise libraries Pay be strug-
gling to Paintain SoSularity
and $Pa]on Pay doPinate
the booksellers Parket but
Brooks said he belieYes that
reading itself “has neYer
been stronger´
“Books are integral to our
culture a natural extension
of ancient oral storytelling´
he said “We change with
the tiPes of course and so
now we haYe digital readers
and new Internet Yenues for
reading and learning´
5egardless of the Pedi-
uP the intiPate connection
between readers and writers
is a sacred and secure one
“$s writers we sSend a
great deal of tiPe alone´
said TsukiyaPa the author
of seYen noYels (Yents like
“Get /it at the Beach´ are
“wonderful rePinders of
why we write´
)or Pore inforPation
Yisit
wwwtoloYanaarts
colonyorg
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