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June 5, 2015 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com • 9A Academy to share building with existing businesses Academy from Page 1A May 6 — would operate in the space for two to three \HDUVRUORQJHU0HDQZKLOH the city hopes to build a SHUPDQHQW VFKRRO EXLOGLQJ DORQJ ZLWK RWKHU HVVHQWLDO facilities, at the presently undeveloped 58-acre South Wind site, south of town and HDVWRI86+LJKZD\ ³:H¶YH EHHQ ZRUNLQJ RQ WU\LQJ WR ¿QG D ORFDWLRQ IRU TXLWHVRPHWLPH´5\DQ+XOO president of the academy’s board of directors, said. “We believe we’ve found one that will temporarily work very well for us until the South Wind project becomes avail- DEOHLQWKHIXWXUH´ He added that the school aims to open in Septem- EHU WKRXJK KH VDLG KH doesn’t know when, or if, the school board will approve the academy’s charter proposal. Commissioners Charles Bennett, Joe Bernt, Lisa Kerr, Janet Patrick and Chair Bob Lundy voted to approve the permit. Commissioner Ryan Dewey, who has donated money to the academy’s search for a site and whose family is involved with the charter school, recused him- self. Commissioner Hank Johnson was absent. Site plan The temporary school will have one classroom for NLQGHUJDUWHQHUV RQH IRU ¿UVW JUDGHUV RQH IRU VHFRQG DQG WKLUG JUDGHUV DQG RQH IRU IRXUWK DQG ¿IWK JUDGHUV DF- FRUGLQJWRDVLWHSODQSUHVHQW- ed by David Vonada, of Tolo- vana Architects. The school will also have two restrooms, a staff room, VRPH VWRUDJH VSDFH DQG D IRRWE\IRRW YHJHWDWHG RXWGRRU³SOD\DUHD´WKDWZLOO UXQDORQJWKHVRXWKVLGHRIWKH EXLOGLQJ 7ZRSDUNLQJORWV²RQHRI VSDFHV WKH RWKHU RI HLJKW spaces — would meet the VFKRRO¶VRIIVWUHHWSDUNLQJUH- quirements. People will enter the school from the east side, DFFRUGLQJWRWKHVLWHSODQ Owned by DDAJ Cor- poration/James Investment Group, the school will not re- quire much new construction, WKRXJKWKHHQWUDQFHZLOOQHHG to be made ADA-accessible, City Planner Mark Barnes said. Vonada said it is too early to provide an estimate of the total construction costs. The location lies in the tsunami inundation zone, ac- FRUGLQJWRWKHPDSIURP WKH 2UHJRQ 'HSDUWPHQW RI *HRORJ\ DQG 0LQHUDO ,QGXV- tries. However, the 2013 map is informational only and has QR UHJXODWRU\ SRZHU %DUQHV VDLG $QG DFFRUGLQJ WR WKH department’s 1995 map — which is UHJXODWRU\ ² WKH school is not in the inundation zone. Hull said that the property RZQHU KDV DJUHHG WR UHVHUYH the space for the academy as ORQJ DV WKH DFDGHP\ OHDGHUV FRQWLQXHV WR PDNH SURJUHVV WRZDUG RSHQLQJ WKH FKDUWHU school. “I feel, personally, pretty FRQ¿GHQW WKDW ZH FDQ PDNH WKLV KDSSHQ´ 9RQDGD VDLG “It’s, I think, really the best option at this point for the VFKRRO´ Grassroots movement 7KH DFDGHP\ D QRQSUR¿W RUJDQL]DWLRQ DURVH IURP WKH Cannon Beach community’s JUDVVURRWVHIIRUWWRHVWDEOLVKD school in town, after the Sea- side School District Board decided to close Cannon %HDFK (OHPHQWDU\ 6FKRRO SDUWO\ IRU ¿QDQFLDO UHDVRQV in June 2013. The students WUDQVIHUUHGWR6HDVLGH+HLJKWV (OHPHQWDU\ 6FKRRO WKH IRO- ORZLQJIDOO Before it submitted its latest charter proposal earli- er this month, the academy had submitted a proposal to the school board twice. And twice the school board denied WKH SURSRVDO ² ¿UVW LQ )HE- UXDU\DQGDJDLQLQ-XQH ²FLWLQJDPRQJRWKHU issues, the lack of a temporary location and secure start-up funds. In July 2014, the academy appealed the school board’s decision to the State Board RI(GXFDWLRQDQGXSRQOHDUQ- LQJWKDWWKHVWDWHZRXOGOLNHO\ deny the proposal on similar JURXQGV ZLWKGUHZ LWV DSSOL- cation last fall. To address the funds prob- lem, the academy set up a restricted bank account at Co- lumbia Bank so that support- ers can donate money imme- diately rather than wait for the charter proposal’s approval at the district or state level. For the students who plan WR OHDYH 6HDVLGH +HLJKWV WR attend the academy, almost 100 percent of the money that would have paid for their edu- cation there will follow them to the charter school. Currently, the academy has 70 letters of intent from SDUHQWVKRSLQJWRHQUROOWKHLU students in the academy, Hull said. “So I believe we have a YHU\VWURQJQHHGLQWKLVFRP- munity to have a school in &DQQRQ%HDFK´KHVDLG Cannon Beach philanthropist, business owner Patricia Friedland dies at 81 Conversation flourished at Pat’s Coffee and Tea from ’70s through ’90s By Erick Bengel Cannon Beach Gazette Patricia Friedland, a quiet philanthropist who owned Pat’s Coffee and Tea in downtown Cannon Beach for about two decades, died May 30 at an adult family home in 6HDWWOH DIWHU ¿JKWLQJ FDQFHU for two and a half years. Her niece, Betsy Friedland, was with the 81-year-old when she passed. A Tolovana resident since the mid-1970s, Patricia )ULHGODQG ERXJKW WKH FRIIHH VKRS²DKH[DJRQDOKXWWKDW once stood in a courtyard on North Hemlock Street ²VRRQDIWHUPRYLQJWRWKH area. The business, which also sold tea sets and baskets, was a popular venue for residents to discuss import- ant local issues — “and, of FRXUVH JRVVLS´ VDLG +DQN Johnson, owner of the Wave Crest Inn. “It became, for a little slice of Cannon Beach, a JUHDWKDQJRXW´IRUPHU&DQ- non Beach City Planner Rainmar Bartl said. He add- ed that many of Friedland’s friends came to know her, DQGHDFKRWKHUE\EHFRPLQJ UHJXODUV “She really did kind of SURYLGHDOLYLQJURRPIRUWKH FRPPXQLW\´VDLG%HWK+RO- ODQG ZKR VROG ÀRZHUV QHDU Friedland’s shop for about \HDUV ³+DYLQJ D FHQWUDO ORFDWLRQ DQG KDYLQJ SHRSOH FRPLQJ DQG JRLQJ NHSW HY- HU\RQHFRQQHFWHG´ “She was a wonderful PHQWRU IRU DOO WKH JLUOV ZKR ZRUNHG WKHUH´ VDLG %HWV\ Ayres, a Cannon Beach resi- GHQWZKRVHGDXJKWHUZRUNHG at the coffee shop. Friedland’s niece was also one of those (very parttime) employees. “To have that re- sponsibility as a 10-year-old ²WKDWZDVELJ´%HWV\)ULHG- land said. “We always called it ‘Miss 3DW¶V )LQLVKLQJ 6FKRRO IRU *LUOV DQG <RXQJ :RPHQ¶´ said Barbara Grant, Bartl’s wife. Friedland sold the cof- fee shop in 1998, but the ROG JXDUG FRQWLQXHV WR KROG klatches at the Lumberyard Rotisserie and Grill. 7KH JURXS JDWKHUHG VRRQ DIWHU )ULHGODQG¶V SDVVLQJ 0RVW GUDQN VWUDLJKW EODFN coffee in honor of Friedland, who, as a stubborn half- Swede, refused to cater to the SHUVQLFNHW\ FUHDPDQGVXJDU QHHGV RI WKH JURZLQJ 6WDU- EXFNVIDQEDVHDFFRUGLQJWR Betsy Friedland. Philanthropist Born and raised in Port- ODQG3DWULFLD)ULHGODQGJUDG- XDWHG IURP 2UHJRQ 6WDWH &ROOHJH QRZ 2UHJRQ 6WDWH 8QLYHUVLW\ ZLWK D GHJUHH LQ recreation in 1956. $IWHU ZRUNLQJ IRU WKH U.S. Army Special Services from 1958 to 1960 in Wurz- EXUJ*HUPDQ\²ZKHUHVKH SODQQHGDWKOHWLFSURJUDPVIRU service members — Fried- land took care of the mental- ly ill population at facilities LQ 2UHJRQ DQG &RORUDGR DFFRUGLQJ WR (PLO\ 1HOVRQ Friedland’s sorority sister and friend of more than 60 years. From there, Friedland WDXJKWOHLVXUHVWXGLHVDW:HVW- HUQ:DVKLQJWRQ8QLYHUVLW\LQ %HOOLQJKDP:DVKIRUVHYHU- al years. ³3DW IHOW YHU\ VWURQJO\ Stubborn half-Swede DERXWFROOHJHHGXFDWLRQ´VDLG ‘The least worst’ Friedland often employed &HOLQH 0F(ZDQ SUHVLGHQW 8QWLO QRZ WKRXJK WKH \RXQJ ZRPHQ SDUWWLPH WR RI WKH 6HDVLGH +LJK 6FKRRO DFDGHP\ GLGQ¶W KDYH D ¿UP ORRNDIWHUWKHVKRSWHDFKLQJ Scholarship committee. 7KURXJK WKH 3DWULFLD solution to the temporary them customer service skills ORFDWLRQ SUREOHP 7KH ([- DQGJLYLQJWKHPEXVLQHVVH[- Friedland Fund of the Ore- JRQ&RPPXQLW\)RXQGDWLRQ SORUD6WRUHEXLOGLQJWKHFLW\ perience. owned RV Park and other sites had been named as pos- sibilities. Tracy Abel, a member RI WKH DFDGHP\¶V PDUNHWLQJ committee, told the commis- sion that Cannon Beach will KDYHWURXEOHDWWUDFWLQJ\RXQJ families who have children, or who plan to have children, if the city continues not to have an elementary school. 7KRXJK3DWULFNH[SUHVVHG PLVJLYLQJV DERXW WKH OLPLWHG SDUNLQJ DQG %HUQW ZRUULHG that the fenced-in play area may not serve as an adequate SOD\JURXQGWKHFRPPLVVLRQ- HUV DOO DJUHHG WKDW WKH SUR- posed space is probably the best one the academy could ¿QG ³<RX¶UH MXVW QRW JRLQJ WR ¿QG DQ H[LVWLQJ VSDFH DQ\- where — but particularly in Cannon Beach — that is abso- OXWHO\SHUIHFW´%HQQHWWVDLG Lundy said, “It looks like they’ve looked at every other place in town, and this is the OHDVWZRUVW´ “It’s a place, at least, to KDYHDVFKRRO´%HUQWVDLG Ju n e 19, 20 & 21, 2015 PHOTO COURTESY OF REX AMOS Patricia Friedland sits with former Portland Mayor Bud Clark at the Wave Crest Inn in this photo taken September 2013. Friedland contributed to the 6HDVLGH +LJK 6FKRRO 6FKRO- arship Fund. She even helped select scholarship recipients. ³6KH ZDV ORRNLQJ IRU PHQWDO WRXJKQHVV VRPHRQH who could take adversity, ’cause life’s not a bed of ros- HV´0F(ZDQVDLG³&ROOHJH LVQRWOLNHKLJKVFKRRODQG VKHZDVORRNLQJIRUNLGVWKDW would make the transition DQGKDGJRDOV´ )ULHGODQGZDVDORQJWLPH supporter of the local arts VFHQH LQFOXGLQJ WKH 1RUWK 2UHJRQ &RDVW 6\PSKRQ\ and the Cannon Beach Arts Association, said her friends Rex and Diane Amos. ,Q DGGLWLRQ WR GRQDWLQJ her time and money to lo- FDOFKDULWLHV)ULHGODQGJDYH WR VHYHUDO DUHD QRQSUR¿WV such as the Cannon Beach /LEUDU\ &DPS .LZDQLORQJ the North Coast Land Con- servancy, the KMUN Til- licum Foundation and The Harbor (the domestic and sexual violence resource center for Clatsop County). Old World charm 7KRXJK VKH KDG D FXU- PXGJHRQO\ VWUHDN )ULHG- land’s friends remember her DV JHQHURXV RI VSLULW ³6KH was funny. She was very sharp, well read. She didn’t PLVV DQ\WKLQJ HYHQ WR KHU G\LQJGD\´%HWV\)ULHGODQG said. $ IDQ RI MLJVDZ SX]]OHV and international travel, Pa- tricia Friedland had a “sense of serenity about her, this Old World charm — of hav- LQJ D VSDFH DURXQG KHU WKDW was peaceful and well put WRJHWKHU´+ROODQGVDLG ³3DW OLYHG FRXUDJHRXV- O\ DQG GLHG FRXUDJHRXVO\´ wrote her friend, the author Ursula Le Guin, who lives parttime in Cannon Beach. Friedland is survived by KHU\RXQJHUEURWKHU7KRP- DV )ULHGODQG DQG \RXQJHU sister, Marion Palmateer. A memorial service is scheduled for July 17 (time to be announced) at the JUHHQKRXVH RZQHG E\ +RO- land and her husband, for- mer Cannon Beach Mayor 0LNH 0RUJDQ LQ +D\VWDFN +HLJKWV )RU GHWDLOV HPDLO Betsy Friedland at fried- ODQG#JPDLOFRP