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Academy to share building
with existing businesses
Academy from Page 1A
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the space for two to three
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the city hopes to build a
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facilities, at the presently
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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-
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He added that the school
aims to open in Septem-
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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
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ed by David Vonada, of Tolo-
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The school will also have
two restrooms, a staff room,
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spaces — would meet the
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quirements. People will enter
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Owned by DDAJ Cor-
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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-
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school is not in the inundation
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school.
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school in town, after the Sea-
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in June 2013. The students
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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
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issues, the lack of a temporary
location and secure start-up
funds.
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appealed the school board’s
decision to the State Board
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deny the proposal on similar
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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
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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
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students in the academy, Hull
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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
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for two and a half years. Her
niece, Betsy Friedland, was
with the 81-year-old when
she passed.
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the mid-1970s, Patricia
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once stood in a courtyard
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area.
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sold tea sets and baskets,
was a popular venue for
residents to discuss import-
ant local issues — “and, of
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Johnson, owner of the Wave
Crest Inn.
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at the coffee shop.
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coffee in honor of Friedland,
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Betsy Friedland.
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recreation in 1956.
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Friedland’s sorority sister and
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committee, told the commis-
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families who have children,
or who plan to have children,
if the city continues not to
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that the fenced-in play area
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posed space is probably the
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where — but particularly in
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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
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select scholarship recipients.
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who could take adversity,
’cause life’s not a bed of ros-
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would make the transition
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supporter of the local arts
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and the Cannon Beach Arts
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her time and money to lo-
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such as the Cannon Beach
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the North Coast Land Con-
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Harbor (the domestic and
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center for Clatsop County).
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land’s friends remember her
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was funny. She was very
sharp, well read. She didn’t
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said.
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and international travel, Pa-
tricia Friedland had a “sense
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was peaceful and well put
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wrote her friend, the author
Ursula Le Guin, who lives
parttime in Cannon Beach.
Friedland is survived by
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sister, Marion Palmateer.
A memorial service is
scheduled for July 17 (time
to be announced) at the
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land and her husband, for-
mer Cannon Beach Mayor
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Betsy Friedland at fried-
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