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Cannon Beach businesses win honors at awards
CEDR awards
honor Clatsop
businesses
Award Winners
By Cynthia Washicko
EO Media Group
In a room crowded with
business owners, elected of-
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winners of the Clatsop Coun-
ty Outstanding Businesses
awards took the stage to accept
their plaques.
The fourth annual cere-
mony in March honored busi-
nesses in 10 categories ranging
from customer service to en-
trepreneurship and economic
impact. Each winner was nom-
inated by a letter sent to Clat-
sop Economic Development
Resources.
Business awards
Kevin Leahy, executive di-
rector of CEDR and the Small
Business Development Center,
announced the winners.
Kathy Kleczek, owner
of La Luna Loca in Cannon
Beach accepted the award for
small business entrepreneur-
ship.
“This award is also a repre-
sentation of the people behind
our success, the people that
work with me and the people
that spend their hard-earned
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Kathy Kleczek, of La Luna Loca, walks up to the stage to
accept the entrepreneurship award in the small business
category during the CEDR Awards banquet at The Loft in
Astoria.
dollars in our store for things
that may not be the cheapest,
but are made the best way pos-
sible,” Kleczek said. Owners
of ice cream and French fry
shop Frite & Scoop, Kevin and
Lisa Malcom, were given the
award for outstanding custom-
er service for a small business.
The business won a similar
award recently in the Coast
Weekend Readers’ Choice
Awards.
Lisa took over the accep-
tance speech after Kevin got
choked up, thanking their staff
and the community for sup-
porting the business.
Kelly Truax, owner of
Bruce’s Candy Kitchen, took
the award for business ser-
vice to the community for a
small business. The more than
50-year-old Cannon Beach
and Seaside staple was granted
the award for its efforts in the
community, including donat-
ing candy for events, such as
Easter egg hunts.
“We just give because we
can, and it’s a blessing that
we’re able to do that,” Truax
said.
Accepting the award for
technological and manufac-
turing advancement were the
owners of Airport Crabpot Co.,
Vern and Lisa Lamping. Their
company previously got about
50 orders a year, Leahy said,
Entrepreneurship - Small Business: La Luna Loca
Customer Service - Small Business: Frite & Scoop
Business Service to the Community - Small Business:
Bruce’s Candy Kitchen
Technology/Manufacturing Advancement: Airport Crabpot
Co.
Entrepreneurship - Medium Business: Street 14 Cafe
Customer Service - Large Business: The Ocean Lodge in
Cannon Beach
Business Service to the Community - Large Business:
Astoria-Warrenton KOA
Entrepreneurship - Large Business: Hampton Lumber Mill
Job Creation - P&L Johnson Mechanical Inc.
Economic Impact - Bornstein Seafoods
non Beach. Wendy Higgins ac-
cepted the award for the hotel,
which has consistently been
ranked as the top hotel in Can-
non Beach, she said.
Dale Brechlin, manager of
the Astoria-Warrenton KOA
accepted the business service
to the community for a large
business on behalf of the
campground. Brechlin empha-
sized the KOA site’s focus on
the community, with programs
for youth groups and elderly
patrons at the campground.
Entrepreneurship for a
large business was given to the
Hampton Lumber Mill, with
Manager Cliff Tuttle accepting
the award. The mill, which can
produce 200 million board-feet
annually, employs 149 full-
time employees.
but got an order for 800 units
from Costco last year, thanks
to a patented design. The
owners then developed a new
method for protecting the pots
to meet the increased demand.
The award for entrepreneur-
ship in a medium business went
to Micha and Jennifer Camer-
on-Lattek, owners of Street 14
Cafe in downtown Astoria. The
cafe has expanded and now has
dinner offerings.
“We did start with just … a
handful of employees and now
we have three or four handfuls
of employees, and it’s been
really an exciting journey for
us,” Jennifer Cameron-Lattek
said.
Outstanding customer ser-
vice for a large business went
to The Ocean Lodge in Can-
The night’s penultimate
award went to P&L Johnson
Mechanical for job creation.
The company’s co-owner Paul
Radu accepted the award, and
emphasized the company’s
commitment to educating its
workers as part of its success.
Lastly, economic impact
went to Bornstein Seafoods.
The seafood business has an
estimated local impact of at
least $105 million, Leahy
said. Andrew Bornstein, ac-
cepting the award, comment-
ed that the diversity of prod-
uct has allowed it to thrive.
CEDR leader honored
Skip
Hauke,
CEDR
co-founder and past president,
was honored for his contribu-
tions to CEDR and Clatsop
County.
State Sen. Betsy Johnson
hailed Hauke’s vision in cre-
ating CEDR and his leader-
ship of the Astoria-Warren-
ton Chamber of Commerce,
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under his leadership, she said.
Accepting the award,
Hauke said about the award,
“I think the best thing about
it is it recognizes CEDR
and what CEDR has accom-
plished, and we have … be-
come a model for the state …
and our numbers prove that
we’re doing the right thing,”
he said.
Health profession volunteers needed for Medical Reserve Corps
Cannon Beach
resident starts
county’s first
Medical Reserve
Corps
By Lyra Fontaine
Cannon Beach Gazette
With about 1,700 full-time
residents and a spring and
summer population that can
swell to more than 30,000,
Lila Wickham was concerned
about Cannon Beach’s lack
of a hospital to provide med-
ical services, particularly
during emergencies.
The Cannon Beach res-
ident and registered nurse
decided to establish and co-
ordinate a volunteer medical
reserve corps in the city, the
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The unit seeks health pro-
fessionals currently licensed
or licensed in the past ten
years, including physicians,
nurses, pharmacists, men-
tal health and public health
practitioners, veterinarians,
EMTs, naturopathic physi-
cians and chiropractic phy-
sicians.
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Lila Wickham at one of the
three Cannon Beach cache
container sites, where resi-
dents store emergency sup-
plies.
Members will be trained
and prepared to support the
community’s medical and
psychological needs in the
case of an emergency. Train-
ing will include understand-
ing their roles and how to
manage injuries and illnesses
caused by disasters and pub-
lic health problems.
“The Medical Reserve
Corps is a way to amplify our
resources to be responsive,
particularly with a large el-
derly community,” Wickham
said. “It’s important to be as
prepared as we can be.”
The kick-off event is April
25, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the
Cannon Beach Chamber of
Commerce. The meeting is a
chance for new members to
get to know each other and
learn new skills. A disaster
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May 21 at the Arch Cape Fire
Station from 8 a.m. to 4:30
p.m.
Cannon Beach has a vol-
unteer Community Emergen-
cy Response Team trained in
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ness, evacuation protocols
and more.
However, Wickham no-
ticed the city was miss-
ing a group of medical and
public health professionals
trained to provide emergency
health-related services when
activated.
Wickham was inspired
to launch a unit in Cannon
Beach in August after partic-
ipating in an earthquake and
tsunami drill at Camp Rilea,
along with U.S. Air Force
Reserve, Army and Coast
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responders and government
agencies.
The drill exercises repli-
cated a tsunami environment,
including scenarios of people
needing immediate medical
care.
“I thought, ‘We could do
this,’” she said.
She worked with the City
of Cannon Beach Emergency
Management Organization,
Cannon Beach resident Dr.
Robert Wayne, and an advi-
sory committee to establish
the reserve corps in February.
Wickham hopes to recruit
30 volunteers. “It’s a net-
working process,” she said.
Wickham has been in-
volved in other medical re-
serve corps units for the past
20 years, and has participat-
ed in emergency planning
and drilling around events
throughout her career. She is
also completing CERT train-
ing.
During her 40 years work-
ing in the health industry,
she has been an environ-
mental health director for
Multnomah County, a public
health director and a hospital
nurse.
This year, the Medical
Reserve Corps committee
will work to create proto-
cols and procedures, recruit
volunteers, establish ways to
reach the city’s most vulnera-
ble populations, and provide
community preparedness ed-
ucation opportunities.
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