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Haystack Rock program
seeks volunteer applicants
Cannon Beach is seeking qualiied
applicants for rocky shore interpreters
and lead rocky shore interpreters for
the Haystack Rock Awareness Program.
These seasonal, part-time positions run
February through October under the su-
pervision of the HRAP coordinator.
HRAP is a stewardship and envi-
ronmental educational program whose
mission is to protect, through education,
the intertidal and seabird ecology of
the Marine Garden and Oregon Islands
National Wildlife Refuge at Haystack
Rock.
Interpreters educate the public about
intertidal and seabird ecology, support
school ield trip programs, promote
stewardship, redirect visitors engag-
ing in prohibited activities, set-up and
break down HRAP’s mobile education
unit, collect accurate data, and maintain
equipment off the beach. Beach program
schedule varies daily around low tide,
therefore applicants must be willing to
work early mornings, mid-days, eve-
nings and weekends. Work schedules are
coordinated one month in advance.
CANNON BEACH GAZETTE/FILE PHOTO
Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach
Interviews will begin in May and
will continue until all positions are
illed.
To apply, send a completed city
application available at www.ci.can-
non-beach.or.us along with your cover
letter or CV, resume and at least three
references to Melissa Keyser, HRAP
Coordinator, City of Cannon Beach, PO
Box 368, Cannon Beach, OR 97110 or
email hrap@ci.cannon-beach.or.us.
CEDR workshops in
the South County
Clatsop Economic Development
Resources has several upcoming work-
shops in May to help local businesspeo-
ple.
“Excel: Level 1” teaches people how
to use Microsoft Excel, an electronic
spreadsheet program widely used to or-
ganize inancial data. The class is from
8:30 to 10:30 a.m. May 10 at the South
County Campus, and from 6:30 to 8:30
p.m. in Towler Hall Room 105 on the
college’s main campus, 1651 Lexington
Ave. in Astoria. Basic computer skills
are expected. The class costs $15.
“Excel Level 2” will be held from 8:30
to 10:30 a.m. May 24 at the South County
Campus and 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Towler
Hall Room 105. The class costs $15.
“Ready, Set, Start Your Business”
teaches people how to turn their ideas
into a business. The class is from 8:30
to 10:30 a.m. May 17 in Columbia Hall
Room 219 on the college’s main cam-
pus; $20.
Preregistration is required for each
class by emailing SBDC@clatsopcc.edu
or calling 503-338-2402. Payments are
made by check or credit card at class.
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PUBLIC MEETINGS
Monday, May 16
Cannon Beach Rural Fire Protec-
tion District, 6 p.m., Fire Rescue Main
Station, 188 Sunset Blvd.
Ecola Creek Watershed Council
Meeting, 4:30 p.m., City Hall, 163
E. Gower St.
Tuesday, May 10
Tuesday, May 17
Cannon Beach City Council, 5:30
p.m., work session, City Hall, 163 E.
Gower St.
Cannon Beach Public Works, 9 a.m.,
City Hall 163 E. Gower St.
Wednesday, May 11
Cannon Beach Afordable Housing,
11 a.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Cannon Beach Budget Committee,
5:30 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Cannon Beach Budget Committee,
5:30 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Thursday, May 19
Cannon Beach Design Review
Board, City Hall, 6 p.m. 163 E.
Gower St.
Thursday, May 26
Monday, May 30
Memorial Day, City Hall closed.
Tuesday, June 7
Cannon Beach City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Seaside School District, 6 p.m., 1801
S. Franklin St.
Cannon Beach Planning Commis-
sion, 6 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Cannon Beach Rural Fire Protec-
tion District, 6 p.m., Fire-Rescue
Main Station, 188 Sunset Blvd.
Wednesday, May 18
Friday, May 27
Tuesday, June 14
Cannon Beach Parks Master Plan
Advisory Committee, 10 a.m., City
Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Cannon Beach Emergency Pre-
paredness Committee, 10 a.m.,
City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Cannon Beach City Council, 5:30
p.m., work session, City Hall, 163 E.
Gower St.
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LETTERS
Don’t want Nicholson
development plan
We read, “Nicholson prop-
erty now listed for sale” and
felt compelled to respond. This
appeal is by no means frivo-
lous, and makes sense given
the merits of our legal argu-
ments and the widespread op-
position for this development.
The vast majority of citi-
zens do NOT want this plan,
and have spoken with loud,
clear voices.
There just isn’t any local
support, except the Realtor
who has listed the lot for sale.
Nicholson started this debacle
by threatening the city legally
after his third denial in 2014,
and he still has that lawsuit on
hold as leverage.
The city simply made a
bad decision trying to avoid
his lawsuit. One bad decision
begets another, and once you
start down that path, the steep
slopes get slippery.
With this listing, one must
wonder how the mayor, coun-
cilors, and staff feel, after
bending our laws over back-
ward to avoid the applicant’s
legal threats.
The only reason any of us
are still spending money and
still fooling with this ill-suited
project is because Nicholson
didn’t withdraw his 2014 law-
suit against the city.
If Nicholson now truly in-
tends to abandon his hugely
unpopular PUD and simply
wants to sell the parcel as a
single lot, as he now has it
listed, then why doesn’t he
withdraw his 2014 appeal
threat?
It is quite telling that the
city intends to make it “un-
ambiguously clear that the
slope-density
restrictions
… apply to situations like
Nicholson’s” (Planner Mark
Barnes, Oct. 7, 2015) when
this all over.
Similarly, our mayor has
promised to re-write or re-
move the PUD code so these
bad precedents can’t be re-
peated. It does not appear
that the city really wants this
development, either. Friends
of Cannon Beach is current-
ly accepting contributions of
any amount to help fund this
appeal. Please contact friend-
sofcannonbeach@gmail.com
or visit any US Bank. Thank
you for your continued strong
support.
Jeff Harrison
Friends of Cannon Beach
Vote for Ron Woltjer
I am voting for Ron Woltjer
for Judge of the Circuit Court,
18th District, Position 2.
I have known Judge Wolt-
jer from my years in the
Astoria Regional 9-1-1 Cen-
ter, collaborating on audio
evidence while he was se-
nior deputy district attorney,
through his years as judge
for several municipalities in
Clatsop County. I suggest
all voters review the voters’
pamphlet, because it pro-
vides important details.
I think his background,
experience and temperament
will shape his performance
as an excellent circuit court
judge. I recommend you vote
for Ron Woltjer.
Dick Lang
Astoria
Don’t give up on
charter school
I have been part of the ef-
fort to start a charter school
since the closure of our grade
school in 2013. I understood
that the district didn’t have the
funds to maintain the building
or to move it out of the tsuna-
mi zone. It seemed that a tui-
tion free charter school would
help the district and our chil-
dren since Seaside wouldn’t
have to build, purchase or
maintain a building, and we
would still have 5 to 10 year
old children attending school
in town.
The district openly op-
posed us at irst, but then
changed tactics and said they
would allow us to operate.
They presented us with a list
of negotiable terms. Even
though the norm is less than
four conditions, they gave us
Residential & Commercial
11. We thought we could work
with those. We didn’t know
there would be no negotiation,
no cooperation, no working
together. Saying they support-
ed us was actually a plan to
stall and weaken our efforts,
while making it appear they
cared about Cannon Beach
grade school students staying
near their families.
They very much want Can-
non Beach to support their ef-
forts to build schools in Sea-
side, but they did not once
meet with the charter school
board to come to any sort of
compromise.
Please don’t believe our
efforts have been as incompe-
tent as they would have you
believe. Many have worked
very hard to overcome the nu-
merous and varied obstacles
to opening a charter school.
Any board member would be
happy to tell you what we have
accomplished. As an example,
when the Seaside board said
we were signiicantly short of
funds, they didn’t count the
money the school district will
have to give us to operate. For
some unfathomable reason
they felt we should have their
state mandated funds in the
bank. We had all of our build-
ing costs, curriculum funds,
supply costs, payroll funds
and more than the 10 percent
extra that they required. We
have been good stewards of
the funds this community has
donated to us.
Of course we want better,
safer junior and senior high
schools in Seaside. We also
don’t want ive year olds tak-
ing 45-minute bus rides (one
way), we want to be able to
easily volunteer at our local
school, bring forgotten lunch-
es, backpacks and homework.
We want to be able to get them
quickly if they are ill. Not ev-
eryone can easily leave work
and run to Seaside, not every-
one has a vehicle to do this.
I don’t even want to imagine
how long a ive year old will
be separated from their family
when an earthquake collapses
roads and bridges.
In 2014 we had a wonder-
ful vision, which the Cannon
Beach City Council members
shared when making plans for
our school to share property
they purchased south of town;
plans for not just a school, but
also a community center for
gatherings of all kinds. The
possibilities are endless if we
all work together. Please don’t
let this dream die. Thank you
to all who continually support
our efforts.
Patti Rouse
Cannon Beach
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