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improvement costs to move
the high school and middle
school further up the hillside.
Given that school enroll-
ment has been declining, the
diversion of students into the
charter school and any new
growth in the area has been
forecast by the State of Ore-
gon as retirees, the argument
to spend 280 times $82,000
or $23 million for growth
seems like a loser. Also, it
is quite feasible to locate a
new middle school above the
tsunami inundation line on
the current district’s Seaside
Heights site without having
to incur the $10 million site
development costs.
The district has already
committed to using the athlet-
ic fields at Broadway Park for
the high school. The existing
Broadway Middle School
could be made into a full high
school. It could be brought
up to seismic and almost new
condition by adding labs,
rebuilding and upgrading the
gym and replacing inadequate
roofing, electrical, plumbing,
mechanical systems and win-
dows for about half the cost
of a new high school — a
savings of about $20 million.
The tsunami safety re-
quirement for schools is that
the structures survive a 9.0
earthquake and that students
be able to access high ground
within 20 minutes. A rebuilt
high school at the Broadway
site with an adequate Wahan-
na Creek bridge would meet
these requirements.
In addition to cost savings,
high school traffic, which is
considerable, would not have
to use Spruce and Wahanna
and would have better access
to a signalized Highway 101
intersection. Also, with this
solution for the high school,
it would not be necessary to
expand the growth boundary
of Seaside, which means
that construction could
begin sooner and the district
could avoid potential interest
charges. It should be pointed
out that approval for a growth
boundary expansion is by no
means a certainty. The rebuilt
Broadway gym could serve
in off-hours as a very useful
community recreational
facility.
So, if we eliminate the
additional space for 280 un-
likely to come new students
that saves $23 million. If we
eliminate the bulk of the site
costs for going up the hill
that saves $10 million and
if we rebuild the Broadway
facility instead of build-
ing a new high school that
saves another $20 million.
The $100 million bond now
becomes $47 million. The
saved taxpayer money of $50
million can now be used for
seismically improving local
bridges so that everyone
can now escape a Cascadia
tsunami; even the school kids
who spent 71 percent of their
time at home (probably in
the tsunami inundation zone)
rather than school.
It’s all very great to spend
money but when you increase
property taxes, the housing
and rental costs go up, and
with a minimum wage sea-
sonal workforce, things just
become worse.
John Dunzer
Seaside
A first time for
everything
As a resident of Clatsop
County for the last six years, I
have paid my taxes, picked up
trash on the beach, volunteered
for several worthwhile orga-
nizations and paid attention
to what’s happening locally
and in the wider community.
I grew up in a white, middle
class family in the 40s, 50s
and 60s when it was con-
sidered very impolite to talk
about religion and politics
around the dinner table, let
alone stand on a street corner
in broad daylight with a pro-
test sign.
Now I’m ready to march
down a city sidewalk with
hundreds of like-minded
women and men in support
of something I thought was
expected in our society — re-
spect. I was wrong and naïve,
so consequently I will be
walking in Astoria Saturday,
Jan. 21 in the Astoria Women’s
March. That is the day that
women all over the country
will be involved in organized
activities, marches and rallies
to raise awareness of the dan-
gerous tone and rhetoric of the
incoming administration.
But this letter is not about
what I personally believe.
That will be clear enough on
Saturday. It is about the fact
that I can freely and without
fear, express that belief. The
fact that I can join a group of
local women, some working,
others retired, busy with fam-
ilies, businesses and ordinary
life who are taking the time
to organize and take action is
frankly remarkable.
Bravo ladies! Bravo to the
men, partners and families
who support them, and bravo
to the community who listens.
We are all better for this.
Please support us Saturday,
Jan. 21, at noon at 12th and
Exchange streets, as many of
your neighbors and friends
from the Columbia/Pacific
area will demonstrate for the
rights of everyone to peace-
fully express their opinions
about the need to protect the
environment, the safety of
minorities, women and others,
health care and education for
all, and above all, respectful
discourse.
Pat Wollner
Gearhart
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Elizabeth Kate ‘Katie’ Barker
Sept. 29, 1936 — Dec. 17, 2016
Elizabeth Kate “Katie”
Barker was a fifth generation
Oregonian whose devotion to
her state’s history and natural
beauty was surpassed only by
the love she had for her family
and her vast network of friends.
She died on Saturday, Dec. 17,
2016, at age 80.
Katie was born in Portland,
the only child of Gerald E.
and Elizabeth L. Moore. She
graduated from Oregon State
University, and lived for the
past 44 years in Lake Oswego
and Cannon Beach. She vol-
unteered at the Cannon Beach
Arts Association Gallery and
was a devoted supporter of the
Cannon Beach Food Pantry,
the Cannon Beach Library, and
the Tillicum Foundation, which
runs Coast Community Radio
in Astoria.
A former home economics
teacher, she started and ran a
property management com-
pany, Barker and Calkins, that
thrives today. She developed
and owned Brooklyn Gardens,
a residential and commercial
property in Southeast Portland.
Her ancestors include some
of the most significant people
in Oregon history, including
missionaries Chloe Clark Will-
son and William Holden Will-
son, the first treasurer of Ore-
gon, who were instrumental in
establishing the city of Salem
and what became Willamette
University. Her great-grandfa-
ther was J.K. Gill, who founded
and ran a chain of bookstores.
Her grandfather, E. B. London,
established an apple and pear
orchard in Oregon’s Hood Riv-
er Valley, where Katie spent her
summers as a youth.
At age 15, she climbed
Mount Hood, as her mother
and grandmother had done
before her, starting a lifelong
love affair with the Mazamas
mountaineering group.
In the 1960s, she and her
husband, Louis, bought a small
cabin on the presidential streets
in Cannon Beach and she spent
summers there ever since. She
cherished her time there, re-
ferring to it as her sanctuary.
She loved the cool breezes,
winter storms, fresh seafood,
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gravel roads, beach bonfires,
and years of children and then
grandchildren playing croquet
and badminton in her yard. It
would be impossible to count
the blackberries she picked in
town, much less the number of
pies she baked them into.
She often regretted the lim-
ited opportunities for women
in her era, noting she had the
skills to have gone into engi-
neering if only she had had the
encouragement.
In retirement, Katie was an
active volunteer. In addition
to the Cannon Beach organi-
zations, she supported Mult-
nomah Falls, Portland Public
Schools, OHSU, and a wom-
en’s scholarship fund at Port-
land State University in honor
of her longtime friend, the
late Oregon State Sen. Nancy
Ryles, among others.
Katie loved sharing her cre-
ativity with her family. She was
always thinking of projects at
her home and her beach cab-
in, in her garden, and with her
grandchildren.
She traveled the world but
always found the greatest beau-
ty in the Pacific Northwest,
particularly at the coast.
She is survived by her
husband, Louis Barker; three
children, Betty, Charles and
Neil Barker; and four grand-
children, Harry Barker-Fost
and Chloe, Oscar and Amelia
Barker.
Memorials may be made
to the Cannon Beach Food
Pantry, PO Box 852, Cannon
Beach, OR 97110, or the char-
ity of your choice.
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