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We need ecologically sustainable jobs
Clatsop County Commissioner Li-
anne Thompson provided this testimony
to the Oregon Joint Ways and Means
Committee March 3.
C
o-chairs Sen. Devlin and Rep.
Nathanson, members of the com-
mittee, thank you for the opportu-
nity to appear before you tonight.
My name is Lianne Thompson, and
I’m a Clatsop County Commissioner.
I appreciate the very great challenge
before you in this session as you
balance revenues and requests from all
over Oregon. It’s no surprise that there
are more of the latter than the former.
It’s no surprise that many people are
requesting — perhaps demanding —
that you perform the impossible job of
meeting every request with agreement
and funding. I’m from the government,
and I came to help.
What I’m offering isn’t immediately
possible, but it’s a direction forward. I’d
ask your attention to wise investment
in economic development that provides
jobs in ecologically sustainable ways,
jobs that grow the hearts and minds of
the workers involved as they support
our local and statewide tax base. Sen.
Betsy Johnson has her Oregon Manu-
facturing Innovation Center project in
Scappoose.
now. We’re still in the early stages of
developing the concepts and implement-
ing them. It’s not a “silver bullet,” and
it’s not an immediate solution.
But working toward a future that
makes better use of Oregon forests
allows multiple benefi ts. If we have sec-
ondary production on our timber prod-
ucts in local manufacturing facilities,
we do more than provide good jobs.
We also provide a way to pay for
essential services, and I know you’re
committed to that by your membership
on this committee.
Last and perhaps most important
for many is that this future will give us
the means to also protect and preserve
forests in Oregon as wild places, places
that provide clean air and drinking
water, allow recreational opportunities,
and species and habitat protection. It’s a
big dream, there’s a lot of collaborative
work to be done, but it’s a dream that
inspires both hope and common purpose
for our shared value, a thriving Oregon.
Thank you again for your work.
I am eager to work with you as we
move forward.
Lianne Thompson is a long-time
community activist who’s currently
serving as the elected Clatsop County
Commissioner for District 5, the south-
ern half of Clatsop County.
GUEST COLUMN
LIANNE THOMPSON
I’m in favor of supporting that
project with whatever “ask” she has for
funding. I trust her judgment. I’m also
requesting that you consider investing
in factories all over Oregon that will
use cross-laminated timber or other
mass-timber technology to produce
value-added timber products from our
private, state, and federal forests. I’d
like to see us building modular housing
using mass timber techniques. We don’t
have specifi c requests at the moment,
but they’re coming soon. Please give
them consideration as they provide
jobs in rural Oregon. You know that
rural Oregon desperately needs those
ecologically sustainable manufacturing
jobs, or we face becoming ghost towns
or theme parks. Let’s instead put tools
in workers’ hands, develop opportunity
for good jobs, so they can provide for
themselves, their families, and their
communities. The way forward in
developing mass timber jobs, especially
ones that will create modular housing
(my personal favorite), is not clear right
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Georgiana F. Hay
Bonny Rae Stuart
April 1, 1926 — Feb. 8, 2017
Aug. 7, 1936 — Feb. 26, 2017
Georgiana Hay
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or to look at existing hotels.
Bill Hay passed away in 2002.
Mrs. Hay is survived by a son,
Gary A. Hay; daughters, Lyn-
da J. Allred (William Allred)
and Pamla MacLean (Frank);
seven grandchildren; and six
great-grandchildren.
Per Mrs. Hay’s instructions,
no funeral will be held, but a
celebration of life will be held
in mid-April when everyone
in her family, and friends, can
attend.
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Bonny Rae Stuart, 80,
peacefully entered heaven’s
glory on Feb. 26, 2017, at
the Hospice Care Center in
Longview, Washington.
A celebration of life will
be held for Bonny on Satur-
day, March 11, at 2 p.m., at
Cannon Beach Community
Church, 123 E. Washington
St., Cannon Beach, Oregon.
Bonny was born on Aug.
7, 1936, in St. Helens, Ore-
gon, to Evelyn and Troy
Jones. She is survived by
her husband, of 52 years,
Frank; their three children,
Robin Wooldridge, Joseph
Stuart and Scott Stuart; and
eight grandchildren, Day-
ton, Bryce, Michael, Alex,
Hannah, Abigail, Elizabeth
and Matthew. Bonny is also
survived by her sister, Bev-
erly Drake of Springfi eld,
Oregon. She had one broth-
er, Stanley Jones, who pre-
ceded her in death.
Bonny graduated from
Oak Ridge High School in
Oak Ridge, Oregon, in 1954.
Then she attended the Open
Bible Standard bible school
in Eugene, Oregon.
Bonny worked for Pru-
dential Life insurance in
Eugene. And, while living
there, she met Frank at a
church young adult singles
day retreat. They married in
Eugene on May 3, 1964, and
then moved to Washtucna,
Washington, and bought the
Th erapy dogs showcased at ‘Friend-Raiser’
Dog lovers are invited to the
Angel on a Leash Friend-Rais-
er Thursday, March 16, from
5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Astoria
Golf and Country Club, 33445
Sunset Beach Lane, Warren-
ton. Learn about the Provi-
dence Seaside Hospital ther-
apy dog program and how to
support the program by regis-
tering to become a therapy dog
handler. In addition, enjoy a
meet-and-greet Cannon Beach
residents David and Cherilyn
Frei and their dogs, Angel and
Grace. Cherilyn Frei is the di-
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Bonny Rae Stuart
Pioneer Drug store. They
lived there and raised their
family from 1965 to 1989,
and Bonny worked as the
bookkeeper for Pioneer
Drug.
In January 1989, Bon-
ny and Frank moved from
Washtucna to Seaside, Or-
egon, and purchased Holl-
aday Drug store. They sold
their business in 2003, and
Bonny retired.
Bonny enjoyed a won-
derful sense of humor and
loved to tell stories. She
brought much joy and wis-
dom to the lives of all who
knew her. Bonny’s faith in
the Lord fi lled her an endless
source of grace that shown
through her smile. Even at
the end of her illness, she
was sharing her sweet and
joyful sense of humor with
her family.
Ellen Urbani, author of
“Landfall,” will be the March
11 speaker at the Cannon
Beach Library’s Northwest
Author series. The author se-
ries, regularly scheduled for 2
p.m. on the second Saturday
of the month at the library,
is free and the public is wel-
come.
Urbani’s work is historical
fi ction set in the wake of Hur-
ricane Katrina, an account of
lives destroyed and glorifi ed
by the terrible catastrophe that
hit New Orleans.
Urbani is also the author of
a memoir, “When I Was Ele-
na,” which documents her life
in Guatemala during the fi nal
years of that country’s civil
war.
Having spent her forma-
tive years in Virginia and Al-
abama, Urbani is a Southerner
at heart, but she is currently
living on a working farm near
Portland.
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I’m sorry to advise everyone
of the death of Hallmark Inns &
Resorts co-founder, Georgiana
F. Hay, on Feb. 8, 2017. Mrs.
Hay was 90 years old.
Mrs. Hay and her late hus-
band, Bill Hay, fi rst entered the
hospitality business when they
purchased property in Cannon
Beach, Oregon, in 1948. The
property contained a single
house with a four-car garage
and, almost immediately, Bill
converted the four garage units
into hotel rooms.
A year later Bill, with help
from his father, Glen Hay, con-
structed another 18 units, and
the Surfview Motel opened
for business. This property is
the site of the current Hall-
mark Resort & Spa in Cannon
Beach. With the success of the
Surfview Motel, other motel
ventures followed. Over the
next 50-plus years, over 40
hotels were either newly con-
structed or acquired and reno-
vated.
Mrs. Hay was very active
with the business, and always
traveled with her husband to
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