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Th e case of the vanishing bunnies
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MELODIE CHENEVERT
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What’s happening to the bunnies?
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Butterscotch, Blackie, and friends would
assemble on our driveway and salute as
the fl ag went up.
Recently, our favorite bunnies began to
disappear. The fi rst one to go missing was
Butterscotch. Then, Blackie disappeared.
Whitey, who lives across the street, van-
ished. Their numbers dwindled. Saturday,
March 18, the crisis came to a head. Not
a single bunny showed up! We were
panicked and puzzled but our neighbors
were not.
Was it a fox? A hawk? The brutal win-
ter weather? No, someone was trapping
and relocating the bunnies, a practice they
have vowed to discontinue. The mystery
is solved.
One of the truly unique things about
Cannon Beach is our free range domestic
bunnies. I am joining with other bunny
lovers in the neighborhood to try and
convince skeptics that our bunnies are an
asset not a liability.
Easter is just around the corner.
Tourists will be pouring into Cannon
Beach and they love our bunnies! Visitors
of all ages and nationalities are surprised,
charmed, and delighted by them. The
bunnies are photographed almost as much
as our beautiful scenery.
First, we’re getting the bunnies a Face-
book page and forming a fan club. Who
knows where this could lead? Maybe the
bunnies will become our town’s offi cial
animal mascot. By next spring we could
have a bunny festival on Easter weekend
with contests for the best photographs,
original artwork, poems, and stories about
bunnies. There could be a carrot cake
bake-off and a “bunny bop” dance party.
Sarah Nagle, owner of the Surfcrest
Market, has volunteered to be my partner
in this venture. On Easter weekend we will
be launching the Cannon Beach Bunnies
Facebook Page and Fan Club. Stop by Sar-
ah’s bright blue store and join in the fun!
Proper dental care key to healthy community
ur state is known for the colorful
and diverse coastline, hiking
trails under grand evergreens and
snow-topped mountains, but did you
know we are also known for having one
of the country’s highest rates of childhood
dental disease? It’s not one of those facts
to brag about and that’s why we’re taking
steps to change this statistic in our region
and across Oregon.
This silent epidemic is disproportion-
ately affecting Oregon children primarily
due to limited access to community water
fl uoridation and dental care, regardless
of income. And if left untreated, dental
disease can be devastating to children’s
health, educational success, productivity,
self-image and future potential.
Unfortunately, dental pain caused by
tooth decay is one of the primary reasons
elementary age students across the region
miss school. These absences impact
their academic achievement and path to
success. Furthermore, current medical
research indicates that dental disease
can play a signifi cant role in many other
health conditions, including heart disease
and diabetes. As Oregon’s statewide
dental director, Dr. Bruce Austin has
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stated, “There’s such a connection be-
tween decreasing oral infl ammation and
overall health. It greatly improves overall
health.”
What’s more, preventing tooth decay
in our children isn’t just good medical
practice, it also makes good economic
sense. The Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention estimates that for every
dollar spent annually on water fl uori-
dation, $38 is saved in dental treatment
costs. The cost of early intervention and
preventive measures is negligible com-
pared to the social and economic costs of
widespread, untreated dental disease in
our next generations.
We are lucky that many Clatsop Coun-
ty residents are benefi ciaries of communi-
ty water fl uoridation; something the CDC
has praised as among the 10 great public
health achievements of the 20th century.
However, Medicaid reimbursement rates
for dentists in Oregon are lower in com-
parison to other states, and this results
in families having yet another barrier to
getting dental care.
To help address the statewide crisis in
Oregon, The Oregon Community Foun-
dation launched the fi ve-year Children’s
Dental Health Initiative in 2014 and
built partnerships with other funders to
improve access to care statewide. OCF’s
goal is to bring dental screening and
preventive services into school settings,
to promote oral health literacy, and to
develop infrastructure that provides all
children in Oregon with timely access
to age-appropriate dental care. One of
OCF’s partnerships was with Providence
Seaside Hospital and in the summer of
2016, we proudly launched a new school-
based children’s oral health program in
Clatsop County Schools. “Providence
Healthy Smiles” was created through a
multi-year grant from OCF and is aimed
at increasing children’s education and
access to dental care.
We are grateful for the grant funding
that has enabled this program to start and
must emphasize the importance of contin-
ued funding to ensure it exists long term.
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Cannon Beach, Oregon. There
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car. She also worked along-
side her husband next door
after the opening of Malo’s
Crab and Fish Market.
Violet had a love for trav-
eling, the ocean and also her
Lone Rock getaway.
She is survived by two
sons, James Eugene Malo
and Robert Adran Malo; four
grandchildren, Angela Maria
Malo, James Robert Malo,
Matthew Robert Malo and
Katelin Maria Malo; and
three great grandchildren,
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OBITUARIES
Vi, who was 91, lived a
full life surrounded by family
and many friends. Everyone
who knew her would say she
was an extremely loving wife,
mother, grandmother, and
a hard worker and kindred
spirit. She was a native Ore-
gonian.
The daughter of Raymond
and Viola Robertson, Violet
was born in Dallas, Oregon.
She attended school in Taft,
Willamina and was a gradu-
ate of Sheridan High School,
where she met her husband,
Robert William Malo. They
were married until his death
in 1987.
Vi worked in the ship
yards during World War II as
a certifi ed Navy welder and
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nce upon a time long ago in
Cannon Beach, someone released
their pet rabbits into the wild. The
strong and resourceful survived and today
their descendants can be seen frolicking in
the early morning light and nibbling grass
all day long.
They seem to thrive here in the Tolova-
na neighborhood. They are sweet, gentle
creatures, who are entirely too trusting.
They seem to be rather nearsighted and
some of them, well let’s face it, aren’t too
bright.
Meet Butterscotch and Blackie. They
grew up in our fl ower bed and loved to
hide in the heather. They were insepara-
ble. For the past year they and six of their
friends would go back and forth between
our place (The Lost Art of Nursing Muse-
um), and the Inn at Cannon Beach.
We always enjoyed the bunnies even
though they ate so many of our fl owers
and shrubs. We just kept planting more.
Live and let live.
We had never fed or named them until
our grandchildren arrived for a visit last
June. Our 5-year-old Sydney insisted on
making them carrot salads. She would
decorate a lettuce leaf with bits of carrots
and giggle as they ate.
After their visit we started paying a lot
more attention to the bunnies. Our Ger-
man Shepherd thought we were crazy. Af-
ter all, if you’ve seen one bunny, you’ve
seen them all. But that’s just not true.
This has been a very hard winter.
Every morning after my husband, Gary,
hung out the fl ag, he would give the
bunnies some carrots and broccoli. Soon
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