December 1, 2017 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com • 3A ‘A huge loss’ for the community Designing schools for the Big One Boone from Page 1A Looking for adventure Boone grew up in Portland and joined the fledgling Ham- let Rural Fire Department in 1975, a year after he moved to the area. He did not have prior firefighting experience, but joined the department be- cause he was a young man looking for adventure in his life. Boone stuck with it be- cause he had “a personal con- viction that everyone needs to give back to their community in some way or another,” he said in a 2015 interview with the Seaside Signal’s Kather- ine Lacaze. “I volunteered with them at that point, and then I just stayed with it.” Boone was chairman of the Hamlet Rural Fire Pro- tection District board in the 1980s, a position he relin- quished when he was promot- ed to chief in 1991. During his time as chief, Boone oversaw the construc- tion and remodeling of build- ings, firefighter training, and the purchase of vehicles and equipment, among services to the community. “Under his guidance, the department saw tremendous growth in equipment, facili- ties, and personnel,” Verley said. In 2008, he was among those recognized by the Clat- sop County Board of Com- missioners for his “significant contributions” to the county following windstorms during the Great Coastal Gale of 2007. In 2014, Boone helped as- semble a Federal Emergency Management Agency grant that allowed the purchase of the department’s first new fire apparatus, a custom built 3,000-gallon water tender. In April 2015, Boone was recognized for his service during the monthly Hamlet community potluck dinner, with about 60 people in atten- dance. He was given an antique fire nozzle, polished and mounted on a piece of wood containing a placard engraved with a thank you for dedicat- ing “40 years and counting” to the community. ‘Part of a team’ Verley met Boone about 14 years ago, when both were on construction jobs, he said. “I was working on a house and Bill was working on a neighboring house,” Verley Dougherty co-authors resiliency paper By R.J. Marx Cannon Beach Gazette PHOTO SUBMITTED BY SHELLY CLOOTEN Hamlet Fire Chief Bill Boone, third from left, is pictured with the rest of the Hamlet Vol- unteer Fire Department during a monthly community potluck in 2015. PHOTO SUBMITTED BY SHELLY CLOOTEN Paul Weaver, chairman of the board for the Hamlet Histor- ical Schoolhouse, left, presents Hamlet Volunteer Fire De- partment Chief Bill Boone with a special award as a thank you for the “40 years and counting” that Boone has served the community through the agency. said. “He walked over and he made a pitch for the fire de- partment.” The centerpiece of Hamlet Fire, the Necanicum fire sta- tion, was designed and built under Bill’s watch, Verley said. Boone spent almost every Wednesday at the fire station, taking care of small main- tenance items, paperwork, planning drills, and all the details necessary to keep the department running smooth- ly, Verley said. “I really enjoyed working with Bill,” Verley said. “He was fair and thorough. He really made everyone feel appreciated and he made you feel a part of the team.” Daniels praised Boone’s mutual aid efforts. “As chief of Hamlet, they’d always send people needed. He was running a business. It was a lot for him, but he’d never say no. He’d always be there.” Dale Kamrath, Seaside fire chief from 2007 to 2012, lat- er moved to Hamlet where he served as a firefighter volun- teer. He called Boone’s efforts “flat-out amazing. “In the 10 years I’ve known him, he’s always gone out of his way to help any- body, whether it was fire ser- vice or personal.” Celebration of life has been a resurgence of com- munity spirit, including the reinstatement of potluck din- ners, which are held the sec- ond Saturday of each month, and holiday events. “There are a million differ- ent ways to do it, but this is just the way I’ve chosen,” he said in 2015. Boone specifically said he wasn’t interested in a big celebration or a lot of fanfare, Verley said. “He wasn’t inter- ested in glory — he was in- terested in helping his fellow human beings.” Cleve Rooper, Cannon Beach fire chief from 1996 to 2011, remembered Boone as a builder, contractor, carpenter, boat operator, fly fisherman and a really good friend. “He was a very accom- plished man, a very good friend,” Rooper said. “He was a great fire chief, community member, a great family man and contributed a lot to the community. And he died way too young. He will be sorely missed.” A memorial dinner for Boone for Hamlet firefighters past and present will be held at an upcoming date. Boone’s family is planning a celebration of life, Verley said. Seaside’s Doug Dough- erty will be among the pre- senters at a major national event — the Eleventh U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering: In- tegrating Science, Engineer- ing and Policy, June 25-29, in Los Angeles. The former Seaside School District superinten- dent led the effort to raise awareness of the district’s at-risk schools in the event of a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake and tsunami. Dougherty and others devel- oped and promoted a 2016 measure successfully raising $99.7 million for new schools outside of the tsunami zone. Dougherty achieved na- tional attention in the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York- er piece “The Really Big One,” by Kathryn Schulz. He was also extensively pro- filed in Bonnie Henderson’s “The Next Tsunami,” which chronicles his efforts to build safer schools. Dougherty, who retired from the district in 2016, serves on the Oregon Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission and is working on Senate Bill 850 to develop the Mass Care and Shelter plan for Oregon. Dougherty co-authored “Or- egon Schools Face ‘The Really Big One: Advancing School-Centered Community Resilience,” with researchers Yumei Wang and Ted Wolf. Wang is an engineer at the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Indus- tries. Wolf is a writer and ad- vocate with interests in sus- tainability, natural history, and earthquake safety. The report comes after 25 years of state invest- ments to make schools safer. More than $310 million has been spent toward retrofits of K-12 buildings, complet- ing projects in more than 80 school districts since 2009. The report presents case studies from three statewide perspectives: Portland’s ag- ing buildings; adopting re- silient design in Beaverton; and facing tsunami risk in Seaside. One of the goals of the Seaside school bond, Dough- erty said in a 2016 interview, was to use the a new campus facility to act as an emergen- cy shelter. The new buildings will be built to safely withstand a 9.0 earthquake, he said. DOUG DOUGHERTY Locations of existing Seaside schools and new K-12 cam- pus, showing elevations and maximum extent of tsuna- mi inundation zone. After Boone was diagnosed with cancer in 2016 and un- able to actively serve, Verley was named chief and Boone assistant chief, a position he served until early this year. When Boone first joined the department, there was a strong sense of community in the town. Some of that was lost over the years, he said, but there Holiday Shopping is Simple & SWEET!! Classic Assorted Chocolate Boxes & Custom or Prepacked Candy Baskets! 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