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‘A huge loss’ for the community
Designing schools
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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
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