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VOL. 43, ISSUE 4 CANNONBEACHGAZETTE.COM ICEFIRE ICE FIRE February 22, 2019 Cannon Beach City Council and chamber ink new contract By BRENNA VISSER The Daily Astorian The city will no longer pay for visitor information center operations under a new contract with the Chamber of Commerce. For the past 30 years, the city has paid for operations at the center through the gen- eral fund. Now, the city is asking the cham- ber to pay the $160,000 a year it takes to run the center from its tourism promotion pro- gram fund. The fund, which is anticipated to have $385,655 next year, is fi nanced by the lodg- ing tax and is used to promote tourism during the offseason. To lessen the initial fi nancial impact, the city will phase in the change by paying increasingly smaller portions of the visitor information center tab until 2021. In exchange, the chamber has an ongo- ing contract — something the organization has sought for years — which allows staff to do long-range planning. Putting the spend- ing under one contract gives the chamber more fl exibility on how money should be divided between marketing and visitor cen- ter operations. There is also no cap on how much the chamber can receive from lodging tax rev- enue — an idea proposed earlier last year. By KATHERINE LACAZE For Cannon Beach Gazette Watching a glass artist at work, it can be diffi cult to detect the premed- itation and reasoning behind their series of actions, which at times come across curious and confusing. As the process continues, however, a shape emerges, colors become visible, and the fi nesse and precision prompting the artist’s movements and choices manifest into a resplendent piece of glasswork. “Glassblowers, we work with some the most common materials in the crust of the earth,” said artist Jim Kin- gwell, of Icefi re Glassworks in Can- non Beach. In an elegant marriage of artistry and alchemy, they start with those rudimentary materials, employ fi re and air, shaping and transforming liq- uid glass into beautiful, impermeable objects. Creating by hand See Council, Page A7 As Kingwell pointed out, humans long have been modifying simple and abundant elements found within their environment. Glassblowing, for example, is not a new practice, nor Katherine Lacaze/For Cannon Beach Gazette See Glass, Page A7 Suzanne Kindland practices the art of glass at Icefi re Glassworks. R.J. Marx New school board members Sondra Gomez and Shannon Swedenborg at Tuesday’s meeting. Swedenborg, Gomez named to school board By R.J. MARX Cannon Beach Gazette Jim Kingwell pulls molten glass out the furnace while working on a piece at Icefi re Glassworks. The Seaside School District fi lled two vacancies Tuesday night. Shannon Swedenborg fi lled Zone 1, Posi- tion 1, after Patrick Nofi eld stepped down in Cannon Beach. Sondra Gomez replaced Steve Phillips in Seaside. Swedenborg now holds, with Brian Tay- lor, one of two positions representing Can- non Beach. Over the past two years she has been a substitute teacher at the Heights Elementary School and Broadway Middle School. She taught high school biology in the Renton Washington, School District for 10 years. Gomez fi lls the Zone 5 Position 1 vacancy left by the resignation of Steve Phillips. She brings more than 12 years of professional experience working in public schools and is a former employee of the Seaside School District. Time capsule in Whale Park looks to the future By R.J. MARX Cannon Beach Gazette Attention people of the future: on this day, the 14th of February, 2019, the city of Cannon Beach, State of Oregon, United States of America, Planet Earth, offi cials, civic leaders and public works employees came to this site to seal and store a time capsule not to be opened before Feb. 14, 2069. The time capsule follows the unearthing of a time capsule at Tolovana Hall in December. That time capsule, marked Novem- ber 1968, and included a copy of the Seaside Signal, a page from McCall’s magazine about food and fashion, as well as photos of a Boe- ing 737, the latest women’s hair- dos and a view of Tolovana State Park. “We are burying the time to replace the buried time capsule at the Tolovana Arts Colony in December,” Public Works Director Karen La Bonte said. Among items gathered by the Cannon Beach History Center and Museum, city and the Chamber of Commerce are posters, artwork and a medallion from the Sandcastle contest. The hole, dug and prepared by public works employees, consists of an approximately 20-inch- deep water vault sealed with a concrete lid, identifi ed with a marker. At the Cannon Beach History Center and Museum, additional details of the project will be on display, includ- ing location, “so they’ll know where to dig it up in 50 years.” Mayor Sam Steidel places the time capsule in a vault at Whale Park.
