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A8 • Friday, April 19, 2019 | Cannon Beach Gazette | CannonBeachGazette.com Kits: Cannon Beach Academy receives a dozen tsunami emergency survival kits for students Rentals: Big changes could be coming Continued from Page A1 Continued from Page A1 He identifi ed how hik- ing and outdoor apparel are already designed to be light- weight and durable, which incidentally makes them suit- able products to be incorpo- rated into emergency pre- paredness and resiliency. He then homed in on making those products available to the public, to both enhance their outdoor experiences while hiking and camp- ing and to help them have adequate supplies to cope with the effects of a natural disaster. He believes Cannon Beach’s efforts to build resil- iency provide a good exam- ple for other coastal com- munities to follow. The ongoing process of planning for a natural emergency is also benefi cial from a tour- ism perspective. “You become the most prepared place on the coast, and suddenly, you become to safest place to visit on the coast,” Johnson said. and partied for four days in southeast Portland. But safety and noise weren’t her only complaints, she and her employees have been booted from rentals repeatedly to convert them to short term rentals. All of the commis- sioners were in agree- ment about two things; that there wasn’t enough of a difference between one rental per 14 days and twice monthly to justify an ordinance change, and that removing fees for own- ers using property man- agement companies was Education and preparation In addition to the Go Kits for Kids, the academy also used the approximately On Tuesday, April 9, Cannon Beach Academy Director Amy Fredrickson (left) and business manager Ananda Osterhaus unload emergency Go Kits for Kids that the school purchased with funds from a Cannon Beach Community Grant. $9146 community grant to enhance its food program and purchase two medical tri- age kits and items that would be necessary in the event of a lockdown. Additionally, the doors received new locks to keep intruders out. “It’s assuring to know we have these safeguards,” Busi- ness Manager Ananda Oster- haus said. “It’s so important we can keep (students) safe in every way possible. In the coming weeks, the school will hold meetings with teachers and parents to give them information about the kits and the school’s emergency plan. “We do need to educate our kids and our families and our teachers,” Fredrick- son said. “We need to edu- cate ourselves and make sure we’re prepared and ready to respond.” Art: Workshop demonstates a new use for plastic debris Continued from Page A1 Awareness Program titled “How Does Your Garden Grow: Beach Plastic Floral Assemblage” on March 23. While walking the beach with her dogs, she began noticing the bits of plastic marine debris strewn about and “they just started calling out to me.” First and foremost, Gloria began considering how she personally could be “less of a consumer of those particular things” that are carelessly or incidentally discarded, dan- gerously making their way into the environment. Even though no West Coast states have water quality stan- dards that directly address micro-plastics, a common belief among activists, scien- tists and other concerned par- ties is humans should try to stop plastic from getting into waterways in the fi rst place. Secondly, Gloria iden- tifi ed a way to incorporate the trash into her creative process, using the colorful pieces as an artistic medium, similar to sea glass but much more abundant. Whether the impulse is instinctual or learned, she fi nds herself fre- quently gathering debris. “Pretty much any beach I go to, I’ll pick up some- thing,” she said. During the workshop, she shared her process with attendees, demonstrating how plastic pieces pasted on canvas can portray planters from which painted or paper fl owers blossom or a myr- iad of other elements within mixed-media artwork. She encouraged participants to use their imaginations, con- ceptualizing and using the plastic debris and additional items however they wanted, which led to mixed-me- dia depictions of a mermaid and a beach landscape, along with other more abstract images. One of the most important takeaways, Gloria told par- ticipants, quoting renowned American sculptor Duane Hanson, is “Art doesn’t have to be pretty; it has to be meaningful.” The Trash Talk Work- shops, made possible with funding from the Oregon Coast Visitors Association, emphasize education. They serve as a venue for show- ing interested citizens how to use recycled beach debris and found ocean items in their art, in addition to help- ing them learn how they can partake in protecting the nat- ural environment surround- ing Cannon Beach’s iconic Haystack Rock. The arts association has several Saturday workshops remaining in the series, including: • Hand Woven Beach Baskets, with Susan Spence, on April 20 • The Ripple Effect: Plas- tic Marine Debris Mandalas, with Shelby Silver, on May 4 • Natural Science Illus- tration: Puffi n Portraits, with Dorota Haber-Lehigh, on May 18 For more information or to register, visit cannonbeacha- rts.org or call 971-361-9308. Angkor Wat: Lecture explores history around temple Continued from Page A1 for many years. But in 2013, with the use of a lidar laser scanner mounted on a helicopter, scientists dis- covered what may have been an entire village sur- rounding the temple. Laser beams penetrated the for- est canopy and revealed a three-dimensional under- ground landscape, show- ing a grid of squares with a mound in each square. Archaeologists believe this grid could have been ancient streets and canals, and the mounds may have been where houses once stood. Displaying a slide outlin- ing the temple and the grid, Carter said, “Every time I see this, my heart jumps because it’s so exciting to see the original landscape around these temples.” Through inscriptions on stone panels attached to the temple, researchers learned much about those who built reasonable and easy to support. Where the commission didn’t have agreement was around how to approach the fi ve-year unlimited short term rental permit. The commission rec- ommended that the City Council suspend new applications to the fi ve- year unlimited short term rental permit system for up to two years to give the new code enforcement offi cer and software time to work, and requested that a budget assessment also be made. Current fi ve-year unlimited permits would remain unaffected. the temple and the kings that ruled the empire — the upper 1 percent of the Ang- korian society, Carter said. “From 100 years of research on Angkor we have a really good idea about the top level of this society, but we don’t know anything about what the normal peo- ples’ lives were like.” Political confl icts in Cambodia and the Vietnam War halted research for 25 years, beginning in 1970. After the war, “there was a huge vacuum in human resources. (There were) thousands of sites, hun- dreds of Angkorian sites and almost no one left in the country who had any train- ing or background in study- ing this culture and preserv- ing these sites.” A push by Cambodians and by foreign research- ers to rebuild the training program in Cambodia has resulted in a large contin- gent of local archaeologists, Carter said. Carter fi rst became intrigued with Angkor as an undergraduate student; she has worked as an archaeolo- gist at the village surround- ing Angkor Wat as well as at Barsaet, another Angkor temple. Carter lived in Cam- bodia for a year while writ- ing her Ph.D dissertation. “There’s a lot to be done still; we’re really trying to understand the civilization, understand the people who lived here,” she said. To do that, archaeolo- gists are doing what Carter termed “household archae- ology,” where the homes and artifacts of those who once lived in the temple vil- lage are being uncovered. 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