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OUR 109th YEAR • April 3, 2015
Mayor
Widdop
Meals program gets lunch to
now
seeks
to
seniors, those with disabilities
‘move forward’
Two-thirds say no to recall
By Katherine Lacaze
Seaside Signal
Now that the city of
Gearhart has voted to retain
Mayor Dianne Widdop, her
goal is to move forward and
past the division created
within the small, tight-knit
community.
“We’ve got our goals, we
have a really good City Council.
Let’s work together and move
forward,” she said. “The voters
have spoken and I’m glad they
had a chance to. ... I hope the
people who wanted me recalled
will sit back and listen to what’s
KATHERINE LACAZE PHOTO
Renae Armstrong, left, can often be found with his service dog, Red, getting lunch at the Bob Chisholm Commu-
nity Center on the week days. Lunches are served through the NorthWest Oregon Senior and Disability Services
meals program at the Seaside meal site. They are free for seniors older than 60 or people with disabilities.
Drivers sought to help with Meals on Wheels service
The cost for lunch is
$6.75 for those who
don’t meet the criteria.
Lunch is served
every week day at
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The NorthWest Se-
Chisholm Communi-
nior and Disability
ty Center. Tuesdays
Services Meals Pro-
and Thursdays are deli
gram in Seaside is
day, which feature hot
more than a means to
soup and sandwiches
serve a hardy, healthy
or salad. Clients re-
meal to local seniors
ceive a hot meal on
and people with dis-
Mondays, Wednesdays
abilities; for many of
and Fridays. Those
the clients it’s an op-
also are the days driv-
KATHERINE LACAZE PHOTO ers deliver lunch to
portunity to get out
and socialize, it’s a Volunteer Steve Meredith, center, serves coff ee to patrons at clients at their homes.
point of contact with the Seaside meal site for the Northwest Oregon Senior and
In addition to a hot
someone who can ad- Disability Services meal site. On average, about 25 meals are lunch, the clients re-
vocate for their needs served per day at the Bob Chisholm Community Center.
ceive frozen meals to
and it’s a lifeline.
keep them supplied on
“Without these people, I prob- Mylo – short for My Love – and non-delivery days, including the
ably wouldn’t be alive,” said Lar- the lunches, he said, he doesn’t weekend.
ry Sage, who lives in the Forest know how he’d keep going.
The program is provided by
Lake Resorts RV park and camp-
“This is a great thing that they NorthWest Senior and Disability
ing site off U.S. Highway 101 do,” Sage said of the meals pro- Services, an intergovernmental
south of Seaside.
gram.
agency that serves Clatsop, Mar-
Sage, who receives lunches
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able housing in the area, his bro- though a donation of $3 is sug- City and Tillamook; in addition,
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See Meals, Page 4A
sessions. If it weren’t for his dog they can be made anonymously.
By Katherine Lacaze
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been said
tonight.”
In a spe-
cial recall
election
last week,
63.56 per-
cent
of
voters, or DIANE WIDDOP
321, voted
against the recall of Widdop,
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About 36.44 percent, or 184
voters, were in favor of the
recall. Of 925 registered vot-
ers, 505 cast ballots for a vot-
er turnout of 54.65 percent.
See Recall, Page 6A
Hotel operators have
‘mixed emotions’
about new tsunami
awareness initiative
Seaside Signal
NWSDS Meals Program
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In fi scal year 2013-14, the Seaside program:
9 Served an average of 26 meals per week day at the Bob Chisholm Community Center
9 Delivered an average of 48 meals per day, three days per week, to the homes of 63 different individuals
9 Provided a combined total of 13,544 meals to 184 different individuals between the congregate and
home-delivered services
9 Connected clients to NWSDS information and assistance staff to handle 269 requests for assistance
tied to residents in Seaside’s service area. The assistance includes evidence-based health promotion, family
caregiver support and options counseling, in-home help, fi nancial and medical help, Medicare counseling,
care in the community and reporting abuse.
safety inspections late last
fall. Facilities have the
option to incorporate the
sleeves into their safety plan.
Among the hotels using
them so far are the Hi-Tide
Resort, the Rivertide Suites,
By Katherine Lacaze
the Ebb Tide Resort and the
Seaside Signal
Sand & Sea Condominium.
Some businesses have
The city of Seaside is totally embraced the pro-
making an effort to inform gram and the idea of the key
visitors about the risk of a sleeves, while others have
tsunami and arm them with expressed concern and have
instructions for how to re- mixed emotions, Seaside
spond.
Fire Division Chief Chris
One of the means for dis- Dugan said.
Debra Hudson, manager
seminating that information
is through sleeves for hotel of the Hi-Tide Resort, agreed.
room keys, a method that While she appreciates the
has been met with mixed city offering the key cards at
responses from guests, ac- no charge, the response from
cording to several hotel hotel guests has been mostly
negative. For out-of-town
managers.
Each sleeve states, “If customers who are unaware
you feel an earthquake, a of the risk, being greeted up
tsunami may follow” and front with a tsunami warn-
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drop, cover and hold on be unnerving, she said. The
during the earthquake; sec- patrons often will gasp or re-
ond, move inland quickly spond with anxiety, she said.
or use a local, evacuation No one has been apprecia-
route; and lastly, wait for tive of the warning, although
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are effective for increasing
returning to the beach.
The city started distrib- awareness.
uting the key sleeves during
See Tsunami, Page 8A
Seaside Fire Department
Some guests respond
negatively to key
holders with tsunami
warning
Seaside history teacher wins state DAR award
Mike Hawes recognized as
Outstanding History Teacher of
the Year in Oregon
By Katherine Lacaze
Seaside Signal
Involved. Passionate. Knowledge-
able. Those are words often used to
describe Seaside High School teacher
Mike Hawes, who recently won the
2015 Oregon State Daughters of the
American Revolution Outstanding
Teacher of American History contest.
“He’s very involved with the
students and he was highly recom-
mended by the principal and the
superintendent,” said Sandy Full-
er, vice regent of the Astoria DAR
chapter. “His peers respect him.
He’s very progressive and very in-
volved and current in his teaching
methods. And I think it really moti-
vates the students.”
After he was selected as the win-
ner for the Astoria DAR chapter, his
entry was sent to the state organiza-
tion for consideration. Hawes will
be honored at the state conference
awards luncheon in Wilsonville in
May. Additionally, his entry will be
submitted to the National DAR con-
test, and the winner of that contest
will be announced at the 124th Conti-
nental Congress and awarded $3,000.
There are about 37 DAR chapters
in Oregon that could have submit-
ted entries to the state contest, Full-
er said. The nominees are judged by
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incisive knowledge of American
history and readily share it with stu-
dents; foster a spirit of patriotism and
loyal support for the country and con-
stitutional government; demonstrate
KATHERINE LACAZE PHOTO
the ability to relate history to modern
life and events; have a high academ- Seaside High School teacher Mike Hawes recently was selected as the winner
ic standard and require excellence at of the 2015 Oregon State Daughters of the American Revolution Outstanding
See Hawes, Page 6A
Teacher of American History contest. Students have regularly mentioned
their appreciation for Hawes and his courses.