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side Downtown Development
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is a way to show some hospitality!
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who attended the two sensational
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several local residents. I quickly
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week, and heard a lecture from
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bors are from everywhere, from
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points midway.
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the kid in all of us — and that’s
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dent that one of the main streets is
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Scene and Heard  CLAIRE LOVELL
Pancakes and sausage at the convention center
On April 7, we had Ki-
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at the convention center.
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of Mayor Joyce Williams
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was a familiar person for
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to be able to still keep up.
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parachute is a once in a
lifetime experience.
Claire Lovell is a long-
time resident of Seaside.
Obituaries
Ray G. Schumacher
Sept. 26, 1941 — April 28, 2015
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children. He was adored
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from Russia in 1912, set-
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farm and moved to Mo-
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where he learned to speak
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Ray Schumacher
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in 2004 to be closer to
two of his three children.
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retirement in 2007. This
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loved his pets.
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Mather of Astoria, Ore.,
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2015, at 2 p.m., at Beth-
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Johnson will officiate.