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Gingerbread Tea at the But-
ter¿eld Cottage, a Seaside tra-
dition eagerly anticipated each
year by visitors and locals for
more than 25 years, returns for
the four Saturdays between
Thanksgiving and Christmas,
hosted by the Seaside Mu-
seum and Historical Society.
Attendees can get into the hol-
iday spirit or take a break from
holiday stress as they enjoy
homemade gingerbread with a
variety of teas, hot spiced cider
and hot chocolate while being
entertained.
Jeff Blanche returns as the
featured entertainer. Local a
capella group Beach Jam will
share the stage for several
Saturdays while local favor-
ite Shirley Smith-Yates, who
performs under the name Shir-
ley88, will entertain guests
Saturday, Dec. 12.
The Butter¿eld Cottage, lo-
cated next to the Seaside Mu-
seum at 570 Necanicum Dr.,
will be decorated in Victorian
holiday style. Gingerbread tea
Service to honor Pearl Harbor veterans
The public is in-
vited to a short ser-
vice honoring those
who served and died
at Pearl Harbor, Ha-
waii, Dec. 7, 1941,
marking the entry
of the United States
into the Second
World War.
The memorial be-
gins Monday, Dec.
7, at 9 a.m. in the
Seaside Convention
Center lobby. The
service will move
outside to the Pearl
Harbor
Memorial
Bridge, located ad-
jacent to the Con-
vention Center, for a
wreath-laying cere-
mony and a possible
Coast *uard Àyover
at 9:55 a.m.
Refreshments will
be served after the
service. For more
information, contact
Bill Thomas or Eric
Beal at 503-470-
0776.
Observing Pearl Harbor Day 2014 in Seaside.
is served from 1 to 4 p.m. on
Saturdays, Nov. 28, Dec. 5, 12
and 19. Tickets are available
at the door, $3 for ages 12 and
under; $5 for all others.
Horace Seely Butter¿eld,
ta prominent Portland jeweler,
built the Butter¿eld Cottage
in 1893 as a summer home
for his family. It was donated
to the Seaside Museum and
Historical Society and moved
to its present location in 1984.
It has been interpretively re-
stored, depicting a 1912 vin-
tage beach cottage and room-
ing house.
Gingerbread Tea at the
Butter¿eld Cottage is a fund-
raiser for the Seaside Museum
and Historical Society. The
nonpro¿t educational institu-
tion aims to collect, preserve
and interpret materials illustra-
tive of the history of Seaside.
The museum and Butter¿eld
Cottage are located at 570
Necanicum in Seaside and are
open Monday through Satur-
day from noon to 3 p.m.
SEASIDE SIGNAL
Letters to the Editor
Not exceptional
, hope , may brieÀy respond
to the criticism of my “ramble”
(though beach rambling was the
subject) by Rex Amos of Cannon
Beach (“Keep beach bill safe,”
The Daily Astorian, Oct. 30). I
have no quarrel with the Oregon
Beach Bill, which I do not for a
moment doubt is a ¿ne bill, but to
the aura of exceptionalism with
which writer Matt Love bathes it
ad nauseum.
The relevance of my relat-
ing my years and miles of beach
ramblings in a half-dozen dif-
ferent states was to merely point
out that every other state I know
of has beaches which are, to use
Mr. Love’s own phrase, “for the
exclusive use of the public.”
As for the states I mentioned,
they have many hundreds of
miles more public beaches than
has Oregon. That there may be
disputes here and there about pri-
vate versus public access does not
diminish by one jot the miles of
public beach which are actually
available for public enjoyment.
Mr. Amos concludes with a
whopper of a non sequitur — a
quotation attributed to Abraham
Lincoln, but dubiously, consider-
ing no original documentation has
ever been found. The quotation
concerned the priority to be given
human rights over property rights.
It is pretty much agreed that the
term “human rights” was not in
widespread use until well into the
20th century, but even had Pres-
ident Lincoln used it, he would
surely have meant the rights to
life and liberty, which were de-
nied the southern slaves, whom
the plantation owners claimed
were “private property.”
To trivialize the plight of
southern slaves by comparison
with the right to walk on a beach
cannot have been intentional, but
merely a lack of judgment, and I
will let it go at that.
Louis Sargent
Gearhart
Do your job
I see the Clatsop County Com-
mission has backed away from
adopting a tsunami hazard overlay
district because it will impact land
use. In Clatsop speak, this means
“this will reduce the value of my
property; don’t tell potential buyers.”
Yes, it would do this, just like it
would if your property is in a Àood
zone or in a slide area or a high
property tax area or in a poorly per-
forming school district or in an area
with controversial Covenants, Con-
ditions, and Restrictions (CC and
Rs). That is why the state of Oregon
requires that when property is sold,
certain disclosures must be made by
sellers and acknowledged by buyers.
Yes, it can also lead to dif¿-
cult ¿nancing and high insurance.
These requirements are part of
ORS 105.464 item 1G. Where is
the state real estate agency?
Government has a responsibility
to study land-planning issues and
publish these results. This is not
the wild west anymore where sell-
ers and their realtors can just shine
their responsibilities. The county
commissioners should do their job.
If commissioners can’t take the
heat of making decisions based on
what is morally and legally right,
then don’t run for of¿ce. Realtors
should live up to their responsi-
bilities under the ethical practices
required by their licenses. Owners
should follow the law.
It is quite feasible to utilize
property in this overlay zone if it
has been correctly designed. The
science is quite clear — let’s get on
to solving problems, not just kick-
ing the can down the road for the
kids to solve.
John Dunzer
Seaside
Heed the words and prepare
Just read the Nov. 13 article about
tsunami preparedness in Seaside and
comments by geologist Tom Horn-
ing.
Just a simple comment…
If not now, then when? When
the big one hits, I’m sure you all are
going to be thinking, “I should have
listened to Tom.”
Bite the bullet; do the right thing.
Come on people!
Joe Goetze
Bonney Lake, Washington
Food Bank grateful for
community support
As we approach the holidays,
South County Community Food
Bank, a food pantry, wants to
thank the many people who have
supported its efforts during the last
year. We began the year in rented
space as we waited for our new
building to be completed. The Sea-
side Signal and The Daily Astori-
an have provided coverage of the
conversion of two classroom mod-
ular structures into a real building
that celebrated its grand opening
in October. The biggest part of the
story is that most of the money to
build and out¿t the building came
from local funds. Very little of the
funding came from outside this
area and most of that came from
companies that do business in
Clatsop County.
As we look forward, there is still
need. The generosity of the South
County community is remarkable.
During this time of the year and
into the next year, our pantry will be
serving more than a thousand local
people each month: underemployed
locals waiting for spring, hungry chil-
dren, homeless people and locals in
unexpected dif¿culty. The holidays
are a particularly dif¿cult time. South
County citizens and generous part
time residents have always supported
us. We thank you for the past support
and ask, once again, for your help
this year. You can deliver donations
of food or cash to our new building
at 2041 N. Roosevelt in Seaside, or
mail contributions payable to South
County Community Food Bank
to P.O. Box 602, Seaside, Oregon
97138. We thank you in advance.
James C. Casterline
Gearhart
Veteran housing
In Oregon there are 18. In Wash-
ington there are 29. In Idaho there
are ¿ve. Among these 52 closed mil-
itary bases there must be one or two
which could be converted to hous-
ing facilities for homeless veterans.
There would be some investment
in updating, but the facilities are
there if we could take advantage of
them. For singles there are probably
bunk room dormitories, lockers and
toilet facilities. They could easily be
set up on the same basis as many of
these veterans had on active duty.
Most of these bases may have
adequate facilities for families. I
am not talking fancy facilities. I am
talking decent places to live until
employment can provide something
better. The places could be orga-
nized to provide safety and reason-
able supervision for all, and provide
jobs for many.
There could be all the facilities of
any small military base, given a lit-
tle time and money to get them into
shape. The residents could provide a
great deal of the man power need-
ed to make the places functional,
including employment counseling,
medical services, recreation, and
anything else needed, even libraries
and movie theaters.
Besides, why should support of
returned homeless veterans and their
families fall to the state? The state
did not put them on active duty and
into harm’s way. The state is not re-
sponsible for their unemployment or
homelessness.
The state could obtain federal
grants to provide the care needed.
There are many of these veterans who
can provide the administrative abili-
ties needed. If we continue to burden
the cities with this problem, it will
never get done more than half-way.
Ed Garrity
Seaside
Helpful actions of
Masons to be lauded
How many Masons does it take
to screw in a light bulb?
I am an 86-year-old widow of a
Master Mason and while I was at the
Masonic Lodge, I happen to mention
that I have a bout ¿ve burnt out light
bulbs in my house and that my son
lives in Portland. One of the men over-
heard and immediately volunteered to
replace the bulbs. He not only came to
my house but also stopped at the store
and bought the bulbs on the way.
This action is not uncommon for
these men, but I seldom see a public
thank you in print, so here it is.
Thank you very much Masons.
Sally Smith
Gearhart
Obituaries
Darrin James Peters
Kenneth Lloyd Bailey
Feb. 10, 1970 — Nov. 10, 2015
Nov. 7, 1927 — Oct. 26, 2015
Darrin James Peters, the
son of Larry and Nancy
Peters, was born on Feb.
10, 1970, at the Willamette
Falls Hospital in Oregon
City. He died suddenly on
Nov. 10, 2015, from cardiac
arrest. He was 45 years old.
Darrin and his family
moved from Eugene to Bea-
verton to Fairfax, Virginia,
to Denver and to San Fran-
cisco before ¿nally settling
in idyllic Cannon Beach
in 1982. Darrin attended
Broadway Middle School,
Seaside High School and
Southern Oregon College in
Ashland.
Darrin loved Cannon
Beach — the almost over-
whelming scenic beauty;
the comfort of a close-knit,
supportive community; the
nearness of family and the
comeraderie of many, many
friends. He was also part of
extended families as a cook
at the Whaler, Bill’s Tav-
ern and the Warren House,
which were very important
to him.
Darrin enjoyed traveling,
particularly during January
and February when people
on the Upper Left Edge tend
to develop cabin fever. His
travels included places like
Kenya, Tanzania, Oahu,
Kauai, Costa Rica, Puerto
Escondido and New Orle-
ans. He won the grand prize
at a Portland Food Show
when he was cooking at the
Darrin Peters
Whaler. The prize was an
African safari. An April
2016 trip, with his dad, was
planned for Alaska’s Inside
Passage.
Darrin also loved books,
the old-fashioned ones that
involve paper sheets and
bookbinding. He proba-
bly has the second largest
library in Cannon Beach.
And playing games, partic-
ularly poker, was a passion.
Darrin was a member of a
poker group that convened
once a week for years until
two Cannon Beach legends,
Billy Hultz and Uncle Mike
Burgess, died.
As a Son of the Amer-
ican Legion for 22 years,
Darrin volunteered for and
participated in many activ-
ities at the Cannon Beach
American Legion.
Darrin was a light that
brightened our lives and
uplifted our hearts. This
is a challenging time, but
memory of him is strong
and full of joyous times.
He’s survived by his moth-
er Nancy, and father Larry;
sister Lori and her husband,
Tim; brother Larry Jr; seven
nieces and nephews: Alicia,
Dylan, Britney, McKensie,
Tiffany, Bennett and Raven;
and six grandnieces and
grandnephews: Madison,
Ethan, Camden, Benjamin,
Lucy and London, who was
just born today, Nov. 18.
There will be a memori-
al for Darrin at the Cannon
Beach American Legion
Saturday, Nov. 21, from 3 to
5 p.m. The family suggests
memorial contributions to
the Clatsop County Animal
Shelter.
Ken Bailey moved to
Seaside, Oregon, in 1995,
where he and his wife,
Nancy, operated the Guest
House B&B for 12 years.
He also ran Zora’s Espres-
so for a year until major
surgery forced him to sell
it. Ken was a cheerful host
who became friends with
many. He loved to tell a
good joke, to play golf and
to spend time with family.
He was an active volunteer
with Providence Hospital
Auxiliary. He moved to
Nevada in 2013.
Ken learned the value of
work in the Depression, and
was never out of a job until
he retired at age 80. After
high school graduation he
enlisted in the Navy, serv-
R OBER T C AIN LD ,
45 Y ea rs o f E xp erien ce
Kenneth Bailey
ing the last year of World
War II in the Paci¿c, and
staying in the Reserve for
several years. He attended
USC on the GI Bill.
He worked primarily
in the printing industry as
a cross-country salesman,
photographer and trainer,
winning several awards.
His favorite volunteer jobs
were for Ronald Reagan’s
¿rst presidential campaign,
and Mended Hearts of the
American Heart Associa-
tion.
Ken is survived by his
wife of Carson City; son
Michael of Bend, Oregon;
daughter Karen of Key
West, Florida; two grand-
children; brother Norman
of Roy, Utah; and several
nieces& nephews.
A chapel service was
held Nov. 5 in Reno,
followed by a military
ceremony and burial at
Northern Nevada Veterans
Memorial Cemetery.
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