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OUR 109th YEAR • December 11, 2015
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Blaze in Seaside destroys three
homes, damages another
Seaside may
reduce growth
projection
time frame
Members favor focusing on multiple
sites to ‘disperse’ impact of urbanization
By Katherine Lacaze
Seaside Signal
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a fourth was badly damaged. Total losses are estimated at $2 million to $3 million.
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lot of work as far as doing the investigation,” Seaside
Division Chief Chris Dugan said Monday, Dec. 7.
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Families devastated by
the fast-moving blaze
Early Sunday morning, be-
hind a cordoned off area, neigh-
bor David Doney said he was
awakened by smoke and sirens.
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saw this, about 4:30 this morn-
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Seaside residents Carl and
Shirley Yates arrived at the
scene overnight. Their relatives,
Chuck and Carole LaDeRoute,
own one of the homes de-
stroyed.
“We had Fourth of July bar-
becues in the back with all the
See Families, Page 10A
DAVID DONEY/FOR THE SEASIDE SIGNAL
Firefi ghters respond to a blaze in Seaside
that destroyed three homes.
Seaside Signal
Seaside School District teacher Jennifer
Glasson and her team believe students can be
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ucators to remove obstacles to achievement.
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grade students with challenging behaviors.
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with each other and the students in the
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room, to discover “what is getting in the
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“ways to make tomorrow better than today
was,” Glasson said.
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Seaside honors ‘day which will live in infamy’
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By Katherine Lacaze
Seaside Signal
JOSHUA BESSEX/EO MEDIA GROUP
Bill Thomas, a Pearl Harbor survivor aboard the USS Medusa, salutes as Boy
Scout Troop 642 lowers the fl ag to half-staff during the Pearl Harbor Day of
Remembrance ceremony at the Seaside Civic and Convention Center Monday.
Thomas, a Seaside resident, was 20 at the time of the attack.