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Growth, Hood to Coast among top news in 2015
Year from Page 1A
How will
Seaside grow?
Seaside will expand its ur-
ban boundaries, but planning
commissioners are still wres-
tling as to what areas might
see growth. They will be
undertaking a 14-year land-
needs analysis to bring 141
acres into the Urban Growth
Boundary expansion. Typi-
cally a 20-year forecast, the
city is responding to state
guidelines which recom-
mended the relatively short-
er-term outlook.
Since the commission
started considering the ex-
pansion, members focused
on the Southeast Hills site, to
the south and east of Spruce
Drive and Wahanna Road.
They determined that area
alone could provide enough
developable land to meet the
city’s land supply needs.
The city started looking
at a potential Urban Growth
Boundary expansion in or-
der to address state guide-
lines regarding long-term
planning for population
growth and urbanization.
Those guidelines currently
ask municipalities to demon-
strate a 20-year supply of
developable land. The state
is revamping and updating
those guidelines to suggest
a 14-year time frame instead
to help streamline the pro-
ed a petition seeking a date
change for the event. During
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shop, audience members
complained about rude be-
havior by runners, “arrogant”
organizers and vendors who
tapped into private power sup-
plies. With the beach closed
off at this year’s race because
of high winds and stormy
Hood to Coast
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gets a reprieve
streets and blocked store en-
The city of Seaside and trances, business owners said.
Only a week later, council-
Hood to Coast reached an
agreement in October to con- ors were unanimous in their
tinue their 25-year relation- support of granting a permit
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of the 197-mile relay, which years.
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originates in Mount Hood and
draws up to 20,000 visitors to tive vote, councilors asked for
Seaside each year. The council ways to involve more busi-
unanimously voted to grant nesses and retailers on the
Hood to Coast permission to beach, with the addition of
be held the weekend before local food vendors. “
Labor Day for two more years.
The rapprochement oc- Helping the homeless
curred only a few weeks after
Helping Hands Reentry
87 business owners present- Outreach Centers and the city
of Seaside will collaborate on
a federal grant application to
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tion build or purchase a new
facility for the homeless in
Seaside.
On Oct. 12, Seaside City
Council voted unanimously
to be the sponsoring agen-
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cy for Helping Hands on a
Community Development
Councilor Randy Frank
Block Grant, a program run
shares his thoughts on the
by the United States De-
Hood to Coast relay’s return
partment of Housing and
to Seaside.
cess and make it simpler for
smaller municipalities,
Landowners in that area,
which currently is part of un-
incorporated Clatsop County,
have questioned the expan-
sion and how it would impact
property tax evaluations, traf-
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lifestyles.
Detox program advocates
healthful eating habits
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peanuts and peanut butter
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The detox will start er and vegetables oils; and
with a kick-off community alcohol.
The closer the partic-
dinner from 6:30 to 7:30
p.m. at the Bob Chisholm ipants follow the detox
Community Center. The guide, the sooner their
will
respond.
cost is $10 per person and bodies
it is open to all partici- Throughout the 10-day
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ner is a fun way to create daily emails with encour-
camaraderie and solidarity, agement, recipes, tips and
links to studies and online
Visser said.
“It’s really inspiring to information.
“I think everyone gets
see the community striv-
ing to get healthier togeth- something from the de-
tox,” Visser said.
er,” she said.
After the challenge is
She has personally
done several detoxes, and over, she hopes people
led them for others accom- stick to the guidelines for
panied by cooking and nu- about 80 percent of their
trition classes through The diet, allowing for roughly
Healthy Hub. She sees a 20 percent of indulgence.
sugar detox as a chance However, it depends on the
for people to reset their individual and what their
taste buds and readjust personal level of health
their conceptions of what and sugar addiction is.
Visser started changing
is sweet. Those who have
grown accustomed to con- her eating habits about
suming lots of processed four years ago as a re-
sugars,
overstimulating sponse to chronic back
their taste buds, might not pain. She considered her-
recognize the natural and self a healthy eater, but
more subtle sweetness of she based it on the average
American diet, and “when
carrots or snap peas.
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stabilizing you’re talking about the
blood sugar levels, the de- American diet, going with
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pay more attention to what ble,” she said. She started
they’re consuming, to read sticking to a diet based on
labels and to learn differ- a Paleo format — which
consists mainly of fresh,
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eater can last a lifetime and vegetables and certain
cause a cascade of health fruit, or items presumed
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Within a few days, she
of what foods and in what
amounts fall within the felt a different physically
guidelines of the sugar de- and cognitively.
“I was hooked right
tox.
The “Yes Foods” in- then and there,” she said.
clude proteins, such as “The more I learned, the
meat and eggs, and veg- more I felt a responsibility
etables, except starchy to share this information.”
Not everyone may ex-
vegetables, in unlimited
amounts; limited fruits, perience results so swiftly,
such as green apples, but Visser believes many
grapefruit, lemons and are accustomed to their
limes; beverages such as current level of “feeling
water, herbal teas and lim- well,” accepting that as the
ited amounts of black cof- pinnacle and not knowing
fee and espresso; and fats what their next level could
and oils from “clean sourc- be if they made changes to
es,” such as olives, coco- their diet or other aspects
of wellness.
nuts, nuts and avocados.
“There are so many oth-
The “No Foods” in-
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drates, such as bagels, she said.
Visser selected 10 days
bread, granola, oatmeal,
pasta and popcorn; starchy as the length of the chal-
vegetables, such as po- lenge because she believes
tatoes, yams, beets and that “is enough time for
corn; fruits such as banan- (people) to understand
as, mangoes, pineapples who they are and how they
and dried fruits; sweeten- function.” Participants can
ers, such as honey, agave, personally decide what to
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sweeteners; dairy prod- there.
For more information
ucts, such as yogurt, milk
and cheese; grains and or to sign up, visit healthy-
legumes; certain fats and hubwellness.com or call
oils, such as margarine, 503-717-3645.
ents in Clatsop, Yamhill and
Lincoln counties, with a ma-
jority of service taking place
in Seaside because of the
emergency shelter.
Amendment rights and its
impact on those in need.
Marijuana sales
move forward
The Seaside City Council
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state when it comes to recre-
An amendment to a Sea- ational marijuana.
In late September, Plan-
side city ordinance designed
to regulate panhandlers, ning Director Kevin Cupples
musicians and itinerant mer- approved the sale of rec-
chants got no further Mon- reational cannabis from li-
day night than it had this censed medical dispensaries,
R.J. MARX PHOTO/SEASIDE SIGNAL
including Highway 420 and
summer.
The ordinance, in place Cannabis Nation.
Helping Hands and the
since 1984, requires a license
city of Seaside are teaming
In granting the licenses,
to solicit and applies to “a per- Cupples asked for “any direc-
to seek a grant for a new
son occupying a temporary tion from the council” in the
facility.
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solicits or sells from stock or
Urban Development.
Councilors, several of
The Community Devel- inventory on hand or displays whom had recently returned
opment Block Grant program samples and solicits orders from the League of Oregon
provides annual grants on a for merchandise in stock.”
Cities in Bend, showed little
The amendment seeks appetite for revisiting the issue.
formula basis to more than
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Currently, Seaside prohib-
VWDWHV 1RQSUR¿W DJHQFLHV include any person who pro- its the sale of medical mari-
cannot host the grants them- vides a service “or solicits for juana in the city’s downtown
selves and must be backed by any form of compensation or core. Cannabis dispensaries
a government entity, which is remuneration.”
are subject to state rules.
License fees would start
why Helping Hands asked for
City Councilor Dana Phil-
the city’s support, the orga- at $50 per day, with a maxi- lips, who also attended the
nization’s executive director mum of $1,000 in a calendar League of Cities event, said
year. Fines would also be in- she was concerned that the
Alan Evans said.
Helping Hands is seek- creased, from $500 to $700.
city needed to take action to
Mayor Don Larson said prohibit dispensary zoning
ing to either purchase or
build a new facility to use that panhandlers with signs restrictions.
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While councilors ac-
the organization’s reentry hazard for drivers.
knowledged they “didn’t
Members of the audience like the process,” they agreed
program.
,QWKH¿UVWWKUHHTXDUWHUVRI vigorously opposed the or- that the law had passed over-
2015, the organization served dinance and the proposed whelmingly at the city and
more than 400 individual cli- amendment, citing First state level.
Seaside tables
panhandler fees
Rotary spearheads Wishing Tree
Gifts from Page 1A
Community members
picked up about 140 paper
bells and returned them
with gifts for the designat-
ed children.
Additionally, Seaside’s
Les Schwab Tire Center did
a toy collection in conjunc-
tion with Dutch Bros. Cof-
fee and donated the items to
the Wishing Tree program.
Finally, the regional Toys
For Tots detachment con-
tributed more than 900 toys
to the program this year.
Toys For Tots, sponsored
by the U.S. Marine Corps
Reserve, is coordinated by
Lou Neubecker, a retired
Marine from Seaside.
“With everyone’s help,
we were able to assist 194
families in our area alone,”
McDowall said.
Spearheading
the project
For a long time, the Ro-
tary Club of Seaside worked
with the Clatsop County
Department of Human Ser-
vices to run the program.
A few years ago, the cam-
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ated with the local club, as
the government agency no
longer could release names
and addresses for recipients,
McDowall said.
Most cities in the area
have some type of food or
gift donation program run
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or organization, but only the
Astoria and Knappa group
still includes Wishing Tree
in its title. Cannon Beach
has a Community Christ-
mas Basket program run
through the American Le-
gion Post 168. The Warren-
ton Fire Department distrib-
utes donated food and some
anonymous toy donations.
After the Rotary Club of
Seaside took full control of
its Wishing Tree program,
McDowall tried to make sure
the community knew the pro-
gram was alive. Using mail-
ing lists from previous years,
she mailed new applications.
It was a good place to start,
she said, because it gave her
an idea of who had moved and
who still needed assistance.
Each year, she also puts
applications at the Seaside
School District 10 admin-
istration building “because
they have the best touch on
who might need help who
hasn’t been in the area be-
fore,” she said. Applications
also are sent home with stu-
dents in the Seaside Head
Start program and those who
are recipients of the Food 4
Kids backpack program near
the beginning of November.
The club tries to give each
child an article of clothing or
outerwear and a gift, such as
a toy, art or school supplies
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Rotarians donated to the annual Rotary Wishing Tree Project preparing and distributing the
various gifts to the families for the Christmas season.
or a book. They only put a
portion of the children’s re-
quests on the Wishing Trees,
and sometimes not all of
them are taken or returned.
However,
McDowall
said, “every child is taken
care, even if their bell isn’t
picked up.” For the items
it has to purchase, the Ro-
tary Club uses funds raised
through the paddle bid at its
annual dinner and auction.
Santa’s Workshop
The club used to deliver
the presents wrapped, but
then they realized parents
opened the gifts when they
got them “to make sure they
were appropriate for their
children,” McDowall said.
Now they distribute the pres-
ents in big family bags that
also contain wrapping paper
and supplies, so guardians
and parents can wrap the
presents themselves, making
them a part of the project, as
well, McDowall said.
The week before Christ-
mas, the club sets up “San-
ta’s Workshop” at the Sea-
side Civic and Convention
Center where they organize
the presents and get them
ready to be picked up.
McDowall said it is hard to
pinpoint her favorite aspect of
the Wishing Tree, but “every
once in a while, something
happens, and I realize that
Rotary has taken on a really
important program.”
One year, a young girl was
with her grandmother looking
at the Christmas tree in the
lobby. McDowall remembers
the little girl asking, “Grand-
ma, is Christmas coming to
our house this year?”
“I don’t think my kids
would have thought to ask
that question,” McDowa-
ll said, adding many people
take for granted giving and
getting presents for the holi-
day season. They forget that
aspect of Christmas is not
a guarantee for everyone.
“It’s stuff like that, it’s those
little moments that make the
program worth with,” she said.
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