January 22, 2016 Seaside Signal seasidesignal.com 7A
Frogtown to headline Tillamook
Head Gathering fundraiser
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Amy Magnussen, a Clatsop Community College adviser,
gives a presentation to a room full of participants during
the WINGS Conference in 2015.
Conference empowers
women on education
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features inspirational
speakers, workshops
ers, such as State Sen. Bet-
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receive incentives to en-
roll at Clatsop Community
College and the opportu-
By Katherine Lacaze
nity to apply for WINGS
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scholarships.
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nities and more promising, students; and living-wage
productive futures through career opportunities.
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— is Feb. 6, from 8 a.m. a new addition last year.
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Second annual event
supports art education,
experiences for students
By Katherine Lacaze
Seaside Signal
The commonality of art,
music and poetry is one of
the messages students will
receive when they partici-
pate in the Tillamook Head
Gathering in Seaside this
month.
The gathering “is really
an effort to keep art endeav-
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Mark Mizell said. “I really
think we’re shorting the kids
if we don’t expose them to
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The fundraiser returns
Jan. 30 at the Seaside Civic
and Convention Center for
a second year with a special
multimedia production by
Frogtown, a socially con-
scious entertainment troupe
that features Astoria native
and 1993 Seaside High grad-
uate Heather Christie, and
other performers from the
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Last year, about 250 peo-
ple attended to hear prom-
inent local author and Sea-
side High School alumnus
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raised more than $6,000,
used to bring award-winning
Oregon author Clem Starck
to speak to English classes
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and offer opportunities to
learn more about visual and
performing arts.
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teaching at the high school,
funds were available for
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support extracurriculars, but
“those funds have really got-
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That is unfortunate, since
“there is a very thin line —
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tween the arts, creativity and
spiritual matters, he added.
“When you’re talking
about the arts, you’re talking
about things that really keep
people going on a day-by-
day basis: visual arts, music,
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Seaside High School alum Heather Christie sings Frogtown’s “Middle of the Road” with
Oregon Hall of Fame’s Andy Stokes. Christie will be performing with the Frogtown cast at the
Tillamook Head Gathering fundraiser to benefit the arts at Seaside High School.
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might not be necessarily
bread-and-butter sorts of
things as far as money goes,
but the arts give us spiritual
nourishment that sometimes
the students don’t necessari-
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Music as an outlet
Christie, who helps pro-
duce the show, also does
individual work as a per-
former. She comes from a
musical family; her grand-
parents, father, aunt and un-
cles all did performing arts
Teaching diversity
of some sort. Her aunt, Ret-
with frogs, music
ta Christie, spearheaded the
The Tillamook Head western swing group Retta
Gathering is put on by a and the Smart Fellas.
committee of current and
Heather Christie’s early
former students and teach- memories include watching
ers.
her dad’s rock shows under
The highlight of the event her mother’s poncho. At a
will be a multimedia stage young age, she started sing-
show, Frogtown, based on ing bluegrass, country and
Emmy-award-winning au- western and gospel songs.
thor and composer Philip Using her mother’s 1940s
Pelletier’s musical story- Martin guitar, she taught
book “One Night in Frog- herself how to play the in-
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Seaside’s Christie, Pelletier, by the sounds of the ’60s
Oregon Music Hall of Famer and ’70s — Joni Mitchell,
Andy Stokes and saxophon- the Eagles, Grateful Dead,
ist Andy Warr.
Rickie Lee Jones and Bon-
nie Raitt. She has written
and produced three albums
and toured with her own
material.
About eight years ago,
she got connected with
Pelletier and Frogtown and
started producing, collabo-
rating and singing with the
group.
“It actually helped me
grow a lot as an indepen-
dent artist to have all these
new experiences and take it
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The group is focused on
a new release, called “Bed-
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media experience with a lul-
laby ambiance that follows
the water cycle, as well as a
CD featuring dance music,
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The fundraiser will in-
clude a silent auction, fea-
turing art donated by local
artists. From 6:30 to 7 p.m.,
people can browse the si-
lent auction items. High
school senior Claire Ogilvie
will coordinate the auction,
among other tasks, as part
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Tickets cost $10 in ad-
vance and $15 at the door.
They are available at Beach
Books, Seaside Coffee
House and the business of-
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City looks to the future with growth boundaries
because it is not a land use de-
cision. Rather, the commission
is acting as a recommendatory
body that will provide input
on a potential comprehensive
plan change to the Seaside City
Council, he said. At the request
of the commission, staff did try
to initially contact every person
within the proposed expan-
sion areas and those who own
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feet of the sites, Cupples said.
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general public about continued
hearings for the potential urban
growth boundary expansion
online and at each meeting.
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“Anyone who lives where
South Wahanna Road is go-
ing to be improved or changed
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according to several property
owners, because they believe the
boundary expansion will impact
their way of life by spurring de-
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terns, requiring more utilities and
infrastructure, increasing crime
rates and the need for law en-
forcement presence and putting
a strain on the city’s emergency
services capacity.
“Country living will disap-
pear, along with my grandpar-
ents’ heritage and my peace of
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lives on Huckleberry Drive.
City staff says it sent at least
one notice to those within the
proposed expansion areas, as
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cent property. After last month’s
meeting, when the commission
honed in on acquiring land for
the boundary from three different
sites instead of one, people who
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100 feet of the proposed bound-
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the possible expansion.
Using the Cove
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Areas of large-scale development in Seaside in a map prepared by
HLB Otak and delivered to the city Tuesday.
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Otak in early January, the pro-
posed Southeast Hills site, near
South Wahanna Road, would
provide 80.7 acres; the North
Projecting 14
Hills site, east of North Wahanna
years ahead
Road with potential access from
The city is interested in Shore Terrace and Ocean Ave-
expanding its urban growth nue, would provide 33.8 acres;
boundary to provide adequate and the Lewis and Clark Hills
land to support Seaside’s esti- site, north of Lewis and Clark
mated population growth over Road, would provide 23 acres.
At the commission’s meet-
14 years. Originally, the city was
using a 20-year land-needs anal- ing in December, the proposed
ysis, which showed the growth amount of acres to satisfy a 14-
boundary would require about year land-needs analysis was
197 additional acres to satisfy about 142. However, after the
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20 years. The proposed amount ¿HG WKH DPRXQW E\ DFUHV WR
of acres was scaled back nearly account for vacant land near the
30 percent, to 137.5 acres, to in- Cove that is in the urban growth
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population in 14 years, a more accounted for, Hanson said.
conservative estimate, accord-
ing to Don Hanson, of HLB Need to know
Otak, who is consulting with the
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cent to the Lewis and Clark Hills
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cation about the possible expan-
sion in December, not enough
time to provide input before the
release of the Otak report.
Maria Pincetich, who also
lives in the Southeast Hills
area, shared the Oregon Regu-
latory Statute regarding notice
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dicial land use hearings, which
states property owners should
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located: within 100 feet of the
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the notice if that property is
wholly or partially within an
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if it is outside an urban growth
boundary and not within a farm
or forest zone; or within 500
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is within a farm or forest zone.
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Cupples said those provisions
do not apply to this process
Seaside resident John Dunzer
asked the Planning Commission
to consider incorporating addi-
tional acres around the Cove area
into the urban growth boundary.
Hanson said he does not think
the area is optimal, with only one
access point and limited acreage
suitable for development.
Dunzer said he thinks the area
has more developable property
— about 55 acres — and at least
one other way into the area. The
Cove is an optimal location for
the expansion because it would
be a desirable place for new res-
idents to settle, particularly as
they are likely to be older retir-
ees, he said.
As for the other sites, Dunzer
said, he does not believe they
meet “the needs of the people
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To come to a conclusion
about the Cove, Cupples, Han-
son and Dunzer planned to
meet at the site and evaluate its
potential before reporting the
information to the commission
during its work session. If they
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using land near the Cove for
the expansion, Hanson said, the
city will need to send more no-
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owners in that area.
The public hearing was con-
tinued to the commission’s Feb.
2 meeting.
DAILY ASTORIAN/FILE PHOTO
Class of 2014 graduate Parker Riser gives
Principal Sheila Roley a big hug while mak-
ing his way across the stage after receiving
his diploma during Seaside High School’s
98th Commencement Exercise at the Seaside
Civic and Convention Center.
Roley ‘meant a
lot to the district’
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Dougherty, who is good friends with
Roley, said her retirement did not come as
a surprise, as they discussed it in prior con-
versations.
Even still, she has meant a lot to the dis-
trict, he said. After working as a teacher in
the Seattle area, Roley started in Seaside as a
science teacher at Broadway Middle School.
Then she completed the process to get her
administrator license.
When Dougherty became superintendent
for the district in 1998, he said, he selected
her to replace him as the principal of Cannon
Beach Elementary School and the kindergar-
ten through 12th grade curriculum director.
She then became principal of the middle
school before moving into the position of
high school principal in July 2007.
“(Roley) is one of those rare people who
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Whatever is happening at her school,
whether it is working on last-minute reports
or dealing with student and staff issues, she is
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erty said. Additionally, she is “one of those
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Not only has she been a mentor within the
Seaside School District, but she’s served that
role in other districts, as well, he said.
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start soon, Dougherty, who announced his
own retirement late last year, said.