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6A February 5, 2016 Seaside Signal seasidesignal.com North Holladay repairs get around the area easily. Workmen will replace By completion, it will be the existing sewer, wa- completely rebuilt, from ter and force mains along replacing utilities to laying North Holladay Drive be- new sidewalks. The proj- fore reconnecting new and ect has been a “long time existing water and sewer coming,” Public Works services. Plans call for the Director Dale McDowell installation of underground said. vaults and conduits for con- The North Holladay version of the existing over- Drive dig began Jan. 18 af- head utilities — including ter pothole work the week electrical, telephone and before. cable — to underground General contractor XWLOLWLHV %\ SURMHFW ¿QLVK Tapani Inc., of Battle the city will pave roads and Ground, Washington, pre- sidewalks. sented the lowest of three Parts of North Holla- bids at a little more than day Drive are open to lo- $3.28 million. Seaside City FDO WUDI¿F RQO\ 0F'RZHOO Council approved the bid in said. Certain intersections December. may be closed periodical- Tapani and city staff ly throughout the day and held a preconstruction evening. meeting in early January to Tapani has had two discuss how the project will crews working on the proj- impact bus routes, pedestri- ect since it started. They DQ DQG YHKLFOH WUDI¿F DQG plan to add a third crew public utilities, as North in the middle of February. Holladay Drive is a main With 50-hour work weeks, thoroughfare. the goal is to complete the Seaside School District project, or a bulk of it, be- Transportation Supervisor fore Memorial Day, May Anna Borges said it will be 30. important for the contrac- May 27 is the “key pav- tor to keep the district in- ing date,” when all the as- formed of plans and which phalt and curbs need to be streets will be closed at laid, “so that road could what time, so she can make be opened and used,” Mc- the necessary adjustments. Dowell said. Tapani then The construction crews will have additional time will try to minimize the — about 30 days — to time families are blocked complete the sidewalks, from their homes, City En- landscaping and electrical gineer Geoffrey Liljenwall hookups. said. The contractor has set “They need to go home up staging areas for the at night and be able to park project at Goodman Park close to their homes,” he on the corner of Necanicum Drive and 12th Avenue and said. In general, he added, near the city’s wastewater ³WKHUHLVDORWRIWUDI¿FWKDW treatment plant off North can go east to west,” and Franklin Street. Project from Page 1A KATHERINE LACAZE/EO MEDIA GROUP The owner of the Chevron gas station near the south entrance to Seaside is planning to demolish the existing convenience store and build a new, larger one using the property directly north of the station. The project is anticipated to begin this spring. Convenience store at Seaside Chevron gets ‘major’ overhaul Construction of new building to take place in the spring estimates the project will take about six months to complete. The plan is to construct the new building and have it near completion before demolishing the old building to create “virtually no interruption to the business whatsoever,” Vonada said. Full services should continue throughout the entire project, which is important since it will take place throughout the sum- mer months. Landscaped areas are proposed on the east and west sides of the building. The site plan also proposes new side- walks be built along Avenue M, adja- cent to the back of the building, and a By Katherine Lacaze portion of Roosevelt Drive, to create a EO Media Group continuous public walkway along that SEASIDE — The owner of the URDG+RZHYHU9RQDGDVDLGWKH¿QDO Chevron gas station in south Seaside FRQ¿JXUDWLRQIRU$YHQXH0ZKLFKLV is replacing the existing convenience an unimproved right-of-way, is subject store with a new, larger building using to input from the Seaside Public Works the empty lot north of the site. Department. The Seaside Planning Commission A short-term bike parking rack is ‘It will be a major, major at its January meeting conditionally proposed near the northeast pedestrian approved a request by applicant David walkway between the building and the improvement over what’s there.’ Vonada of Tolovana Architects, on be- sidewalk fronting Roosevelt Drive. Not Architect David Vonada half of owner Marci Utti, to demolish counting the pump island parking spac- the convenience store associated with es, a total of 12 off-street parking spaces the Chevron gas station and construct a in front of the building will be provided, new two-story building. The new building will be approx- according to a staff report from Plan- “We think it’s important, for the gate- LPDWHO\ VTXDUH IHHW RQ WKH ¿UVW ning Director Kevin Cupples. way to the community, to update things story, which will be used primarily for “We don’t want to try to reinvent the and keep things looking nice,” Utti said. retail sales. The second story, which will function of the site,” Vonada said. The property is located at 1215 S. EHXVHGIRURI¿FHVSDFHDQGVWRUDJHZLOO The design team and owner are in Holladay Drive, off U.S. Highway 101, be approximately 1,290 square feet. the process of pricing the project and or Roosevelt Drive, and between ave- “It will be a major, major improve- completing construction and bidding nues M and N. ment over what’s there,” Vonada said. documents; they will proceed with sub- Construction is slated to start this “I think it’s going to be an attractive mitting applications for building per- VSULQJ GHSHQGLQJ RQ ¿QDQFLQJ 8WWL building on all four sides.” mits in the early spring. Five Minutes With Reta Leithner By Katherine Lacaze Seaside Signal Seaside resident Reta Leithner is retiring after 40 years of being a real estate agent. Most recently she worked at the John L. Scott Real (state 2f¿ce in Seaside. Where have you worked over the years? I have been with sever- al companies. As they’ve closed or the principal bro- ker has retired or whatever, then you go somewhere else. Because I was not a principal broker: I’m just a broker. How long have you been at John L. Scott Real Es- tate? Three years. I started at Oregon Coast Realty. That was probably the longest. And then I was with Cold- well Banker for a very long time also. Forty years in Clatsop County — in Sea- side actually. I grew up in a real estate family in Seaside. My mother was the secretary and my father was the bro- ker. That was a very good education. You learned the busi- ness from them? Quite a bit. My father would take me with him. How soon did you real- ize it was something you wanted to do yourself? When my ex-husband and myself divorced and I came back to Seaside, I looked for a job, and there wasn’t any- thing available that would allow me to be with my chil- dren when they were home most of the time. In real es- tate, you could name your own hours. Every job I ap- plied for, they told me I was RYHUTXDOL¿HG RU WKH KRXUV would be detrimental to be- ing a single mom. I couldn’t afford a full-time babysitter. My mom could help me out with the kids the two hours I needed. They would get home about 3 p.m., and she would watch them for two KATHERINE LACAZE/SEASIDE SIGNAL Reta Leithner, of Seaside, is retiring after 40 years as a real estate agent in the area. She looks forward to looking after her own house for a change and taking classes through EN- CORE, a member-run education organization sponsored by Clatsop Community College. KRXUV$QGWKDWZDV¿QH0\ parents were wonderful, they really were. What has been your fa- vorite thing about the busi- ness? The people. Absolutely. It all goes back to the people. The Lord has sent me some of the most fantastic clients and some of the most fantas- tic friends as peers in the real estate industry. I mean, they are outstanding people. Not just outstanding Realtors. Would you say that is what you will miss the most? Oh, they’re not going to get a chance to miss me. How do you feel about retiring? It will be lovely. I will be able to get a few projects done, a whole lot of things I would like to get done at my house. You know, they’ve always said the cobbler’s kids have the worst shoes, the hairdresser’s kid has the worst haircut. Well, this Re- altor has the worst-looking house. She’s going to stay home and clean it for a long time, until it’s clean. What other interests and hobbies are you excit- ed to pursue? Oh lots of them. I like to help people and I have sev- eral people around town that I look in on and help. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of ENCORE, sponsored by Clatsop Community Col- lege? It’s education through retirement. It is a whole bunch of retired people that still like to learn. How long have you been involved in that? Just four years. I took a class just to see what it was, and I really liked it and I re- ally believe in their program. But because of my work schedule, I couldn’t commit to a term of classes. But now I can, and I’m really excited to sit in the classroom and going back to school, so to speak, to be participating. Because that’s the kind of format they have: you partic- ipate. Are you sad to retire? It’s my time to leave real estate. And I don’t know why. No angel has come to me and said, ‘You’re going to have to leave real estate.’ It just seems like the natural progression. I’m “X” num- ber of years old and I want to be able to see my grand- children and visit with them in their environments. My son is here in Seaside and his daughter lives here, too. My daughter lives in Salinas, California. The kids go to Seaside, California, schools, DQG 3DFL¿F *URYH ² WKH Monterey Bay-area. powered by JOSHUA BESSEX/EO MEDIA GROUP Crews work on North North Holladay Drive in Seaside on Monday near 12th Avenue. BUSINESS DIRECTORY F LOORING Randall Lee’s 2/3 of Showroom ALWAYS ON SALE! Window Treatments, Fabric, Wallpaper, Flooring and Interior Design 2311 N. 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