March 18, 2016 Seaside Signal seasidesignal.com 7A
Making a ‘Connection’ at aquarium
PUBLIC MEETINGS
Thursday, March 22
Monday, April 11
Seaside Airport Commit-
tee, 6 p.m., City Hall, 989
Broadway.
Seaside City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 989 Broadway.
Monday, March 28
Seaside Convention Center
Commission, 5 p.m., 1225
Avenue A.
Seaside City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 989 Broadway.
Tuesday, April 5
Seaside Community and
Senior Commission, 10
a.m., 1225 Avenue A.
Seaside Library Board, 4:30
p.m., Seaside Public Library,
1131 Broadway.
Seaside Planning Commis-
sion, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989
Broadway.
Wednesday, April 6
Seaside Improvement
Commission, 7 p.m., City
Hall, 989 Broadway.
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Gearhart Planning Com-
mission, 6 p.m., City Hall, 698
Pacii c Way.
Monday, April 19
Seaside School District, 6
p.m., 1801 S. Franklin St.
Wednesday, April 20
Sunset Empire Parks and
Rec District, 5 p.m., 1225 Ave.
A, Seaside.
Thursday, April 21
Seaside Transportation Ad-
visory Commission, 6 p.m.,
City Hall, 989 Broadway.
Monday, April 25
Gearhart City Council, 7
p.m., City Hall, 698 Pacii c
Way.
Seaside City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 989 Broadway.
Thursday, April 7
Seaside Community Center
Commission, 10 a.m., 1225
Avenue A.
Seaside Parks Advisory
Committee, 7 p.m., City Hall.
Oregon Connections Academy ¿ rst-grade student =oey Thorne from Astoria, was one of several students who enjoyed a ¿ eld
trip to the Seaside Aquarium on Thursday, Feb. 25. =oey was fascinated by the many different types of creatures that coexist in
the sea and her favorite part is feeding snacks to the seals. ORCA is Oregon’s largest virtual public charter school with over 4,000
students statewide in grades K-12, around 70 enrolled from Clatsop County. The school hosts dozens of ¿ eld trips like the one to
the aquarium every year across the state.
Thursday, April 14
Tuesday, May 3
DINING
on the
NORTH COAST
OBITUARIES
Great Restaurants in:
Chief Master Sgt.
Alan Todd Bergeson
June 28, 1963 — Feb. 19, 2016
CM Sgt. Alan T. Bergeson passed
away peacefully at the age of 52 on Feb.
19, 2016, in his home at Kailua, Hawaii.
Alan was born on June 28, 1963, in
Astoria, Oregon, to Larry and Marianne
Bergeson. Alan graduated from Seaside
High School in 1982, and enlisted in
the Air Force in 1983, and retired from
the Air Force in 2013, after 30 years of
service. He achieved the rank of chief
master sergeant. After retiring from the
Air Force, Alan went into property man-
agement, and had just recently received
his Realtor’s license.
Alan enjoyed spending time with his
family, friends and his three dogs (Bud-
dy, Goma and Mochi), hiking, working
out, traveling, playing in the surf, lay-
ing in the sun and his job of proper-
ty management. Alan was known as a
great mentor of youth, and for his great
personality, kindness and compassion
for all. Alan will be dearly missed by
Chief Master Sgt. Alan Bergeson
all who were fortunate to have known
him. Alan loved his best friend, Jennifer
Braun of Cannon Beach, and numerous
friends in Hawaii. Alan enjoyed life to
the fullest.
Alan is survived by his father, Lar-
ry Bergeson of Seaside; his brother,
Mark Bergeson and his wife, Suzette,
and their three children, Dani, Andrew
and Matt, of Astoria; his brother, Russ
Bergeson and his daughter, Maddie, of
Bend; his sister, Paula Mespelt and her
husband, Don, and their two children,
Ashley and Josh, of Seaside, and his
great-niece, Lexi, of Salem; as well as
numerous aunts, uncles and cousins.
Alan was preceded in death by his
mother, Marianne Bergeson.
A celebration of life will be held on
Saturday, April 2, 2016, from 1-4 p.m.,
at the Surfsand Resort in Cannon Beach,
148 W. Gower St.
The family asks in lieu of À owers that
you make a donation to the Lower Co-
lumbia Hospice in Astoria, Oregon, in
his mother’s name: Marianne Bergeson.
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LETTERS
Trump is no dummy
The political punditry con-
tinues to profess dread surprise
over the ascendancy of Don-
ald Trump. Why should that
be so? Of the six contenders
now standing, only he has no
association with an enterprise,
the U.S. government, which
is approved of by little more
than 20 per cent of its putative
employers. Who, in his right
mind, would promote to CEO
an employee of an organiza-
tion which dissatis¿ ed more
than three-quarters of those for
whom it works?
It is said that he is coarse.
Chaucer and Shakespeare
were coarse. America, never
having had a monarchy or an
aristocracy, has never aspired
to re¿ nement. And besides,
the liberal press, Trump’s most
obstreperous critics, did not
squeal nearly so loudly when
the current front-runner’s hus-
band, the most notoriously in-
iquitous occupant of the White
House, was exposed.
The government of this
country has become a giant
casino, the croupiers of which,
euphemistically called “leg-
islators,” and their legions of
unelected bureaucrats, them-
selves so vast in number and
power as to become a fourth
branch of government, sys-
tematically mulct the citizen-
ry — Thomas Paine’s “greedy
hand of government” — out of
trillions of dollars.
Then, after seizing a sizable
portion for themselves “off the
top,” redistribute the remainder
to the “winners.” The press, in
fact, routinely refers to those
who bene¿ t from legislation
and government spending as
“winners.” What is unspoken
is where there are “winners,”
there must be “losers.”
What, then, is there to won-
der at that a man who has nev-
er been a politician, and who
speaks unlike the ventrilo-
quists’ dummies against whom
he contends, may one day oc-
cupy the White House?
Louis Sargent
Gearhart
A community with
hope, without hunger
your continued help and sup-
port as we work toward a com-
munity without hunger.
Mary Blake
Seaside
A thank-you from
Imagine our community Hickman family
without hunger, we can and
we hope you can too!
Our South County Food
Bank, a local food pantry,
works seven days a week to
provide emergency food and
hope to over 1,000 community
members each month.
Each year over 250,000
pounds of food is coordinated,
collected, sorted, set out and
individually distributed, one
on one by volunteers to our
most vulnerable friends and
neighbors living in our area.
We need your help now to
continue this essential work.
For the ¿ rst time we are send-
ing out a call to action bro-
chure, in the mail, to all resi-
dents in south county. Please
take the time to read it and
get to know the good work of
your food pantry and the enor-
mous challenge we are facing
around the most basic need for
any person — nutritious food.
For more information
about our good work, stop
by our new building at 2041
N. Roosevelt Drive, call 503-
738-9800, go online at www.
seasidefoodbank.org, or fol-
low us on Facebook: fb.com/
seasideoregonfoodpantry.
We sincerely thank you for
The family of Ray Hick-
man would like to thank the
Cannon Beach Police and Fire
Departments; the Coast Guard;
the Search and Rescue teams
from Clatsop, Tillamook,
Washington, Multnomah and
Clackamas counties; Moun-
tain Wave Search and Rescue;
all the volunteers, neighbors
and friends who spent time
and effort in such inclement
weather to search for Ray
when he went missing on Jan.
30. Many of you are still look-
ing as time permits and we ap-
preciate that so much.
We’d also like to thank ev-
eryone who donated money
and the man from Hamlet who
lent the use of his drone.
We’ve learned that many
Cannon Beach and Seaside
restaurants donated food for
the searchers. And we know
that many from the communi-
ty donated food for the search-
ers and for us. Thank you all.
Such an outpouring of sup-
port from the entire communi-
ty has been just overwhelm-
ing, and very special. It keeps
us going every day. We appre-
ciate all of it so very much.
The Hickman Family
(Anita, Holly, Michael
and Maya)
Cannon Beach
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