April 29, 2016 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com • 3A
Cops and pot, now neighbors in Seaside
New shop may be safest
in Oregon
By R.J. Marx
Seaside Signal
Marijuana dispensaries in
Oregon may not be located in
residential neighborhoods or
within 1,000 feet of schools
or other dispensaries.
But nothing in state code
prohibits their location next to
a police station.
Seaside Police Department
ofices with a southern expo-
sure look directly onto the site
of the city’s newest pot shop,
Oasis Cannabis at 1111 S.
Holladay Drive.
“We wanted to buy a build-
ing in town, and we saw this
available,” Oasis Cannabis
Manager Stephanie Schlip said.
“When we saw this place, we
thought it’s next to a police sta-
tion, it’s secure. That’s the big
thing in the cannabis industry:
security, and making sure all our
public and employees are safe.
And what better place could it
be than a police station?”
Low-income children,
in particular, lack care
By Edward Stratton
EO Media Group
R.J. MARX/SEASIDE SIGNAL
Kyle and Stephanie Schlip
are managers of Oasis Can-
nabis in Seaside.
Oasis Cannabis is to the right of the Seaside Police Depart-
ment.
Schlip and her husband,
Kyle, manage the store, backed
by investors Sherry Bateman
and Dennis Sivers, who
helped purchase the building.
Sivers, president and CEO of
a Portland real estate and in-
vestment irm, has been com-
ing to a family home in Arch
Cape for 50 years.
He sees Seaside as “the
heart of the north Oregon
Coast.”
“It seemed a place that
made sense,” Sivers said.
The store’s mission is “to
present the recreational in an
informed way to get away
from the stereotypes of recre-
ational use,” Sivers said. “We
want people to be aware of all
the chemicals involved in the
strain of cannabis and its po-
tential effects.”
Stephanie Schlip, a Man-
zanita native, worked in a
medical dispensary in Port-
land before the couple re-
turned to the coast.
“I had no idea what the
cannabis industry was like
until I got into it,” she said.
“I realized how it really
helped people. Cannabis has
R.J. MARX/SEASIDE SIGNAL
so many healing qualities that
help people.”
Oasis Cannabis is Sea-
side’s fourth dispensary, join-
ing Highway 420 and Canna-
bis Nation in town and the Sip
Stop in Elsie.
“I want us all to be friends
and be teams,” Schlip said.
“If I don’t have something I
want to be able to send them
down the road and vice ver-
sa.”
“People will ind the three
places have different ap-
proaches and ind the one that
suits them best,” Sivers said.
Two dead in fatal Highway 101 crash
CANNON BEACH —
Oregon State Police troopers
and emergency personnel
responded to the report of a
two vehicle head-on crash on
Highway 101 near milepost
28 just north of Cannon Beach
Saturday.
According to state police,
a 2011 Hyundai sport utility
was traveling southbound on
Highway 101 when it crossed
over the centerline and struck
a northbound 2007 Chevrolet
Tahoe head-on. After the im-
pact both vehicles came to rest
on the highway.
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Police responded to this fatal crash on U.S. Highway 101.
The driver of the Hyundai,
Gregory W Heron, and his pas-
senger, Martha H Heron, both
64 and from Manzanita, were
pronounced dead on scene.
Police reported the driver
of the Chevrolet, Diana R.
Feke, 57, and Jethro J. Feke,
59 both of West Linn received
non-life threatening injuries.
Both were taken to an area
hospital for treatment.
Highway 101 was closed
for about three and a half
hours while the investigation
was conducted. State police
were assisted by the Clatsop
County Medical Examiner,
Cannon Beach Fire Depart-
ment, Cannon Beach Police
Department, and the Oregon
Department of Transporta-
tion.
The cause of the crash is
still under investigation. The
highway was reopened at
7:20 p.m.
Nominations wanted for Seaside High Hall of Fame
The Seaside High School
Hall of Fame was launched
in 2001 by a group of teach-
ers and coaches from Seaside
High School.
“We wanted to make this
Hall of Fame special so we
decided to induct people
across the board not just ath-
letes,” Seaside’s Wally Hamer
of the Hall of Fame Commit-
tee said. “Our sole purpose
was to bring honor to the high
school by recognizing people
who have done great things
while they were at Seaside
High School and beyond.”
Hamer said the purpose of
the Hall of Fame was for stu-
dents to see they could accom-
plish their goals by staying on
course and by giving of them-
selves to their community and
to the world around them.
The Hall of Fame has in-
ducted authors, astronauts,
military leaders, coaches,
community supporters, ath-
letes, teachers, a Rhodes
scholar, and businesses in the
community who have sup-
ported Seaside High School
activities, totaling 125 indi-
viduals, 27 teams and more
than a dozen businesses.
An induction ceremony
takes place every other year,
at which time, with the help
of the administration at Sea-
side High School, past in-
Grant will help
create school-based
dental programs
ductees come and speak to the
students.
Those speakers “tell the
kids everything,” Hamer said.
“The goods and the bads about
their lives. The hard times,
and the times that they were
successful. In other words, be
honest with the students.”
Their message, he said,
is just because a person isn’t
successful in high school they
can still go on and do great
things.
Guidelines for honorees
include:
• Individuals who are
alumni of Seaside High
School and who have been
out of school for at least ive
years and have demonstrat-
ed exemplary performance
in one of the following areas
warranting their consideration
of nominations as a member
of the Hall of Fame.
• Student athlete;
• Career accomplishments,
meritorious service;
• Supporters/sponsors/
coaches and other individuals
or educators in the Seaside
community who have over
a period of time, supported,
encouraged, and advanced the
above members of Seaside
High School;
• Teams or individuals who
have earned state champion-
ships or state recognition.
The nominations for ath-
letes will come from all the
sports offered at Seaside High
School.
Nominations for activities
come from academia, the arts,
choir, band, debate, science,
government or public service,
military commendations, noted
authors and business executives.
Hamer said the committee
makes every effort to bring
balance to nominations, en-
compassing men and wom-
en, athletes, fans, supporters,
businesses, authors and others.
“It’s a challenge to try and
motivate students and bring
out the best in all of them, but
we are trying,” Hamer said.
“Thanks to all of the peo-
ple who have supported the
Hall of Fame inancially. We
are a nonproit organization
who counts on others to help
put on the awards ceremony.
The Hall of Fame also give
two $500 scholarships in the
name of Bob Mork, who was
inducted into the Hall of Fame
in 2001 for his tremendous
community and school ser-
vice and support.
The Providence Seaside
Hospital Foundation was
one of 14 organizations
statewide recently chosen
by a cadre of philanthropic
groups to receive a multi-
year grant to create school-
based dental programs.
Alana Kujala, manager
of community partnerships
and volunteer services for
Providence Seaside, said the
grant will fund a full-time
oral health program coordi-
nator based at the hospital
and visiting school districts
across Clatsop County.
“A lot of what this person
will do is what school nurs-
es may not have the time to
do,” Kujala said.
The coordinator will help
with outreach, educational
materials, take-home sup-
plies and referrals to health
care providers.
The grant lasts four
years, starting with $70,000
to hire the coordinator by
April, while also helping
pay for supplies to per-
form basic dental services,
screenings and access to
treatment when needed. Ac-
cording to the hospital’s ap-
plication, there are only two
dentists in the county serv-
ing low-income children on
the Oregon Health Plan.
The hospital’s program
will phase in more services
and grades over time, and
Kujala said the hospital has
committed to keep the pro-
gram going beyond the grant
cycle.
While
the
hospital
doesn’t provide dental ser-
vices, she said, “If we can
target oral health care for
these kids at a young age,
it will help their overall
health” as they grow older.
Kujala said the hospital
prepared the grant in concert
with local schools, health
care providers and the Co-
lumbia Paciic Coordinated
Care Organization, which
serves families on the Ore-
gon Health Plan.
Better teeth
The Strategic Plan for
Oral Health in Oregon, cov-
ering 2014 to 2020, found
that only 24 percent of chil-
dren ages 1 to 3 had visited
a dentist. More than half of
third-graders had experi-
enced dental decay, increas-
ing to nearly three-quar-
ters of high school juniors.
Dental problems worsen for
children from low-income
and rural families and racial
minorities.
The plan recommended
the state hire a dental direc-
tor, promote preventative
services and education serv-
ing children, address short-
ages in oral health provid-
ers and both culturally and
linguistically diversify the
state’s dental workforce.
The Oregon Community
Foundation recently teamed
with The Collins Founda-
tion, the Ford Family Foun-
dation, Kaiser Permanente,
Meyer Memorial Trust,
Northwest Health Founda-
tion, Providence Health &
Services and Oregon-based
medical equipment suppli-
er A-dec to create the Oral
Health Funders Collabo-
rative. The group provides
grants for planning and im-
plementing
school-based
dental programs.
Joan Vallejo, a spokes-
woman for the Oregon Com-
munity Foundation, said a
irst round of grants helped
plan the school-based pro-
grams. The recipients from
the second round of imple-
mentation funding were part
of the existing dental initia-
tives program, with priority
given to high-poverty areas.
Dental van clinic
coming to Seaside
KATHERINE LACAZE/SEASIDE SIGNAL
A plaque for each team or in-
dividual included in Seaside
High School’s Hall of Fame
decorates the wall near the
gymnasium at the school.
“We want to encourage
anyone in our community to
nominate people who have
accomplished a lot,” Hamer
said. “We have a lengthy list
that we look at every year. But
we want more, so please let us
know your nomination.”
Send nominations to Sea-
side Hall of Fame, PO Box
2101, Gearhart, 97138.
Providence Seaside
Hospital partners with Med-
ical Teams International
to host a dental van clinic
at the hospital four times a
year.
Providence is currently
registering patients for the
next clinic scheduled for
the week of May 2-6. The
dental clinic serves patients
with emergency dental care.
To receive dental care,
patients cannot have pri-
vate insurance and must fall
within the federal poverty
guidelines.
D EL ’S O .K .
During the irst clinic
of the year held in March,
52 patients were treated by
a dental technician and/or
dentist. According to MTI,
the total value of free den-
tal health services provided
to the patients, who have no
dental insurance or are un-
derinsured, equals $28,600.
To schedule an appoint-
ment or to volunteer during
patient check-in, please call
the dental van coordina-
tor, Raven Brown, at 503-
717-7174 or email raven.
brown@providence.org.
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