May 27, 2016 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com • 7A
Cameron Moore moves from
Mahomet to the mountains
New county manager
getting up to speed
By Kyle Spurr
EO Media Group
Cameron Moore made his
introductions at the Seaside
City Council meeting Mon-
day night. “My wife and I
wanted to move as far West as
we could,” he told City Coun-
cil members. “This was it.”
The new Clatsop County
manager, Cameron Moore,
has spent his irst month on
the job getting accustomed
to life on the North Coast. He
told councilors he had recent-
ly purchased a home in Gear-
hart.
On days off, the avid hik-
er explores scenic trails along
the Paciic Ocean. On the
job, Moore enjoys learning
from county staff and com-
munity members. As the top
administrator for the county,
he watched over his second
Board of Commissioners
meeting Wednesday, April 27.
“It’s kind of been a two-
way street,” he said. “I have
expectations of people on our
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Clatsop County Manager Cameron Moore in his oice. Moore
moved earlier this month from Mahomet, Illinois, where he
served as the chief executive oicer for the Champaign Coun-
ty Regional Planning Commission since 2007.
staff, but I also know they
have a lot to teach me.”
Moore, 59, is getting
brought up to speed on var-
ious issues facing the coun-
ty, from a housing crisis and
mental health concerns to the
county’s role in forestry and
ishing management.
Hired in February, Moore
moved earlier this month from
Mahomet, Illinois, where he
served as the chief executive
oficer for the Champaign
County Regional Planning
Commission since 2007. He
replaced Scott Somers, who
resigned last year to take a job
in Maryland.
Champaign County has
a population of more than
200,000, and is home to the
University of Illinois. Over
his 30-year career, Moore has
gained experience in public
service administration and
economic development with
several public and private en-
tities in Pennsylvania, Arizo-
na, Iowa and Illinois.
While he worked in larg-
er markets, Moore said, his
recent experience in Cham-
paign County has similari-
ties to Clatsop County. The
regional planning commis-
sion there offers community
development, planning and
early childhood educational
services to local governments.
Moore led a staff of 215
employees with a $25 million
budget. Clatsop County has
about 200 employees and a
budget of about $60 million.
“They are similar sized,”
he said. “Many of the things
we do here, I have some back-
ground in.”
Board of Commission-
ers Chairman Scott Lee said
he has been impressed with
Moore.
“Cam is coming in with a
lot of background,” Lee said.
“He had been managing or-
ganizations with hundreds of
employees for a long time. I
sensed right away he is some-
one that has an intuitive un-
derstanding of the job.”
Seaside High School choir takes it on road
Choir from Page 1A
Rush joined forces with Danita Pap-
pas, a local substitute teacher, who is act-
ing as the group’s tour manager. Pappas
recently took a similar trip to Disneyland
with students as a teacher in a different
school district. She is making reserva-
tions, budgeting and overseeing the de-
tails.
Meanwhile, the choir students have
embarked on several fundraising en-
deavors to help inance the trip. During
the past couple years, they have host-
ed a jazz and dessert night, held silent
auctions at concerts, performed at the
Tillamook Head Gathering this and last
year, fundraised through winter musical
revues, sold wreaths and Krispy Kreme
donuts and much more. So far, they have
raised about $15,000, and personally
contributed another $10,000 toward their
portions of the cost.
Mixing business
with pleasure
The choir students are doing a workshop
June 16, the irst day they arrive at Disney-
land. During a recording studio simulation,
the students will work with a Disney clini-
cian. Each using their own microphone and
headset, the students will sight-read sheet
music for a Disney song. Afterward, they
will get to view a Disney video on a big
screen with their recording played back
as accompaniment. Of multiple workshop
options, Rush said, “that is by far the most
exciting one.”
The following day, June 17, the students
will perform their “Totally Awesome ’80s”
musical revue, a performance they put
on in Seaside in December 2015 and the
production they used for their Disneyland
audition video. The “Awesome ’80s pro-
duction,” Rush said, “made the most sense
for Disneyland since there is dancing and
costumes.” Some choreography is being
tweaked for the Disneyland performance,
since not all the jazz choir students nor stu-
dents from the musical revue class will be
going on the trip.
Since the students have not performed
the “Awesome ’80s” production since the
winter, Rush said they are spending a lot of
time during class and after school brushing
up the piece.
“In that aspect it is a little stressful, be-
cause we’re performing in a month,” she
said.
In between the scheduled activities for
the trip, the students can explore the theme
park. Rush has heard from many students
that it will be their irst time visiting Dis-
neyland, and the excitement level is high,
she said.
“A lot of these students have never even
been outside of Seaside, let alone Oregon,”
she said.
Going to state
The Disneyland trip is a feather in the
cap of a successful competitive year for
the Seaside choir. In April, the choir took
irst place in the 4A Cowapa League at a
regional choir festival, which automatically
qualiied the group to attend the state cham-
pionship, held May 6. It has been at least 10
years, and likely more, since the school’s
choir last qualiied for the state competi-
tion, Rush said.
At the championship, she said, the choir
took 11th place. She felt it “was really just
an honor to be participating” and to be
“performing with the top 12 schools in Or-
egon.”
“The students performed really well,”
Rush added. “We were really proud of the
performance they gave.”
As one of the inal fundraising endeav-
ors, the high school’s jazz choir will be
busking and singing well-known Disney
tunes at the Turnaround starting at noon
May 28; they will have a tip jar, and all do-
nations will be put toward Disneyland trip.
Budget includes funds for preparation of bond measure
Budget from Page 1A
The budget will cover dis-
trict expenses from July 1,
2016 to June 30, 2017.
Among the expenses listed
in the budget is the cost to pre-
pare a bond measure for next
November’s ballot to relocate
the district’s schools out of
the tsunami inundation zone.
The district could spend up to
$540,000 for architectural and
engineering fees and other ser-
vices. However, that amount
depends on the proceeds re-
ceived from the sale of dis-
trict-owned property near Surf
Pines. The district hopes to re-
ceive $335,000 from the sale.
A $128.8 million bond mea-
sure to relocate the schools on
a hill east of Seaside Heights
Elementary School failed in
2013.
The district’s budget, how-
ever, doesn’t include potential
revenue from the sale of the
former Cannon Beach Ele-
mentary School to the city of
Cannon Beach. An item in
the city’s proposed budget re-
serves $665,000 for the pur-
chase and possible demolition
of the building.
Of that, between $400,000
and $500,000 is supposed to
go toward the school’s pur-
chase; the tentative purchase
price hasn’t been made pub-
lic, and no sales contract has
yet been signed, according to
Cannon Beach City Manager
Brant Kucera.
The budget includes a 2.25
percent salary increase for dis-
trict employees.
Although he is retiring June
30, Dougherty will continue to
stay on half-time to shepherd
the bond measure through the
November election. Seaside
High School Principal Sheila
Roley will take over as super-
intendent beginning July 1.
SEASIDE SIGNAL/SUBMITTED PHOTO
Beginning calligraphy will be taught at the Seaside Public
Library
Learn calligraphy
with Rebecca Read
The Friends of the Sea-
side Library host a Begin-
ning Calligraphy Workshop
on June 25, from 1-3 p.m. in
the Community Room. The
class will be taught by local
artist Rebecca Read.
Read studied graphic de-
sign, and typography at the
Paciic Northwest College of
Art in Portland. She did un-
dergraduate work in graphic
design at the University of
Oregon, and studied callig-
raphy at the Oregon College
of Art and Craft. Read is cur-
rently a studio artist on the
north Oregon Coast.
In an age of instant elec-
tronic communications one
would think that writing by
hand is becoming obsolete.
This two-hour workshop
will provide an introduction
to the practical applications
of calligraphy, and hands-
on instruction of beginning
italic lettering. All materials
will be provided; the class
is limited to 20 people. Sign
up at the circulation desk or
by calling the library at 503-
738-6742.
Seaside Public Library is
located at 1131 Broadway.
For more information call
503-738-6742 or visit www.
seasidelibrary.org.
‘The Sound of Gravel’
The Friends of the Sea-
side Library host Ruth Wari-
ner, author of “The Sound
of Gravel,” Thursday, June
16, at 7 p.m. “The Sound of
Gravel” is the true story of
one girl’s coming-of-age in a
polygamist family. The event
will take place in the Com-
munity Room and there will
be book sales and signings
presented by Beach Books.
Ruth Wariner was the
39th of her father’s 42 chil-
dren. Growing up on a farm
in rural Mexico, where au-
thorities turn a blind eye to
the practices of her commu-
nity, Wariner lives in a ram-
shackle house without indoor
plumbing or electricity. At
church, preachers teach that
God will punish the wicked
by destroying the world and
that women can only as-
cend to heaven by entering
into polygamous marriages
and giving birth to as many
children as possible. After
Wariner’s father — the man
who had been the founding
prophet of the colony — is
murdered by his brother in
a bid for church power, her
mother remarries, becoming
the second wife of another
faithful congregant.
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SEASIDE SIGNAL/SUBMITTED PHOTO
Ruth Wariner writes about
her experiences in a polyg-
amous family
Wariner lives in Port-
land. At 15, she left Colonia
LeBaron, the polygamist
Mormon colony in Mexi-
co, where she grew up, and
moved to California. After
earning her GED, she put
herself through college,
eventually becoming a high
school Spanish teacher. She
remains close to her siblings
and is happily married.
Seaside Public Library is
located at 1131 Broadway.
For more information call
503-738-6742 or visit us at
seasidelibrary.org
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