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Page 10A SEASIDESIGNAL.COM • COMPLIMENTARY COPY OUR 110th YEAR • September 30, 2016 Business leaders call for housing solutions SHERWOOD FOOTBALL HONORS GOODDING When getting a job is the easy part By R.J. Marx Seaside slain sergeant played football there from 1990-94 By Andrew Dymburt S HERWOOD — It was an emotional night at Sher- wood High School Friday as they honored an alum who died this year. Seaside Police Sgt. Jason Goodding, who was 39 at the time of his death, grew up in Sherwood and attended Sher- wood High School, where he played basketball, baseball and football. He was shot and killed in Seaside on Feb. 5 while trying to arrest a man who had a warrant out for his arrests. Goodding’s former coach spoke in front of a sell- out crowd and his wife and two daughters looked on as the team retired his number. After Friday night, No. 85 will never be worn by another Sherwood Bowman again. Seaside Signal Pointing to a surge in jobs that has surpassed available housing, Kevin Leahy of Clatsop Econom- ic Development Re- sources went before Seaside City Council Monday calling for new affordable and workforce housing. R.J. MARX/SEASIDE SIGNAL “Every communi- ty is different,” Leahy Kevin Leahy of Clat- said. “Everybody has sop Economic Devel- different rules and opment Resources. regulations. At the end of the day, we know we have a problem.” Between 2000-14, available housing in Clatsop County failed to match employment gains in Seaside, Cannon Beach, Gearhart and Warrenton. Countywide, occupied hous- ing went up 7 percent while in Seaside, em- ployment went up 8 percent. In surrounding communities, Gearhart’s employment surged 34 percent; Cannon Beach, 61 percent; and | KOIN 6 “It’s special for us to be able to honor Jason and his fam- ily,” assistant coach Mark Gribble said. Friends and family in the stands wore shirts with the number on the back, and proceeds from the sale of the shirts will benefi t a scholarship fund in Goodding’s name. “I’m really happy about what we’re doing and recognizing Jason and his memory and things like that, but what we do tonight and things like that, doesn’t replace him,” retired Sherwood coach Roger Sehenk said. Goodding grew up in Sherwood and attended Sherwood High School from 1990-1994, where he played football, basketball and baseball lettering sev- eral times in both sports. See Housing, Page 3A Seaside receives preschool startup grant District to launch fi ve-day program By Katherine Lacaze For Seaside Signal Seaside School District Superintendent Sheila Roley reported the district received a $60,000 one-year preschool startup grant from the Oregon Department of Education for the 2016-17 school year. “There is indisputable evidence that chil- dren who have preschool experiences … will thrive in school at a higher level than if they didn’t have those experiences,” Roley said at last week’s district board meeting. “A lot of our students don’t have those naturally provided for them.” In applying for the grant, the school district did not intend to compete with other current providers in the area, but to augment the ser- vices so there would be enough spots for all preschoolers, she said. The district is partnering with the Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District, which previously offered a limited preschool option. The district is taking their partial, three- day-per-week Learning Ladder Preschool program and helping them grow it into a fi ve- day-per-week, full-day preschool, which is a requirement of the grant, Roley said. The stu- dents must have access to at least 900 hours of instructional time, similar to what a primary student would receive. KAI DAVIDSON/FOR EO MEDIA GROUP Joslyn, Amy and Jayden Goodding. PAID PERMIT NO. 97 ASTORIA, OR PRSRT STD US POSTAGE See Grant, Page 6A SEASIDE’S NEWEST ROADSIDE ATTRACTION By Katherine Lacaze For Seaside Signal G The Ruby’s Roadside Grill team includes man- ager Mark Newsome, owners Candace and Da- vid Remer, Chris Quackenbush and, last but not least, namesake, CEO and chairman Ruby. KATHERINE LACAZE/FOR SEASIDE SIGNAL one are the days when a defunct 76 gas station was one of the fi rst sites greeting people as they entered Seaside from the south. In its place, the recently opened Ruby’s Roadside Grill seeks to beautify the location while serv- ing classic American fare in a down-to-earth, fast casual envi- ronment. The best establishments are those with “a soul, a history, a genesis,” according to David Remer, who owns the restaurant with his wife Candace. When working on the project with local contractor Chris Quackenbush, owner of Quackenbush Build- ers, the Remers expressed a desire to keep that character intact while making the facility functional as a restaurant. See Ruby’s, Page 7A