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Page 10A SEASIDESIGNAL.COM • COMPLIMENTARY COPY OUR 110th YEAR • October 14, 2016 ELECTION Council adds voice of support to school bond 2016 Candidates take the stage in Seaside Condition of schools drives bond vote SEASIDE COUNCIL, WARD 3 By R.J. Marx Seaside Signal The Seaside City Council gave a thumbs- up to the Seaside School District’s November bond to move tsunami-endangered schools to safer ground. “I have to commend you and the board for putting the package together that shows us what’s going on,” Mayor Don Larson said at Monday’s meeting. “This thing is just fantastic.” “So much time and effort has been put into this by so many people,” Councilor Dana Phil- lips said. “It’s something for the good of our community as well as the safety of our stu- dents.” Seaside School District Superinten- dent-emeritus Doug Dougherty provided a pre- sentation that stressed not so much the benefi ts of the new campus but the defects of current schools, which are well beyond their projected life span. He called this an opportunity to make a difference to that community for generations. “It’s one of those things that we are very excit- ed about. This is an outstanding chance.” After the defeat of the district’s 2013 bond, the city went back to voters to fi nd out why. “We trimmed this plan to its bare bones,” Dougherty said. The new campus, to be located on 80 acres donated by Weyerhaeuser Co., is near Seaside Heights Elementary School in the East Hills. DON JOHNSON TOM HORNING SEASIDE COUNCIL, WARD 4 SEASIDE COUNCILOR AT LARGE, WARDS 1 & 2 SETH MORRISEY RANDY FRANK GEARHART MAYOR See Bond, Page 6A Appeals court to rule on DA’s immunity MATT BROWN BOB SHORTMAN GEARHART COUNCIL, POSITION 2 GEARHART COUNCIL, POSITION 4 SUE LORAIN DAN JESSE Marquis froze out police detective By Derrick DePledge EO Media Group Did Clatsop County District Attorney Josh Marquis have absolute immunity when he froze out a Seaside Police detective who crit- icized him? A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will answer the question after accepting written legal arguments Thursday, Oct. 6. at Pioneer Courthouse in Portland. Steven Barnett, who retired from the Sea- side Police earlier this year, claimed Marquis violated his free speech and due process rights by refusing to vouch for his credibility to work on criminal prosecutions. Marquis made the decision after Barnett, who was running against Sheriff Tom Bergin in 2012, wrote a guest column in The Daily As- torian critical of the district attorney, who had endorsed Bergin in a newspaper column. Barnett, who was one of four candidates to challenge Bergin, fi nished last in the primary with 7 percent of the vote. U.S. District Judge Marco Hernandez in Portland ruled against Barnett in 2014, fi nding Gearhart mayor, Seaside council in contested races By R.J. Marx Seaside Signal H ousing, tsunami safety and a potential new school campus in Seaside dominated discus- sion Monday, Oct. 3, as the American Associ- ation of University Women hosted a candidate forum at City Hall. Moderated by AAUW Finance Vice President Vir- ginia Dideum of Gearhart, candidates from Gearhart and Seaside shared their viewpoints to an audience of more than 100 residents from both communities. The mayoral race in Gearhart and the battle for City Council Ward 3 in Seaside were the only contested races, and differences between the candidates in each provided the starkest differences in political opinion. Seaside Ward 3 Ward 3 Councilor Don Johnson faces a challenge from Tom Horning, a geologist and member of the city’s Planning Commission. Horning is running on a platform of tsunami awareness, and gave a visual See Candidates, Page 6A PAID PERMIT NO. 97 ASTORIA, OR PRSRT STD US POSTAGE See Barnett, Page 3A Catching a ‘buzz’ at Seaside library presentation Naturalist Julie Tennis shares the environmental benefi ts of beekeeping By Katherine Lacaze For the Seaside Signal KATHERINE LACAZE/FOR THE SEASIDE SIGNAL Julie Tennis explains the diff erent components of a Lang- stroth beehive during her presentation, “What Beekeepers Do,” at the Seaside Public Library. A childhood incident traumatized Julie Ten- nis stimulated a lifelong passion for bees and beekeeping. “My experience as a beekeeper has shown me that the more people care about something living, other than themselves, the more they will care about nature as a whole,” said Julie Tennis, a nat- uralist and beekeeper from Naselle, Washington. The art of beekeeping is an exacting and work-intensive yet rewarding way to establish a connection with nature, promote pollination and contribute positively to the overall health of the environment. She gave a late-September presentation, “What Beekeepers Do” at the Seaside Pub- lic Library. The event was sponsored by the Friends of the Seaside Library. Tennis maintains an oscillating number of hives, or between 20 and 40, depending on what is happening in the environment, but she has not always been a bee lover. In fact, a traumatic event from her child- hood, during which she and a friend got stung more than a dozen times each, gave her fear and hatred of stinging insects that she harbored for a long time. However, she also respected them, especially as she came to understand the insects did not sting until they perceived a threat. When Tennis was in college, her father started See Beekeeper, Page 7A
