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Buccaneers lead the way with beach cleanup effort
Parade from Page 1A
thousands of Independence
Day visitors. By midday to-
day, they will have collected
12 to 15 tons of trash. The
Buccaneers are SOLVE’s
largest distributor of trash
bags.
Seaside parade
For the Fourth of July pa-
rade, early birds had lawn
chairs in place by 9 a.m., with
red, white and blue banners,
flags and bunting everywhere.
Led by a Seaside Police
car and followed by the Boy
Scouts, the march kicked off
at 11 a.m. from the corner of
12th and Necanicum, head-
ing up Holladay to Broadway
under cloudy skies and chilly
temperatures.
Seaside Mayor Jay Barber
rode alongside City Councilor
Tita Montero as Councilors
Tom Horning, Seth Morrissey
and Steve Wright passed out
flags.
Newly crowned Miss
Oregon Harley Emery rode
proudly, followed in the line-
up by Miss Clatsop County
Hannah Garhofer and repre-
sentatives of the Miss Oregon
Scholarship Pageant.
Kevin Leahy, represent-
ing the Astoria Regatta, led
a group including chaperone
Amber Hill and Aubrey Mc-
Mahan — last year’s Regatta
queen. Seaside’s Sydney Ord-
way joined princesses on the
float.
“Here we are five years
running — it’s a great pa-
rade!” Leahy said.
Coastal author Honey
Perkel added a literary note
with a recurring parade ap-
pearance, while “Wonder
Woman” from the Inverted
Experience, Seaside’s newest
Broadway tourist attraction,
garnered attention. Bigfoot,
Ghostbusters and the Lion
King marched, too.
And everybody had candy:
taffy, lollipops and gummies.
All ages
Youth was definitely fea-
tured, from Portland’s King
Sun School drill team, the
Tsunami Skippers, of Seaside,
Astoria and Cannon Beach,
and the littlest ones, from Mrs.
Tami’s Daycare and Preschool.
Jackson Januik, the Gulls
basketball standout named the
Class 4A Player of the Year,
joined teammates on float fea-
turing the Gulls championship
basketball team. It was his first
parade, Januik said. “It’s fun
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Gini Dideum of the Beach
Drive Buccaneers provides
cleanup bags for visitors and
residents alike.
seeing all the people.”
Members of Clatsop Coun-
ty’s Sons of Beaches and the
Legion Riders held sway on
their big trucks, while mem-
bers of “We Are Indivisible”
joined the parade for the first
time.
“We’re promoting democ-
racy,” said member Joyce
Hunt. “And keeping our nation
going in the right direction.”
The Beach Drive Bucca-
neers, meanwhile were march-
ing and doing their jobs hand-
ing out beach bags. By the time
they reached First Avenue and
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Members of the Tsunami Skippers jump-roped their way through the parade.
Holladay, they had passed out
more than 1,000 cleanup bags
— and “we’re only halfway in
the parade,” Gini Dideum said.
With the sun pushing
through the clouds for a day of
sunshine and fireworks ahead
for the evening, the Bucca-
neers’ cleanup crews would
have their work cut out for
them. But nobody seemed to
mind.
“People are always so
excited to be in the parade,
to have fun and to showcase
their vehicles or their kids,”
Dideum said. “It’s always
fun!”
Pacific Pearl brings arty vibe, offers freshly ground coffee beans
A new take on
your morning joe
By Eve Marx
For Seaside Signal
Sometimes you just want
a cup of coffee. Any reliable
place will do. But sometimes
you want an experience.
That’s when you go to Pacific
Pearl.
Dawn Greenfield, owner
and operator of Pacific Pearl
Coffee Company, home of
handcrafted beverages and
treats, located 1 block from the
beach on Broadway, arrived in
Seaside by way of Vegas.
“I was born in Portland,”
Greenfield said. “My husband
is from New York. Da Bronx!
We took a vacation to Sea-
side and that moment decided
this was where we wanted to
live. It took awhile to sell our
home in Nevada and make the
move, but we’re here, and we
love it.”
Greenfield says she be-
lieves in making coffee the
old fashioned way. And it’s
Sleepy Monk organic coffee
she’s brewing.
“Every beverage ordered
is hand crafted,” Greenfield
said. “We grind the beans. We
work the press.” Don’t take
yours black? Pacific Pearl has
just about any lightener you
can think of. Soy milk. Hemp
milk. Rice milk. And for those
“the heck with calories, give
me the Half and Half” types,
she’s got it. You want whipped
cream and chocolate on top?
Sure thing. And they’ve also
got the newest craze, white
espresso. What’s that again?
“It’s made from beans that
are barely roasted. It’s a true
caffeine rush,” Greenfield
said.
Pacific Pearl is a family run
business.
“My whole family is on
board,” Greenfield said. “I
couldn’t do it without them.”
After being open for about a
year, Greenfield was more
than ready for a space rear-
rangement. She closed for
two weeks to complete the re-
model but is rarin’ to go once
again.
“Before, pretty much ev-
erything we offer was to go,
but now we can offer our pa-
trons sit-down counters and
tables,” Greenfield said. The
space also doubles as a ven-
ue for art. “Our walls are an
ever-changing gallery for the
work of local artists.”
Indeed, Pacific Pearl does
have an arty vibe. It’s not en-
tirely mellow; the atmosphere
feels alive. The place seems
like a perfect destination af-
ter an athletic walk or run on
the promenade, or where you
might pull up on your Harley
when you’re ready for a caf-
feine shot. As Greenfield’s pal
Keith I. Baker noted, it’s on
the surrey route.
“Tourists can park their
surrey out front and come in-
side for a smoothie,” Green-
field joked.
Speaking of smoothies,
Pacific Pearl makes super
delicious ones featuring real
frozen fruit. I can attest to the
cherry and the peach; both
were marvelous. They also
have hand crafted Italian soda
in a rainbow array of flavors.
The most asked for smoothie,
Greenfield shared, is Red Bull
and frozen fruit.
This summer she’ll be add-
ing a few dessert items to the
menu.
“I’ll be doing homemade
pound cake with Oregon
berries and whipped cream,”
Haber- Lehigh celebrates beauty in Northwest plants
Garden from Page 1A
Heights Elementary School,
where the new Seaside School
District campus will be built.
Logging on some of the site is
about to begin.
“We made trips and trips
and took buckets and shovels
and brought back a little of
everything,” even though the
task was exhausting, she said.
But so many native plants had
to be left behind.
“That’s sad, because we
see all of this native vegeta-
tion disappearing,” she added.
The new plants have taken
to her yard well, noted Dor-
ota, who teaches English as
a second language and bo-
tanical illustration at Seaside
High School. She also men-
tors students who work in the
school’s culinary garden.
“Everything I planted this
year looks like it has been
there forever, but it hasn’t,”
she said.
Skunk cabbage, salmon-
berries and ferns grow along
the creek that runs through the
yard. A graceful hemlock tree
provides shade.
A bridge built over the
creek offers a seating area for
Dorota and David to relax and
enjoy the natural setting.
Trails, outlined in bark-
dust, meander through the
area for the deer. Dorota has
‘We’re losing so much. I feel like
it’s our responsibility to preserve
as much as we can. But I think
more people are gaining awareness
about landscaping with natives. The
movement is growing.’
Dorota Haber-Lehigh
taken into account that the
deer are bound to nibble on
some of the plants, which
grow in abundance.
“I want it to go wild; I’m
OK with that,” said Dorota,
who also wants to add more
mushrooms — a particular
interest for her — to the yard.
When she plants the native
plants like rattlesnake plan-
tain (a native orchid) or native
currant, she considers what
creatures will come come to
her garden.
“We’re trying to create
a habitat that attracts hum-
mingbirds, bees and birds,”
she said. “The birds like the
elderberries.”
Planting natives is a pas-
sion for Dorota, who is a
member of the Native Plant
Society and Oregon Botanical
Artists.
She recalls when her gar-
den had far fewer native
plants, and the non-natives
she introduced failed to coop-
erate.
“I used to fight it, control
it,” she recalled. I struggled
with anything flourishing.
Then, I would go on hikes and
find everything thriving in the
woods. Nobody was doing
any trimming or watering. I
realized I was doing some-
thing wrong.”
She learned more about
native plants through work-
shops at the Hoyt Arboretum
in Portland and from local
experts with several North
Coast organizations. She also
has a plot at the Sunny Hunt
Community Garden behind
the Sunset pool.
“I grew up in Poland,”
Dorota said. “Everybody had
a community garden. It was
a necessity. After the war
(World War II), the borders
were closed and there were no
imports of fruits and vegeta-
bles. Whatever you ate, you
grew.”
Even in the 1980s, com-
munity gardens flourished.
Dorota and her family would
ride bicycles – there were few
cars or paved roads — to their
community garden, which
measured about one-tenth of
an acre.
“There were cherry, peach
and plum trees. We weren’t
farmers, but we would grow
carrots, cucumbers, zucchi-
nis, lettuce, herbs and toma-
toes.”
In the summer they would
forage for wildflowers to
make tea and for mushrooms.
After Poland joined the
European Union in 2004, de-
velopment flourished: Large
stores and malls replaced
mom-and-pop shops, and
highways filled with cars.
“Now people realize they
have lost a lot of the country-
side. Instead of planting lawn,
they plant native prairies be-
cause they’re feeling nostal-
gic,” she said.
Dorota worries that the
same thing will happen here.
But she also hopes that, with
more awareness of the variety
of native plants and the ease
of caring for them, people
will consider incorporating
them into their gardens.
“We’re losing so much. I
feel like it’s our responsibili-
ty to preserve as much as we
can. But I think more people
are gaining awareness about
landscaping with natives. The
movement is growing.”
Dania Nolazco recipient of PEO $1,000 scholarship
At Seaside High School’s
annual scholarship awards
event the Seaside P.E.O. held
June 6, Chapter CR presented
Dania Nolazco with the chap-
ter’s annual $1,000 scholar-
ship award. She also received
a number of other awards as
well. Dania will be attending
Pacific University in the fall.
She would love to become a
dentist but her more practical
side has her considering den-
tal hygiene as well.
P.E.O., an international
philanthropic educational or-
ganization, holds fundraisers
to provide a variety of schol-
arships and loans to wom-
en of all ages. Chapter CR
was established in 1953 and
through the years has award-
ed many scholarships: P.E.O.
Educational Loan Fund, Ore-
gon P.E.O. Scholarship Fund,
and Cottey College, a fully
accredited liberal arts college
for women in Nevada, Mis-
souri, owned and operated by
the P.E.O. Sisterhood since
1927, along with other P.E.O.
scholarships.
Greenfield said. “We’ll see
what else.”
Pacific Pearl has a few
events planned in the works.
Meanwhile she is open to ca-
tering corporate events, beach
weddings, and is thinking
ahead to Halloween.
The big news is that a sub-
stantial portion of her store’s
unused space is about to be-
come an exciting tourist at-
traction called the Seaside
Inverted Experience. Green-
field’s friend Keith I. Baker,
the venue’s owner and cre-
ator, a mariner for 30 years, is
bringing his unique perspec-
tive on the world to open the
Inverted Experience.
“It’s a one-of-a-kind pho-
to adventure with a vintage
Seaside theme,” Baker said.
He plans to open in about a
week. Baker showed a report-
er around the as-yet-not-com-
pleted venue.
The Inverted Experience is
truly upside down. Patrons pose
in an upside-down bedroom,
bathroom, or upside-down bar.
Famous Seaside attractions
like the Promenade and the reef
of the Seaside Aquarium have
been reproduced, albeit upside
down. The idea is you use the
camera in your cell phone to
take a photo, which is then
Photoshopped. It’s fun and
you’ll have a unique keepsake
to forever document your time
at the beach, something you’ll
treasure forever, or at least lon-
ger than a tee shirt.
Meanwhile, once you’ve
had your fill of life upside
down, kick back at Pacific
Pearl. Everyone is welcome.
“I’m really glad to be
here,” Greenfield said. “It’s
been a long time dream of
mine to have a coffee shop.”
Pacific Pearl Coffee Co.,
111 Broadway; 503-739-7444.