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November 10, 2017 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com • 5A A helping hand for the holiday I t was a tradition that was unmatched in my childhood. Early Thanksgiving morning, I would wake up with excitement in the air. Thanksgiving means great food, time with the family and a special occasion to feel gratitude. But for a young boy, it also meant football, and more specifi cally, the Turkey Bowl! Friends and families would gather, traditionally at the park in Gearhart on the corner of Pacifi c Way and Marion Ave, usually in some com- bination of cold, wind and rain for some touch football. Typically, the game would remain a friendly mixture of old and young, talented and not-so-talented and a chance for me to get to play football either with or against my older broth- ers, something that didn’t happen too frequently. With the change in season upon us and Thanksgiving and other seasonal holidays approaching, I’ve had cause for some refl ection on a more recent- as well as Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, The Seaside Chamber of Commerce, local Boy Scout troops and others, spearhead the efforts in serving a delicious and traditional Thanksgiving Dinner. Safeway generously donates and prepares the turkey and mashed potatoes and many other wonderful people and organizations donate time, resources and talents. While impact may be hard to measure, the dinner serves more people each Thanksgiving and last year provided a meal to 300 people in our community, including many that may fi nd themselves on the fringes of our society: the widowed, the fi nancially stricken and the homeless. It’s a great opportunity for me and my family, a new tradition, to participate in this dinner. I feel grateful to connect with friends and associates from this tight-knit com- munity and to lend a tiny offering of SKY BOX SKYLER ARCHIBALD ly established Thanksgiving tradition. Some number of years ago, a grassroots movement in Seaside be- gan humbly: a traditional Thanksgiv- ing meal, served to anyone in need, free of charge and without judgment. That early concept developed and grew, and grew, and grew. For the last two years and continu- ing this Thanksgiving on Thurs- day, Nov. 23, various community enterprises have teamed up to offer this community Thanksgiving and the Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District has been fortunate to host the meal at the Bob Chisholm Communi- ty Center. Each year, volunteers from the staff of Helping Hands Reentry On Thurs- day, Nov. 23, community groups team up to off er a community Thanksgiving at the Bob Chisholm Community Center. COURTESY SEPRD support and time. You can even start your morn- ing with the Turkey Trot, a 5k run/ walk that takes place in downtown Seaside, through the Sunset Empire Park & Recreation District. I encourage each of us, partic- ularly during this season, to seek opportunities to serve others and to strive for empathy and compassion. New traditions are sometimes Borgen named as new publisher at Seaside Signal, sister publications Seaside Signal Kari Borgen will assume leadership at EO Media Group’s North Coast opera- tions on Dec. 1. Borgen, 57, will be the group publisher and revenue director for the Seaside Sig- nal, The Daily Astorian Can- non Beach Gazette, Chinook Observer and the regional Coast River Business Journal. Borgen and her husband, Kerry, will relocate to the North Coast area. They have three grown children and en- joy the outdoors with their two dogs in their free time. She is an Oregon native with deep roots in the media industry. “I’m looking forward to joining the team, and meet- ing readers and businesses on the North Coast,” Borgen said. “It’s a beautiful and di- verse landscape of commu- nities with strong traditions, opportunities to grow and an appreciation for community journalism. We’re excited to become a part of it.” Heidi Wright, EO Media Kari Borgen Heidi Wright Group’s chief operating of- fi cer, said Borgen rose to the top of a strong pool of candi- dates. “We are very fortunate to have Kari join our compa- ny, ” Wright said. “She has ties to Oregon and a passion for high-quality community newspapers.” Borgen has a degree in business administration and marketing from the College of Idaho. She has worked for Western Communications, based in Bend, since 1998. Most recently, she served as its corporate revenue offi cer and regional publisher for the Baker City Herald and The Observer in La Grande. She enjoys engaging in the com- munity and has served on the boards of the Baker County Community Literacy Coali- tion, Rotary, United Way, Red Cross and YMCA. She will take over busi- ness operations from David Pero, plus assume direct man- agement of advertising sales. Pero left the company on Tuesday and former Adver- tising Director Betty Smith’s position has been vacant since she retired at the end of June. Matt Winters, publisher and editor of the Chinook Observ- er and Coast River Business Journal, will report to Borgen. “There is a precedent for what we are doing that can be found in our family’s own- ership of the Astorian,” said Steve Forrester, president and CEO of EO Media Group. “In 1960, during Astoria’s pro- longed postwar adjustment, my parents and my aunt hired a publisher out of Alaska, Morgan Coe. He was a busi- ness-side publisher. At the same time, the veteran news- man Fred Andrus was pro- moted to the role of editor.” Following that model, Jim Van Nostrand is being pro- moted from the role of man- aging editor to editor. Derrick DePledge will become man- aging editor. “All of this is about our family’s commitment to the future of this community dai- ly newspaper at a time when traditional print media is ad- justing to a new reality,” For- rester said. “In Kari, we have a proven leader who will help ensure our fi nancial viability for the long term. In Jim and Derrick, we have newsroom professionals who will meet the challenge of engaging readers in print as well as dig- ital platforms.” Forrester added that the newest fourth-generation member of the company’s board of directors is his son, Harrison, elected in August. His daughter, Susan Rana, has served on the board for four years and is corporate trea- surer. Forrester will be in the Astoria offi ces Wednesday through Friday . Wright will spend much of November in Astoria until Borgen comes on board. hard to adjust to. I miss those Thanksgiving mornings of my childhood: catching a pass, sharing a laugh and coming home cold, wet and perhaps smelly. But this new tradition isn’t bad either. If you’d like more information about contributing to the community Thanksgiving, please contact me at 503-738-3311 or sarchibald@ sunsetempire.com. MEETINGS Seaside City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway. Seaside Transportation Ad- visory Commission, 6 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway. Wednesday, Nov. 15 Tuesday, Nov. 21 Seaside Tourism Advisory Committee, 3 p.m., 989 Broadway. Seaside School District Board of Directors, 6 p.m., 1801 S. Franklin, Seaside. Thursday, Nov. 16 Seaside Planning Commis- sion, 7 p.m., work session, City Hall, 989 Broadway. Monday, Nov. 13 Seaside Tree Board, 4 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway. DINING on the NORTH COAST Great Restaurants in: GEARHART SEASIDE CANNON BEACH LETTERS Rolling in his grave My father, Harry Miller, is rolling over in his grave re: “Food b ank shake-up leads to a temporary closure. (The Daily Astori- an, Oct. 23, 2017) The South County Food Bank was his “baby” for many years. To see what’s happening now would absolutely break his heart. It’s a shame the board can’t get their act together. Instead of actually speaking with all the volunteers, as well as Karla Gann, they chose to simply fi re everyone. I don’t know why this “shake-up” took place but I’d certainly bet the problem lies more with the board , not the volunteers. It’s too bad the volunteers and the public w ere, apparently, left out of this decision. It would have been nice to try to fi x it be- fore such a rash decision was made. It was a huge slap in the face to all the hard-working volunteers of the f ood b an k. I have no doubt Ms. Gann is correct when she says 90 per- cent of the staff will not be back. My heart breaks not only for the people who need help but all the volunteers who can no longer help them. Dad used to say, “They (the board ) ha- ven’t got the sense God gave a soda crack- er.” Yep, Dad was right. Let’s see who’s go- ing to pick up all those cracker crumbs now. Sylvia Herrley Seaside Kudos for Karla Gann I am not writing this letter to criticize anyone, only to give my experience with the food bank and their volunteer manager Karla Gann. I was very surprised with the fi ring of Karla after fi ve years of volunteer service. My family and myself have donated Study sheds new light on nutrition, pregnancy By Susan Cody For EO Media Group How does your baby grow? Can nutritional advice, food choices and cooking classes improve the growth and health of your baby? Researchers hope to answer these questions and more in the Clatsop-Asto- ria Maternal Partnership Study. “We are seeking 100 wom- en in the fi rst trimester of pregnancy to participate in the study,” says Wendy D’Agosti- no, the study coordinator. All participants will receive nu- tritional information and half will receive a 12-week cooking classes at the North Coast Food Web. “We want to see if cooking classes improve overall health and wellness.” In addition to the free cook- ing classes, an incentive of up to $85 is offered for monitor- ing, which will be performed by D’Agostino, who is a regis- tered nurse. Women in the study must also be at least 18 years old, planning to deliver their baby at Columbia Memorial Hospi- tal and speak fl uent English. To learn more or to sign up, contact D’Agostino at 607-369-4907. Information is also available at the Women’s Center at CMH. “We are now in the fourth generation of people not cook- ing,” says D’Agostino. She said this sets the stage for ill health and a shorter life. “The 2016 census predicted longevity for Americans will decrease for the fi rst time in 100 years,” D’Agostino said. “A low-nutrient, high-calorie diet leads to obesity and malnour- ishment, type 2 diabetes and heart disease. We want to see if cooking classes improve overall health and wellness” of preg- nant women and their babies. Clatsop County is one site in a series of studies by Oregon Health Science University’s Knight Cardiovascular Institute to answer questions about fetal development, disease preven- tion and nutrition. These stud- ies focus on how certain factors in the prenatal environment can make people more susceptible to heart disease and obesity. many food items, and lately, clothes also. We were always pleased with the appear- ance of the interior of the building and also with the well-organized way they handled things. Karla was always there even on her days off and if we had a donation and she wasn’t there, all we had to do was call her at home and she would be right down to re- ceive our donation. Also, what a blessing to be able to give out clothes, warm gloves, hats, etc.; most of my friends say the Goodwill is too high on their things. I would rather give to the food bank so that those who can’t afford other places would not have to go without. I am sorry this happened and I wish something could have been worked out so that the community would still benefi t from her management. Nadine Brien Seaside WE’LL SAVE YOU A BUNDLE AND QUITE A FEW LAYERS. Excellence in family dining found from a family that has been serving the North Coast for the past 52 years Great Great Great Homemade Breakfast, lunch and pasta, Clam but that’s dinner steaks & Chowder, not all... menu,too! seafood! Salads! Seaside • 323 Broadway • 738-7234 (Open 7 Days) Cannon Beach • 223 S. 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