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.
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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
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