May 11, 2018 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com • 3A
Freeda C. Haggerty
Cutting through the brush
Amendments
pass; new
councilor
appointed
By R.J. Marx
Seaside Signal
A last-minute call to ex-
tend discussion failed to de-
rail the city’s plans to update
rules for cutting trees and
vegetation in the dunes. Or-
dinance 910 will change the
zone code to allow more re-
moval of vegetation than the
current beaches and dunes
overlay code does.
Last month, planning
commissioners unanimously
recommend passage of the
dune vegetation amendment.
The beach overlay district
was established to regulate
activity in dunes and beach
areas in order to protect the
landscape. The northern
boundary is Fairway Ave-
nue in the Highlands and
the southern boundary is the
south end of South Ocean
Avenue.
Demand from homeown-
ers and contractors for code
changes have steady grown
over the last two decades
with an influx of invasive
species posing risks to the
environment and vegetation
blocking views.
A January 2017 forum or-
ganized by Gearhart resident
Margaret Marino brought
experts to the table and was
followed up by formation of
the city’s dune management
committee.
Their recommendations
were presented to the Plan-
ning Commission, which for-
warded it to the City Council
for a vote Wednesday, May 2.
Changes to the city’s
beach overlay district will be
more permissive in allowing
people to cut weeds, invasive
plants and trim trees in the
beaches and dunes overlay
R.J. MARX/SEASIDE SIGNAL
Dunes vegetation on the path to Little Beach in Gearhart.
district.
The new code expands
rules to allow emergency and
non-emergency vehicles both
on public land for water sys-
tem access and private land
“as reasonably necessary” for
construction or maintenance.
The code lays out details
for pruning, trimming and
removal of vegetation. Pro-
visions establish a fire buffer
safety zone and designate
guidelines for trimming of
shore pines and spruce.
Councilor Dan Jesse and
Mayor Matt Brown voted for
the amendments. Councilor
Kerry Smith voted against,
seeking further council dis-
cussion. Councilor Paulina
Cockrum was absent.
If passed in a second read-
ing at the June council meet-
ing, provisions would go into
effect 30 days later.
For now, homeowners
can cut Scotch broom, but no
pines, grasses or other types
of vegetation, City Adminis-
trator Chad Sweet said after
the meeting.
Fackerell appointed
to council
Reita Fackerell was cho-
sen from among three appli-
cants for a vacant City Coun-
cil position Wednesday.
Former councilor Sue
Lorain, first elected in 2012
and reelected in 2016, left
the council in April after re-
locating to the Portland area.
Her term does not expire
until December 2020. Fack-
erell will finish out Lorain’s
term.
Brown introduced Fack-
erell as chairman of the city’s
budget committee two years
running, with grant-writing
experience and member-
ship on a variety of regional
boards, including the South
County Food Bank and Sea-
side Chamber of Commerce.
Fackerell, former direc-
tor of the Seaside Public
Library, was named 2017
volunteer of the year by the
Seaside Chamber of Com-
merce.
“I think she would be a
wonderful asset to the City
Council and the community
as well,” Brown said in an-
nouncing her appointment.
Fackerell will attend her
first meeting as councilor in
June.
“I appreciate everyone
who was interested in the
position,” Brown said. “It
really means a lot to us in
the city that people want to
get involved.”
Wheeler
May 23, 1920 — April 20, 2018
Freeda C. Haggerty, of Seaside and Cannon ber of St. Peter the Fisherman Church in Arch
Beach, Oregon, died on Friday, April 20, 2018, Cape.
She is preceded in death by her husband of
in Wheeler, Oregon. She was born May 23,
1920, to Charles B. and Lesslie Hoesman Coo- 73 years, Dave, and grandson Matt Haggerty.
per in Merom, Indiana.
She is survived by her sister, Norma
Bridges of Indianapolis, Indiana; a
She was the eldest of two girls,
daughter and son-in-law, Terry and
and graduated in 1938 from Newport
John Ward of Cannon Beach; two
High School in Newport, Indiana. Af-
ter school, she moved to Estes Park,
sons and daughters-in-law, David
Colorado, where she met and married
and Peggy Haggerty of Salem, Ore-
gon, and Paul and Claudia Haggerty
David W. Haggerty Jr. in 1939.
of Bend, Oregon; a foster daughter,
The couple settled in Portland,
Stephanie Burk of Boring, Oregon;
Oregon, where they raised their three
10 grandchildren; and 18 great-grand-
children. They moved to Tolovana
children.
Park, Oregon, in 1975, where they co-
A rosary and funeral Mass were
owned The Driftwood Inn Restaurant Freeda Haggerty
held May 4, 2018, at St. Peter the
in Cannon Beach with their daughter
Fisherman Catholic Church, 79441
and son-in-law, to whom they sold
their interests in 1985. Freeda also owned her U.S. Highway 101 S., Arch Cape, Oregon. A
own gift shop, “Something Special,” in Cannon reception followed in the church hall.
In lieu of flowers, Freeda requested a dona-
Beach.
A devout Catholic, she was an active mem- tion to be made to a charity of one’s choice.
Albert Ernest Howerton
Seaside
July 25, 1938 — May 3, 2018
To his many friends he was “Al,” but to his logger, mill worker, but mainly as a car me-
chanic in gas stations.
family he was always “Albert.”
Albert had several hobbies, mostly doing
Albert Ernest Howerton died at home, in
Seaside, on Thursday, May 3. He was born in with the outdoors. He loved to go hunting, fish-
ing, and clamming. He was also an
Portland in 1938 to Albert F. and
avid card player. His favorites were
Dorothy Howerton. He had four sib-
lings who proceeded him in death,
Liverpool rummy and cribbage. He
Harry, Ronald, Dorothy and Lucille,
even found a way to combine his
and one surviving brother, Robert.
hobbies. He made fishing pole hold-
ers out the windows of his truck, so
He spent his youth living in several
when he was fishing off the beach, he
Oregon cities; Portland, The Dalles,
could play cribbage and drink coffee
Toledo, and Newport,
with his friends in the comfort of his
In 1957, he met the woman who
truck.
later became his wife of almost 59
He was an early morning coffee
years, Dorothy Irene Hudson. They
were married two years later on June Albert Howerton drinker. If he wasn’t in bed at 4 a.m.,
you would know he was having cof-
12, 1959, in Toledo, Oregon. They
fee somewhere. He always had his
renewed those vows to each other
two additional times, in 1984 and again in 2009. favorite restaurant, and while it was open, it
They raised two children, Suzan Jean How- was Rob’s Restaurant. When the early morn-
erton (born in 1963), and Tracy Allen Hower- ing staff came in, they would find him and his
ton (born in 1961), who is married to Sarah. group there, with the grills and coffee on and
Tracy has one son, Jeffery Allen Howerton, the ice filled. The funny thing is, he almost nev-
who, with his wife Haleigh, have two children, er drank coffee at home. He didn’t even own a
coffee pot until recently.
Alison and Derek.
At this time there will be no funeral. The
At the time of their marriage, Albert was in
the Air Force National Guard. Albert and Dor- family has chosen to have a celebration of life
othy later moved to Seaside, Oregon, in 1962, event around the time of what would have been
where he worked several different jobs; as a his 80th birthday in July.
Nature on view at Broadway Park
as osprey lays first egg of season
Camera offers
unique look at
nature up close
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By R.J. Marx
Seaside Signal
Live, from Seaside, with a
real bird’s-eye view. The Sea-
side “Live View Nest Cam”
delivered to internet viewers
the first osprey egg of the sea-
son.
There’s a happy mama
perched in a nest in Seaside.
Through the wonders of the
“Live View Nest Cam,” inter-
net visitors can watch in real
time the interaction at the nest.
The egg was laid sometime
Tuesday, May 1, between 11
a.m. and 5:30 p.m., according
to Angie Reseland of the Ne-
canicum Watershed Council.
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eagle that prefers high perch-
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An osprey as seen via webcam protecting its egg.
Broadway Park field. The pole
came down after artificial turf
was installed in 2011, displac-
ing the osprey.
The nest later was placed
on the trunk of a 60-foot hem-
lock tree donated by a local
timber company. However,
the trunk rotted, and a wind-
storm broke it in two places.
In 2013 the nest was relocated
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Through joint fundraising
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