OUR 112th Year May 17, 2019 $1.00 SEASIDESIGNAL.COM Key elections for school district, rec district ahead Seaside School District Seaside Signal Two of three open seats in the Seaside School District will see competitive races in the May 21 election. Three candidates — John Dunzer, Sondra Gomez and Jer- emy Mills — have fi led for the Zone 5, Position 1 seat. Seaside’s John Dunzer, a retired corporate executive, is now employed as a greeter at Walmart. Jeremy Mills, a Seaside res- ident, has 11 years as an agent with State Farm Insurance. He is Sunset Empire Rec District currently a member of the board of directors of the Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District. Sondra Gomez is a local operations manager at Vacasa and served in the consulting offi ce at the Seaside School Dis- trict from 2016-18. Shannon Swedenborg is the sole candidate in Cannon Beach’s Zone 1, Position 1. Swedenborg fi lled the board seat after Patrick Nofi eld stepped down in Cannon Beach. Over the past two years she has been a substitute teacher at the Heights Seaside Signal See School district, Page A6 Ballot drop box in Seaside. Election Day is May 21. Seaside Signal Seven candidates are on the ballot for two board seats in the May 21 Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District board election. Three candidates will vie for the Position 5 seat, held by Rod- ney Roberts, appointed earlier this year after district board pres- ident Alan Evans stepped down. Roberts seeks to return to the board for a full four-year term. Also fi ling for the Position 5 seat are Patrick Duhachek and Lindsey Morrison. The Position 4 seat comes vacant after current board mem- ber Edward Hassan announced plans to move outside the district. John Chapman, Katharine Parker, Marti Wajc and Shirley Yates have fi led to fi ll that seat. Veronica Russell, Jeremy Mills and Michael Hinton fi ll the other three board seats. Each of their terms expire in 2021. Ballots must be received in the Clatsop County Elections Offi ce or at an offi cial drop site, such as Seaside City Hall, by 8 p.m. on May 21. For more information, contact the county at 503-352-8511. P-L-A-N-N-I-N-G SPELLS PROM SUCCESS Sunnia Chan and Karina Nolasco Huanosta Sydnee Newman, Karla Saucedo, Laura Oros, Xcaret Bello, Jennifer Ramirez, Derek Stewart, Tianna Chen, Ricky Keen, Adamari Anguiano and Justin Nolazco. By KATHERINE LACAZE For Seaside Signal W Katherine Lacaze Seaside High School’s junior class offi cers set up The Loft at the Red Building for prom. hen Seaside students arrived at The Loft at the Red Building in Astoria for prom, the space was already dressed in swaths of lavender tulle, silver lanterns, strands of emerald green leaves, and other decorations to resemble a Nev- erland escape. What they didn’t see fi rsthand was the numer- ous hours of planning and labor poured into the event by just a handful of dedicated juniors. Seaside School District See Prom, Page A7 Joana Sage and Gavin Meyer. WORLD-CLASS EVENT Tsunami Skippers head to Norway By EVE MARX For Seaside Signal On July 2 through July 9, the Tsunami Skip- pers head to Norway to compete in the World Jump Rope Championship. “This will be our third World Jump Rope Championship,” said Stacey Dun- das, co-founder and coach of the Tsunami Skippers. “We went to Washington, D.C. in 2012, and we were in Florida in 2016. This is a record breaking event. Jump rope is trying to become an Olympic sport, and after this year, everyone will have to qualify in order to attend an event. This is the last time it’s open to anyone who wants to go. It’s an opportunity we may or may not get again. These kids have worked their butts off and they’re pretty darn good.” Dundas and Shan- non Carey founded the Tsunami Skippers Jump Rope Team in 2006. Their goal was to give kids an alternative sport in Clatsop County. The team competed in the USA JR Nationals in Long Beach, California, and hosted jump rope camps and workshops, and fundraising events. They’ve performed at elementary school assemblies across Oregon and Washington, See Jump rope, Page A7 From Sacramento to Seaside, now on the air By R.J. MARX Seaside Signal There’s new owner- ship at Seaside’s 94.9 The Bridge, as Sacra- mento couple Boomer and Dawn Barbosa pur- chased the radio station from Mark and Mickie Evans. “We took over oper- ation in February,” Boomer Barbosa of Bar- bosa Media, 94.9’s par- ent company, said from the station’s Gilbert Building studio. “We are in the fi nal process of signing off when the Radio station owner Boomer Barbosa with mascot “Captain Barbossa.” FCC says it’s fi nally all ‘done done’ — could be within a couple of days.”