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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.
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Sunnia Chan and Karina Nolasco Huanosta
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By KATHERINE LACAZE
For Seaside Signal
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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.”