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MUSCLE!
Photos by Jeff Ter Har
Muscle and Chrome car show came to Seaside on Fri-
day, June 14 and Saturday, June 15, displaying quality vehi-
cles 1974 and older plus 1979 to current factory perfor-
mance vehicles.
The weekend included Friday and Saturday registra-
tion for vehicle entrants. Saturday’s showcase began
at 9 a.m. in the heart of downtown Seaside, featuring a
downtown parade and an ice cream social awards show
for vehicle winners to celebrate.
SUNSET REC
TURNS 50!
Rec district to mark
birthday with family
triathlon, barbecue
and more.
A7
Tsunami safety, workforce Cannon Beach
housing at top of city goals Elementary School
deal falls through
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
In January, the Seaside
City Council took a look
into its crystal ball, seeking
to set a two-and four-year
goal-setting agenda.
The aim of January’s
meeting, moderated by
Beau Bennett and Matthew
Landkamer of the Corag-
gio Group, was to develop
a strategy to preserve or
enhance “the desirable
characteristics” of Seaside.
On Monday, June 10,
Barber and city council-
ors picked up where they
left off, delivering prelim-
inary results as they hope
to meet those goals. “Our
feeling is, if you set goals,
they need to be measured
and accounted for,” Barber
said.
Vertical
evacua-
tion structures, a revived
community
emergency
response team, connecting
and streaming of city meet-
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
R.J. Marx
Members of the City Council voiced their plans for two- and
four-year goals. Above, assistant city manager Jon Rahl and
councilors Tom Horning, Dana Phillips and Randy Frank.
ings were all proposals
councilor seek to bring to
the public in coming years.
Steve Wright’s goal was
to increase citizen involve-
ment in the city, he said,
especially area youth. A
second way to engage cit-
izens was to revive the
city’s Community Emer-
gency Response Team.
“This doesn’t have to be
just emergencies — it
can be helping out on the
Fourth of July with traffi c
control.”
See Council, Page A6
Cannon Beach History
Center and Museum will
not be moving ahead with
a plan to purchase Cannon
Beach Elementary School
from the Seaside School
District.
The museum had hoped
to restore the gymnasium
and create a cultural event
center for the community of
Cannon Beach.
“Over the past few
months it has become clear
that our timeline for this pur-
chase must be pushed back,”
Elaine Murdy said Monday.
“We hope to approach the
school district in the future,
but for now, we must focus
our energy on the museum
and its collections.”
In November, school dis-
trict superintendent Sheila
Roley said the board sup-
ported the sale.
The building, which has
sat vacant at the north end
of Cannon Beach since the
school was closed in 2013,
has long been of interest to
the city, which discussed
buying it as some form of
event or community center
on and off for years.
The
Clatsop-Nehalem
Confederated Tribes also
showed interest in preserv-
ing the unique building as a
cultural landmark. It is one
of four buildings the dis-
trict is attempting to sell as
it continues to build a new
campus out of the tsunami
inundation zone.
According to Trucke in
November, the board dis-
cussed buying the property
for more than a year, and
offi cially sent an offer of
See School, Page A6