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Change is happening at the Seaside Library!
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hange is happening here
on the Oregon Coast, and
the three public libraries
in Clatsop County are working
together on something new.
Thanks to an agreement
between the cities of Astoria, Sea-
side and Warrenton, we now have
a new shared library catalog sys-
tem between the three separate
libraries to show all of our library
materials in one online catalog.
For Seaside Public Library
patrons, this means it is far easier
to place holds on books and other
materials in Astoria and Warrenton
and then the items will be deliv-
ered by our new courier system
within a week or two. We wanted
to maximize our collections and
share them while also bringing
some of our software costs down.
If we all share the same software
and vendor, we are no longer pay-
ing three times for the same thing.
Astoria and Warrenton both have
titles and items the Seaside Pub-
Oct. 22
OFF THE SHELVES
Teen Tuesday Video Scavenger
Hunt 3:30 p.m.
SEASIDE LIBRARY
CALENDAR
Oct. 23
Preschool
10 a.m.
October events at the Seaside
Library
Oct. 12
storytime
Pumpkins
Oct. 24
Type in Day Typewriting Event with
Raymond Montgomery 1 p.m.
Author event McQueen the biog-
raphy with Christopher Sandford
7 p.m.
Oct. 15
Oct. 26
Teen Tuesday Science in a Bottle
3:30 p.m.
Author event Kids in Orange with
Mindy Hardwick 1 p.m.
Oct. 16
Oct. 29
Preschool storytime Construction
Vehicles 10 a.m.
Teen Tuesday Monster Making Crafts
3:30 p.m.
Oct. 19
Oct. 30
Chess Club 1-3p.m.
Preschool storytime Halloween cos-
tumes encouraged
Explore the world of typewriters at the
Seaside Library
lic Library does not.
In fact, Warrenton still
loans out VHS tapes,
although they are start-
ing to replace them with
Seaside Signal
DVDs.
With this brand new
library system, you
The Friends of the
can now place a hold
Seaside Library host a
on materials in Astoria
Type-In event with Ray-
and Warrenton librar-
mond Montgomery. The
ies using your library
event will take place in
card and wait for the
the Community Room
books to be delivered
at 1 p.m. on Saturday,
to our library. If we
Oct. 12. The event is
don’t have a book, most
free.
likely Astoria or War-
Raymond Mont-
renton will. Staff are
gomery is a
happy to help you with
typewriter collector
this holds process if you
extraordinaire and
are not comfortable with
has a collection of over 150
placing holds yourself
classic non-electric machines. They come in all
online.
diff erent sizes and colors and are all in excellent working order.
We are not set up yet
Participants at this event will have the opportunity to type on classic ma-
for you to bring your
chines like the Remington Noiseless, the Oliver Standard, Alpina, and possibly
library card to those
the Underwood portable.
libraries for checkout.
However, this is in dis-
Seaside Library is located at 1131 Broadway; 503-738-6742.
cussion down the road
and perhaps in the next
six to 12 months if all the cit-
ies are in agreement you may see
erjack interlibrary loans librarian
The Seaside Library lends out
more information about using
Connie tries her hardest to get the
books, movies, audiobooks, play-
your library card in all three
books you want the speediest way aways, book bundle backpacks
libraries.
possible.
for kids, a telescope, a micro-
Seaside still offers interlibrary
We also share books with the
scope, Wi-Fi hotspots, kindles,
loans on book requests outside of
Cannon Beach Library, through
and so much more. Astoria lends
our library system and we can get
an annual agreement, but because
out a typewriter, a movie projec-
books from all over the United
they are a private library we do
tor screen, and cultural passes for
States for library card holders in
not currently borrow books from
their library card holders. Warren-
Seaside, just expect a little more
them.
ton offers VHS tapes and a great
of a wait time since these items
If you have any questions about pacifi c northwest collection. Come
check out all that your library
come to us through the mail. We
the new system, stop by and chat
are also on a library sharing sys-
with me, the Seaside Library direc- has to offer at the Seaside Public
Library located at 1131 Broadway
tem across Oregon and can get
tor, and I’ll be happy to explain
here in Seaside.
books that way as well. Our crack- how the new system works.
Cannon Beach Library hosts author,
former diplomat Stephen Holgate
Free or reduced price meal guidelines
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acted with the national tour
of an improvisational the-
ater group; worked as a
Author, native Orego- crew member of a barge on
nian, and former American the canals of France; and
Embassy diplomat Stephen lived in a tent while work-
Holgate will dis-
ing as a gardener in
cuss his mystery
Malibu.
and suspense nov-
“ Ta n g i e r, ”
els at 2 p.m. Sat-
his fi rst novel,
urday, Oct. 12 in
gained
critical
the Cannon Beach
acclaim, and made
Library.
the Bookreaders
Holgate wrote
10-best list in the
“Tangier”
and
indie mystery/sus-
Stephen
“ M a d a g a s c a r, ”
pense category.
Holgate
based on the char-
His
second
acters,
conver-
novel, “Madagas-
sations and experiences car,” received a starred
he encountered in both review from Publishers
places. His new novel, “Sri Weekly, a nomination from
Lanka,” will be released in Forward Reviews as best
2020.
book of the year in the fi c-
He served as a diplo- tion category, and another
mat for American embas- listing from Bookreaders
sies in France, Madagas- as among the 10 best mys-
car, Morocco, Mexico and tery/suspense novels of the
Sri Lanka.
year.
In addition to his foreign
In addition to his novels,
service posts, Holgate spent Holgate has published sev-
several years as a congres- eral short stories, produced
sional staffer; headed a a one-man play and written
committee staff of the Ore- freelance articles.
gon State Senate; managed
He lives with his wife,
two electoral campaigns; Felicia, in Portland.
Medicare 101 classes offered this fall
Seaside Signal
Medicare’s fall open
enrollment is Oct. 15 to Dec.
7. During this period Medi-
care benefi ciaries may join,
disenroll or change Part D
prescription drug coverage
or a Medicare Advantage
plan.
NorthWest
Senior
and Disability Services
and Senior Health Insur-
ance Benefi ts Assistance
are holding Medicare 101
classes to educate the com-
munity about Medicare
options. The times, dates
and locations are as follows:
Seaside classes are
being held from 11 a.m. to
1 p.m. Nov. 15 at the Bob
Chisholm Community Cen-
ter, 1225 Avenue A.
Astoria classes take
place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Oct. 18 and Nov. 20 at the
Columbia Center, Coho
Room (second fl oor), 2021
Marine Drive.
Classes at Colum-
bia Memorial Hospital are
being held from 10 a.m. to
noon Nov. 6 at the CMH-
OHSU Knight Cancer Col-
laborative, Activity Room
128, 1905 Exchange St.
To register, call NWSDS
at 503-861-4200. Regis-
tration is not required, and
walk-ins are welcome.
Opioid summit at convention center
Seaside Signal
Columbia Pacifi c CCO
will be hosting the 2019
Opioid and Substance Use
Summit Monday, Oct. 14, at
the Seaside Civic and Con-
vention Center.
Everyone touched by
substance use disorder in
Clatsop, Columbia and Til-
lamook counties are invited
to attend, including physi-
cians and other clinicians,
dental health profession-
als, EMS personnel, phar-
macists, behavioral health
practitioners, educators, law
enforcement, members of
the criminal justice system
and residents. Event details
and registration information
is available at colpachealth.
org/summit2019. A lim-
ited number of community
scholarships are available.
Email Maranda Varsik
at varsikm@careoregon.org
for more information.
of the adult household mem-
ber who signs the application
(or a statement that the per-
son has no Social Security
number).
Each year, the Oregon
Department of Education
announces income guidelines
that allow students to qual-
ify for free or reduced price
meals.
The guidelines are deter-
mined by U.S. Department of
Agriculture and are the same
for schools operating the
National School Lunch and
School Breakfast Programs.
Schools that do not offer
these programs may offer the
Special Milk Program, which
includes free milk to eligi-
ble students using the below
guidelines.
Under these federal pro-
grams, qualifying students
receive meals or milk with-
out charge or may pay a
reduced price of no more than
40 cents for lunch. However,
the Oregon Legislature pro-
vided funding to eliminate
the reduced price payment for
School Breakfast and Lunch
so for the 2019-20 school
year, breakfast and lunch will
be accessible at no charge
to students who qualify for
reduced price meals.
Formal appeals
Household income
guidelines
Participants may qualify
for free meals if the house-
hold income falls at or below
the limits on this chart:
Children in households
receiving
Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Pro-
gram (SNAP), Temporary
Assistance to Needy Fam-
ilies or Food Distribution
Program on Indian Reser-
vations are eligible for free
meals. Households receiving
SNAP or TANF benefi ts will
be directly certifi ed to receive
free meal or milk benefi ts by a
letter from their school advis-
ing them of their eligibility
for free meal or milk benefi ts.
Schools will accept the DHS
notice/certifi cation letter from
students as proof of eligibil-
ity for free meals or milk. No
other application or verifi ca-
tion of eligibility is required
for students directly certifi ed.
When known, the house-
hold will be notifi ed of any
child’s eligibility for free
meals if the individual child is
receiving educational support
through migrant education,
homeless or runaway educa-
tion, Head Start or is in fos-
ter care.
Households notifi ed of
their children’s eligibility
must contact the school if the
household chooses to decline
the free meal benefi ts.
Households not directly
certifi ed may complete a con-
fi dential application for free
or reduced price meals or
free milk. An offi cial at the
school will review the confi -
dential application and deter-
mine eligibility. Children
in eligible households may
receive meal benefi ts regard-
less of immigration status.
Applications may be submit-
ted anytime during the year.
Information provided on an
application may be verifi ed
at any time during the school
year. An application cannot
be approved unless it contains
the following information:
A SNAP or TANF case
number for each child or an
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Parents or guardians dis-
satisfi ed with the ruling of
the school offi cial who deter-
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a formal appeal may make a
written or oral request to the
school’s hearings offi cer (con-
tact the school for the name,
address, and phone number of
the offi cer) for a hearing on
the decision.
A secure web-based ver-
sion of the National School
Lunch/School Breakfast Pro-
grams Household Applica-
tion for Free or Reduced Price
Meals is available statewide
for households to apply for
meal benefi ts. All applications
are reviewed by the appro-
priate sponsor/school district
nutrition offi ce for approval.
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civil rights law and USDA
civil rights regulations and
policies, the USDA, its agen-
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ees, and institutions partic-
ipating in or administering
USDA programs are pro-
hibited from discriminating
based on race, color, national
origin, sex, disability, age, or
reprisal or retaliation for prior
civil rights activity in any pro-
gram or activity conducted or
funded by USDA.
Persons with disabili-
ties who require alternative
means of communication for
program information (e.g.
Braille, large print, audio-
tape, American Sign Lan-
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tact the agency where they
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may contact USDA through
the Federal Relay Service at
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