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Peace tree coming to Cartwright Park
Hideko Tamura-Snider (center) brought seeds to Oregon that were collected from trees that
survived the atom bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. A bombing survivor herself, she got Oregon
Community Trees board member Mike Oxendine (left) to germinate the seeds.
Both Seaside and Tilla-
mook are planting the long-
lived ginkgo trees. Tilla-
mook’s tree is slated for
Carnahan Park. According
to Kristin Ramstad, manager
of the Oregon Department
of Forestry’s Urban and
Community Forestry Assis-
tance Program, between
now and next summer, the
36 peace trees — 29 gink-
gos and seven Asian per-
simmons — will be planted
across 16 Oregon counties.
Most of the seedlings are
going to parks, arboretums
and schools across the state.
The greatest number will be
planted in April as part of
Arbor Week.
Aquarium fi nds: ‘A few unique creatures’
Seaside Signal
Tiff any Boothe/Seaside Aquarium
Leptosynapta clarki, skin-
breathing sea cucumbers.
Look what the tide’s
pulled in.
Tiffany Boothe of the
Seaside Aquarium reports a
few unique creatures com-
ing onto the beach, likely
due to the high tides and
heavy surf.
“The heavy surf dis-
lodges animals which bur-
row into the sand like the
skin-breathing sea cucum-
bers and the sea but-
terflies,” Boothe said
Tuesday.
The skin-breathing sea
cucumber buries itself
in the sand and when the
surf gets “really big,” gets
dredged up and wind up on
the beach. Unlike other sea
cucumbers, skin-breathing
sea cucumbers lack respira-
tory structures and absorb
oxygen through their skin.
Heteropods or carinaria
japonica are a type of sea
snail found in the open
ocean. Like jellyfi sh, the
ocean’s surface currents
can bring these animals
ashore.
Heteropods have a
greatly reduced shell and a
small swimming fi n which
the animal uses to propel
itself forward. A pair of
well-developed eyes aid
them in capturing salps and
copepods for nutrition.
Other aquatic life seen
on Seaside beaches include
“a lot of moon jelly fi sh
and stinging nettle jelly
fi sh,” Boothe added.
Upgrades: Sound, video upgrades debut at City Hall
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With digital recordings
now available, the next step
will be to post them to the
website, he added.
The improvements come
as the City Hall building cel-
ebrates its 30th anniversary.
The current building
took over from the original
City Hall, built in 1914 at
the corner of Broadway and
North Roosevelt — today’s
home of Seaside Brewing
Co.
For some city offi cials, a
little practice may be neces-
sary to get used to the new
audiovisual enhancements,
city manager Mark Winstan-
ley suggested at meeting’s
end.
“I’m going to encour-
age all the councilors that
you do need to make some
Dr. Russell M. Lende
Seaside
Nov. 13, 1937 – Oct. 20, 2019
Seaside Signal
To mark the 75th anni-
versary of the close of World
War II, Seaside will join 25
other communities across
Oregon by planting special
peace trees distributed by
the Oregon Department of
Forestry in partnership with
the nonprofi t groups Oregon
Community Trees and the
Medford-based One Sunny
Day Initiative.
Seaside’s tree is slated for
Cartwright Park on South
Franklin, Public Works
Director Dale McDowell
said.
A small ceremony, led by
members of the city’s tree
board, who requested the
tree, will mark the planting.
The seedling ginkgo
and Asian persimmon trees
were grown from seed col-
lected from trees that sur-
vived the atomic bombing
of Hiroshima and brought
to Oregon by Medford resi-
dent Hideko Tamura-Snider.
She survived the bombing,
which occurred 75 years ago
on Aug. 6, 1945.
OBITUARIES
SOUND SYSTEM
GETS HIGH
PRAISE
CEDR’s executive director
Kevin Leahy was one of
the fi rst to use the city‘s
new audiovisual system.
City councilors were duly
proud.
“Have you ever presented
in a better place?” City
Councilor Randy Frank
asked.
“Never, never!” Leahy
responded with a laugh.
“This is the best.”
improvements using your
microphones,” Winstanley
said. Please make sure you
practice a little bit with the
microphones.”
R.J. Marx
Kevin Leahy, right, of Clatsop Economic Development
Resources, is among the fi rst to use Seaside’s new audio-
visual equipment.
On Oct. 20, 2019, Dr.
Russell M. “Russ” Lende
passed away, after living
and enjoying a full and
wonderful life.
Born to Melvin Olaf
Lende and Myrtle Eliza-
beth Lende in
Finlayson, Min-
nesota, on Nov.
13, 1937, Russ
passed away a
few weeks shy of
his 82nd birthday.
After living
several years on
the farm in Min-
nesota, the fam-
ily moved west,
spending several years in
Salt Lake City, Utah, before
settling in West Linn, Ore-
gon, where he graduated
from high school in 1955.
During his youth and high
school years he enjoyed
music, and played several
instruments, including the
clarinet, baritone sax and
accordion.
He also spent a lot of
time riding his English
Raleigh and Schwinn bicy-
cles, for pleasure and deliv-
ering newspapers, while
riding up and down the hills
in West Linn. During this
time Russ also discovered
and nurtured his lifelong
love of cars!
After high school, he
attended Pacifi c University
in Forest Grove, Oregon,
graduating in 1960 with a
doctor of optometry degree.
While attending col-
lege he met his loving wife,
Patricia, and they were wed
on Dec. 5, 1959. After grad-
uating, Russ and Pat moved
to Seaside, Oregon, where
they have resided ever
since. In 1960, he started
his optometry practice,
where he practiced for 43
years, most of which were
side by side with Pat, before
retiring in 2003.
Russ had a strong com-
mitment to community and
devoted countless hours
serving the local commu-
nity. He served 11 years
on the Seaside School Dis-
trict 10 Board, serving as
chairman in 1972. He was a
longstanding proud Rotar-
ian, with decades of perfect
attendance, while receiving
two Paul Harris Fellowship
awards.
Russ was also a found-
ing member of the Sea-
side Parks and Recreation
Board, was involved in
forming the Hamlet Route
fi re department, served as a
captain in the Seaside Police
Reserves in the 1960s, and
was also named Optome-
trist of the Year! Russ truly
enjoyed serving the com-
munity, where he dedicated
over 40 years to public ser-
vice. He served on numer-
ous clubs and organiza-
tions in various capacities,
including treasurer, ser-
geant at arms and chairman.
When he was not devot-
ing time to the commu-
nity or practicing optom-
etry, you could fi nd Russ
in his garage working on,
and
restoring
cars. Over the
years he restored
over a dozen
cars, including
Concourse level
award-winning
Lincolns, several
Pontiac GTOs
and Trans AMs
and a 1940s-
era
Cadillac
convertible.
And, if you knew Russ,
you also knew he liked his
muscle cars! He even spent
several years drag racing
his 1965 GTO in Wood-
burn — he liked the power,
speed and competitive
nature of the racing. He was
a long-standing member
of the “Goat Herd” GTO
club, as well as the Lincoln
Continental Owners Club,
where he served on the
board, and also as the edi-
tor for the periodic bulletin.
Russ
enjoyed
and
attended as often as possi-
ble the sporting events of
his sons and grandchildren.
You would often hear him
yelling and cheering from
the bleachers, supporting
his family regardless of
what season it was.
Russ lived a full life; he
was selfl ess and generous
with his time and devotion
to the community, always
welcomed people with a
warm smile and fi rm hand-
shake, and had a great sense
of humor.
Russ is survived by his
wife, Patricia; two sons,
Russell M. Lende Jr. and
John A. Lende; four grand-
children, Russ M. Lende III,
Jeremy Lende, Dr. Michelle
Lende and Alex Lende;
and one great-grandchild,
Bola Lende. He is also
survived by his brother,
Merton Lende, numerous
nephews and nieces, and
several cousins who reside
in Minnesota.
Russ was laid to rest with
a graveside service at Ever-
green Cemetery on Oct. 24,
2019, following an intimate
and loving family viewing.
He is greatly missed, and
from his family: We love
you, and rest in peace. We
will see you soon.
The family would like
to invite family and friends
to attend a celebration of
life, to be held at the Bob
Chisholm Community Cen-
ter at 1225 Avenue A in Sea-
side, Oregon, on Dec. 14,
2019, from 3 to to 5 p.m.
Donations are requested
to be made to the Seaside
Rotary Club, or the Alzhei-
mer’s Association.
OBITUARY POLICY
Police: A look back at Seaside’s colorful past
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— interviewed a man named
William Nelson, who pro-
vided information on former
bootleggers in the county
who were active during the
Prohibition Era, Holt said.
Nelson told Fosmark of
receiving a phone call when
a certain A. Miller passed
away.
“Mr. Nelson was called
to go to the home of Mr.
Miller before the caretaker
got there and found all the
alcohol under and behind his
bed,” Holt said. He provided
a facetious explanation that
maybe Miller was saving it
as “evidence,” adding, “We
don’t do that anymore – take
[evidence] home.”
Callahan’s Place
Among the other amus-
ing anecdotes shared by
Holt during the presenta-
tion is one involving a man
named B.J. Callahan, who
ran a saloon known for its
seedy nightlife.
“He wasn’t well-liked,
but his bar was very well-at-
tended,” Holt said.
He shared a statement
made in 1906 by the Seaside
Signal editor, who claimed,
“Five saloons are too many
for a town of this size. And
the council would please the
people and benefi t the town
by cutting one or two of
them out. One of them, Cal-
lahan’s place, ought to be
closed up.”
“The editor of the Signal
and Mr. Callahan obviously
had strong opinion about
each other,” Holt said.
This was later confi rmed
in 1907 when Callahan was
arrested and charged with
assault and battery upon
the editor of the Signal.
He pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to pay a fi ne of
$31.65.
“It goes on — they never
quite saw eye to eye,” Holt
said.
In 1915, Callahan was
arrested by a night marshal
for staying open past 1 a.m.
He was acquitted, however,
by Seaside Judge J.L. Berry,
who found the night mar-
shal didn’t “secure suffi cient
evidence and failed to fi le
his return on the warrant of
arrest until six days after the
trial.”
The Seaside riots
Holt’s presentation also
touched on the Seaside riots
that occurred in the 1960s,
and which were witnessed
by some of the audience
members. Studies on what
caused the riots to spiral
out of control have identi-
fi ed, among others, the state
of the local economy, the
sociopolitical climate, and
the limitations of the Sea-
side police department and
city government at the time.
According
to
Stew
Dodge, a bystander, who
was interviewed by Port-
lander David Craig, the riots
in 1962 were sparked by
a disagreement between a
few young adults who were
vacationing at the beach for
spring break and some local
lifeguards. In Dodge’s ren-
dition, the lifeguards beat up
the visitors “and took their
girls,” Holt said. The fol-
lowing day, the group went
looking for the lifeguards
and things got “out of hand
in short order,” he added.
Rioters not only tipped
over a two-and-a-half-story
lifeguard tower on the beach
but dragged it to the Turn-
around and down Broadway
attached to a vehicle. They
also smashed store windows
and caused other property
damage. Holt’s father, who
joined the department as a
reserve offi cer in 1962, helped
with crowd control and de-es-
calating the ruckus, which
also required a response from
the state police.
For the next several
years, “we stayed beefed
up with extra personnel” for
spring break in preparation
of additional brawls, Holt
said. As with other aspects
of Seaside’s history, how-
ever, Holt acknowledged
there are differing accounts
of how the riots went down
and what started them in the
fi rst place.
“I’m not here to set the
record straight,” he said,
adding his focus was sharing
the various accounts and sto-
ries he has discovered over
the years.
History and Hops is a
series of local history discus-
sion hosted by the museum
on the last Thursday of each
month from September to
May. The next lecture will
take place Dec. 26 at the
brewery.
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