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silent fi reworks or a drone
display.
“It would help the people
of Seaside, who are suscep-
tible to that kind of noise, to
have a more celebratory July
Fourth,” she said.
Stephen Davis asked
the city to enact a “no fi re-
works of any kind” policy,
such as Cannon Beach has
done. “There are already
local and state regulations in
place, which are not being
responded to,” the resi-
dent said in a letter to city
councilors.
This was the second year
that the coronavirus pan-
demic prompted Seaside to
cancel its fi reworks show,
which offi cials have said
brings an estimated $20 mil-
lion economic impact. The
city’s visitors bureau has reg-
ularly provided $20,000 to
$25,000 in tourism grant dol-
lars to fund the fi reworks.
The remaining cost — esti-
mated at $50,000 — is pro-
vided by donors.
At last week’s City Coun-
cil meeting, Police Chief
Dave Ham said the police
department had 19 fi re-
works-related calls on Inde-
pendence Day, although he
recognized there were many
more fi reworks illegally
discharged.
The police department
received 88 total calls and
26 fi reworks complaints over
the holiday weekend, he said,
issuing citations and seiz-
ing fi reworks from several
groups.
Enforcement boils down
to a shortage of offi cers
“chasing fi reworks,” Ham
Lou Solitske
Along the Prom on July Fourth.
said. “I’m chasing so many
other calls for service that are
priority over fi reworks that
I don’t have enough people.
To go out and enforce a kid
with a sparkler when I’ve got
somebody blowing off rock-
ets that are booming bigger
than our sanctioned show —
I’d have a hard time writing
that ticket.”
“If we saw them, we took
them,” Fire Chief Joey Dan-
iels said. “It’s not easy —
we can take them from one
group and by the time they
move, there’s another group
there.”
Banning fi reworks on
the beach could push peo-
ple elsewhere, Daniels said.
“Where are they going to
go? I don’t want to encour-
age people to try to hide from
us in the woods or behind
people’s houses and lighting
them on the porch or in their
backyards.”
Earlier this month, resi-
dents in Gearhart also urged
their city to ban fi reworks,
citing noise, threats to wild-
life and pets and fi re danger.
In Cannon Beach, which
banned all fi reworks last
September, fi nes can run to
$5,000. Seaside’s fi nes are
about $700, Ham said.
Seaside and Cannon
Beach are diff erent com-
munities and bring diff erent
issues, the police chief said.
“It’s taken a few years for
them to really get it going to
where they’re citing every-
body that they come across
and spreading that word that
it’s not welcome here. Every-
thing’s outlawed.”
Banning fi reworks on the
beach also relies on the Ore-
gon Parks and Recreation
Department and the state
fi re marshal’s offi ce, Daniels
said.
Fireworks are not allowed
at any time in national parks
and forests, on Bureau of
Land Management lands, on
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser-
vice properties, on all Ore-
gon Department of Forestry
protected lands, on state
beaches, or in state parks and
campgrounds.
According to the state
Offi ce of Emergency Man-
agement, while the state fi re
marshal does not have the
authority to ban fi reworks,
the agency’s “Keep it legal.
Keep it safe” campaign sup-
ports the use and safety of
legal fi reworks — ones that
don’t fl y or explode.
Legal fi reworks are sold
in Seaside once a year, before
the July Fourth holiday.
Those sales are giving peo-
ple “a double message,” City
Councilor Tita Montero said.
Seeing fi reworks for sale,
visitors may assume they are
legal on the beach.
The idea of drones and
lasers may be very expen-
sive as an upfront cost, but
over time it is less expensive
than $40,000 a year on fi re-
works, Montero said. “Also
it’s much more ecological,
it’s an opportunity for us to
have multiple occasions of
light shows in our sky,” she
said.
She asked city councilors
to form a committee to look
into a ban on fi reworks and
fi reworks sales.
A laser or drone display
could give Seaside an oppor-
tunity “to do the right thing
for the right reasons,” Mon-
tero said.
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the fi nal report.
The park district pur-
chased the former Broadway
Middle School for $2.15 mil-
lion in January. The school,
along with Gearhart Ele-
mentary and Seaside High
School, was among Seaside
School District properties
relocated to the new Spruce
Drive location outside of the
tsunami inundation zone.
Since the purchase, the
park district has hosted the
Pacifi c Basketball League,
child care programs and
leased a portion of the space
to the Northwest Regional
Education Service District,
which moves in in early
August.
“In a design sense, the
fl exibility component is
more critical than trying to
defi ne what could happen in
the space,” Cannon Beach
Mayor Sam Steidel said.
Although Cannon Beach
residents are not members
of the park district, many
use the Sunset Pool, and he
envisioned future partner-
R.J. Marx
Suzy Fisher Reeder and Evan Eleff of Sports Facilities Advisory leads a session with community
leaders at the Sunset Recreation Center. Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District Executive
Director Skyler Archibald at right.
ship opportunities.
He asked the planners to
“leave themselves as open
as possible” to potential
building uses using a phased
approach to determining
community needs.
In talking to community
stakeholders, Monica Steele,
the assistant Clatsop County
manager, said “the topic that
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