OUR 114th Year
October 29, 2021
SEASIDESIGNAL.COM
Couple
appeal
to city
for water
$1.00
FALL
FUN FEST
Dilemma over drinking water
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
An untreated water main runs down
their driveway in the middle of the prop-
erty off of U.S. Highway 26. To the east,
the water system’s headwaters are only a
mile and a half away. The treated water
connection is 1,700 feet to the west. But
Peggy and Brian Pogue can’t get drinking
water for their home for up to 10 years,
the city says, when the system receives
upgrades.
“We’re stuck, really,” Brian Pogue
told the Seaside City Council this month.
“We don’t have a water source. Right
now, it’s absolutely making us miserable.
Our request is that you consider letting us
tap your untreated line since we already
have a treatment system in place that we
used for our well water. Your line already
crosses our property and we believe it
would be an easy job to tap the line and
install a meter.
About three months ago, the Pogues’
well, which had been in operation 40
years, went dry or was damaged by
settling.
Nearby Mail Creek is on a lower bank
with a steep grade, with limited water this
time of year, they said. The state is con-
sidering giving the Pogues limited water
rights to the creek, but then only for two
years.
See Water, Page A3
Photos by Katherine Lacaze
High school,
middle school
students return
to new normal
TOP: Eighth-graders Mya Feeney and Liliana Miller, with Seaside Middle School’s Builders Club, volunteered to run games at
Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District’s Fall Fun Fest on Oct. 23. ABOVE: Children in costumes play carnival-style games at
the Fall Fun Fest.
Cupcake walk, carnival games
at the Sunset Recreation Center
By KATHERINE LACAZE
For Seaside Signal
By KATHERINE LACAZE
For Seaside Signal
With clubs, sports and activities
reemerging, Seaside School District
administrators are experiencing a slow
return to a sense of normalcy as the
school year progresses.
“Every day, kind of, we take a step for-
ward,” Jeff Roberts, principal at Seaside
middle and high schools, said.
Over the past few weeks, the schools
have seen visitors, done hands-on sci-
ence experiments in class, facilitated
vision screenings and celebrated the Stu-
dent of the Month in an in-person capac-
ity. A group of high school students also
will be attending an event being put on by
the Astoria Writer’s Guild at the Liberty
Theatre in November, featuring Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown.
T
here were pumpkins, candy and
costumes galore during the Fall
Fun Fest at the Sunset Recre-
ation Center on Oct. 23 — the first
large community event hosted at the
facility since it was acquired by Sunset
Empire Park and Recreation District.
Families spent the afternoon dec-
orating pumpkins, playing carni-
val-style games and participating in
the traditional cupcake walk, with a
Halloween theme woven in to cele-
brate the season.
“It was really good weekend,” said
Melissa Ousley, the district’s manager
of marketing and special events.
Families decorate pumpkins during Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District’s
Fall Fun Fest on Oct. 23.
See Fall Fun Fest, Page A6
See Schools, Page A3
HALLOWEEN HAPPENIN’S
A stylish boutique
draws inspiration from
Hollywood glamour days
Giant pumpkin drop
to make a splash at
the Turnaround
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
Seaside’s pumpkin drop
went viral last year.
The iconic drop loads a
By KATHERINE LACAZE
For Seaside Signal
1,000-pound-plus
pump-
kin and is lifted by a crane.
Last year’s event took place
at the Seaside Civic and
Convention Center park-
ing lot downtown, drawing
a crowd of hundreds as the
big pumpkin splattered in all
directions.
Katherine Lacaze
See Pumpkin drop, Page A6
Tom Galiardo opened Tommyg, a contemporary casual
boutique in Seaside’s downtown Gilbert District, in May.
Tommyg, in downtown
Seaside, is as much of an
artistic achievement as it is
an upscale boutique store.
Each feature and deco-
ration — from the “Break-
fast at Tiffany’s” and “Ara-
besque” movie posters to
stylized fashion illustra-
tions and bird figurines
from Rio de Janeiro —
reveals a piece of owner
Tom Galiardo’s long his-
tory in fashion, as well as
the experiences and ideas
that influenced his taste
and professional philoso-
phy surrounding contem-
porary casual clothing and
accessories.
“You’re actually seeing
parts of my life in here,”
Galiardo said. “It’s not just
random.”
See Boutique, Page A5