OUR 115th Year
City
approves
rules for
homeless
Residents air worries on
safety, health, location
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
The City Council has voted
to advance a new ordinance that
would map out places where vans
or motor homes could be permit-
ted to stay overnight.
The ordinance is designed to
protect the safety of all residents
— housed and homeless — and
regulate the use of public and pri-
vate property by establishing time,
place and manner guidelines for
homeless camping.
“While I do not hold myself
out as any constitutional lawyer,
it seems that this ordinance com-
ports with the two cases, one out
of Boise, Idaho, and the other out
of Grants Pass,” City Attorney
Dan Van Thiel said of court rul-
ings related to homeless camping.
“That is not to say that some inno-
See Ordinance, Page A6
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Ospreys return to Seaside
Seaside Signal
Look up.
That “cell tower” in the
northeast corner of Broadway
Park is home to two osprey,
Seaside residents who return
every summer to build their
nest and hatch their fledglings.
They returned this month,
and are available for all to see
at the Necanicum Watershed
Council’s osprey cam.
Ospreys lay one to four
eggs per brood and only have
one brood per season, accord-
ing to the Necanicum Water-
shed Council, so more eggs are
expected over the coming days.
Eggs incubate for 36 to 42 days
before they hatch, so the first
chick could hatch as early as
Memorial Day.
The return of the osprey to
Seaside comes after careful
efforts. The raptor, a cousin of
the eagle, nested on a light pole
on Broadway Park field. The
pole came down after artificial
turf was installed in 2011, dis-
placing the osprey.
The nest later was placed on
the trunk of a 60-foot hemlock
tree donated by a local timber
company. However, the trunk
rotted, and a windstorm broke
it in two places. In 2013 the
nest was relocated to its present
location.
That same year, a partner-
Necanicum Watershed Council
Osprey in their nest at Broadway Park.
ship between the Necanicum
Watershed Council and the city
brought a webcam to the nest,
enabling viewers worldwide to
study the raptors.
The pole snapped in hurri-
cane-force winds in 2016, spill-
ing the nest on top of the pole
and the camera. Once again
donors provided funds for
repairs.
Protected under the Migra-
tory Bird Treaty Act of 1918,
the osprey is not endangered
or threatened under the U.S.
Endangered Species Act,
according to the Department
of the Interior’s U.S. Geolog-
ical Survey. An average-sized
nest in Oregon weighs more
than 260 pounds and exceeds
40 inches in diameter.
As far as this year’s brood,
it’s too early to tell if they are
returnees to Seaside, accord-
ing to the watershed coun-
cil. Ospreys can live up to 25
years, according to the water-
shed council. Adults mate for
life and return to the same nest
each year. Once the female has
laid eggs she will be on the nest
for the next 28 or 29 days.
The 24-7 live feed is at
youtube.com; search Seaside
osprey cam.
Bike ban on
Ridge Path CYBORG Seagulls score at robotics competition
loses tread
By KATHERINE LACAZE
For Seaside Signal
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
In March, the City Council
voted 4 to 1 to consider a ban on
bicycles on the Ridge Path.
But last week, the council
took a step back, indicating that
rather than ban, the city could
add warning signs and pedestrian
crossings.
“Where I personally would
choose not to ride bikes on the
Ridge Path and have not actually
myself, I understand the need for
parents to have their kids be able
to ride safely to town,” Mayor
Paulina Cockrum said. “I also
understand that there can be some
safety hazards for walkers if the
bicycles don’t take care in passing.
I hope that we can find a solution
that will balance these key issues
— perhaps without an ordinance.”
The former Native American
trail runs between privately owned
residential properties within the
blocks between Cottage Ave-
nue and Neacoxie Creek, extend-
ing from F Street on the south to
10th Street on the north. The first
11 blocks were established by
See Ridge Path, Page A6
Seaside High School’s robot-
ics team wrapped up its season
in late March with a trip to the
Oregon State Fairgrounds for
a district competition against
other teams from the Pacific
Northwest.
While the CYBORG Seagulls
did not quite reach their goal
of attending the Pacific North-
west FIRST District Champion-
ship in early April, head coach
Toni Vandershule said she is
“extremely proud of all the
team’s hard work that they’ve
put in this season.”
“I have been a STEM mentor/
advisor for a number of years,
and this group of students has
been a real highlight in my career
here,” she said. “I know they will
all go out into this world and do
great things.”
This spring was the first time
the team traveled for competition
since their season was cut short
in 2020 because of the COVID-
19 pandemic.
Fortunately, they were able
to retain a handful of students
who could lead the 12-member
team as seniors this year, while
also bringing on some promising
Katherine Lacaze
Members of Seaside High School’s Robotics team, the CYBORG Seagulls, attended the district event at the
end of March, in hopes of achieving a spot at the district championship. Back row, from left, Toni Vandershule,
assistant coach Jack Walker, Jonathan Krizo, Lea Stich, Elliot Ousley and assistant coach Tracy Flaigg-Fairless.
Front row, Zach Fukuda, Jonathan Granillo and Oswaldo Acuna.
recruits. That’s been a challeng-
ing objective to meet during and
even after the pandemic.
“I think people are still get-
ting used to the fact that we are
in-person and can do things,”
Vandershule said.
However, both she and senior
Oswaldo Acuna, team captain,
spoke highly of the students who
they assembled this season.
“I love that we have a fantas-
tic team,” Acuna said.
Typically, students will take
on various roles depending on
their skillsets, from designing the
robot to engineering it and pro-
gramming its functions. The goal
is to give each participant some-
thing to do and optimize every-
one’s talents.
“There is this middle ground
where it fits, it works,” Acuna
said.
In early January each year,
teams across the Pacific North-
west District receive informa-
tion from FIRST Robotics about
the upcoming season, the rules
of the game, and what tasks
their robots must perform during
competition.
For example, this year, the
robots had to be able to put a ball
through a hoop at one of two lev-
els and then climb, or at least
hang from, an apparatus.
See Robotics, Page A6
Brothers Cannabis opens up shop at Seaside Outlet Mall
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
R.J. Marx
Bo Sea, owner of Brothers Cannabis Dispensary, in the Seaside store.
In the world of cannabis, more
than a decade of experience in the
business is a remarkable achieve-
ment. Peou “Bo” Sea (pronounced
“Say”) founded and opened the
Brothers Cannabis Club in April
2010.
The new Seaside Outlet Mall
location at 1111 N. Roosevelt
Drive, at the site of the former
CBD store, is the fourth statewide.
Brothers Cannabis serves three
Portland locations — in the Sell-
wood, Richmond and Buckman
areas — to both medical patients
and recreational consumers.
Sea, 42, grew up in southeast
Portland. He went to school in
Seattle before returning to Port-
land, working primarily in the
restaurant industry. When he saw
medical cannabis dispensaries
opening up, “we opened up too.”
It was a time when the fed-
eral government sent cease-and-
desist letters to dispensary own-
ers. Despite federal pressure,
with backing from state and local
authorities, he remained confident
in success.
“There were no real dispensa-
ries,” he said. “Washington had
medical like us — they didn’t have
stores. It was on the down-low.”
There was little advertising or
promotion, “just a community of
medical patients,” he said.
The market expanded with the
legalization of recreational canna-
bis sales six years later.
“The advantage we had was we
started around 2010 and it didn’t
get legal till 2016,” he said. “I had
about five or six years of just hav-
ing my name there. I wasn’t mak-
ing money at all — just my name
being there for five, six years. Once
we opened, I had a long line.”
Sea is no stranger to Seaside;
he has been coming here for vaca-
tions since he was a kid. He said he
hopes to find a house here for him-
self and his family.
While he doesn’t know the
owners of the other local dispensa-
ries, he said people in the business
help each other out.
“We’re not really cutthroat,”
he said. “With almost any owner
that I meet, I can almost connect
with them right away. We already
almost got this kind of vibe. We’re
See Brothers, Page A6