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Council discusses future of elementary school WILL CHAPPELL Gazette Editor
Cannon Beach city council held a special meeting on October 28, to discuss potential paths forward for the Cannon Beach Elementary School property. At the meeting, Councilors Gary Hayes and Erik Ostrander each presented a plan proposing to demolish the buildings on the site to turn it into a park, including an interpretative trail, weather-sheltered gathering areas, restrooms and parking. Councilors signaled their interest in moving forward with planning a park of some kind, though commenters at the meeting spoke in favor of saving the buildings, especially the gymnasium, to serve as an indoor recreation space for the community. The discussion about the site’s future follows two votes in the past year complicating the prospects of developing the property. In the first, after Cannon Beach Together, an advocacy group consisting of local business owners, sued the city over plans to spend $7.8 million on renovating the classroom and gymnasium buildings. To settle the case, the city agreed to hold an advisory vote on the project and in November 2024,
Cannon Beach city hall and police station coming together The new city hall’s exterior as walls go up.
WILL CHAPPELL Gazette Editor
Work on the Cannon Beach city hall and police station projects is progressing smoothly, with the police station still slightly ahead and both are still on schedule and budget. During a site tour of both projects in mid-Octo-
ber, the Gazette was given an opportunity to see the work and sit in on a project meeting. The new city hall, located on Gower Street in downtown Cannon Beach, was in the process of having walls erected, with trusses scheduled for delivery shortly and roof installation set to begin work shortly after and work on
designing and budgeting a solar panel system for the building was underway. Team members said that the first waterproofing barrier for the roof should be installed by November 20, and that the vapor barrier for the rest of the building was being installed currently. Sometime in late See CITH HALL, Page A3
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What’s happening at the Cannon Beach History Center & Museum this month PIERCE BAUGH V for the Gazette
The Cannon Beach Cottage Tour is the grand event for the Cannon Beach History Center & Museum, but just because its big event of the year has passed doesn’t mean the museum is moribund. “I think that’s what we strive to be, is like that community place for people to come in, even though you just want to say hi,” says Cannon Beach History Center & Museum Executive Director, Liz Scott. In service of that goal of welcoming the community, the museum has several activities planned this month to help residents stay busy as winter weather rolls in. November is Native American Heritage Month, and Brad Mix, who is of Red River Métis decent, will be speaking as part of The Gathering, Cannon Beach’s annual
celebration for Native American Heritage Month on November 16. Mix will be sharing his family history with Louis Riel and the Northwest Resistance of 1885, a crucial moment in Métis and Canadian history. Born in Canada in 1954, Mix has a lineage of Métis activists in his blood, like Josephine Sauve, Charles Sauve, and Arsinoe Nault. Mix says he feels a responsibility to share Métis stories. “I feel a responsibility to share what I’ve learned through personal struggle, ceremony, and family research, so these stories don’t disappear with me, like so many Métis stories already have,” he said. His conversation will delve into what it means to be of “mixedblood” identity and heritage. Zoe Swain, Cultural Outreach Coordinator at the Cannon Beach History Center & Museum, says, “It’s also
about mixed ancestry more broadly. The question of ‘how Indigenous are you?’ can be deeply painful for many people of mixed heritage. What’s so inspiring about the Métis Nation is how they celebrate being both European and Indigenous, embracing that dual identity as strength, not conflict.” This free event, “Reclaiming the Mixed Blood Story: A Conversation with Brad Mix (Red River Métis),” will take place on Sunday, November 16, 2025, at 11 a.m. It will be held at the Cannon Beach History Center & Museum, located at 1387 South Spruce Street in Cannon Beach, Oregon. It can be strange being a local in a tourist destination, almost like where you live isn’t optimized for you. Well, this month, Cannon See HISTORY CENTER, Page A2
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Bonamici focused on government shutdown WILL CHAPPELL Gazette Editor
At the recent opening of the Nehalem Bay Health District’s new clinic and pharmacy in Wheeler, United States Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici made time for a short press availability to discuss current issues. In response to a question about the federal government shutdown, Bonamici said that she had been in Washington D.C. the week prior, unlike her Republican colleagues, and was planning to return the next week. Bonamici said that she was interested in working to get the government open again, but not at the cost of jeopardizing constituents’ access to healthcare or increasing the costs of care. “I am interested in getting the government back open, but I’m not interested in supporting a budget that will result in increases in healthcare costs or people losing their access to healthcare,”
Bonamici said. On the subject of the Secure Rural Schools Act and resuming the split of federal timber revenues with counties, Bonamici said that while she was aware of the issue, she and congressional colleagues were focused on ending the government shutdown at the moment. The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s proposed updates to development standards in areas of special flood hazard for Oregon jurisdictions to continue participating in the National Flood Insurance Plan was an issue Bonamici said was on her radar. Bonamici said that the Oregon congressional delegation had sent a joint letter to the agency urging them to slow the process to better account for impacts to Oregon communities. “We just sent another communication saying you’ve got to See BONAMICI, Page A3
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