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Spring breakers head to Cannon Beach Ashley Tike

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ith kids in Oregon off from school, and COVID restrictions lifting, families planned hit the road to visit the Oregon coast to spend this year’s spring break vacation. A young couple that recently moved Portland, visited Cannon Beach for the first time said, “It’s been nice to get outside and breath some ocean air, it’s crazy this is only an hour and a half from our new home.” They said hadn’t taken a real vacation since the COVID pandemic hit and they were happy to be tourists again visiting the local shops and trying new restaurants, “We got some fish and chips from the Wayfarer Restaurant, and walked around exploring the town.” The young couple said

they stayed at the beachside Hallmark Resort Hotel and Spa in Cannon Beach. Genelle Mosely, the guest services manager of the hotel said that they weren’t as busy as anyone would have expected this spring break. “Honestly, we’ve been extremely busy throughout this entire pandemic but this week was pretty slow,” she said “I think people have been coming to the coast as a getaway from crowded city life during COVID times and this week we were slightly down in numbers.” Mosely added that she thinks that with COVID restrictions being lifted and case numbers going down, people seem more apt to spread their wings and jump on a plane for spring break this year. Comments: headlightreporter@countrymedia.net

Tillamook Rock Lighthouse. Gazette file photo

Tillamook Rock Lighthouse for sale, listed at $6.5 million

the beach and Haystack Rock are a popular draws for Spring Breakers. Photo courtesy of Erin McMillen Gustafson

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ilot House Distilling is spreading its roots and is headed for the beach. The distillery, which has been serving up spirits in its Astoria tasting room, has plans to launch a third tasting room in Cannon Beach in April Larry Cary, co-founder of Pilot House, is looking forward to the expansion and the chance to reach a wider audience on the Oregon coast. “Cannon Beach has always been on my list of places to open a tasting room,” says Larry. “We have spent a lot of time in Cannon beach, and it is a beautiful place. I am glad to have this opportunity to finally showcase “The Spirits of the Coast” in a great coastal location.” Larry and his wife Christina began Pilot House Distilling in 2013. Larry always had an interest in spirits and decided to venture into the world of distilling in 2011. Just two years later, the Carys opened their distillery and tasting room in downtown Astoria. Pilot House offers a wide range of craft spirits including vodkas, gins,

whiskies, agave spirits, and even absinthe. Their Astoria tasting room gives locals and visitors the chance to try favorites like their Painted Lady Gin, Chai Tea Vodka, and A-O Come Hell or High Water, a unique ocean-aged whisky aged on local fishing boats. Pilot House also offers a variety of canned cocktails. In just a couple of short weeks, the same award-winning spirits will be available in Cannon Beach located at 224 N. Hemlock. Until then, guests can visit the Astoria tasting room (at 1270 Duane St.) Monday-Saturday 12 pm-6 p.m. and Sunday Noon-4 p.m. or Portland (at 4214 N. Mississippi) daily from 2 pm – 9 pm. According to Chirstina, who also acts as the distillery’s operations and marketing manager, they plan on hiring three new employees to work in the Cannon Beach location. About Pilot House Distilling Pilot House has recently expanded into Idaho and Nevada, with plans for other states soon. They also offer online shipping to some states. Visit the website for more information.

ODFW prohibits taking of sea stars Hilary Dorsey

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he Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) Commission voted Friday, March 18, to change shellfish regulations to prohibit harvest of sea stars and increase the daily bag limit for non-native European green crabs to 35. These changes are now in effect. During the meeting, ODFW’s shellfish program leader Stephen Rumrill presented a package of four proposed changes. Proposed changes to shellfish rules include prohibiting the taking of sea stars, increase the daily catch limit of European green crab, require electronic fish tickets for bay clam fisheries, and establish a landing limit for gaper clam for the dive fishery in Yaquina Bay. “Oregon’s shellfish fisheries are diverse,” Rumrill said. “First with regard to the recreational fisheries, we allow harvest of a diverse group of about 30 different species.” These groups include Dungeness crab, Red Rock crab, clams and more. Sea stars and European green crab are also included in recreational fisheries. Rumrill said multiple species of sea stars have experienced mass mortality along the west coast since 2013 due to Sea Star Wasting Disease. This is coincident with changing ocean conditions. “Some species of sea stars, like the ochre star, have recovered somewhat,” Rumrill said. “Other species of sea stars have not recovered at all.”

There has been a 90 percent coastwide decline of sunflower sea stars after Sea Star Wasting Disease. “NOAA Fisheries is currently considering a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity to place them on an Endangered Species List, pending a decision in 2022,” Rumrill said. Existing ODFW rules allowed the take of 10 sea stars per person per day, Rumrill added. “This is a prudent management action at this time to demonstrate the commitment to conservation,” Rumrill said of the action. European green crabs are a recent aggressive invasive species with the potential to disrupt

communities of native shellfish. The mid-sized shore crab inhabits the mid-region of estuaries. They can be green, brown, yellow, red or blue in color but are easily identified by three prominent bumps between their eyes and five spines along the side of their carapace. “[They were] first observed in Coos Bay in 1997,” Rumrill said. Additional regulations for commercial bay clam fisheries were also approved at the meeting, including the requirement for electronic, rather than paper, fish tickets and designation of a harvest area and annual landing cap for the commercial gaper clam dive fishery in Yaquina Bay.

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he Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, dubbed ‘Terrible Tilly’ by those who worked there off the northwest coast of Oregon, sits a mile from Tillamook Head between Seaside and Cannon Beach is for sale for $6.5 million. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports investors had paid $50,000 in 1980 to buy the deteriorating lighthouse, Oregon’s only offshore light station. The island’s isolation, impossible boat landings and extreme weather as well as the lighthouse crews’ dislike of their months-long stays where they were cold, wet and constantly reminded of their dangerous job, earned the tower the nickname “Terrible Tilly.” The 141-year-old Tillamook Rock Lighthouse is owned by Mimi Morissette. According to OPB reports, she once hoped to turn the lighthouse into a large columbarium, a place to store people’s cremated remains. There was room, she said, for up to 300,000 urns. But Morissette’s plan never took off like she hoped. Forty-two years later, the ashes of only 31 people, including Morissette’s parents, have been laid to rest at the lighthouse. Morissette, who is 77, has concluded it is time for someone else to take over. A little history An intriguing and powerful testament of the will and determination of the human spirit, the story of Tillamook Rock Lighthouse began in 1878 when Congress appropriated $50,000 for a lighthouse to mark this section of the Oregon Coast. Originally, it was hoped that a lighthouse could be built at Tillamook Head, a 1,000-foot-high headland twenty miles south of the Columbia River, however, the top of the headland was often shrouded in fog, and as its sheer face offered no acceptable alternative, Tillamook Rock was considered instead. In June 1879, H.S. Wheeler boated out to the rock to determine if a lighthouse would be feasible there. Heavy seas initially made landing impossible, but after several attempts, Wheeler was able to clamber up the rock. After a careful inspection, he decided the rock could be conquered. The Annual Report of the Lighthouse Board carried the following forecast for the project: “Though the execution of the work will be a task of labor and difficulty, accompanied by great expense, yet the benefit which the commerce seeking the mouth of the Columbia River will derive from a light and fog-signal located there, will warrant all the labor and expense involved.”

The decommissioned Tillamook Rock Lighthouse was photographed before it became a columbarium. Gazette file photo

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City tables easement action pending litigation Staff The Cannon Beach City Council held a public hearing to discuss a driveway access easement for Stanley and Rebecca Roberts, a couple who since last year have been trying to construct their dream home overlooking Haystack Rock on Hemlock Street. The original application the Roberts submitted asked the city for permission to build a 2,712 square-foot

oceanfront home on a very steep hillside, and on some of the only available oceanfront land in that part of the city. That request was denied because it did not meet the city’s setback standard for oceanfront construction, which says it would significantly reduce the possible footprint of any building the property. The Roberts took their case to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals and the Oregon Court of Appeals

but failed at those routes and is now asking the Oregon Supreme Court to hear the case. Now the Roberts have applied for a second building permit for a smaller home that would meet the City’s oceanfront setback ordinances. In Last week’s public hearing, the Roberts asked the council for a driveway access easement, required before building permits are granted, but the council

tabled the decision pending the outcome of the court challenges. The city and the Roberts have an open lawsuit in Clatsop Circuit Court filed by Haystack Rock LLC, who argued that the city may not grant the proposed private easement and that the right of way cannot be used for anything other than a public access. Haystack Rock LLC owns property that included a model of a historic cabin

once owned by former Oregon Gov. Oswald West. South of Roberts’ lot is an undeveloped city-owned lot named Inspiration Point bought by the city about 20-years ago to preserve green space along the hilly area. The Roberts’ easement states that the City of Cannon Beach would still allow pedestrian access to and along the city’s lots from the same location. Haystack LLC has re-

tained attorney William Rasmussen. Rasmussen said that the suit was filed to help reduce the city’s risk of a future lawsuits from the Roberts. The lawyer asked the city to table its decision to grant the easement until the lawsuit and traffic safety assessment have been completed. The Roberts legal team has said that thy do not believe the lawsuit has merit and suggested that the city approve the easement after the design is approved by the city.

Clatsop County COVID Weekly Update: County currently at ‘Low’ level Clatsop County Public Health is hosting a series of no-cost, walk-in vaccination events at locations around the county: 1:30-3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 30, – Cannon Beach Chamber, 207 N. Spruce St. The events will offer 1st, 2nd and booster doses of Moderna and Pfizer vaccines to eligible individuals ages 5 and up. No appointments are necessary. Vaccinations for children ages 6 months to 4 years are expected to be available in late Spring 2022. Age of consent under Oregon law, minors age 15 and up may consent to medical treatment, including vaccinations. The federal government is providing additional free athome COVID tests to every American household. Each order contains two kits, four tests total. Order online at covidtests.gov or call 1-800-

232-0233 OHA is also making athome tests available directly to community-based organizations, nonprofit entities and faith-based organizations through a separate disbursement program. The Disability Information and Access Line (DIAL), available at 1-888677-1199, has launched an initiative to support disabled individuals who need assistance using at-home tests or support in finding alternatives to at-home testing Clatsop County has achieved a vaccination rate of more than 80% for its 18-and-older population. But while more than 11,000 Clatsop County residents have received an extra dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the Oregon Health Authority, many people who completed their initial vaccination still have not received

a booster. A booster shot provides additional protection even to people who have contracted COVID-19 after their initial vaccination. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has introduced a new tool to help individuals and communities decide what preventative steps to take based on the latest local data on new infections and hospitalizations. The Community Level metric does NOT carry mandatory restrictions on businesses, gatherings or other activities. The current Clatsop County Level according to this tool is : LOW March 19th – March 25th the total new confirmed cases were 15 bringing the testing positivity rate is 1.6%. Local COVID-related hospitalizations was 2, one person was vaccinated and the other was not vaccinated.

Community grant applications for 2022-23 are open, due April 19 The Parks & Community Services Committee of the City of Cannon Beach would like to invite area nonprofit organizations to apply for funding through the 20222023 Community Grants program. Nonprofit groups providing programs/projects in arts,

educational, community, recreational, environmental, or social services in Cannon Beach are invited to apply for funding through this annual program. Organizations may apply for project-specific funds or operational funding. The current application packet is available for down-

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The Cannon Beach Red Cross Blood Drive takes place Tuesday, March 15th, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Chamber of Commerce Main Hall, 207 N. Spruce St. in Cannon Beach. To schedule your appointment or for more information, please visit www.redcrossblood.org; Sponsor Code: CannonBeach The Community Emergency Response Team seeks volunteers and will hold free trainings on: April 22nd,

May 6th, 13th & 14th. For more information and to sign up email: mannix@ ci.cannon-beach.or.us or call 503-436-2811. Haystack Rock Awareness Program’s 37th season focus focus is ‘The Year of the Black Oystercatcher’ Save the dates: 8:00 a.m.11:00a.m. Saturday April 30, and 8a.m.-noon Sunday May 1, welcome the Puffins to their summer home. 8 a.m. April 19th is the Nudibranch Safari.

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At the library

The return of National Interlibrary Loan Services T

he Return of National Interlibrary Loan Services Through a generous agreement with the Seaside Public Library, the Cannon Beach Library will again offer patrons the interlibrary loan services throughout the United States as well as continuing access to materials through Seaside, Astoria and Warrenton Libraries. ILL services are limited to no more than two requests per month for items not available in the Cannon Beach Library collection. Items requested from Seaside, Astoria or Warrenton libraries are likely to arrive within a few days. Those requested from libraries participating in the national consortium may require several weeks to arrive. Requested items will arrive on Wednesdays, and patrons will be notified of their arrival. To ensure that interlibrary loan services continue, the library asks that patrons return items promptly and make requests for extensions or renewals at least three days in advance of the due date. Although the library’s board of directors discontinued fines on books returned past the due date, patrons still must return books or renew them by the due date. Library materials still are due two

weeks after being borrowed. Patrons will be charged replacement costs for books not returned by the 49-day deadline or for new books not returned within 28 days. Patrons also remain responsible for replacement charges for lost or damaged materials. Items may be renewed by telephone or email. They also can be returned anytime in the outside drop box. In March, the Acquisitions Committee, chaired by Linda Sugano, added 18 new titles to the Cannon Beach Library collection, including seven novels, five mysteries and six non-fiction books. The six non-fiction titles include “A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance” by Hanif Abdurraqib, “This Is Not for You: An Activist’s Journey of Resistance and Resilience” by Richard Brown with Brian Benson and “The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found” by Frank Bruni. Other non-fiction titles added were “Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City” by Andrea Elliott, “Orwell’s Roses” by Rebecca Solnit and “The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley” by Jimmy Soni. Novels added to the library include “Her Hidden Genius”

by Marie Bencareer and edict, “Booth” academic by Karen Joy training have Fowler, “Olga focused on Dies Dreampublic particiing” by Xochitl pation in conGonzalez, “How servation and to Find Your Way environmental Home” by Katy science. Jones, who lives in Regan, “French Braid” by Anne Astoria, works Tyler, “Black with volunCake” by Charteers from Joseph Bernt maine Wilkerson Fort Stevens and “Even the Dog Knows” to the Winchuck River on the by Jason F. Wright. California-Oregon border for Mysteries added in March CoastWatch, a program of the were “Murder at the Porte de Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition. Versailles” by Cara Black, On Saturday, April 16, at “Disorientation” by Elaine 2 p.m., the library’s NorthHsieh Chou, “Give unto west Authors series will host Others” by Donna Leon, “A Sunlit Weapon” by Jacqueline Omar El Akkad, a bestselling Egyptian-Canadian novelist Winspear and “Murder in and journalist who now lives Chianti” by Camilla Trinchin Portland. El Akkad will ieri. discuss via Facebook his On Wednesday, April 13, 2017 international bestseller at 7 p.m., the World of Hay“American War” and his stack Rock Library Lecture recently published “What Series will present Hillary Strange Paradise.” Burgess, monitoring coor“American War,” a dinator for NOAA’s Marine post-apocalyptic novel set Debris Program, and Jesse during a second American Jones, volunteer coordinator civil war at the end of the for CoastWatch. They will twenty-first century, presents present “Tackling Marine a country and world torn Debris with Citizen Science: apart by war, conflict about NOAA’s Marine Debris Monitoring and Assessment fossil fuels, environmental Project in Oregon,” via disasters and a raging plague. Facebook Live @Friends of “American War” received Haystack. the Pacific Northwest BookBased in Seattle, Burgess’s sellers Association Award, the

Oregon Book Award and the 2018 $10,000 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. “What Strange Paradise,” a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2021, is a finalist for the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize and the 2022 Oregon Book Award. El Akkad’s second novel tells the story of a nine-yearold Syrian boy who was the lone survivor of a shipwreck of Syrian refugees fleeing their homeland. For his reporting on the war on terror from Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and other locations around the world, El Akkad earned a National Newspaper Award for Investigative Reporting and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. El Akkad’s Northwest Authors presentation can be joined from Facebook at www. facebook.com/ cannonbeachlibrary/ by clicking on posts or going to the library home page and clicking on the banner. On Wednesday, April 20, at 7 p.m., Marjorie MacQueen will lead members of Cannon Beach Reads, the library’s reading group, in a discussion of “Notes from a Small Island” by Bill Bryson. This meeting can be joined via Zoom, but—for the first time in two years may again meet in person at the library where

masks and social distancing will be required. Bryson, a native of Des Moines, Iowa, holds dual citizenship in the United States and Great Britain. “Notes from a Small Island” reminds me most of Mark Twain’s sometimes vicious tendency to “damn with faint praise.” I’ll end with one example of Bryson’s travelogue skewering in “Notes from a Small Island.” “I’ve never had a train conversation that wasn’t disastrous or at least regretted. Generally it turns out that the person whose companionship I’ve encouraged has a serious mental disorder that manifests itself in murmurings and prolonged helpless weeping, or is a sales rep for Hoze-Blo Stucco Company . . . or who wants to tell you all about his surgery for rectal cancer and then makes you guess where he keeps his colon ostomy bag . . . or is a recruiter for the Branch Davidians or any of ten thousand other things I would sooner be spared.” “Notes from a Small Island” was the first of Bryson’s writings I have read, and this example of his not-so-delicate wit has convinced me to sample more of his eighteen books. I hope some readers will do the same.

Be alert for landslides across northwest Oregon The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for portions of northwest Oregon and southwest Washington, including the following areas, in northwest Oregon, Coast Range of Northwest Oregon and North Oregon Coast. In southwest Washington, South Washington Coast and Willapa Hills for Monday morning through Tuesday afternoon. Heavy rain may result in landslides in areas of steep terrain, as well as debris flows in and near burned areas from recent wildfires. Debris flows are rapidly moving, extremely destructive landslides. They can contain boulders and logs

transported in a fast-moving soil and water slurry down steep hillsides and through narrow canyons. They can easily travel a mile or more. A debris flow moves faster than a person can run. People, structures, and roads located below steep slopes in canyons and near the mouths of canyons may be at serious risk. If your home, work, or route is in a watch area: - Stay alert. Track the flood watch by radio, TV, weather radio or online. If told to evacuate, do so immediately. - Listen. Unusual sounds might indicate moving debris, such as trees cracking or boulders knocking together. A trickle of falling mud or

debris may precede larger landslides. If you think there is danger of a landslide, leave immediately. - Watch the water. If water in a stream or creek suddenly turns muddy or the amount of water flowing suddenly decreases or increases, this is a warning that the flow has been affected upstream. You should immediately leave the area because a debris flow may soon be coming downstream. - Travel with extreme caution. Assume roads are not safe. Be alert when driving, especially at night. Embankments along roadsides may fail, sending rock and debris onto the road.

Clatsop County Tsunami Preparedness Week hope to create more secure society This year’s Tsunami Preparedness Week finds Clatsop County with two new resources designed to help local residents and communities prepare. The county Board of Commissioners recognized Tsunami Preparedness Week earlier this month with a proclamation urging residents to “work together to create a more secure society” by taking steps to reduce the potential impacts from these natural disasters. Two new resources are available to aid these efforts, “Beat the Wave” tsunami evacuation

maps and the (TEFIP) Tsunami Evacuation Facilities Improvement Plan. Beat the Wave, from The Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) is a set of new guides build on existing state maps by illustrating the best routes to higher, safer ground, and showing the recommended speed (example: walk, jog or sprint) that a person needs to maintain to escape from a tsunami. The maps also show which bridges are likely to fail and be unusable. Go to the DOGAMI website for

more information Another new resource is the Tsunami Evacuation Facilities Improvement Plan (TEFIP). The TEFIP identifies existing and potential new evacuation routes for communities and areas within the anticipated inundation zones. The plan also suggests sites for vertical evacuation facilities in areas of the county where on-foot evacuation would be most difficult. The TEFIP is funded by an Oregon Department of Transportation grant and developed by the county Community Development

Department. The plan was presented to the Board of Commissioners for review March 15, and will be reviewed by the county Planning Commission and Recreational Lands Planning Advisory Committee before final approval, currently scheduled for May. More information on the TEFIP is available on the county website. Make sure you’re prepared in case of emergency. Have a go kit and supplies ready so you can evacuate at a moment’s notice. Be sure to know where

you need to go from where you currently are: work, home, school or when recreating. For a near-shore earthquake and tsunami: The shaking is your warning. Don’t wait for a siren or alert – get to high ground fast. Near-shore tsunamis may reach land in as little as 15 minutes. For distant tsunamis: Because distant tsunamis may take several hours to arrive, you will be alerted by media and Clatsop Alerts. For more see the Clatsop County Website.

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April 1, 2022

People need homes, not mini-motels

allowed, and which have supporting resources and infrastructure. Cities like Cannon Beach, Gearhart and Warrrenton all have sound STR policies while also supporting residential zones. Now, against the thoughtful deliberation and Vote of the Planning Commission, the County plans to CHANGE ZONING to make these businesses, mainly operated by out-ofCounty absentee businesspeople, allowed in ALL AREAS of the County, especially those zoned for Residential use and limited development that lack supporting infrastructure. With no limits or caps. This makes no sense, when The Planning Commission and

Did you know that amidst an unprecedented Housing Crisis, Clatsop County is issuing permits for Short Term Rentals in neighborhoods where they are not allowed? When so many folks can’t find a home, when ‘short term rental math’ exponentially drives up housing costs, the County turns a blind eye to STR impacts and ignores the needs and voices of residents, voters, and the County’s own Planning Commission who voted to uphold residential Zoning. There are many areas where STRs are desired and

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a majority of Residents and Voters know this is bad policy, it’s bad for residential communities. If the County changes our Zoning, this would be appealing only to out-of-area moneyed interests to the detriment of our local community with a short-sighted, sweeping and overreaching Zoning change that ignores facts and the overwhelming input of the County’s own Planning Commission and Residents. Support Healthy Residential Communities and Tell our Commissioners to leave Zoning alone before Apr13: commissioners@co.clatsop. or.us

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It’s time to allow reusable containers in Oregon for takeout food orders

Ever since the pandemic began, takeout from restaurants has soared. That means that waste and pollution from plastic takeout containers has soared, too. In an effort to do my part, I tried taking a reusable container to my favorite eatery when I picked up my takeout order, but I was told by the restaurant that it was against the law for them to use my container! I got the same response when I tried to use a reusable salad box at the grocery store’s salad bar. Oregon has adopted U.S.

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Food and Drug Administration rules that ban customers from bringing their own containers to grocery stores and restaurants in an attempt to curb plastic waste. The rationale for this rule is to avoid “cross-contamination.” In adopting this rule, Oregon has failed to take into consideration the huge environmental impact that single-use plastics like take-out containers has. In 2019, a workgroup began to examine this rule and consider alternatives, to allow consumers to do their part to reduce the pile-up of tons of plastic waste by bringing their own reusable containers. That effort was derailed by the pandemic, but it is now back up and running. Beginning this year, the workgroup is again considering recom-

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mendations to modify or eliminate this rule. I want to encourage anyone who has ever gotten take-out and is as horrified as I am by all of the garbage that it generates to write to your state legislators and urge them to support any efforts to reject this rule and allow reusable food containers. Taking this step won’t require restaurant patrons and grocery store customers to bring their own containers – but it will give them the option to do so. This, to me, seems like an easy way to make a potentially big difference in the amount of plastic waste that we use and throw away every single day. Sincerely, Isabella Cohn Oregon City

Oregon Economic Update: Recovery, risks, and challenges given a growing population. Public and private education will be the secondfastest growing industry (5%) as schools continue to staff back up following a prolonged period of remote learning and limited school activities. However, this sector still has a ways to travel down the road to full recovery and despite strong forecasted growth, the year will end with employment still below pre-pandemic levels. Schools are struggling to find workers and college enrollments are down. Professional and business services, a large and sprawling industry that includes temporary help, legal and accounting firms, and other office-type jobs, will be the third-fastest growing industry in 2022. As this industry is nearly fully recovered from pandemic losses, which were relatively mild, OEA attributes much of the gain to economic expansion. Health care and social assistance is still in recovery mode and will see above-average growth this year. Employment returns to pre-pandemic levels in 2023, after which growth resumes tracking demographics.

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After plunging into a deep recession in 2020, Oregon added a record number of jobs in 2021 and is on track to make a full recovery by the end of 2022, according to the latest forecast from the Office of Economic Analysis (OEA). All broad industries will add jobs this year due to a combination of pandemic rebound and underlying economic expansion. Growth rates will vary considerably depending, in part, on the status of each sector’s recovery. Leisure and hospitality (e.g. restaurants, bars, hotels) will grow by a booming 14%; nearly four times faster than the overall economy. This industry was hammered by the pandemic, losing nearly half of total jobs. As of January 2022, it was still 17,500 jobs (8%) shy of pre-pandemic highs, so much of the projected growth falls under the ‘rebound’ category. Although OEA forecasts historic highs in the years ahead, they point out that structural changes will keep growth below what we would typically expect

Transportation and warehousing suffered just a single month of pandemic job loss that was quickly erased as Oregonians turned to e-commerce, and to buying goods as opposed to services. This sector is clearly in the ‘economic expansion’ category, and growth will continue as more distribution centers are set to open or expand. Challenges OEA believes the biggest challenge facing Oregon’s economy today is on the supply side. Not just overloaded supply chains but, more importantly, labor. Businesses are struggling to find workers and vacancies are at an all-time high. Employers have responded by raising wages, especially in lower-paying occupations. Potential workers are sitting on the sidelines for a few main reasons: • Strong household finances in the form of accumulated savings, growing assets, and lower debt provide a cushion if people cannot, or do not want to, return to work quite yet. • Rising wages lessens the need for a second wage earner in the household. • Rising wages also allow

some people who worked a second job in order to make ends meet now to work just one. • Lack of available and affordable childcare may keep some parents at home. As the pandemic eases and savings shrink, more people will return to the labor force and search for work. That said, OEA expects the labor market to remain tight in the foreseeable future as firms continue to hire and Baby Boomers retire. Risks Note: OEA produced their forecast prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing economic fallout. The biggest risk to the economic outlook is persistent inflation. Last year inflation was largely linked to semiconductor shortages and the reopening of the economy and considered transitory. Since then its reach has broadened. The risk is that Federal Reserve policy will be unable to walk the fine line between tightening too much and not enough, resulting in a boom/bust cycle and possible recession. For now, OEA anticipates the Fed will be able to engineer a soft

landing. The OEA’s complete report is available at www. oregon.gov/das/OEA/Pages/ forecastecorev.aspx. Amy Vander Vliet is a

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Rare sand dune-dwelling plant in Oregon proposed for endangered species act protection Following a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed today to protect the sand dune phacelia as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Just 26 populations of this rare plant remain in the coastal dunes of southern Oregon and northern California. The Service also proposed to designate 252 acres of critical habitat in Coos and Curry Counties in Oregon and Del Norte County in California. “This is encouraging progress for this beautiful plant that exists only in Oregon and California’s fragile coastal sandy dunes,” said Quinn Read, Oregon policy director at the Center. “The sand dune phacelia simply can’t survive without Endangered Species Act protections. This proposal is a hopeful and long-overdue

step toward making sure this species doesn’t disappear.” The sand dune phacelia is threatened by off-road vehicles, invasive species like European beech grass and gorse, and climate change-driven sea-level rise. Its small population size makes it even more susceptible to these stressors. The sand dune phacelia is in the Forget-Me-Not family of flowering plants and grows to be 18 inches tall. Its white flowers are a rich source of nectar and pollen for native bees. The number and variety of bee species in dune vegetation are higher in places where phacelia grows. The plant’s silvery hairs — which are an adaptation to the harsh coastal environment — keep salt off its leaves, decrease water loss and reflect excess light. The name “Phacelia” is from the Greek “phakelos,” meaning

cluster, for its lovely, clustered flowers, and the Latin “argentea,” meaning “silvery,” for the appearance of the leaves. The sand dune phacelia blooms from March to September. The Center’s lawsuit against the Service sought to force the agency to make timely evaluations and protection decisions for 241 plant and animal species thought to be trending toward extinction, including the sand dune phacelia. The lawsuit followed a 2014 petition to protect the species. That petition was filed by the Center and seven other conservation groups: Oregon Wild, Friends of Del Norte, Oregon Coast Alliance, the Native Plant Society of Oregon, the California Native Plant Society, the Environmental Protection Information Center and the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center.

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his month’s lifting of state mask requirements put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic is prompting many Oregonians to remove their face coverings. Oregon health officials say it’s a good time to remind people about the importance of getting vaccinated against another circulating virus: influenza. Oregon is seeing a late-season rise in flu cases – flu season generally peaks around late January or February – as mask requirements for public indoor spaces and schools fall away, making it easier to spread the virus from person to person, according to Oregon Health Authority communicable disease experts. “The 2020-2021 flu season was virtually non-existent as public health restrictions, such as stay-home orders, mask requirements, and limits on indoor and outdoor

gatherings, kept flu cases down at record-low levels,” OHA’s Public Health Division Medical Director for Communicable Diseases and Immunizations Paul Cieslak, M.D. said. “Now we’re seeing more cases at a time when the season is usually coming to a close.” During the week of March 6 to March 12, Oregon reported that 3.1% of influenza tests were positive, compared with 2.5% the week of Feb. 27 to March 5, 1.6% the week of Feb. 20 to Feb. 26, and .6% the week of Feb. 6 to Feb. 12. During the same week of the 2020-2021 season, a scant .1% of flu tests were positive. The vast majority of flu cases have been influenza A. Cieslak emphasizes that it’s still not too late to get a flu vaccine, and getting it now, as indoor and outdoor gatherings become more common, can help reverse the surge. Getting vaccinated can also reduce the severity of flu illness even if you get infected. Anyone ages six months

and older should get the flu vaccine, particularly young children, older adults and those who have chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease or metabolic diseases such as diabetes. Pregnant women should get vaccinated since children younger than six months can’t get the flu vaccine. When a pregnant woman gets the vaccine, it means she not only avoids serious complications during pregnancy, but she also transmits, through the placenta, precious flu antibodies for her unborn child. Flu vaccine will not protect against COVID-19. That’s why it’s important to get the flu vaccine and the COVID-19 vaccine, both of which are available from health care providers, local health departments and many pharmacies in Oregon. The flu vaccine is free or low cost with most health insurance plans. To find flu vaccine clinic, visit www.flu. oregon.gov and use OHA’s flu vaccine locator tool.

Getting vaccinated is the best way to prevent the flu, according to health officials. Additional ways Oregonians can help prevent the spread of flu include: • Staying home from work or school when you are sick and limit contact with others. • Covering your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. • Washing hands frequently with soap and water; use an alcohol-based hand rub if soap and water are not available. • Avoiding touching your eyes, nose and mouth. • Cleaning and disinfecting surfaces and objects that may have flu germs on them. • Avoiding getting coughed and sneezed on. Influenza, also known as flu, is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The flu can cause mild to severe illness, and at times can lead to death.

Flu signs and symptoms usually come on suddenly, the CDC states. People who are sick with flu often feel some or all of these symptoms: • Fever* or feeling feverish/chills • Cough • Sore throat • Runny or stuffy nose • Muscle or body aches • Headaches • Fatigue (tiredness) Some people may have

vomiting and diarrhea, though this is more common in children than adults. *It’s important to note that not everyone with flu will have a fever. For more information, visit OHA’s flu prevention page. Also, visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s FluView page for updates on influenza activity around the country.

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Deadly’ fake pills trigger public health warning The deaths of two teenagers in Portland from a suspected overdose of fentanyl has prompted the Oregon Poison Control Center at Oregon Health & Sciences University to issue a public health warning about counterfeit, contaminated opioids in Oregon. Danger These pills may be laced with fentanyl which can be deadly, according to the center. Fentanyl is up to 50 times more potent than heroin. It is odorless, tasteless and colorless. According to the warning, warning pills meant to mimic oxycodone tablets may contain illicitly manufactured fentanyl or other harmful contaminants. These counterfeit pills may be difficult to

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