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August Police & Fire Logs from Gearhart and Surrounding Area Now Available
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CLATSOP COUNTY WEEKLY BULLETIN – AUG. 27, 2021. No New Short Term Rental Permits from 1 September to 30 December and other interesting stuff.
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Communications Committee Report about the new Surf Pines History Page…
Now on to some fun, new and exciting news. As many of you may be aware Annie and I are both history buffs and one of my personal goals is to document much of the here-to-fore poorly recorded history of the Clatsop Plains and Surf Pines. (Some of you may remember the presentation of the Clatsop Plains Chronicles: Early Surf Pines at the 2019 Annual Meeting). We now have put together a whole section of our new web just on the history of our area. These will include access to the digital library that the Clatsop County Historical Society has populated with over 1,200 documents including most of the quarterly Cumtux publications,…
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Secretary Report for Surf Pines from our annual meeting Saturday 7 August 2021
This was presented at the Zoom Annual Meeting. Good morning, most may not realize it, but the last two years have been an exciting reinvention of Surf Pines Association. Over the last 10+ years much of our internal infrastructure has badly degraded. For example, we had eight or nine separate data bases tracking our membership with little to no correlation. Our web site had no management since Jeff Hall stepped down in the late 2000’s. The Breeze had diminished to just a few pages managed by the President. Communications was derided by many members as almost non-existent. Our e-mail list had dropped to less than 200 members, which included several members of…
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STR Moratorium Town Hall Comments
On August 3, 2021 the Clatsop Commissioners of Clatsop County completed their Work Session on whether to implement an STR moratorium starting in September until new rules for STR permitting and operations are promulgated and implemented hopefully by February 2022. They agreed to move forward and below is the next step to implement new STR rules and implement a moratorium in September till they can be completed. We have had several people in our community who are strongly for or against having STR’s. However, in reading the written and verbal comments below from the two July public hearings, we can only see one SP couple who made comments for the residents in…
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We lost another long time Surf Pines member Ace Gilbertson.
https://www.dailyastorian.com/obituaries/obituary-ace-barry-gilbertson/article_3c4382be-ed00-11eb-a4de-57a97e9d61af.html?save_asset=3c4382be-ed00-11eb-a4de-57a97e9d61af#tncms-source=login April 11, 1947 — June 3, 2021 16 hrs ago On June 3, 2021, Ace Barry Gilbertson, loving husband, father and grandfather, passed peacefully with his wife and children at his side. He was 74 years old. Ace was born on April 11, 1947, in Luverne, Minnesota, to Earle Steven and Esther Irene Gilbertson. His family of six children later moved to Lebanon. There, Ace attended elementary, middle and high school, and graduated from Lebanon Union High School in 1965. He joined the U.S. Army in 1966, and served as a pre-surgical medic in a mobile hospital in Vietnam until his honorable discharge in 1968. During his service, Ace was wounded…
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Information about Annual Meeting and Election
July 29, 2021 Dear Fellow Homeowners, We’ve had explanatory online meetings about the 2021/2022 budget and Amending the Articles of Incorporations. Both were recorded and both the recordings and the actual documents are located at Annual Meeting Event Agenda Packet Link (you have to be registered as a SPA member to view). I urge everyone to vote. Either mail your ballot via USPS to Surf Pines in the provided envelope or place the envelope in the secure mailbox in front of Ken’s house. Please remember to either put your lot number or name on the back of the envelope. Originally, I said we would have an outside person, as we did last year, supervise the counting…
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Ken is taking some well deserved vacation
For all Members Ken Weist our security and maintenance manager is taking a well deserved vacation. He and Shawna will be off premises from Monday 26 July and returning Monday August 5. Any major emergencies please use 911. Any other issues contact Debbie Eddie Administrator, Cameron Lewis Director of Safety and Security, John Yerke President or my self and we will attempt to take care of issues though not nearly as efficiently as our super Ken. Thanks all.
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New Volunteer Group Seeks to Revitalize the Flavel House Museum Gardens
A newly formed group—the Flavel House Garden Society—is seeking help in an ongoing revitalization project to bring the Flavel House Museum gardens back to the ambiance of a mid-1800 Victorian garden.All volunteers are welcome; mentors will assist with plant and weed identification and the best ways to remove weeds.The garden revitalization will be in stages: the first is weeding and mulching the beds. We can then move into moving plants to more viable locations and winter pruning of shrubs. If there is time before winter, new plants could be added. Spring will bring compost and more decisions on plant placement.Our first work session is Monday evening, July 19, from 5:00 – 7:00…
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Proposed Short-Term Rental Moratorium – Public Town Hall #1 results and notice July 16 Hearings
Here is the link to the comments and documents from the July 9 Public Town Hall hearings on July 9. Link to Clatsop County Hearing information
