Surf Pines Association Blog

by Tom Smith Ken and his wife, one of our newer members, moved to Surf Pines after retiring about a year and a half ago. Shortly afterward, they adopted Gracie, who is a beautiful 75 pound white pyrenees dog who was rescued from a Texas dog rescue. This rescue held her for almost a year, after being abused by her original owner, before Ken and his wife found her through a rescue adoption site. Gracie was obviously very skittish of human beings and other animals. Shortly after being adopted, she escaped and hid out along what we call duck lake between the upper and lower roads in our community of Surf Pines.…

Sponsored by: Seaside Museum and Historical Society Thursday, February 23, 6PM Author Event: History & Hops with our own Brian Ratty speaking on Thursday, March 2, 6PM RESCHEDULED EVENT DUE TO WEATHERA Location: Seaside Brewing Co., 851 Broadway St. (come early for the excellent food and stay for the presentation) I’ll be sharing my video ‘Fortress Astoria’ (Produced in 2020) to my first public audience. ‘Fortress Astoria’ is the story of ships and planes, hopes and dreams, and how a little fishing and logging village played a pivotal role in helping America win WWII. This is a fascinating story with many long-forgotten struggles and well-deserved victories. I’ll also introduce my latest novel,…

OBITUARY Terence Jay Ramseth FEBRUARY 19, 1942 – NOVEMBER 10, 2022 IN THE CARE OF Bateman Carroll Funeral Home Beloved husband, father, grandfather and friend Terence (Terry) Jay Ramseth passed away at the age of eighty years old on November 10, 2022 from a brief battle with pancreatic cancer.  Terry was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin and was the only child to Einar Jay and Pearl Doris Ramseth. The family moved to Portland, Oregon in 1956 and Terry graduated from Reynolds High School in 1960. Terry was a member of the band and played the Coronet. He enjoyed building things and exceled in shop classes. In high school he loved fast and shiny cars,…

TNT: Thursday Night Talks – The Last Interstate Ferry to Still Cross the Columbia River Jan 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm |FREE Going back nearly a century, ten different ferries have plied the waters between Cathlamet and Puget Island, Washington, and Westport, Oregon. Author Jim Aalberg explains the history of the last ferry still operating on the mighty Columbia River between Oregon and Washington.  Jim has dedicated a new appendix to the history of the ferry in his recently revised and expanded book, Westport Oregon Home of the Big Sticks and Gold Medal Salmon, now in its third printing. The Clatsop County Historical Society’s TNT lecture series is a free event at Fort…

The Great Coastal Gale of 2007 was a series of powerful Pacific storms that affected the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia between December 1, 2007 and December 3, 2007. This is a story of its impact on my wife and I and a great interview of what it was like for Craig and Dana Westin and Dana’s dad Paul See. Thought this would be of interest since this will be the fifteenth anniversary of the big storm. Happy Thanks giving all.

We will miss Richie who was the oldest person to have had a home in Surf Pines. Richie was only 6 years old when his Parents bought the home on the corner of Manion and Ocean in 1951 and became the first owner of a home in Surf Pines. He was a friend to all and loved this area so much. Below is his Obituary published in today 6 November 2022 obituary. RIP Richie. T

Yesterday November 3, 2022, Richie Schroeder passed away after a short illness. I met Richie back in the late 1997 when my wife Annie and I moved into Surf Pines. However, it was not until fall of 2018 that we happened to be both sitting at the bar at McMenamins that I finally got to know him better. We shared our love of local history, and I explained that I was working on a video piece about the 50thanniversary of Surf Pines becoming an association and the 70th anniversary of it being developed by Barney Lucas in 1949 for our annual association meeting in August 2019. He then told me he literally was…