From the Editor’s Desk
Published 9:30 pm Sunday, July 24, 2022
- Entrance to the Mill Ponds at Alder Mill Avenue, with a sign limiting hours for overnight campers. The ordinance was later amended to allow continuous camping for six consecutive days before a move-out is required.
— Length of stay —
As the first North Coast city to adopt a homeless camping ordinance, cities throughout the state are watching Seaside as it addresses the homeless population to meet state and federal mandates. “If the question is, is it worse or is it better? I don’t know if I have a good solid answer,” Police Chief Dave Ham said. “It’s still happening. It hasn’t solved that.”
In the weeks since the passage of the ordinance, dozens of permits have been issued. But only a handful of RVs and tent campers use the city’s designated camping area, the parking lot at the Alder Mill entrance to the Mill Ponds Natural History Park.
On Monday night, the City Council will consider changes to the ordinance and policy. The meeting starts at 7 p.m.
— Cybersecurity —
If you’re going to turn in via Zoom, it may give you a sense of future shock. Only two years ago meetings were almost entirely live. Now they are available remotely, via YouTube, Zoom and other communications services.
In Seaside, the changes have been rapid, with a fiber optic installation at City Hall and a ramp up so that now council, Planning Commission and a host of other meetings and workshops can be viewed live or on-demand by the public.
The increased digital span comes with risks, however, and cyberattacks in Portland and Tillamook County have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to local governments as a result of hacking and the spread of malware.
The Seaside City Council took steps to prevent those kinds of incidents, passing a cybersecurity policy on July 11 designed to strengthen the city’s security objectives and guidelines to minimize the risk of internal and external threats.
— Cutting edge —
The North Coast Beauty Shop in Gearhart comes with a mission of creating “confidence, being beautiful, loving yourself.”
Stylist Lisa Boulanger is the subject of a profile by Signal contributor Katherine Lacaze.
She opened her shop in early April and offers a variety of services, including haircutting, styling, coloring, manicures, pedicure and facial waxing.
Boulanger got her cosmetology license from the Cosmetology Training Center in Lafayette, Louisiana. Being in her early 30s at the time, she had to challenge herself to overcome the concern that it was too late for a change.
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