Meet your neighbors working on the Oceanside Village Initiative
The OVI is a coalition of Oceanside civic leaders united in their commitment to preserve the Village as a livable coastal community with the resources to defend and maintain its unique character.
Sharon Brown is a retired lawyer and school counselor with experience working for county, state, and city municipalities. Her parents and grandparents lived in Oceanside, and she and her husband live here in retirement. She has served as ONA President and currently serves as Treasurer. She has also volunteered for the Netarts-Oceanside Fire District on the budget and hiring committees. She enjoys selling hand-crafted jewelry and working with Aging in Place initiatives.
Sharon Brown
Simeon Dreyfuss
Rob Hoeper
Simeon is a retired college professor. He lives on Sunset Ave with his wife Jenny Sasser and their big German Shepherd/Husky mix, True. You may have seen them walking around the Village—they do that a lot! Simeon was on the faculty of Marylhurst University for nearly three decades where he was the Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies and Director of the Liberal Arts Core. After Marylhust closed he taught English and Writing at Tillamook Bay Community College. He is a Board Member and Secretary of the Netarts Oceanside Sanitary District. He served on the Zoning and Plan Review Committee of the Oceanside Neighborhood Association. He is currently running for ONA President. His stories, poems, essays, journalism, and peer-reviewed scholarly articles have appeared in Clinton Street Quarterly, Gero-Punk Project, Issues in Integrative Studies, North Coast Squid, Nuclear Times, the Progressive, Pequod, and Word and Image among other places.
Rob grew up on a farm in southern Wisconsin and earned his Bachelor’s degree in Medical Technology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He worked as a Medical Technologist at various laboratories across the country before settling in Oregon in 1985 after accepting a laboratory management position with Kaiser Permanente. He and his husband Jerry built a home in Oceanside in 1991 and have lived full time here since 2010. He has served as Treasurer of the Oceanside Community Club, Secretary of the Oceanside Neighborhood Association and is currently co-lead of the Oceanside Volunteer Emergency Readiness Team. He currently represents Oceanside at the Tillamook County Citizen Corps Council. As OVERT lead he secured funding for purchase of the GMRS radios used in Oceanside’s emergency communications network and helped organize and recruit 17 volunteer sector captains. He has assisted in securing several of the few grants available to unincorporated areas. He’s excited to bring his emergency preparedness experience to an incorporated Oceanside Village.
Carol was ONA Secretary for three years and has been active in several ONA committees. She has a special interest in seeing Oceanside’s village character preserved and has prepared detailed research reports in opposition to a number of controversial projects, including the proposed 3 Arch Inn expansion that would have closed Currrents Cafe. Carol is a third-generation Oceanside homeowner, thanks to her grandfather who bought his first lot from the Rosenbergs for $10 in 1928. She has a STR license on the family home on Portland Ave. Carol has a chemical engineering degree and worked in consumer product development. She enjoys folding modular Origami and tessellations.
Carol Horton
Jerry is a retired attorney who, with his husband Rob, built their Oceanside home on Maxwell Mountain Road in 1991. He has extensive experience with the Oregon legislature and state agencies, crafting ordinances and negotiating Oregon's public budget laws. He is a Past President and current "Historian" of the ONA, current Treasurer and Board Member of the Netarts-Oceanside Sanitary District and current President of the Oceanside Protection Society community foundation. He has also served 7 years on the Tillamook County Short-Term Rental Advisory Committee and is the editor of The Oceansider community newsletter. His special interests are land use planning, collaborative STR initiatives and the creative use of TLT funds to compensate our community for tourism impacts.
Jerry Keene
Marilyn Roossinck is a retired Professor of Virus Ecology from Penn State University. She is an author and fiber artist, and also works as an end of life doula. Marilyn has been part of the Oceanside Community since 2009, when she purchased Elvy Frederickson’s home on Chinook Ave. She has been a full-time resident since 2019. She served as ONA vice president for two years, chaired the lighting committee in 2021, and organized the Oceanside Centennial Celebration in 2022. Currently she is a member of the County Roads Advisor Committee to the Tillamook County Commissioners.
Marilyn Roossinck
Kathie purchased her Oceanside home on Sunset Avenue in 1986 and became a full-time resident in 1995. She was the ONA’s first Vice President, later served as President and participated in drafting the original Oceanside Community Plan and two subsequent, comprehensive updates. She assisted in drafting Oceanside’s original zoning ordinances and chaired Oceanside’s Short Term Rental Committee where she designed a community survey that became a model countywide. Kathie also served on the Oceanside Fire District and then on the Netarts-Oceanside Fire District after the two districts merged. She also chaired the Netarts-Oceanside Sanitary District board, the Women’s Crisis Center board and also served on the county Littoral Cell and Riparian committees
Kathie Norris
Terri is a nurse practitioner and the owner of a medical practice specializing in sexual health. She and her husband Hal have owned their home in Oceanside since1993, which they also operate as a part-time short-term rental. Terri has recently served as President of the Oceanside Neighborhood Association and as a member of the ONA's standing Zone and Plan Review Committee (ZAPR). She also a member of both the Tillamook County Short Term Rental Committee and the ONA's local STR Committee, where she helped design and conduct a community survey on STRs that was adopted as a model for other communities.
Terri Warren
Gill Wiggin
Gill is a native Oceansider who lives in the home his parents owned on Daisy Street in the Village. He is the current Vice President of the Oceanside Neighborhood Association and has served on the Zoning and Plan Review Committee as well as the OVERT emergency readiness team and the committee investigating Oceanside participation in the national Fire Wise program. Gill served as the Village postal clerk for several years and also as a volunteer with the Netarts-Oceanside Fire Department. He is currently studying to become licensed as an EMT.