Ballfield taking shape in Clatsop County

Published 4:36 pm Wednesday, July 30, 2025

The Seaside baseball and softball community will soon have another field on which to play spring and summer games.

Lighthouse Field is set to start hosting youth games in spring 2026.

Lighthouse Christian Church Pastor Daniel Baker and community member Andy Klumper first started talking three years ago about needing more fields in Seaside or Gearhart. The idea was to give the growing baseball and softball communities in Seaside more playing opportunities. With Lighthouse Church having extra land located behind the school, it seemed a good place to start.

“We lost some fields when the school moved up the hill,” community member Wally Hamer said. “The church decided to donate the land, and we made one field as good as we could.”

Though the infield and dugouts were recently completed, the outfield grass isn’t quite ready. Because of this, the field was used only for T-ball in the spring. Next year, Hamer hopes, it will be baseball and softball for kids up to age 12.

The field will be a part of Seaside Kids Inc., as the organization bought most of the materials for construction.

The following gave financially or through service to help build Lighthouse Field.

•      Lighthouse Church — Land and Water

•      James Cunningham Excavation — clay material

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       Keith Keranen Excavation — cleared and leveled the property

•      Knife River — gravel

•      Seaside Kids Inc. — financial

•      Tom and Mary Herche — financial

•      3D Landscape — Daniel and Nicole Sturgell

•      Sand Dollar Landscape — Bryan Derby

•      Laurelwood Farm — Mike McEwan

•      KR Concrete — Kevin Rainey

•      First Source — Pro Build

•      ASC Building Products

•      Jeff Corliss

•      Mark Mizell

•      Scott Howell

•      Wally Hamer