By Rhonda Brown |


Ocean Shores as a community is vastly unique. From its location to its manner of founding as a city itself, to how it has become both a tourist destination and a community built of many from around the region making it a permanent home, this peninsula on the ocean is many things to many people.

Mayor Jon Martin arrived in Ocean Shores, as many do, as a transplant anticipating retirement and a more relaxed, rural life. He spent many years prior working in franchise business management in Washington and Alaska and found that even though the more laid-back feel of this area appealed to him, some of the day-to-day functions of local government needed improvement. That is what prompted him to enter the public arena and approach civil service in roles such as City of Ocean Shores Council Member, Board Member of Grays Harbor Chamber of Commerce, Commissioner of Grays Harbor PUD, and ultimately Mayor of Ocean Shores.

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