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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JUNE 8, 2015 Goonies: People were impressed with the new events Continued from Page 1A and women rushed the stage, where they all danced to the iconic Lauper pop hit. Willkie said people were impressed with the new HYHQWVFRPSDUHGWR¿YH\HDUV ago, including the trade con- vention in the Astoria Armory. The event brought in mostly 1980s and cinematic memo- rabilia, with art, movies, toys, accessories, 1980s-themed pastries and a Lego diorama depicting the Goon Docks and One-Eyed Willy’s treasure cave and pirate ship. “Some of the vendors would love to have a trade show like this every year,” Willkie said. She said the chamber’s main goal in the event is to break even, although she would not share how much the event cost to put on or how much the chamber made in return. The celebration was scat- tered around the North Coast, IURP D EHDFK ERQ¿UH DQG 5K race in Cannon Beach to WKH ¿OP VFUHHQLQJ DW :DUUHQ Field and a block party and 1980s-themed dance party at the Astoria Event Center, com- plete with a display of DeLo- reans on Ninth Street. Another new event for the 30th anniversary was the 20-stage geocache — the One- Eyed Willy Treasure Hunt — organized by Seattle company Geocaching. Tom Phillips, a vice president of marketing for Geocaching, said 812 groups took part, with three-quarters PDNLQJ LW WR DOO WKH ¿OPLQJ locations and businesses. The IDVWHVWJURXS¿QLVKHGWKHJHR- cache in about 90 minutes. “The (public relations) val- ue we had this year is great for the region year-round,” Willkie said, adding most of the hotels she called this weekend were full, along with Fort Stevens State Park’s campgrounds and most of KOA. The weekend brought out the Goonies cult following from around the world. Possibly the most peculiar visitor was Brian Kidd, better known in Portland as the Uni- piper, a unicycling, kilt- and TrufÀe ShufÀe fuQ ruQ aWWraFWV GooQieV FoVpOa\erV But non- Goonies fan wins gold medal By ERICK BENGEL EO Media Group JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Fans of “The Goonies” filled the grass and stands of John Warren Field for an outdoor screening of the film Saturday night. View more photos online at www.dailyastorian.com JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Sierra Hart, dressed as Mama Fratelli, dances along to ‘80s music while her sister, Abbi Hart, right, watches. Jen Hart (not pictured) said she spent six months custom-making Goonies costumes for her and her kids. ‘The (public relations) value we had this year is great for the region year-round.’ JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Brian Kidd, also known as the Unipiper, unicycles around Exchange Street while shooting flames from his bagpipes Saturday. Kidd dressed as Sloth for “The Goonies” anniversary celebration. — Regina Willkie “The Goonies,” adding he moved from Virginia to Or- egon years back in part be- LQJKLV¿UHEUHDWKLQJEDJSLSHV cause of the nostalgia from the and snapping photos with vis- PRYLH³7KDW¶VRQHRIWKH¿UVW itors. things I did after moving to “It’s like my favorite mov- Portland, is drove to Astoria,” ie growing up,” Kidd said of he said. marketing director for the Astoria-Warrenton Area Chamber of Commerce Darth Vader helmet-wearing bagpiper. In Astoria, Kidd donned his Sloth mask and costume and rolled around downtown play- CANNON BEACH — In an affront to the gods of QHUGRP WKH ¿UVWSODFH IH- male-division winner of Sun- GD\¶V NLORPHWHU ³7UXIÀH 6KXIÀH´ IXQ UXQ LQ &DQQRQ Beach had never seen “The Goonies.” In fact, Esther Schrama, who lives in Houston, Tex- as, but hails from Holland, had never even heard of the 1985 cult classic before last week. She was simply visit- ing her friend, Cari Schwerd, in Portland and asked if there were going to be any races in the area. Schwerd, a Goonies fan who came to the coast to celebrate her birthday, men- tioned the fun run — held 30 years to the day that “The Goonies” hit theaters — and actually heard Schrama ut- ter the words: “What’s ‘The Goonies’?” How does Schwerd ex- plain the cosmic injustice that is Schrama’s victory? “Goonies fans are (busy) watching the movie instead of training,” she said. The nearly 500 runners at the event, hosted by the Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce, ran northward along the shoreline from the Tolovana Beach Wayside to East Washington Street and back. The runners’ times weren’t recorded, but Schra- PD¿QLVKHGWKHUXQLQDERXW 18 minutes, she estimated. As a warm-up, a small cir- cle of children and their par- HQWV7UXIÀH6KXIÀHG7KLVLV where one lifts up one’s shirt to expose one’s belly and jiggles it for public amuse- ment, a stunt made famous by Chunk, the chunky kid in “The Goonies” played by the no-longer-chunky child-ac- tor-turned-lawyer Jeff Cohen. Cosplayers The fan-status of the fun run attendees — runners and non-runners, young and old — ranged from nonexistent, as in Schrama’s case, to full- ÀHGJHG FRVSOD\HU FRVWXPH player). Dave Freeman, an attor- ney from Bellingham, Wash., showed up dressed as Sloth, WKH ¿OP¶V VZHHW DQG VLPSOH Quasimodo lookalike, wear- ing the character’s Superman T-shirt, red suspenders and pirate hat. His wife, Miranda, came as Brand Walsh, the ath- letic older brother of Mikey Walsh, the main Goonie. “I thought there’d be more Brands (at the fun run),” Mi- randa said, wearing a red bandanna and a gray hooded sweatshirt with the sleeves cut off, Brand-style. “It’s the obvious costume to wear at a 5K, right?” The two 35-year-olds celebrated “The Goonies” on Saturday by dressing as Chunk and Mama Fratelli, respectively, Freeman said. And on Friday, Freeman ap- peared in court in Ferndale, Wash., sporting a bow tie and tweed jacket, à la Mr. Walsh, father of Brand and Mikey. “Now I’m sounding like I’m crazy,” Freeman said, laughing. Crazy like a dedicated Goonies fan. And, as the North Coast’s Goonies extravaganza proved, such fans are legion, DQGIRUJRRGUHDVRQ7KH¿OP — like “The Wizard of Oz,” “Willy Wonka” and “E.T.” — speaks to children’s inner adult and to adults’ inner child. “It’s like that catchy song on the radio — you have to sing along,” Miranda said. 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