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Tonga Tattoo
Last week Clark’s Restaurant and Bar
opened in Cannon Beach. Ten-fold score
patrons craned their necks, queried, sipped, and
chewed during its first few days o f operation.
W hat the patrons encountered was the product
o f countless hours spent resolving a design and
ideas into a fine public house. The Clarks, James
Onstott, and many trade and craft persons who
brought the project to fruition are to be
commended.
The building is a lodge, amply spacious,
but not cavernous. Substantial rough-cut fir
beams, posts, and partitions delineate space and
functions. In natural light, the walls and interior
planes take on a rich, honey-amber hue, all floors
and wainscoting a cladding o f native woods.
The fine, vertical-grained (probably 6o
growth rings per inch), old growth fir windows
are simply the finest window units I’ve ever seen.
The wood, I’m told, was resurrected from the
bleacher seats at the University o f Oregon in
Eugene.
The circular cast-concrete bar features
maple rub and foot rails, and hand forged
supports. A beach rock fireplace and chimney
dominate the great hall, a lofty exclamation point
punctuating the space between bar and dining
areas. The rooms exude comfort in aces. Noise
and clangor, common to places o f public gabble,
are blessedly diminished by high ceilings and
open areas. Cigarette smoke reek is negligible.
Last Friday a renowned publican, Bud
Clark, visited the new establishment and chatted
with Ken Clark. Bud complimented Ken on the
new building and reminisced about his first
tavern experience.
“The first tavern I owned didn’t have but
one or two customers when I first opened.
W hen a customer came in, I had to De ’ very
attentive so they wouldn’t leave!”
“So what did you tell them to make them
stay?” Ken asked Bud.
“Tell them?” Bud responded. “Oh, I
didn’t tell them anything. I just kept quiet, but I
learned to listen very carefully.”
I want to personally welcome Clark’s to
Hemlock Street. The Clark family establishment
deserves a prominent place alongside the other
fine businesses in the Cannon Beach
Community.
Reliable sources indicate a tavern in the
works for the South Tolovana Park area, the
Warren House Tavern. I say “Huzza, Boys!”
Let’s raise a flagon o f ale to Auld Lang Syne!
Heide Foley
Tonga. Nukualofa. White Hot Noon. Tonga Defense
Services Royal Navy Yard. The Tongan Military Band is
putting on a parade for Guest o f Honor Brigadier Melville
Jameson, who seems to travel the world in his spare time
looking for talent to fill the Edinburgh Tattoo.
What is the Edinburgh Tattoo, you ask? Having
grown from a regimental bagpipe show to an extravaganza
celebrating commonwealth military bands with over 100
million worldwide TV viewers, it is a very successful not-
for-profit. It is a bagpipe and drum biased showcase o f
military music talent. Turkey is said to be the first country in
the world to have a military band march with their army.
Accompanying mights such as The Corps o f Janissaries with
a cacophony o f cymbals, chimes, horns, bells, etc. in colorful
costumes, with banners flying and deep brooding drums, the
Turkish band was not only designed to boost the morale o f
the troops but more so to confuse the enemy and put the fear
o f mysterious power in his very mysterious sense o f life.
The Edinburgh Tattoo is also a grande scale
spectacle. It is attended by 200,000 tourists eager for a
meaningful reason to visit the decaying Edinburgh castle.
Due to defense budget cuts, and I suspect also due to the
changing role bands play in warfare, the Edinburgh Tattoo is
the last o f its kind. Germany, France, and other resource
managers have dropped out o f this kind o f budget draining
theatrics. Nonmilitary acts have been added, such as the
RAF special trained police dogs. I didn't get the full story
from the Brigadier but he did bring up bagpipes, perhaps
because he is Scottish. Perhaps because he is the tartan
wearing Producer o f the Edinburgh Tattoo. He has a thing
for bagpipes. I mentioned to him that I heard the inventor •
bagpipes was inspired by a man holding a squealing pig. 1
smiled that excruciatingly polite British smile. The acting
British High Commissioner added that he heard the Irish
originally invented the bagpipe as a joke for the Scots and
the real joke was that the Scots didn't get it.
Brigadier Jameson turned the conversation to the
fact that next year is the 50th Silver Jubilee o f Queen
Elizabeth's Coronation. The Tattoo has even designed a new
tartan for it. Meanwhile TDS Army girls dressed in dull
green serve us wine, beer, soda and Zingo (an orange soda
made in Tonga) One o f them also ties a "lei" o f orchids
around the Brigadier's neck. England has fond memories o f
Tonga due to Queen Salote's extraordinary grace at the 1951
crowning o f Queen Elizabeth, and the Brigadier confesses he
has a fondness for Tonga. Perhaps it’s the lack o f rain.
The Brigadier and all guests, all 12 o f us, are
ushered up cement stairs to a covered 2nd story o f the
cinderblock Navy HQ building where a line o f regal looking
wooden chairs have been placed facing the football field
sized dirt lot in front o f us. The ocean is beyond the dusty
parade ground and a typical navy grey patrol boat from the
Tongan surveillance fleet is docked as a lovely backdrop to
the marching band. To the right are single story barracks,
whitewashed, and to the left a latrine below a towering 40'ft.
geodesic dome which houses the Royal School o f Science,
an internet center. Behind us, the Navy's Guard Post entrance
and the main road which runs the length o f the waterfront.
At the far end o f that, there is the king's palace
Last year on the king's birthday, a kingdom wide
holiday called Heleila, with feasts, competitions, dances and
parades, the military band was unable to perform due to an
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’ BIGGER THE DOT - BETTER THE F IS H IN G ®
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BOLD TYPE
BASEBALL
Holy ( ’ow l These guys leading the National league, pitching
like the Braves used to, fielding like the I>xlgcrs use lo,
hitting like the Yankees, well, still do - these arc the Chicago
Cubs? The Doormat o f the National I xague9 Watching
Sosa with the bases loaded, two outs and two strikes, and a
two run lead, lake it out o f the park and put the game on ice -
that is serious hasehall
A ( hicago Cub leads the I eaguc in
, stolen bases' Yes, a mere ten percent o f the season has past
but what a way to start! Could it be that at long last the
players and the coaches have decided that they would rather
play baseball Ihan play the role o f "loveable losers7" Playing
the game on the field now and not the one called for by
tradition9 Could they be the team lo ruin Ihe Cubs' image by
winning9 Those games wc lost by one last year, we arc
winning by two this year
Some people say it doesn't mailer
if the Cubs win or k « e , their fans still fill Ihe park
W ell, I
say it does matter They might have lo reconsider the logo,
they just don’t seem so warm and fuzzy anymore
Cubbies!!!
(Jo
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