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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 2015
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Ukulele Players — 1:30 p.m.,
Warrenton Masonic Lodge, 66 S.W.
Fourth St., Warrenton. All are wel-
come, including beginners. Loaner
ukuleles available. For information,
call Roger Williams at 503-717-
5645.
Fat Quarter Quilters — 5:30 to 8
p.m., Homespun Quilts, 108 10th St.
Not limited to quilts. For information,
call 503-325-3300 or 800-298-3177
or go to http://homespunquilt.com
Wickiup Senior Lunches —
11:30 a.m., Wickiup Grange Hall,
92683 Svensen Market Road. Free
for those older than 60 ($3 sug-
gested donation), $6.75 for those
younger than age 60. For informa-
tion, call Michelle Lewis at 503-861-
4200.
Senior Lunch — 11:30 a.m.,
Bob Chisholm Senior Center, 1225
Avenue A, Seaside. Suggested do-
nation of $3 for those older than 60;
$6.75 for those younger than 60.
For information, call Michelle Lew-
is at 503-861-4200.
Columbia Senior Diners —
11:30 a.m., Peace Lutheran Church
(lower level), 565 12th St. The cost
is $5. For information, or to have a
meal delivered, call 503-325-9693.
Warrenton Senior Lunch Pro-
gram — noon, Warrenton Commu-
nity Center, 170 S.W. Third St. Sug-
gested donation of $5 for seniors
and $7 for those younger than 60.
For information, or to volunteer, call
503-861-3502 Monday or Thursday.
Seaside Rotary Club — noon,
Shilo Inn, 20 N. Prom, Seaside. For
information, go to http://seasidero-
tary.com
FRIDAY
AAUW Walking Group —
9:30 a.m. Seaside Branch of
American Association of Univer-
sity Women weekly low-impact
group walk, followed by coffee
and fellowship. For information,
call 503-738-7751.
Senior Lunch — 11:30 a.m.,
Bob Chisholm Senior Center, 1225
Avenue A, Seaside. Suggested do-
nation of $3 for those older than 60;
$6.75 for those younger than 60.
For information, call Michelle Lew-
is at 503-861-4200.
Columbia Senior Diners —
11:30 a.m., Peace Lutheran Church
(lower level), 565 12th St. The cost
is $5. For information, or to have a
meal delivered, call 503-325-9693.
Open Skating — 5 to 9 p.m.,
Astoria Armory, 1650 Exchange St.
Admission $2. Limited roller skate
rentals available for $3; bring own
skates if possible.
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U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Yo-
cona (168) Sailors — Reunion of
shipmates being planned in 2015
for anyone stationed on the cutter
Yocona. For information, contact
Ken Pearson at 503-741-0860 or
kenpearson@centurytel.net
Knappa Girl Scouts
support Wishing Tree
KNAPPA — The Holiday
season began early for some
Knappa Girl Scouts. Junior
Troop 10086 from Hilda Lahti
Elementary knew before their
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year what they wanted to do
as a community project, as
well as earning their Bronze
Award. The Bronze Award
is the highest honor a Junior
Girl Scout can achieve. They
worked together and created a
plan to help support the Wish-
ing Tree Foundation. Since
1982, the Astoria Wishing
Tree has been providing the
needs of local children during
the holiday season. The girls
used some of their cookie
earnings the past two years
to purchase items to donate to
the foundation.
The girls planned out ways
to help promote, collect dona-
tions and organize collected
items during this busy time.
They created posters, decorat-
ed donation bins and passed
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Hilda Lahti, as well as Knap-
pa High School. The girls
then decided to take it a step
further and asked sister troops
in Astoria and Warrenton to
assist in supporting their proj-
ect at their schools as well.
To add to the project, the
girls were given permission
to display a tree at Hilda La-
hti and have “Wishing Bells”
hung on it for staff, students
and families to provide gifts
for individuals. In Clatsop
County, eligible parents fill
out applications for food and
gifts for each upcoming hol-
iday season. The family is
asked to list the childrens’
ages, clothing sizes and gift
wishes. These are then trans-
ferred to the paper bells and
placed on trees throughout
the area. Those wishing to
play “Secret Santa” choose
a bell and purchased items
for an individual. Volunteers
collect the gifts and assem-
ble the family gift bags and
food baskets at the Clatsop
County Fairgrounds. During
Thanksgiving week, some
of the girls from the troop
were able to work downtown
and distribute, and in some
cases, decorate the trees in
some of the local business-
es with these special yellow
bells.
All the donations collect-
ed from the schools were
then taken to the fairgrounds.
Troop 10086, as well as oth-
er Girl Scouts from Clatsop
County, gathered to volunteer
their time sorting and orga-
nizing all the generous items
donated from the schools and
from the community.
When asked why the girls
decided to focus their project
towards helping the Wish-
ing Tree Foundation, they
responded, Girl Scouts is all
about helping others, making
the world a better place and
we care about other people’s
feelings. We wanted to make
sure other children in our
community got a chance to
have a fun Christmas.
Evelyn Castro
Laura LaLond
Lindsey Mizell
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The Miss Clatsop County Princesses and Miss Clatsop County contestants at
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Princess Luncheon raises
anti-bullying awareness
Miss Clatsop County
Delaney Phillips, her moth-
er Beth Phillips and the
Bridgewater Bistro in Asto-
ria, hosted a Princess Lun-
cheon Monday for the 2015
Miss Clatsop County Prin-
cess Court to raise aware-
ness about the anti-bullying
cause. Delaney was selected
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Clatsop County’s Princess
and has been making ap-
pearances throughout the
county since then.
Delaney has always
known that she wanted to fo-
cus on anti-bullying and did
a presentation at the luncheon
where she asked the other
princesses and Miss Clatsop
County contestants in atten-
dance to take a pledge with
her standing up against bully-
ing and then presented each
with a bracelet engraved with
the letter “B” on each side
which stands for “Be Brave.”
She developed the afternoon
program around Sara Ba-
Courtesy of Sandy Newman
From left, Miss North Coast Princess 2014 Rylee
Pierce, Miss Clatsop County Princess 2014 Delaney
Phillips and Miss Oregon Outstanding Teen 2014 Ni-
cole Carter at the Princesses Luncheon Monday.
reilles’ song “Brave,” which
Delaney also sang at the lun-
cheon.
Also in attendance was
Miss Oregon’s Outstanding
Teen 2014 Nicole Carter
who gave a “Miss Manners”
class. Fourteen contestants
and 20 princesses attended
the event.
Gearhart resident claims
father’s bronze medal
GEARHART — Sixty-Five Civil Air Patrol
(U.S. Air Force Auxiliary) members nation-
wide were lost during service in World War II.
One was Lt. Harry M. Hewitt, 28, of Oregon,
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Civil Air Patrol members who served during
World War II were recently awarded the Con-
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accepted on behalf of the CAP by Lester Wolf,
a member of the Civil Air Patrol during the war
and who later served in Congress for 17 years.
Civil Air Patrol members or family members
received bronze replicas of the medal. Harry
Hewitt Dichter of Gearhart received the bronze
medal for his father, Lt. Harry M. Hewitt.
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George Washington March 20, 1776. It has
since been presented only 151 times to indi-
viduals and groups such as Orville and Wilbur
Wright, Charles Lindbergh, Brig. Gen. Billy
Mitchell, Howard Hughes, the Tuskegee Air-
men, and the Woman Air Force Service Pilots
Lt. Harry M. Hewitt
(WASPS).
Oregon’s Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron
Wyden, and Reps. Suzanne Bonamici, Earl Greg Walden, all signed the petition to give the
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CuttCatch award
PEO scholarship winners announced Scoggins receives A conservation
group in Livingston, Mont., has
SEASIDE — PEO, an in-
ternational philanthropic ed-
ucational organization, holds
fundraisers to provide a vari-
ety of scholarships and loans
to women of all ages. Three
local women received awards
in 2014 from Seaside PEO
Chapter CR.
The Seaside High School
winner of a $1,000 scholar-
ship was Evelyn Castro. She
plans to attend Clatsop Com-
munity College to pursue a
career in nursing.
Laura LaLond was award-
ed a PEO Oregon Scholarship
for $2,000 to help achieve her
goal of earning a master’s de-
gree in health management
and policy at Portland State
University. Her specialty is in
reproductive, prenatal and pe-
diatric epidemiology.
Lindsey Mizell also re-
ceived a PEO Oregon Schol-
arship, for $2,500, to apply to
the postbaccalaureate classes
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at PSU toward a master’s de-
gree in medical speech pathol-
ogy. She plans to specialize in
swallowing and cleft palate
rehabilitation.
Seaside PEO Chapter CR
was established in 1953. Since
1999, Chapter CR has award-
ed 78 scholarships amounting
to over $73,000. For infor-
mation locally, contact Khris
Frank at 503-810-5196 or kd-
frank52@hotmail.com, or go
to www.peointernational.org
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Thomas Scoggins received the
CuttCatch Award from the Interna-
tional Federation of Fly Fishers.
recognized angler, Thomas V. Scoggins of Astoria,
for his accomplishments and appreciation of trout
diversity. The International Federation of Fly Fishers
(IFFF) has presented him with the CuttCatch Award
for catching four subspecies of cutthroat trout: Col-
orado River Cutthroat, Bonneville Cutthroat, Snake
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America’s subspecies of cutthroat trout are facing
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gram managers said.
Project CuttCatch encourages fly fishers to docu-
ment memories of the cutthroat trout subspecies they
have caught and released. Members of IFFF who
successfully catch four subspecies of cutthroat trout
are eligible for the CuttCatch Award.
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