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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015
Mike Goin is Astoria’s ‘Mr. Hall of Fame’
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
The work of a high school
athletic director is never done,
and rarely recognized.
That changes somewhat this
weekend, however, when Asto-
ria’s Mike Goin is inducted into
the Oregon Athletic Directors
Association (OADA) Hall of
Fame.
Goin’s accomplishments as
an athlete and a coach are well
known, and were rewarded
with inductions into the Astoria
High School Hall of Fame, as
both a player and a coach.
Accomplishments as an ath-
letic director, however, are a bit
tougher to pin down, since so
much of the work is done be-
hind the scenes.
“Most people don’t realize
how much you’re involved,”
said Goin, who was Astoria
High School’s athletic director
from 1985 to 2002, the same
year he retired as boys basket-
ball coach.
“All the stuff that goes on,
the public really doesn’t see it
all,” he said. “It’s constant.”
From making travel ar-
rangements for teams, to sched-
uling, to the set-up and take-
down for many sporting events
… the work of an athletic direc-
tor often goes unrecognized.
Still, during his tenure as
AD at Astoria, Goin was instru-
mental in several big moments
in Astoria athletics.
Such as: Goin was the Asto-
ria AD when soccer was added
as a varsity sport at Astoria; and
he was “on the committee that
got the swimming pool (Asto-
ria Aquatic Center) passed, and
was involved in that,” he said.
And because of Goin’s ef-
forts, Astoria still serves as
the host for many sporting
events including the district
swim meet; the Fishermen co-
host the cross country district
championships with Seaside;
and Astoria is always one of
the sites for the district golf
tournament.
Goin was also involved in
the Cowapa League’s annu-
al Scholar-Athlete Award, an
idea started by former Seaside
Athletic Director Jerry Wester-
holm. Astoria has hosted the
Scholar-Athlete Award evening
more than any other Cowapa
League school.
He also served on the Asto-
ria Parks and Recreation Board
for 19 years; and was on the
OADA board as the representa-
tive for all Class 3A schools for
eight years.
Goin will deservedly take
his place in the OADA’s Hall
of Fame Saturday, at the orga-
nization’s annual conference in
Sunriver.
Other former athletic direc-
tors joining Goin in the OADA
Hall of Fame Class of 2015:
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Terry Hanson (Waldport and
Barlow); Ken Harris (Sunset);
Bruce Howell (South Med-
ford); Marianne Mills (Mc-
Minnville); and Dale Yuranek
(Woodburn).
Daily Astorian File
Mike
Goin
addresses
the crowd on “Mike Goin
Night,” in his final home
game as coach.
Boone: ‘It’s been a real positive thing in my life’
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needs to give back to their com-
munity in some way or another.”
the years, he said, but there
“There are a million different
has been a resurgence of com- ways to do it, but this is just the
munity spirit, including the way I’ve chosen,” he said.
reinstatement of potluck din-
He was chairman of the
ners, which are held the sec- Hamlet Rural Fire Protection
ond Saturday of each month, District board in the 1980s, a
and holiday events.
position he relinquished when
Boone did not have prior he was promoted to chief in
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his life as a young man. He stuck
with it because he has “a per- about 100 calls per year, with the
sonal conviction that everyone biggest source of activity being
emergency medical response to
motor vehicle accidents on U.S.
Highway 26. The department
also provides mutual aid to Can-
non Beach and Seaside.
The department has about 10
members on the roster. Boone
said they could use more, even
though there is a high participa-
tion rate. All members including
Boone are volunteers. In fact,
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chiefs in the state.
He gives between a few to
20 hours per week, on average,
serving the department. Since
“the job is much larger than I
have time to do,” he said, he
focuses on prioritizing respon-
sibilities. Nevertheless, he has
enjoyed his time with the de-
partment.
“It’s been a real positive
thing in my life,” he said.
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also managed his construction
business successfully and raised
two kids.
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“It’s quite impressive what
he’s done,” Brown said.
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department’s equipment from
what originally was at truck, a
jeep and some military surplus
to what is now two facilities for
housing trucks, a new pump-
er and a rescue rig. He also
has overseen grant writing and
fundraising, crucial to keeping
the department going.
From the community’s per-
spective, Brown said, “generous
fails to give the connotation of
what he’s done for us.” Boone
understands the history of the
community and knows each
person’s property, health, age
and their ability to evacuate their
property safely in the event of
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helps the department respond
appropriately.
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edge of how things work out
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ment, as well as those of us in
the rest of the community,”
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is invaluable.”
Stores: Getting inventory is bigger challenge than sales
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and give owners and custom-
ers alike the opportunity to
the brochure outdated before the up-cycle, refurbish or re-cre-
end of summer.
ate used products.
“I have no idea why they’re
He opened shop in the spring
springing up,” Barker said, of last year with the intent to liq-
though she thinks many people uidate his inventory from sever-
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from the economic downturn near Waldport. Over the months,
and can’t afford to purchase the store became self-perpetuat-
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they’re turning instead to thrift it.
shops.
Linda Iles-Martin, owner of
Hank Horlings, owner of Linda’s Rag and Bone Thrift
Seaside Thrift Store on South Shop, said she hasn’t noticed
Roosevelt Drive, agreed it any economic or social trends
likely has something to do that could be the impetus for the
with the economic recession, stores opening in 2014 in partic-
which has driven people to ular.
seek good deals. Thrift stores
“This (past) summer, I was
also tend to feature Ameri- surprised to see so many thrift
can-made and unique items, stores,” she said last fall.
The key to success
Sometimes people have a
dream of starting a thrift store
without realizing the hard work
necessary for its success.
“Having a secondhand store
is like having a garage sale ev-
ery single day of the week,”
Iles-Martin said. “I work real-
ly hard at it. So that’s basically
what my reward is: that I’m still
in business.”
Horlings agreed maintaining
the thrift store and making it
successful is primarily depen-
dent on the work he puts into it,
even when there are no custom-
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store, which opened in July 2014.
The store is doing well, he said,
but they’re “not getting rich.”
“We’re just doing our own
thing and doing the best we can,”
he said, adding they’re “not out
to crash” any of the other shops.
His sister, Valerie Watson,
owns the store and his nephew,
Tim Meyer, of Beaverton, is their
buyer. The group has a ware-
house in Beaverton where Meyer
sells the high-end products he ac-
cumulates before transporting the
rest of the stuff to be sold in the
aptly named Seaside store.
Tough competition?
The shop owners seemed
unconcerned about the thick
presence of thrift, vintage and
antique stores in the area.
The shops don’t compete
with one another from a sales
standpoint so much as through
obtaining inventory, Iles-Mar-
tin said. With other businesses
hitting up the same estate sales,
garage sales and other venues to
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“Where I ‘make’ the money is
when I buy stuff,” Iles-Martin said.
Apart from that, each store
has a slightly different feel than
the others.
Iles-Martin and her husband,
Mike Martin, the store’s co-own-
er, opened Linda’s Rag and Bone
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sell furniture, which couldn’t be
housed at the original shop. Her
sons now run the business and
focus on furniture, video games
and sporting goods.
The Spay & Neuter Thrift
Shop is well established, in a
good location and has a philan-
thropic cause, which combined
help the store thrive, Barker
said. Since the Helping Hands
Thrift Store closed, it is the only
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“That may make a difference
to some people,” she said.
Horlings doesn’t feel like the
surplus is bad for business. If he
doesn’t have an item at his shop,
he’ll refer customers to other
stores.
“Communities have to work
together,” he said. “As a mer-
chant, you have to get to know
your area and refer them to other
sites.”
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