Jewell High
Class of 2015
Knappa High
Class of 2015
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 2015
142nd YEAR, No. 241
ONE DOLLAR
26-and-Oh my! Loggers win again
Knappa and Monroe square off at 1:30 p.m. Friday in Keizer
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
Twenty-six down, one to go.
The only undefeated team in Oregon
high school baseball is now just one
win away from a perfect season, as the
Knappa Loggers won their 26th in a row
Tuesday afternoon, 7-3 over the Regis
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The contest was played at Astoria’s
Columbia Memorial Field because of the
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The Loggers, however, are still perfect.
Knappa’s Tyson
Burnard, No. 1, walks
away after beating
Regis’ Brandon Piete,
No. 9, to first base for
an out in the sixth in-
ning of their baseball
game Tuesday.
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cit in the third inning, but the Loggers
eventually overpowered the Ram pitch-
ing, tied the game in the fourth inning
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The Daily Astorian
See LOGGERS, Page 4A
Riverwalk
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Budget hotel
group to take over
troubled enterprise
for Port of Astoria
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
Owner Dave Palmberg, front, and manager Casey Gray, back, stand near the window shown in “The Goonies” at Lower Columbia Bowl. The
window was featured in a scene where Chunk, played by Jeff Cohen, smashed a milkshake and pizza slice into it while watching a police chase.
Just please don’t
smear pizza or
spill milkshakes
MORE INSIDE
Turn to page 12A to read more about what’s in store for Goonies fans
this week as fans of the ’80s classic celebrate its 30th anniversary.
Chunk to leap from his arcade
game toward a window, where he
smears pizza and spills his milk-
n the opening scene of “The shake in excitement.
Goonies,” the sinister Fratellis
Chunk’s location is never ex-
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the Oregon Film Museum — and have discovered the brief scene was
the crime family takes police on a shot inside Lower Columbia Bowl,
high-speed chase through Astoria. Astoria’s local bowling alley. Fans
The chase causes beloved Goonie call it Chunk’s Bowling Alley.
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
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Lower Columbia Bowl Manager
Casey Gray said he is still surprised
the scene, which only lasted about
10 seconds, resonated so much with
Goonies fans that they make it a
point to visit the bowling alley.
“There was no mention of the
bowling alley in the movie,” Gray
said. “If you blinked, you missed
it.”
Gray is expecting thousands of
fans to come through his bowling
alley this weekend for the 30th an-
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alley will host 1980s-themed cos-
mic bowling Friday and Saturday
night in celebration of the cult clas-
sic.
During the Goonies’ 25th an-
niversary, Gray said, about 3,000
people visited the bowling alley.
Up to 10,000 could come this
weekend.
“We just want them to come in
and bowl and have fun,” Gray said.
See GOONIES, Page 12A
Volunteers work to avert drownings
Citizens seek
more ways to
educate visitors
about surf dangers
By NATALIE ST. JOHN
EO Media Group
LONG BEACH PENINSULA,
Wash. — With the busiest part of the
tourist season fast-approaching, a small
committee of local volunteers has been
working on a three-part strategy for
teaching visitors about beach safety.
The project is moving more slowly than
the committee members would like, but
Seaview resident and volunteer Nansen
Malin says that with support from locals,
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of the plan into action by mid-summer.
After 11-year-old Lindsey Mustread
drowned last July, many citizens recog-
nized the need to come up with a more
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ing beach tragedies.
During a “town hall” forum last
July, participants proposed a variety of
creative or affordable ideas for educat-
ing visitors about drowning prevention,
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systems, and traveling LED billboards.
At the same meeting, Surf Rescue
team-leader Doug Knutzen asked locals
to volunteer and re invigorate grassroots
beach-safety outreach efforts.
Councilwoman Natalie Hanson agreed
to lead a new beach safety committee, and
several other people joined the effort, in-
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cluding Malin.
Hanson was out of state last week Warning signs like this one at the
and could not be reached. But Malin said Seaview beach approach haven’t
See DROWNINGS, Page 7A
managed to stop dangerous be-
haviors that continue to cost lives.
Hot paper
“This is hard for me to do,” said
Commissioner Bill Hunsinger, who
once boasted of having rented the
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walk Inn opened. “I don’t like sign-
ing hot paper.”
He and other commissioners
lamented the last-minute nature of
the deal. The Port sent out a notice
Thursday for an Airport Adviso-
ry Committee meeting, and Friday
revised the agenda and attached an
action item for the Riverwalk Inn.
Knight said he had been given access
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journal of the other eight properties
the Param Hotel Group owns in Port-
land and McMinnville.
“We’re getting bailed out in part
by the future operators,” Commis-
sioner Robert Mushen, who was
See HOTEL, Page 7A
coast
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The Astoria Riverwalk Inn will
have a new owner and the Port of
Astoria some new funds.
After some pulling of hairs over
the lack of notice it was given, the
Port of Astoria Commission autho-
rized Executive Director Jim Knight
to transfer the last two years of the
Astoria Riverwalk Inn’s lease from
Brad Smithart of Hospitality Mas-
ters to Ganesh Sonpatki of the Param
Hotel Group.
Smithart owes the Port $203,000
in back payments on its lease and
agreement to share 10 percent of
gross revenue, Knight said. He owes
the city just under $79,000 in lodg-
ing taxes and about $16,000 to Clat-
sop County.
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issues,” Knight said, adding that be-
fore he reassigns the lease, Sonpatki
will have to pay off Smithart’s debts.
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