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Hatcheries reOease ¿sh earO\ Astoria Ford rallies over Singapore NORTH COAST • 3A SPORTS • 4A 142nd YEAR, No. 259 MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2015 ONE DOLLAR 3o\er Miss Oregon crowned in Seaside read\ for big season NFL’s Cleveland Browns player, former AHS star, returns for camp %\ GARY HENLEY The Daily Astorian JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Ali Wallace, of Portland, reacts after being crowned Miss Oregon 2015 during the Miss Oregon scholarship pageant at the Seaside Civic and Convention Center Saturday. More photos at www.dailyastorian.com Pageant punctuated by love for retiring executive director %\ MCKINLEY SMITH The Daily Astorian S EASIDE — The Miss Oregon pageant Saturday night was all about family. Ali Wallace, of Portland, was crowned Miss Oregon the same night the organization celebrated the retirement of Dana Phillips, the longtime executive director of the scholarship program. “It’s crazy because I’ve grown up watching the pageant,” Wallace said. “So to be included in the sis- terhood is just surreal, and it’s hard to fathom.” Wallace is the daughter of Tam- my Fazzolari Wallace, who was Miss Oregon in 1987. “Now she’s my mom and my sister,” Wallace joked, referring to the sisterhood of the Miss Oregon pageant winners. As a former contestant, Faz- zolari Wallace knew what her daughter was going through. And so as a mother, she worried about how Wallace — and she herself — might take disappointment. “It was scary,” Fazzolari Wallace said. “I was so afraid of her not win- ning and how she might handle it.” Wallace said you wouldn’t compete in the pageant unless you knew you had the skills to be Miss Oregon. After that, “it was really in the hands of God and the judges,” she said. Phillips said the judges had no idea that Wallace’s mother was a former Miss Oregon. “She has that ability to be very endearing to people,” Phillips said. “She’s going to be a wonderful Miss Oregon.” Wallace received a $10,000 scholarship for being crowned Miss Oregon — $10,500 total from the Miss Oregon pageant — and will move on to the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, N.J. Wallace’s platform issue is ed- ucation and awareness about trau- matic brain injury and her talent is lyrical dance, which she performed to the song “Latch” by Disclosure. Local participants Alexis Mather, Miss Clatsop County, received a $1,500 schol- arship as fourth runner-up. She re- ceived $3,250 total in scholarships from the Miss Oregon pageant. Mather excelled Wednesday in the lifestyle and ¿tness swim- suit preliminary and Thursday in the preliminary talent competition with her operatic performance of “Nessun Dorma.” Her platform is- sue was be a mentor your own way. Among Jordan Poyer’s “What I did this summer” activities: Got en- gaged (to Maddi Sprott); played in a celebrity softball game (with Larry Fitzgerald, Colin Kaepernick, John- ny Manziel, Deion Sanders, Richard Sherman, etc.); had a strong off-sea- son training camp with the Cleve- land Browns; and — saving the best for last — hosted his second annual Jordan Poyer Football Camp. There’s always time for Astoria in Jordan Poyer’s world. Poyer was in town over the week- end, and spent Sunday afternoon on the football ¿eld, with about 80 kids, ages 5-14, who were looking to learn a little more about the game Poyer plays for a living. See POYER, Page 10A A place to stay warm Warming center ¿nds new home %\ DERRICK DePLEDGE The Daily Astorian JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Miss Oregon Executive Director Dana Phillips hugs Beth McShane onstage during a tribute to Phillips at the Miss Oregon scholarship competition Saturday. Phillips has served as executive director since 1986 and is retiring this year. See PAGEANT, Page 7A Miss Happy Valley Hailey Kilgore reacts after being crowned Miss Oregon’s Outstanding Teen during the Miss Oregon Outstanding Teen scholarship competition at the Seaside Civic and Conven- tion Center Friday. The homeless will have a place to keep warm again this winter. The Astoria Warming Center will open on the lower level of First Unit- ed Methodist Church on cold nights starting in November. The free shelter at 11th Street and Franklin Avenue will be available when tem- peratures drop to 40 degrees or when there is blustery weather. The City Council had agreed to allow the shelter to temporarily op- erate at the Astoria Senior Center last winter while the senior center was closed for renovation. Between late December and mid- March, the shelter opened on 24 nights and served 66 people. “What we learned is that there is a real need, and that there is a gap in services here,” said City Councilor Drew Herzig, who was behind the warming center. “We can’t ¿ll the whole gap, but we would very much like to do more.” JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian See CENTER, Page 10A New man at the helm for Fishermen soccer Longtime worker is taking on new role D espite the pressure to win, the long hours and lots of travel, the job of coach- ing varsity boys soccer at As- toria High School is a pretty special one. Considering only four men have held the job over the last 24 years, it must be. Yet the torch that does not get passed very often is being passed this off-season, as Tim Fastabend takes over as head coach for the Fishermen boys, after Bill Patterson stepped down earlier this year. From his years and years of service to the Lower Co- lumbia Youth Soccer Associa- tion — as referee, coach, pres- ident, etc. — Fastabend steps into a position held by very few since the early 1990s. “When you look back, you had Max Bigby, Jerry Boisvert and Bill Patterson,” Fastabend said. “They’ve certainly built quite a tradition for Astoria soccer. I don’t know if pres- sure is the right word, but it’s de¿nitely going to be a chal- lenge for the coaching staff to live up to those expectations.” The job of Astoria head coach will just be the latest of many hats that Fastabend has worn over the years, from his job with the Astoria Marine Construction Co. (“We’ve got a small boatyard over in the Lewis & Clark area”), to coaching soccer and his posi- tion as president of the LCY- SA, which he has held since 2010. “Hopefully we’re going to put in someone new, shortly,” Fastabend said. “I’ve been there going on ¿ve years, and we have some young parents coming up who want to get more involved, and it’s time for the old people to move out of the way.” See FASTABEND, Page 10A Tim Fas- tabend, left, and Farid Nohrudi officiate a preseason soccer game last year at Vol- unteer Field in Warren- ton. Daily Astorian File