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142nd YEAR, No. 259
MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2015
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Miss Oregon crowned in Seaside
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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.
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