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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015
Food: ‘I wanted to have a universal appeal’ Resort:
Clatsop
Warren Bechtolt Jr., a main
organizer of Riverwalk Food-
Vegan bowls
Carts, said his other food ven-
Astoria’s closest approx-
dors are probably two weeks
imation to a food cart pod,
out, along with produce stands.
other than the food court at
“The biggest thing, of course, is
the Astoria Sunday Market,
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has been at the corner of Sixth
Bechtolt said he hopes to con-
and Duane streets, outside As-
tinue the market at least through Continued from Page 1A
toria Indoor Garden Supply.
December, selling Christmas
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Since June, DJ’s Vinyl Vegan
trees on site and eventually add-
and Good Bowl have pulled
LQJDPHQLWLHVOLNHD¿UHSLWDQG sop County as a potential site.
Jefferson County had previ-
up next to each other, taking
performance stage. He has also
advantage of the River People
been trying to lure other local ously allowed resorts in the area.
Under the 2009 bill, resort
Farmers Market Thursdays
food carts to Riverwalk.
property owners in the Metolius
and operating through the
O Falafel
River Basin had until June 29 of
weekend.
A veteran of the food cart this year to apply to use devel-
DJ’s, named after own-
scene in Astoria, Omri Siklai opment credits that would allow
ers David Drafall and Jared
has operated O Falafel for the them to build “small-scale rec-
Mitchell, spins vinyl from
SDVW¿YH\HDUVPRYLQJEHWZHHQ reation” communities elsewhere
every musical genre and
locations in Astoria and the As- in the state.
serves up a vegan take on
EDWARD STRATTON — The Daily Astorian
toria Sunday Market, Cannon
There were two qualifying
classic comfort food staples,
including Philly Cheese Steik Gab Meik hands out a wrap at O Falafel at the Astoria Sunday Market. O Falafel is one of Beach Farmers Market on Tues- destination resort properties: the
(seitan), Phish and Chips and the oldest mobile restaurants in the region, offering Mediterranean and Middle Eastern days and otherwise parked at Metolian with more than 600
Texaco in Astoria. From July to units combined of tourist lodg-
Mac Attack. The cart is a cuisine for the past five years.
partnership between Mitch-
October, he said, the tourist sea- ing and single-family homes,
ell, Drafall, Becky Gauthier Andrea Mazzarella and Olaf including the Mexico (salsa assembled a motley group- son provides ample customers, and a 2,500-unit development
and Nadia Papaloukas, a chef Ydstie, both longtime local and chipotle sour cream) and ing of antiques, collectibles, albeit seasonally.
proposed by the Ponderosa
from San Francisco who rode cooks. They transformed a the Morocco (feta and curried artwork, wood carvings and
“But Astoria is still a north- Land and Cattle Co.
to Astoria on a bike trip from former juice cart into a kitch- yogurt sauce), along with veg- RWKHU YHQGRUV IRU WKH RI¿FLDO west coastal town,” he said,
The bill to extend the dead-
Seattle, stayed and helped de- en turning out mixes of beans, an and other bowls.
launch of Riverwalk Food- “and I don’t think it’s prepared line by three years would allow
sign DJ’s menu.
rice, fresh produce, cheeses,
the small resorts to be built in
The owners of Snackle Carts and Marketplace Fourth to have an explosion of pods.”
“I wanted to have a univer- handmade sauces, eggs and Box, DJ’s and Good Bowl all of July weekend.
Still, Siklai said, he could Clatsop, Morrow, Sherman,
sal appeal,” Mitchell said of avocado.
The only food cart, per see a permanent gathering spot Umatilla and Wheeler counties,
said they hope to keep their
Vinyl Vegan’s attempt at lur-
“Our emphasis is on operations going past sum- se, was Greg Knutson’s Over within a couple years in Astoria. or any county with a June 29,
ing non-vegans — including- healthy fast food,” Ydstie mer, adjusting their menus to Here Bar-B-Que, a large, cus- To start one, he said, takes an in- 2009 unemployment rate more
himself, Drafall and Gauthier said, adding they try to source the changing seasons.
tom-made trailer grill he has vestment by a property owner in than 110 percent of the state av-
— with fried comfort food, as much product locally as
been serving barbecue out of water, electricity and other ame- erage.
such as the former Astoria possible, buying much of their Creating a food cart pod for the last 22 years. Knutson, nities, the same as an RV park.
The Willamette Week news-
Across downtown, in a long-haul truck driver by day,
Bad Vegan food hut did with produce at the Thursday mar-
“We are moving ahead in SDSHU ¿UVW UHSRUWHG ODVW ZHHN
its vegan fast food.
ket. Good Bowl creates differ- a vacant lot on the corner said his hope is to get a food Astoria,” Siklai said. “We have that hearings and amendments
Next to DJ’s is Good ent variations of their base of of Marine Drive and Sixth truck and make Over Here his a lot of work to do before we are to House Bill 3431 suggested
Bowl, a partnership between rice, beans and fresh produce, Street, the Bechtolt family has full-time business.
able to have a real center.”
Lundgren might be interested in
developing a resort in Clatsop
County.
The “small-scale recreation”
communities allowed under the
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of July at this point in the are usually the busiest,” she day,” Posalski said, adding the art better.
smaller footprints than the des-
The power company year, Dooger’s Wiese said. said. “We never reopen after he was especially proud of
An artist who was sched- tination resorts built elsewhere
called in a specialized crew The whole summer is busy. WKH¿UHZRUNVVRWKDWGLGQRW his crew for their persever- uled to paint at Fairweather in Oregon. They would be lim-
from Portland to replace the Still, he added, “One of our affect us.”
ance.
House and Gallery moved ited to 320 acres, 240 units to
transformer, extending the very large days was adverse-
At the Crabby Oyster, em-
Usually Tsunami Sand- to the front entrance “and be used primarily for tourist
time it took for power to re- ly affected.”
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turn. Some of the affected
tomers already at the restau- show and then reopens after- ural light and painted live” and one restaurant up to 5,000
Manual credit cards,
customers were back on the
rant before shutting down. ward. Since they had ran out using watercolors, Fair- square feet. Golf courses are not
acoustic music
grid by 10:06 p.m.; the rest
Owner David Posalski calcu- RISUHSSHGVDQGZLFK¿[LQJV weather said.
allowed, and state law imposes
The morning after the lated they lost about $4,000 they opted to stay closed after
returned about 10:22 p.m.,
“We had perhaps dou- other conditions such as recy-
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concluded.
three hours dealing with the
His other business, Tsu- fect the restaurant too much, people saw what we were
So far, no one has contact-
Fourth of July tends to aftermath, or getting the nami Sandwich Co., fared Posalski said.
doing closer, rather than in ed Clatsop County land use
be one of Seaside’s busiest computers back online, re- better.
“Our sandwich shop did the back of the gallery,” she planners about locating a small
days, with thousands of visi- covering credit cards that
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said, adding, “I appreciate resort in the area, division direc-
tors descending on the city to were not closed at the time of-sale system, the shop was
Other businesses also the artists. Everyone stayed tor Heather Hansen wrote in an
partake in festivities. Those of the power outage, redo- able to keep running until the found ways to make the best and kind of thought out- email Monday. The only entity
who were set up on the beach ing credit card charges done hot soup, ice cream and sand- of a bad situation. Denise side of the box and created to request information was the
or already checked into their manually and other tasks.
wich meat ran out. Although, Fairweather’s Fairweather an event that everyone will Oregon Department of Land
rooms for the night likely
Nancy McKeown, the even then, patrons could get House and Gallery was part remember.”
Conservation and Develop-
were not as heavily impacted. co-owner of Nonni’s Italian cheese and bread. Some did of the First Saturday Art
In addition to restaurants, ment, which asked for GIS data
“On some level, we can Bistro, McKeown’s Restau- not have the necessary cash, Walk downtown.
several grocery stores were in order to map areas eligible
make an assessment that a rant and Bar and the Irish but they were fed anyway,
for that type of development in
“We were real fortunate affected, as well.
lot of those people weren’t Pub, said they had planned to Posalski said.
that all three of us in the Gil-
The Seaside Rite Aid late March or early April. The
affected,” Rahl said.
close all the restaurants at 8
By the end, it was nearly bert District kept our doors closed during the power agency produced the map at the
Numerous
businesses, p.m. so the employees could 95 degrees in the shop and open and actually took the art outage, but customers were request of state lawmakers, who
from Rite Aid to the Human “get situated for the celebra- employees were using cell- to the street,” she said.
able to pick up any necessary added Clatsop County as an
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At SunRose Gallery, the items, including prescrip- area eligible for small resorts by
early or at least for a few families.”
about 9:40 p.m., when it be- musicians moved outside and tions, from the corporation’s amending the bill in June.
hours.
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Lundgren said he asked law-
Not to exaggerate the im- around 30 percent of our dai- ing, Posalski said.
electric music. Some patrons tin Kellum, a Rite Aid public makers to add Clatsop Coun-
portance of the holiday, every O\ VDOHV DV WKRVH IRXU WR ¿YH
“We were pleased by the were seen using their cell- relations specialist.
ty to the list of areas where he
could build a resort, because of
its proximity to Portland.
“You can’t really build
something that’s too remote
EO Media Group
stepped foot in the town of about 1,690 and expect people to show up,”
during the Fourth of July weekend, but Lundgren said. Any develop-
The 2015 Fourth of July celebration
Chamber of Commerce Executive Direc- ment proposal would likely
for Seaside brought with it the tradition-
tor Courtland Carrier noted there were at include a mix of single-family
al festivities — a well-attended parade,
least 300 a day based on those who came homes and tourist lodging. “The
old-fashioned social and hordes of people
into the Visitor Center seeking informa- one piece that resonates is you
— as well as a few differences — such
have to have a mixture,” Lund-
tion, a slight increase from last year.
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And nearly every bed-and-breakfast, gren said.
the accompanying soundtrack and a large
“Based on our experience
hotel room and camping spot in Cannon
power outage.
Beach was occupied — 1,700 rooms here, we really want to be very
During the mid-morning hours, spec-
respectful or sensitive to the lo-
overall.
tators started lining the streets of down-
Carrier actually had to refer some mo- cal area,” Lundgren said. Spe-
town Seaside in anticipation of the annual
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torcyclists to Tillamook one evening.
parade which featured 63 entries.
Only the two most expensive rooms, many Oregonians are “cautious
At the parade’s conclusion, throngs
costing more than $500 a night, didn’t about overdevelopment.”
of people made their way to the Seaside
Lundgren, whose family also
sell out, he said.
Museum on Necanicum Drive for the
“That’s getting very, very busy,” he owns House on Metolius resort
Old Fashioned Social and Silent Auction,
near Camp Sherman, said he has
added.
a nearly 30-year-old tradition. Vendors,
George Vetter, who owns Village been on a quest to return capital
many of whom were from local nonprof-
Centre featuring shops like A&J’s Ice to the investors in the planned
JEFF TER HAR — For The Daily Astorian
it and service organizations, served hot
Cream Plus and Ocean Spa, said many eco-resort known as the Meto-
dogs, hamburgers, clam chowder, pies, Olivia and Lukas Esnard having fun at the Gearhart Independence Day businesses called it a good weekend.
lian.
drinks and other treats. The event also parade.
“They invested quite a bit of
“It couldn’t have been better,” he said,
capital,” Lundgren said.
featured face-painting, bingo, live music
with the nice weather.
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Lundgren was optimistic
and a continuous cake walk.
Bob McEwan, 92, the patriarch
Carrier also pointed to the weather —
The silent auction featured donated cause of the outage. Even so, thousands of Gearhart, was accompanied by it was nice on the beach, but scorching Monday that the idea of a “very
small, very low-key” eco-resort
items,and the event is run by volunteers. took to the beach and the Promenade, great-grandson Eddie and black Labrador hot in the valley — as a factor.
“It’s something that we feel is a priv- or stood on hotel balconies, to watch the retriever Pearl, riding in the cart behind
Cannon Beach’s big event was the will gain support, and said the
ilege to do for the town and the visitors,” show.
Pancho, the proud red-white-and-blue annual Fourth of July parade, run by plan is “not a subdivision devel-
Power had returned by the end of the bedecked donkey.
Seaside Museum and Historical Society
American Legion Post 168. It got its start opment.”
According to a legislative
President Steve Wright said. “This is Sea- VKRZZLWKVWUHHWODPSVDQGWUDI¿FOLJKWV
7KHSDUDGHURXQGHGOHIWRQWR3DFL¿F in 1993 when residents Bob and Nancy
side’s chance to get together with a whole back just in time for visitors and locals Way, where crowds lined the row, and Teagle decided there needed to be an document, the three-year exten-
making the long journey home through some spectators even found perches Independence Day celebration. Bob has sion was necessary because the
lot of friends.”
Also during the afternoon, the Port- VWRSDQGJRWUDI¿F
among the shingles of local buildings. since died, but Nancy is still a member of “recession and housing crisis of
the late 2000s” slowed develop-
land-based Oregon Crusaders and two
At the Gearhart Market, the line was the Legion.
Gearhart
other drum and bugle corps — Impulse
eight deep for cold drinks and snacks.
“It’s just blossomed over the years,” ment in the state.
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“We couldn’t get anything
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Drum and Bugle Corps Concert at a phenomenon — this tiny city of only -XO\)RXUWKKRWGRJIHDVWZLWK¿UH¿JKW- said.
1,500 swells with thousands of visitors ers serving up the fare and cold bottles of
Broadway Park.
+HJUHQHVQRWHGWKDWSHRSOHRI¿- and real estate crash, Lundgren
At about 5 p.m., the city was hit by dedicated to celebrating the American water available free. What happened next cially signed up for the parade this year, said. Investors also shied away
a large power outage. The Seaside Police spirit. This year, with the sun shining was a townwide celebration, as gather- but that there “had to be well over 400” after the Legislature banned des-
Department urged the hundreds of motor- and perfect temps for urban visitors and ings were to be found on nearly every with those who joined in as the celebra- tination resorts in the Metolius
River Basin and Lundgren said
ists to use extreme caution when travel- small-town parade-goers alike the town porch in town.
tion rolled through downtown.
ing through town, as intersections were came alive. They lined up near Mc-
“It was a very good turnout,” he said. they told him, “‘Show us they’re
Cannon Beach
Menamin’s and made their way up Mar-
also without power.
“It was one of the bigger parades we’ve not going to pull the football
The Independence Day celebration had.” He added that anyone could partic- from under you again.’”
6HDVLGH¶V¿UHZRUNVVKRZRQHRIWKH ion Avenue, with children throwing taffy
House Bill 3431 could
largest in Oregon and produced by py- and candies into the crowd. Surreys and in Cannon Beach includes long-running ipate, which makes “you feel good and
help send that message. “I
rotechnics company K-Pyro, still took trikes and Captain America marched by, community traditions, but more visitors proud.”
place. However, the music K-Pyro had along with the crowd-pleasing Tiki bar are stopping by to partake in it.
— Kate Lacaze, Dani Palmer and think the Legislature’s trying
painstakingly arranged to accompany the ÀRDWDQGUHVFXHGRJEULJDGHV
It’s hard to gauge just how many R.J. Marx contributed to this report.
to help us,” Lundgren said.
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Power: Fourth of July brings thousands of visitors to Seaside
South County festivities punctuate Fourth of July
County
mentioned as
potential site