NORTH COAST
THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015
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Coast Invitational swings into amateur golf action
By KATY KAWASOE
For The Daily Astorian
WARRENTON — The 105th an-
nual Oregon Coast Invitational is in
full swing. Participants have traveled
to Astoria from as far as Arizona, Il-
linois, Boston and Florida for the
biggest week of the year, represent-
ing 81 different country clubs and
counting.
For some, the week is consumed
of many games of fascination at the
arcade in Seaside, building sandcas-
tles at the beach, and getting stom-
ach aches from giant bags of saltwa-
ter taffy.
For others, it is about winning
each match to advance to Saturday’s
¿nals, eventually running down the
hill to claim the crystal.
But above all, the week is all
about family reunions. In a combi-
nation of blistered hands from golf
grips, and sandy toes from the beach,
the week of the Oregon Coast Invita-
tional is the highlight of the summer
to many families who use the week
to ¿nally spend Tuality time togeth-
er.
While brothers and sisters for
one another, the rest of the family
plays in the match behind, or follows
along in the gallery. Who would
have thought that in 1910 the Oregon
Coast Invitational would turn in to
what it is today — where generations
compete in the match-play event.
For more than 40 years the tour-
nament has been restricted to those
21 years of age and over. However,
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Returning Junior-Senior cham-
pion Steve Hval opened defense
of his 2015 championship with a
win Monday at the Astoria Golf &
Country Club.
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Junior-Senior medalist James Folk had a tough shot from under a tree, on the ninth hole in Monday’s golf round.
last year was the ¿rst year the ¿eld
was open to 18-year-olds.
A fourth-generation golfer, Tay-
lor Swingle, Tuali¿ed this year for
the Championship Flight of the
Grand Champions Division. His
grandmother, Mary Swingle, also
played in the Oregon Coast Invita-
tional when she was 18.
The door opened for other young
players such as 2015 Seaside High
School graduate Sam Hinton and Ri-
ley Elmes, who followed in the foot-
steps of their family members to play
at the age of 18.
Today, second-generation golf-
er Anthony Arvidson continues to
dominate the ¿eld, following his im-
pressive round that gave him Grand
Champions medalist honors Saturday.
Arvidson defeated David Berlant
in Monday’s ¿rst round of the Grand
Champions division, while Hinton got
past Frank Nau, and will face Ilwaco’s
Jack Whealdon in a Wednesday match.
Whealdon’s brother Patrick also
won Monday, and will face Mike
Swingle in a second-round match
Wednesday.
In the Junior/Senior division, a
battle of the locals will take place
Wednesday as Medalist James Folk
takes on past Junior/Senior Champion
Jack Cartwright.
The Women’s, Seniors and Su-
per Seniors begin their ¿rst rounds of
match play today.
Katy Kawasoe is a four-time Cow-
apa League golf champion from Sea-
side High School, and the daughter
of Astoria golf pro John Kawasoe.
She competed in last year’s Oregon
Coast InYitational for the ¿rst time,
and recently completed her ¿rst year
of college at Syracuse University.
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wondered whether, after the
contaminated soil is removed,
the hole would still sit emp-
ty for another two to three
years while the City Council
decides on a redevelopment
plan.
The City Council is look-
ing at a mixed-use project that
could include a new public li-
brary and housing.
City Manager Brett Estes
said once the council agrees
on a redevelopment plan, the
city might be able to start to
¿ll the hole in anticipation of
a project.
“Maybe it’s not two to
three years, but perhaps some
time a little bit sooner than
that,” he said.
The city acTuired the for-
mer Safeway lot more than
a decade ago and has sought
to remedy the contamination.
A printing press, auto repair
shops and a dry cleaner used
the property before the super-
market.
The store’s foundation
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The Heritage Square has been home to a printing press, a
auto repair shop, dry cleaners, and most recently a Safe-
way before the city acquired the property.
collapsed after heavy rains in
2010, leaving the hole. The
soil stockpiled in the hole is
from construction of the Gar-
den of Surging Waves.
City Councilor Zetty Nem-
lowill called the collapse,
which was during the reces-
sion, “kind of the pit of de-
spair, at that point.”
She said “as long as we
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the area to Goonies house
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Goonies anniversary with a
combined potential reach of
395 million people.
“And we didn’t pay a dime.
Not one penny did we pay for
any of that,” Hauke said of the
media coverage.
The chamber, however,
has not disclosed how much it
cost to stage the four-day cel-
ebration.
‘Goonies
enterprise zone’
Not everyone in Astoria
appreciates the Goonies phe-
nomenon.
Roger Warren, who
lives on 37th Street in Up-
pertown, a neighborhood
some locals wryly refer to
as the “Goonie enterprise
zone,” pleaded with the city
to come up with solutions to
the disruption.
Visitors routinely crowd
the neighborhood on trips to
the Goonies house on 38th
Street. Signs that direct
parking toward Astor Ele-
mentary School have only
shifted congestion to other
parts of the community.
“I’ve seen the impact of
what’s torn my community
apart,” Warren said.
Warren would prefer
to shut down the privately
owned Goonies house as a
tourist attraction.
City Councilor Drew
Herzig said he was in the
neighborhood on Saturday
and described what he saw
as “kind of frightening.” He
said the problem seems to be
getting worse.
“Steven Spielberg has a
lot to answer for,” he said of
the famous producer and di-
rector, who came up with the
story for “The Goonies.”
Hauke doubts Goonies
fans would stay away even
if the Goonies house was
off-limits.
“I swear that if we shut
down the Goonie house to-
morrow, there’d be just as
many people there,” he said.
“They’ll view it from the
bottom of the hill.”
Derrick DePledge con-
tributed to this report.
continue to really actively en-
gage and talk about this site,
and make it a priority, and
the public knows that we’re
working on it, and the public
is a part of it.
“It’s going to be an inter-
esting, positive place.”
Price, meanwhile, dropped
an idea to cover the fence
around the hole with bamboo
screens after a test last week
was unsuccessful. The city
is considering other types of
screens that could be used to
shield the hole from public
view.
In other items Monday
night:
• The City Council ap-
peared ready to move ahead
with a two-year pilot program
on parklets.
The city would likely allow
two parklets downtown in the
experiment. The mini-parks
would be on side streets, not
on main thoroughfares, and
would be limited to roughly
the size of parking spaces.
Councilor Price asked city
staff to clarify the private and
public uses of parklets, which
would likely be tied to down-
town businesses.
Price also recommended
application and permit fees,
smoking bans and the use of
local materials in construc-
tion.
City Councilor Russ
Warr asked Dulcye Taylor,
the president of the Astoria
Downtown Historic District
Association, which supports
parklets, whether she was se-
rious about potentially giving
up parking spaces downtown.
Taylor, the owner of Old
Town Framing Co., said her
idea is to use former loading
zones for parklets.
City Manager Estes said
the owners of Astoria Coffee
House and Bistro and Cargo
on 11th Street and Downtown
Coffee Shop on 10th Street
have shown interest.
• City Councilor Drew
Herzig cautioned fellow
councilors about “microag-
gression,” a term used to de-
scribe Tuick, often subtle in-
sults or slights.
Herzig said he is “hoping
that the council will start to
examine itself as far as the use
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Warr, who presided over
the meeting Monday in May-
or Arline LaMear’s absence,
presumed Herzig was talking
about him. Warr acknowl-
edged he had been “impatient”
with Herzig at the meeting.
“Our meetings would be a
lot shorter if you would ¿nd a
way to con¿ne the time that
you spend talking into the
microphone,” he told Herzig.
“You use an inordinate — I
mean inordinate — amount of
council’s time in meetings. So
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going to do this.
“But I don’t mean to be
mean. I just mean to let you
know how I feel about it.”
Herzig told Warr he be-
lieves “democracy is worth all
the time we need to give to it.”
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