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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2015
Parade: ‘It’s all for the children’
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The festival includes the
Queen’s Coronation today,
the Seamen’s Memorial
Friday, the Grand Land Pa-
rade Saturday and a summer
pops concert Sunday.
The Daily Astorian
A wheelbarrow ride
In keeping with tradition,
Claire Helligso, last year’s
queen, and the rest of the
Regatta Court rode out the
Junior Parade in wheelbar-
rows.
“It was a little bumpy,”
Helligso said. That, and
leaning one side or another
could make the wheelbar-
row tip.
Behind the court, chil-
dren in strollers, on bicycles
and on foot traveled the pa-
rade route with adults and
the occasional dog.
Arlene Landwehr re-
members when she and her
brother were in the parade
when they were young. She
was dressed as Sacagawea
and he was a Native Ameri-
can, she recalled.
Wednesday was the first
time in a long time she had
been to the Junior Parade.
Her husband, Bill Landwehr
— alias “Stubby,” of the As-
toria Clowns — participated
in the parade sporting red,
white and blue hair.
Kevin
Leahy,
the
co-president of the Re-
gatta, also has childhood
memories of the parade.
He remembers that when
Astoria Regatta parade
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Photos by Joshua Bessex/
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ABOVE: Police Chief Brad
Johnston takes a self-
ie with the winner of the
costume contest Katelynn
McCauley. LEFT: From left:
Dominic Nowlin, 3, David
Nowlin, 10, Wyatt Jackson,
7, Sophie Alsbury, 8, Pay-
ton Harper, 8, and Avery
Biederman, 9, wait for the
start of the Astoria Regat-
ta Junior Parade Wednes-
day.
he was 4 years old, he was
in a covered wagon, en-
closed and away from the
crowd.
“And I said to my friends,
‘Wait a minute, why am I in
here?’” Leahy recalled.
Wonder Woman
Katelynn McCauley won
the costume contest and the
honor of riding with Astoria
Police Chief Brad Johnston
during the parade. McCau-
ley, who is 4 years old, was
dressed as Wonder Woman.
“She was the best pas-
senger I’ve had in a long
time,” Johnston said. “De-
spite my best efforts, I
couldn’t make her dizzy,”
he added.
With the Astoria Re-
gatta’s Grand Land Pa-
rade beginning at noon
Saturday, the Astoria
Police Department is re-
minding residents that
traffic will be disrupted
through downtown.
Exchange Street will
be closed between 23rd
and 16th streets starting
at 8 a.m. Saturday.
Columbia Memorial
Hospital, its urgent care
and the Park Medical
Building will be acces-
sible from Marine Drive
at 20th, 21st and 23rd
streets.
Exchange and Duane
Street between 17th and
9th streets will have no
on-street parking Satur-
day until the parade ends.
The no parking areas will
be signed and any vehi-
cles parked at those loca-
tions will be removed by
a tow truck, according to
police.
Owners will be re-
sponsible for tow fees.
The parade was spon-
sored by the Kiwanis Clubs
of Astoria and Warrenton,
which also handed out free
ice cream bars.
Frank Spence joined Ki-
wanis in 1968. He has lived
At about 10 a.m. Sat-
urday, all streets that
travel north or south will
be closed between Com-
mercial Street and Frank-
lin Street between 17th
and 8th streets.
The traffic disruptions
will last until the parade
ends and the streets have
been swept.
U.S. Highway 30 will
remain open, but may
have delays due to pe-
destrian traffic and floats
moving to the disband
area. Traffic needing to
get to or from the south
slope of Astoria should
use unaffected, alternate
routes, police suggest.
“We appreciate the
community’s patience in
dealing with the traffic
disruptions that occur
during the parade each
year,” Deputy Chief Eric
Halverson said. “Our
goal is to limit the dis-
ruptions for the motor-
ing public, while pro-
viding a safe route for
people to view the pro-
cession.”
in Astoria for two years af-
ter moving from his long-
time home in Florida. For
him, the parade has a very
specific focus.
“It’s all for the chil-
dren,” he said.
Zone: ‘It doesn’t give you room to breathe’
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Competitors at the 2014 event.
Seaside: Event brought in
thousands of people last year
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Camacho gained fame for
his brash, hard play and tat-
toos. He was the player fans
loved to hate.
“Not too many people like
cheering for me,” he told a
reporter in 2006. “But I like it
like that. I like to spice up the
crowd and get them going.”
Faced with the prospect of
a Seaside tournament without
Camacho, one of his friends
from Portland decided to rec-
tify the problem.
Tim Foksha started a Go-
FundMe account, called “Let
Dana Play,” to fundraise for
Camacho’s plane ticket and
lodging while he competes. In
exchange, Camacho is partner-
ing with 29-year-old Roman
Onishchenko, also of Port-
land. Onishchenko has tried
to win the open division at
the Seaside tournament since
2004 without luck, although
he’s placed in the top 10 a few
times, said Foksha, who is the
player’s manager.
“My goal for this year was
to make two dreams come
true,” Foksha said. “Onish-
chenko will get a chance to
play with someone at a very
high caliber — arguably, the
highest in the Northwest. And
Dana Camacho will get some
help from all of us who want
to see him play another day.
That is what the GoFundMe is
about. It’s not about the mon-
ey; it’s about us — the peo-
ple and who we want to see
again.”
Fueled by social media
Not realizing how many
fans Camacho had, the group
didn’t expect to get anything,
Onishchenko said. To their sur-
prise, by continually spreading
the link to the GoFundMe ac-
count through social media,
such as the Seaside Chamber
of Commerce’s Facebook
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Thousands of people flock to Seaside each summer for
the annual Seaside Beach Volleyball Tournament, the
world’s largest amateur beach volleyball tournament,
sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce.
page, they were able to raise
about $845 between 28 donors
as of Monday. The money was
enough to purchase the plane
ticket Camacho needed, and
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a few weeks ago.
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working to become a profes-
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he played in Seaside was the
same year he started playing
beach volleyball,
“When I was at that tour-
nament, I got so drawn into
the sport,” he said. “It doesn’t
get much better than being at
a beach on the sand in warm
weather playing a very active
sport. The volleyball commu-
nity is very close and friendly.”
The annual volleyball event
is hosted by the Seaside Cham-
ber of Commerce and spon-
sored by Bud Light.
As of Monday, more than
1,300 teams of two had reg-
istered for the tournament,
which began in 1982 and is
now the largest beach volley-
ball tournament in the world.
That number does not include
the teams for the quad and
sixes divisions, who have to
register at the event. The tour-
nament showcases a diversity
of divisions and age groups,
from 12-year-olds to senior
citizens.
The youth divisions in par-
ticular have seen substantial
growth in registration over the
years, Chamber of Commerce
Director Susan Huntington
said. Beach volleyball became
an emerging NCAA sport for
women in 2009. Since then,
with the inclusion of all three
collegiate divisions, the sport
has advanced to become a full-
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starting next spring. Many col-
leges nationwide are now giv-
ing scholarships for beach vol-
leyball, and Huntington said
she believes that has helped
increase participation in the
junior divisions.
Prizes vary depending on
the division; some winning
teams receive prize money,
while others receive prizes
from event sponsors.
The tournament, which
takes place throughout more
than 100 courts, can be
viewed for free by the public.
It runs daily from 8:30 a.m. to
6 p.m.
• For more information,
visit www.seasidebeachvol-
leyball.com
The initiative would ex-
pand warning areas west over
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to 50,000 feet above mean
sea level. More worrisome
to the Port is the creation of
the Eel Military Operations
Area from 11,000 to 18,000
feet along the Oregon Coast
from Astoria to Lincoln City,
along with a small portion
over southwest Washington
state.
“This training airspace
will help us produce the best
air-to-air combat pilots, and
serve our state and nation
in times of peace and war,”
Lt. Col. Alaric Michaelis
from the Oregon Air Nation-
al Guard said in a release
Wednesday. “It also serves
the mission of the 142nd
Fighter Wing, as it provides
unequaled,
mission-ready
aerospace superiority.”
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F-15 Eagles from the 142nd (background) and 173rd (fore-
ground) fighter wings, based in Portland and Klamath
Falls, fly over the Oregon Coast. The Oregon Air National
Guard is proposing new training areas over the coast and
central and eastern Oregon.
have said there are a lot of jets
coming to the airport in War-
renton, often corporate repre-
sentatives and people going
to South County. Raichl said
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that level would not affect the training zones have choked
U.S. Coast Guard, Camp Rilea airspace in Nevada. He said
or pilots based at the airport, the Port should oppose the
Port Commission Chairman planned coastal training zone
John Raichl said, but will af- and two others over central
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airport.
The Aircraft Owners and
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to oppose the training area.
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bell, who is also a pilot. “It Duke, the association’s direc-
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only F-15 training school in the
U.S. Air Force, training pilots
from across the military.
The Air National Guard is
holding meetings across the
state so the public can comment
on a draft environmental re-
view of the initiative released in
late July. The meetings start in
Tillamook Tuesday and move
to the Loft at the Red Build-
ing in Astoria from 6 to 9 p.m.
Wednesday, before moving to
Condon, Burns and Prineville.
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