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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2015
Park: Plans for centennial celebration already in the works
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Chuck Lauderdale, one of
the fort builders, said. “We
were young enough. We
didn’t know it couldn’t be
done.”
Lauderdale
traveled
from Gold Canyon, Ariz.,
to attend the reunion of Fort
Clatsop builders. He was
joined by about a dozen
other builders, or family of
builders.
Fukami did extensive
Internet searches and net-
working to contact the
builders. She was able to
invite 18 builders and their
families out of the roughly
60 people who helped build
the site.
Ed Johansen and his sis-
ter, Carol Johansen, came
to the reunion on behalf of
their father, Arthur Johan-
sen, who excavated the land
for the fort to be built.
“He cleared where the
fort is,” Ed Johansen said.
“I remember going over
there and watching him.”
The builders’ work was
destroyed in 2005, when
Fort Clatsop caught fire.
Lauderdale recalls feel-
ing upset when he heard the
news, but relieved that the
fort was already designated
as a national monument so
a rebuild would happen fast.
National Park Service
carpenters and historians
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
Amelia Hillard, 3, of Astoria, watches a spider she caught
in the bug catching area at the National Park Service’s
99th birthday party Saturday at Netul Landing.
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
A model of Fort Clatsop built by the Lil’ Sprouts Academy Daffodil class sits on display
at the National Park Service’s 99th birthday party Saturday at Netul Landing.
came to accurately rebuild
the fort, which is currently
standing today at the park.
“That took the pressure
off the rebuild,” Lauderdale
said.
Centennial
celebration
Looking ahead toward
the National Park Service’s
centennial celebration next
year, Lewis and Clark Su-
perintendent Scott Tucker
said the park is preparing
to launch a yearlong fitness
challenge.
“I Would Walk 2016
Miles, Clatsop County
Team Fitness Challenge”
will launch in cooperation
with numerous community
partners Oct. 1.
“We are going to chal-
lenge residents of Clat-
sop County and beyond to
form teams of five to 10
to walk, run, bike, skate
or swim 2016 miles in 336
days,” Tucker said. “The
breakdown would be 3 to 5
miles per team member per
week.”
The park will use a mile-
age conversion table for all
types of activities including
yoga, weight training, ski-
ing and cardio workouts. In
addition, the park is work-
ing on a tracking mecha-
nism to allow participants
to log their miles and set up
group activities.
If the yearlong challenge
sounds intimidating, Tucker
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
From left, Colin, Debbie, and Jenessa Smith, of Corval-
lis, build paper badges during the National Park Service’s
99th birthday party.
said, the challenge can be
broken up into three 120-
day challenge events.
The park is hoping for 50
to 75 teams from the area to
participate.
Port: Knight estimated Smithart owes the Port and city about $400,000
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Hollander’s
company
manages Marriott hotels
in Puyallup and Tacoma,
Wash. The company operates
Crowne Plazas in downtown
Portland and near Seattle-Ta-
coma International Airport,
along with a Best Western
hotel and conference center
and a Holiday Inn Express in
Puyallup.
Knight said he was orga-
nizing another closed exec-
utive session for Tuesday, in
which Hollander would be
invited to pitch the Port Com-
mission on his vision. The
Port has set a public special
meeting for 10:30 a.m. Tues-
day regarding a short-term
lease for the Riverwalk Inn,
with a possible executive ses-
sion to follow.
Who’s stopping who?
Brad Smithart, the heav-
ily indebted operator of the
Riverwalk Inn waiting to be
evicted, came to The Daily
Astorian Wednesday to air his
grievances. Smithart said he
is not trying to stop the Port
from replacing him as opera-
tor.
Knight estimated Smithart
owes the Port and city about
$400,000. The Port terminat-
ed Smithart’s lease last month
and went to court to try and
evict him. But the parties
reached an amicable eviction
agreement and canceled the
case. Smithart is still operat-
ing the hotel as the Port tries
to ¿nd a new taker without
shutting the lodging down in
peak season.
Ganesh Sonpatki, a Port-
land operator of budget ho-
tels who has long courted
Smithart, and Astoria native
William Orr, a lawyer and
seafood salesman in Seattle
who has partnered with for-
mer Hotel Elliott and Nos.
1 and 10 Sixth St. developer
Chester Trabucco, also made
presentations to the Port last
month. Both suitors said they
had made at least $350,000
available to pay off all Smi-
thart’s debts and take over
operation of the Riverwalk
Inn immediately, adding they
have received limited com-
munication from the Port.
“Cash the check, or wipe
the debt and stop slandering
my name in public,” Smithart
said Wednesday.
But Knight said the Port,
which terminated Smithart’s
lease last month, has no lease
it can assign to another oper-
ator.
“I’m past being able to
believe anything from Brad,”
Knight said.
The Kancharla family,
which runs adult foster homes
and a restaurant in Astoria, had
also been interested in the Riv-
erwalk Inn, but pulled out after
reviewing the hotel’s ¿nances.
“The Kancharlas told me
over 5,000 rooms had been
prebooked,” Knight said, add-
ing an unknown number of
the rooms have been prepaid.
The Port Commission in
March 2012 sided with Smi-
thart and partner Seth Davis’
proposal to reopen the hotel
over a competing propos-
al by the signi¿cantly more
well-established Williams/
Dame & Associates, which
wanted the Port to tear the
former Red Lion down before
it would build a new hotel and
redevelop the surrounding
boardwalk.
The commission gave
Smithart and Davis a ¿ve-year
lease running through most of
2017, later providing a break
on rent in the winter months.
A common sentiment is
that Smithart might be taking
money from the hotel and put-
ting it into the Arc Arcade, a
business in downtown Astoria
he opened last summer, during
another time when he was fall-
ing behind at the hotel.
But Smithart said the ar-
cade machines came from
friends, family and his own
collection, with little over-
head to start the business be-
sides putting in utilities and
painting. “My sister and kids
are down there,” he said. “I ¿x
the games.”
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