Readers’ Choice Awards
BEST PLACE FOR A PICNIC
The Beach
Runner-up: Astoria Column, Astoria
Honorable Mention: Coffenbury Lake,Warrenton
By DWIGHT CASWELL
Beach was dressed entire-
ly in her signature white and
leaned expansively against a
cliff. “This is so much better
than last year,” she said, dip-
ping her toes in the waves.
It had been a year since I
last interviewed Beach, and
indeed she seemed even more
cheerful than on that occasion.
“Better in what way?” I asked.
“Well, last year readers
named me ‘best cheap date.’ I’m
sure they meant it as a compli-
ment, but really, who wants to
be known as a cheap date? This
year I get to be ‘best place for a
picnic,’ which is much classier.”
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“Isn’t it pretty much the
same thing?”
“2h no.” Beach was de¿nite
about this. “With cheap dates I
never know what’s going on
in my beach grass, and with
picnics I get to meet families
with beach chairs and hampers
¿lled with sandwiches, which
my gulls like, and all kinds of
other good things. Every now
and then there’s a class act who
brings some Oregon pinot noir.”
Beach explained that she
likes it when people, “especially
with their Labradors and Boston
terriers and frisbees,” run on the
Photo by Dwight Caswell
There’s no better place to have a picnic than on the beach — at least according to readers
who voted in this year’s Readers’ Choice Awards.
dinin g out
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Cannon Beach
Patty’s
Wicker
Cafe
Closed in December
for Remodel
Watch in January
for our
Grand Re-Opening!
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Harbor
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503.755.1818
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Favorite stop to & from the Coast
hard sand by the water, “and I
just love it when everybody gets
together and we play games.”
Beach said she wants people
to know they should (“although
I hate that word, ‘should’”)
stay as long as possible. “My
sunsets are probably my best
feature, even though Sky and
Clouds do most of the work.”
So next time you visit
Beach, bring a hamper of food,
build a driftwood fort, and
wait for sunset. “There’s noth-
ing more fun,” Beach told me,
“than sitting around a bon¿re at
night with some of my friends.”
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Gearhart
503-717-8150
www.mcmenamins.com
On the Beautiful
Necanicum River
Breakfast & Lunch
600 Broadway Ste 7 & 8 -Seaside
503.717.1272
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