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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2016
Seaside High School choir takes it on the road
Choir enjoys
‘the happiest
place on earth’
By KATHERINE
LACAZE
For The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — After three
years, dozens of fundrais-
ers and measureless amounts
of determination, the Seaside
High School choir is on the
cusp of accomplishing a much
sought after goal, cultivated by
music teacher and choir director
Vanessa Rush.
From June 16 to June 19,
about 35 choir students will
travel to Anaheim to perform at
Disneyland .
Rush, who took a similar
trip to Disneyland twice in high
school as part of a choir, said, “I
got to experience it myself as a
student and I know how amaz-
ing it was.”
“Of all of the trips we took
as a choir, that was my favor-
ite,” she said, adding it was a
special opportunity to travel
and do an activity she loved
with friends in what is dubbed
Submitted P hoto
Seaside High School Choir students react after learning
they placed first in the Cowapa League and qualified to
attend the state championship.
“the happiest place on earth.”
Rush hoped to take the stu-
dents at the end of the 2013-14
school year, her fi rst year teach-
ing at the high school. She real-
ized planning and fundraising
would take longer than she orig-
inally thought. Living in such
a small community, she said,
“the fundraising opportunities
are hard to come by,” especially
with the town supporting several
school-related programs and
projects simultaneously.
Rush joined forces with
Danita Pappas, a local substi-
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ALBANY — Nine coun-
ties are suing the state, claim-
ing Oregon’s new paid sick-
leave law is an unfunded
government mandate.
KEZI-TV reported that
Linn County commissioners
filed the suit Friday in Linn
County Circuit Court. They
were joined by Douglas, Jef-
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LOTTERIES
The commissioners are
asking the state court for
its interpretation of the con-
stitution, which states they
may refuse to comply with
any state law if they aren’t
given funding from the
state.
Linn County Commis-
sioner Roger Nyquist said
the county can’t afford any
additional costs.
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May 27, 2016
ROWE, James Arthur, 70,
of Seaside, died in Seaside.
Hughes-Ransom
Mortuary
& Crematory in Seaside is in
charge of arrangements. Go to
www.hughes-ransom.com to
share memories and sign the
guest book.
May 28, 2016
WILSON, Jennifer Louise,
35, of Warrenton, died in Port-
land. Hughes-Ransom Mortu-
ary & Crematory in Astoria is
in charge of arrangements. Go
to www.hughes-ransom.com
to share memories and sign the
guest book.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
TUESDAY
Port of Astoria Budget Commit-
tee, noon, old Port offi ces, 422
Gateway Ave.
Astoria Community Emergency
Preparedness Forum, 6 p.m., Lib-
erty Theater, 1203 Commercial St.
WEDNESDAY
Seaside Improvement Com-
mission, 7 p.m., City Hall,
989 Broadway.
Gearhart City Council, 7
p.m., City Hall, 698 Pacific
Way.
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pair had beached their 15-foot
boat on the island and texted
friends and family for help.
An MH-60 Jayhawk heli-
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Astoria and a boat crew from
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Going to state
The Disneyland trip is a
feather in the cap of a suc-
cessful competitive year for
the Seaside choir. In April, the
choir took fi rst place in the 4A
Cowapa League at a regional
choir festival, which automat-
ically qualifi ed the group to
attend the state championship
in May . It has been at least 10
years since the school’s choir
last qualifi ed for the state com-
petition, Rush said.
At the championship, she
said, the choir took 11th place.
“The students performed
really well,” Rush said . “We
were really proud of the per-
formance they gave.”
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stressful, because we’re per-
forming in a month,” she said.
In between the scheduled
activities for the trip, the stu-
dents can explore the theme
park. Rush has heard from
many students that it will be
their fi rst time visiting Disney-
land, and the excitement level
is high, she said.
“A lot of these students
have never even been outside
of Seaside, let alone Oregon,”
she said.
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WESTPORT — Two peo-
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after their small boat was
swamped by a passing ship in
the Columbia River were res-
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Sunday night.
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a 29-year-old man were taken
to Westport, according to the
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SUN AND MOON
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SATURDAY
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Precipitation
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Astoria through Monday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 69°/42°
Normal high/low ........................... 62°/48°
Record high ............................ 79° in 1924
Record low ............................. 38° in 1943
The choir students are
doing a workshop June 16,
the fi rst day they arrive at Dis-
neyland. During a record-
ing studio simulation, the stu-
dents will work with a Disney
clinician. Each using their
own microphone and head-
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Mixing business
with pleasure
set, the students will sight-
read sheet music for a Disney
song. Afterward, they will get
to view a Disney video on a
big screen with their record-
ing played back as accompa-
niment. Of multiple workshop
options, Rush said, “that is by
far the most exciting one.”
The following day, June 17,
the students will perform their
“Totally Awesome ’80s” musi-
cal revue, a performance they
put on in Seaside in Decem-
ber 2015 and the production
they used for their Disneyland
audition video. The “Awesome
’80s production,” Rush said,
“made the most sense for Dis-
neyland since there is dancing
and costumes.” Some chore-
ography is being tweaked for
the Disneyland performance,
since not all the jazz choir stu-
dents nor students from the
musical revue class will be
going on the trip.
Since the students have
not performed the “Awe-
some ’80s” production since
the winter, Rush said they are
spending a lot of time during
class and after school brushing
up the piece.
“In that aspect it is a little
Coast Guard rescues two
people stranded on island
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tute teacher, who is acting as
the group’s tour manager. Pap-
pas recently took a similar trip
to Disneyland with students as
a teacher in a different school
district. She is making reserva-
tions, budgeting and overseeing
the details.
Meanwhile, the choir stu-
dents have embarked on several
fundraising endeavors to help
fi nance the trip. During the past
couple years, they have hosted
a jazz and dessert night, held
silent auctions at concerts, per-
formed at the Tillamook Head
Gathering this and last year,
fundraised through winter musi-
cal revues, sold wreaths and
Krispy Kreme donuts and much
more. So far, they have raised
about $15,000, and personally
contributed another $10,000
toward their portions of the cost.
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