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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 2016
Service to the community
with a crown and a sash
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
Miss Clatsop County 2016
Ryen Buys was one of four
ambassadors of the Miss
Clatsop County Scholar-
ship Program at a recent Sea-
side Chamber of Commerce
breakfast.
The program provides
$6,000 in scholarship funds
for higher education.
“My platform is early
diagnosis for scoliosis,” said
Buys, a Seaside High School
senior and co-captain of the
cheerleading team. “I chose it
because I have scoliosis, and I
had to wear a back brace the
entire sixth-grade year, 20
hours a day.”
Buys stressed the impor-
tance of early diagnosis.
“I believe
it’s really
important for younger kids
in elementary school to get
diagnosed early so that they
have the opportunity to wear
a back brace like I did, instead
of having an invasive surgery
putting a metal rod in your
back, and making it very hard
for your everyday life,” she
said.
Buys and other titleholders
were crowned Feb. 20, Chelle
Sollars, president of the Miss
Clatsop County Scholarship
Program said.
“These girls are amazing,”
Sollars said. “All of these
Submitted Photo
The General Federation of Women’s Clubs Oregon do-
nated comforting toys, books and games for children
who have experienced abuse and neglect. The gifts will
be distributed by The Lighthouse for Kids and volun-
teer Court Appointed Special Advocates.
Women’s group donates
books and toys to children
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Nikkole Sasso, Caitlin Hillman, Chelle Sollars, Tess Rund and Ryen Buys.
girls have earned scholar-
ships. We’ve got eighth-grad-
ers sitting with money in
scholarship accounts waiting
for when they’re ready.”
Miss North Coast Teen
Tess Rund, 21, studies wom-
en’s and gender studies at the
University of Oregon.
“I had never been in the
pageant world before,” Rund
said. “I learned so much about
interview schools — it’s not
just the onstage stuff. It’s
the behind-the-scenes, meet-
ing people, service, network-
ing. That’s deinitely been
eye-opening.”
Nikkole Sasso, Miss North
Coast’s Outstanding Teen
2016, is a 14-year-old fresh-
man at Astoria High School.
Sasso became involved
with the program at age 5 as
a Miss Clatsop County prin-
cess, and said she loves vol-
unteering in the community, a
passion she learned from her
mother.
Eighth-grader Caitlin Hill-
man, Miss Clatsop Coun-
ty’s Outstanding Teen 2016,
attends Broadway Middle
School in Seaside.
“Dance is really my pas-
sion,” Hillman said. “I want
to share my love of dance
throughout the community,
and show how it has many
health beneits, not just a reg-
ular sport, but many health
aspects different from other
sports in our community.”
“I don’t think we realized
how much we impact other
people,” Buys said. “Every
time I’m in my crown and
sash little girls come up to me
with their faces lit up and say,
‘Oh my gosh, you’re a prin-
cess! You’re what I strive to
be.’ I didn’t know that would
happen. Every time I go out,
someone notices me.”
Seaside Masons award bikes to readers
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SEASIDE — Evergreen
Masonic Lodge in Seaside
sponsored the “Bikes For
Books” program to encourage
elementary school children to
read books. The program is
aimed at third, fourth and ifth
graders in the Seaside school
district.
During the month of May,
each time a student read a
book and reported on it, he or
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Marcel Atwi and Lauren Kropf of Seaside Heights Elemen-
tary School each won bicycles in a “Bikes for Books” draw-
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boy and one girl was drawn
to be the winner of a new
bicycle. Third grader Lauren
Kropf, and fourth grader Mar-
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ners. Two more bicycles are
being awarded at the Gear-
hart Elementary School on
June 16.
The General Federation
of Women’s Clubs (GFWC)
Oregon held its annual meet-
ing recently in Tolovana Park.
In existence since 1899, the
group has the motto “Growth
Through Service,” and under-
takes many projects beneiting
people in Oregon.
The service project this
year provided comforting toys,
books and games for children
who have experienced abuse
and neglect. The gifts will be
distributed by The Lighthouse
for Kids and volunteer Court
Appointed Special Advocates
(CASAs) in Clatsop County.
“Thank you, GFWC Ore-
gon,” Ann Lederer, CASA
Program Manager, said.
“Through your generosity, our
CASA volunteers will have
the great pleasure of bringing
a new, age-appropriate book to
a child in foster care who may
have had to leave their belong-
ings behind or who perhaps
haven’t had access to many
books.”
Marvin Bermudez, direc-
tor of The Lighthouse for Kids,
commented, “The good work
that the GFWC performs for
the families in our communities
requires a large army of caring
people. That is what this group
represents, a large army of ded-
icated caring women that take
the time to serve those that need
the most, our children. Thank
you, GFWC.”
Wheel Fun Rentals
offers free biking for Big
Brothers Big Sisters
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — Wheel Fun
Rentals, located at 151 Ave-
nue A, 407 S. Holladay Drive
and 15 First Ave. in Seaside, is
participating in the 10th year
of the Biking Buddies Pro-
gram, which gives free one-
hour rentals to Big Broth-
ers Big Sisters volunteers and
their Little Brothers and Sis-
ters. The program is valid for
either one multi-rider product
that they can ride together, or
two single-rider products that
they can use side-by-side, and
the program is unlimited.
For information about
Wheel Fun and the Biking
Buddies Program, go to http://
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