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7A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2016 Mazzarella: Her father, a songwriter, died when she was 18 Continued from Page 1A Instead, she paints, practices music and gets involved in local causes and activities that mean something to her. “And I’m good at being poor — so good at being poor,” she said, laughing. “I almost prefer it.” Though she grew up sol- idly middle class, her parents chose to spend much of their extra income on family vaca- tions rather than conventional material luxuries — a habit that Mazzarella carried with her into adulthood. “I live off so little money to get by because I’m just squir- reling it away for plane tick- ets. And as soon as I have that amount, I just buy the ticket,” she said. “That’s just sort of how my brain works.” Wanderlust At 35, Mazzarella has seen an impressive amount of the West- Submitted Photo Andrea Mazzarella at the Astoria Regatta in 2013. ern Hemisphere: She’s traveled across the U.S. and to Canada, Central America and the Carib- bean and Hawaiian islands. When she attended massage school in Eugene, her intention was to “someday live and work in a beautiful tropical location so I could pretend like I was on vacation all the time.” And so, for several years, she worked as a massage therapist on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. World travel is one expe- rience, she said, that helps her become more aware of the beauty and impermanence of the present moment. “It’s easier for me to stay in the moment when I’m traveling because I feel like it’s this time that I don’t take for granted. It’s not just my regular life — it’s vacation. So I can go sit in a coffee shop when I’m on vaca- tion or traveling, and it’s just the richest experience — every color, every person that walks by, the smells, everything. I’m fully in it,” she said. “I want to live like that all the time, but I’m not good at living like that all the time. “But when I’m traveling, I just get into that zone.” Early on in her excursions abroad, she began noticing the universals, the common denom- inators of humanity. Wherever she went, people went out for coffee (or their culture’s equiv- alent), played with their kids and did their best to have good days. “Even if there’s things that seem vastly different, there’s still just basic things about humans that are all kind of the same — wanting the same things and wanting to relate to each other,” she said. Like father, like daughter By its and starts, Mazzarella has been working on a proj- ect that, if she can pull it off, will be a powerful and poignant achievement. Her father, a songwriter, died of cancer in 1999 when Mazza- rella was 18. Among the posses- sions she inherited from him are his acoustic guitar and a note- book full of his songs with the chords written above the lyrics. Mazzarella — a singer who dabbles in piano, guitar, uku- lele, bass and drums — has been trying to rework some of those songs, hoping to record and per- form them one day. “I don’t know the melodies that he sang. I know that he was really into folk and country and blues,” she said. “I could try to strum the guitar and try to sing them in a way that he did, but I don’t know what that sounded like. So it’s me just seeing the chords and the words, and I can make up the melody within that framework.” It’s a pretty heavy pastime, she said. Many of her father’s songs are quite personal, touch- ing not just on places he lived and women he loved but his very philosophy of life. “There’s songs about search- ing for meaning within his life and feeling really lost, and I feel like, in a lot of ways, I relate so much to him,” she said. Unable to talk about such things with her father, Mazza- rella feels as if she’s getting to know him on an entirely new level, through the art he left behind. And when the father-daugh- ter collaboration is inished, she plans to name the album after a line he wrote on an otherwise blank page: “Ain’t dead yet.” — Erick Bengel Berdes: ‘John dedicated his life to helping those around him’ Continued from Page 1A His partnership with Paul Benoit, the former city man- ager and community develop- ment director, to help transform a brownield at the old Asto- ria Plywood Cooperative into the Mill Pond housing project led to one of the city’s signature achievements. “No bank wanted to touch a contaminated site,” Benoit recalled in a text message. He said Berdes “immediately got it. He understood what the project meant to Astoria and he intuitively understood that it had a possibility for transformational change.” After the plywood mill closed in 1989, costing the city jobs and leaving an environ- mental challenge, it took sev- eral years for city planners to come up with a redevelopment strategy for the east side. The city’s Gateway plan covered the mill and the former fairgrounds and eventually led to the Asto- ria Aquatic Center, the Oregon State University Seafood Lab and the movie theater. Benoit described Berdes as “amazingly intelligent and intuitive. He also had a very big heart. He helped people — neighbors and others in the region — reworking loan terms to assist a borrower in distress or, at times, providing quiet assistance from his own means to help neighbors.” Greg Hamann, the former president of Clatsop Community College, called Berdes “a friend that I valued and loved dearly. “And beyond — or perhaps because of — that friendship, John was soon to become a crit- ical contributor to the complex funding amalgam that consti- tuted the inancial foundation for the reconstruction of the Clatsop Community College campus.” Hamann said Berdes intro- duced him to the federal New Market Tax Credit program as a source of funding for college improvements. The college was able to build Columbia Hall and renovate other buildings with the help of Craft3. “None of this would have happened without John’s patience, persistence, and com- mitment to Clatsop College and the Clatsop County community, for which I am eternally grate- ful,” Hamann said. Steve Forrester, the editor and publisher of The Daily Astorian and the founding president of Lib- erty Restoration Inc., said Berdes was the nonproit’s bridge to the Meyer Memorial Trust, which helped underwrite improvements to the Liberty Theater. “John was key to helping Liberty obtain one of Meyer’s irst loans at a key moment in the restoration,” Forrester said in an email. Berdes, who lived in Seattle, earned his bachelor’s degree in urban studies from Oberlin Col- lege in Ohio. He was a commu- nity coordinator for the Capi- tol Hill Community Council in Seattle, the founding executive director of Capitol Hill Hous- ing, and senior program direc- tor for the Local Initiatives Sup- port Corp. He joined Craft3 — then called ShoreBank — in 1995, a year after the nonproit was created. Craft3 is a community development inancial insti- tution that provides loans and other assistance to people and businesses that may not have access to traditional inancing. The nonproit has invested about $390 million in Oregon and Washington state, including more than $48 million in Clat- sop County and Paciic County through 328 loans. “We have lost a leader, a mentor, and a friend — but John left in his wake a strong organization and legacy,” Steve McConnell, the chairman of the Craft3 board of directors, said in a statement. “Craft3 has the impact it has because John was strong, determined, deeply thoughtful, and frequently brilliant. “John dedicated his life to helping those around him, and the greater Craft3 and commu- nity development families will miss him terribly. We ask that you keep his family in your thoughts.” 70 Help Wanted THE DAILY ASTORIAN P.O . 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Hemlock Street in Cannon Beach Join the Lumʼs Team! •Sales Associates •Detail Tech •Customer Service Rep •Express Lube Tech •Service Appt Rep (Exp Desired) Seeking great customer service skills and awesome attitude! Experience not required. Willing to train. Valid driverʼs license. Proudly a drug free workplace. Apply at 1605 SE Ensign Lane, Warrenton, OR LIBRARY AIDE - Part-time (18 hours per week) Willing to work Saturdays and Sundays and evenings hours. Salary: $13.52 per hour. Openings for: •Experienced Sales Manager •Oyster Dredge Operator •Maintenance Manager •Farm Workers Application are available at Seaside City Hall, 989 Broadway Please forward resume to recruit@goosepoint.com or through our website at www.cityofseaside.us. or apply at processing facility 7081 Niawaukum St. Hwy 101, Bay Center. Application deadline is 5:00 PM on Thursday, June 16, 2016. E.O.E.
