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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2016
Mazzarella: Her father, a songwriter, died when she was 18
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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’
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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.”
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