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DailyAstorian.com // THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2016
143RD YEAR, NO. 256
ONE DOLLAR
OREGON
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FORT BRIGADE
MANIFESTO
Better
bucks
in the
offi ng
Friday marks
the fi rst step
toward a higher
minimum wage
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
About half of Deschutes Brew-
ery’s 500 employees will receive
a raise when Oregon’s new three-
tier minimum wage law kicks
in Friday. Customers also might
notice a change: Menu items at its
brew pubs are climbing by about
50 cents each to cover the cost of
the wage increase, said company
founder Gary Fish.
“There is a direct correlation,”
Fish said. “We don’t cut staff
because we don’t schedule people
when we’re not busy. If, because
we raise prices, volume drops, then
we don’t need to schedule as many
people. We will deal with that at
that time.”
See WAGE, Page 12A
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Trish Bright, Museum of Whimsy owner and curator, chats with visitors to the museum during the grand opening Saturday in Astoria.
A collection of
quirky curios are
housed in historic
Bank of Astoria
building
IF YOU GO
The museum is open 11 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Friday through
Monday. Admission is $10 for
individuals, $20 for families.
Children under 6 are welcome
but must be supervised at all
times because of the muse-
um’s fragile contents.
By ERICK BENGEL
The Daily Astorian
ntering the new Museum of
Whimsy in downtown Asto-
ria is like entering the mad-
cap mind of Trish Bright,
the museum’s owner and
curator from Kirkland,
Washington, who held a
grand opening Saturday.
Housed in the historic Bank of
Astoria building on 12th and Duane
streets, the museum contains curios
so unusual that many defy classifi -
cation — even description — hence,
the ultra-inclusive term “whimsy.”
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Jackie Bleech, left, and Nikki Fletcher take a look at specialty candy in
the candy shop during the grand opening of the Museum of Whimsy
on Saturday in Astoria. More photos online at DailyAstorian.com
“My husband says the defi ni-
tion of ‘whimsy’ is ‘anything Trish
likes,’” she said, laughing.
Something else her husband,
Walter Bright, says: Trish will never
fi nd a room too big to fi ll.
In the bank building, hundreds
of quirky items that Trish has col-
lected over a lifetime — plus a
handful of pieces she commis-
sioned for the museum — fi ll the
vast ground fl oor and the luxurious
Banker’s Suite above it.
Her “whimsies” include a large
wooden Jesus carved in crucifi xion
pose; authentic Iroquois beadwork,
African art and ceremonial cloth-
ing; refurbished Victorian furniture;
a set of eerie Edward Gorey-esque
fi gurines; a “fl ying” toaster with
attached goose wings; a Works
Progress Administration mural with
See MUSEUM, Page 12A
Fresh Foods Cannon Beach opens its doors
Ribbon-cutting celebrates
town’s new grocery store
By LYRA FONTAINE
The Daily Astorian
Cannon Beach now has a full-service gro-
cery store, Fresh Foods Cannon Beach .
City offi cials, Chamber of Commerce
directors, local businesspeople, architects
and neighbors joined Fresh Foods owners
and staff Wednesday morning to celebrate the
market’s opening with a ribbon -cutting.
“It’s a big day for the Fresh Foods family,”
co-owner Jon Welsh said to the crowd. “We
wanted to bring something special to Cannon
Beach. This is your store.”
Now that Fresh Foods is open, Cannon
Beach resident Krista Tye is excited to have a
See STORE, Page 5A
Lyra Fontaine/ The Daily Astorian
Chamber board member Kevan Ridgway presents Fresh Foods Can-
non Beach owners Tim Welsh, James Welsh and Jon Welsh with a
welcome plaque from the Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce.
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Elementary
school leader
reminisces about
her long tenure
By KATHERINE LACAZE
For The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — It is a typical
midweek morning, and Seaside
Heights Elementary School Prin-
cipal Sande Brown is stationed at
her habitual post outside the main
entrance to smile, wave and con-
verse with students as they disem-
bark from buses and cars and trek
into the building.
“The best part of the day is
greeting kids as they come to
school,” she says.
During the past
2 1/2 decades, her
place — the place
she worked, loved,
invested her time
and developed pro-
fessionally and per-
Sande
sonally — has been
Brown
in the halls of Sea-
side schools. Today, the curtains
will close on that stage of her life
when she retires.
Refl ecting back on her career,
Brown said, “I think the thing I’ve
enjoyed the most is working with
children and families to make their
lives better, and that could be in a
variety of ways.”
With emotion, she explained
See BROWN, Page 5A
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