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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2016
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Dog owners introduce their Newfoundland dogs to the crowd during Seaman’s Day. More photos of Seaman’s Day online at www.dailyastorian.com
Newfoundlands: ‘They are very peaceful, calming creatures’
day, each of the dogs still
Àopped down or dug at the
bark in search of a cooler
surface.
“I don’t know where he
learned this, but Wookie will
get in the bathtub and bark
until someone brings him a
bucket of ice. Then he rolls
around in it,” said Jill Boivin,
Ben’s mother.
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Newfoundlands
in history
Sally Freeman, who
works at the park, led the
afternoon filled with history
about Seaman’s life. Free-
man explained how Lewis’
journals went in-depth about
different ways Seaman
hunted, herded and even
acted as a diplomat while
impressing parties that the
expedition met along the
way.
Today, a lot Newfound-
lands are trained for water
rescue as they have evolved
to be great swimmers. “See
here,” Freeman said, point-
ing at one of the dog’s paws,
“they don’t have big spaces
like we do, they have webbed
feet.”
Returning visitors
and new faces
Some of the crowd hap-
pened across Seaman’s Day
unknowingly when they
came to see Fort Clatsop.
Others, like Girl Scout Troop
10131, made the trip speci¿-
cally for the event. The park
Part of the family
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Elise DeChaine Ghiglieri feeds treats to Newfoundland
dogs during Seaman’s Day.
Ghallagher, a Newfoundland from Portland, rests during
Seaman’s Day on Wednesday at Fort Clatsop.
had a kid’s section where
young visitors dressed like
dogs with face painting and
Àoppy paper ears.
Zoey Koehler was one of
the young attendees with the
scouts on a trip from Siletz.
The group timed the trip so
they could get their Lewis
and Clark badges and see the
big dogs. “They’re huge! But
so nice,” said Koehler. The
8-year-old doesn’t have any
dogs of her own, but said
seeing the Newfoundlands
was one of her favorite parts
of the trip.
Big dogs
and big messes
One of Pete Forgey’s three
Newfoundlands, Buddy, is
almost 10 years old and the
mascot at Lewis & Clark
College in Portland.
“There’s a couple of draw-
backs. If you are a meticu-
lous housecleaner, it’s not
gonna work,” Forgey said of
tending to the dogs.
Forgey is always cleaning
up fur. “I groom him about 15
to 20 minutes a day and then
take him to get a bath once a
week,” he said of Buddy.
Pointing at the Fort, he
said, “He could throw drool
onto the roof there.”
“Nothing is unwashable,”
Elise DeChaine Ghiglieri
said while wiping drool from
her pant leg. Like most of the
handlers at the Fort, she car-
ried a towel to catch the sali-
vary chains coming from her
dog’s mouth. “If it isn’t, I
don’t own it.”
Her dog, Ghallager,
weighs almost 160 pounds
and had two large trails of
drool hanging off his mouth
as he smiled at the crowd.
The thick fur on New-
foundlands would have been
bene¿cial for the harsh win-
ters Lewis and Clark faced,
but can make living in
warmer climates dif¿cult.
While clouds provided an
overcast cover on Wednes-
Each handler had a story
about an eaten television
remote or their pet escaping,
but ultimately said what great
companions they make.
“They are very peace-
ful, calming creatures,” said
Forgey.
Aside from occasionally
demanding an ice bath and
being mistaken for a bear,
Wookie has not been a prob-
lematic part of the Boivin
family.
“He escaped one night
and a woman saw him in the
street and called 911 report-
ing that he was a bear,” Ben
Boivin said. “Thankfully my
dad spotted Wookie and was
able to run out and explain
that he was a just a dog.”
Store: ‘This is not a new rodeo
for us; we’ve done this before’
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Corp., which hopes to open a
Mo’s Restaurant there.
Some community mem-
bers, concerned about park-
ing issues and the possibility
of more competition hurt-
ing smaller restaurants, have
Àinched at the thought of
the Mo’s chain moving into
downtown Astoria. Others
are welcoming the enterprise
as a promising economic
driver.
A Planning Commission
hearing on the family-owned
seafood company’s condi-
tional use permit is scheduled
for 6:30 p.m. Aug. 2 at City
Hall, Community Develop-
ment Director Kevin Cronin
con¿rmed.
“I have no one-way-or-
the-other on Mo’s. It’s irrel-
evant to me,” Tuter said. But
the Englunds have been “great
people and really easy to work
with, and we’ve appreciated
the time we’ve had in their
facility, that’s for sure. It’s
been good to us.”
‘Not a new rodeo’
Astoria Vintage Hardware,
which refurbishes and resells
People walk past Bargains
Galore on Wednesday in
Astoria. Bargains Galore,
located at 1162 Marine
Drive, will be the new
location of Astoria Vintage
Hardware.
‘We’ve been doing
everything that we can to
try to find a place. And,
unexpectedly, it walked in
the front door.’
Paul Tuter
co-owner of Vintage Hardware
antique pieces of furniture and
architecture, moved into the
Englund building Mother’s
Day weekend of 2014. The
Bargains Galore space will be
the shop’s ¿fth home in eight
years.
“This is not a new rodeo for
us; we’ve done this before,”
Johnson said.
Though she and Tuter
weren’t looking forward to
moving again, they will have
a long-term lease with Brugh.
Johnson said the new space
will meet all of the shop’s
needs.
“Even though it’s smaller
than what we have currently,
we will be able to work within
the boundaries, the square
footage,” Johnson said.
Because the site lies
between Marine Drive and the
Astoria Riverwalk, the hard-
ware store will have similar
visibility.
Astoria Vintage Hardware
will likely move in incre-
ments over the next 2 1/2
months, Johnson said. There’s
a sign-up sheet at the business
for people to write down how
they can help.
After word got out that the
store faced eviction, the com-
munity stepped up to offer
leads and suggestions. “Every-
one has been so amazing and
helpful,” Johnson said.
The Daily Astorian spoke
with Brugh, but he declined to
speak on the record.
“We’ve been doing every-
thing that we can to try to ¿nd
a place,” Tuter said. “And,
unexpectedly, it walked in the
front door.”
Danny Miller
The Daily Astorian
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