WARRENTON HIGH SCHOOL FALL SPORTS PREVIEW PAGE 9A 144TH YEAR, NO. 42 DailyAstorian.com // MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 2016 HOOD TO COAST REBOUNDS IN SEASIDE ONE DOLLAR Seaside, Charter have signals crossed Charter is last link in road completion By R.J. MARX The Daily Astorian Photos by Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian Bryan Turner was the first runner to cross the Hood to Coast finish line in Seaside shortly after 8 a.m. Saturday. Following is his team, Med 18, a collection of premedical students from Oregon Health & Science University. Thousands enjoy annual relay event SEASIDE — Pacifi c Power and Light — check. Century Link — check. Charter Cable — uncheck. At least until a greasy wheel got some action from the cable company, which ser- vices Seaside homes near North Holladay Drive. For the city of Seaside, the Holladay Drive renovation and repair is complete but for one key player. As Public Works offi cials and sub- contractors seek to complete removal of over- head wires and poles to move to the next step, Charter Cable has yet to disconnect cable from homes and remove wires from poles. “It’s very frustrating because we’re so close,” Public Works Director Dale McDow- ell told the Seaside City Council last week . “Right now we’re just waiting on Charter. See SEASIDE, Page 7A By R.J. MARX The Daily Astorian EASIDE — The fi rst runners made their way through the early morn- ing mist across the fi nish line at MORE the Seaside beachfront Saturday morning, arriv- INSIDE ing a little past 8 . The Blindness team consisted of run- doesn’t ners from Oregon Health hinder Team & Science University — Eye Rock. many pre med students — Page 12A led by team captain Beth Waites. The runners were Portland-based, start- ing at 6 p.m. Friday in Portland, running S See HOOD TO COAST, Page 12A Healing the divide Churches, split on race lines, work together Some Hood to Coast Relay teams got into their costumes more than others. This is part of Divided America, AP’s ongo- ing exploration of the economic, social and political divisions — and in some cases attempts at reconciliation — in American society. By RACHEL ZOLL AP Religion Writer LEFT: Team My Couch Pulls Out But I Don’t gets a rise crossing the finish line of the Hood to Coast Relay in Seaside Saturday. RIGHT: Teams came from all around the world for the Hood to Coast Relay. The countries represented included China, where Hood to Coast organizers started a sister relay this year. More photos online at DailyAstorian.com MACON,Ga. — There are two First Bap- tist Churches in Macon — one black and one white. They sit almost back-to-back, sep- arated by a small park, in a hilltop historic district overlooking downtown. About 170 years ago, they were one con- gregation, albeit a church of masters and slaves. Then the fi ght over abolition and slav- ery started tearing badly at religious groups and moving the country toward Civil War. The Macon church, like many others at the time, decided it was time to separate by race. Ever since — through Jim Crow, the civil rights movement, desegregation and beyond — the division endured, becoming so deeply rooted it hardly drew notice. See DIVIDED, Page 5A Thrift store owner aims to help others out All clothing will sell for $1 iovanni Perfetto sat on the wooden fl oor inside the store- front that once housed Pacifi c Coast Medical Supply, and before that Astoria Hemp Works, assem- bling display cases and organizing donations. Perfetto, a veteran deal-hunter and edu- cator, is opening a nonprofi t thrift store at the location to support Clatsop Animal Assistance, North Coast Food Web and help with some pet bills at Columbia Veter- inary Clinic. Perfetto said his first introduc- tion to nonprofits came while he G was managing one in Pennsylva- nia in the late 2000s. He has been busy collecting donations and fill- ing out the paperwork with law- yers to make Impact Thrift a nonprofit. He hopes to open by October or earlier, depending on how fast donations come in. The offerings at Impact Thrift will mir- ror thrift store giant Goodwill — clothing, household goods, elec- tronics, books, vinyl records — although Perfetto said the model will be different. Most notably, clothes will all cost $1, whether they’re T-shirts or wed- ding dresses. He said the idea came See PERFETTO, Page 5A AP Photo/Branden Camp Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian Giovanni Perfetto is opening the nonprofit Impact Thrift store in- side the former Pacific Coast Medical Supply at 1062 Marine Drive in Astoria. The Rev. James W. Goolsby, Jr., senior pastor of the First Baptist Church, left, and the Rev. Scott Dickison, senior pas- tor of First Baptist Church of Christ, right, pose for a photo at Dickison’s church in Macon, Ga. . There are two First Baptist Churches in Macon — one black and one white. Two years ago, Dickison and Goolsby met to try to find a way the con- gregations, neighbors for so long, could become friends. They’d try to bridge the stubborn divide of race.