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 —
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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
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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.