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Convention Center, which
offered up a side room for an
interrogation scene. Zalutsky,
a Portland native and master
of fine arts graduate from New
York University’s Tisch School
of the Arts, was short-listed for
the Independent Spirit Award’s
“Someone to Watch Award” for
his first feature, “You Belong
To Me.”
His 17-minute film “How to
Make it to the Promised Land”
was funded through Kickstarter
and a Jerome Foundation grant.
Zalutsky wrote “Seaside”
during a residency at the Mac-
Dowell Colony, an artist colony
in New Hampshire.
This month, a social media
fundraising campaign is help-
ing filmmakers cross the fin-
ish line.
‘Hamilton’ star
Submitted Photos
Ariana DeBose and Matt Shingledecker filming at Hug Point.
Ariana DeBose, who
appeared in the original Broad-
way cast of “Hamilton,” stars
with Oregon native Steffanie
Leigh in this female-driven
revenge thriller.
“The film is a thriller with
lots of twists,” Zalutsky said.
His script tells the story of
a young woman who moves to
the Oregon Coast with her boy-
friend to start a new life in the
beach house he’s inherited from
his parents. When the two bump
into another young woman who
has previous knowledge of the
boyfriend, it becomes appar-
ent the boyfriend hasn’t been
entirely forthcoming about his
past. Bad things — very bad
things — soon start happening.
To produce the film,
Zalutsky recruited fellow
Portlanders Alyssa Roehren-
beck (“The Drunk Series,”
“Gage,” “DOTT”) and Kevin
Corstange, who has appeared in
productions at Portland Center
Stage and now is a New York-
based producer.
Local casting was provided
by Simon Max Hill, who also
helped cast IFC’s “Portlandia.”
“Seaside” received encour-
agement and support from
the local Seaside community,
including in-kind donations
from local businesses, includ-
ing Sleepy Monk Coffee, Can-
non Beach’s American Legion
Post 168, Seaside Gelato, the
Spindrift Inn and the City of
Seaside Union Bank.
Basic Rights Oregon, a pro-
gressive group for social equal-
ity, also hosted a fundraiser to
benefit both “Seaside” and the
organization.
As the film draws closer to
completion, Zalutsky said he’s
starting to submit it to film fes-
tivals, some of them in Oregon.
He hopes to have screenings in
Portland and on the coast.
The local landscape plays a
key role, with its “beautiful, but
dangerous” cliffs, rocks, wind
and rain.
“As befits the landscape,
we learn it’s not an easy place
to live,” Zalutsky said. “The
environment is beautiful but
dangerous.”
Matt Shingledecker and Ariana DeBose at Funland in the
movie, “Seaside.”
Ariana DeBose and Matt Shingledecker at Yelda’s Boutique in Seaside.
Miller: ‘I love it even more now that I live here. That’s the truth’
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“It’s really cool when peo-
ple say to you, whether you’re
on the radio or on the trolley, ‘I
did not know that,’” he said. “I
love that, when I can tell you
something you didn’t know.”
‘Heavy lifting’
Miller got into radio broad-
casting back when many peo-
ple considered radio work not
a “real job.” In fact, the father
of a girl he was interested in
wouldn’t let his daughter date
Miller because the man con-
sidered radio a disreputable
profession.
But radio involves a lot
of heavy lifting, Miller said:
“You’re just using your mind
and not your arms.”
“It’s a lot of work,” he said,
“and the hardest thing to do in
this business is go in, and do
what you do, when somebody
just died, you had a big fight
with your wife, your dog died,
you got a bill that came that
you didn’t expect, you’re afraid
you’re going to lose your job.
“But you have to go in there
and perform the same way
every day,” he said. “And if
you don’t think that’s difficult,
try it. That’s what separates the
pros from the amateurs.”
Miller’s career began back
when disc jockeys actually
jockeyed discs — or, in Mill-
er’s case, 45s.
Decades ago, his show
prep involved buying the early
morning print editions of prom-
inent newspapers and going
into the studio with clippings
and notes. The arrival of the
Internet broadened the infor-
mation he talked about on the
air.
Miller’s shows were non-
partisan — and, for the most
part, apolitical — but they
occasionally had a satiric edge.
When Oregon’s U.S. Rep. Wes
Cooley was caught lying about
his military service, for exam-
ple, Miller wrote a scathing
parody song about the scandal.
“If you listened to my show
and you figured out my poli-
tics, good for you. But I didn’t
rant and rave about it,” he said.
“People figured me out pretty
quick, but I didn’t go on and
on. And I don’t think if you dis-
agree with me you’re stupid;
I think you disagree with me.
And I get that; that’s how the
world works. And I don’t like
these liberal and conservative
labels. I never did — it’s too
easy.”
‘Blessed’
Miller pulled some memora-
ble on-air stunts, such as phon-
ing Idi Amin, the mass-murder-
ing former president of Uganda
whose number Miller somehow
got a hold of. “He talked to me
long enough to tell me he wasn’t
going to talk to me,” Miller said.
One time, Miller called the
Eiffel Tower and asked for the
recipe for French dressing.
He flew with the Blue
Angels, and rode with Austra-
lian racing driver Geoff Bra-
bham. He’s hosted his show
from Disneyland and Walt Dis-
ney World, and called in reports
from around the globe.
“God has just blessed me
and my family through this
goofy business to the point
where I don’t know what I’ve
done to deserve it,” he said.
And a person who feels
blessed needs to give some-
thing back, according to Miller,
who said he likes to use his “big
mouth” to do good in the world.
When he learned that
low-income parents in Ore-
gon and southwest Washing-
ton couldn’t afford eyeglasses
or hearing aids for their chil-
dren, Miller and KEX crew
founded a nonprofit charity —
now called the KEX Kids Fund
Sick leave: Employers with 10 or
more workers would have to comply
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“We are still consider-
ing our options,” said Kris-
tina Edmunson, a department
spokeswoman.
Gov. Kate Brown is named
as a defendant in the lawsuit,
but the Department of Justice
will ultimately decide whether
to appeal the ruling, said Chris
Pair, a spokesman for the
governor.
“Gov. Brown carefully
reviewed the paid sick leave
bill before signing it and dis-
agrees with the court’s deci-
sion,” Pair said in an emailed
statement.
The law, passed in the 2015
legislative session, requires
employers with at least 10
employees to offer 40 hours of
sick leave each year. Employ-
ers with fewer staff members
are required to provide the
same amount of unpaid sick
time.
Linn, Douglas, Jeffer-
son, Malheur, Morrow, Polk,
Sherman, Wallowa and Yam-
hill counties challenged the
requirement in May. Linn
County already provides paid
sick time to more than 95 per-
cent of its employees, Nyquist
said. County commissioners,
however, objected to providing
the benefit to temporary and
seasonal park and fair employ-
ees. Doing so would have cost
the county on order of $40,000
per year, Nyquist said.
Nyquist said he hopes the
ruling will give lawmakers
pause when they consider pass-
ing future measures that would
cost counties more money.
“This is a comprehensive
effort on our part to proactively
manage our budget going for-
ward,” Nyquist said. “You get
to that place where you have
that gap, and you are cutting
positions or asking taxpay-
ers for more money. We think
the taxpayers are not in the
mood to be receptive to those
requests, and we have had for
a number of years, the Legis-
lature introducing and some-
times passing measures that
had financial consequences
and didn’t’ track with the con-
stitutional amendment.”
The Capital Bureau is a col-
laboration between EO Media
Group and Pamplin Media
Group.
— to raise money for the cause.
“You haven’t seen anything
until you’ve seen a kid that
never heard before put on a set
of hearing aids and hear their
mom for the first time,” he said.
For the effort, Miller
received an award in 1988 from
President Ronald Reagan in
the White House Rose Garden.
“That was a huge moment for
me,” he said. “It was like the
icing on the cake.”
‘That’s the truth’
Miller, 65, finds it funny that
he ended up in Astoria, because
his life began in Ironton, Ohio
— a little town with enormous
historical significance that lies
on a major river.
He and his wife, Shirley,
bought a house in town about
15 years ago, and visited on
weekends and holidays. Mov-
ing to Astoria from Beaverton,
he said, was the best decision
they ever made, “other than get-
ting married.”
“We love it over here,” he
said, “and I love it even more
now that I live here, and that’s
the truth.”
— Erick Bengel
Submitted Photo
Bob Miller, of Astoria, is wearing the full trolley conductor
uniform next to Old 300, the Astoria Riverfront Trolley.
Public Meeting
Columbia River System
Operations
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation and Bonneville Power
Administration invite the public to help identify issues that the agencies will analyze in
the Columbia River System Operations Environmental Impact Statement. The agencies
will use this EIS to assess the eff ects and update their approach to operations of 14
federal dams and related facilities in the interior Columbia River basin.
The agencies welcome your comments, suggestions and information to help inform
the scope of issues, potential eff ects and range of alternatives evaluated in the EIS.
Thursday, December 15, 2016
4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The Loft at the Red Building
20 Basin Street
Astoria, Oregon
For more information about the Columbia River System Operations EIS, please visit
this website: http://www.crso.info
Information is also available by calling 800-290-5033.