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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2016 YEAR IN REVIEW 3C TOP SPORTS STORIES IN 2016 Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Seaside players and coaches stand for a portrait after placing second in state after the 4A State Championship at Liberty High School. The Daily Astorian his year had many outstanding games and achievements. Here are the three top stories: T Astoria girls track wins state … again The Astoria girls track team successfully defended their Class 4A state title by winning their second straight state champi- onship May 21 at Hayward Field in Eugene. Behind their record-setting, mul- tiple state champion sophomore Dar- ian Hageman, the Lady Fishermen racked up a 4A record 109.5 points, blowing out runner-up Siuslaw by almost 40 points. Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian Knappa’s Dale Takalo delivers a pitch as the Knappa Loggers faced off against the Burns Hilanders in the 2A/1A state championship game at Volcanoes Stadium in Keizer. Burns defeated Knappa 4-3. Gulls take second Loggers come in boys basketball up short on the In a record-breaking season for Seaside boys basketball, the Gulls diamond advanced all the way to the 4A state championship game for the first time in school history. Philomath scored a 55-45 win in the title contest in Hill- sboro. Seaside junior Jackson Januik was named the 4A’s State Player of the Year. two all-state pitchers — and will be favored to recapture the 2A state championship next spring. The defending state champi- ons of 2A baseball fell short of their title defense in the 2016 champion- ship game, won by Burns, 4-3, June 3 at Volcanoes Stadium. Still, the Loggers have many of their play- ers returning in 2017 — including Astoria’s Darian Hageman reacts after breaking the Astoria school record during the high jump at The Daily Astorian Invitational Track Meet at Seaside High School in April. Joshua Bessex The Daily Astorian NOTABLE DEATHS IN 2016 Submitted photo Jason Goodding Feb. 5 • Sgt. Jason Goodding, a 39-year-old police veteran and married father of two, was fatally shot while trying to arrest a felon outside a downtown restaurant in Seaside. His partner returned fire, hitting the felon three times. The two men died at separate hospi- tals. The tragedy and outpouring of grief and support made Goodding The Daily Astorian’s top story of the year and The Oregonian’s Per- son of the Year. Feb. 25 • John Fraser, a colorful char- acter and self-described Dada artist and “Juan Man Band,” bought the Once Upon a Breeze kite shop in Erick Bengel/The Daily Astorian Michelle Lindstrom/Courtesy Photo Submitted Photo Alex Pajunas/The Daily Astorian John Fraser John Lindstrom, left. Hal Snow Michael Foster Cannon Beach in the ’80s. He was active in the community with posi- tions on the Cannon Beach City Council, Planning Commission, Design Review Board and commu- nity policing team. Terry, who passed away in Octo- ber 2013. before his death after Lindstrom had a leg amputated. Friends and local businesses came together and raised more than $27,000 in a series of fundraisers to aid in his recovery Oregon Community Foundation board, including a stint as presi- dent, and helped to bring grants and other charitable funds into Clatsop County., March 23 • John McKibbin of Van- cover, Washington, and Irene Mustain of Woodland, Washing- ton, who died in a plane crash in the Columbia River in Astoria. McKibbin, 69 — a former Wash- ington state representative and Clark County commissioner and an amateur pilot — was in a pri- vate plane with family friend Mus- tain. They had planned to scatter the ashes of Mustain’s husband, June 12 • John Berdes, a banker who was pivotal to Astoria’s rebirth over the past two decades, was president and CEO of Craft3, an unconven- tional lending institution. Berdes was central to the redevelopment of Mill Pond, the restoration of the Liberty Theater and the renovation of the Clatsop Community College campus. Oct. 7 • John Lindstrom, the long- time proprietor of Lindstrom’s Danish Maid Bakery in downtown Astoria. The shop closed a year Dec. 15 Dec. 20 • Hal Snow, 75, was a com- munity presence as a major donor to local athletic programs and was the prime mover in the creation of the Lower Columbia Youth Soc- cer Association and the Warrenton soccer fields. Snow and his wife, Jeanyse, were partners in Snow & Snow, a law firm on Commer- cial Street that traces back to the 1960s. For many years, Snow also served as the city attorney of Asto- ria and Warrenton. He was on the • Michael Foster, 76, a teacher, art lover and community booster who was nicknamed “Mr. Astoria” left his imprint on city landmarks. A fourth-generation Astorian, Fos- ter played key roles in many local projects, such as the restorations of the Astoria Column, the Lib- erty Theater and the Flavel House Museum, and the acquisition of the old Astoria City Hall and its trans- formation into Clatsop County His- torical Society’s Heritage Museum.
