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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2017
Warrenton: “It’s kind of
Hammond Library meets
Central Perk from ‘Friends’”
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Library cafe
Photos by Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Hundreds of marchers gather before the start of the Women’s March.
March: Demonstration was in solidarity with a
national Women’s March in Washington, D.C.
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Organizers stressed that
the march was not a protest
against Trump, but the under-
current was plainly about
resistance to the Republican
real-estate magnate. March-
ers also participated to raise
awareness for a number of dif-
ferent issues, from public edu-
cation and immigration to gay
rights.
Rita Nicely, a retired caterer
from Ocean Park, Washington,
held a sign that said: “I will not
go quietly back to the 1950s.”
She said this was the first
demonstration she has joined
since she attended a civil rights
protest in Detroit back in the
1960s.
Some organizers said they
were surprised by the turnout.
Astoria Police estimated the
crowd at more than 1,300.
“We would’ve been excited
if it was 100 people,” Sharon
Kloepfer, a former physician’s
assistant who lives in Gear-
hart, said.
The demonstration was
in solidarity with a national
Women’s March in Wash-
ington, D.C., and in “sister
marches” in cities and small
towns across the nation and
the world.
Clatsop County usually
favors Democrats, but Trump
won 41 percent of the vote in
November. The march was
a reminder that a majority of
voters — in Oregon and the
nation — preferred other pres-
idential candidates.
The demonstration began
shortly after noon. Along the
half-mile route through down-
town, organizers with neon
vests guided marchers on the
designated course and made
sure they followed traffic laws
like staying on sidewalks and
obeying streets lights.
Demonstrators occasion-
ally broke out in chants. A
few even brought whistles and
bongos to energize the crowd.
Anne and Garrett Thielk-
ing, a married couple from the
Portland area, had planned a
weekend getaway to Astoria
for months. But after Trump
was elected, they said they
had to take time out of their
vacation. They said they had
participated in demonstra-
tions in large cities before and
were surprised by Saturday’s
turnout.
“This is a lot more orderly,”
Anne Thielking said. “I’ve
been at protests where peo-
ple throw stuff at you or start
heckling and record you.”
The march did not attract
many
counterdemonstra-
tors, but a number of driv-
ers honked in support as they
drove by. Jessi Anderson, a
manager at the Astoria Cof-
feehouse & Bistro, was wait-
ing for a friend to grab a cup of
coffee as he looked out at the
marchers.
“I’ve just been giving peo-
ple hugs,” Anderson said.
“There’s not a lot of hate,
which I think is fantastic.”
A city building inspec-
tor concluded last year that
the library’s space in Ham-
mond had outlived its useful
life and was a hazard to vis-
itors. The Warrenton Com-
munity Library Board cre-
ated a subcommittee to find
a new location.
City Manager Linda
Engbretson said moving
the library downtown has
been on the back of people’s
minds for a long time. Koon
approached the city last
year about the possibility of
locating the library inside
her business.
“I had done some
research, and there are prob-
ably several cafes of the
like in the country,” Koon
said. “It’s kind of Hammond
Library meets Central Perk
from ‘Friends.’”
But the city and Koon
had difficulty deciding how
to split costs and manage
operations.
Engbretson said one idea
of Koon’s was to run book
sales at the library through
Serendipity, which the city
could not do.
“There were also ques-
tions about hours of opera-
tion,” Engbretson said. “We
didn’t want the library to be
open to the public when we
didn’t have somebody there.
(The concept) sounded
really good, but we just
couldn’t work the details
out.”
Koon said the city
seemed unwilling to pay
for move-in costs or its fair
share of utilities. “When it
boils down to brass tacks …
they didn’t want to pay for
much.”
Lack of
communication
Thinking business would
go on as usual after the
library cafe idea fizzled,
Koon said, she paid $600 to
renew her business license
with the city. Two weeks
later, she received notice
from the school district
that her lease would not be
renewed.
“The point is that this
is a force-out,” she said.
“There was very little dia-
logue. There was nothing to
indicate that they wouldn’t
renew my lease, except for
the lack of dialogue.”
She hopes to reopen the
business in Bellingham,
Washington, where she and
her husband James, who
serves in the U.S. Coast
Guard, lived before moving
to Astoria.
Jeffery and Engbretson
said the two sides have not
yet met to discuss when the
library will move from Ham-
mond to Warrenton. Also up
in the air is how the city will
buy the building.
Hardwick: Author guides
young adults in writing poetry
about their life experiences
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Marchers walk throughout downtown during the Women’s March.
“I had always done those
stories in my head, ever since
I was in my 20s,” she said.
‘Cranberry Bay’
Marchers walk across Commercial Street.
LEFT: Rachael McDougall, left, and Carleen Cochran share a moment as people gath-
er for the start of the Women’s March. RIGHT: A child applauds during a speech at
the Women’s March held on Saturday in Astoria.
Hardwick used parts
of Wheeler and Nehalem,
including the vintage shops,
as the backdrop for her “Cran-
berry Bay” romance series.
“It just screamed ‘story,’”
she said.
The series, which focuses
on three brothers in a family
each falling in love, is avail-
able at the Cannon Beach
Bookstore.
“I’ll come here and say,
‘If you sit here for two hours
and get 1,800 words done,
then you can go,’” Hardwick
said. “It’s very strict and I set
goals.”
Before writing a book,
Hardwick maps out scenes
and chapters and cre-
ates
detailed
character
descriptions.
Recently, she’s been writ-
ing in an unlikely place —
an Applebee’s near her pri-
mary home in Lake Stevens,
Washington.
She started writing reg-
ularly at the restaurant and
befriended a waiter who has
helped her throughout the
writing process, such as fig-
uring out what dates her char-
acters will go on. “He brought
in that guy perspective,” she
said. “It’s funny when you
have someone playing with
your characters with you.
This is not typical for how I
write my books.”
Hardwick’s experience
getting involved in local gov-
ernment issues served as
inspiration for scenes in a
“Cranberry Bay” book.
In August, the third Cran-
berry Bay book, “Sweetheart
Wedding,” will be released.
When she’s not writing
at Bella Espresso, Hardwick
enjoys walking the beach
with her cocker spaniel, sew-
ing, cooking and traveling.
Memoir took ‘courage’
A memoir of Hardwick’s
experience teaching at the
juvenile justice center, “Kids
in Orange: Voices from A
Juvenile Detention,” will be
released early this year.
Hardwick guides young
adults in writing poetry about
their life experiences.
“It’s very raw and hon-
est,” she said. “They were
the ones who inspired me to
write my memoir. It took me
multiple drafts to get to that
level of honesty where they
go instantly. They taught me
a lot about having the courage
to get to that place.”
Many of her students
have committed drug-re-
lated crimes, but Hardwick
said their stories allow oth-
ers to see that “you may have
done something, but that’s not
completely who you are.”
After the workshop, the
children might be released or
start a long-term program.
“There’s so much that
they’re working with and
that you’re working against,”
Hardwick said.
— Lyra Fontaine
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