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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2017
Food cart downtown
goes local with sausage
Sasquatch serves
up creativity at
Astoria Station
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
On a frosty Wednesday
night, Miles Peacock and Mari
Inaba found themselves alone
in the lot outside Reach Break
Brewing. The two business
partners seasoned, ground and
pumped 30 pounds worth of
pork butt into pig intestine cas-
ings, twisting them into 6-inch,
1/3-pound sausages inside their
green, nondescript, 128-square-
foot food cart.
Last weekend, Peacock and
Inaba debuted Sasquatch Sau-
sage, the fi rst in a nascent food
cart pod forming outside the
brewery as part of the new food
and drink destination, Astoria
Station.
Peacock, an experienced
butcher most recently of Gul-
ley’s Butcher Shop in down-
town Astoria, said he enjoys the
creativity in endless varieties of
sausage. He and Inaba met at
Gulley’s.
“He kind of taught me how
to do it, and we were making
sausages and thinking, ‘Wow;
these are selling really well, you
know. We could probably do a
sausage cart,’” Inaba said.
Peacock said he relishes lift-
ing the veil behind how the sau-
sages are made, using locally
sourced meats, spices, herbs
and other ingredients the pair
spend several hours a week
grinding up and pumping into
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Miles Peacock and Mari Inaba prepare beer bratwurst in
their new food truck Sasquatch Sausage, located outside
Reach Break Brewing in Astoria.
their locally sourced intestinal
casings.
A minimal menu
The menu is minimal to
start out. The beer bratwurst,
mixed with Reach Break’s India
pale ale, comes with sauerkraut
cooked down in apple cider with
ground caraway seeds and a top-
ping of grilled apples. The pork
Korean dog comes topped with
sesame-marinated bean sprouts
and gochujang, a fermented,
spicy Korean condiment. The
sausages come served in rolls
from Astoria’s Home Bakery.
“Everything I’ve read on
food carts is … don’t stretch
yourself too thin,” Inaba said.
“So while we have a million
ideas on different types of sau-
sages, let’s just do a couple and
see how that goes, see if people
like it.”
The two hope to add bour-
bon beef, spicy Italian, far-
ro -and-mushroom veggie and
breakfast sausages.
“The beauty of it is, we’re
not buying cases of premade
sausages, so we’ll make a
10-pound batch, and see how
it sells, if people like it,” Inaba
said. “And we can keep making
that 10-pound batch, or we can
switch it up and do something
else.”
The cart’s hours are loosely
based around Reach Break,
opening from noon to 8 p.m.
Fridays and Saturdays and noon
to 6 p.m. Sundays and Mondays.
Peacock said he is excited about
the developing cluster of busi-
nesses s round Astoria Station .
“I have total faith that within a
year, this is going to be an amaz-
ing spot,” he said.
Astoria Station
Sasquatch Sausage will soon
be joined by Hot Box BBQ,
a food cart with two locations
in Portland run by Daniel and
Abbie Rhoads, who are moving
to Astoria .
“I think it’s great,” Dan-
iel Rhoads said of Astoria Sta-
tion. “It’s kind of like the food
carts in Portland are doing, try-
ing to pair with brewers. It’s sort
of a restaurant with a variety of
choices , a place where people
come to gather.”
The cart the couple are bring-
ing has been parked outside Port-
land’s Base Camp Brewing. The
couple is also bringing a catering
truck Daniel Rhoads said they
had increasingly been driving
out to the coast for weddings and
other events. He said Hot Box
should be open by early March ,
offering pulled pork, chicken and
barbecue tofu dishes.
Charles and Leigh LeMay,
who recently relocated to Asto-
ria from Houston, are starting
the two-seat Astoria Barber in
a 165-square-foot corner store-
front at the Astoria Station next
to Reveille Ciderworks.
“We’re going to do men’s
haircuts and grooming,” Charles
LeMay said. “We’ll have a
small retail selections of men’s
product’s.”
Leigh LeMay, who still
helps run a chain of salons in
Texas, said there seemed to be
a demand for haircuts in Asto-
ria. The two will start building
out the storefront next week and
hope to open in mid-April.
Claudine Gregory, the widow
of late Astoria Station founder
Warren Williams, said there will
also be a Thai food cart coming
to Astoria Station, after which
she will see how they do before
adding any more. Once every-
one is in place, she said, Astoria
Station will hold a grand open-
ing to honor Williams.
“This is Warren’s vision,”
she said. “I’m just fi nishing it
for him.”
Oregon offi cials react to prospect
of likely federal pot crackdown
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Oregon law-
makers have condemned a
White House statement sug-
gesting the U.S. Justice
Department will enforce the
federal prohibition on recre-
ational marijuana in states that
have legalized it.
When Oregonians legal-
ized recreational pot in 2014,
they knew there was a risk
of a federal crackdown with
future presidential administra-
tions, said state Senate Major-
ity Leader Ginny Burdick,
D-Portland.
“The approach we’re tak-
ing is to have effective regu-
lations and to stamp out the
black market to the extent
that we can,” said Burdick,
who is co-chairwoman of the
Joint Committee on Marijuana
Regulation. “We really want
to have the kind of program
that will, if they do decide to
enforce, put us at the bottom of
their list.”
The comment by White
House spokesman Sean Spicer
Thursday marks the strongest
indication so far of a potential
crackdown on recreational use
of the drug, The Associated
Press reported. It came even
as a new survey showed most
Americans believe cannabis
should be legal.
“I do believe you’ll see
greater enforcement of it,”
Spicer said in response to a
reporter’s question at a White
House briefi ng . He suggested
enforcement would target only
recreational marijuana, as
Congress has passed laws to
protect medical use.
“I am hoping they come
to their senses because you
know with the recent election
cycle that put Trump in offi ce
it also put marijuana in place
in a number of states, includ-
ing in California, which is the
sixth largest economy in the
world,” Burdick said of the
Trump administration.
Spicer’s comment confl icts
with the administration’s claim
that it favors states’ rights, said
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Or-
egon. For instance, the admin-
istration announced a day ear-
lier it would allow states to
decide the issue of transgender
restroom access.
“I urge the Trump adminis-
tration to follow its own rhet-
oric on ‘state s’ rights,’ and to
respect the voters of Oregon
and the many other states who
have decided at the ballot to
legalize recreational marijuana
use,” Merkley said.
Oregon Attorney Gen-
eral Ellen Rosenblum said
she would explore options for
protecting voters’ decision to
legalize recreational pot and
work with attorney gener-
als in other states with simi-
lar laws.
“In my role as state AG, I
plan to continue to work hard
to make sure Oregon’s grow-
ing marijuana industry fl our-
ishes,” Rosenblum said.
She said she would pre-
fer to focus Oregon’s limited
law enforcement resources
on more dangerous drugs and
crimes of violence.
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden,
D-Oregon, echoed that senti-
ment during a visit to Medford
Thursday.
“Wasting taxpayer dollars
and burdening our law-en-
forcement agencies to go after
law-abiding recreational mar-
ijuana users distracts from
going after criminals and
threats to our safety. I will fi ght
hard against ridiculous federal
government intrusions into
our state,” Wyden said via text
message .
Just days ago, a biparti-
san team of U.S. representa-
tives, including Oregon Dem-
ocrat Earl Blumenauer, formed
the nation’s fi rst Congressional
Cannabis Caucus. The caucus
formed with the intent of rec-
onciling federal law with state
laws that permit medical and
recreational use of marijuana.
“I am deeply disappointed
by Sean Spicer’s statement that
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By EDWARD
STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
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recently learned of a safety
deposit box the agency held
at U.S. Bank, the great mys-
tery became what was inside.
The only living signer
on the box was Port Com-
missioner James Camp-
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He and Campbell pulled
out refundable bonds the
Port had sold in 1937 to help
fi nance a project.
“This is another way back
then that people would save
their money,” Knight said,
adding municipal bonds were
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The unsold bonds have
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prohibition of cannabis has
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voters across the country have
demanded a more sensible
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of California introduced legis-
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state laws.
Oregon voters created a
medical cannabis program
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