DailyAstorian.com // MONDAY, JUNE 5, 2017
144TH YEAR, NO. 242
ONE DOLLAR
UN-BE-LIEVABLE!
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
The Knappa Loggers celebrate their 2A/1A state championship baseball title win over Reedsport on Friday. The Loggers rallied in the seventh inning to win 10-9.
KNAPPA LOGGERS COME BACK IN THE SEVENTH TO WIN STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
K
EIZER — What just hap-
pened was this: A come-
back of epic proportions,
on the biggest stage possible.
A New England Patriot Super
Bowl-style,
you-had-to-see-it-
to-believe-it, monster rally that
resulted in the second state cham-
pionship in the last three years for
the Knappa Loggers.
The North Coast boys in Blue
& Gold rallied from a 9-1 defi -
cit after fi ve innings to beat the
Reedsport Braves from the South
Coast, 10-9, in the Class 2A/1A
state title game, Friday afternoon
at Volcanoes Stadium in Keizer.
‘I can not
believe
what just
happened.’
Jason Miller
Knappa Loggers
Trailing 9-3 entering their last
at-bat, the Loggers scored seven
runs on three hits, three walks and
three hit batters in the bottom of
the seventh to overtake the Braves.
And moments after he drove
in the game-winning runs with a
two-out single to left fi eld, Knap-
pa’s Reuben Acosta-Cruz said,
“I haven’t been hitting it hard all
day, but that one felt really good.
I saw it hit the ground, then I saw
Jason (Miller) rounding third, and
I just started jumping up in the air.
I couldn’t believe it.
“I was excited, I knew the dog-
pile was on me, and I just started
crying. It’s crazy.”
It took a while to dig Cruz out
from under the pile of players, but
that didn’t stop the celebration. It
was just beginning.
The pandemonium continued
for a good 10 minutes, with the
players posing for the post game
photos, and a Gatorade bath for
Knappa coach Jeff Miller.
See KNAPPA, Page 10A
Gary Henley/The Daily Astorian
As his son Jason Miller slides in with the game-winning run,
Knappa coach Jeff Miller begins the big Logger celebration
that followed. More photos online at DailyAstorian.com/sports
Odd Fellows Building buyer seeks to assure city
Online petition,
backlash breaks
out over sale
By KATIE FRANKOWICZ
The Daily Astorian
The potential buyer of the Odd
Fellows Building in downtown
Astoria hopes to close on the sale
in the next month or 45 days, but
she said she is not sure yet what her
plans are for the historic property .
Tacee Webb, who lives in Ore-
gon City and has led retail and
brand-building ventures in Seat-
tle and Portland, introduced herself
to the local business community
at the monthly Astoria Downtown
Historic District Association meet-
ing Friday and stayed afterward to
answer questions.
Since the news broke about the
pending sale in May, Webb said her
business partner Tommy Habetz, a
co- owner in the Portland bar and
sandwich company Bunk, is no
longer involved with the project.
Habetz was listed as the organizer
LoopNet
The potential sale of the Odd Fellows Building in downtown Asto-
ria has sparked debate.
and registered agent for a limited
liability company named Oddfel-
lows Astoria LLC registered with
the state in April.
“We had no plan of displacing
anyone,” Habetz said in an email
Friday. “There are no plans for
Bunk to go to Astoria, although
they are very delicious sand-
wiches that would most certainly
(be) enjoyed by the good people of
Astoria. I’m certain of that.”
Future plans
On her social media, Webb had
previously discussed ideas and
future plans that included a music
venue, bar and apparel spaces
in the 93-year-old Odd Fellows
B uilding.
Webb said Friday that she is
moving forward with buying the
building, but her plans are “up in
the air” since she has had to change
how she will fund the purchase.
She explained that the limited lia-
bility corporation was necessary
when she was trying to secure
a state-backed Small Business
Administration loan . The Odd Fel-
lows B uilding is listed at $575,000.
“We just needed that generic
placeholder,” she said . She said
she is, and has always been, the pri-
mary buyer and developer .
Webb is pursuing other fi nanc-
ing now, but, if she had succeeded
in obtaining the small business
loan, Webb said Friday that her
plan had been to let the non profi t
Astoria Arts and Movement Cen-
ter stay free of charge. Jessamyn
West, the executive director of the
movement center, which occupies
a ballroom on the third fl oor and
See BUILDING, Page 7A
Parks are a passion for this interpreter
LWACO, Wash. — Steve Wood
knows how lucky he is. He is in
love with his job as an interpreter
at the Lewis and Clark Interpre-
tive Center at Cape Disappointment
State Park.
“When I take my lunch break,
I can stare out that big
window at the mouth of
the Columbia River. If
I’m having an exception-
ally bad day, I’m gonna
go lose myself in the for-
est. I get to work here,” he said as he
motioned to the seemingly bound-
less beauty of the park. “For me
and my personality, parks are very
important to me, to kind of maintain
my well -being.”
Wood moved around a lot early
on in his career, with stops in a Col-
I
Brown airs
opposition
to Trump
policies
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
PORTLAND — Gov. Kate Brown cas-
tigated the Trump administration’s policies ,
while reiterating her commitment to curbing
climate change, protecting immigrants and
improving health care and education.
Obama’s Affordable Care Act enabled
nearly 1 million Oregonians to access health
insurance. About 98 percent of children and
95 percent of adults in the state now have
health insurance.
“When I saw the Trump proposed health
care … I call it the anti-health care bill,”
Brown said, referring to the
American Health Care Act.
The Congressional Bud-
get Offi ce estimates the fed-
eral bill would reduce the
number of Americans who
are insured by 23 million.
Despite a $1.4 billion
Gov.
revenue shortfall in the state
budget, Brown repeated her Kate Brown
goal of increasing the num-
ber of people enrolled in the Oregon Health
Plan without decreasing coverage.
Brown made the comments during an
appearance at the Portland City Club’s Fri-
day Forum at the Sentinel Hotel. The theme
of the event was “Governing under the
Trump Administration.”
orado and the East Coast before end-
ing up in the Pacifi c Northwest.
“I wanted to get a good sense
of where I wanted to land, and I
fell in love with the Northwest,” he
said.
Wood, who turns 40 this August,
took his fi rst job with
Washington State Parks
11 years ago as an inter-
preter at Grayland Beach
State Park in Westport, or
as he calls it, “The next
beach to the north.” Wood moved
to the Long Beach Peninsula to take
this job at the Lewis and Clark Inter-
pretive Center nine years ago.
Why did you become a parks
interpreter?
Damian Mulinix/For EO Media Group
Brown also pledged to continue Oregon’s
goals for reducing greenhouse gas emis-
sions despite Trump’s controversial decision
to pull the country out of the Paris climate
agreement. His announcement Thursday has
upset several of America’s allies, according
to news reports.
The governor also expressed disap-
proval of federal Education Secretary Betsy
DeVos’ comment that likened education to
car insurance.
See WOOD, Page 7A
Steve Wood is an interpreter
with a passion for parks.
See GOV. BROWN, Page 7A
Oregon goals