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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 2017
Putting on the Puttz raises
money for Tolovana arts
Golf tourney a
colorful draw
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Kaelia Neal is The Daily Astorian’s Snowden intern.
By KAELIA NEAL
The Daily Astorian
CANNON BEACH —
Golfers dressed in colorful,
mismatched clothes and wore
plaid golf socks with bucket
hats or visors. One group dec-
orated their faces with rain-
bow paint and purple lipstick
while wearing vibrant tutus and
“Make America Gay Again”
shirts.
The miniature golf tourna-
ment is Cannon Beach at its
most quirky. The event is the
biggest fundraiser of the year
for Tolovana Arts Colony, a
nonprofit organization that pro-
vides workshops, art classes
and cultural programming.
Nancy Teagle has been on
the Arts Colony board for eight
years. “This (Puttz) helps us
continue,” Teagle said Tuesday.
The annual golf tournament is
held on Tuesdays so local peo-
ple and some tourists can enjoy
it, she said. “The enthusiasm
grows every year.”
Records set
This year, Puttz gener-
ated more than $5,500 and
had a record-breaking num-
ber of golfers with 75, about
10 more than last year.
Thirteen merchants spon-
sored the event by design-
ing creative golf holes, which
were inside and outside of
the businesses. One hole
required participants to putt
the golf ball up a ramp and
into a kiddie pool of donut
floaters.
Watt Childress, the owner of
Jupiter’s Rare and Used Books
and the chairman of Tolovana
Arts Colony, has participated
in the Puttz event for six years.
“Time flies when you’re hav-
ing fun,” Childress said.
The purpose of the Puttz
tournament is “celebrating the
community together and hav-
ing fun in advance of peak
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Tolovana Arts Colony
Many golfers dressed for
the event, both in cheeky
and formal attire.
Tolovana Arts Colony
Richard Bowman puts his ball in play on the “plinko” board
hole at the American Legion in Cannon Beach. Bowman
and his teammates won the award for best costume.
tourist season,” Childress said.
“We welcome tourists to come.
It’s just not our emphasis.”
The “Pink Bible Horn”
mini-course was set in the
grass in front of Jupiter’s Rare
and Used Books. A bench with
branches on top and chairs on
either side blocked Hole 7,
forcing people to find a way
around the obstacles.
Mike French, of Cannon
Beach, has participated in
the Puttz tournament for four
years for two reasons. “No.
1, it’s fundraising for the arts
and No. 2, it’s way too much
fun,” he said. “Every year it’s
different.”
The Wine Shack’s hole
required the Puttz participants
to putt the golf ball down two
flights of stairs.
“This is a lot of fun,” said
Lee Roberts, who works at
the Wine Shack and has par-
ticipated in the Puttz for four
years. “Word of mouth is prob-
ably one of the best advertisers,
and people hear this is fun.”
The hardest hole
Donald Conner, who works
at Land’s End Motel, hosted
Hole 5. Conner said players
had acknowledged it was the
hardest hole. Three upside-
down beach buckets served as
barricades while plastic foam
pool noodles were stripped
across and outlined the course.
This is Conner’s third year
working at Land’s End Motel
and his second as a partici-
pant in the Puttz event. “It’s a
blast,” Conner said. “It gives
us a chance to extend our hos-
pitality, and we always enjoy
that.”
Most people who partici-
pate in the Puttz tourney live
in Cannon Beach or nearby.
However, visitors were wel-
comed. Jon Lawry, a Port-
land native, was in Cannon
Beach for work-related meet-
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ings when he asked friend Tim
Davis if he wanted to play golf
Tuesday.
Davis then invited Lawry
to join him in this year’s Puttz.
Lawry was not disappointed.
“It’s fun to see the businesses
and see the surrounding areas.”
Lawry also said he might make
the Puttz tournament his new
tradition.
This was Davis’ eighth
year participating. “If some-
one goes through the effort
of something off the wall like
this, it needs to be supported,”
he said.
A raffle and auction fol-
lowed the conclusion of the
mini-golf festivities. Basket
weaver Debra Carnes, who
donated one of her baskets to
the auction, has participated
in the Cannon Beach Puttz for
all 11 years, “This is so much
fun,” Carnes said. “This event
brings community together.”
By KATIE
FRANKOWICZ
The Daily Astorian
Kaelia Neal doesn’t like
the beach.
“The ocean makes me
really nervous,” said the
21-year-old Linfield College
junior. Stories of an uncle
who survived getting caught
in a sneaker wave when he
was a child cemented very
firmly in her mind that you
absolutely do not turn your
back on the ocean.
But this fear is why she is
here.
Neal is The Daily Astori-
an’s summer Snowden intern,
joining the newsroom to cover
summer events, news and the
Clastop County community.
The Snowden Internship Pro-
gram is run by the University
of Oregon School of Journal-
ism and Communication.
Neal is not someone to
back down from a challenge
and one of the reasons she
asked to be placed at The
Daily Astorian was to get
over her fear of the ocean.
“I think living here will
help me,” she said.
Neal, who grew up
in Salem, competes in
cross-country and track and
field at Linfield in McMinn-
ville. She is pursuing a major
in mass communication and
is editor-in-chief of the col-
lege’s newspaper, The Lin-
field Review.
“It’s a really independent
job,” she said about report-
ing. “I like feeling responsi-
ble for myself.”
As editor-in-chief and,
previously, sports editor at
The Linfield Review, Neal
has tackled diverse topics
from stories about women’s
basketball to the appearance
of a hate symbol on campus.
“Kaelia is enthusiastic,
talented and dedicated to
reporting news on the North
Coast and learning from the
journalists at The Daily Asto-
rian,” Managing Editor Laura
Sellers said. “We look for-
ward to reading her work and
expanding our coverage.”
MORISSE LOGGING
EDUCATIONAL AWARD
CONGRATULATES
KAISA ISRAEL
2017 AHS GRADUATE
Your accomplishments,
hard work and ambitions are
to be commended & rewarded
as you plan your future at
Clatsop Community College!
Th is Award in memory of Steve Boudreau & Mike Malinen