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145TH YEAR, NO. 3 DailyAstorian.com WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 2017 ONE DOLLAR Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian Spectators watch the Fourth of July fireworks display in Astoria near the Riverwalk Tuesday. Independence Day festivities took place up and down the North Coast. FOURTH ON THE NORTH COAST SEASIDE WARRENTON, ASTORIA R.J. Marx The Daily Astorian Colin Murphey The Daily Astorian CANNON BEACH Brenna Visser The Daily Astorian LEFT: Beach Drive Buccaneers at the parade. MIDDLE: Warrenton Police Department K-9 Officer Robert Wirt and Gabe prepare to lead the Fourth of July parade in Warrenton on Tuesday. RIGHT: Cannon Beach local Brett Willyard shows kids a magic trick on Hemlock Street while they wait for the parade to begin. He’s been doing magic since he was 13, he said, and performing it in Cannon Beach on the Fourth of July since 2013. Find more photos of the Fourth of July celebrations on Page 9A and online at DailyAstorian.com Patriotic pirates storm beach town Seaside’s parade for the Fourth shines in sun Seaside’s thousands of Inde- pendence Day visitors. By midday today, they will have collected 12 to 15 tons of trash. The Buccaneers are SOLVE’s largest distributor of trash bags. By R.J. MARX The Daily Astorian Seaside parade SEASIDE — Saying “Arrrr ” in your fi nest pirate voice is a signature of the Beach Drive Buccaneers. Their proudest moments come every July Fourth as they anchor the parade and lead the post-holi- day cleanup, too. Just look for the all-terrain vehicle on the beach with the pirate fl ag. The statewide beach cleanup team, SOLVE, pro- vides the bags to the Buc- caneers, who share it with For the Fourth of July parade, early birds had lawn chairs in place by 9 a.m., with red , white and blue banners, fl ags and bunting everywhere. Led by a Seaside Police car and followed by the Boy Scouts, the march kicked off at 11 a.m. from the corner of 12th and Necanicum, head- ing up Holladay to Broadway under cloudy skies and chilly temperatures. See SEASIDE, Page 9A Food, festivities, ‘It’s small-town fun and fi reworks America at its fi nest’ Warrenton holds parade, Astoria supplies the big bang By KAELIA NEAL The Daily Astorian W ARRENTON — Rachel Wirt, along with two of her three sons, sat on the curb of Southwest Ninth Street during the Old-Fashioned Fourth of July Parade waiting to see her husband. Warrenton Police K-9 Offi - cer Robert Wirt has led the parade many times, Rachel Wirt said. She and her family have attended the Warrenton parade for about 11 years . “It’s an annual tradition,” she said. “The Fourth of July to me means freedom (and) family. For me it’s honoring the mem- bers of my family who have served ,” she said. Hundreds of people lined the parade route . People in police cars, fi re trucks and classic cars honked their horns in celebration while tossing candy to spec- tators. Floats featured war veterans, Miss Clatsop County and the Astoria Regatta princesses. The evening ended with a fi rework display at the East Mooring Basin over the Columbia River. City celebrates traditions and patriotism By BRENNA VISSER The Daily Astorian CANNON BEACH — Thirty years ago, the Fourth of July parade in Cannon Beach consisted of one family march- ing on Monroe Street with a mission to celebrate patriotism. It was Bob Teagle, a local and a veteran, and his for- mer wife, Leah, who started to bring red, white and blue to the streets of the resort town . Thirty years later, Teagle’s wife, Nancy, and the American Legion have taken the reins of carrying on a tradition that blossomed from neighborhood fun to thousands lining Hem- lock and Spruce s treets . Nancy Teagle started help- ing with parade organizing when she met Bob in 1996 and watched as the event grew larger each year . After Bob died in 2005, she chose to carry out the parade in the “enthusi- astic and patriotic” spirit of her husband. “What can I say? I’ve always loved a good parade,” Nancy Teagle said. Red, white and blue Floats fi lled with com- munity residents adorned in a variety of American fl ag See CANNON BEACH, Page 9A BABY BOOM Coast Guard families bring bevy of babies aboard Copter pilots have six babies in six months By KATIE FRANKOWICZ The Daily Astorian By the time they reached Longview, Washington , Lt. Jon Ralston wondered if they had made a terrible choice. Before that December night, the decision to have the baby in Portland made so much sense. Now, with his wife in the passenger seat breathing through contrac- tions, doubt was creeping in. They’d already made the drive to Portland a few days earlier and come back emp- ty-handed. As a helicopter pilot for the U.S. Coast Guard, Ralston had limited medical training, but the thought raced through his mind: Maybe he’d have to fi gure out how to deliver this baby himself. Later, safe in the Portland hospital, the Ralstons named their newborn son — their third child — Ray. He kicked off a mini-baby boom among the families of the Coast Guard’s Astoria-based rescue helicopter pilots. Five more babies would follow him into the world over the next fi ve months. Group photos Group photos of these babies in their dads’ arms made the rounds on Facebook before Father’s Day. The six babies are roughly the same size. They are all squishy-faced in a way that makes grown adults contort their own faces, mouth the air like goldfi sh and talk high- pitched, babbling nonsense. See BABIES, Page 4A Submitted Photo The U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Astoria experienced a mini-baby boom recently: six babies in six months born to families of rescue helicopter pilots based here. Parents say they feel lucky. All six mothers and babies had healthy preg- nancies and births. More photos online at DailyAstorian.com
