THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 2017
FOURTH OF JULY
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Elizabeth Colson prepares to throw a handful of candy off a
float during the Fourth of July parade in Warrenton Tuesday.
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Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
ABOVE: World War II veteran George Gunn, seated on the passenger side, was honored in this year’s Fourth of July
parade in Warrenton. BELOW LEFT: The Fourth of July festivities in the area came to a close with a fireworks display on
the Astoria Riverwalk. BELOW RIGHT: The parade in Warrenton was just the start of Tuesday’s Fourth of July festivities,
which ended with a fireworks display in Astoria near the Riverwalk. More photos available online at DailyAstorian.com
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Seaside Mayor Jay Barber
rode alongside City Councilor
Tita Montero as Councilors
Tom Horning, Seth Morrisey
and Steve Wright passed out
flags.
Newly crowned Miss
Oregon Harley Emery rode
proudly, followed in the lineup
by Miss Clatsop County Han-
nah Garhofer and represen-
tatives of the Miss Oregon
pageant.
Kevin Leahy, representing
the Astoria Regatta, led a group
including chaperone Amber
Hill and Aubrey McMahan —
last year’s Regatta queen. Sea-
side’s Sydney Ordway joined
princesses on the float.
“Here we are five years run-
ning — it’s a great parade!”
Leahy said.
Coastal author Honey Perkel
added a literary note with a
recurring parade appearance,
while “Wonder Woman” from
the Inverted Experience, Sea-
side’s newest Broadway tourist
attraction, garnered attention.
Bigfoot, Ghostbusters and the
Lion King marched, too.
And everybody had candy:
taffy, lollipops and gummies.
All ages
Youth was definitely fea-
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LEFT: Regatta Princess Sydney Ordway of Seaside waves to the crowd. RIGHT: Seaside
basketball star Jackson Januik rides with his teammates in the Seaside parade.
nami Skippers, of Seaside,
Astoria and Cannon Beach,
and the littlest ones, from Mrs.
Tami’s Daycare and Preschool.
Jackson Januik, the Gulls
basketball standout named the
Class 4A Player of the Year,
joined teammates on a float
featuring Seaside’s champion-
ship basketball team. It was his
first parade, Januik said. “It’s
fun seeing all the people.”
Members of Clatsop Coun-
ty’s Sons of Beaches and the
Legion Riders held sway on
their big trucks, while members
of “We Are Indivisible” joined
the parade for the first time.
“We’re promoting democ-
racy,” said member Joyce Hunt.
“And keeping our nation going
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City Councilor Tom Horning
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in the right direction.”
The Beach Drive Buc-
caneers, meanwhile, were
marching and doing their jobs
handing out beach bags. By the
time they reached First Ave-
nue and Holladay, they had
passed out more than 1,000
cleanup bags — and “we’re
only halfway in the parade,”
Gini Dideum said.
With the sun pushing
through the clouds for a day of
sunshine and fireworks ahead
for the evening, the Bucca-
neers’ cleanup crews would
have their work cut out for
them. But nobody seemed to
mind.
“People are always so
excited to be in the parade, to
have fun and to showcase their
vehicles or their kids,” Dideum
said. “It’s always fun!”
Cannon Beach: ‘It’s Americana the way it is’
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garb slowly chugged down
the town’s main street Tues-
day, representing emergency
responders, businesses and
organizations.
Don Boehm, the com-
mander of American Legion
Post 168 and former Can-
non Beach local, served as the
parade’s grand marshal. He
served two tours in Vietnam in
the U.S. Army and volunteered
many years on the Cannon
Beach Fire and Rescue crew.
“It’s an honor. For 20 years
I carried the colors, and now I
get to ride as grand marshal,”
he said. “I love the excitement
in the faces of the people who
come to see the parade.”
Every few steps, the parade
participants tossed handfuls of
red, white and blue saltwater
taffy into the lines of cheering
spectators.
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Members of the Lewis and Clark Fire Department throw
taffy out to the crowd in the departments oldest fire en-
gine, built in 1943.
‘Americana’
While the size of the parade
has changed over the course of
decades, much of the parade
has not, said former American
Legion commander and event
organizer Dan O’Reilly — and
that is exactly the point.
“Hopefully there won’t be
any changes to it in the future.
It’s Americana the way it is,”
O’Reilly said. He saw his
first parade in Cannon Beach
17 years ago and said he fell
in love with its small-town,
family-centered and “funky”
charm.
Since then, he has been
involved with the parade in
some facet, whether that be in
the drill team, driving classic
cars or the color guard. He sees
this parade as a way for the
community to come together,
even when the country is polit-
ically far from united, he said.
“Especially today, with
this divisiveness, when you
can see something where peo-
ple come together it frankly
gives me a little bit of hope,”
O’Reilly said. “Red, blue and
all in between are out there.
It’s small-town America at its
finest.”
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