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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2017
Clatsop Clash: Astoria, Seaside battle to 2-2 draw
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — It was clas-
sic Clatsop Clash soccer Satur-
day night in Seaside under the
lights on Broadway.
The Astoria and Seaside
boys soccer teams were bat-
tling, trading goals, fighting for
every ball … with a wild finish
in front of a good-sized crowd
at Broadway Field.
And the end result? A draw,
as 80 minutes of soccer fin-
ished in a 2-2 tie between the
Fishermen and Gulls.
A couple of “Hail Mary”
shots worked for Astoria, while
Seaside scored first and last.
The Gulls also had the
Fishermen on their heels over
the final 10 minutes, taking
shot after shot right up until
the final horn. But Astoria
answered the call, deflecting
a few shots and shutting off
the passing lanes, while Fish-
ermen keeper Jake Hurd man-
aged to prevent any game-win-
ning goals by the Gulls, despite
a flurry of attempts in the final
seconds.
The 2-2 draw was the first
tie in the Clatsop Clash series
since a 1-1 game in 2012; and
it was the first non-win for Sea-
side against Astoria since 2014,
as the Gulls had won four
straight versus the Fishermen.
Junior Varsity: Seaside 4,
Astoria 0.
Songwriting 101 in Seaside
Portland duo
held workshop
for students
By BRENNA VISSER
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — On the inside
of their new album cover, Jim
Brunberg and Ben Landsverk
from the Portland-based
band Wonderly articulate a
seemingly simple recipe for
songwriting.
“Think of a friend and their
story, and what you might say
to them if you were fearless and
driven by nothing but love and
compassion. There! You just
wrote a song,” Brunberg and
Landsverk wrote.
On Friday, the indie duo
came to make a song with a
class of Seaside High School
music students using those
same techniques. The work-
shop was in conjunction with
the music festival ’Stackstock
on Saturday in Cannon Beach.
For Ryan Snyder, Mar-
tin North CEO and founder of
’Stackstock, having a musical
workshop given by one of the
festival’s bands to music stu-
dents was a way to give back
to the community. He plans
to contribute some of the pro-
ceeds of the festival to start a
local music scholarship.
“Music and arts are import-
ant to the company and me per-
sonally. So we thought what
about a music program? How
can we help them?” Snyder
said. “I started an indepen-
dent record label in the 1990s,
and for me seeing music pro-
grams in high schools continue
to break down has been really
depressing, and I want to make
sure we are doing our part to
make sure programs survive
into the future.”
Writing a song
Brunberg and Landsverk,
who met years ago while tour-
ing separately with different
Portland-based bands, started
Wonderly two years ago. Their
music dabbles in a variety of
genres, from bluegrass and folk
to instrumental music featured
in New York Times podcasts.
Wonderly joined ’Stack-
stock after being contacted by
Kate Sokoloff, the event orga-
nizer and a longtime profes-
sional connection the two had
on the Portland music scene.
Before Wonderly, both Brun-
berg and Landsverk started
their musical careers as choir
teachers in public schools,
which Sokoloff said made
them an ideal band to lead a
workshop.
“They are both really good
instructors. Both are such con-
summate musicians, but for
this I knew they knew how to
be relatable with kids,” Sokol-
off said.
The two worked with about
20 students in Seaside’s garage
band class, a popular music
class where students learn
instruments and produce orig-
inal songs. One question starts
the songwriting process.
“What’s the best thing
about Seaside?” Brunberg
asked, standing at the white-
board ready to write down
suggestions.
Before long, students started
yelling suggestions.
“There’s a pretty good
bookstore,” one student said.
“There’s a Pizza Hut,”
another student said.
For the next 40 minutes,
Wonderly, with a guitar and
violin in hand, worked with
the students to create melody
and harmony out of those two
sentences. By the end of class,
the students were singing three-
part harmonies.
Back in the classroom
For Wonderly, the goal
of the workshop was to help
kids feel like they were part of
something bigger and “acci-
dentally come up with a song in
process.”
“We want to embrace and
build upon every kid’s weird-
ness,” Brunberg said. “Music
is supposed to build commu-
nity. It doesn’t have to be good,
it just has to be you.”
Brunberg and Landsverk
said they both ended up leaving
public music education as pro-
gram resources and support for
creativity dwindled.
“Funds get cut, and cur-
riculum gets ousted. My job
shriveled up to only teaching
two periods of music,” Brun-
berg said, referring to his time
as a choral instructor in the
San Francisco Bay Area. “It
became about teaching music
rudiments, not about expres-
sion. Not about community
building.”
While their careers as pub-
lic school teachers ended more
than 20 years ago, the two still
host a variety of songwriting
classes and thrive off a passion
for education, Landsverk said.
Kimber Parker, a music
teacher for Broadway Mid-
dle School and Seaside High
School, said she was grate-
ful to have a band like Won-
derly come and work with her
students.
“It was cool to have profes-
sional musicians telling them
what I’ve been saying,” Parker
said. “They realize what they
are doing in class is real world
applicable. Music can be a job.”
Festival: ’Stackstock II still up in the air
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ballads, though playing to the
coastal experience, “also pours
water on that, sort of like a
miserable coastal experience,”
he said.
“But that’s sort of what
you get when you invite me to
play your festival on the idyllic
coast of Oregon,” he reminded
the crowd.
Meloy — the kind of high-
level big-city talent the North
Coast rarely books — closed
out an eight-hour concert fea-
turing prominent Portland
bands: Wonderly, the Edna
Vazquez Acoustic Trio, Car-
dioid, the OK Chorale PDX,
Ages and Ages and Pure Bath-
ing Culture.
Organized by Ryan Sny-
der, president of Martin North
hospitality company, ’Stack-
stock drew roughly 600 peo-
ple total — some locals, many
Portlanders — who flowed in
an out of the outdoor venue
throughout the day, Snyder
estimated.
Attendees
consumed
food and drinks — some
in VIP quarters — brought
lawn chairs and reveled in a
music event they described as
“relaxed,” “intimate,” “breezy
and amicable.” There was
space enough on the synthetic
lawn to dance, mingle and
share an aesthetic experience
with plenty of elbow room.
A new energy
Some band members joined
the audience after their sets.
Hanging out with her father
and stepmother, Adrien Young,
who plays bass in Cardioid,
said the band agreed to per-
form at ’Stackstock “because
the lineup was already so
good.”
Ages and Ages’ Sarah Rid-
dle, a vocalist who also plays
percussion and keyboard, was
there — on her birthday —
with her favorite people: her
boyfriend, stepmother and
bandmates. Riddle said the
’Stackstock organizers “made
a smart move keeping it small
the first time around. Intimate
is always good for your first
run.”
Jim Kingwell, co-owner of
Icefire Glassworks across the
street from Haystack Gardens,
said, “I’m loving this. It’s a
kind of energy we haven’t felt
here.”
Calling the festival “low-
Howie Stern
Warrenton Grade School Principal Tom Rogozinski fin-
ished a 206-mile footrace around Mount St. Helens and
through the Gifford Pinchot National Forest last month.
Principal: Runs between
35 and 60 miles a week
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Within a year, Rogozinski
had graduated to a six-day run
around a quarter-mile track in
New Jersey.
“That was the most men-
tally taxing race I’ve done,”
he said. “You just went as far
as you could.”
He read a book on Jay
Birmingham, who ran alone
across America in 1980, and
dreamed of one day doing
the same after retirement.
In 1928, nearly 200 runners
participated in the inaugural
Trans-America Footrace from
Los Angeles to New York,
dubbed the Bunion Derby
by newspapers. After two
years, the race went on hia-
tus until organizers got Run-
ner’s World to sponsor the
next installment in 1992. A
24-year-old Rogozinski, suf-
fering from a stress fracture in
one foot, finished third in the
64-day, 2,936-mile race.
Primal appeal
Erick Bengel/The Daily Astorian
The OK Chorale PDX — represented here by (from left) Cardioid’s Lizzy Ellison, Pure
Bathing Culture’s Zach Tillman and Wonderly’s Jim Brunberg — play “Purple Rain.”
key posh,” Kingwell said
’Stackstock “doesn’t have the
affectations of more sophisti-
cated venues,” he said. “You
can be comfortable and abso-
lutely yourself in this scale of
an event.”
Next to Kingwell sat Marty
Giguiere, co-owner of Can-
non Beach’s RE/MAX Coastal
Advantage, who likened
’Stackstock to a small-scale
rendition of Jacksonville’s
Britt Festival.
“The energy that the Britt
Fest creates — this is Cannon
Beach’s version of it, nailed,”
Giguiere said.
Music lovers in media
’Stackstock attracted peo-
ple plugged into the Pacific
Northwest’s music scene.
Jen Emerson, a DJ with the
Portland Radio Project who
has interviewed Cardioid’s
lead singer, Lizzy Ellison,
came to support her.
Sean Edgar, a Portland
journalist, came to cover it for
Paste Magazine.
“Portland’s been through a
lot recently, I think, with the
fires,” he said, “and I think
having this nice little seaside
gathering with a bunch of Port-
land bands took some of the
pressure off.”
Though Meloy has been
featured on the cover of Paste,
Edgar had never seen him
play live. The idea of seeing
the man who composed “The
Mariner’s Revenge Song” per-
form in a maritime setting was
“too much for me not to do.”
Mark Evans, of 94.9 The
Bridge morning show, said he
and his wife, Mickie, came to
see Ages and Ages — a band
the Seaside-based station plays
often — as well as Meloy.
Noting that “it’s great to
have the indie acts perform
here locally,” he added: “It’s
just a start; it’s the very first
one, so I think there’s more to
come after this.”
A special moment
After the show, Snyder said
he “could not be any more
elated about today.” But he
doesn’t yet know if there will
be a ’Stackstock II.
“Do I do it again? Maybe,
maybe not. I’m not sure,” he
said. He has tried not to think
beyond the inaugural show
“because this moment is so
special to me.”
The music festival is part
of an ongoing transformation
of Martin North — formerly
Martin Hospitality — which
opened Public Coast Brewing
Co. last year and, last month,
threw the Hayday! craft brew
fest at Haystack Gardens.
Snyder said he’s had many
sleepless nights in recent
weeks. “It’s been very intense
because of my desire not to
disappoint,” he said.
Snyder,
who
once
co-founded an independent
record label, said he can’t
name anyone more fortunate
than himself these days; he’s
been able to concentrate on
his passions: food, beverages,
hospitality — and now music.
The company’s goal, he
said, is to create experiences
that will make people want to
return to town, that will make
them tell their friends: “You’re
not going to believe what we
just did in Cannon Beach.”
‘I love you, Colin!’
During Meloy’s perfor-
mance, Snyder quickly real-
ized the gift he had brought.
The crowd, which peaked
late afternoon, had dwindled
somewhat by the time Meloy
appeared at nightfall. While
the balladist played, his breath
fogging in the air of a chill
autumn night, his devotees
edged closer to the stage.
Some people were silent
and emotional and, as he sang,
mouthed Meloy’s literary lyr-
ics along with him. The stage
lights bathed the front rows in
bright rotating colors, while,
against the warm glow of Hay-
stack Gardens’ interior, specta-
tors swayed in silhouette.
At one point, a man in
the audience shouted, “I love
you, Colin!” Then another
guy admonished the first: “I
already said that!”
A woman yelled out at
Meloy: “They’re fighting over
you!”
After around 15 years of
road races, the inaugural Big-
foot 200 trail race through
Gifford Pinchot came on
Rogozinski’s radar.
Rogozinski has a sim-
ple approach to preparing for
the grueling footraces: time
on feet. He runs anywhere
between 35 and 60 miles
a week, along with weight
training. To prepare for the
200-miler in Washington,
he ran shorter 100-kilometer
variants weeks earlier on the
same course and near Lake
Tahoe.
“Do you suffer the whole
way? No, you don’t,” Rogoz-
inski said of long races. “Usu-
ally … there’s some discom-
fort. There’s homeostasis.
Your body’s in sync.”
Then the race is about
managing hydration, caloric
intake, fatigue and sleep
deprivation, he said. Rac-
ers are helped by aid sta-
tions spread throughout the
course offering food and rest.
There is a friendly competi-
tion among racers, but for the
most part, runners compete
against themselves and the
course, he said.
“Certainly part of the
attraction is overcoming a
challenge,” he said. “Our
society’s very comfort-ori-
ented, so entering into some-
thing where it’s physically
demanding and the outcome
is uncertain, I think there’s
an appeal to it that’s pretty
primal.”
Winter is coming
While continuing to run
trails in the contiguous U.S.,
Rogozinski has been prepar-
ing for the new challenge of
winter ultra-marathons in the
Alaska interior. Two 100-
mile races he ran last winter
and spring brought Rogoz-
inski closer to his goal of run-
ning the Iditarod Trail, more
known for dog-sledding but
also completed by people on
foot, skis and bicycle. Two
separate events have 100-,
200-, 350-, 400-mile races
Rogozinski must finish to
enter the ultimate 1,000-mile
race from Knik to Nome, just
140 miles south of the Arc-
tic Circle. The races require
runners to tow gear and have
survival training on how to
bivouac, make water from
snow and otherwise sur-
vive subzero conditions and
whiteouts.
A friend from Rogozins-
ki’s past, Tim Hewitt, has
completed the race nine times
and at 61 years old last year
set a course record of 19 days,
nine hours and 38 minutes.
Just finishing would be a wor-
thy accomplishment, Rogoz-
inski said.
Asked what he says to
people who might think he’s
crazy, Rogozinski said it’s in
the eye of the beholder.
“For some, that’s proba-
bly absolutely true,” he said.
“It would be crazy, but for
the fact that I think anytime,
whether you’re one of the
dog mushers doing that, or a
runner doing it, or somebody
who’s through-hiking the
(Pacific Crest Trail), it sort of
has to emanate from inside-
out. And if that’s true, then
no, it’s not crazy. You’re ful-
filling your design.”
Cronin: He was hired
by Astoria in June 2015
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ineffective
communica-
tion and an unwillingness to
listen.
Cronin could not be
reached for comment. He
gave his two weeks’ notice
Friday morning and informed
his staff Friday afternoon. His
last day of work is Oct. 6.
Estes said Cronin will
continue to assist the city up
until his final day. After he
leaves, Estes, the city’s for-
mer community develop-
ment director, will help fill in
the gaps until a replacement
is hired. Some planning work
could also be contracted out.
“In terms of projects,
we’re at a bit of a lull,” Estes
said. “There’s definitely the
workload that has to be done
to keep the department run-
ning … but we’re actually at a
good point for this transition.”
Cronin, a former senior
project manager and business
development coordinator for
the Portland Development
Commission, was hired by
Astoria in June 2015. He was
the only one of the finalists
with Oregon-based planning
and development experience.
During his time with the
city, Cronin helped launch
Advance Astoria, a road
map for strategic economic
development.
“I think Kevin did a good
job with Advance Astoria,”
Mayor Arline LaMear said. “I
think he understands that eco-
nomic development is really
critical for the city and I would
hope that whoever comes
in would continue that … I
would look forward to having
someone who could really
work well with staff, the
Planning Commission and
City Council.”
