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Readers’ Choice contest kicks off Dec. 8
By ERICK BENGEL
2017
COAST WEEKEND
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t is here at last.
Coast Weekend’s 2017
Readers’ Choice contest
— where you have a chance
to vote on your favorite busi-
nesses, activities and dining
experiences in the Colum-
bia-Pacific region — opens
Friday, Dec. 8, and runs
through Sunday, Jan. 7.
And one randomly drawn
voter wins a $50 gift card!
As fearsomely beautiful as
coast
our coastal and river commu-
nities are, they wouldn’t be
worth living in without the
people and organizations that
define our daily experienc-
es — from the art galleries
we dig and the auto shops
we trust, to the chefs who
prepare our most memorable
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THE ARTS
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A historical look at ‘The Dickens Play’
COAST WEEKEND EDITOR
ERICK BENGEL
CALENDAR COORDINATOR
REBECCA HERREN
CONTRIBUTORS
DAVID CAMPICHE
DON FRADES
WILLIAM HAM
NANCY McCARTHY
BIZARRO FICTION
The genre of the weird
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Animal
Assistance
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DINING
Mouth of the Columbia
Food critic responds to readers
FURTHER ENJOYMENT
MUSIC CALENDAR .....................5
CLOSE TO HOME ...................... 7
ASTORIA ART WALK .................9
SEE + DO ............................ 12, 13
CROSSWORD .......................... 17
CW MARKETPLACE ............... 18
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meals and the baristas who
make our mochas just like
we like ’em.
Bars and bakeries, burgers
and bookstores, trails and
gyms, happy hours and cheap
dates — Readers’ Choice cel-
ebrates the best (by popular
vote) in Clatsop, Pacific and
north Tillamook counties.
We’ve added two new
categories this year: Best
Apartment Complex and
Best Local Physician. And,
based on persuasive public
feedback, we’ve split Best
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Barber Shop/Hair Salon into
separate categories.
This year’s voting has
been broken into two periods.
First, a two-week nom-
ination period takes place
through 11:59 p.m. Friday,
Dec. 22.
Under the ballot cate-
gories, people will have a
chance to add entries to the
list of “seeded” ones that car-
ried over from past contests.
(Note: This is also a
chance to let us know if any-
thing is amiss on the ballot
— for example, if a business
on the ballot has closed and
therefore no longer eligible.
Or perhaps an entry has
been miscategorized — say,
a business listed under Best
Barber Shop would fit better
under Best Hair Salon.)
Then will come a two-
week voting period — start-
ing Saturday, Dec. 23, and
ending 11:59 p.m. Sunday,
Jan. 7. Paper ballots (see
Page 23) are also accepted.
First-place, second-place
and third-place winners
will be revealed in a special
awards issue of Coast Week-
end Feb. 15.
Exercise your sacred
franchise — and that means
no stuffing the ballot box!
We check emails, names,
addresses and other identifi-
ers to make sure people vote
only once.
To vote online, visit
coastweekend.com/reader-
schoice. For questions or
concerns, feel free to send a
message to editor@
coastweekend.com. CW