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Seaside players and coaches celebrate with fans after the Gulls’ 48-44 win over Valley Catholic to secure their second state title in as many years.
BACK-TO-BACK
CHAMPIONS
SEASIDE BOYS EDGE VALLEY CATHOLIC FOR STATE TITLE
STORY ON SPORTS • PAGE 10A
The Gulls plot strategy during a timeout.
Seaside’s Beau Johnson sets up for a shot against Valley Catholic.
State lawmakers will mull
bills to protect gun retailers
Age restrictions
could violate law
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
PORTLAND — State legislative
leaders say they are willing to change
Oregon law to protect retailers that
voluntarily restrict gun and ammuni-
tion sales to customers 21 and older.
Under state and federal law, Ore-
gonians 18 and older can buy rifles
and shotguns, and the ammunition for
those firearms. You must be at least
21 to buy a handgun and handgun
ammunition.
Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad
Avakian has concluded gun retailers
that have stopped selling to customers
younger than 21 in the wake of recent
mass shootings could be violating the
state’s anti-discrimination laws.
The decision could be chal-
lenged at the Bureau of Labor and
Industries or in a court complaint.
Oregon has made exemptions to the
EO Media Group
See GUN RETAILERS, Page 7A
Retailers that restrict long gun sales to customers 21 or older could
be violating Oregon’s anti-discrimination laws.
A massage for Fido
Sanborn Building in
Astoria changes hands
Tews offers
in-home pet
massage
By EVE MARX
For The Daily Astorian
S
EASIDE — Looking to do
a little extra for your pet or
help other animals?
Kim Tews is the propri-
etor of Curly Tail Pet Mas-
sage, offering in-home mas-
sage therapy for pets on the
North Coast and the greater
Portland area. Tews is a grad-
uate of the Northwest School
of Animal Massage. Originally
from Wisconsin, she came to
Partnership sells off properties
after Mitchum’s death
Seaside to start her business in
2016.
“I offer mobile animal mas-
sage therapy to pets to help
them relax, heal and main-
tain their levels of health and
well-being,” she said.
An active volunteer and
board member of Pacific Pug
Rescue, Tews is also a foster
home provider for pugs who
have been rescued. “Animals
See TEWS, Page 7A
By EDWARD
STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Curly Tails Pet Massage
Kim Tews works on her
cocker spaniel, Hugo, as a
guest looks on.
Luottamus Partners, the
downtown real estate com-
pany run by the late William
“Mitch” Mitchum and Rose
Marie Paavola, has sold the
Sanborn Building at 10th
and Commercial streets in
downtown Astoria to Port-
land-based MH Real Estate.
“I plan to honor the leg-
acy of the former late owner
Mitch Mitchum by doing
everything I can to support
my tenants, other small-busi-
ness owners and local char-
ities and organizations,”
Michael Hsiao, the new
owner, said.
Paavola and Mitchum’s
widow, Marie, have been
selling off Luottamus Part-
ners’ downtown proper-
ties since his death in 2015.
The partnership still owns
See BUILDING, Page 7A