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Doughboy: ‘The amount of community involvement
we have for this project is nothing short of inspiring’
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Replacing and restoring
the memorial’s historic com-
ponents has involved sourc-
ing materials from outside
the area. Because little plas-
ter work is done in town, the
historic preservationists have
bought most of their plaster
in Portland. It has been espe-
cially costly to replace the
broken light poles, Swerdloff
said. They had to order a new
mold, a process that cost thou-
sands of dollars.
College students have
already replastered the two
bathrooms that form the base
of the structure, followed by
students from Tongue Point
Job Corps Center who have
begun to paint the interior.
Take almost any city park and
likely students from Job Corps
have probably had a hand in
improving or maintaining the
site, Jonah Dart-McLean, the
parks maintenance supervi-
sor, noted at a Parks Advisory
Board meeting this month.
“The amount of commu-
nity involvement we have for
this project is nothing short
of inspiring,” Angela Cosby,
director of the Parks and Rec-
reation Department, said in
a statement in March. “From
our partnerships with Clat-
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Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Andy Deanhardt and Matthew Mather assess work that needs to be done to restore the
iconic memorial.
sop Community College, our
elected officials, our grant
providers, and our staff, we
will be leaving a lasting leg-
acy of the veterans of Clatsop
County who served in World
War I with honor and valor.”
Though the site is com-
monly referred to as the
Doughboy
Monument
because of the bronze sculp-
ture of a soldier brandishing
a rifle that stands on a pedes-
tal atop the structure, it is also
known as the Astoria Victory
Monument. It was designed
in 1926 by Charles T. Dia-
mond and the bronze sculp-
ture was crafted by artist John
Paulding. It was commis-
sioned by the local American
Legion post to honor county
residents who served in World
War I.
Cart: ‘It’s so cool. There’s so much going on here’
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egg waffles, a Hong Kong sta-
ple consisting of small spheres
of batter grilled in specialty
irons, powdered with sugar
and sometimes embedded in a
sundae.
The Rhoads now oper-
ate two of the food-cart tri-
umvirate in the acrylic con-
crete courtyard outside Reach
Break Brewing and Reveille
Ciderworks. In between Hong
Kong and Hot Box is Mai
Tong Thai Cuisine, opened
last year by Sopa and Robert
Burns.
“Abbie and I are going to
be burning the candle at both
ends until we can find some
Hurd: ‘I think it’s
underrated what
this city can do’
Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
Abbie and Dan Rhoads operate Hong Kong Taco Cart, left,
and The Hot Box BBQ, background, in the outdoor court-
yard of Astoria Station.
employees,” Dan Rhoads
said.
The idea for Hot Box
started in Humboldt County,
California,
where
Dan
Rhoads was a high school
history teacher. Abbie Rhoads
was winning barbecue con-
tests and decided to branch
out into a stand-alone busi-
ness. The couple moved to
Portland to be near family
and eventually expanded to
multiple carts, from a medical
complex in the South Water-
front district to a brewery on
the east side of the Willamette
River.
Coming to Astoria meant
dropping one of the Hot Box
locations. But the couple
found they had a lot of cater-
ing business on the North
Coast from weddings and
other events serviced by their
purple Hot Box truck.
“It’s so cool,” Dan Rhoads
said of the relocation to Asto-
ria. “There’s so much going
on here. We’re totally sold on
it.”
the TV,” Hurd said. “Movies
became my comfort. They
became my peace. Stories
and movies were my outlet.”
When Hurd was 7 years
old, he and his family moved
to Harrisburg, Pennsylva-
nia, where he was given the
opportunity to attend the Mil-
ton Hershey School, a private,
philanthropic boarding school
designed for underprivileged
students.
“My mom was doing what
she could, but she couldn’t
afford to take care of us,” he
said.
Hurd was given the chance
to explore his passion for film
by entering a drama-related
career track at the school.
After graduating in 2009, he
attended the New York Film
Academy, where he received
his associate’s degree in
directing for film.
But his life came to a halt
shortly after the news his
father and his aunt both sud-
denly died. He stopped his
work as a music video edi-
tor in Denver, Colorado, and
immediately flew back home.
“(My father) and I weren’t
on good terms at that point. I
remember I called him the day
before, asking if he wanted to
grab a coffee,” he said. “Then
I didn’t get that chance.”
Since that time, Hurd
struggled to balance his grief
and achieving his dreams.
He moved to Los Angeles to
get his foot in the door of the
entertainment industry any
way he could: attending audi-
tions, submitting scripts and
performing stand-up com-
edy acts. To numb the pain
of the loss, he took to exces-
sive drinking and partying,
which sabotaged his efforts at
success.
It was around this time he
reached out to a close friend,
fellow Milton Hershey stu-
dent and former Seattle Sea-
hawks football player Garry
Gilliam, for guidance.
“In LA, I sprinted out the
gate and ran out of legs. I
called him and told him how
I was struggling to find my
place, my groove. So he got
me on a train to Seattle, and
he showed me this life I could
be the owner of if I got back
on this horse,” he said.
Now in the Pacific North-
west, Hurd decided to seek
help for his addiction at a
KLEAN treatment center
in Long Beach, Washing-
ton. Eventually the program
brought him down to some
classes in Astoria, where he
instantly fell in love.
“I had no idea what to
expect here. I hadn’t even
seen ‘The Goonies,’” he said.
He secured jobs at the
Astoria Gateway Cinemas
and radio station, then slowly
wedged his way back into the
entertainment world with a
role in the Astor Street Opry
Company production of “The
Birds” last year.
“There is this community
that welcomes you with wide
arms. When I was broken
they welcomed me in. I found
passion again here,” he said.
“I think it’s underrated what
this city can do.”
A year later, following his
dreams seems to be back on
track. Because of a connec-
tion between Gilliam and a
producer at CBS, Hurd will be
flying back to Los Angeles to
tentatively work with writers
for the show “Code Black.”
When he’s not fine-tuning
his comedy on the radio, he
chips away at a science-fic-
tion screenplay that he wants
to produce someday. “I came
here when the chips were
down. It was life or death
and I was at a crossroads,” he
said. “I came from such lows
and had to face all the s--- I
left in my wake, and this city
allowed me to do that.”
He paused. “Maybe
I’ll write another movie
about Astoria, about this,”
he laughed. “Replace ‘The
Goonies.’”
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