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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JULY 30, 2018 Video: ‘I love movies. I have a passion for it’ Center: Nonprofit sawa, Hitchcock and DeMille. Continued from Page 1A Affinity for film “I hear so many people who visit from out of town and think, ‘God, I miss video stores. I wish we had one in our town,’” Cummings said. While some customers get much of their media online, others don’t want to deal with the hassles of technology or enter their credit card infor- mation into a website. The stores remain afloat through a steady stream of regu- lars, visitors and people who know that the internet only offers so much. “Some people are such movie fanatics that they want to be able to choose from all movies,” Cummings said. “You can’t get everything that comes to your mind that you want to see online.” Local businesses Another reason Cum- mings suspects people return again and again to his store: the importance of supporting local businesses. And because Video Horizons sells previous- ly-viewed movies, folks stop by to fill out their personal col- lections as well. Both stores continue to rent VHS in addition to DVDs and Blu-rays. Both carry tens of thousands of titles. And both stores saw a decline in business during the advent of pay-per-view, rental by mail and streaming services. Jim Haugen — who lives above Universal Video with his brother — said that when they first opened, their main competitors were other local video stores. Now the threat is all online. The store, he said, saw a noticeable but not dev- astating decline when online rivals started taking over the market. But at Video Horizons, the impact was sudden and nearly terminal. Around 2008, shortly after its peak, the store lost more than 50 percent of its business. Asked if the store was ever in danger of closing, Cum- mings said, “Every day.” Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian A customer browses the selection of movies at Video Horizons in Astoria. Gail Bernard, right, rents a movie from Universal Video store owner Jim Haugen in Seaside. “When business went down really hard, it was tough,” he said. His landlord was willing to work with him to maintain his space on Astor Street, next to Sahara Pizza. Why did he decide to keep the store open? “I’m just stub- born,” Cummings said with a laugh. “I love movies. That’s why I got into it in the first place. I have a passion for it.” A man who studied archi- tecture at Washington State University, Cummings started working in video stores because of his love of film. A cinema history class he took in the early 1970s opened up his world to Kubrick and Kuro- Jim Haugen wasn’t a film buff per se, but he enjoys clas- sics like “12 Angry Men,” “The Best Years of Our Lives” and “Casablanca,” a movie all but universally loved by peo- ple who love movies. Cummings has tried to hire employees with a similar affin- ity for film, people who can speak the language of cin- ema and help guide custom- ers’ tastes. Cummings digs the art house specimens — Wes Anderson is his favorite direc- tor lately — whereas Tim All- wein, a Horizons clerk, knows the older and esoteric flicks. Allwein used to own an Asto- ria comic book store, Amaz- ing Stories, which also rented movies. On a recent afternoon, All- wein helped a Forest Grove man find “Strange Brew,” an obscure 1983 film with Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas. The store just happened to have a spare copy in the back for sale. Allwein recently brought the Netflix show “Stranger Things” to the atten- tion of Astoria resident Mike Transue, who rented both sea- sons at once and said he got hooked after episode No. 5. Transue remembers an out- ing to the video store as an event, something worth carv- ing out time for. Video Hori- zons is “like a magical throw- back to when I was a kid,” he said. Though he isn’t averse to getting movies online, “if you’re at home and you’re making your decisions, you’re not getting out. You’re being very reclusive,” Transue said “For a lot of people, this is their social outlet for the day,” Cummings said. “They go and have coffee at their favorite cafe, and then they might go to the gym and work out or something, and then stop by the video store. We see peo- ple on a daily basis. And they love to come and chat and talk and (ask) ‘What’s good this week?’” Tongue Point: ‘This habitat is critical to so many species’ Continued from Page 1A Dan Roix, conservation director for the land trust, said the group has submitted an application to the state Land Board for a hearing to buy the property, which is located south of Liberty Lane. The Colum- bia River Estuary Study Task- force will oversee the resto- ration of South Tongue Point, created between the mid-1940s and ’70s by dredge spoils along a deep-water channel of the Columbia River. “Once the initial restoration and stewardship happens, the hope is the site will be ecolog- ically self-sustaining,” Roix said. THE DAILY ASTORIAN M ONDAY E VENING A (2) (-) (-) (6) (-) (8) (9) (10) (12) (13) (-) (20) (-) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) L KATU KOMO KING KOIN KIRO KGW KRCW KOPB KPTV KPDX KCPQ TBS KZJO ESPN ESPN2 NICK DISN FAM FMC LIFE ROOT FS1 SPIKE COM HIST A&E TLC DISC NGEO TNT AMC USA FOOD HGTV FX CNN FNC CNBC BRAV TCM SYFY RFD (2) (4) (5) (-) (7) (-) (3) (10) (12) (-) (13) (20) (22) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) 6 There are several grant sources the land trust will look at to pay for the restoration. Many of the task force’s proj- ects are funded by the Bonne- ville Power Administration. The agency is required to fund habitat restoration as an offset to the impact of its hydroelec- tric dams along the Columbia and Snake rivers. Christopher Breitmeyer, the college president, said it is wait- ing for an appraisal and hopes to go before the Land Board in October to buy the land under the Marine and Environmen- tal Research and Training Sta- tion on the north side of Liberty Lane. The college has rented the land for its career-technical campus since its construction in the mid-1990s. The restored wetlands will be a major component of an environmental sciences pro- gram the college is developing. Breitmeyer said the program will likely focus on helping stu- dents transfer to universities, while providing certificates in areas such as resource manage- ment and ecological restoration. “We are just starting that process, looking at potential curricular paths and identifying degree and certificate paths,” he said. “We can move for- ward without the land acqui- sition, but having ownership allows us to have access to a living lab. “We are grateful to the land trust for partnering on the land on the other side of Liberty Lane. This habitat is critical to so many species and allows for some real good science to be done by our students.” will continue to hunt for a space Continued from Page 1A In 2015, Rising Tide Enterprises owed the county more than $27,000 in unpaid property taxes and inter- est, according to county records. By the end of 2017, the county announced the redemption period for the property was set to expire this September. Lustig has been told Ris- ing Tide Enterprises still hopes to resolve the tax issues. However, if the county does foreclose on the property, Lustig said TEAM would be interested in acquir- ing it. Vernon Hall, co-director of Filling Empty Bellies, said the nonprofit will continue the hunt for a space. Orga- nizers have been looking for a building since January. Hall said they will still work with TEAM to match people Contact: John Anderson • 360-269-2500 Continued from Page 1A Friday’s family skate nights, follows up with kids in the programs, organizes staffing for weekend events and pro- grams, returns emails — the list goes on. “She is like my right-hand man, basically,” said Robyn Koustic, the director of the Armory and the organiza- tion’s only employee. “She maybe misses four weekends out of the year.” Adams first joined the Armory when her family became involved in roller derby. Adams and her daugh- ters were born with a form of dwarfism and at first doubted if skating would be an activity for them. Koustic told them, “Why not!” Adams was raised by a family that didn’t treat her dif- ferently because of her dwarf- ism. Sure, there were step stools everywhere to make sure she could reach things, but her over 6-foot-tall broth- ers still wrestled with her like they would any other sibling. She didn’t realize there was a name for what made her different from the people around her until she walked into a doctor’s office as a 12-year-old and he started rat- tling off terminology. “As a mom, I wanted to make sure my girls knew from the very beginning that this is what you have but it doesn’t determine who you are,” Adams said. When Adams started vol- unteering at the Armory, there was a learning curve, Kous- tic said. Kids will be curious about Adams’ dwarfism, but are rarely cruel, she said. It’s the adults who often will stare and be rude. “But she takes it all with a grain of salt,” Koustic said. “She’s beautiful. She’s dis- criminated against so much because of her size, but she has tremendous courage and tolerance.” “At the Armory, none of us see her as different … that’s her home, the Armory, and no one can take that from her.” Fre e Est Fast ima tes Call me ti Any Jeff Hale Painting • • • • Residential Commercial Cedar Roof Treatments Exterior Repaint Specialist Over 25 years local experience 503-440-2169 SCHEDULE A - Charter Astoria/ Seaside - L - Charter Long Beach with jobs. “We haven’t given up on it,” Lustig said of the build- ing off Highway 202. “It was the perfect fit.” The former restaurant was equipped with a commer- cial kitchen, office space and parking, as well as other ame- nities. The two groups said the building had the added benefit of being located away from downtown, where the presence of homeless peo- ple has become a source of controversy. 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