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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2018
A new coffee shop
opens on South Slope
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
A new coffee shop has
opened on the South Slope.
A-Town Coffee, owned by
Heather Jenson and run by her
daughter, Madison Burnett,
recently opened in the former
Sea Star Satellite along Marine
Drive near the Roundabout.
Burnett, 19, had been work-
ing at Big Creek Coffee Co. in
Knappa for three years during
high school. After graduating
from Astoria High School last
year, she went to work full time
at A-Town.
“I mentioned to my mom
that if she ever ran a business,
I would always help her out,”
Burnett said.
Along with Longbottom
Coffee from Hillsboro, the shop
serves breakfast and lunch items.
Whereas the downtown
core and the Columbia River
waterfront have several coffee
shops, A-Town is the only such
business on the South Slope or
Youngs Bay, and within walk-
ing distance of the high school.
That’s a nice advantage, Bur-
nett said.
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Alec Evans, left, and Kelsi Beek are moving their burger and taco food cart bAKos
back home to Iowa.
bAKos heads to Iowa
Food cart
closes up
By EDWARD
STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Alec Evans and Kelsi
Beek, who opened taco and
burger food cart bAKos this
summer on 11th Street in
Astoria, are headed back
home to Iowa and taking
their eatery with them.
The local chefs, friends
since they attended culinary
school together in Iowa, relo-
cated to Astoria five years
ago and went to work at the
ness in Astoria prohibitively
expensive for their personal
lives. Both continued to cook
at the bistro while running
the food cart.
“We want to be able to
save some money and be able
to travel, but Astoria is so
expensive that I don’t think
that could really ever work
for both of us,” Beek said.
The two plan to relocate
their cart to Des Moines,
Iowa, where Evans said new
breweries are popping up and
inviting them to set up shop.
“We can afford to work at
the food truck and not have
to do anything else” in Iowa,
Evans said.
Astoria Coffeehouse & Bis-
tro. They acquired the former
DJ’s Vinyl Vegan food cart
and in August opened bAKos
next to the Boomer’s hot dog
cart, serving gourmet burg-
ers and tacos on fry bread-
like shells, corn tortillas and
in nachos.
Earlier this month, Beek
and Evans closed the shop
and announced they were
moving back to Iowa to be
closer to family.
“It was great,” Beek said
of running bAKos. “The
people of Astoria were
wonderful.”
But the two also found
living and running a busi-
Programs to help home-
less people in Clatsop County
are scheduled to start at a new
Astoria location on Nov. 1,
but anyone can get a first look
at the facility during an open
house Sunday.
Helping Hands is hosting
the open house from 11:30
to 2:30 p.m. at its new loca-
tion in Uniontown, 286 W.
Marine Drive. People can
join board members and staff
for lunch and snacks, take
tours of the building, meet
program participants and
learn more about what Help-
ing Hands offers.
“We kind of just want peo-
ple to get an idea for what our
operations are going to be
like there,” said Raven Rus-
sell, development director.
She wants people to leave
the open house event knowing
enough about Helping Hands
that they can pass information
along to any homeless person
in need they might encounter.
The nonprofit provides a
variety of programs all aimed
at helping people regain
self-sufficiency. They main-
tain operations in four Ore-
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Clatsop County will host
town halls in Astoria and
Seaside to discuss prelim-
inary findings of a county-
wide housing study.
The two-hour events,
both beginning at 5:30 p.m.,
will take place Nov. 1 at the
gon counties. The Asto-
ria facility, a former Finnish
boarding house, will expand
their operations, based in Sea-
side, across Clatsop County.
Some clients based in Sea-
side will move to the Astoria
location. Russell said these
people would prefer to be
in Astoria because they will
be closer to work, court and
social services. But there will
still be room for many people
in the Astoria area.
An emergency shelter at
the Uniontown facility will
also be open for referrals
beginning Nov. 1.
SATURDAY
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KNAPPA — The Knappa
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Cloudy, chance of a
little rain
Periods of rain
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Full
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Celebrate the traditional Dia
de los Muertos, or Day of the
Dead, with the Lower Colum-
bia Hispanic Council in Astoria
on Saturday.
The council and the Colum-
bia River Maritime Museum
will host a celebration of the
Mexican and Central American
tradition at the Barbey Maritime
Center from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Day of the Dead is an
ancient tradition that serves as
a way to honor and memorial-
ize the lives of deceased loved
ones, but it also celebrates the
continuity of life.
The event is free and open to
all ages. Visitors will be able to
explore a display of altars, par-
ticipate in family activities and
shop for treats. The celebration
will include a community altar.
The council invites visitors to
bring a photo or memento of a
family member or friend who
has died to place at the commu-
nal altar as an offering.
MONDAY
Seaside City Council/Parks Advisory Committee workshop, 6 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway.
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Patrons may expect peri-
ods of low pressure or cloudy
water. If these conditions per-
sist, call 503-458-6461.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
Burns
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TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
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Nov. 2, and from Nov. 5
through Nov. 7.
DUII
• At 9:10 p.m. Thursday, Kassey Leeann Brockett, 38, of Rochester, Washington, was arrested
by Warrenton police on the 570 block of 18th Street and charged with driving under the influence
of intoxicants. A urine sample was collected to test for drugs.
REGIONAL CITIES
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
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UNDER THE SKY
including
representatives
from the county, cities and
various organizations — has
met over the past few months
to discuss the study. A list of
potential housing strategies,
lands analysis, inventories
and other information from
the study can be found at co.
clatsop.or.us.
ON THE RECORD
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Tonight's Sky: Venus at inferior conjunction as it
passes around the near side of sun.
High
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Sunset tonight ........................... 6:11 p.m.
Sunrise Saturday ........................ 7:49 a.m. Coos Bay
Moonrise today .......................... 7:52 p.m. 53/64
Moonset today ............................ 9:49 a.m.
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Precipitation
Thursday .......................................... 1.52"
Month to date ................................... 4.56"
Normal month to date ....................... 4.39"
Year to date .................................... 43.24"
Normal year to date ........................ 44.63"
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Judge Guy Boyington Build-
ing and Nov. 13 at Seaside
City Hall. Representatives
from Johnson Economics,
the study’s consulting firm,
will present the findings,
answer questions and field
comments.
A 20-member techni-
cal advisory committee —
Group hosts Day of the Dead celebration
TUESDAY
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Thursday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 61°/53°
Normal high/low ........................... 59°/43°
Record high ............................ 73° in 1901
Record low ............................. 31° in 1939
Last
MONDAY
Jenson, who also sells
advertising for The Daily
Astorian, had been thinking
for a few years about open-
ing her own business, she
said. A-Town was formerly a
satellite provider, and before
that another coffee shop. Next
door is an office for financial
management firm Edward
Jones.
A-Town Coffee opens from
6 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day.
Knappa water flushing planned
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
“There really isn’t many
other businesses around here,
especially food or drinks,
besides” Dairy Queen, she
said.
High schoolers only get 35
minutes for lunch, she said,
and the shop gets a rush of stu-
dents during lunch and after 3
p.m. A-Town plans to add a
lounge where customers can
hang out and study, along with
outdoor seating.
Town halls to discuss
countywide housing study
Helping Hands hosts open house
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Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
Madison Burnett, left, runs A-Town Coffee on Marine Drive
near the Roundabout in Astoria.
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