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Queen: ‘We had an amazing year together’
County reports
one new virus case
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Artist Jeremy Furnish presented
his sculpture to a small group of
people and the Astoria Regatta
Court on Wednesday afternoon.
“We had an amazing year
together,” she said.
One of her responsibil-
ities as queen will be to
mentor next year’s Regatta
C ourt.
“I look forward to leading
them and helping them pre-
pare their speeches and gain
confi dence in public speak-
ing,” Steele said. “Hope-
fully, they will have a little
more fun next year, getting
to go to more of the events.”
Before the coronation ,
the court made an appear-
ance at a new waterfront
monument installed near the
Columbia River Maritime
Museum.
The monument commem-
orates the 125th anniversary
of the Regatta festival.
Last year, the Regatta and
Astoria Visual Art s selected
artist Jeremy Furnish’s con-
cept for the monument.
The 10 -foot-tall sculpture
is made of bronze and stain-
less steel that swirls around
a bright blue piece of cast
glass that Furnish referred
to as the “eye of the rolling
wave.”
A butterfl y sailboat was
designed on the glass to rep-
resent the festival.
“It’s symbolizing the
water and the land, side by
side as they come down the
river. It’s like a marriage, or
a union, between the land
and the sea,” Furnish said.
A plaque behind the mon-
ument will be engraved with
the story of the Regatta fes-
tival and the name of each
sponsor that has contributed
to the festival and the schol-
arships awarded to each
year’s Regatta Court.
Furnish said the oppor-
tunity
was
import-
ant to him because his
great-great-grandfather
immigrated from Denmark
to Astoria the same year the
Regatta tradition began.
“It resonated with me. I t
was something that I really
had to put extra effort into,”
Furnish said. “It meant a
lot.”
The Astorian
Clatsop County reported Thursday that a man liv-
ing in the southern part of the county has tested posi-
tive for the coronavirus.
The man is in his 20s and was reportedly recover-
ing at home.
The county has recorded 83 cases since March 23.
Sixty-six have recovered, according to the county,
and the others are convalescing at home.
The Oregon Health Authority reported 20,636
cases and 348 deaths from the virus statewide as of
Friday morning.
The health authority tracked 3,806 test results in
Clatsop County.
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Arch Cape: Project received
signifi cant funding this year
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The property the district
hopes to purchase would
tie into an additional 3,500
acres the North Coast Land
Conservancy is in the pro-
cess of acquiring for its $10
million Rainforest Reserve
project.
That
project
also
received signifi cant fund-
ing this year in the form of a
$2.1 million Oregon Water-
shed Enhancement Board
grant.
This year has highlighted
another need besides water
quality, Chick noted.
When much of the state
shut down in the spring
to slow the spread of the
coronavirus, outdoor rec-
reational options were lim-
ited in the southern portions
of the North Coast. Large
state parks like Oswald
West, Ecola and Nehalem
and other state lands closed,
restricting access to beaches
and forests.
The proposed commu-
nity forest property was one
of the few places people
could go, Chick said.
“It’s a really vital recre-
ation area for people from
all over,” he said.
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