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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2022
IN BRIEF
Training facility complicates
Seaside softball relocation
SEASIDE — The Seaside School District hopes to
redevelop Broadway Field to meet the needs of soft-
ball play and provide more equity.
The fi eld was developed in 2013 on land owned by
the city, used by the school district and maintained by
the Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District.
But the Herche Family Training Facility, designed
and developed with donations and contributions from
the community, may complicate matters.
According to an agreement signed in March 2020
between the park district, the city and Seaside Kids
Inc., any proposed change to usage or policies gov-
erning usage of the batting facility other than sched-
uling will require approval by the city, the park dis-
trict and Seaside Kids.
The facility — built at a cost of $244,000 — would
have to be moved.
“You cannot pick up a pole barn and move it,”
Chris Corder, the batting facility’s project manager,
said. “I’ll repeat that: You cannot pick up a pole barn
and move it. There are 90 yards of concrete in the
fl oor. It just doesn’t work that easily.”
The school district’s request to develop a softball
fi eld comes in response to a complaint alleging dis-
crimination against female athletes on the basis of
sex and equality in the athletics programs at the high
school.
Under an agreement with the U.S. Department of
Education’s Offi ce for Civil Rights, the school dis-
trict has until the end of June 2023 to build the facil-
ity and provide more equity between girls and boys
athletics.
The school district has investigated three sites:
Broadway Field, fi elds on Wahanna Road, and a
property north of the former high school known as
the “North 40.”
The Wahanna Road site was eliminated after stud-
ies revealed wetlands and poor quality soil. The North
40 off ers a central location and has been viewed
favorably by the city’s parks advisory committee, but
would require utilities, power and earthwork.
In April, the school board voted to revisit Broad-
way Field as their preferred site.
“It turns out that moving the training facility is
actually a pretty reasonable idea, and accomplishes
a handful of goals,” Zach Stokes, of ZCS Engineer-
ing & Architecture, has said. “From an engineering
standpoint and a practicality standpoint, the Broad-
way Field modifi cation appears to be a really good
option for the district and for the city.”
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CAMP POYER
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All eyes were on Jordan Poyer at CMH Field, where youth football players learned the basics of the game from the Buff alo Bills’
All-Pro safety in Saturday’s one-day camp.
DEATHS
June 15, 2022
In HARTMAN,
Brief
Janice
Mabel, 83, of Warren-
ton, died in Warrenton.
Deaths
Hughes-Ransom Mor-
tuary is in charge of the
arrangements.
June 13, 2022
KISEL,
Nathan
Wolfe, 28, of Sea-
side, died in Seaside.
Hughes-Ransom Mor-
tuary is in charge of the
arrangements.
MEMORIALS
Saturday, June 25
Memorials
BONHAM,
Gregg
Keith — Celebration of
life service at 2 p.m.,
Coastline Christian Fel-
lowship Church, with a
reception following in the
fellowship hall, 89386
Oregon Highway 202.
SCHULTZ, Roger —
Celebration of life from
3 to 5 p.m., Astoria Golf
& County Club, 33445
Sunset Beach Lane in
Warrenton.
Flowers
may be sent to 2484
Neawanna St., Seaside,
97138.
ON THE RECORD
On the Record
Assault
• Michael Robbins
Whitby, 65, of Hillsboro,
was arrested at the Can-
nery Pier Hotel & Spa
in Astoria for fourth-de-
gree assault constitut-
ing domestic violence.
The alleged incident took
place on Sunday.
Theft
• Hali Alexis Drig-
gers, 29, of Rogue River,
and Dylan James Strad-
ford, 34, of Milwaukie,
were arrested on Sunday at
Walmart in Warrenton for
second-degree theft. Strad-
ford was also charged with
resisting arrest.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
TUESDAY
Port of Astoria Commission, 4 p.m., 10 Pier 1, Suite 209.
Astoria Historic Landmarks Commission, 5:30 p.m., City
Hall, 1095 Duane St.
Cannon Beach City Council, 6 p.m., special meeting, City
Hall, 163 E. Gower Ave.
Seaside Planning Commission, 6 p.m., work session, City
Hall, 989 Broadway.
Seaside School District Board, 6 p.m., 2600 Spruce Drive.
WEDNESDAY
Clatsop County Board of Commissioners, 6 p.m.,
(electronic meeting).
THURSDAY
Cannon Beach Planning Commission, 6 p.m., City Hall,
163 E. Gower Ave.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
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Miss Meadowlark, Sophia Takla, was chosen Miss Oregon. She received her crown from Abigail Hayes, Miss Oregon 2021, center
top, and Moira O’Bryan, Miss Oregon Outstanding Teen 2021, right.
Miss Oregon crowned in Seaside
Takla competed as
Miss Meadowlark
By R.J. MARX
The Astorian
SEASIDE
—
Miss
Meadowlark, Sophia Takla,
was crowned Miss Ore-
gon on Saturday night at
the scholarship program’s
75th annual event at the Sea-
side Civic and Convention
Center.
Takla, a student at Bos-
ton Conservatory at Berklee
College of Music, will
receive a $15,000 scholar-
ship and represent the state
at the Miss America p ageant.
Takla was crowned by
Abigail Hayes, Miss Ore-
gon 2021, who was selected
fourth runner-up at the
Miss America p ageant last
December.
Evergreen teen candidate
Deja Fitzwater was selected
Miss Oregon Outstand-
ing Teen, winning a $5,000
scholarship award. The
Tigard High School student
will head to Dallas, Texas,
for the Miss America Out-
standing Teen n ational c om-
petition in August.
Takla edged out a fi eld
that included fi rst runner-up
Hannah Garhofer, a Seaside
High School graduate repre-
senting Lane County in the
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Deja Fitzwater walked the runway after being crowned Miss
Oregon Outstanding Teen.
competition.
“I am so thrilled,” Takla
said after receiving her
crown . “I have grown up in
this organization from the
princess mentorship pro-
gram as a little kid. What’s
so fun is that our new teen,
Deja Fitzwater, was also a
princess with me. We have
pictures together when
we were little kids on this
stage.”
Takla’s social impact
statement was “Operation
Joy: Bringing Happiness to
Pediatric Cancer Patients.”
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“During tonight’s show,
over 100 children will be
diagnosed with cancer,” she
said. “At 6 years old, my
cousin was one of them, ulti-
mately losing his life.”
Garhofer was the recip-
ient of the program’s fi rst
women in law scholarship.
She is a graduate of the Uni-
versity of Oregon and will
attend Willamette Univer-
sity College of Law.
“This
program
has
changed my life for the bet-
ter,” Garhofer said. “I began
when I was 13 and I truly
would not be the woman
I am today without this
program.”
Her social initiative plat-
form was “Indivisible:
Building Leaders for a Con-
nected Community.”
“Our nation is hurting and
it’s time we breed unity, and
it begins with our youth,”
Garhofer told the panel of
judges. “We need to connect
again. We need to have com-
passion for one another and
we need to rebuild our com-
munities together.”
Lilly Boothe, of Clats-
kanie, represented Clatsop
County. She is a student at
Oregon State University
majoring in speech com-
munications. Her talent was
vocal performance.
Boothe’s social impact
platform was “No More
Stolen Sisters: Missing
and Murdered Indigenous
Women.”
Throughout the evening,
Miss Oregon’s 75-year his-
tory in Seaside was at top of
mind, with photos and mem-
orabilia from years past.
The evening’s hosts were
auctioneer and performer
Dale Johannes and Katie
Harman Ebner, Miss Ore-
gon 2001 and the only Miss
Oregon to go on to win Miss
America, in 2002.
Other Miss Oregons on
the stage spanned gener-
ations from the 1970s to
today.
“Tonight I’m going to
just be fi lled with gratitude
and celebrate with my sis-
ters,” Takla said. “I want to
really lift up all of the won-
derful women in this class
because I wouldn’t be here
without them and I love
them so much. They’re just
so selfl ess and kind, and the
perfect embodiment of what
the modern woman is and
what Miss Oregon should
be.”