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May 15, 2020 Graduates: Plan includes gifts of love and cheer Continued from Page 1 Her son, Jake, is a 2020 graduate with a promising athletic career. Last year’s baseball team had competed for the state 3A division championship, losing the title to LaPine. The 2020 WHS team had many of the same champion players, with just one or two graduating in 2019. “They were hungry; they were ready for it,” Morrow said. “Jake, Devin Jackson, Austin Little, they’d all been playing togeth- er since second Morrow or third grade. All of the hard work was for this year and, to just have it tak- en away, breaks my heart.” On the other Heyen hand, the last time her son wore a Warrior baseball uniform was at the 3A championship last year, she said. “If that’s the last time he gets to wear it, that’s a pretty good memory.” Seniors involved in any extracurricular activities -- band, choir, drama and other sports -- have lost plenty, she acknowledged. The high school has been running senior spotlights on its Facebook and Instagram pages, which has given indi- vidual seniors some recogni- tion, Principal Heyen said. Assistant Principal Ian O’Brien has organized “Be the Light” events on Friday nights at the football field and on Facebook live. “They have been well re- ceived and popular among our community, near and far,” Heyen said. T he C olumbia P ress 5 Club celebrates its centennial this summer The Angora Hiking Club has survived the 1918 Spanish Flu, 1929 Great Depression, and World War II. It will survive the pandemic of 2020. Hiking offers a respite from work, stress, and depression, chief hike guide Arline LaMear explained. The club, which has 90 members today, was orga- nized on July 4, 1920. Eighteen members of the Knights of Pythias hiked to the top of Saddle Mountain, where they read the Decla- ration of Independence and sang patriotic songs. They renamed themselves the Angoras, which means mountain goats. Their adventures haven’t been limited to hiking. Group members have gone skiing, swimming, and horseback riding together. Membership qualifications included a climb up Saddle Mountain and comple- tion of six club hikes per year, LaMear said. And rules required that no member be admit- ted “promiscuously” -- whatever that meant! Their first meetings were in local restau- rants, the Old Fort Building in Shively Park, and in Shively Hall. The Angoras were an ambi- tious lot with a list of projects: • Improvement of the road to Saddle Mountain • Clearing the Tillamook Head Trail of brush each spring • Lobbying the State High- way Commission to make Saddle Mountain a state park • Purchasing 40 acres on Tillamook Head and, in 1956, building a cabin there. Log- gers brought logs and Crown Zellerbach donated cedar for roof shakes. A smokestack and floorboards came from the Fort Stevens Officers Club, which had been demolished. Community donations in- clude library books, building supplies and flagpoles. Today, the Angoras plan all of their hikes for the year in January. The club’s hiking schedule can be found online at is on- line at our website, angora- hikingclub.org. Dues are $10 per year, although hike par- ticipants aren’t required to be members.