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Family connections rule final day of Coast Invite
By Gary Henley
EO Media Group
WARRENTON — “It’s
all about family,” said Lara
Tennant, in her address to the
crowd following her Women’s
Division victory in the annu-
al Oregon Coast Invitational,
which concluded Saturday,
July 29, at the Astoria Golf &
Country Club.
“Family” is why Tennant
plays in the annual tourna-
ment, and family is why one
of the oldest tournaments on
the West Coast remains so
popular.
The 107th Oregon Coast
Invitational definitely had a
big family theme this year, as
multiple families went home
with some prize-winning
hardware Saturday.
In addition to Lara (Mack)
Tennant winning her 10th
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Riley Elmes tees off on the
seventh hole, on his way to
his second straight Grand
Champions title.
Women’s title, father George
Mack Sr. won the second
flight in the Super Seniors’
division, and sister Cappy
advanced to the semifinals of
the Women’s championship
flight.
Elsewhere, Astoria’s Bret
Stevens won his first cham-
pionship flight trophy, taking
first in the Seniors division,
while son Ronnie was run-
ner-up in the Grand Champi-
ons’ fifth flight.
And Saturday’s big winner
was definitely the Elmes’ fa-
ther-son combo.
Riley Elmes successfully
defended his Grand Champi-
ons’ title, winning the cham-
pionship flight for the sec-
ond year in a row, while dad
Matt Elmes rallied to win the
championship flight of the Ju-
nior Seniors division.
It’s been a tradition like
no other for the Mack family,
which now has over 20 cham-
pionships in the OCI.
Women’s Division
In Tennant’s victory Satur-
day, she held a slim 2-up lead
after the morning 18-hole
round, increased it to 3-up,
then finally finished the match
on the 34th hole, for a 3&2
win over Portland’s Gretchen
Johnson, playing in her first
Coast Invitational.
It’s the 10th Women’s title
for Tennant, her first coming
in 1990. She had to get past
four-time OCI champion
Amanda Jacobs in Friday’s
semifinals, one day after a
quarterfinal victory over Cha-
risse Spada.
Tennant used a near-mir-
acle shot on the sixth hole in
Saturday’s afternoon round to
maintain her lead over John-
son.
Her tee shot on No. 6 land-
ed on the other side of a ridge
bordering the right side of the
fairway.
“I was more concerned
about getting it up and over the
hill,” she said. “And I hit a6-
iron to within 15 feet. I knew I
hit it well, but you never know
how it’s going to end up.”
Later, Tennant made a
birdie on 14 and parred 15 and
16, “and just wanted to make
par from there,” she said.
“(Johnson) played well.”
The entire week was
“slower at the beginning, then
I played better each day,” Ten-
nant said. “And that’s what’s
most important, to play really
well on Friday and Saturday.
The wind was so tough this
year. It was consistently the
most windy golf of any coast
tournament I’ve ever played
in.”
Grand Champions
In the Grand Champions’
match, Elmes was 1-down to
Anthony Arvidson after the
morning round, but rallied
and was 1-up through the fifth
hole of the afternoon round.
Elmes also clinched the
win on the 34th hole, 3&2.
Seaside’s Sam Hinton
bounced back from his first
round loss in the Grand
Champions division to win
the first flight.
Elmes’ father, Matt, was
even with Dennis Sturgell
through 11 holes in the Junior
Seniors championship, but
then won the next two holes
for a 2-up lead.
It was the second Junior
Seniors title in three years for
Matt Elmes.
In the Seniors’ champion-
ship flight final, Stevens had
the home course advantage
against Tom Mulflur.
“Most of the club members
know all the bounces on this
course,” Stevens said. “You
know where to play it, so it’s a
little bit of an advantage. But
the out-of-town people have
also played this course a lot.
It’s highly competitive.”
First year at market for cranberry farm
Market from Page 1A
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The annual Oregon Corgi Beach Day was celebrated in
Cannon Beach with hundreds of dogs and their owners.
Corgi Meetup benefits the
Oregon Humane Society
Corgis from Page 1A
The event originated as
another way for the Port-
land Corgi Meetup group
to share their love for a dog
“that can’t help but make
you smile” in a new setting,
Robinson said. But once
the event started to grow it
started to incur costs, which
led to the idea of making the
meetup a fundraiser for the
Oregon Humane Society for
the past three years.
Last year, the 400 corgis
and their owners generated
$6,000 in donations. This
year, Robinson said early
estimates came to $9,000.
Oregon Humane Society
community relations coor-
dinator Stephanie Kittrell
said the donations from
these events help finance
day-to-day costs, as well as
support programs to allevi-
ate overcrowding in shelters
and investigate animal cru-
elty and neglect cases.
“We are so appreciative
of this group’s support and
generosity,” Kittrell said.
“It helps create awareness
for our programs while also
having fun on the beach.”
While there were many
dogs that were enjoying
the soft sand and 75 degree
weather on Saturday, there
is something unique when
it comes to corgis and their
owners, Robinson said.
“There’s
something
about the community sur-
rounding these dogs. Ev-
eryone is so warm and wel-
coming,” Robinson said. “I
don’t know — maybe the
personality of the dog just
brings that out in their own-
ers.”
Whatever that “some-
thing” is, it attracts corgi
owners like Ginger Sirlin,
who travelled with her cor-
gi, Colton, from Arizona.
“Corgi people are the
best. They are passionate,
and kind of crazy in a good
way,” Sirlin said. “But we
rally together when one of
us needs something.”
But Sirlin’s corgi doesn’t
just cheer people up in pass-
ing — it’s his job. As a cer-
tified therapy dog, Sirlin
takes Colton to hospitals
around the country to visit
patients with dementia and
other long-term illnesses.
She and her husband travel
at least once a month to sup-
port or sponsor corgi-related
charity events, she said.
“He instantly brings a
smile to their faces,” Sirlin
said. “These dogs have a
way bringing lots of differ-
ent people together.”
her family-owned cranberry
bogs out at Dellmoor Loop in
Gearhart. While it’s her first
time at the market, this year
marks her family’s 50th har-
vest, she said.
“It’s been fun creating
awareness,” Peterson said.
“People don’t know we even
grow cranberries in Gearhart,
Oregon.”
The product, branded
“Crannies,” are a variety of
dried cranberries from the
farm’s 13-acre plot. Peterson
grew up growing and harvest-
ing these plump, red berries
with her father, Ron Paino,
who at 84 is still working the
bogs. He planted his first bogs
in the area in 1945. His friend
Marvis, 94, still drives trucks
for them after 50 years.
“We joke it’s impossible
to get fired here,” Peterson
By Steve Brandon
Portland Tribune
Thirty-five years ago, with
little fanfare, eight teams con-
sisting of 10 runners each took
off downhill from Timberline
Lodge, wound their way one
at a time through Portland
and small communities, and
ended up at a relatively quiet
finish line in Pacific City.
That was Hood to Coast
Relay I.
Who could have foreseen
that 2017 would be the year of
Hood to Coast Relay XXXVI,
and that this one race would
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another Hood to Coast I — in
the world’s most-populated
country — would have just
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lar athlete, Yao Ming.
“I would never have imag-
ined this,” says Felicia Hub-
ber, Hood to Coast Race Se-
ries president and the daughter
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laughed.
Before taking on the farm
full time, Peterson worked in
the San Francisco Bay area
with Kraft Foods in sales until
one day in 1996 when her fa-
ther announced the farm was
up for sale.
Her husband, Joe Peter-
son, told her the news, and
after some deliberation joint-
ly made the decision to move
back to Oregon to reclaim the
family farm.
“(The farm) stays in the
family. When you meet people
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A wide variety of fresh produce was on display and for sale
last week at the Cannon Beach Farmer’s Market.
in cranberry industry, we talk
in generations,” Peterson said.
“It’s hard work, but being out
there with my dad — no one
can take that feeling away.”
With a little more than 20
years under her belt, she said
the biggest challenges her and
her husband face are unusu-
ally wet winters and hungry
elk when it comes to October
harvests.
“We have elk fences, but
already a few got in the bogs
this year,” she said. “They can
devastate you.”
Regardless, Peterson still
has much to offer at her stand
in the market, including Pil-
grims, Stevens and her per-
sonal favorite, McFarlins.
She is proud of her product
— almost as much as the fam-
ily behind it.
“I’m just proud to work
with family and to keep the
heritage going.”
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of HTC Relay founder Bob
Foote. “It feels so surreal.”
Hubber was on hand this
month for the July 8 Hood
to Coast China — the first of
what is expected to be many
of its kind in the Asian coun-
try of 1.4 billion.
Yao Ming and Starz Inter-
national Sports were co-pro-
ducers of the race. The7-foot-
6-inch, 310-pound former
NBA center doesn’t run, but
his mere involvement helped
ensure the 104-mile inaugu-
ral had plenty of support and
publicity.
“The race got more media
than we get here,” Hubber
says. “It was the top-trending
topic on WeChat, the lead-
ing social media platform in
China, and it got coverage on
CCTV (China Central Televi-
sion).”
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