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8A • February 6, 2015 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com JOSHUA BESSEX PHOTO Hannah Garhofer walks in the evening wear competition for Miss contestants during the Miss Clatsop County Scholarship pageant at the Seaside Convention Center Jan. 31. JOSHUA BESSEX PHOTO Alexis Mather is crowned Miss Clatsop County during the Miss Clatsop County Scholarship pageant at the Seaside Convention Center Jan. 31. Top titles at Miss Clatsop County pageant go to Alexis Mather and Hannah Garhofer Scholarships awarded to all contestants total $6,450 More than 500 people watched as four local young women took home pageant titles at the Miss Clatsop County Scholarship Program Jan. 31 at the Seaside Civ- ic and Convention Center, advancing them to the state competition in June. Alexis Mather, 19, of As- toria, swept the awards in LQWHUYLHZ ¿WQHVV WDOHQW DQG evening wear on her way to being named Miss Clatsop County 2015, as well as re- ceiving the Service Above Self Award for Miss contes- tants. She walked away with $1,525 in scholarships. Her platform was mentoring, and she performed an operatic vo- cal to “Nessun Dorma” from Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Turandot.” Mather is a grad- uate of Astoria High School and attends Clatsop Commu- nity College. She was also Miss Clatsop County in 2013. Crowned Miss North Coast 2015 was 18-year-old Hannah Garhofer, of Sea- side. Garhofer’s platform is celiac disease awareness; she performed an energetic tap dance routine to “Blame it on the Boogie” by Michael Jackson. She also split the Platform Presentation Speech $ZDUG ZLWK ¿UVW UXQQHUXS Abi Anderson, 20, of Seaside, who received $575 in schol- arships. Garhofer is a senior at Seaside High School and re- ceived $1,075 in scholarships. She was Miss Clatsop Coun- ty’s Outstanding Teen 2013. Both Mather and Garhofer can also take advantage of Oregon Institute of Technol- ogy’s offer of a $2,000 a year scholarship for four years, JOSHUA BESSEX PHOTO JOSHUA BESSEX PHOTO Hayliehe Bell, Seaside, reacts after being named Miss North Coast’s Oustanding Teen. Miss Oregon 2014 Rebecca Anderson sings “Let it Go” with the prince and princesses during the Miss Clatsop County Scholarship pageant. JOSHUA BESSEX PHOTO JOSHUA BESSEX PHOTO Anna Kaim strikes a pose following her tap dance routine. which was made possible by the school in part to extend STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathemat- ics) educational opportunities to the women in the county. Winning the Miss Clatsop County’s Outstanding Teen 2015 title was 13-year-old Libby Olsen, a seventh-grad- er at Broadway Middle School. Olsen will receive JOSHUA BESSEX PHOTO Abi Anderson sings “Good Girl” by Christina Aguilera during the Miss Clatsop County Scholarship pageant. $625 after winning the over- DOO WHHQ ¿WQHVV WDOHQW DQG evening wear competitions. Olsen did a jazz-acro dance to “My Name in Lights.” Her platform was supporting lo- cal animal shelters. Olsen is the youngest contestant to be named Miss Clatsop Coun- ty’s Outstanding Teen since the pageant began in 2004. Hayliehe Bell, 16, of Sea- side, won the Teen Interview Competition as well as being named Miss North Coast’s Outstanding Teen. She sang Carrie Underwood’s country hit “Jesus Take the Wheel”; her platform is “Sing to Feed.” Bell is a junior at Sea- side High School. She also won the Teen Community Service Award, bringing her scholarship total to $625. The teen wins qualify both girls to pursue the title of Miss Sandy Newman, director of the Miss Clatsop County Scholarship program, takes a moment by the curtains during the Miss Clatsop County Scholarship pageant. After more than 15 years of being involved in the pro- gram, this was Newman’s last Miss Clatsop County Scholar- ship pageant. Oregon’s Outstanding Teen, as well as receiving $500 scholarship from the Oregon Institute of Technology. Runner-up in the teen di- vision was 16-year-old Sea- side High School junior Anna Kaim, who will receive a $275 scholarship. Named Miss Congeni- ality was Hannah Garhofer, and Teen Congeniality was Samantha Wozniak, of Gear- hart. $OO QRQ¿QDOLVWV ZLOO UH- ceive $125 for their individu- al scholarship funds, making the total scholarships award- ed Saturday night $6,450. By random draw, 8-year- old Halle Moore, of Warren- ton, was selected Miss Clat- sop County’s Princess, and 8-year-old Amara Ames, of Warrenton, was named Miss North Coast’s Princess. Each will accompany their respec- tive Miss titleholders on stage at Miss Oregon and at several events throughout the year. Also on stage Jan. 31 were outgoing 2014 titlehold- ers, Jessica Humble, Haylie Moon and Olivia Colburn and Miss Oregon 2014 Re- becca Anderson. Co-emcees for the evening were Miss Oregon 2007 Kari Virding Christianson and her hus- band, Eric. The Miss Clatsop Coun- ty Scholarship Program is DQRI¿FLDOSUHOLPLQDU\WRWKH Miss Oregon and Miss Amer- LFD2UJDQL]DWLRQDQRQSUR¿W corporation established to provide contestants with the opportunity to enhance their professional and education goals, and to achieve those pursuits with the assistance of monetary grants and awards, according to a press release. The Miss Clatsop County Scholarship Program is sup- ported in part by corporate sponsors Seaside Kiwanis, Seaside Factory Outlet Mall, Lazerquick, Restaurant De- velopment Company of America, Columbia Bank and Les Schwab Tires. For more information, vis- it www.missclatsopcounty. org FINAL AWARDS 2015 MISS Clatsop County ($1,025): Alexis Mather, Astoria MISS North Coast ($1,025): Hannah Garhofer, Seaside RUNNER-UP Miss Division ($525): Abi Anderson, Seaside MISS Clatsop County’s Outstand- ing Teen ($525): Libby Olsen, Warrenton MISS North Coast’s Outstanding Teen ($525): Hayliehe Bell, Seaside RUNNER-UP Teen Division ($275): Anna Kaim, Seaside PLATFORM Presentation Award ($50 each - TIE): Hannah Garhofer, Sea- side, and Abi Anderson, Seaside SERVICE Above Self Award (Miss) ($200): Alexis Mather, Astoria SERVICE Above Self Award (Teen) ($50): Hayliehe Bell, Seaside OVERALL Miss Interview Award ($100): Alexis Mather, Astoria OVERALL Teen Interview Award ($50): Hayliehe Bell, Seaside OVERALL Miss Talent Award ($100): Alexis Mather, Astoria OVERALL Teen Talent Award ($50): Libby Olsen, Warrenton OVERALL Miss Evening Gown Award ($50): Alexis Mather, Astoria OVERALL Teen Evening Gown Award ($25 each): Libby Olsen, Warrenton OVERALL Miss Lifestyle & Fitness ($50): Alexis Mather, Astoria OVERALL Teen Lifestyle & Fitness ($25): Libby Olsen, Warrenton ALL Non-Finalists ($125 each): Moira Ferry, Astoria, Kayla Worwood, Astoria, Stacey Aho, Knappa, Jessica Knehr, Warrenton, Tennaya Carr, Seaside, Lindsay Grant, Astoria, Bailee Neahring, Warrenton, Emma Graham, Astoria, Taryn Miller, Scappoose, Audrey Colburn, Gearhart, Saman- tha Wozniak, Gearhart, Nikkole Sasso, Astoria MISS Clatsop County’s Princess: Halle Moore, Warrenton MISS North Coast’s Princess: Ama- ra Ames, Warrenton MISS Congeniality for Miss contes- tants: Hannah Garhofer, Seaside MISS Congeniality for Teen contestants: Samantha Wozniak, Gearhart TOTAL: $6450 Radio station’s new owner hopes to return to his roots Radio from Page 1A out and ended up here.” In January, after closing the deal on 94.9FM, Evans and his wife relocated to Seaside, plan- ning to take a more hands-on approach. “We are going to turn it back into a community station,” Ev- ans said. “We want to provide newscasts during the day. We want to include the communi- ty on the air. We want to bring people in.” He also hoped to return closer to his radio roots — fo- cusing on music instead of handling a small segment of a conglomerate. “Clear Channel has become such a huge corporate compa- ny it was hard to get anything done,” said Evans. “It’s was suffocating.” Running the newly dubbed 94.9 FM, KBGE, “The Bridge,” presents a different obstacle. “The biggest challenge we have is to have people want to take part and advertise on the station,” said Evans. “That’s 100 percent of the income of the station, and it is sometimes GLI¿FXOWWRJHWSHRSOHLQWHUHVWHG in advertising on the radio.” (YDQV GLVSOD\HG WKH RI¿FH and broadcast studio in down- town Seaside. It will remain in the same location in the Gilbert 'LVWULFW RQ WKH VHFRQG ÀRRU above Toro Sushi. “It will basically be a rock station,” Evans said. “There are different connotations of the rock format. This one happens to be a AAA station, which means new rock, new art- ists and classic rock cuts, too, mixed in with that.” Evans stressed that KBGE would feature more contempo- rary than classic rock and that blocks of Led Zepplin (known as “getting the Led out,” a sta- ple of classic rock radio) would be in short supply. “I’ve gotten the Led out so many times I’m Led-less,” Ev- ans, said, laughing. “But there’s a lot of new stuff out there that really sounds good,” he added. “The Steal is a new band; they sound really good. You’ve got Foster the People and a number of new artists that have really ener- gized the music scene.” “Right now my favorite up and coming artist is Milky Chance,” said Evans. “Nobody knows who Milky Chance is, but the record has been playing over and over and over for the last several months. They’re a band out of Germany and they’re really making a lot of noise right now. ‘Stolen Dance’ is the name of the song, and that’s one of the tracks we’ll be ANDREW R. TONRY PHOTO Mark Evans and his wife want to include the community on the air of Seaside’s radio station, now known as KBGE, “The Bridge.” playing.” In both music, presence and community engagement, Ev- ans and 94.9 FM face an estab- lished, well-loved and formida- ble presence in KMUN Coast Community Radio. He’s also running in the face of growing trends like online streaming. “The thing with Spotify, Pandora and all of those, it’s a jukebox” Evans said. “You put your mouse up and click it and you listen and that’s it. You’re listening to the music, but there’s no interaction.” “And a lot of times peo- ple want somebody there,” he added. “Even if they’re just naming the songs or giving you the time of day or the weather forecast, people sometimes just want a person there. It’s like riding in a car with someone.” Evans allows that reinvent- ing and establishing KBGE’s place in the community won’t happen overnight. “That can take years,” he said. Nonetheless, Evans sees potential in the station that was nearly left for dead. “It was neglected,” he said of 94.9 FM. “And we saw an opportunity to maybe turn it around and turn it into a fun station again. “Which is what it was,” Ev- ans added. “Once upon a time.”