10A • October 28, 2016 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com
Tonquin Trading store opens in Seaside
Store offers gear for
hiking, backpacking
and preparedness
‘Ultimately, it’s to bring more stuff to Seaside so people
don’t have to go to Portland.’
Jason Johnson, owner
By Lyra Fontaine
EO Media Group
LYRA FONTAINE/EO MEDIA GROUP
Owner Jason Johnson held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for
Tonquin Trading.
A new outdoor apparel
business in Seaside has a tie
to local history. Its name was
inspired by the Tonquin ship
owned by John Jacob Astor,
who established the Fort As-
toria fur trading post in 1811.
A year and a half ago, own-
er Jason Johnson relocated to
Oregon from North Dakota,
near a historically significant
stop in the Lewis and Clark
expedition.
“I feel like we followed
the Lewis and Clark Trail,” he
said.
The new business aims to
offer high-quality backpack-
ing, hiking and emergency
preparedness gear.
“Ultimately, it’s to bring
more stuff to Seaside so peo-
ple don’t have to go to Port-
land,” Johnson said, adding
that Tonquin Trading carries
unique brands and items that
could be hard to find in Port-
land.
As Johnson got ready for
the store’s grand opening on
Oct. 1, racks were filled with
coats, backpacks of various
sizes, and hiking clothing
and shoes. The shop also of-
fered solar-powered chargers,
freeze-dried food, cookware,
water purification systems
and other products that could
be used for both backpacking
and emergency preparedness.
Johnson’s goal is to create
video tutorials that explain the
store’s products to customers.
“It’s about knowing what
you’re going to get and how
to use it,” Johnson said. “The
more we dig into the business,
the more we want to field test
the products in the store.”
His favorite item? Salo-
mon hiking shoes. “They are
lightweight, comfortable and
a lot of research has gone into
them,” he said.
Store hours are Tuesday to
Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.,
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6
p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m.
to 4 p.m.
Seaside High School production of ‘Election’ has timely theme
‘Election’ from Page 1A
need to find a pantsuit to wear
for her costume.
“Christy is very good
about saying things to appeal
to the audience and making
Mark look bad, and Mark is
so out of his element,” senior
Emma Dutcher said.
“Mark is the butt of the
joke always,” Cox agreed.
“He has to resort to calling
Christy a liar.”
Audience members also
can expect to find allusions
to the Watergate scandal, the
“birther” conspiracy, words
getting twisted out of context
and antagonistic candidate de-
bates.
“Anything that has come
up in politics is pretty much in
this,” Dutcher said. “It’s ridic-
ulous.”
Meanwhile, her character,
Kyli, the student broadcast-
ing system reporter, is always
hovering nearby, covering the
outrageous process and milk-
ing its entertainment value to
please her viewers, Dutcher
said.
“It’s definitely timely be-
cause there are a lot of paral-
lels to what’s happening right
now and you definitely see a
lot of current candidates and
past presidents in this show,”
Cox said.
Director Lenore Morrisson
specifically chose “The Elec-
tion,” because of its comedic
take on the contemporary
political scene and relevance
to the upcoming 2016 presi-
dential election, scheduled for
Tuesday, Nov. 8.
“All elections are sort of
the same, right?” Morrisson
said. “They say they’re going
to run a clean campaign, and
pretty soon someone’s run-
ning an ad, saying, ‘He’s a
puppy killer.’ It’s just kind of
ridiculous.”
Morrisson said she be-
lieved the students would
appreciate the play’s rele-
vance and enjoy presenting
the satire, and so far, they
have. Junior Jacob Brien,
who plays Mark’s geeky but
lovable sidekick, Karl Merri-
weather, said the best part of
what is his inaugural theater
experience is “making people
laugh.” While he is disdainful
of politics in general — “it’s
just unpleasant,” he explained
— he finds the play to be an
optimal opportunity to ex-
press his diverse humor and
have fun with other cast mem-
bers. He expects it will be an
equally enjoyable experience
for the audience.
While there isn’t much of
an educational component to
the play — audience mem-
bers won’t leave with a better
understanding of the electoral
college — the play will afford
a little comedic relief at the
expense of the election pro-
cess, outrageous political fig-
ures and how the media fuels
the fire.
“Politics
are
scary,”
Dutcher said, adding she
would encourage everyone in
the community to “come have
a laugh with us poking fun at
politics.”
Brien agreed.
“If you’re someone who
gets really into politics and
you watch it a lot, and it kind
of stresses you a little bit,
watching the play may ease
it up and take some of that
weight off your back — just
to put it back on when you go
watch it again,” he said.
In addition to Cox, Dutch-
er and Brien, students Emil
Matlock and Jack Stapleton
round out the core cast play-
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ing Mark Davenport and Gary
McMaster, respectively. They
are supported by fellow play-
ers Dakota Young, Cat Wal-
gren, Phoenix Miller, Annie
Stafford, Max McNeill, Nolan
Milliren, Gretchen Hoekstre,
Michael Matthews, Stephanie
Anderson, Gwen Farrar and
Alan Brockman. The tech
crew consists of Daniel Con-
tier, Will Kautz and Jessica
Almaguer. Kelsey Crider is
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