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10A • June 22, 2018 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com SignalSports Former Seaside players honor Gizdavich GARY HENLEY/THE DAILY ASTORIAN Drew Black makes a catch behind first base. GARY HENLEY/THE DAILY ASTORIAN Jeremy Carow slides in safely past catcher Mike Mizell. GARY HENLEY/THE DAILY ASTORIAN Former Seaside baseball player Jon Gizdavich, in a 2006 game. The Daily Astorian A gathering of former Seaside base- ball players took place Sunday, June 10, as the ex-Gulls took part in the fourth annual event for No. 4. The Jon Gizdavich Memorial game was held at Broadway Field, where the annual game/fundraiser helped raise money for scholarships awarded in the name of the late Seaside High School student-athlete. Gizdavich was a Class of 2007 gradu- ate, and was nearing his graduation from Oregon State University at the time of his death in a car accident, in January 2013. His girlfriend, Bri Hostetler, and former teammate Ross Knutsen helped organize the annual event, the first of which was held in 2015. In addition to honoring Gizdavich, the event also raises money for an an- nual $1,000 scholarship, awarded in Gizdavich’s name. Winners of the 2018 scholarship were Jetta Ideue and Skyler Yoshino. Sunday’s alumni game went extra innings, with the “older” graduates winning, 10-8. Participating graduates ranged from Jeff Carow (Class of 1981) to current player Riley Kuhl (Class of 2021), who had a pair of doubles and a triple. Former Gull Erik Knutsen added a home run, and Matt “Showtime” Hendryx had a double and a triple. Restaurateur recalls boyhood days in Seaside The life of a teenage hobo The making of a filmmaker Rebecca Herren Seaside Signal On June 9, filmmaker Ron Walker and author Lin- da Eddleston presented three documentaries at the Seaside Library that featured polar bears, a teenage hobo, and a fiery mountain. Walker started his film ca- reer as a musician. From the 1970s, he began shooting and editing movies shot on Su- per-8 film. It was also during the 70s that Walker was hired to score music for The Film Loft, a film production com- pany based in Portland. A man from the compa- ny approached Walker after hearing him play on a Moog synthesizer Walker had just purchased. The man was impressed and hired him to compose music for the com- pany’s films. “The Film Loft was a unique place to work because they got all of the elite jobs, the really cool jobs,” Walk- er said. One of the first jobs Walker composed music for was a public service an- nouncement for the Washing- ton Park Zoo in Portland. “Cheechako’s First Day,” is a 1978 movie about the first time a 4-month old polar bear steps outside the den to experience the world under the watchful eye of his moth- er. Encyclopedia Britannica bought the film and it quick- ly “became the most popular movie rented by schools in America during the 70s and 80s,” Walker said. With his synthesizer, Walker incor- porated guitar, flutes, drums and bells into the score. Riding the rails Linda Eddleston intro- duced “Boxcar Days,” a short film on the life of her father Frank Rose, who was a teen- age hobo during the Great Depression. Pieces of black and white archive film are intercut with brief interviews and photographs of Rose. According to Eddleston, many men and teenagers GARY HENLEY/THE DAILY ASTORIAN Players and fans were wearing a shirt made to hon- or Seaside High graduate Jon Gizdavich, who wore No. 4 with the Gulls. Phillips from Page 1A FILE PHOTO Scene from “Cheechako’s First Day,” with music by Ron Walker. REBECCA HERREN Filmmaker Ron Walker and author Linda Eddleston talked about films, music and books at a film screen- ing presentation at the Seaside Library. rode the boxcars to follow the harvest, seeking work. Her father traveled the country year-round by boxcar from the age of 19 until well into his 20s. Rose said, “I would ride on top of the boxcar be- cause I liked seeing the land- scape from above. You get a better perspective that way.” Eddleston is currently writing a book about her fa- ther’s life on the boxcars. A fiery mountain Native Americans liv- ing in the Pacific Northwest have watched the eruptions of mountains long before any explorers or settlers migrated to the region. According to Indian lore, early accounts of eruptions were handed down, contributing to a rich tradi- tion of oral history and myth. One legend says that a great chief smote his two sons for the destruction they laid upon the land while fight- ing for the love of a woman. Where each of his sons, and the woman fell, he raised up a mighty mountain. His sons became Mount Hood and Mount Adams. The beautiful maiden wrapped in snow be- came Mount St. Helens, re- ferred by early Native Amer- icans as “Fire Mountain.” “This Place in Time” re- counts the Mount St. Helens story, offering dramatic foot- age and personal recollec- tions of the explosion. Made in 1984, this 23-minute mov- ie was the first documentary made for the Mount St. Hel- ens Visitor Center after the eruption, Walker said. “It’s estimated that one million people saw the movie at the center each year.” Though there were signs indicating an eruption was likely two months to two years before, it was a 5.2-magnitude earthquake that triggered the eruption of the mountain at 8:32 a.m. Sunday, May 18, 1980. Ac- cording to the film’s narrator Ted Hallock, on the morning of the explosion, the north- west flank of the mountain blew off causing tons of ash, rock and ice to accelerate 15 miles upward into the sky. “The site was spectacular,” Hallock announced. The force of the blast was equal to 1,500 Hiroshima bombs. It leveled 40,000 acres of prime timber and left tephra as high as a car over the landscape. The movie shows the evacuation efforts of chil- dren at youth camps, and interviews with loggers and 50-year resident Harry Tru- man, who operated a lodge at Spirit Lake. Throughout the day, flows of hot gases, ash and pumice moved down the mountain at speeds up to 100 miles per hour, searing everything in its path. The lodge and lake disappeared under a raging wall of melted ice, debris and steaming hot mud caused by an avalanche. The lake reformed. It rose 200-feet higher, was larger and had 120-feet of mud be- low its surface. Though Walker had been making short movies since the ’70s, it wasn’t until he sat in on the editing process while scoring the St. Helens film that he truly became in- terested in documentary film- making. His films are often about people, their hobbies and their passions. He enjoys documenting “anything re- lated to transportation and history” such as trains, boats and planes. Walker said working for The Film Loft was a natural fit because, “I love the way music and mov- ing images go together.” Phillips said his parents moved his family to Cali- fornia in 1973. “I was a freshman in high school and it was a culture shock to me,” he said. “We moved at the beginning of a three-year drought, so the weather seemed always perfect.” His father was a building contractor; the family first lived in the Carmel Valley and then in Pebble Beach. He graduated from Pacifico High School in 1977. Today Phillips is the owner of Abalonetti Bar and Grill in Mon- terey; Beach House PHILLIPS FAMILY Restaurant at Lover’s Point and the Lover’s Kevin Phillips as a Scout in Seaside. Point Beach Café in Abalonetti he once ordered a Pacific Grove; Big Fish Grill — Monterey Wharf in case of razor clams from Bell Monterey; and Whaling Sta- Buoy in Seaside and personal- tion Steakhouse, also in Mon- ly instructed his kitchen crew how to clean and prepare terey. He said that when he was a them. “We offered them as a teenager, he got a job working special that night but nobody as a busboy in Pebble Beach. knew what they were and they “The restaurant business be- didn’t order them!” Phillips said it’s been some came a part of me and I never time since he’s been back to wanted to do anything else.” Phillips calls the Monterey Seaside. His father was a volun- Peninsula his adopted home, with three businesses in Mon- teer fireman, and he was part terey and one in Pacific Grove. of the crew that did the fire- His wife is a third-generation works on July Fourth. “My native of Monterey and her grandfather was the original grandmother worked in the developer of Sunset Hills,” he canneries. “This is the place said. “I remember the Alaska where John Steinbeck set his earthquake in 1964 and the tsunami and people heading novels,” Phillips said. He spoke of his love of re- up into the hills.” gional food and how particu- Phillips’ father lived into lar local tastes can be. “They Seaside until his death five like their fish and chips here years ago. and fried calamari and chow- He said for awhile he fan- der served in a bread bowl,” tasized about coming back he said. “I tried to introduce and opening a restaurant in Manhattan clam chowder but Seaside before realizing Mon- terey is his home. nobody ordered it.” He said he still thinks At Abalonetti he serves Si- cilian calamari the same way about the Pig ‘N Pancake. as abalone. “We do cioppino “Everybody went there,” and sand dabs. We do salmon Phillips said. It’s safe to say many things and crab.” At the Whaling Station have changed in Seaside since he does steak and a smoked Phillips was a boy, but not the prime rib at Abalonetti he. For Pig ’N Pancake.
