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March 4, 2022
Winter Sports
SeasideSignal.com
Local equestrian team opens season
By GARY HENLEY
The Astorian
The fi rst Oregon High
School Equestrian Teams
competition of the year is in
the books, with riders and
their horses competing last
month at the Yamhill County
fairgrounds.
It also served as the fi rst
meet of the season for the
Northwest district, which
includes Clatsop County’s
equestrian team, coached by
Brittany Israel. Members of
Israel’s team include riders
from Astoria, Seaside and
Warrenton high schools.
Riders and horses from
Astoria include Alivia Rick-
enbach (two horses, “Ath-
ena” and “Sage”), Signe
Rickenbach (“Timber”) and
Eve Espelien (“Lewy”);
from Seaside, Alicia Cano
Brittany Israel
Seaside members of the equestrian team.
(“Moon”), Matthew Cano
(“Sailor”), Lindsey McCa-
rthy (“Cosmo”), McK-
enna Roberts (“Jackson”),
Oshi Ward (“Flash” and
“Goldie”) and groomer
Theia McCarthy. Warrenton
has one competitor with two
horses, Kaylie Poe (“Emma”
and “MoPoe”). Espelien is
out with a broken arm, suf-
fered in basketball.
In the competition, held
Feb. 10 to Feb. 13, riders
from St. Helens High School
won the overall team results
with 832 points, while the
Astoria, Seaside and War-
renton competitors com-
bined for 287.
Highlights for the locals
included a strong perfor-
mance by Roberts and Jack-
son in Showmanship, as
the pair took second out of
20 riders. Alicia Cano, with
Moon, placed 10th, while
McCarthy and Cosmo came
in 13th.
In the Working Pairs com-
petition, Cano and Moon
teamed with Alivia Ricken-
bach and Sage to place ninth
out of 15 pairs, as the rid-
ers from Seaside and Astoria
rode to “The Champion” by
Carrie Underwood.
In the 18-rider Keyhole
competition, Signe Ricken-
bach and Timber took 11th,
followed by Kaylie Poe and
MoPoe, 13th.
In Barrels, Ward and
Flash took third out of 26
riders. Ward and Flash also
came up winners in the Pole
Bending competition, with a
21.964, fi rst out of 23 riders.
Alivia Rickenbach and Ath-
ena placed eighth.
Rickenbach and Ath-
ena also took eighth out of
24 riders in the Figure 8;
and sisters Alivia and Signe
Rickenbach, riding Athena
and Timber, took fourth out
of 18 teams in the Two-man
Birangle.
The Roberts and Jack-
son pair was ninth out of 21
riders in Western; and Ward
and Flash took second in
Sunday Steer Daubing.
Three pairs took part
in “Grand Entry” riding,
including Alivia Ricken-
bach and Athena carrying
the American fl ag; Poe and
Emma with an Oregon High
School Equestrian Teams
fl ag; and Cano and Moon,
representing Seaside.
Tough competition at state for Seaside, Astoria athletes
The Astorian
The Astoria and Sea-
side swim teams had plenty
of highlight swims in last
month’s state meet, but the
points were hard to come by
for both the Fishermen and
Gulls.
Competing in the Oregon
School Activities Associa-
tion 4A state meet on Feb.
19 at Tualatin Hills Aquatic
Center in Beaverton, Asto-
ria and Seaside swimmers
failed to make the score-
board, with the Sweet Home
girls and Catlin Gabel boys
winning the team titles.
Representing District 1,
Newport fi nished third in the
girls team standings, second
on the boys side.
After last year’s unoffi -
cial culminating event, Sea-
side coach Shane Spell said,
“it was great being back in
the full state competition,
with 4A through 1A all com-
peting. It gives you a great
picture of the high quality
swimming happening all
over the state.”
The highest-placing swim
from the North Coast was a
seventh-place showing by
Seaside’s 200-yard medley
relay team of Leif Rehnert,
Sam Heroux, Logan Dennis
and Liam Matlock, who fi n-
ished in 1 minute, 56.29 sec-
onds. Astoria was ninth in
the same event (1:58.17).
Events were held in two
heats, all fi nals with no
preliminaries.
Astoria junior Eme-
SENIOR SPOTLIGHT
Cash Corder,
Seaside
lia Cameron took eighth in
the 100-yard freestyle, and
Astoria’s 200-yard boys
freestyle relay foursome of
Finn Buzzell, Dylan Far-
rell, Phelan Dopp and Ste-
phen Ero placed eighth in
1:40.92.
For the Gulls, Spell said
“it was a nice accomplish-
ment to (qualify) wild cards
in six diff erent events —
something that’s not hap-
pened in quite some time.
We’re graduating a lot of
seniors, but we’ve got some
youth coming up, and we’ll
keep growing and working
for a return visit.
“It was a good meet. Our
goal was to drop some times
and move up in the seeding,
and that happened multiple
times.”
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Crab, Seafood & Wine Festival returns as in-person event
By ABBEY MCDONALD
The Astorian
The Crab, Seafood &
Wine Festival will be held in
person this April for the fi rst
time in three years.
The popular event, which
regularly sees over 10,000
attendees, serves as a fund-
raiser for the Astoria-War-
renton Area Chamber of
Commerce and community
groups.
First held in 1982, the
festival was canceled in
2020 due to coronavirus
pandemic safety measures.
Last year’s virtual event
featured an online market-
place allowing participants
to chat with vendors and
watch live music from their
screens. It also included
Festival Feast passports,
encouraging trips to par-
ticipating businesses and
restaurants around town.
“The virtual events in
recent years were as fun
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The Crab, Seafood & Wine Festival is an important community
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as we could make them
with an online expo, small
pop-up events like the Asto-
ria clowns drive-up and the
inaugural Festival Feast din-
ing passport that helped con-
nect festival patrons with
local restaurants,” David
Reid, the chamber’s execu-
tive director, said in a state-
ment. “However, we are
excited to be planning to
return to the festival format
we have come to love and
be among our friends – ven-
dors, volunteers and attend-
ees alike.”
This year, the crab festi-
val will return to the Clatsop
County Fairgrounds from
April 22 to April 24. Vendor
applications opened earlier
this month, and the chamber
anticipates around 175 ven-
dors selling crafts, food and
drinks.
At past events, the Asto-
ria Rotary Club ran the
crab feed as its main fund-
raiser and source of schol-
arship funding for local high
schoolers.
The announcement of the
festival’s in-person return
generated some buzz on
the event’s Facebook page.
Within the hour, the com-
ment section fi lled with doz-
ens of people tagging their
friends, many with multiple
exclamation points.
The Oregon Health
Authority has projected
that hospitalizations from
COVID-19 will signifi cantly
decline by late March. The
state has announced that an
indoor mask mandate will
be lifted next week.
Other signature events
that usually take place early
in the year remain disrupted
by the pandemic.
The annual FisherPoets
Gathering, which took place
in late February, was held
virtually.
Fort George Brewery
canceled its Festival of Dark
Arts, and instead held activ-
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live music.
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