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Vol. 14, No. 350 • August 28, 2020 • FREE!
Taking it to the streets
Photo by Tim Hirsch
THE CAPE KIWANDA LONGBOARD CLASSIC has moved to a virtual format to meet social distancing standards.
Longboard Classic goes virtual By TIM HIRSCH of the Sun
The ‘Historic Cloverdale Cruisin 2020’ will welcome cars, trucks, hot rods and more during a socially distanced gathering on Sept. 5, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., in downtown Cloverdale Creamery Association, TCVA team up to offer grant for tourism businesses When locals need help, organizations throughout Tillamook County step up. It happens after natural disasters, accidents, business setbacks and now the COVID-19 pandemic. Thanks to the Tillamook County Creamery Association’s Hometown Resilience Fund, plus a portion of the lodging tax managed by Tillamook Coast Visitors Association (Visit Tillamook Coast), assistance is on the way for tourism businesses hit hard by closures, furloughs, and vastly reduced revenues. The Marketing Renewal Grant will help local businesses with promotions in 2021 as they recover from the impacts of COVID-19. Applicants can apply for up to $20,000 and must submit a marketing work plan as part of the application process. Collaboration with other tourism
businesses and individuals is highly recommended, and support by the tourism organization will be available throughout the year. “We’re taking a different approach with this grant, one that I’ve seen be very helpful — the cohort model,” said Nan Devlin, executive director of Tillamook Coast Visitors Association. “I’ve taken part in cohorts with Travel Oregon and Business Oregon, and we used it during the planning of the North Coast Food Trail in 2017. It’s a way to share ideas and conduct business together, all while the grantees implement their market outreach.” Devlin said if COVID-19 continues to be a public safety issue in 2021, or the state mandates continued closures that impact the ability to fully conduct tourism-related business, Tillamook Coast
Visitors Association will revise the marketing project schedule if needed. The grant application opens Sept. 1 and submission deadline is Nov. 1. To apply, businesses should download the information packet and application at tillamookcoast.com/grants. For questions about the grant, contact Amy Blackburn, grants administrator, at amy@tillamookcoast.com. “When our communities are strong, so are we, and we want to support the people and places that have supported us for decades,” said Paul Snyder, executive vice president of Stewardship at the Tillamook County Creamery Association. “We are hopeful that these funds will bring a little relief to the important businesses that make up the fabric of our community.”
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The annual trip — by surfers far and wide — to Pacific City for the Cape Kiwanda Longboard Classic may be nixed this year thanks to safety concerns surrounding the pandemic, but surfers will still get a chance to compete via the event’s recently announced virtual format, a format that will make it possible for the event to continue its mission to raise funds for a skatepark in Pacific City. To date the event has raised an estimated $110,000 for the skatepark — including a record of approximately $30,000 last year. Those interested in competing in this revised format, for which there is no charge, are urged to start filming their longboard sessions now. Participants have until Sept. 15 to submit their best wave in three divisions: kids under 17, women (18-plus), and men (18-plus). Waves need not be surfed in Pacific City but must be surfed on longboards in the northwest. Winners will be announced on Sept. 20 and will receive a customframed CKLC “In Memory of Gary ‘Gaz’ Gregg” poster. To enter, participants can follow capekiwandalongboardclassic. com/virtual-classic-coastal-craft/. It will be there that the general public can view entrants’ live feeds and vote for their favorites. Co-organizer Lisa Macy-Baker said that Moment Surf Co, which puts on the event each year, elected to continue with a virtual event in an effort to keep the momentum going both for the surf contest itself and for its fundraising efforts for the skatepark. VIRTUAL COASTAL CRAFT The event will also feature the return of the Coastal Craft surfboard shaping event that debuted last year but in a virtual format. In. total six shapers will participate. An online auction for boards created will start soon and run through Sept. 20. Though shapers have selected a general shape for their board, winning bidders will have the chance to direct some customization. All proceeds from both the contest and the shaping event will benefit the skatepark, which recently received a Skatepark Project (formally the Tony Hawk Foundation) grant.
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