This Way Out - HIPFiSHmonthly
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This Way Out - HIPFiSHmonthly
HIPFiSHmonthly the columbia pacific’s free alternative Volume 12 Issue 153 September 2011 SPIRIT OF THE RIVER The 5th Annual Fundraising Event . . . protecting the Columbia River from proposed LNG Terminals - p.13 Teaching Evolution on the Coast. Tradi-shun-all to Alternative S’cool bob goldberg - p. 11 Revving UP for CD1 Race - p.8 t.a. barnhart KALA STAGE OPENS w/Laughing Wild - p.16! New Farmer! cathy nist -p.29 finnware Why Suffer? Permanent Cosmetics call us today! “Always Look Your Best!” • Auto Accidents • Work Related Injuries • Nutritional Evaluations Darcy Wiegardt • Second Opinions Permanent Cosmetics Technician covered by most insurance Licensed & Certified 503.338.5555 Now accepting appointments . . . Call for a consultation MEDICAL SPA LACOST • 1428hfjhjfkhfjdhska COMMERCIAL ST • ASTORIA Now Offering Laser Therapy! A STORIA C HIROPRACTIC Dr. Ann Goldeen, D.C. 503-325-3311 2935 Marine Drive • Astoria Alternative Natural Health Care Since 1981 We Ship! • Reflexology • Reiki • Aromatherapy Custom Blending Bar • Nutrition & Lifestyle Consultation & Classes • Tai Chi Classes finnware.com • 503.325.5720 1116 Commercial St., Astoria Hrs: M-Th 10-5pm/ F 10-5:30pm/Sat 10-5pm [ Waves Of Change wellness center • crystal & pottery • dinnerware • cooking products • ethnic foods • jewelry • textiles • sweaters & tees • books & travel • calendars • cards & music • astoria souveniers KAREN KAUFMAN L.Ac. • Ph.D . 503.298.8815 klkaufman@mac.com Practitioners Angela Sidlo, Certified Reflexologist, Master Aromatherapist, Reiki Master/Teacher, Certified Tai Chi Instructor 503.338.9921 Acupuncture &Traditional Chinese Medicine Katie Hellberg, Reflexologist, Aromatherapist, Reiki Level II Practitioner 503.741.0414 call for an appt. www.reflexology-works.com located at 1004 Marine Dr. #7 in Astoria’s historic underground Located at Astoria Chiropractic • 2935 Marine Dr. Astoria Moon Lotus Wellness Massage Imagine ... feeling healthier and more in control of your own wellness Fun Funky FairTrade Marie Me iffre n BA ., LMT the nurturing flow of swedish massage with a deep therapeutic touch Lost Places: Brin Levinson Paintings Sept 2 - 27 An exhibition of new work from local printmaker PENNY TREAT. A 100% donation from the sale of one featured piece will go to help Japanese children orphaned by the earthquake ART on the EDGE Original Art • Fine Craft Exceptional Jewelry OPEN DAILY 1160 Commercial Street Astoria, Oregon 503.325.1270 riverseagalleryastoria.com sep11 hipfishmonthly.com 2 •Musculoskeletal pain and strain •Headaches/Allergies •Gynecological Issues • Stress/emotional Issues Focused or Full Body Massage 30, 60 or 90 min. Pre-Paid Packages: Buy a Package of 4 massages receive a 15% Discount moonlotusmassage.com 1410 Marine Dr., Astoria peaceful setting • on the riverwalk phone: 503-338-8106 lic.#14319 HIPFiSHmonthly A Gypsy’s Whimsy September 2011 HERBAL APOTHECARY NEWS • FEATURES 5 - 15 Editor/Publisher: CULTURAL CALENDAR the month day by day 16 - 24 Dinah Urell Production Graphics: Richard Ridgeway Additional Graphics: Les Kanekuni Michelle Roth, COLUMNS: Kate Giese Steve Berk . . . 6 WEED WARS . . . Goldberg 9 Sonja Grace Future . . .22 FLASHCUTS . . . post labor day offerings . . . Kanekuni 23 Bike Madame . . . Hammitt-McDonald . . 27 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY . . . Brezny 27 Network Community Listings . . . 26 BodiesMain in Balance. . . . . Erfling ND 29 Hipfish Line: 503.338.4878 • Located at 1017 Marine Dr. Calendar/Production Assistance/StaffWriter: Cathy Nist Magic Web Worker: Bob Goldberg 503.338.4871 Hrs: Tue - Sat 11am - 6pm closed sun - mon Astoria, 97103 • hipfish@charter.net • www.hipfishmonthly.com 1139 Commercial St. Astoria, OR 97103 PUBLIC NOTICE www.hipfishmonthly.com COVER: Noel Thomas Watercolor Jessie’s Cannery, Ilwaco Come JOIN the WAVE! Are you an LMT, Naturopath, Accupuncturist, or other Holistic Practitioner? Waves of Change Wellness Center has space to help you grow your business. Come join the WAVE that offers wellness to our community! For Details call Angela at 503-338-9921 OPEN 10am TO 3pm 12TH ST HISTORIC DOWNTOWN ASTORIA Clatsop County Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Local Work Group and Public Input Meeting When: September 15, 2011 Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Location: OSU Extension Seafood Lab Conference Room 2001 Marine Drive Astoria, Oregon 97103 The purpose of the meeting is to receive agency and public input in agricultural interests and natural resources issues to help guide the conservation efforts of the Natural Resource Conservation Service in Clatsop County. storia SUNDAY MARKET ! 9 t c O y ast Da L For further information contact Sarah Tanuvasa with the USDANRCS at (503) 867-1944. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in its programs on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, and marital or familial status. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for communication of program information (Braille, large print, audio tape, etc.) should contact the USDA Office of Communications at (202) 720-5881 (voice) or (202) 720-7808 (TDD). To file a complaint, write the Secretary of Agriculture, US Department of Agriculture, Washington DC, 20250, or call (202) 720-7327 (voice) or (202) 690-1538(TDD). USDA is an equal opportunity employer WWW.ASTORIASUNDAYMARKET.COM 3 sep11 hipfishmonthly.com • Oregon’s Largest Selection of Surfboards & Wetsuits • Quality Apparel, Footwear & Eyewear • Snow/Kite/Skim/ “The NW’s Original Surf Shop” SUP & Skate • Rentals, Lessons, Repairs and more! SEASIDE Est. 1980 60 N. Roosevelt (Hwy 101) 503.738.7888 CANNON BEACH 171 Sunset Blvd 503.436.9726 w w w.cleanlinesur f.com Peter Huhtala $325,000 PRICE REDUCED! • 3 Bedroom, 2.5 Bath • High Quality Upgrades •Columbia River Views 500 38th St. Astoria Your guide in the local market! REAL ESTATE This is what Astoria is all about. Call for your private showing of this dream Victorian. (503) 325-4258 www.peterhuhtala.com Green Angel What You Can Find! Gardens Organic Farm Store Open Daily 8am - 7pm • (360)244-0064 6807 Sandridge Rd. Long Beach, WA greenangelgardening.com Fresh Organic Fruits and Vegetables from Our Farm and OR & WA Farms. CSA shares available too! Coast Community Radio in a return engagement Kinobe and the African Sensation Saturday, October 1 7:30pm Performing Arts Center $17adults, $8 children 16th & Franklin Sts, Astoria Tickets at Beach Books, Seaside & Time Enough Books, Ilwaco KMUN 91.9 FM Astoria KTCB 89.5 FM Tillamook sep11 hipfishmonthly.com 4 How to be Safe and Free! ACLU Director Dave Fidanque Clatsop County Women’s Resource Center Volunteer Training Session The Women’s Resource Center is once again offering it’s 32-hour volunteer training course for individuals that are interested in working with victims and families that have survived domestic and/ or sexual assault. Volunteer opportunities are varied but include the following: answering the 24-hour Crisis Line (from your own home or cell phone), helping out at Hutchens House shelter, various office duties or supporting a mother as she meets with law enforcement, the courts or other appointments. The training begins on Wed., September 14 from 4-8 pm and the next three consecutive Wednesdays of Sept. 21, 28 and October 5. Two Saturdays will also be scheduled for dates to be determined by the attendees. Training will be held at the WRC Admin Office located at 1373 Duane St. Other volunteer opportunities are available that do not require this extensive training such as helping with events, some clerical duties, picking up grocery orders from food bank for Hutchens House or working at DeJa’Vu Thrift Store. Please call the Women’s Resource Center at 503-325-3426 to register for this course. College Offers Free and Low-Cost Learning Opportunities Clatsop Community College will offer free and low-cost adult education and family literacy classes at its South County Center, 1455 N Roosevelt, Seaside, beginning the week of September 26, 2011. Free ESL (English as a Second Language) classes are scheduled Mondays and Tuesdays, 3:00pm to 6:00pm. GED classes are scheduled Wednesdays and Thursdays, 4:30pm to 8:30pm. A small onetime fee for GED classes can be waived if students find they cannot pay. In addition, free literacy services are available in the Seaside/Cannon Beach area through the College’s Volunteer Literacy Tutor Program These services are designed for people wanting to upgrade their basic reading, writing and math skills or to learn English. Please direct inquiries to: Eileen Purcell, 503338-2557 or CCC South County Center, 503-3382402. Clatsop Community College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution. Gifts That Make a Difference Annual non-profit Gifts Fair Register early, Sept. 1 for the annual event. Scheduled for Saturday, December 10th in the McTavish Room at the Liberty Theater, the fair also features local performing artists and refreshments, is free and open to the public. Shoppers at the fair visit table displays of participating non-profits and donate money, goods or service hours as their gifts to family and friends. All area 501c3 non-profits are eligible to register and take part. Registering early during this Pre-Registration period, non-profits take advantage of discounted table fees. September 1 through 30 a small table is just $15 and a large table is $25. Beginning October 1st, the fees go back to $20 and $35, respectively. For information and registration, phone Caren Black at 503-325-6886, email GiftsFair@aol.com or stop by Lucy’s Books in Astoria or The Paper Clip in Seaside. Gifts That Make a Difference is a project of the Titanic Lifeboat Academy, a tax-exempt nonprofit building local community resilience. FORECLOSURE PREVENTION RESOURCE MEETING Are you facing foreclosure? Tired of wading through bank paperwork alone? Concerned about scams? Get connected with free tools and resources to protect your home. Foreclosure can be a daunting and unnerving process and as a homeowner it is important to know what tools are available to you. Meet with HUD approved agency staff members. For more information call Cindy at (503) 325-9215, ext. 2303 or e-mail her at cindkp@catteam.org. Hosted by: Community Action Team, Inc. and Northwest Oregon Regional Housing Center. TIME: 7:00 to 8:30 pm. September 8, 2011, Community Action Team Building 125 N 17th Street – St. Helens September 22, 2011, Astoria Middle School 1100 Klaskanie Ave. – Astoria October 13, 2011, Tillamook PUD 1115 Pacific - Tillamook Surfing Without a Pair OPed The head of Oregon’s Civil Liberties, Director Dave Fidanque makes a first official trip to the north coast for a public meeting. The topic: The State of Civil Liberties 10 years after 9/11 -- How to be safe and free!” Wednesday, September 21, 6pm at the Blue Scorcher, 1493 Duane Street in Astoria. A young surfer recently stopped by my shop to buy an out-of-print book about her passion. During the exchange she used a familiar word to praise a sister wave-rider. “She really has the ‘cojones’ to surf the big ones,” said the woman. Most of us have heard some version of this cross-cultural cliché. Language spreads the virulent notion that human courage and strength are rooted in male sex glands. We claim it takes testicles (“cojones” in Spanish) to excel at sports, business, and politics. Being the sole male in a four-person household, I know this notion is nuts. Our family is fortified by a partnership that transcends gender. Often our daughters ride life’s waves better than Jennifer and I do. So as husband and dad I’m compelled to speak out for the inherent strength of women. Call it uterine affirmation, in honor of one of the most powerful muscles in the human body. I was compelled to testify on this point with the young surfer in my shop, who patiently nodded at the middle-aged bookseller before dashing off to hit the water. The next day I learned that 56-year-old Congressman David Wu was accused of sexually molesting the 18-year-old daughter of one of his friends. He has since become the fourth person in Congress to resign this year because of sex scandals. Two Democrats, two Republicans, and four mighty pairs of cajones. Last spring I defended Wu in the press when Oregon newspapers called for his resignation. At the time the call seemed rash to me, given what had been reported. Several weeks after my column ran, his staff invited me to meet with him during a visit to Seaside. I took my daughters along, thinking it would be a civics lesson. Having never spoken directly with Wu, I began the meeting by thanking him for his stand on American trade policy with China. From the onset of his service in Washington, Wu advocated that our nation’s commerce with the communist regime should advance human rights and uphold our democratic values. Wu’s stand earned him flak from some free traders in his district. Yet he held firm, saying: “If the voters of Oregon decide to send me home for [my position on trade with China], I’ll have to live with that. But I’d rather turn my back on the office than turn my back on my principles.” I read that quote to my daughters, in Wu’s presence, because I wanted them to know they By Watt Childress were meeting a leader with strong convictions. If the recent allegations prompting his resignation are true, we’ve also learned such leadership can be sacrificed to those male gonads (“gaowan” in Chinese) that people pretend are the font of valor. The betrayal of trust reminds me of another family story. During Jennifer’s first year in college, her sister Jeanne (then 16-years-old) flew down to visit her in California. The adventure began when Jeanne got bumped up to first class, where she enjoyed the company of a charismatic man who accompanied her off the plane to meet Jennifer. Thankfully, the two young women had the sense to decline when their new 40-something friend, Neil Goldschmidt, suggested that they all go out for drinks. They could tell something was amiss, so they passed up the chance to party with Oregon’s Justin Floyd big-balled surfer of political power (now tragically renowned as the perpetrator in a long term sexual abuse case). That’s “groyse beytsim” in Yiddish, by the way. From what I’ve seen, the cross-cultural truth about cajones is that they often cause serious wipe outs. Yet for some reason people talk as if they’re essential to success, even for women. When a union leader endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in 2008, he famously described her as being the right person for the job because of her “testicular fortitude.” Was that what equipped her husband Bill for success in the Oval Office? Did it fortify the public leadership of John Edwards and Arnold Schwarzenegger? There’s been plenty of debate over where society should draw the line between private life and civic duty. Yet the best comment I’ve heard regarding the testicular exploits of leaders came from my mom, who asked “where do they find the time?” Presumably such distractions aren’t a problem for most men. Yet for all too many, those “family jewels” are tools of destruction. Changing caveman notions about success will help counter this failure. Few women in positions of power become embroiled in sex scandals. We need more leaders with uterine fortitude surfing the big waves of society. Watt Childress owns Jupiter’s Books in downtown Cannon Beach and he is the publisher of upperleftedge.com. Email him at wattchildress@ yahoo.com. 5 sep11 hipfishmonthly.com Lots of "New" Old Books PO Box 1096 244 North Spruce Cannon Beach, OR 97110 (503) 436-0549 PROPRIETORS Jennifer & Watt Childress APPRENTICES Roan & Willa Childress E-mail: jupiter@pacifier.com Web: www.jupiterbooks.com Astoria Real Estate Your locally owned real estate office for all your real estate needs. Buying • Selling • Investing www.astoriarealestate.net Peter and Janet Weidman Owner-Brokers 336 Industry Street Astoria, OR 97103 503-325-3304 The Road to Serfdom The above phrase is the title of the best known work of economist Friedrich von Hayek, mentor to Milton Friedman, and with him creator of the Chicago school of economics, neoliberalism. This view, reigning economic orthodoxy for over thirty years, has recreated the boom/bust cycles of classical nineteenth century liberalism, and it has also spread unimpeded markets around the globe, unleashed a frenzy of development, and made some people immensely wealthy and others sickeningly poor. Chicago orthodoxy regards unregulated markets as godlike entities, not to be tampered with by governments. If left alone, so the dogma goes, they will eventually make everyone prosperous and free. Hayek wrote his book following American and European institution of government regulation first to combat the dire effects of the Great Depression and then to fight the Second World War. He argued that prevailing statist economics was in fact “the road to serfdom,” wherein the West would end up looking like Stalin’s Soviet Union. This was a nervy thing to say when US government money was rebuilding Europe in the heady days of the Marshall Plan. The system developed by British economist John Maynard Keynes, which featured strict government controls over market speculation, put in place a number of safeguards to prevent the kind of wild speculation that had brought on the crash of 1929 and the Depression. The Keynesian system was based on the idea that a healthy capitalism demanded a constantly growing middle class. In order for that to come about, the state needed to create upward mobility. One of the ways to do so was to finance public education from kindergarten through graduate school. The US never went this far, but many of the European countries did. Social Security, which is actually based on forced savings from earnings, became the basis in the US of old age pensions, unemployment and disability insurance. The Keynesian “developmental” model, wherever it was introduced, included a large measure of government aid to impoverished or otherwise marginalized groups to open opportunity to as many as possible, thus creating an ever expanding middle class with the ability to consume and thereby further continuous prosperity. The money to finance government aid on such a large scale came from taxation, including a steeply graduated income tax. Welfare statism, the product of the Keynesian system, did create much more equalitarian societies where it was used most extensively, as in Northern Europe. Those countries saw poverty, crime and imprisonment decline appreciably. The US, with its background in frontier individualism, never went nearly so far in welfare statism as the European countries. But by the sixties and seventies, with many marginalized groups being brought into the mainstream through compensatory legislation, by Stephen Berk and with increased federal aid to education, and Aid to Families with Dependent Children (abolished in 1996), poverty did begin to decline, and market regulation lessened the extremes of boom and bust that characterized unregulated capitalism. Many of the well-to-do resented paying high taxes, even though taxation did not greatly diminish their wealth. They viewed state supervised redistribution as un-American, and they preached the nostrum that prosperity comes from low taxes and unregulated markets. In the wake of the social upheavals of the sixties, people of wealth began to organize to reclaim control of the economy. In doing so, they followed the neoliberalism of the Chicago school. The deregulation of banking began in the late seventies, with the junk bond frenzy that marked the Savings and Loan crash coming ten years later. Twenty-first century neoliberalism has brought us the dot.com bust and the subprime mortgage debacle in quick succession, replete with unparalleled disparities of wealth. The ultra-rich few live rarified lives insulated from the masses, while college graduates face massive debt and low wage jobs as far as the eye can see. Millions are unemployed, millions homeless, 2.3 million, mostly from poorer classes, are in prison. And the best our politicians can offer is not a hand up, but cuts in Social Security and Medicare. Judge for yourself which is the road to serfdom: Keynesian statism, or Hayek’s neoliberalism. Volunteer for TRASH FREE SEAS SOLV Beach and Riverside Cleanup Adoption schmoption... you’re not coming home with me and that’s final! Clatsop County Animal Shelter 1315 SE 19th in Warrenton, Oregon Hours: noon to 4 pm, Tuesday thru Saturday Phone: 503-861-0737 sep11 hipfishmonthly.com 6 Hillsboro, Ore.— Volunteers in Oregon and over 100 countries worldwide will work toward trash free seas for the SOLV Beach & Riverside Cleanup on September 17th. At nearly 125 sites across Oregon, thousands of volunteers will work to clean up trash and enhance watershed health before the fall rains wash litter downhill into storm drains, water- ways and out to sea. To volunteer, register online at www.solv.org or call 1-800-333SOLV. “As if thousands of Oregonians working side by side to take care of our beautiful state wasn’t inspiring enough, on September 17th we will join volunteers in all 50 states and over 100 countries worldwide picking up litter for trash free seas as part of the International Coastal Cleanup,” says SOLV Executive Director Melisa McDonald. Last fall, 615,507 volunteers kept over 8 million pounds of trash from reaching waterways as part of the International Coastal Cleanup which included 7,000 volunteers in Oregon. “By preventing trash from reaching the ocean, volunteers are sending a gift of clean water, healthy people and abundant wildlife downstream,” adds Melisa. Cigarette butts are the number one litter item found by volunteers in Oregon and at cleanups worldwide, and can be highly toxic if accidentally eaten by children or pets. Cigarette filters are composed of a plastic that not only persists for years in the environment, but also leaches hazardous chemicals like nicotine and heavy metals. “Most things made out of plastic like cigarette butts, do not biodegrade, but instead break down into small pieces that resemble food to fish, birds and marine mammals,” says Rachael Pecore, SOLV Program Coordinator. “A grey whale recently washed ashore with all kinds of plastics in its stomach. Picking up litter anywhere in Oregon is a simple act with effects felt worldwide.” SOLV was founded in 1969 and was among the first in the nation to pioneer volunteer beach cleanups. SOLV’s mission is to bring Oregonians together to improve the environment and build a legacy of stewardship. - hf A WAV E QFolk O F IRIS PRIDE • Sept 16 – 18 • Lincoln City During the beachside Street Fair September 17th its free fun for all! The Street Fair is open from 1pm6pm on SW 51st Street in the Historic Taft District. Return performances by Emmy Nominee Lily Armani, 7 foot tall BREAKFAST WITH DYKES ON BIKES Saturday, Sept. 17, 10AM-11:30AM, $5.95 GLAMAZONIA, and Sisters of Perpetual The Superstar Divas, will delight The Central Oregon Coast on the main stage from 1pm-5pm website boasts, “Lincoln City has during this Super Hero-themed the first and only gay pride event event. Throughout the day you can on the Orenjoy a super egon Coast, hero “Quick September’s Change” annual Iris contest, free Pride Festicaricatures by val.” WRONG! Deena Printz, However, that a free Batthe regions man Bounce general pubHouse for licity website the kids, and brags about don’t miss your their gay chance on the pride festival Acro-flight – now that GLAMAZONIA!! Bungee Jump! needs to be Bungee sporting in the news! takes on a new direction with this And, one can’t argue that the system . . . Straight Up! You will scale of this pride event certainly is worth boasting about in addition be fit at the waist with climbing harness and bungee cords to attending, replete with Rainthat are then used to suspend bow Glass Float Hunt. you from above, enabling you to BIG CUDOS: Helping the comflip, spin, and jump to amazing munity and giving back is part of Iris Pride. Reflecting on the current altitudes! On Saturday night show more bullying epidemic in schools this of your pride at Aunt Mary’s year’s Iris Pride beneficiary will Toaster Bistro for the “Filthy be the Oregon Safe Schools and Meet & Greet” and afterwards Communities Coalition. drag yourself to Surftides for a no Lincoln City Visitor & Convencover Coastal Aids Network tion Bureau hosts the fourth anbenefit “Drag Show” with a nual Iris Pride Festival September full service bar! 16 - 18, 2011. During the 3-day All weekend long hunt for one PRIDE event there will be some extraordinary returning events and of the rainbow glass floats on all 7 ½ miles of Lincoln City some remarkable new additions! beach and on Sunday join in a fun The event kicks off on Friday, September 16th, with an All You game of Flamingo Bingo at SurftCan Eat Clambake at Surftides ides resort complete with prizes, special menu and drink service. Resort. Afterwards, head to BK Mulligan’s for “Drag U-Licious”. With all of these events and more You won’t want to miss this event! you are sure to have a good time! For a complete listing of events Come see the contestants go from Ordinary to Fabulous in the special and lodging specials please visit Drag U style show. www.oregoncoast.org. P R I D E ! f LGBTQ news and culture for the lower columbia pacific Clatsop County Marriage Equality Project Get on the List! Do we have you on the list? please send your email/snailmail address to: ccmepinfo@gmail.com We’ll keep you informed. THIS WAY OUT airmunity s om on KMUN Coast C 10:30pm. ys at Radio, Wednesda The year 2011, the year the State of New York ruled matrimony legel for same-sex couples, also marks the first visible sign of queer support in the Astoria Regatta Grandland Parade. NorthCoast PFLAG proudly brought up the end, with their loud and colorful banner, with cheers, no jeers reported. However, this is not the first time LGBT community has marched in Clatsop County. The late 90’s the North Coast Pride Network marched in the Seaside 4th of July parade, positioned behind The Dairy Queen float. Many cheers, and some hostile jeers reported such as, “Go back in the closet homos.” At least they had the right terminology. Lets hear it for PFLAG!!!!!!!!! Third Thursday PFLAG Meeting The next regular PFLAG meeting will be on the third Thursday of Sept. - Sept. 15th, 6:30 pm at the First Lutheran Church, 725 33rd Street, in Astoria.. Q-JAZZ at the Bridgewater Bistro Third Thursdays Q-Jazz invites the LGBTQ Community and friends the third Thursday of each month to enjoy the Basin St. Northwest Jazz Trio, complimentary apps, and piano bar hosted by friends and performance associates Dinah Urell and Walt Trumbull. Arrive at 8pm for complimentary appetizers and catch a sampling of Basin St. NW piano trio led by Chuck Wilder, featuring guitarist Dave Drury, and bassist Todd Pederson. Urell and Trumbull dip into the American songbook, in solo and duo, and open the mic for folks who would like to sing, in the vein of American standards, jazz and blues. Expertise not required. Old school piano bar culture, with a jazz twist – the soulful progressions of pianist Chuck Wilder as your back-up is a treat. The event, now underway, is proving to be a spacious and welcoming social gathering. Owners of the Bridgewater, Ann and Tony Kitchner welcome the community, and look forward to the event growing as a permanent monthly mixer for the Q-Community. Third Thursdays. 8pm-10pm. The Bridgewater Bistro is located at the Port of Astoria, 20 Basin St., 503.325.6777 s over 20 years This Way Out mark olin,). fo n April 1, 1988 (no o d te u b i tr s i d as w t program on the air! Our firs ted weekly GLBT u ib tr is d lly a n o ti a ward-winning intern cal commmunity radio stations a e th is t u O y a W This iring on over 150 lo a y tl n e rr cu , m ra g radio pro of some of the y around the world. ar m m su a , p ra week with NewsW munity, compiled from a ch ea ff o s ad e l t u O This Way ian/gay com sb e l e th g n i ct fe af e a local news r o av n h i u ts yo en If ev . d s rl o ew n w r e o th maj broadcasts around d an s n o i at c i l b u p f variety o , ase let us know! e l p , rt o p re to s u e story you d lik nsored in part This Way Out is spo by Qfolk/Hipfish. The Lower Columbia Clinic Thomas S. Duncan, M.D. • Susan L Skinner, CNM, CFNP 595 18th, Astoria • 503-325-9131 7 sep11 hipfishmonthly.com Revving up for the CD1 Race t.a. barnhart talks with Jim Greenfield and Lisa Michaels for HIPFiSH First, the personal stuff. Laugh... Learn... Play well with others... Check out our Pirate Loot! 2011 Summer repertory SeaSon The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlum through Oct 15 Tickets $20 & $15 The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by Finn & Sheinkin through Sept 17 Tickets: $23 & $18 I do not like the politics represented by Jim Greenfield and Lisa Michaels. I think they are wrong on the facts, wrong on the theory and wrong on their conclusions about American economics and politics. I also think more Americans agree with me on the issues than with them. Should either of them get the Republican nomination for CD 1, count me among those helping whichever of the Democrats is nominated. That said, I had a great time talking with both Greenfield and Michaels recently. Rob Cornilles, the presumptive leader of the GOP field, wouldn’t even agree to an interview for Hipfish; his deputy campaign manager made sneering, dismissive comments about both of these opponents. Yet when we spoke over the phone in late August in separate conversation, I found both to be open, personable, honest about their political aims, and full-speed-ahead conservatives. Both knew my political leanings — I informed them prior to the interview of the range of work I do — but neither was defensive or aggressive. In short, it was a pleasure to speak with them and to get the chance to ask them about their campaigns for this nomination. they’re allowed to work without government intervening. And part of that free market system is that companies that do well and are well-managed succeed. Companies that are poorly managed or dishonest, fail. And that’s the way it should be.” Greenfield opposed the TARP bailout, calling it and other taxpayer-funding rescues of corporations “corrupt” — the recipients of that funding in turn give campaign contributions to those who bailed them out. This opposition to targeted government spending that benefits specific individuals is one example of the kind of spending Greenfield opposes. “All the functions that the government is now spending on that are not authorized by the Constitution, we should look at cutting back and save there. And that’s most of the federal domestic budget.” As the CD 1 Representative in Congress, Greenfield said he would not be working to bring “pork” back to the district. He feels the system is corrupt, with each Member voting for other Members’ pork in order to get their own. For Greenfield, this is “politics as usual” and he would instead seek to reduce federal spending. “We could save trillions of dollars off our military budget if we’d just start fighting the Games and puzzles for kids of all ages! A. Actress: an original comedy by Victoria Parker-Pohl - 503-368-4873 457 Laneda Ave. Manzanita, OR Wednesday & Thursday, September 7 & 8 at 7:30 pm Summer Season Sponsored by The Ocean Lodge & Inn at Cannon Beach, Dennis’ 7 Dees, Kathryn James, Coaster Construction, Martin Hospitality, ProBuild & Milgard, Bank of Astoria 108 N. Hemlock Cannon Beach, OR Box Office: 503.436.1242 www.coastertheatre.com Put Your Hands Where Your Heart Is… VOLUNTEER! Jim Greenfield • • • • Working with cats involves… Cleaning and restocking cat cages Grooming and socializing felines Assisting with adoptions Watching for & reporting possible health issues • • • • Working with dogs involves… Walking dogs Grooming & socializing them Feeding the canines Watching for & reporting possible health issues CLATSOP ANIMAL ASSISTANCE, INC. (CAA) Call 503.861.0737 to join our dedicated team, Tues. - Sat., noon to 4 pm (Must be sixteen or older to volunteer unless accompanied by an adult) All volunteers receive training sep11 hipfishmonthly.com 8 Jim Greenfield is a lawyer working in real estate investment, a radio talk show host, and he’s been through this before. In 2002, he was the Republican nominee for this Congressional seat, and he got thumped 63%-34%. But he doesn’t come across like a person who thinks about defeat. He’s also a free market fundamentalist, as he sees it: “Adam Smith, Milton Friedman … free markets work fabulously well at creating wealth and prosperity for the entire population if war on terrorism intelligently. Instead of having huge armies fighting wars in foreign countries, if we just started targeting terrorist groups, that would save our Treasury hundreds of billions of dollars a year in the military budget.” This would also include closing down bases in Europe and Japan: “We can’t afford [to station troops there] anymore.” Greenfield does not accept the argument that raising the debt ceiling was necessary: “Debt is the problem”. True to his conservative ideals, he argues that government needs to eliminate regulations that hamper the free market. The housing market implosion, he said, was caused by regulations aimed at universal home ownership that forced banks to lend to anyone, regardless of ability to pay. He would privatize Freddie Mae and Freddie Mac and let the free markets fix the damage done to housing. Greenfield argues that his stands on the issues “are much stronger, much clearer” than Cornilles’. His strategy is to position himself on the right and give the voters a real choice. He is clear on where he stands: “liberal governmentalist policies don’t work”. Liberalism creates bureaucracy and higher taxes while preventing the free enterprise system from working. He believes voters in both parties are coming to this understanding; so by campaigning on that basis, he believes he’ll provide the winning alternative to liberal politics-as-usual that he sees as the greatest problem facing the country. Lisa Michaels Lisa Michaels is a local tv and radio host, a consultant and entrepreneur, and, like Greenfield, a veteran of political campaigns. In 2000, she lost the HD 8 race to Mark Hass by 10 percentage points. In 2008, she again challenged Hass, this time for his Senate seat. She didn’t fair so well in this second race, getting steamrolled 68%-32%. But, again like Greenfield, you don’t hear anything defeatist from her despite those tough losses. But while Greenfield is running to take on federal domestic spending, Michaels’ aims for Congress are less clear. She’s unfamiliar with the issues facing the North Coast region. A long-time resident of Beaverton who pulled her kids from public schools, the basis of her campaign stems from her broadcasting experience: “I try to talk with my audience, not at them. … I’ve been studying the issues and talking with the community about them for years” on her radio show. Her strategy is simple: Go out and meet as many voters as possible. She believes she is “in touch” with her community, and, if elected, will maintain that contact by conducting a weekly Ustream.com interactive town hall with constituents to get their perspective. “I’m not going to be owned by anybody,” she declared. Taxes and Regulations Although not running explicitly as a Tea Party candidate, Michaels reflects those politics. She opposes anything that infringes on the property rights of the individual. Part of this stems from a land dispute involving her family, and part of it is simply the ideology of the far right: “I just really want to get government off of people’s backs so they can start making more money and so we can free ‘em up to hire more people. “Business owners don’t know what state and federal governments are going to hit ‘em with next. Measure 66 & 67 was just the death knell to a lot of business owners.” Over the course of an hour’s conversation, she offered no specifics about these issues apart from a few personal anecdotes. Her views are similar to Greenfield’s; he presents the free-market-libertarian perspective in a more sophisticated way. If he’s running for the distinctly right, that’s turf he shares with Michaels. She also opposes “green solutions”, charging that they cost more than what is returned on the investment — not a very encouraging message to those seeking the development of wave energy facilities off the Clatsop County coast. In fact, she’s a proponent of “clean coal gasification” and other energy resources that she says “we know work, like oil and gas”. She called “green energy” a “big scam” that allows the federal government to take away people’s lands, lets environmental lawyers file frivolous lawsuits, and otherwise deprive Americans of their private property, thereby enslaving them. These are not fringe or radical views, of course. I assume in the course of the campaign, she’ll provide more detail as she meets voters; “Designated Losers” “I think it’s a big power trip on both parties, and I’m fed up with it.” Michaels initial reason for seeking the nomination was to expose voter fraud, something she has taken on in the past. But even more than tackling voter fraud — a big challenge given the paucity of evidence in Oregon for anything worse than incompetence — she now wants to win to prove a point: “I especially want to win it because of the attitudes and the things that have happened with the Cornilles campaign. … We’ve got some insiders in the Republican Party, the elite group that is supposed to run all the campaigns…. I think it’s a big money-making endeavor for people that run campaigns.” Michaels cited her various forays into the electoral waters, either being thwarted by the party pushing forward candidates they had no intention of backing — “designated losers” she calls them — or refusing to provide her with fundraising and other resources. She pointed to the Dudley gubernatorial campaign as a prime example of this GOP elite caring more about money than winning: “If you can gin-up fear of government to the extent that you can raise eleven million dollars with the right kind of high-profile guy like Chris Dudley, and you can get commission on eleven million dollars, despite the fact that his opponent … only raised $4 million, and he beats him? Do you really care if your candidate loses if you’re able to gin-up that kind of angst to generate that kind of donation level?” Michaels’ anger at the GOP seems to be as much a driving force as Greenfield’s is towards federal domestic spending. And while it’s evident she cares about the general issues of reducing regulations and taxes, and that she would be an advocate for resource extraction within the country and an opponent to developing sustainable energy sources; it’s also clear she’s running to win for another very strong reason. To spite the Oregon GOP. “Are we really going to nominate the guy who lost by double-digits to the crazy guy less than a year ago? Does that really make sense to anybody?” Rob Cornilles I extended the same invitation to the Cornilles campaign as I did to Greenfield and Michaels. I spoke to his Deputy Campaign Manager who, when told I would be interviewing those two, was dismissive about their politics. Cornilles “declined” to be interviewed, whether because of the inclusion of Greenfield and Michaels, or because I was the interviewer, I don’t know. Jim Greenfield’s website is http://greenfieldforcongress. com/. Lisa Michaels’ can be found at http://www.lisamichaels.org/. T.A. Barnhart is a writer, videographer, social media consultant, and a native Oregonian. He writes about politics and spent the 2011 Legislative session providing video reports via his website and Facebook. You can read more of his work at BlueOregon.com & TABarnhart.net, and you can follow him on FB or Twitter (@tabarnhart). by bob Sea Lions or Salmon? The world-famous East Mooring Basin California sea lions are back! Their barking again graces the Astoria waterfront, and helps me to fall asleep just up the hill from their favorite hangout in Astoria. It’s good to hear them, because not too long ago, the whole lot of them seemed destined for oblivion. You see, sea lions eat salmon, which are endangered in these parts, and that means we have to do something about it. But the trouble is, sea lions are protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), passed in 1972, in more compassionate times. When recent salmon runs were small, there was a clamor for getting rid of the pinniped menace. News stories told of bullet-riddled sea lions being killed, presumably by irate fishermen, who were tired of the methodical approach taken by the authorities, who captured, relocated, harassed, and even killed some, to prevent them from their share of the river’s feasts. But the California sea lions (Zalophus californianus), the major species of pinniped that hangs out here most of the year, remain on the docks at the East Mooring Basin, as well as the rocks by Pier 39, and at other fish processing areas in the region. According to Julie Tennis, an educator who visits schools in the area and tells students (and adults) about sea lions, our bunch started visiting the Hawthorn Cannery (now Pier 39) again in the 80s, after passage of the MMPA. I met Tennis at the Astoria Sunday Market in July, where she had a booth with lots of photos of sea lions, and we had a great conversation. We continued talking at the East Mooring Basin recently, when the sea lions were again hogging the docks, putting on a show for several locals and tourists. They had returned from their summer “vacation” at the breeding colonies in southern California (hence their name). Some people are under the impression that our sea lions are non-native, and invasive, because they disrupt a major economic activity – fishing. However, the range of the California sea lion is from Mexico to Canada and Alaska, and they’ve been in the goldberg Columbia for many centuries, at least, as documented by the native Americans in the region and by archeological data. They were eating salmon and other Columbia River fish all that time, with no appreciable reduction in the salmon runs until European settlers arrived in the 1800s. More recently, with the introduction of dams and overfishing on the Columbia, the salmon runs have been reduced to less than 1% of their traditional (pre-European settlement) size. And sea lions were hunted to near extinction over that time, so both species were on the ropes. Today, both sea lions and salmon are protected. Since sea lion populations have rebounded quite well, some have called for dropping their protections. But Tennis told me that sea lions are still being killed, and are being poisoned by industrial activity upstream. She participates in the Oregon Marine Mammal Stranding Network, which uses volunteers to locate stranded marine mammals and seeks to identify causes of their disease and death. The network is coordinated by OSU in Newport, with the local coordinator being Dr. Debbie Duffield at Portland State University (503-725-4078, duffieldd@pdx.edu). Learn more about how you can participate at http://mmi.oregonstate.edu/ommsn. Tennis is not sure what can be done to resolve the dispute between local fishermen and sea lions. She understands that it’s tough for fishermen these days, but says that the real issue is “access to the fish, not the fish.” In other words, the policies being proposed to deal with the dwindling populations of salmon have less to do with ensuring recovery and sustainable runs of salmon, and more to do with keeping the catch numbers steady now. In the meantime, Tennis is hoping that educating people about sea lions will help us see that they are a smart, adaptable species, like ourselves, and worth keeping here on the Columbia. For more information on Columbia River sea lions, see Tennis’ blog at http://www.columbiariversealions.com/, or visit the website of the Sea Lion Defense Brigade at http:// www.sealiondefensebrigade.org/. 9 sep11 hipfishmonthly.com Public Art Project Will Provide Newport Celebrates the 75th Anniversary of “A Walk in Their Shoes” The Vital and Iconic Yaquina Bay Bridge (photo courtesy of Lincoln County Historical Society) It was constructed in 1936 as one of five bridges completed that year along the early Oregon coast, a vital connection to commerce then and the beginning of the largest portion of the state’s tourism industry. It’s now a major icon for the coastal town of Newport – and the Yaquina Bay Bridge is turning 75 years old. A huge month-long celebration of the Yaquina Bay Bridge’s 75th Anniversary will take place all over Newport, starting Labor Day Weekend and continuing until Sunday, October 2. The celebration will include various events and displays throughout the month of September, culminating in a 1930’s-style Community Birthday Party on Sunday, October 2, from Noon until 4 p.m. The Yaquina Bay Bridge opened for traffic on Labor Day in 1936, and was dedicated on Saturday, October 3, 1936. Because of this, the celebration will start slowly during Labor Day weekend – with the official commemorative events happening October 1 and 2. Various celebrations – still to be announced – will take place throughout the month-long celebration. To kick things off, Rogue Brewery rolls out commemorative label on September 1. Over the course of the month, celebrations will include special programs such as historic walking tours, a photo contest, coloring contest, a booklet by the Lincoln County Historical Society, books on the bridge by Matt Love and Judy Fleagle, a bridgewalk, panel discussion and other fun features throughout town that will continue through the month. Enjoy the serenity of our But man is a part of gardens, wooded paths, nature, and his sauna, yurt and bhuddas . . . . . . in Nahcotta, Washington on Sandridge Road, just south of Bay Avenue overlooking willapa bay war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. – Rachel Carson www.mobydickhotel.com 360-665-4543 or 1-800-673-6145 sep11 hipfishmonthly.com 10 Then the main event weekend happens October 1 and 2. Saturday, October 1 features: Farmers market until 1 p.m. on the City Hall lawn Gallery showings in City Hall and the History Center’s Log Cabin. 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. is a panel discussion located in City Hall 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. is a history walk from City Hall to the Bridge Sunday, October 2 features: Sunday afternoon from 12 to 4 p.m. starts under the north side of the bridge between the bayfront and Yaquina Bay State Park. There will be a community picnic with 1930’s-style dress (optional), food, entertainment and formal ceremonies. A bridge walk is scheduled to open the Sunday event with everyone meeting on the south side of the bridge and led by a collection of 1930’s-style cars – all of which ends at the field under the bridge where the main event will occur. 11:45 a.m. Meet on the south side of the bridge for Bridge Walk. 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Bridge Walk begins 12 p.m. Entertainment and picnic begins (bring your own picnic optional) under north end of bridge 2 p.m. Formal ceremonies 4 p.m. End of event Tillamook County Women’s Resource Center is launching a public art campaign that will culminate with a month-long exhibit at Bay City Arts Center. The collaborative community project, entitled “A Walk In Their Shoes,” invites the public to decorate shoes in a way that makes a statement about domestic or sexual violence. Shoes are a very personal item. Creating art that expresses what it is like to walk in the shoes of a domestic violence survivor is a powerful metaphor for living that person’s experience. It can really help bring a deeper understanding of the problem. Men, women and children are welcome to contribute art for the project. Each participant can submit one or more shoes or pairs of shoes. The Women’s Resource Center has a limited number of donated shoes and craft supplies for those who want to use them. Or you can supply your own. The shoes can be decorated, deconstructed or whatever is required to express your statement. The project kicks off Thursday, Sept. 1, with a shoe-decorating event from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Women’s Resource Center office at 1902 2nd St. in Tillamook. Shoes and craft materials will be provided or you can bring your own. Participants are encouraged to bring their own experience to the project. If you are a violence survivor, what do you want to share about your experience? If you are an ally of survivors, how do you want to demonstrate your support? As part of the ultimate shoe art display, artists will be able to write a statement that will be placed next to the shoes. The statement can be signed or remain anonymous. On those creations for which the artist does not provide a statement, Women’s Resource Center will display a pertinent statistic about domestic or sexual violence. Deadline to submit entries for “A Walk In Their Shoes” is Friday, Sept. 23. The entries will then be exhibited at Bay City Arts Center throughout the month of October. A silent auction of the exhibits will also be conducted during that period. Artists may contribute their creations to this auction or may opt to retrieve them at the close of the exhibit. For information, contact Romy Carver at the Women’s Resource Center, (503) 842-8294, ext. 209, or by email at tcwrc8@ oregoncoast.com. Too Cool for School? Teaching Evolution on the Coast. Tradi-shun-all to Alternative S’cool School’s still out for summer – for some of us. But let’s face it, the sun is setting pretty early these dog days of summer, and soon, for all of us – parents, kids, teachers and the rest of the community – the new school year will be upon us. Here in Clatsop County, some things will be different this year. Star of the Sea School, a private, Catholic school associated with St. Mary’s Church in Astoria, which opened in 1895, closed its doors at the end of the 2010-2011 academic year in June. Most of its former K-8 students will be heading to one of the corresponding schools in the Astoria public school district. After a financial meltdown, the Sunset Empire Transportation District, Clatsop County’s bus system, has been bared to the bone. Some of the students that were able to travel between districts will have to find new transportation options. This is even more relevant this year, as the Oregon legislature has passed a bill that will allow students from one district to transfer to another within the county without release by the former district, which will most probably increase the amount of students opting to attend school in a different district than they live. Many of the county’s public school districts have seen their budgets sliced by more than 10% this year, due to the sluggish economy, and less revenue going to the state, which sets the amount that each student gets in state funds. On the ground, this translates into lost programs, such as Future Farmers of America at Astoria High School and physical education classes in Warrenton. Craig Hoppes, superintendent of the Astoria school district, calls the situation an “unfunded mandate”, since the requirements for graduation are still the same, but the money isn’t there to fund the classes and programs necessary. Some teachers have lost their jobs, some have had their hours cut, and many have been transferred into new and challenging positions due to the funding cuts. Administrators have had to look for innovative ways to keep the schools open and productive. Parents have scrambled to adapt to the new landscape. And into the fray may be coming a new charter school, which if approved would open their doors for high schoolers in September of next year. But there are still many options available to parents and students in this rapidly changing education landscape, some that have been around since Clatsop County has existed, and some just coming into their own. Let’s take a little tour of some of these options, and see if any of them might be a good fit for you and your student(s). Oregon Connections Academy (ORCA) A typical school day for Kirk House, an 8th grader starting his second year at ORCA, after awakening at sometime between 8 and 11, involves eating a great, home-cooked breakfast, and then easing into schoolwork on the computer, or reading a textbook for an hour or so. After a trip to the local skatepark and lunch, he gets into more involved schoolwork. He’s usually finished with school by 3 pm, and ready to play with friends before they get home. He has classes in art, social studies, language arts, reading, math and science, just like his friends still at Astoria Middle School. Most of his classes have about 30 students in them, and are given via the ORCA web interface, which allows for chat between students and teachers, lecture-like presentations, and interactive discussions via supplied headsets. There’s even a raised hand button you can click to ask a question! Classes are recorded so if you miss a class, you can still get most of the interaction that took place and use it to complete assignments. The student determines the pace he or she goes at to complete the course, and Kirk told me he sometimes had to miss a class or two, but usually made up the work on the weekend. Even physical education is accounted for, with Kirk engaging in swimming, hiking, biking and bouncing on the trampoline, along with his skateboarding, for credit. Kirk’s sister Grace thinks her social life improved in her first year in ORCA, as she used the social media aspects of the on-line schooling to a much greater extent than Kirk. But the verdict from both the kids, and both the parents (Julie and Rusty) was that ORCA was an improvement over traditional brick-and-mortar school. Both parents told me it was hard work for them, but well worth it. ORCA has over 1600 registered K-12 students statewide, and at least 25 in Clatsop County. Students can work out taking extracurricular classes and activities, such as band, sports and theater, from their local public schools. For more information, to register, or just poke around the system, surf on over to http://www.connectionsacademy.com/oregon-school/home.aspx. Oregon Virtual Academy (ORVA) Like ORCA, ORVA is an on-line charter school, based in North Bend, available to all K-10 students in Oregon. The By Bob Goldberg school is divided into two sections – K-8 and high school. Students in K-8 have 6-7 classes, with most classes on Tuesday and Wednesday, Mondays set aside for “homeroom”-like activities and review, and Thursdays and Fridays for tutoring and teacher office hours. Daily progress is monitored, and classes are on-line. The high schoolers have 6 teachers, one for each major subject, and it’s a paced program. ORVA supplies state-required testing at an institution near the student’s home. The latest registration numbers are a total of 1081 students statewide, and 15 students in Clatsop County. Social outings are part of the curriculum, and interaction with local schools is encouraged. For more information about ORVA, go to http://www.k12.com/orva. Fire Mountain School For the 2011-2012 school year, FMS has 2 classes, preschool and K-2. Tuition for the year is $2050 for preschool, which will meet Tuesday to Thursday from 9-1 and $4100 for the K-2 class, which will meet Tuesday to Friday from 9-3. FMS was founded in 1983 by families interested in an alternative education for their children. You can’t beat the location – Oswald West State Park. Students go on nature hikes through old growth forests and to the beach from the school’s back door. Each class is limited to ten students to ensure individual attention. Mixedage classes reflect the belief that combining ages enhances a sense of community. There’s an emphasis on the 4 C’s: communication, compromise, cooperation and commitment. The curriculum focuses on interdisciplinary studies, and there are no grades or testing. Students tend to come from the south part of Clatsop County, but some notable examples of Astoria residents attending FMS were given by Jennifer Childress, a “retiring” parent volunteer. Childress’ daughters, Willa and Roan, have graduated, or “moved on” from FMS recently, and she is having some sadness at not being an everyday fixture at the school. “After 9 years, it will be hard to not be there all the time. It’s a great place for kids to learn about the world, and 11 sep11 hipfishmonthly.com prepares them well for whatever comes next,” she told me. Clatsop Community College (CCC) school, K-12, before and after school, and summer programs. Tuition ranges from about $2000 for pre-school to about $4000 for high school. The A Beka curriculum is used in all classes. For more information, contact NCCS at (503) 8613333 or info@nccs.us, or go to their website at http://www.nccs.us/. The COLLEGE NOW Program allows high school students to earn college credits for completing high school course work Gray Alternative High in Accounting, Business, Fire Science, Industrial and Manufacturing Technologies, Maritime SciSchool (GAHS) ence, Medical Assistant, Microcomputer ApplicaGoing into its 4th year, GAHS is tions, Office Administration and Welding. available to all county high school In the Dual Credit Program, high school students that are behind on credits needed to students take college level academic coursework graduate. The half-day program uses two teachwhile enrolled in high school with instruction taking place at the high school. Classes are available at CCC’s Marine and Environmental Research and Training Station (MERTS) and Integrated Manufacturing Technology Center (IMTC) campus for qualified high school students in grades 10-12 in welding, automotive and maritime. The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of Sister and brother Grace and Kirk House, Oregon Connections 2006 provides federal Academy Students, share a work table at home. funds for programs in Accounting, Agriculers, and has about 20 students. Unlike other ture, Maritime Studies, Mechanical Technology, “alternative” high schools, GAHS employs some Financial Management, Nursing, Administrative of the methods of the charter schools mentioned Services, Culinary Arts, and Business and Manabove – small class sizes, individualized attenagement at high schools in the region through tion, on-line programs, and self-paced curricula. CCC. Located at Captain Robert Gray School, the TRiO Pre-College programs at Clatsop Comschool has seen much success, with the majority munity College include: of students fulfilling their graduation requireTalent Search -- Providing information, advisments and donning the cap and gown. For more ing, tutoring, college visits and application assistance to 600 students in the 6th-12th grades information on GAHS, contact Larry Lockett, principal of Astoria High School, at 503-325-3911. in the Astoria, Warrenton, Seaside and Knappa school districts. Homeschooling Upward Bound -- Providing intensive advisBefore the advent of compulsory ing, academic support and a six-week summer education in the U.S. and elsewhere, enrichment program for 60 high school stuhomeschooling was the norm. Nowadents from the Astoria, Warrenton and Seaside days, in order to homeschool your children, you school districts. must officially register with the Education Service The Workforce Alliance is a community partDistrict (ESD) for your county. For Clatsop Counnership developed to assist with skill enhancety, the contact is Mardi Rose at 503.675.4031 ments of the emerging workforce. Through this or mardir@nwresd.k12.or.us. partnership high schoolers can attend high The resources available today to help with school and workforce readiness classes and then homeschooling are truly staggering. Don’t know move into internships with local businesses. where to start, or what to teach in order to meet For more information on CCC programs for the required standards? The Oregon Dept. of high school students, contact Lisa Nyberg at Education has a web page dedicated to answer503-338-2480 or Debby Robertson at 503ing your basic questions at http://www.ode.state. 338-2506. or.us/search/results/?id=74. North Coast Christian School Textbooks? There are several projects out there providing free downloadable textbooks and (NCCS) e-textbooks. A good start is FlexBooks from the North Coast Christian School is CK-12 website at http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/. located in Hammond, on the campus The math FlexBooks are currently being used by of Gateway Community Church. They have pre- sep11 hipfishmonthly.com 12 has them collaborate in groups, and present their findings to the community. You can read all about “project-based learning” and “21st century skills” at the Buck Institute for Education website (bie.org) or the Project-Based Learning website (pbl-online.org). The Freelands hope to provide a place for disadvantaged and also accelerated students, whose needs are not being met in the public high schools or homeschooling situations where they are today. In addition, they plan for Oceanview to emphasize “what the students want to do after high school.” Besides more parental involvement than is typical in the public high schools, they plan on involving local businesses by establishing mentoring programs and internships, similar to the CCC Workforce Alliance program. With smaller classes, teachers trained in project-based learning, more individual attention, and community support, the Freelands hope that Oceanview Charter School can become a positive part of the North Coast community. For the next few months, they’ll be gathering comOceanview Charter School munity support, continuing to develop curricula Another option is in the works for and training programs, and looking for a physical students in Clatsop County, and may location, all assuming that their proposal is acbecome available next September. Tom and Donna Freeland have received a federal cepted by the Astoria School District. They’ve got support from Tina Gleason, who grant administered through the state to plan for attended Olney School before it was closed, and a new charter school, called Oceanview Charter is a 1997 graduate from Bridges Alternative High School, to be located somewhere inside the School, an experiment in alternative education in boundaries of the Astoria School District, the the Astoria School District which was very similar sponsoring entity. By October 1, they need to to the current Gray Alternative High School, and present their proposal to the Astoria School Board, which will quickly decide whether it meets was located in the building now occupied by both the requirements of the state and the TLC Bank on Marine Drive in Astoria. She has 3 needs of the district’s students. At the moment, kids in the public schools now, one going into the Freelands’ plans are for the school to include 8th grade, and was thrilled when she met Tom grades 9-12, with about 100 students and 5 Freeland a few weeks ago. She wants to be more involved in her kids’ education, and wants them to have “experience that prepares them for real life. “I’m not getting that in the public schools now, and Tom’s idea sounds great to me,” Gleason told me. Whether or not the Oceanview Charter School opens next September, it seems obvious that education here in Clatsop County, as well as everywhere else, is evolving. The mixture of public and private schools – traditional, parochial, on-line, charter, alternative, independent and home-based – is being tested Donna & Tom Freeland in the education marketplace, and more than ever before, is being allowed to settle according to parent and student non-union teachers. Students will be drawn from choices. While the process is disruptive and all districts in the county. messy, the end result should be a better educaEach charter school approved in Oregon has tion for more kids. Let’s hope so. to have a focus, and Oceanview’s would be “For more information about Oceanview Charproject-based learning. An example of projectter School, contact Tom Freeland at tom.freebased learning; a student asking why so many land@oceanviewschool.org or Donna Freeland at kids are absent from school, with the answer donna.freeland@oceanviewschool.org. You can that they have the flu. The teacher develops also call at 503-338-8357 or go to the website a project for the students to find out how to at http://www.oceanviewschool.org/.” prevent the spread of disease in the classroom, the Astoria High School math department in all their classes. Open source (free) textbooks are available from myriad sources by searching on the subject in the popular search engines. In our household, we’ve used television, computer games, magazines, books, movies, YouTube videos, and parental, family and outside friend tutoring to supplement my son’s education. When he was smaller, frequent trips to the zoo, community center playroom, pool, playground and friends’ houses gave him a great start in education. All of these can be used in homeschooling, and most of them can be counted as credit towards meeting the graduation requirements in Oregon. To find out more about homeschooling in Oregon, take a peek at the Oregon Home Education Network website at http://www.ohen.org/ index.php. Or go down to the Astoria Library and peruse Home Education magazine for more ideas. You can hook up with other homeschooling families through several Yahoo groups and just from word on the street. Community schooling is the next wave! 5th Annual SPIRIT of the River SPIRIT ARTISTS Agnes Field Alex Myers Andy Ciers Bette Lu Krause Brian Johnstone Charles Schweigert Cheryl Silverblatt Chris Bryant Christi Payne David Campiche David Lee Myers Dee Vadnais Don Frank Don Nisbett Donna Anessi Gin Laughery Greg Darms Heather Richardson Isabelle Johnston Haist Jamie Boyd Jane Audrey Janet Darcher Jenna Austin Nisbett Josh Prichard Judith Altruda Judy VanderMaten Karen Snapp Kendall McEuen Kristin Shauck LaRee Johnson Laurie Caplan Leena Riker Linden Lisa Ackerman Lynnette Hubert Margaret Thierry Mary Tanguay Webb Nancy Campiche Noel Thomas Pam Jacobson Pat Dixon Paul Tweten Penny Treat Rhonda Grudenic Roger Dorband Roger Hayes Rose Grafton Roz Edelson Sally Bailey Susan Darms Tim Liddiard Trudy Woods Vicki Baker Vicki McAfee Wally Mann Saturday, September 24, 2011 6:30 pm Silent Art Auction Masonic Lodge 1577 Franklin Ave., Astoria 8:00 pm Program Clatsop Community College Performing Arts Center 16th & Franklin, Astoria Celebrate and help protect the Columbia River during the 5th Annual “SPIRIT of the RIVER,” a lively event combining music, art and the spoken word on Saturday, September 24th at the Clatsop Community College Performing Arts Center, 16th & Franklin, in Astoria. The evening begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Masonic Lodge across the street from the PAC with a silent auction showcasing a wide variety of work by many local and regional artists. The entertainment follows at 8 p.m. highlighting favorite performers from past events as well as exciting new talent. R obert Michael Pyle, award-winning author, ecologist and a Guggenheim Fellow, is the special guest for this year’s event. A number of Pyle’s books, including Wintergreen and Skytime in Gray’s River, deal attentively and intimately with the natural history and human community of his home territory in Southwestern Washington. Pyle has taught environmental writing from Ilwaco to Idaho, Tajikistan to Tasmania. Next spring he will serve for the second time as Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Montana. He shares an old Swedish farmstead with weaver and botanist Thea Linnaea Pyle on a Lower Columbia tributary in Gray’s River, WA. The program showcases talent from both sides of the river and includes Alexa Wiley, Portland singer-songwriter; Willapa Hills, popular folk musicians from Cathlamet; Jennifer Goodenberger, Astoria’s own pianist and composer; Patrick Dixon, fisher poet from Olympia, WA; and the energetic Knappa Marimba Band under the direction of John Fenton. Information about the event and the performers can be found at: www.spiritoftheriver.org. This year’s Spirit of the River featured artist is Astoria’s Noel Thomas, a nationally known painter and signature member of the American Watercolor Society. The Columbia River is woven throughout Thomas’ life, originating with his father and the 30 foot boat he built. Photographs of his Columbia River paintings will be projected as backdrop stage settings for each performer, as well as gracing this year’s poster. Born in Longview, WA, Thomas pursued a career in advertising art in New York and Los Angeles before returning to the Lower Columbia area, where he paints from his Astoria studio. The silent art auction held in the Masonic Lodge presents offerings from the best of the art talent from the estuary. The doors to the art auction open at 6:30 p.m., half an hour earlier than previous years. Hors d’oeuvres and wine are available as bidders circulate freely through the spacious and beautiful building. The bidding closes at 7:50 with no intermission this year. Items for bidding include paintings, photography, jewelry, sculpture, pottery, quiltwork, books and more. Winning bids will be picked up following the conclusion of the program. Spirit of the River 2011 combines a celebration of the magnificent Columbia River and the work of the river communities in defending the river. Columbia Riverkeeper is a key partner in the legal, legislative and political battles to prevent the destruction of the estuary. Columbia Riverkeeper was founded in 1989 and is based in Hood River, Oregon. Its mission is: “to restore and protect the water quality of the Columbia River and all life connected to it, from the headwaters to the Pacific Ocean.” Brett VandenHeuvel, Riverkeeper’s Executive Director, will welcome the audience. “It’s so exciting to bring together Washington and Oregon artists and performers as we honor this incredible river and celebrate our commitment and success in protecting our beloved river,” said Cheryl Johnson of Brownsmead, the coordinator for the event. She and her husband, Ted Messing, are the volunteer Estuary Coordinators for Columbia Riverkeeper. Noel Thomas Watercolor Tickets for Spirit of the River are $20 and available at Lucy’s Books, 348 12th Street in Astoria, online at www.columbiariverkeeper.org and at the door the night of the performance. Prepaid ticket holders will enjoy express check-in at the Masonic Lodge for the silent art auction. 13 sep11 hipfishmonthly.com The Art and Politics of the Documentary LNG UpDate/Coal Export Info Five Week Film Class Offering this September from Columbia River Keeper 1. Clatsop County judge rejects Oregon LNG legal action. In a highly anticipated and important decision, a Clatsop County judge sided with Clatsop County and Columbia Riverkeeper in determining that the County has the right to reject the Oregon LNG project. Oregon LNG is appealing this ruling, and Columbia Riverkeeper is intervening in the case. CRK and our coalition of allies continue to battle Oregon LNG’s increasingly desperate legal maneuvers. The company cannot proceed until it receives local land use approval - a prospect that is highly unlikely anytime soon. 2. HB 2700 Passes. Your help needed. After failing in two consecutive years, the pipeline fast-track bill passed in June. So - what happened? Proponents of HB 2700 convinced a majority of the legislature that the bill was necessary for building sidewalks, water pipes and sewer lines while cynically refusing to accept an amendment to exclude LNG. In short, because of the successes in stopping Bradwood LNG and the Palomar pipeline, many legislators bought the idea that the bill “wasn’t about LNG.” Thousands of Oregonians weighed in against the bill, and Columbia River Keeper will work in the coming months to limit its negative impact on Oregonians. In the wake of the passage of HB 2700, LNG pipeline companies may soon be able to apply for and obtain permits on private lands without landowner permission. The appeal period is very brief, so please contact Dan Serres at Columbia Riverkeeper immediately if you receive notice or hear of pipeline permits being issued in your area. Contact: Dan Serres, Conservation Director, Columbia Riverkeeper. (503) 890-2441. 3. News from Southern Oregon – Coos Bay Project Faces Hurdles. The Port of Coos Bay is seeking approval to excavate and dredge 5.7 million cubic yards of material in order to build and operate the Jordan Cove LNG terminal and Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline. The magnitude of the proposal is staggering, and thus far the Oregon Department of State Lands (DSL) has not made a decision on the project. Oregonians submitted thousands of comments urging DSL to deny this project because there is no need for LNG in Oregon and no need for the terminal in the absence of LNG. We stand united – no LNG projects should be built in Oregon because it’s clear that Oregon does not need an LNG export or import project. In an front page article by Oregonian LNG reporter Ted Sickenger this past July, he wrote what LNG opponents have known for years, that LNG projects in Oregon are seeking to export – rather than import – LNG. “Two years ago, energy companies trying to build terminal to import liquefied natural gas to Oregon sep11 hipfishmonthly.com 14 laughed at the notion of using their projects instead to export burgeoning supplies of U.S. and Canadian gas to lucrative markets in Asia. The idea, backers said, was a conspiracy theory concocted by environmentalists and landowners who didn’t want pipelines laid across public and private lands. Today, those opponents can safely remove their tinfoil hats.” The article continues, “If natural gas producers and LNG terminal backers have their way, Oregon could become a significant hub in exporting domestic gas to Asia, joining a nationwide push that could have a meaningful -- and according to critics, disastrous -- impact on the price of natural gas for U.S. consumers.” Will Oregon agencies allow this massive bait-and-switch, permitting projects that will use eminent domain to ship U.S. gas to Asian markets? Coal Export in Longview-Kelso From small business owners to fisherman, to longtime residents, citizens in Longview are working together to spread the word on why coal export is a move in the wrong direction for a community that values family-wage jobs, fishing, and river recreation. Longview was the first target of coal export speculators: last year, Ambre Energy proposed its mega coal export terminal on the banks of the Columbia at the former Reynolds Aluminum site. Riverkeeper quickly caught wind of the mega coal export terminal, and mobilized to spread the word with river advocates along the Lower Columbia. Within a few short months, Riverkeeper worked with citizens to expose how coal export will affect the daily lives of Cowlitz County residents. Excerpt from recent Longview Daily news OPed: Based on the assumption that exporting 25 million metric tons of coal annually (keeping in mind the company has mentioned expanding to 80 million tons) would require 10 trains per day — each one over 1.37 miles long — the trains would most likely block three to four road crossings at a time. Those crossings likely to be affected are Third Avenue, California Way, Oregon Way, Industrial Way and the main entrance to the Weyerhaeuser mill site. These bottlenecks could tie up traffic, make people late for work, and limit opportunity to transport new commodities — all while spreading windblown coal dust for miles. Throughout the summer, Riverkeeper and its Power Past Coal campaign allies continue to work with communities threatened by pollution from coal dust and rail traffic, including Kelso-Longview. Although summer is in full swing, concerned citizens are turning out in large numbers to learn the latest on potential sites for proposed coal terminals. Earlier this month, Riverkeeper and the Sierra Club held the first coal export public forum in St. Helens, Oregon. Last month, Riverkeeper uncovered secret plans for a coal export terminal at the Port of St. Helens. Riverkeeper is urging concerned citizens to contact Governor Kitzhaber and explain why Oregonians need clean air and water, not coal export. Similar to Riverkeeper’s on-going work with communities threatened by liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals and pipelines, Riverkeeper and partners are working to spread information and strategies for communities to take a stand for the river and against coal export. There’s even a tale of an old Eskimo woman fighting to save her reindeer herd from marauding interlopers. Tales of men and women in conflict, responding to events beyond their control. Her work often focuses on Maritime themes, blue collar workers, and the backbone of America. From Rebuilding San Francisco, A unique opportunity for the Workers’ Story (2006) to With documentary film fans. Maria Hammer in Hand: the Story of Brooks, a prize winning proWomen in Construction (2010), ducer/directory who now lives viewers and critics agree, Brooks among ‘we that cling to coastal films are ‘well-told,’ ‘brutally edge,’ is hosting a five week honest’ and with ‘great emoclass in viewing and discusstional impact.’ ing a variety of American film Join Maria Brooks in an documentaries. informal class setting, encouragTopics include; what is “truth” ing discussion and reaction. The in films? How do we identify class meets at Baked Alaska in the point of view and maniputhe Discovery Room, (runs adjalations of the filmmaker? Are cent to parking deck). #12 12th, all documentaries a form of in Astoria. Tuesday 7pm – 9pm propaganda? beginning September 27. There Brooks’ work in film is a charge of $30 for the class. documentary has won her over a dozen national film awards, in- Participants welcome to grab food/beverage and then ready cluding a 2007Emmy nominayourself to dig into film doc! tion for “outstanding achieveView Shipping Out ment in documentary.” A former high school teacher, at the Seaside public library, Thursday Sept 29, 7pm. The as a filmmaker, Books is drawn history of women and seafaring to true life stories unknown to in America. We meet modern most TV audiences. Her films women performing jobs in depict individuals driven by commercial shipping. They inner turmoil to face challenges – but they don’t always succeed. work on container ships, tankers, tugs, and other vessels, as pilots, She has given her audiences a engineers, mates, and ordinary myriad of tales from one of a seamen. The film explores the haunted black sea captain in history, mythologies, and atthe Arctic posing as white - to titudes which limited women’s stories of bedraggled sailors participation in seafaring until on a doomed convoy on the recent times. Murmansk Run in WWII. Films by Maria Brooks: Women of the Alaska Territory (1985) The Reindeer Queen (1991) The Men Who Sailed the Liberty Ships (1994) We are the ILWU (1997) The Odyssey of Captain Healy (1999) Pilebutts, Working under the Hammer (2002) Artist Noel Thomas’ nationally recognized water colors will set the stage as performance backdrops at this year’s SPIRIT of the River. Shipping Out, the Story of America’s Seafaring Women (2005) Rebuilding San Francisco, the Workers’ Story (2006) KALA@HIPFiSHmonthly beauty and retains a feeling of being hidden and able to function by it’s own conventions. These are qualities that also dominate my artistic process. I am grateful to be able to exhibit my work in Astoria, a place many of my relatives and friends haunt.” and while it is often hard to accept the terrible in life, I try to embrace the fact that there are things I both love and hate about this place.” Bill Ittmann, born in Boston, Mass. in 1939, developed a love of art and art historical sites while traveling in Europe in his teens. After receiving a B.F.A. in old masters drawings and 19th century and contemporary art. Two students from his program, who later gained prominence are the late Kirk Varnedoe-chief curator of the Museum of Modern Art, and Thomas Kerns-director of the Guggenheim Museum in New York. After a long period of teaching, publishing and traveling Justin L’Amie and Cynthia Lahti KALA@Hipfish Monthly presents work by two Portland artists who have long ties to the Astoria area-Cynthia Lahti and Justin L’Amie. A special addition to the evening, North Coast art guru Bill Ittman will speak at 7pm, on behalf of the work of the featured artists. In addition, NorthCoast sound artist/painter Roger Hayes performs ambient music. Refreshments served. Cynthia Lahti left Portland to earn a bachelors degree at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1985, and after graduating returned to Portland where she continues to live and make art. She is represented by PDX Contemporary Art in Portland and currently she is “focusing on ceramic sculpture and mixed media drawings based on expressive images of the figure. “There are so many figures out there in the world, wearing so many poses Justin L’Amie was born in Astoria in 1983, and he Opening Reception: 2nd Saturday Art Walk spent part of his childhood September 10, 5pm - 9pm through Oct 2 in the area with his grandSpeaker, Bill Ittman 7pm Ambient Music, Roge Hayes parents Gail and David Wahlstrom, who came Art History from the University he finally moved to Cannon Beach to Astoria from northern of Kanas and working at the Uniin 1978 where he currently Minnesota in 1960. He atversity of Kanas Art Museum, he resides and continues to be very tended Clatsop Community pursued graduate level courses active in art related activitiesCollege for the academic at the Courtauld Institute at the Design Review Board for the City year 2002-03 before movUniversity of London in 1964. of Cannon Beach for ten years, ing to Seattle where he In 1966 he lived with renowned teaching at Clatsop Community received his B.F.A. from California painter, Wayne ThieCollege and former Director of the Cornish College of Art baud and his family and modeled the Art Center Gallery. He is an in 2006. He currently lives for a number of and continues to make art in Cynthia Lahti Dolphins Portland, OR and is repand costumes; I find those that resented by PDX resonate and interpret them in Contemporary Art. clay. Each artwork expresses an intense inner psychological state, His first one-man exhibition ocits surface effecting a fluctuating curred in 2010. quality, part beauty, part groJustin L’Amie tesque,” says Lahti of her work. writes about his Lahti’s grandparents, Edla work; “Most of my Soujanen and Nilo Vilulahti met art is a tribute to and married in Astoria after that which sustains immigrating from Tiavassolo, us: this amazing Finland in the early 1910’s. Her planet and all its father Uuno Lahti was born in beauty. Puppies, Astoria in 1919 and spent his tree sap, barnacles, childhood in Union Town and Queen Annes lace, Youngs River. Her mother Janet rain, leaves, vitamin Irving came to Astoria in the the c, leather, fingernails, early 1950’s. She was a home dry rot, coconut extension agent for Clatsop husks. As terrifying County, teaching women how to Justin L’Amie sew and cook. They were married as it often is, I am Snake still amazed at what the in 1956 and moved to Portland. earth has to bare. I can’t help Her childhood was filled with paintings and drawings. Ittmann enthusiastic collector of regional but be fascinated by the ways completed his Masters Degree many trips to Astoria, as well as and local contemporary art. that animals (including humans) in Art History at Washington camping adventures around the Ittman got to know Justin manipulate, promote, destroy University in St. Louis in 1967. Pacific Northwest with friends L’Amie while he was teaching in and take advantage of the things Between 1967-71 he taught from Astoria. Cynthia reports, “I the CCC Art Department. “I found that grow and exist around us. It seminar level courses at Williams him to be profoundly interested continue to feel a connection to is at once fantastic and wretched, College in Williamston, Mass. on the place. It has sublime natural in being an artist and ready to absorb every aspect of the art scene in Seattle and Portland that I could expose him to. He showed an exceptional appetite for looking at and producing art in a variety of media. His work has a deep interest and awareness of nature and shows a gentle, sometime mordant curiosity about all sides of nature, both lush and vibrant, and fragmented and dissipated,” says Ittman. The artists that L’Amie admires include Thomas Bewick, J.J. Audubon, James Ensor, Egon Schiele, David Shrigley, Raymond Pettibon, among others.” As a curator and supporter Bill Ittmann has known Cynthia Lahti’s work through her affilation with PDX Contemporary. The artwork with very tactile surfaces stretches the boundaries between “art” and “craft”. On Lahti’s work Ittman describes, “Broken pigments, broken figures, mostly human and cats, substantially, but not exclusively female. There is a narrative quality to the work--fragments of a tale without a beginning or an end. There are many art historical references: Degas, Rodin, Giacometti, L. Freud, Francis Bacon, KiKi Smith, and Brancusi.” This exhibition is made possible by the generous support of Jane Beebe, Director of PDX Contemporary Art in Portland. Jane has frequently loaned works of art from her gallery to exhibitions at the Art Center Gallery at CCC. 15 sep11 hipfishmonthly.com Ciro Hurtado Latin American Guitar Laughing Wild SEPT 30, OCT 1 @ KALA Stage in astoria T his September, HIPFiSHmonthly announces the opening of The KALA Stage, in celebration of the continuum of locally produced theater, and the vital theatrical community of the Lower Columbia Pacific Region. And now a word from Susi Brown – Pier Pressure Productions: For those of you who enjoyed this past year of thoughtprovoking theatre at 260 10th, Pier Pressure Productions will be presenting a play just around the corner at the headquarters of KALA/Hipfish. If you haven’t taken an opportunity to attend one of KALA’s 2nd Saturday Art Walks, perhaps you will support the arts by attending PPP’s production of Christopher Durang’s “Laughing Wild”. When PPP announced that it was closing its doors, Dinah Urell graciously extended an invitation to the theatre group to use her new space for performance opportunities. Pier Pressure’s first production was performed in 2009 at the Columbia River Coffee Roaster in the area now known as 3 Cups. In addition to Urell’s offer, PPP as also been welcomed back by Tim Hurd and TJ Lackner ( CRCR & 3Cups owners). It may be that PPP will be presenting something in the 3 Cups coffee shop again someday. Curtain Everyone! By September 30, the blacks will be hung, the lighting system set, lighting technician waiting in the wings, the house full, and the sep11 hipfishmonthly.com 16 Photo: Dinah Urell Christopher Durang’s Featuring Jenni Newton & Bill Ham directed by susi brown diminutive black box stage will welcome two actors to enact its inaugural performance. When we were doing the photo shoot for the PR for Laughing Wild, I was reminded by one of the actors, Jenni Newton, that we had coincidentally first met after a performance of playwright Christopher Durang’s Beyond Therapy (directed by then Clatsop College theater coach Gay Preston some 10 years ago). Ms. Newton portrayed the slightly (or is it tightly) wound psychiatrist. It was her actoronstage introduction to the community. At an after-show party, I complimented Ms. Newton on her performance, I told her, “You’re good!” And there were numerous feelings mutual amongst attendees. Since that time, we have not seen enough of Jenni Newton on stage, because she’s too busy being an award-winning, valuable high school drama instructor at Astoria High School, and the infrequent direction of community theater. We did see her as Annie Wilkes in Misery at the River Theater. A striking performance. Newton informs she likes a character that can take her on a ride, and an audience that’s willing to go with her. Hence, her interest in the character “Woman” in Laughing Wild. William Ham, “Man” in the show, I have told recently, “I have a Bill Ham setting on my camera.” For Mr. Ham has been exercising his acting and comedy prowess on various stages in the region since he set foot on this coast. “Bullshot Crummond,” “Almost, Maine,” “The Zoo Story,” “Glengarry Glen Ross,” and “The Seafarer.” He also wrote, directed and performed three well-received oneman shows at the former Pier Pressure Productions space. Ham is a generous performer, giving us the full extent of the spirit and energy of the role, and his gift to make us laugh. So, as we have witnessed, the theater community just keeps growing, maturing, changing, and thriving through it transitory times. It is the nature. KALA Stage embarks on its adventure, an embrace in diversity of theater and performance. Laughing Wild is a provocative study about the perils and stresses of modern life in urban America. Jenni Newton and Bill Ham address the audience with two comic monologues which evolve into a shared nightmare and the isolation it creates. Christopher Durang’s characters battle with desperation, alienation, and life’s brutalities in his fiercely ironic comedy. See you there. - Dinah Urell Purchase Tickets eve of show beginning 6pm at KALA. Sept 30 - Oct 1 Doors open 7:30pm. Show at 8pm. $15 Beer and Wine Sold. Snacks! FMI: 503.338.4878 1017 MARINE DR. ASTORIA His guitar work is the most contemporary sound heard today on the nylon string guitar. Passion, a high melodic sensibility, and musical vision are the qualities attributed to the playing of Ciro Hurtado. Treat yourself to his solo compositions on reverbnation.com. A compelling blend of folk, Latin and jazz are transporting. Hurtado’s motifs, landscapes and elements of South American styles and rhythms, place him among a select generation of Latin American composers. From Lima, Peru, Ciro Hurtado arrived in the US in 1975, where he studied at the Guitar Institute of Technology, and has gone on to a myriad of professional musical associations in the Latin jazz music scene of Los Angeles. He currently is the director of the group Huayucaltia, co-producing 7 albums, and toured extensively in the United States and Perú with them, opening shows for artists such as Jackson Browne, Sting, Holly Near and Carlos Vives. He has produced 6 solo albums, the most recent “Guitarristta.” Band leader, film scorer, he has been awarded the prestigious 2001/2005 Durfee Master Musician Fellowship. If his name sounds familiar to you – Ciro has graced tracks on all recordings by local Gypsy Violinist Kim Angeles. Friday, Sept. 10th, at 7:30 p.m., at the Astoria Arts and Movement Center. Tickets will be $10, available at the door. five fish bones! Elizabeth Nicholson and Bob Soper Celtic Tunes at the Old Long Beach Train Depot Harpist/guitarist and singer ELIZABETH NICHOLSON is at the vanguard of a new generation of Celtic musicians. Considered among the top American interpreters of Irish traditional music for harp, her studies have also included classical, Paraguayan, and mediaeval harp, and she has stretched the traditional boundaries of the instrument into rock music and country blues. Her most recent CD of traditional and original music, Sink or Swim (Waterbug Records) was released to widespread critical praise and international airplay, including a spot on Fiona Richie’s Thistlepod. BOB SOPER is counted among Portland’s most versatile multi-Instrumentalists. A rock Kinobe Coast Community Radio presents Kinobe and the African Sensation. Kinobe (pronounced CHIN-o-bay) has been performing internationally since the age of ten, and together with his acoustic band, The African Sensation, they bring a dozen exotic instruments for the true sounds of Ugandan roots music. Returning to Astoria after a thronged appearance last year, Tom Hartland, Development Director for Coast Community Radio remembers, “If you’ve never experienced the roof coming off the PAC, this will be your chance.” Koras, kalimbas, adungas and drums are incorporated into a rhythmic, melodic enchantment unlike anything typically heard on KMUN and KTCB, the stations of Coast Community Radio. Uganda Roots and jazz drummer from a young age who also studiedclassical Indian music at the Ali Akbar College in California, he went on to learnthe Irish fiddle, ultimately becoming one the Northwest’s most sought afterplayers. He’s been a member of some of the region’s most beloved and successful ensembles, including the Irish bands Cul an Ti and Grafton Street, as well as The Pagan Jug Band. Take in these stalwarts of the Northwest Celtic Music scene at the Old Train Depot on the Long Beach Peninsula, Saturday, September 24, 7pm, $5. Tickets can be purchased or reserved by contacting Bill Svendsen at 360.901.0962 or emailing bill@mdcresearch.com. Saturday, October 1. Proceeds from ticket sales for Kinobe and The African Sensation at $17 for adults, $8 for children 15 and under, will benefit music programming on KMUN 91.9FM and KTCB 89.5FM, and are available at the station, and at Beach Books in Seaside, and Time Enough Books at the Port of Ilwaco. goings on: Sept 11 visual arts • theater music • literary outdoor • happenings culture • events in the columbia pacific Judy Collins at the Liberty S tatuesque in très chic, fuchsia suit and heels, long golden-grey whispy hair, those strikingly beautiful cat eyes, singersongwriter Judy Collins performs the Fairport Convention/Sandy Denny tune, “Who Knows Where the Time Goes?” With a contemporary music team behind her, Collin’s voice is indeed as her current promotional material reads, like toning crystal, each note articulated in beautifully measured tempo. A glitch in the throat here or there is hardly a concern as the sheer beauty of her song, her presence on stage and lifetime musical career pack the power of a devoted and prolific artist. Collins is soon to be at the Liberty Theater – go to the LT website, scroll down and click on the above described “trailer.” Remarkable. The Liberty stop is one of 100 or so concerts she is currently doing yearly. At 72 years of age, Judy Collins is still writing, performing, heads her own label Saturday, September 17th, 2011 Show Begins at 7:00 PM Sunday, September 18th, 2011 Show Begins at 4:00 PM Tickets: $30 - $60. Box Office is open Tuesday - Saturday from 2pm - 5:30pm and two hours before the show. Tickets may also be purchased through TicketsWest 503.224.8499 or 1.800.992.8499. that nurtures new talent, is a filmmaker, and social activist, and keynote speaker on mental health and suicide prevention. It was in 1961 at the age of 22, she released her first album, “Maid of Constant Sorrow” on Elektra Records. Busking and playing night clubs in NYC eventually lead to her deal, of which she would record traditional songs and songs by protest poets of the time, enacting the crystal voice as a voice of social activism. But before Collins was a folkie she was a child prodigy (who was born and raised in Seattle) making her debut on the piano at age 13. Perhaps it was her early devotion to classical music that led to the expansion of her folk repertoire into art song, culminating early in her career with the recording of Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns, ” in 1975 and her break away album that started it all in 1966, “In My Life.” Recording and performing theater, folk, Tin Pan Alley, rock, and art songs, Judy Collins while known as the iconic folkie with guitar in hand has really defied what would be the sensible thing to do in a music career, just sticking to one style. And it’s worked. She has a recording catalogue from every decade since the 60’s. PARADISE (2010) is her latest album that includes duets with Stephen Stills(an old paramour, lest we Rock Violinist Aaron Meyer forget Suite Judy Blue Eyes), Joan Baez, and her first recording of Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Why did it take her so long? She has written numerous books on many topics from creativity, to the music business, a novel, a book dealing with the tragic suicide death of her son (Sanity and Grace, 2006), and will be releasing ‘Suite: Judy Blue Eyes’ and subtitled ‘Sex, drugs, rock and roll and the music that changed a generation’! Tunes that we’re sure to count on from this grand lady of song, “Send in the Clowns and “Since You’ve Asked,” (her first penned song). In a recent interview when asked about her recording label Wildflower – she now records on her own label after decades with Elektra – Ms. Collins excitedly replied, “I feel like an indie artist on tour, except I don’t travel in a van, I fly first class.” A renaissance woman of powerful creative spirit and a sense of humor. Not to miss. - Dinah Urell Bridging world music, progressive rock and classical styles, Aaron Meyer is Portland’s free edge agent of the strings. Classically trained as a youth he debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of 11, his father his violin teacher. At one point in his life he shut the violin case to pursue a degree in Natural Sciences, but world travel brought him back to his musical path and passion. Meyers was the violinist with Pink Martini recording on the Sympathique album, recorded and wrote string parts for Platinum rockers Everclear, and played with numerous pros like Aaron Nevel and Smokey Robinson. Meyer is an established violinist/composer, recording artist, band leader and progressive kid music educator, releasing “Practice Classical Violin and Play like a rock star.” And you can witness Meyer play like a rock star coming soon to the coast. At the Coaster Theater, Sunday, September 25, 3pm, Call the Coaster for Ticket price. David Carlson’s Farewell Concert A Song Bird, and Old Bird and A Piano The man behind the keys who makes the Coaster Theater productions swing, and chorales sing, will be departing the North Coast for warmer pastures. Vocalist Susie Godsey joins David at the piano on stage for the American Songbook at The Liberty Theater. Sunday Sept. 11, 4pm, Tickets $25. FMI: liberty-theater. org ••• music • visual arts • literary • lecture ••• outdoor • theaterperformance • happenings • sept 11 • columbia pacific ••• Friday 2 MUSIC Terri Baber. 3:30 – 6:30pm at the Columbia-Pacific Farmers Market in Long Beach, WA Whistlin’ Rufus. Americana/Blues/Folk. No cover, 7pm at McMenamins Sand Trap in Gearhart. THEATER Chicken Creek Diaries. Musical. $12 & $9, 7pm at the Barn Community Playhouse in Tillamook. Shanghaied in Astoria. Musical Melodrama. $12 - $20, 7:30pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. California Suite. Comedy. $8 - $20, Rock ‘N’ Roll Cowboys. No cover, 9pm at 8pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in Cannon Beach. Roadhouse 101 in Lincoln City. Quick & Easy Boys. $5 cover, 9pm at the Opal’s Million Dollar Duck. Comedy. San Dune Pub in Manzanita. $12, 8pm at Theater West in Lincoln City. 541-994-5663 Will Keifer. 9pm – 1am at the Chinook Winds Seafood Grill Lounge in Lincoln City. FOOD & DRINK Wine Tasting. At Taste of Tuscany in Seaside. 503-738-5377 HAPPENING Book Sale. 9am – 5pm at the Seaside Library. Flea Market. Free admission, 11am – 6pm at the Seaside Civic & Convention Center. Vernonia’s First Friday. Arts, live music, culture, and special events. 5-8pm at Scout Cabin in Vernonia. Saturday 3 MUSIC Acustica. Samba/Bolero/Bossa Nova. Free, 1 – 4pm at the Seaside Saturday Market . Lloyd Jones. Blues/ R&B. 6:30pm in the courtyard at Sweet Basil’s Café in Cannon Beach. Will Keifer. 9pm – 1am at the Chinook Winds Seafood Grill Lounge in Lincoln City. Karaoke from Hell. $5 cover, 9pm at the San Dune Pub in Manzanita. Norman Sylvester. No cover, 9pm at Roadhouse 101 in Lincoln City. Book Sale. 9am – 5pm at the Seaside Library. Sunday 4 ART Flea Market. Free admission, 11am – 6pm at the Seaside Civic & Convention Center. MUSIC Reenactment of 18th Century Sailors & Rope Making. Noon – 4pm at the Garibaldi Museum. Linda Hornbuckle. Free, at the City Park in Cannon Beach. Chinook Art Festival. 9:30am – 6pm at Hwy 101 & Olympia St in Chinook, WA First Saturday Art Walk. 5 – 8pm at galleries and businesses in Seaside and Gearhart. CINEMA Jurassic Park. $2, 11am at the Bijou Theater in Lincoln City. FOOD & DRINK Pancake Breakfast. 8 – 11am at the Netarts Fire Hall. 5003-842-5900 Buzzard’s Breath Chili Cook-Off. $7, 10am – 4pm at Elochoman Marina in Cathlamet, WA Wine Tasting. End of Summer Surprise. 1 – 4pm at the Cellar on 10th in Astoria HAPPENING Farmstock. A regional homegrown festival. Tastings, Music, Exhibits, Workshops, Farmers Market and more. Camping, Cooking and Late-night dancing! All at Fred’s Farm in Naselle, WA. details: kmun.org/ farmstock. Live Music & BBQ. Free admission. At the Nehalem Bay Winery in Mohler. 888368-9463 THEATER Chicken Creek Diaries. Musical. $12 & $9, 7pm at the Barn Community Playhouse in Tillamook. Shanghaied in Astoria. Musical Melodrama. $12 - $20, 7:30pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. California Suite. Comedy. $8 - $20, 8pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in Cannon Beach. Opal’s Million Dollar Duck. Comedy. $12, 8pm at Theater West in Lincoln City. 541-994-5663 Bruce Smith & the Boda Boyz. No cover, 10am – 3pm at the Astoria Sunday Market. Live Music & BBQ. Free admission. At the Nehalem Bay Winery in Mohler. 888368-9463 Old Fashion Carnival. At Rockaway Beach City Park. 503-355-2291 THEATER Dallas & David Maltby. No cover. 8pm at Fort George Brewery & Public House in Astoria. Shanghaied in Astoria. Musical Melodrama. $12 - $20, 2pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. ART CINEMA The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Comedy. $8 - $23, 7pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in Cannon Beach. FOOD & DRINK Monday 5 Chinook Art Festival. 9:30am – 6pm at Hwy 101 & Olympia St in Chinook, WA Jurassic Park. $2, 11am at the Bijou Theater in Lincoln City Labor Day Fish Fry. At the Old Mill Marina in Garibaldi. 503-322-8408 HAPPENING Farmstock. A regional homegrown festival. At Fred’s Farm in Naselle, WA. details: kmun.org/farmstock. Book Sale. 1 – 5pm at the Seaside Library. ART Chinook Art Festival. 9:30am – 6pm at Hwy 101 & Olympia St in Chinook, WA HAPPENING Dog Swim. Free with one can or bag of pet food. 3:30 – 4:30pm at the Lincoln City Community Center Pool. 541-994-2131 17 sep11 hipfishmonthly.com theater & performance The Coaster does LUDLUM COASTER THEATER SUMMER REP photo: George Vetter Winston Laszlo and Patrick Lathrop in Irma Vep The Mystery of Irma Vep Manacrest Manor House, on the moors, some time in the 19th Century, 2 actors, numerous characters, an Egyptian crypt, a mummy case . . . quick changes . . . parody, vaudeville farce, melodrama . . . lightning fast sleight-of-hand . . . vampires and werewolves! This side splitting gothic spoof will have you rolling in the aisles. Ludlam has written a Wuthering Heights of hilarity! Irma Vep plays through Oct. 15. Selected dates Wednesdays – Sundays. Check the Summer Rep schedule at www.coastertheater.com. Putnam County, 2006... 6 student spellers with issues... a junior high school assistant principle with issues... a former champion speller with issues... a “comfort counselor” doing community service... 4 audience volunteers... great music, dance, and a lot of humor! It’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by Finn & Sheinkin. An unusual aspect of the show is that four real audience members are invited on stage to compete in the spelling bee. Be one. (pictured l to r: Amanda Payne, Julia Shepherd, Richard Bowman, Darren Hull Cameron Gates, Todd Payne). Sept 4, 9 and 17. TICKETS: $23 & $18 NeIl Simon’s California Suite. closes September 3 Tickets: $20 & $15 The Coaster Theater in the third show of the summer rep season presents The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam. Charles Ludlum was the founder of The Ridiculous Theatrical Company in New York. A brilliant playwright, visionary director and actor, he made cross-dressing an art form, his latenight, wild, and avant-garde theater, drawing on genres from classical dramas, old movies and popular culture as a whole, was a stirring center of Off-Off Broadway from the 60’s to the 80’s. Pushing social bounderies through satire, Ludlum has been referred to as the American Molière. Some of his 29 plays: ‘‘The Enchanted Pig,’’ a helium-high hybrid of ‘‘King Lear’’ and ‘‘Cinderella’‘; ‘‘Le Bourgeois Avant-Garde,’’ a Molieresque send-up of minimalism; ‘‘Galas,’’ with Mr. Ludlam as the title diva, portraying opera star Maria Calas, and the range ran from ‘‘Corn,’’ a hillbilly musical, to ‘Der Ring Gott Farblonjet,’’ a three-Ring Wagner circus. Irma Vep is his most popular play (and the only one to enter the standard repertory) in which two actors manage, through a variety of quick-change techniques, to play seven roles in a send-up of gothic horror novels. The original production featuring Ludlam and his lover Everett Quinton was a tour de force. In order to ensure cross-dressing, rights to perform the play include a stipulation that the actors must be of the same sex. In 1991, Irma Vep was the most produced play in the United States. Ludlam often appeared in his plays, and was particularly noted for his female roles. He wrote one of the first plays to deal with HIV infection; he was diagnosed with and died from AIDS in March 1987. The street in front of his theatre in Sheridan Square was renamed “Charles Ludlam Lane” in his honor. In 1986, this writer was treated to a Ridiculous Theatrical production in NYC, a year before Ludlum’s death, it was the Wagner sendup. I was not sure what I was in for, but my friend assured I was going to like it. To this day, it has been one of my most memorablle theatrical experiences. The comedy twists, the social commentary, the abandon of the performers, the scantilly costumed, comedia dell arte, on the fringe and at its best . . . It left me high and feeling like I had seen something wild, alive, yet beyond time. A quote from Ludlum, on Irma Vep, “Our slant was actually to take things very seriously, especially focusing on those things held in low esteem by society and revaluing them, giving them new meaning, new worth, by changing their context”. Theater as social change, in a wild and wacky wrapper. It does not get any better. I have yet to see The Coaster production, but look forward to this particular theatrical offering. September 7- 8 at The Coaster Theater sep11 hipfishmonthly.com 18 SHANGHAIED GOES TOPSY TURVEY! Sept 23-24 Yes, this is the most outrageous, original, entertaining event this side of Vernonia! SHANGHAIED like you’ve never seen it... Where women are men, who are women, who are men. And back by popular demand two favorites from the 2010 cast, Rusty House as “Mama” and Skye McKey as “Eric”. The rest of the 2001 cast includes: Master of ceremonies, Avery Hartzler, “Krooke and Sneake” Elsa Nethercot and Tiffany Simmons. “Sweet Virginia” Sky Gager, Jakko & Eino” Connie Cisneros and ChrisLynn Taylor. “Captian Jack” Julie House with “Vivian and Wong Uniontown Astoria. Show time is 7:30pm with the doors open at 7pm for our “Special” Olio acts (also in drag!) to start off this fine evening of cultural uplifting Long” performed by Bill Carr and Sandi Hilton. The Sturdy “Olsen Sisters” are Paul Costello, Jerry White Cruz, Cole Hilton and Zach Sandoval. “Miss Macie and Mark Castle” will be Jon Osborn and Carlie Lewis Allen. Justin Toby and Justin Germond will slip into their best corsets and become “Rosie and Lacie”. With Ingrid GolleherJohnson and Jessica Augustine as sailors “Pat and Mike”. TWO NIGHTS ONLY on September 23rd & 24th at our the ASOC Playhouse 129 West Bond Street entertainment. Purchased the best seats in the house by calling the Shanghaied “Ticket Hotline” @ 325-6104 or at the door beginning one hour before show time. Tickets for this unique “fun-raising” are only $15.00 to 8.00. All proceeds go towards helping ASOC Production Committee to fund new productions and activities! Need more info? CALL 325-6104 or check out our website at www.astorstreetoprycompany.com for the latest updates! - Dinah Urell A. Actress: an original comedy by Victoria Parker-Pohl Acclaimed actress Victoria ParkerPohl returns to the stage with a gripping and comical original work. An inside look at the interior experience of an actress on long term hiatus from the stage, A. Actress is a series of comic pieces that travel from Parker-Pohl’s take on the theater gaffes and nightmares of the past to Ireland, where she goes, seeking the landscapes that fed the genius of Samuel Beckett. An award-winning writer, director and theater instructor, Victoria ParkerPohl is a forty-year veteran, early honing It’s a drag … and that’s a good thing. her craft at the Portland Civic Theater, Portland Shakespeare Company and the PSU Players Summer Stock at the Coaster Theatre, where she most recently directed this summer’s production of The Mystery of Irma Vep. A. Actress is a unique glimpse into the life and mind of the actress herself. Reflecting through humor and daring self awareness, this original comedy is a remarkable trip. Sept 7-8, 7:30pm. Tickets are $20 & $15 at www.coastertheatre.com or at the box office: 503-436-1242. music. ••• music • visual arts • literarylecture • outdoor • theater••• Tuesday 6 MUSIC Tim Fast. 1 – 5pm at the Cannon Beach Farmers Market. THEATER Shanghaied in Astoria. Musical Melodrama. $12 - $20, 7:30pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. HAPPENING The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Comedy. $8 - $23, 8pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in Cannon Beach. THEATER Saturday 10 Book Sale. 9am – 8pm at the Seaside Library. Auditions. The NCRD Riverbend Players will hold auditions for “Beyond McGee and McGrew and Evening with Robert W. Service” from 1 – 2pm and 6 – 7pm at NCRD in Nehalem. Wednesday 7 HAPPENING Book Sale. 9am – 8pm at the Seaside Library. Baga’s Front Room. Join other music lovers every first Wednesday for song and conversation and maybe to sip a little wine or other beverage. Food available too. 7pm at Lush Wine Bar in Cannon Beach. LITERARY Authors Appearance. Gloria Linkey, author, and Sally Steidel, illustrator, will talk about their book, “Native American Women – Three Who Changed History.” 12:30pm at the Cannon Beach Library Club potluck lunch at Community Presbyterian Church in Cannon Beach. Thursday 8 HAPPENING Book Sale. 9am – 8pm at the Seaside Library. OUTSIDE MUSIC Richard Arnold & The Groove Swingers. Jazz/Standards/Swing/Blues/Motown/R&B. 6:30pm in the courtyard at Sweet Basil’s Café in Cannon Beach. One Way Out. No cover, 9pm at Roadhouse 101 in Lincoln City. CINEMA Manzanita Film Series. D. O. A. $7 suggested donation includes movie, popcorn and a short discussion after. 7:30pm at the Hoffman Center in Manzanita. HAPPENING Slow Drag at the Port. A hot rod coasting competition. 5pm at the Port of Ilwaco, WA Book Sale. 9am – 5pm at the Seaside Library. Comedy on the Coast. Featuring John Caponera, Carrie Snow, and Lang Parker. $15, 8pm at Chinook Winds in Lincoln City. OUTSIDE Lower Columbia Kayak Roundup. An instructional retreat for kayakers of all levels. locoroundup.com/general.html for registration and more information. At Slow Boat Farm on Puget Island, Cathlamet, WA Kayaking, Ecology & History: Siletz Estuary. $135, 9am – 3pm. 541-994-5485 Lower Columbia Pug Socializing Club. Pugs and their people meet monthly for fun and socialization. 11am at Carruthers Park in Warrenton. THEATER Shanghaied in Astoria. Musical Melodrama. $12 - $20, 7:30pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Sunday 11 Ramble On. A Led Zeppelin tribute band. $5 cover, 9pm at the San Dune Pub in Manzanita. ART Astoria’s Second Saturday Art Walk. 5 – 9pm downtown Astoria. FOOD & DRINK Pancake Breakfast. $5 for adults, $3 for children. 8am – 11am at the Peninsula Senior Activity Center in Klipsan Beach, WA A Cornucopia of Wines. Wine Tasting & Silent Auction. $20/person or $30/ couple. 6:30pm. At the Skamokawa Grange Hall in Skamokawa, WA 360-795-8031 Wine Tasting. New Fall Releases. 1 – 4pm at the Cellar on 10th in Astoria HAPPENING Rod Run to the End of the World. At Wilson field in Ocean Park, WA. beachbarons. com/index.html Book Sale. 9am – 5pm at the Seaside Library. Ocean Fire. 3:30 – 6:30pm at the Columbia-Pacific Farmers Market in Long Beach, WA Lower Columbia Kayak Roundup. An instructional retreat for kayakers of all levels. locoroundup.com/general.html for registration and more information. At Slow Boat Farm on Puget Island, Cathlamet, WA Beth Wills Rock Band. No cover, 9pm at Roadhouse 101 in Lincoln City. THEATER MUSIC Fishing Day for Children with Disabilities. 9am – 3pm at the Whiskey Creek Fish Hatchery, Tillamook. 503-842-6519 The Mystery of Irma Vep. Comedy, a Gothic spoof. $8 - $20, 8pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in Cannon Beach. Kayaking, Ecology & History: Nestucca River Estuary. $135, 8am – 2pm. 541994-5485 Friday 9 Wednesday 14 Ciro Hurtado. Latin guitar. $10, 7:30pm at the Astoria Arts & Movement Center. Seaside Wheels ‘N’ Waves. A hot rod car show. Some events at the Seaside Civic & Convention Center. Schedule at seasidedowntown.com Shanghaied in Astoria. Musical Melodrama. $12 - $20, 7:30pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. levels. locoroundup.com/general.html for registration and more information. At Slow Boat Farm on Puget Island, Cathlamet, WA Spaghetti Feed & Auction Fundraiser. To benefit Michele Tila of Astoria. All-youcan-eat spaghetti, no host bar, raffle, and auctions. $10 for adults, $3 for children 12 and under. 4 – 8pm at the Seaside American Legion. Cottage Tour. With wine reception plus lunch & lecture. $20 for lunch & lecture (must purchase tickets at least 7 days prior). $20 for tour. Luncheon & lecture at Tolovana Inn non – 1pm. Tour from 10am – 4pm. Wine reception at the Cannon Beach History Center. 503-436-9301 Craft & Flea Market. At the Senior Center in Tillamook. 503-842-8988 LITERARY Book Reading. Local author Mindy Stokes will read from her book “Mama Baby Mama: Story of a Knocked Up Lesbian”. 1pm at Godfather’s Books in Astoria. Northwest Authors Second Saturday Series. Author Brian Doyle will read from his latest book “Mink River.” Free, 2pm at the Cannon Beach Library. Author Appearance. Award-winning author Kris Rusch will talk about her work. She has written books in several genres under the names Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Kris Nelscott, Kristine Grayson, and Kristine Dexter. Free, 3pm at the Driftwood Public Library in Lincoln City. OUTSIDE Lower Columbia Kayak Roundup. An instructional retreat for kayakers of all MUSIC Will West. No cover, 10am – 3pm at the Astoria Sunday Market. Will West and the Friendly Strangers. Acoustic/Healing & EasyListening/Roots Music. No cover. 8pm at Fort George Brewery & Public House in Astoria. ART Open House. Larkin Van Horn Fiber Artist. At the Latimer Quilt & Textile Center in Tillamook. HAPPENING Rod Run to the End of the World. At Wilson field in Ocean Park, WA. beachbarons. com/index.html Seaside Wheels ‘N’ Waves. A hot rod car show. Some events at the Seaside Civic & Convention Center. Schedule at seasidedowntown.com OUTSIDE Thursday 15 FOOD & DRINK Fundraising Dinner. $7 for adults and $5 for children includes. 5 - 6:30pm at the Peninsula Senior Activity Center in Klipsan Beach, WA HAPPENING LGBT Q-Mixer. QJazz features vocal hosts Dinah Urell and Walt Trumbull and pianist Chuck Wilder. Live standards, complimentary appetizers, and social mixer from 8pm to close. Bring a Standard and sing with pianist Chuck Wilder. Every 3rd Thursday of the month at the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. LECTURE Jane Kirkpatrick. The Story of Marie Dorion. $15, 7pm at the Liberty Theater in Astoria. LITERARY Book Reading. Author Larry Colton will read from his book “No Ordinary Joes.” Free, 7pm at the Seaside Library. OUTSIDE Lower Columbia Kayak Roundup. An instructional retreat for kayakers of all levels. locoroundup.com/general.html for registration and more information. At Slow Boat Farm on Puget Island, Cathlamet, WA Night of All Knowledge Team Trivia Tournament. Free, 6pm at the Seaside Library. Friday 16 OUTSIDE TwoRivers Music. 3:30 – 6:30pm at the Columbia-Pacific Farmers Market in Long Beach, WA Lower Columbia Kayak Roundup. An instructional retreat for kayakers of all levels. locoroundup.com/general.html for registration and more information. At Slow Boat Farm on Puget Island, Cathlamet, WA Annual Sprint Triathlon. Triathlon begins with a .75k swim in Devils Lake, a 15.5 mile bike ride around Devils Lake and 5K run on city streets. 8:30am at Regatta Park in Lincoln City. For registration and info 541-994-2131 Monday 12 MUSIC Awards Tour 2011 Concert. Featuring two award-winning young musicians chosen in competition by the Ladies Musical Club of Seattle. Free, 7:30pm at the Peninsula Baptist Church in Ocean Park, WA OUTSIDE Lower Columbia Kayak Roundup. An instructional retreat for kayakers of all levels. locoroundup.com/general.html for registration and more information. At Slow Boat Farm on Puget Island, Cathlamet, WA Tuesday 13 MUSIC Fierce Bad Rabbit. Indie/Pop/ Rock. No cover, 7pm at McMenamins Sand Trap in Gearhart. Molly’s Revenge. Celtic. $12 - $15, 7:30pm at the White Clover Grange on Hwy 53, east of Nehalem. The B-52s. $25 - $45. 8pm at Chinook Winds Casino in Lincoln City. Sinners Club. Blues/Classic Rock/R&B. 9m at Chinook Winds Seafood Grill in Lincoln City. CINEMA Manzanita Film Series. D. O. A. $7 suggested donation includes movie, popcorn and a short discussion after. 7:30pm at the Hoffman Center in Manzanita. HAPPENING Last Chance Luau at the Dog Queen Erika, belly dance diva of Astoria, invites Visual Vortex Hoop Troupe to the River City. Founder of the troupe Stafani Sellars says, I am a teacher, and eternal student in the art of hoop dance. I aspire, to inspire through fire, movement, and self expression. We incorporate yoga, contact dance, Western Noir at the Big “O” Folks! Lloyd Mitchell Canyon exists somewhere in the realm of unlit midnight streets in rural towns of the West, down forgotten roads, in the corner of dusty dive bars, in the low countenance of drunken men and drunker women. LMC performs original songs about all of these experiences and more, taking the listener into the deep heart of America … so goes the description, which is why they should be playing at the joint that puts the “rrrrrr!” in rural Oregon taverns, Olney’s Big “O.” Head east on 202, 5 miles past the Fairgrounds. Friday, September 9, 8pm, No Cover. Fierce Bad Rabbit Potential Famousness hook and a heart with its powerful, emotional, and infectious performances. An appearance at the 2010 South by Southwest festival and their immediate regional success has gained the band broad attention. 2 Performances. Friday Sept 16 at the Sandtrap in Gearhart, 7pm, No Cover. Sunday, Sept 18, at Fort George Brewery in Astoria, 8pm, No Cover LITERARY MUSIC John Fraser. 1 – 5pm at the Cannon Beach Farmers Market. OUTSIDE OUTSIDE Lower Columbia Kayak Roundup. An instructional retreat for kayakers of all levels. locoroundup.com/general.html for registration and more information. At Slow Boat Farm on Puget Island, Cathlamet, WA and flow into our performances, and are always on a quest for new challenges, and ways to connect community through the power of play. Play at the Wet Dog, Saturday Sept 10, at 10pm. A Luau mode in progress, drink specials, grass skirts and coconuts, down by the river. Lloyd Mitchell Canyon Iris Pride Festival. Lincoln City’s Annual Gay Pride Event with super hero-themed events throughout Lincoln City. A weekend of fun events. oregoncoast.org/iris-pridefestival/ Book Reading. Author Mindy Stokes will read from her memoir, “Momma Baby Mama: Story of a Knocked-Up Lesbian”. Cocktails will be served. 5pm at Lunar Boy Gallery in Astoria. Lower Columbia Kayak Roundup. An instructional retreat for kayakers of all levels. locoroundup.com/general.html for registration and more information. At Slow Boat Farm on Puget Island, Cathlamet, WA Visual Vortex Fire Dancers This Northern Colorado fourpiece gives indie pop music a 19 sep11 hipfishmonthly.com art happens. v Jewelry Extravaganza At Lunar Boy/Cargo Local Designer Tracy Bighill’s signature F-Bomb Since Art Gallery Diva Deborah Starr left main street, repositioning Lunar Boy (the gallery known for illustrated arts and beyond cool kitsch)around the corner, and butt up against the equally fantastique import retail joint CARGO, and across from Astoria Coffee House, its been grand central! Geesh, whose running this town anyway? Did you go to the joint opening of the two businesses this summer? The food was bitchin! Sushi and Thai and seaweed, and that vodka-spiked punch. Didn’t want to leave but had to get to the Astoria Music Festival. Astoria’s September Second Saturday Art Walk coming up, the two now team-up for a jewelry extravaganza. CARGO co-fonder Patty Merrill met jewelry designer, John Anderson, the initial seeds were planted of what grew to be the Cargo retail power in Portland’s hopping Pearl District. Anderson, a long time resident of Bali, had been designing enchanting jewelry and embracing a fair trade approach to business long before it was trendy. Merrill recognized exceptional design, quality and personality when she encountered Anderson, and soon Lulu Quinn at Clemente’s Restaurant in Astoria Clemente’s Restaurant in downtown Astoria is now featuring the work of Artist Lulu Quinn. Former Astorian, Quinn left the roost to study Art History at UofO and now resides in Newport. Art lovers will know and be familiar with her work that she began showing while a student at Astoria High. Lulu’s art on first sight might conjure Theodore Geisel, but upon examination, themes of colorfilled, twisting cityscapes, psychedelic flowers, female figures, done in acrylics are more the artist’s imaginative sense of place than someone else’s style. “It really is about the journey of the piece and not the outcome. sep11 hipfishmonthly.com 20 The best things come naturally so I try not to force anything . . . I hope the passion and joy in these pieces can be felt by others, and at least make people smile, and perhaps even view life from a different perspective.” Lulu moved to Astoria with her mother, KMUN radio personality Donna Quinn some years ago – her delightful compositions juxtaposed with selections of works by coastal painter Darren Orange, says restaurateur Lisa Clemente,will make customers happy. was importing his fabulous brass and stone creations. With his brand, Street Dogs, he takes style for a walk on the wild side, with a magical feel inspired by ancient world cultures. Following in the big city mother ship’s example, Cargo in Astoria offers a plethora of handmade, one-of-a-kind and unique accessories. For this fabulous event, Cargo in Astoria will be busting at the seams with jewelry by designers and makers such as: the colorful and amazingly intricate works of Israeli designer, Alaya Bar, the retro resin of Hot Cakes, and ample stock from Jan Michaels, Luscious, Cargo Tribal, Plume, Joile, Malanium, and the illuminating Cargo staple, Beijo Brazil. Lunar Boy presents JacQueline Sanchez’s finely crafted and simply stunning Lego Jewelry. A long time favorite with Lunar Boy patrons, JacQ will be featuring her Lego Dot styles, set in silver and white gold, some pieces will even be sporting diamonds. In addition, Lunar Boy will be debuting a new series of handcrafted silver pieces by local designer Tracy Bighill and a stunning Fall Series by Astoria girl-about-town, Betsy Lennon. Lunar Boy and CARGO are located at 240 11th St. in Astoria. Friday night Sept 9, attend a Jewelry Show preview Cocktail Hour 6-8pm. Brin Levinson At RiverSea Gallery RiverSea Gallery presents the paintings of Portland artist, Brin Levinson during the month of September in an exhibition titled, Lost Places, the artist’s first solo show on the coast. Levinson has developed an enthusiastic following for his depictions of an altered reality featuring a built-up world where humans are mysteriously absent. He continues to narrate that vision in this new group of acrylic and oil paintings. Lost Places will be on exhibit September 3rd – September 27th. In addition, RiverSea Gallery will be part of the Second Saturday Artwalk, on September 10, 5 – 8 pm, and will hold a second artist’s reception for Brin Levinson during that time Have you ever found yourself walking in a city late at night, perhaps along a dimly lit street in the fog? Did it provoke an eerie sense that you might be the only one inhabiting that place at the time, perhaps as a voyeur walking into an unknown world? Brin Levinson is a master at creating this scene, taking his viewer on a backstreet walk through purposefully crafted urban and industrial landscapes. In a made-up world where animals freely walk down avenues and humans are nonexistent, Levinson explores a place that’s unidentifiable yet remotely familiar at the same time. Levinson states, “I combine fragments of realism and imagination in my compositions to create a world balanced on the edge of familiar and foreign. I am largely inspired by industrial areas and old architecture. I find the juxtaposition of urban landscapes and nature much more interesting than either one element on its own. I attempt to create an open-endedness to the stories in my paintings. There is a luring mystery in a moment recorded by only one picture. An unfinished dream is something you can become obsessed with.” RiverSea Gallery, at 1160 Commercial Street in Astoria. GUARDIANS A Group Show at NCRD A group exhibition of new art based on the theme of ”Guardians” will open on September 3rd from 4 - 6 at the NCRD gallery in Nehalem. The show will be up until October 2nd, and will be available for viewing during regular NCRD business hours (9am – 4pm), and on weekends by appointment (503 368 3366). The participating artists are: Susan C. Walsh, Claudia Johnson, Liza Jones, Paul Miller, Carol Ferris, Kathleen Ryan, Skye Archer, Jody Swanson, and Angelle Soans. The show features two and three dimensional work including painting, printmaking, collage, sculpture, and book arts. Walsh created the theme of the show, “Guardians”, and invited the 9 artists to explore that concept in their work. She also asked each artist to write a short statement describing their process and/ or response to working on this theme. The statements will be posted at the show. Susan Walsh Chine Colle Etching Skate Pods Walsh has produced several printmaking, she works out of her group exhibitions at NCRD over the studio, Hayes Drive Studios, in past decade including FloodArt, Nehalem. scwalsh@nehalemtel. TowerArt, And Crude Oil/Sacred Waters. Currently focusing on net 503.368 3366. ••• music • visual arts • literarylecture • outdoor • theater••• THEATER Cannon Beach Arts Association Goes Silver! Celebrate 25 at the CB Gallery this September On September 16, 1986 artists, art patrons and business community members came together to officially found the Cannon Beach Arts Association. It was decided that the CBAA would focus on becoming a vehicle for promoting the arts and individual artists, in the Cannon Beach community through education, events and exhibits. Now, twenty-five years later, the Cannon Beach Arts Association is celebrating its Silver Anniversary with an open house at the Cannon Beach Gallery in mid-town on Friday, September 16 from 5-9p.m. with refreshments and live flamenco guitar music by Brian Johnstone, and gourmet desserts donated by area chefs. The event honors the myriad individuals who have played a role in the organization over the years, whether as an exhibiting artist, a volunteer at the desk, a patron of the arts or a member of the board of directors. Like so many of the non-profit organizations in town, the CBAA would not exist today if it was not for the countless volunteers that have kept its programs running over the decades, writes Executive Director Andrea Mace. So, if you have ever been involved in the CBAA or would like just like a unique chance to celebrate the vibrant arts community on the northern Oregon Coast, join the celebration. A silent auction will be held featuring antique silver, as well as jewelry and other silver themed items donated by local artists and shop keepers. Wear Silver! Bring Silver! Win Silver! The Cannon Beach Gallery is celebrating the CBAA’s Silver Anniversary in its exhibits this fall as well. The 25 Year Invitational Show featuring twenty artists runs through September 6, 2011. Then, Scenes from Cannon Beach with Drenda Duff (who was recently picked up by a New York Gallery) and Hanne Greaver will be run from September 9-September 27, with an Artist Reception on Saturday, September 10 from 6-8PM. ADHDA Announces the Winner! The Astoria Downtown Historic District Association (ADHDA) is pleased to announce the winner of its recent logo contest. Jeff Miller, who holds an Associate of Applied Arts and Sciences in Commercial Graphic Design from the Art Institute of Seattle, designed the winning logo using highly stylized representations of some of Astoria’s most popular attractions including the trolley, riverfront, Astor Hotel, Liberty Theater and Flavel House Museum. Miller has worked and lived in the area for several years and was recently hired as Graphic Artist with Clatsop Community College’s Copy Center. ADHDA put out a call for entries in early March and was pleased by the number of entries they received, as well as the diversity of styles and themes. Miller’s design was chosen because it successfully united many key elements of Astoria into one unique and easily recognizable logo. “We spent considerable time discussing elements that would be important for our new logo to include,” shared LJ Gunderson, chair of the ADHDA logo development subcommittee. “Jeff’s design elicited an overwhelming response from the committee and the board. We think it captures the character of downtown Astoria, which is not an easy thing to do when you consider all of the district’s features.” Miller was awarded a $250 prize for his design. The community can look forward to seeing the new logo included on future ADHDA related communications and promotions. FMI: Downtown Coordinator Blaire Buergler at 503.791.7940 or blaire@astoriadowntown.com. registration and more information. At Slow Boat Farm on Puget Island, Cathlamet, WA Tuesday 20 MUSIC Saturday 17 Great Oregon Fall Beach and Riverside Clean-Up. 10am – 1pm on rivers throughout Oregon and beaches the entire length of the Oregon Coast. solv.org MUSIC THEATER The Mystery of Irma Vep. Comedy, a Gothic spoof. $8 - $20, 8pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in Cannon Beach. Halfway to St Patrick’s Day. With Crown Point, Colleen Raney & Colm MacCarthaigh. Celtic Music. No cover, starts at 11am at McMenamins Sand Trap in Gearhart. Judy Collins. $30 - $60. 7pm at the Liberty Theater in Astoria. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Comedy. $8 - $23, 8pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in Cannon Beach. Sunday 18 Dance Concert. Flamenco: dancing, singing and guitar. $12-$15, 7pm at the Pine Grove Community House in Manzanita. MUSIC The B-52s. $25 - $45. 8pm at Chinook Winds Casino in Lincoln City. Judy Collins. $30 - $60. 4pm at the Liberty Theater in Astoria. Phamous Phaces. No cover, 9pm at Roadhouse 101 in Lincoln City. Ericka Corban. Acoustic/Rock. $10, 2pm at The Raymond Theater in Raymond, WA. Sinners Club. Blues/Classic Rock/R&B. 9m at Chinook Winds Seafood Grill in Lincoln City. Fierce Bad Rabbit. Indie/Pop/Rock. No cover. 8pm at Fort George Brewery & Public House in Astoria. ART Lloyd Mitchell Canyon. Americana/ Country/Rock. No cover, 8pm at the Big O Saloon in Olney FOOD & DRINK Steve Sloan. 8:30pm at Snug Harbor Bar & Grill. Art Walk. 5 – 8pm at the Port of Ilwaco (WA). Wine Tasting. Wines from Italy. 1 – 4pm at the Cellar on 10th in Astoria HAPPENING Commercial Fishermen’s Festival. All day events including vendors, demonstrations, food, music, and more. At the Port of Astoria at Tongue Point. commercialfishermensfestival.com/ Astoria Air Show. Demonstrations and flights. Free admission, 9am – 4pm at the Astoria Airport. 503-861-6332 Friends & Family Night. A benefit for SOLV. No cover, 5pm at McMenamins Sand Trap in Gearhart. YMCA Dinner & Auction. 5:30 – 10pm at the Tillamook County Fairgrounds. 503842-9622 Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad Dinner Train. 6:15pm in Garibaldi. 503-8427972 Iris Pride Festival. Lincoln City’s Annual Gay Pride Event with super hero-themed events throughout Lincoln City. A weekend of fun events. oregoncoast.org/iris-pridefestival/ Surf City Classic Car Show. Show includes beer and wine garden, live music, food, and fun. At Chinook Winds Casino Resort in Lincoln City. 1-800-CHINOOK Fall Plant Sale. 10am – 3pm at the Connie Hansen Garden in Lincoln City. LITERARY Manzanita Writer’s Series. Mirian Gershow will read from her debut novel “The Local News.” Open Mic follows the reading. $5, 7pm at the Hoffman Center in Manzanita. Poetry Reading. With Oregon’s Poet laureate Paulann Petersen and others. Free & open to the public. 7pm at the Pioneer Museum in Tillamook. Writers on the Edge. Author Lauren Kessler will read from her newest book, “My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, A Daughter, A Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence.” Q&A and Open Mic session follow the reading. $6 (free to students), 7pm at the Newport Visual Arts Center. OUTSIDE Lower Columbia Kayak Roundup. An instructional retreat for kayakers of all levels. locoroundup.com/general.html for Trevelyan Triangle. No cover, 10am – 3pm at the Astoria Sunday Market. FOOD & DRINK Pancake Breakfast. All-you-can-eat for $5, 8am – noon at the Bay City Arts Center. Cannon Beach American Legion Breakfast. $7 adults, $3 children under 6. 9 – 11:30am at the American Legion Hall in Cannon Beach. HAPPENING ENCORE Happy Hour. All retired or semiretired adults are welcome, but must be 50 years old or older, and enjoy intellectual stimulation and an opportunity to meet new friends. The Humphreys’ puppets will introduce “20 Questions,” with a Shakespearean theme, at 5 PM. A copy of Rex Ziak’s great book, “In Full View” will be the winner’s prize. If you have any questions, please contact Maureen Humphreys at 360 642-1301. 4 – 6pm at the Lightship restaurant in Long Beach. Commercial Fishermen’s Festival. All day events including vendors, demonstrations, food, music, and more. At the Port of Astoria at Tongue Point. commercialfishermensfestival.com/ LECTURE Jeff Golden. Presenting “What Never Was and Never Will Be: Can Our Media Serve Our Democracy.” Free, 3pm at the Driftwood Public Library in Lincoln City. OUTSIDE Lower Columbia Kayak Roundup. An instructional retreat for kayakers of all levels. locoroundup.com/general.html for registration and more information. At Slow Boat Farm on Puget Island, Cathlamet, WA Surf City Classic Car Show. Show includes beer and wine garden, live music, food, and fun. At Chinook Winds Casino Resort in Lincoln City. 1-888-CHINOOK Monday 19 Robert Richter. 1 – 5pm at the Cannon Beach Farmers Market. Wednesday 21 HAPPENING Seaside Rotary Auction & Dinner. At the Seaside Civic & Convention Center. FMI seasiderotary.com Cape Kiwanda Longboard Classic Surf Contest. Pig Roast & Bonfire 6 – 10pm on the beach at Pacific City. capekiwandalongboardclassic.com MUSIC Celebration of Honor. A community-wide celebration to honor veterans of the armed forces, active duty personnel and their families. In Lincoln City. FMI 888-CHINOOK Open Mic Night. Hosted by Ann Tierney. All levels welcome. 5 – 7pm at Wheelhouse Coffee Company in Astoria. THEATER Open Mic Night. All acts welcome. 5 – 7pm at the Three Cups Coffeehouse in Astoria. HAPPENING Topsy Turvey Shanghaied. A crossdressed musical melodrama. $12 - $20, 7:30pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Open Mic. All Acts are welcome. No cover, 5 – 7pm at the Three Cups Coffeehouse in Astoria. The Mystery of Irma Vep. Comedy, a Gothic spoof. $8 - $20, 8pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in Cannon Beach. Public Meeting. Topic: The State of Civil Liberties 10 Years After 9/11, How to Be safe & Free. 6pm at Blue Scorcher in Astoria. MUSIC LITERARY Cannon Beach Reads. A monthly book discussion group. Visitors welcome. This month’s book is “Finding Nouf” by Zoe Ferraria. Free, 7pm at the Cannon Beach Library. Thursday 22 OUTSIDE Sand Trap Golf Tourney. $180 per team, $240 per team with carts. 1pm check-in, 2pm start at McMenamins Sand Trap in Gearhart. Friday 23 MUSIC Greg Parke. 3:30 – 6:30pm at the Columbia-Pacific Farmers Market in Long Beach, WA Country Music Jam. Free, 7 – 9pm at the Wickiup Senior Center in Svensen. The DEFiBULATORs. Americana/Country/ Happy Hardcore. No cover, 7pm at McMenamins Sand Trap in Gearhart. Cosi fan tutte. Opera. Performed by Cascade Concert Opera. $20 - $25, 7:30pm at the Lincoln City Cultural Center. FMI and to buy tickets, call 541-992-2309. Michael Tracey & The Hi Tones. No cover, 9pm at Roadhouse 101 in Lincoln City. CINEMA Manzanita Film Series. D. O. A. $7 suggested donation includes movie, popcorn and a short discussion after. 7:30pm at the Hoffman Center in Manzanita. Saturday 24 Troll Radio Revue. Americana. $2 for adults, free for children. 11am – noon at the PAC in Astoria. Elizabeth Nicholson & Bob Soper. Celtic. $5, 7pm at the Old Train Depot in Long Beach, WA Chris Margolin. Americana/Pop/Rock. Free, 7:30pm at the Cannon Beach History Center. Sonny Hess. No cover, 9pm at Roadhouse 101 in Lincoln City. FOOD & DRINK Wine Tasting. Wines from Germany/ Austria. 1 – 4pm at the Cellar on 10th in Astoria HAPPENING Alpaca Farm Days. The public is invited to come meet alpacas and learn more about these inquisitive, unique animals. There will be demonstrations and the farm store will be open selling own alpaca yarn and finished alpaca goods. 10am – 4pm at Alpacas at Tucker Creek near Astoria. Spirit of the River. Silent art auction 6:30pm at the Masonic Lodge in Astoria. Program with speakers and live music features Natural History author Robert Michael Pyle. 8pm at the PAC in Astoria. $20. Harvest Festival. A sale of crafts and used items. 9am – 4pm at the Cannon Beach Library. Cape Kiwanda Longboard Classic Surf Contest. Surfing competition, beer garden, live music, demos, etc. In Pacific City. capekiwandalongboardclassic.com Celebration of Honor. A community-wide celebration to honor veterans of the armed forces, active duty personnel and their families. In Lincoln City. FMI 888-CHINOOK Redheads to War Dogs, World War II on the Oregon Coast. A free presenta- Will West and the Friendly Strangers Sunday, September 11th 8pm No Cover Fort George Brewery FOOD & DRINK Ice Cream Social. The public is invited for cake & ice cream + birthday celebration. $1 suggested donation, free if it’s your birthday month. 2pm at the Peninsula Senior Activity Center in Klipsan Beach, WA 21 sep11 hipfishmonthly.com ••• music • visual arts • literarylecture • outdoor • theater••• tion at the North Lincoln County Historical Museum in Lincoln City. THEATER Topsy Turvey Shanghaied. A crossdressing musical melodrama. $12 - $20, 7:30pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. The Mystery of Irma Vep. Comedy, a Gothic spoof. $8 - $20, 8pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in Cannon Beach. The Future by Sonja Grace & 2011 Predictions In a time when our energy is speeding faster than ever we are also contending with all of our systems playing catch up to a vibrational match with the Universe that has everyone feeling as if they are playing in Wimbledon! Take a deep breath and consider some of the main factors. The soul remembers your pathway through lifetimes and has the connection to the Universe that is your 911 on speed dial. The soul has recorded all of your experiences throughout lifetimes as well as the karma you are here to process and release. This karma has everything to do with unresolved issues from your past including this life. The heart is where the Universe and the Earth meet within you. It is also the spokesperson for your soul. The heart carries us through our lives with the opportunity to experience loving at the deepest level of your being. We often ignore our heart telling us the truth and opt for a call from the unresolved emotional woundings department. The ego can be the part of us that feels good about who we are and what we are doing in life. The tricky part is developing a healthy ego. A lack of selfesteem often keeps the ego from developing in ways that we are able to be centered with who we are. Fear and emotional woundings can lead to a false ego. This is like a trap door that leads to disconnecting from the heart and soul of your life experience. Applying this to what is happening in the world right now sep11 hipfishmonthly.com Sunday 25 MUSIC amidst the time and space shift we are all experiencing is to take your soul’s connection to the Universe and the Earth and the voice of your heart and apply these to all situations in life. The voice of the false ego is easily detected as it feels off and the energy doesn’t match the higher frequencies that are coming through at this time. Our destiny is to move into the fifth dimension. As we leave the fourth world, we also leave behind old behavior. Does this mean your neighbor will stop irritating you and your spouse will finally see your side of things? No, it means you have the opportunity to take responsibility to build a healthy self-esteem in a time where we absolutely need one to move forward into the fifth dimension. People will not be able to assimilate the higher frequencies without a strong sense of inner peace. Meditation, yoga, exercise, music and connecting with the Earth all help to bring you back to center. Author of Angels in the 21st Century, Sonja Grace is a mystic healer and spiritual intuitive who provides guidance to people all over the world. She works with her clients over the phone providing immediate stability, clarity and guidance through her readings, counseling and processing work. Sonja Grace sees and receives messages from loved ones who have crossed over and offers a venue for healing in this world and the spirit world. www. sonjagrace.com 22 Salty Dogs. No cover, 10am – 3pm at the Astoria Sunday Market. Lulu LaFever. Jazz. No cover. 8pm at Fort George Brewery & Public House in Astoria. Wild Hog in the Woods. $15, 2pm at the Lincoln City Cultural Center. FMI 541994-9994 HAPPENING Alpaca Farm Days. The public is invited to come meet alpacas and learn more about these inquisitive, unique animals. There will be demonstrations and the farm store will be open selling own alpaca yarn and finished alpaca goods. 10am – 4pm at Alpacas at Tucker Creek near Astoria. Cape Kiwanda Longboard Classic Surf Contest. Surfing competition,beach cleanup and more. In Pacific City. capekiwandalongboardclassic.com PNPW Pro Wrestling. $10, 5 – 8pm at the Astoria Event Center. Celebration of Honor. A community-wide celebration to honor veterans of the armed forces, active duty personnel and their families. In Lincoln City. FMI 888-CHINOOK Tuesday 27 MUSIC Vivid Curve. 1 – 5pm at the Cannon Beach Farmers Market. Wednesday 28 LITERARY Local Author Showcase. Writers and friends are invited to come share and listen to original works being read by local authors. Free, 6 – 8pm at Olde Towne Trading Post in Ilwaco, WA Thursday 29 CINEMA Shipping Out: The Story of America’s Seafaring Women. This documentary will be presented by filmmaker Maria Brooks. Free, 7pm at the Seaside Library. Friday 30 MUSIC Ilwaco High School Marching Band. 3:30 – 6:30pm at the Columbia-Pacific Farmers Market in Long Beach, WA Naomi Hooley & Rob Stroup. Acoustic/ Alternative/Folk. No cover, 7pm at McMenamins Sand Trap in Gearhart. Tongue & Groove. No cover, 9pm at Roadhouse 101 in Lincoln City. CINEMA Manzanita Film Series. D. O. A. $7 suggested donation includes movie, popcorn and a short discussion after. 7:30pm at the Hoffman Center in Manzanita. HAPPENING Columbia River Country Days & Covered Bridge Dinner. In Wahkiakum County, WA. FMI 360-795-3278 Oktoberfest & Punkin Chunkin. At the Two Islands Farm Market 3 – 6:30pm at Stockhouse’s Farm on Puget Island, Cathlamet, WA. THEATER KALA STAGE. Hipfishmonthly inaugurates its stage with Pier Pressure Productions “LAUGHING WILD”. Coastal actors Jenni Newton and Bill Ham perform in an absurdist comic duo by one of America’s most lauded, and iconoclastic contemporary playwrights, Christopher Durang. Doors open at 7:30. Show at 8pm. Beer and wine available. $15 @ the door. Seating is limited -- come enjoy a glass of brew before curtain. 1017 Marine Drive in Astoria. Don’t call us, we’ll call you. 503.338.4878. The Mystery of Irma Vep. Comedy, a Gothic spoof. $8 - $20, 8pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in Cannon Beach. Saturday 1 ART First Saturday Art Walk. 5 – 8pm at galleries and businesses in Seaside and Gearhart. FOOD & DRINK Wine Tasting. Big Reds. 1 – 4pm at the Cellar on 10th in Astoria Sunday 2 MUSIC Tim Fast. No cover, 10am – 3pm at the Astoria Sunday Market. Aireene Espiritu, Acoustic/Folk/Indie. No cover. 8pm at Fort George Brewery & Public House in Astoria. Tuesday 4 HAPPENING Annual Senior Fair. Free, 9am – 6pm at Chinook Winds Casino Resort in Lincoln City. 1-888-CHINOOK Wednesday 5 Thursday 6 FOOD & DRINK Harvest Fest Dinner. A Cannon Beach Columbia River Country Days & Covered Backpack Program & Food Pantry Benefit. Bridge Dinner. In Wahkiakum County, WA. An Oktoberfest-themed gourmet meal with beer pairings. $60, reservations required. FMI 360-795-3278 503-436-1197 Sunset Empire Orchid Show & Sale. HAPPENING 1 – 5pm at the Bob Chisholm Community 1st Thursday Trivia. Teams of 1-5 comCenter in Seaside. pete for universal admiration and fantastic Annual AAUW Tour of Homes. $15 prizes. Sign up ahead of time or just show $20, tour begins at Salishan Pro Shop. up. This event is free and open to the Private vehicles not allowed. 11am – 3pm. public. 5:30pm at the Astoria Library. FMI 541-996-3949. OUTSIDE Rock the Beach Run/Walk. 5k walk, 5 – 10k run. $30 for run + lunch & live music. $20 for students, $10 for music alone. 10:30am in Cannon Beach. Register/FMI at cbchildren.org THEATER KALA STAGE. Hipfishmonthly inaugurates its stage with Pier Pressure Productions “LAUGHING WILD”. Coastal actors Jenni Newton and Bill Ham perform in an absurdist comic duo by one of America’s most lauded, and iconoclastic contemporary playwrights, Christopher Durang. Doors open at 7:30. Show at 8pm. Beer and wine available. $15 @ the door. Seating is limited -- come enjoy a glass of brew before curtain. 1017 Marine Drive in Astoria. Don’t call us, we’ll call you. 503.338.4878. The Mystery of Irma Vep. Comedy, a Gothic spoof. $8 - $20, 8pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in Cannon Beach. Pancake Breakfast. $5 for adults, $3 for children. 8am – 11am at the Peninsula Senior Activity Center in Klipsan Beach, WA Wine Tasting. Oregon Pinot Noir Part V. 1 – 4pm at the Cellar on 10th in Astoria. North Coast Seafood Festival. $5 - $8 admission, 11am – 5pm. At the Tillamook HAPPENING County Fairgrounds. 503-398-5223 More details: www.northcoastseafoodfestival.com Cranberrian Fair. Vendors, exhibits, demonstrations, and more. $5 admission HAPPENING to the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum Sunset Empire Orchid Show & Sale. in Ilwaco, WA. 10am – 4pm. Free admis10am – 4pm at the Bob Chisholm Comsion to the Cranberry Museum in Long munity Center in Seaside. Beach, WA. Yaquina Bay Bridge Celebration. Bridge walk begins at south side of bridge at LECTURE 11:45am. Other events from noon – 4pm Sojourners, Settlers, and New Imunder the north side of the bridge in Newport. newportchamber.org/press/11_08_9. mmigrants: Mexicanos in Oregon. 1pm at the North Lincoln County Historical htm Museum. HAPPENING 75th Anniversary of Newport Bridge Celebration. The History & making of the Yaquina Bay Bridge Panel Discussion. 2pm at Newport City Hall. Yaquina Bay Bridge Walking Tour departs from Newport City Hall at 6pm. FOOD & DRINK FOOD & DRINK North Coast Seafood Festival. $5 - $8 admission, 11am – 6pm. At the Tillamook MUSIC County Fairgrounds. 503-398-5223 More The Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank. details: www.northcoastseafoodfestival.com Acoustic/Blues/Folk. No cover, 8:30pm at Wild Mushroom Cook-Off. Free admission Hazel’s Tavern in Astoria. with tasting-size portions available for a small fee. 11am – 2pm at the Culinary Center in Lincoln City. Fundraising Gala. Fall Into Art. 1 – 5pm at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology north of Lincoln City. Friday 7 MUSIC SXO. Rock/Garage/Indie. No cover, 10pm at Hazel’s Tavern in Astoria. ART Peninsula Arts Association Fall Art Show. Featured artist: Eric Wiegardt. 11am – 5pm at the World Kite Museum in Long Beach, WA. CINEMA Manzanita Film Series. D. O. A. $7 suggested donation includes movie, popcorn and a short discussion after. 7:30pm at the Hoffman Center in Manzanita. FOOD & DRINK Wine Tasting. At Taste of Tuscany in Seaside. 503-738-5377 THEATER The Mystery of Irma Vep. Comedy, a Gothic spoof. $8 - $20, 8pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in Cannon Beach. Saturday 8 ART OUTSIDE One Sky, One World Kite Fly for Peace. Kite making and flying on the beach. 10am – 4pm at the Bolstad Beach approach in Long Beach, WA Lower Columbia Pug Socializing Club. Pugs and their people meet monthly for fun and socialization. 11am at Carruthers Park in Warrenton. Devil’s Lake Speedboat Time Trials. For small outboard race craft and large inboard race craft. From 8am – sunset on Devil’s Lake in Lincoln City. THEATER The Mystery of Irma Vep. Comedy, a Gothic spoof. $8 - $20, 8pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in Cannon Beach. Sunday 9 MUSIC Andean Music. No cover, 10am – 3pm at the Astoria Sunday Market. Oregon Ensemble. $25 - $30, 7:30pm at the Lincoln City Cultural Center. Garage Voice. Rock. No cover. 8pm at Fort George Brewery & Public House in Astoria. ART Peninsula Arts Association Fall Art Show. Featured artist: Eric Wiegardt. 11am – 5pm at the World Kite Museum in Long Beach, WA. HAPPENING Cranberrian Fair. Vendors, exhibits, demonstrations, and more. $5 admission to the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum in Ilwaco, WA. 10am – 4pm. Free admission to the Cranberry Museum in Long Beach, WA. OUTSIDE One Sky, One World Kite Fly for Peace. Kite making and flying on the beach. 10am – 4pm at the Bolstad Beach approach in Long Beach, WA Devil’s Lake Speedboat Time Trials. For Peninsula Arts Association Fall Art Show. Featured artist: Eric Wiegardt. 11am small outboard race craft and large inboard race craft. From 8am – sunset on Devil’s – 5pm at the World Kite Museum in Long Beach, WA. Lake in Lincoln City. W EEK L Y film. Friday MUSIC Bill Hayes. Rock/Folk/Bluegrass. No cover, 5 – 8pm at the Cannon Beach Cookie Company. Tom Trudell. Jazz piano. No cover, 6– 9pm at Clemente’s in Astoria. Asleep at the Switch. Blues, Country, 40’s, & 50’s. Free (donations accepted), 6 – 8pm at the City Hall in Garibaldi. Richard T. Jazz/Blues/Classic Rock. No cover, 6pm at Sweet Basil’s Café in Cannon Beach. Saturday MUSIC Musician’s Jam. Free, 2 – 4pm at the Tillamook Library. Jennifer Goodenberger. Classical/Improvisational/Contemporary piano music. No cover, 6pm at the Shelburne Restaurant in Seaview, WA FOOD & DRINK Wine Tasting Special. $9 for 4 2-oz pours + complimentary appetizers. 4 – 6pm at the Wine Bar at Sweet Basil’s Café in Cannon Beach. Sunday MUSIC Post Labor Day offerings are generally slim, with C-level genre pics and the odd late summer release for the specialty markets, but this September brings a biological thriller from an Academy Award-winning director, a wheelman thriller from the Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival a possible breakout family film, a sports underdog film that’s not about winning the big game and a cancer comedy. Apollo 18 (Sept. 2) After having its release date changed 5 times, Apollo 18 finally appears. Basically a horror movie on the moon, low budget flick tells in mockumentary fashion much like Paranormal Activity of the story of an 18th moon mission that goes horribly awry, leading to the cancellation of the Apollo program. After decades, footage of the Apollo mission is recovered showing the point of view of two Apollo astronauts who land of the moon. In the course of their mission they find a dead Russian cosmonaut and his lander. Then they encounter an alien parasitic life form that infects one of the astronauts, driving him mad and leading to a deadly game of cat and mouse between the two astronauts. Brian Johnstone, Flamenco/Jazz/Blues. 5 – 7pm at the Wine Bar at Sweet Basil’s Café in Cannon Beach. Swingcats. Swing/Jazz/Blues. No cover, 6pm at Lil’ Bayou in Seaside. Tuesday MUSIC Richard T. Blues. No cover, 5:30 – 8:30pm at T Paul’s Supper Club in Astoria. Brian O’Connor. Jazz guitar. No cover, 6pm at the Shelburne Inn in Seaview, WA Salty Dogs. Folk/Blues/Classic Rock. No cover, 6:30pm at the Harbor Bite in Seaside. Wednesday MUSIC Salty Dogs. Folk/Blues/Classic Rock. No cover, 6pm at the Rio Café in Astoria, Dan Golden. Jazz. 7:30 – 10:30pm at McKeown’s Restaurant & Bar in Seaside. Suzanne Knutzen. Piano. No cover, 7 – 8pm at the Shelburne Restaurant & Pub in Seaview, WA HAPPENING Ecstatic Dance. Spirit-filled, freestyle, yogic trance dance. $5 - $7, 6:30 – 7:45pm, at Pine Grove Community House in Manzanita Open Mic Night. 7 – 9pm at Lush Wine Bar in Cannon Beach. (every Wednesday except 1st of the month) Thursday Contagion (Sept. 9) Steven Soderbergh directs this global thriller about a deadly virus that threatens the world’s population. In clinical fashion we’re introduced to characters in Chicago, Macau and London – all bearing flu-like symptoms of an unnamed disease. The virus is highly contagious and when people all over the world start falling sick and dying, alarm bells go off. Health officials are faced with the threat of a global pandemic. To find a cure before millions are infected and thousands die, officials must trace the spread of the virus back to its to its source – the original three infected. All star cast includes Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Bryan Cranston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law and Laurence Fishburne. MUSIC Dan Golden Duo. World Music. No cover, 6 – 9pm at Creekside Pizzeria in Seaside. Thomasian Trio. Jazz/Blues/Classic Rock. No cover, 6 - 9pm at Lil’ Bayou in Seaside. Basin Street NW. Jazz. No cover, 6:30pm at the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Randy Weese. Bluegrass/Country. 6:30 – 9pm at the Wine Bar at Sweet Basil’s Café in Cannon Beach. Jam Session. No cover, 7pm at the Triangle Tavern in Astoria. Jim Wilkins. 7pm at the Voodoo Room in Astoria. Salty Dogs. Folk/Blues/Classic Rock. No cover, 9pm at Sam’s Seaside Café in Seaside. ART Knitting/Spinning Group. 3 – 5pm at the Astoria Fiber Arts Academy. HAPPENING Poetry Open Mike. No cover, 8:30pm at the Wine Bar at Sweet Basil’s Café in Cannon Beach. Movies & Musings by Les Kanekuni All That Jazz. Jazz. No cover (donations accepted). 2pm at the Wet Dog Café in Astoria. Open Mic Night. Hosted by Barney Perrine. No cover, 7 - 9pm at Creekside Restaurant & Lounge in Seaside. Flash Cuts Drive (Sept. 16) A hit at Cannes in May, this taut, stylish thriller directed by Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn tells the story of Driver (Ryan Gosling), a movie stunt driver who moon- lights as a wheelman, driving a getaway car. His mechanic Shannon (Bryan Cranston) dreams of the two of them leaving the movie business and forming a racing team and approaches criminal boss Bernie Rose (Albert Brooks) for a stake. Driver lives a solitary existence, but he strikes up a friendship with his neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan) and her young son. But when her husband Standard gets out of prison he wants to pull one last job to get himself out of debt to a vicious gang. Driver is recruited as wheelman but it all goes bad when they are double-crossed, leaving Driver in the middle between the double crossers and the double crossed. Dolphin Tale (Sept. 23) Inspirational story from the producers of The Blind Side tells the true story of Winter, a young dolphin crippled after being caught in a crab trap. After being rescued by marine biologist Clay Haskett (Harry Connick, Jr.), Winter is nursed back to health in an aquarium but loses her tail due to injuries. Unable to swim, Winter’s chances of survival look grim. But Sawyer, an introverted 11-year-old from a fatherless household bonds with Winter and rallies everyone around her to try to save Winter. His quest takes Sawyer to the crusty Dr. McCarthy (Morgan Freeman) a brilliant prosthetic scientist who will attempt to create a new tail for Winter in a last-ditch attempt to save her life. Ashley Judd plays Sawyer’s mother. Winter the dolphin plays herself. Moneyball (Sept. 23) Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, the iconoclastic general manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team who in 2002 changed the face of baseball by employing a controversial numbers-based approach to evaluating players instead of the subjective methods of traditional scouting. Sort of an inspirational sports movie for thinking people, Moneyball focuses on the way the young, enthusiastic Beane fights ridicule and opposition in his own franchise to acquire players undervalued by traditional scouting and allow low revenue teams like Oakland to compete head to head with megarich teams like the New York Yankees. based on specific statistics. Johan Hill co-stars in a rare non-comedy role. Based on the book by Michael Lewis who also wrote the book on which the Sandra Bullock hit The Blind Side, was based on. 50/50 (Sept. 30) Joseph Gordon-Leavitt stars as Adam, a 27 year-old who suddenly must face his own mortality when he’s diagnosed with a rare cancer. This is not a disease of the week movie, this is actually a comedy based on the writer Will Reiser’s own struggle with cancer when he was 25. In hilarious fashion, Adam’s condition reveals cracks in his relationship with his seemingly perfect g.f. Rachael (Bryce Dallas Howard) and offers his already overbearing Jewish mother Diane (Angelica Huston) the opportunity to be even more smothering. Adam’s inexperienced psychologist Katie (Anna Kendrick) tries to help with coping strategies while Adam’s crude b.f.f. Kyle’s (Seth Rogen) solution is for both of them to live it up with sex and drugs for as long as they can. In a genre that often turns stultifying and maudlin 50/50 accomplishes the unheard-of trick of being consistently funny yet acknowledging the seriousness of Adam’s situation. 23 sep11 hipfishmonthly.com At Cannon Beach Library Native American Women Three Who Changed History Gloria Linkey, author, and Sally Steidel, illustrator, will talk about their book, “Native American Women – Three Who Changed History” at the Cannon Beach Library Club potluck lunch at Community Presbyterian Church. Visitors are welcome. Wednesday Sept 7, 12:30pm at the CB Library. Cannon Beach Reads! Sept 21, /wed, 7pm The book discussion group, meets at the Cannon Beach Library to talk about “Finding Nouf” by Zoe Ferraris. A well-off Saudi family hires a desert guide to find their missing 16-year-old girl. The guide finds her body, it is determined she had drowned, but her family is not interested in solving the mystery. The book is praised both for its mystery plot and as a rare glimpse into Saudi life. Visitors welcome. Annual HARVEST FESTIVAL At CB Library Sat, Sept 4, 9am to 4pm The Cannon Beach Library’s annual sale of used items and crafts will be held at the library, 131 N. Hemlock St., next to the U.S. Bank. The sale helps support the nonprofit, volunteer-run library. Adult Summer Reading Club Comes to Close Sept 10 Choice Award to the John W. Campbell Award. Recently she has been nominated for the Hugo, the Shamus, and the Anthony Award. She is the only person in the history of the science fiction field to have won a Hugo award for editing and a Hugo award for fiction. Her short work has been reprinted in thirteen Year’s Best collections. She is the former editor of the prestigious The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Before that, she and Dean Wesley Smith started and ran Pulphouse Publishing, a science fiction and mystery press in Eugene. Kris’ latest novels are Wickedly Charming written as Kristine Grayson, and City of Ruins, written as Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Following Kris’ talk, the library will hold drawings for prizes donated to the Adult Summer Reading Club. Even those who didn’t take Kris Rusch is a long-time part in this year’s Adult Summer resident of the Oregon Coast Reading Club are welcome to atand has written in several genres tend Kris’ talk, though they won’t under several names, including be eligible for prizes. Those who science fiction and fantasy under are participating are encouraged the name Kristine Kathryn Rusch, to continue to submit coupons for mysteries under Kris Nelscott, the drawings right up until 3:00 paranormal and fantasy romances on September 10th. Sign-ups for under Kristine Grayson and Adult Summer Reading Club have romantic thrillers under the name ended. Kristine Dexter. Her novels have FREE EVENT. FMI: Ken Hobson made bestseller lists worldwide (541-996-1242) or via email at and have been published in kenh@lincolncity.org. The library 14 countries and 13 different is located at 801 SW Highway languages. Her awards range 101, on the 2nd floor of the City Hall building in Lincoln City. from the Ellery Queen Readers Driftwood Public Library wraps up its first Adult Summer Reading Club on Saturday, September 10th at 3pm with an appearance by multi-genre author Kris Rusch, with drawings for several prizes to follow. sep11 hipfishmonthly.com 24 Get a Life! Get a Life, I Well. Yes: of course! But how? It’s been said that most stories are personal, that writers work their craft as a way to understand the world, and through the crafting of story we come to understand ourselves. When I was an undergraduate I studied History at Portland State University; Biography as History, taught by Professor Charles Le Guin, was one of my favorite classes. In those seminar hours I learned about the earliest form of life writing, known as hagiography. We learned about the panegyric, and the frequency with which the stars and heavens conspired, along with a checklist of specific physical traits, to signal auspicious births (think Plutarch’s Lives…). Even back in the hoary mists there were trends to writing lives. The strongest trend of the 20th century employed sparkling bits of Freudianism, and it peaked for so long it appeared permanent. I won’t forget one heated class discussion about if Freud’s influence would, in my meekly delivered words, ‘withstand the test of time.’ For that assertion I received a most withering look (the guy is probably a senator now.); I recall Le Guin chuckled at my nerve. Of course the bloom on that framing device has long lost its luster. And now all that is mostly swamped by a rising tide of popular and literary memoir. Get a Life, II I became familiar with literary memoir during my graduate study. My conclusion? Don’t be persuaded that it’s a snap to write memoir. Why? Because the best memoirs have a focal point. But which one? what about? … Indeed! I quickly determined I wasn’t ready to do my own memoir. Gulp! Casting about, I sensed my father’s story would be my ride into parsing the family history. Note: This became biography, me undertaking to write his life. Digging at his roots I was grateful to peer into unseen corners. Many of his stories had a good folksy flow, where I took what I knew, connected the dots. But before long, the only way to flesh fragments into narrative- was to embellish. I had to make stuff up. Now what did I have? Was this still my father’s story? Biography is a narrative of a life fixed by facts. Memoir is a narrative that focuses on a pivotal event to describe or elucidate character. Autobiography is a chronological telling, some as simple as a list of dates, names. So what By Rebecca Hart did I have, this mess of family stories and actual facts from the Kitsap County Historical Society archives? Important details, yes; but as far as my father’s life- and in crafting a readable story-I had a fiction. Oh boy. Get a Life, III Poet Mary Karr has published three memoirs: The Liar’s Club (which helped start the literary memoir tidal wave), Cherry, and Lit, her latest (a compelling story of recovery). I suspect Karr’s being a poet has much to do with this output; her life and her stories are not about a poet’s brevity, but diving in, finding the juicy parts, about word choice. That’s right: Karr knows what to put in, and what to leave out. Yes- you heard right. Memoir: where you choose what to include. The work of memoir is not for the timid. You find censors and firewalls and gatekeepers everywhere in this practice. Often we have a story to tell but we don’t want to offend the living. Even a casual mention of an intention to write a family history or personal memoir may cause sideways glances. And these non-verbal cues can stop the process dead in its tracks. Honest: there’s nothing like pinning events to a timeline to reveal and blow apart long-held family secrets. But, writing personal stories can be highly therapeutic, and getting the stories on paper often de-sensitizes troublesome memories. And often, through gentle inquiry, healing can occur. Revision and editing play a big role in writing and comprehending a life, long before the final drafts. It’s tough work. Here’s my view: We all get up, on either the right side or the left, we all have coffee or something in the morning, we all mutter some sort of prayer to the world, and most of us all leave the house sometime during the day. Or we don’t, for another reason. And something happens: You see any life is far from meaning- less, and you begin to commit to this process of getting at your words. And when you are ready, you may share your story. You choose that part too. In January 2010 I held a class in Astoria. To the surprise of us all we found an experience utterly and completely remarkable. In a group of about eight (ages ranging from 35 to 85), in addition to the stories we arrived with, we found we all had stories of Huguenot ancestors, families from Iowa, links to Montana, peculiar incidents with mules, and cherished childhood memories of pastoral settings – for a gathering of unrelated people these shared stories were well outside any law of averages. So: Get a Life ### Former HipFish columnist*, Hart is currently working on a memoir-like collection of essays about trying to garden in Ilwaco, WA, and revising her thesis of Dragnet Fiction, where the names have been changed to protect the innocent. *(Victory Gardens for the New Millennium and other features, Hart has published in The Nation, Fine Gardening, and more; she was also formerly weekly gardening columnist for the Daily Astorian.) Class Offerings Artist’s Way On Tuesday nights, Rebecca Hart is offering an Artist’s Way class from 6:30 to 8:30, to facilitate artists of all stripes to get in touch with their inner art emperor. Using the wellknown book by Julia Cameron, Hart will lead you through a series of pledges, exercises and sharing to awaken a stronger connect with your inner creative guru. Hart first trod the path of The Artist’s Way in 1996, and now has filled 40 notebooks; she paints and exhibits locally, and recently completed an MFA in creative writing. The Slippery Fish that is Memoir Many of us have a story we want to tell, in fact we often have many stories. Commit to learning the differences between memoir, autobiography, biography, and dragnet fiction. This is primarily a writing class; expect some selfdirected reading, and voluntary sharing. A continuation of the class Hart taught winter term 2010, come if you are merely curious, if you have a project in mind, or if you need help putting structure to the stories you’ve been thinking about. This class utilizes frequent in-class cues and prompts- to get at the raw and rough material inside. From 1 – 4 PM, Wednesday. Both classes are held in Astoria, at the Josie Peper Center at the PAC on 16th- with ample access and parking. For more information and to register, go to www.clatsopcc.edu For more information email hartrebeca74@gmail.com or call 503-739-1108. word. Poet Laureate Paulann Peterson FREE WORKSHOP Paulann Petersen, Oregon’s Poet Laureate, returns to Tillamook on Saturday, September 17, to present a poetry workshop and reading as part of the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum’s Great Speaker Series. The workshop will be held from 10am to 4pm at the Tillamook Main Library. A poetry reading by Ms. Petersen and workshop participants will be held at the Pioneer Museum at 7pm that evening. The reading is free and open to the public. Museum director Gary Albright said, “Thanks to our sponsors the Oregon Cultural Trust, the Tillamook Cultural Coalition, Oregon Humanities and the museum’s Daisy Fund, we are able to offer this poetry workshop at no charge to the public, but pre-registration is required.” Call the museum at 503842-4553 to register before September 10. Larry Colton, Author & Founder of WORDSTOCK at SEASIDE LIBRARY On Thursday September 15, the Friends of the Seaside Library will host Larry Colton, founder of Wordstock and author of “No Ordinary Joes”. The event will take place in the Community Room and there will be book sales and signings presented by Beach Books. “No Ordinary Joes” is the true story of four men who join the Navy during WWII and survive the loss of the submarine Grenadier, as well as two and a half years as POWs in Japanese camps. Their experiences are heroic and terrifying and upon returning home they live out somewhat checkered lives, with as many failures as successes. “This is the greatest generation but with warts, wives, wobbling, and all”. Larry Colton is the author of three previous books, “Idol Time”, “Goat Brothers” and “Counting Coup”. He is a former pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies and founder of the nationally known literary festival “Wordstock”. Seaside Public Library is located at 1131 Broadway, across from the Youth Center and Swimming Pool. For more information call (503)738-6742 or visit us at www.seasidelibrary.org and www. facebook.com/seasidepubliclibrary. And there was no nuclear plant upstream a ways either, Its cooling tower brooding like a barnacle on steroids, And no beer cans in the sand, and no pet litter ordinance, But there were Swans, Geese, white & Grey Brant Ducks &c. emensely noumerous, and their noise horid, and rain, Of course rain, all night and continues this morning, we Were all wet cold and disagreeable, yet this is certainly A fertill and a handsom valley, wrote Meriwether Lewis, All of thirty-one years old that day, wandering the beach, Not even four years left to go in his lovely muddled life, In my walk of to Day I saw 17 Striped Snakes, he wrote That night by the fire, sitting by his friend William Clark, Clark roasting a grouse on a spit and advising his buddy To mention the grouse too, which Lewis does, verry fat, He notes carefully. We camped a little below the mouth Of a creek, writes Lewis, and Clark laughs and says hey, Did you scribble down that we were soaking wet all day, That Sacagawea’s baby has cried ceaselessly for a week, And that this grouse, fat as it is, isn’t big enough for you To actually have any because I am about to gobble it all? And Lewis smiles there on the bank of the Mighty River, The first night in weeks they have not been accompanied By curious residents annoyed & inquisitive & acquisitive, The first night they are again just the Corps of Discovery, Such a motley crew, by now shaggy and thin and sopping Wet, bedding down above the tide line, two centuries ago, The Shoshone girl with her baby just turned one year old, The black man from Kentucky admired for his woodcraft, The two captains from Virginia banking the fire laughing As Lewis says a snake! and Clark says don’t even try that On me, man, let’s get some sleep, we got a long way to go. CB Library Author Series Brian Doyle The Cannon Beach Library’s Northwest Authors Second Saturday Series begins a new season with Portland author Brian Doyle. The award-winning author, essayist, and editor of the University of Portland’s Portland Magazine and has a recent novel, “Mink River,” about loves and lives in a fictional Oregon coast town, published by the Oregon State University Press. The library is on Cannon Beach’s main street, next to the U.S. Bank. Free. (Read Brian Doyle’s poem – opposite page. ) Saturday, September 10, 2pm at the Cannon Beach Library -- Brian Doyle WRITING WORKSHOP Miriam Gershow Short Story Writing and Publishing Sept 17 Lauren Kessler Writer’s on the Edge • Sept 17 Lauren Kessler is the author of six works of narrative nonfiction, including her newest (summer 2010), “My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, A Daughter, A Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence”. She is also the author of Pacific Northwest Book Award winner “Dancing with Rose” (published in paperback as Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer’s), Washington Post bestseller “Clever Girl” and Los Angeles Times bestseller “The Happy Bottom Riding Club” – which David Letterman, in fierce competition with Oprah, chose as the first (and On Prescott Beach Where Lewis & Clark & Their Companions Camped One Night When the United States Was Just a Pup only) book for the Dave Letterman Book Club. Kessler appeared twice on his late-night show. She is also the author of Oregon Book Award winner Stubborn Twig, which was chosen as the book for all Oregon to read in honor of the state’s 2009 sesquicentennial. Show begins at 7pm in the second floor meeting room of the Newport Visual Arts Center, located at 777 NW Beach Drive (across from the Nye Beach Turnaround). General admission is $6 at the door, students always admitted free. Light refreshments will be available. On Saturday, September 17, 11 to 1:30pm to learn how to write and publish short stories. Spend the first half of the workshop using writing prompts to generate short story ideas. The second half will focus on how and where to place your short fiction. The fee for the workshop is $25. Miriam Gershow is a novelist, short story writer and teacher. Her stories appear in The Georgia Review, Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review, Nimrod International Journal, The Journal, and Gulf Coast, among other journals. Miriam’s stories have been listed in the 100 Distinguished Stories of The Best American Short Stories 2007 and appeared in the 2008 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories. Miriam is the recipient of a Fiction Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing , as well as an Oregon Literary Fellowship. She received her MFA from the University of Oregon. She taught fiction writing at the University of Wisconsin as well as descriptive writing to gifted high school students through Johns Hopkins University. She currently lives in Eugene with her husband and son, where she writes and teaches writing at the University of Oregon. Saturday evening, Gershow will read from her new novel, The Local News, at 7pm at the Manzanita Writers’ Series at the Hoffman Center. To register for the workshop, download the registration form at hoffmanblog.org. At the Hoffman Center (across from Manzanita Library at 594 Laneda Avenue.) FMI: online or contact Kathie Hightower, 503-739-1505; kathie@ jumpintolife.net) 25 sep11 hipfishmonthly.com FREE WILL ASTROLOGY September © Copyright 2010 Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): I predict that in the coming weeks, you will be able to extract an unexpected perk or benefit from one of your less glamorous responsibilities. I also predict that you will decide not to ram headfirst into an obstacle and try to batter it until it crumbles. Instead, you’ll dream up a roundabout approach that will turn out to be more effective at eliminating the obstacle. Finally, I predict that these departures from habit will show you precious secrets about how to escape more of your own negative conditioning in the future. cially true for you right now, although the “danger” in question is psychological in nature, not physical, and it’s a relatively manageable hazard that you shouldn’t stay up all night worrying about. Still, the looming challenge to your poise is something that requires you to activate your deeper intelligence. You really do need to figure out how to weave a middle way between the extremes of seeking too much order and allowing too much disorder. What would Goldilocks do? TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Dear Astrologer: My life is stagnant and slow. It suffers bone-deep from a lack of changes, good or bad or in between. Why has my karma been deprived of all motion? Why must I go on frozen in such eerie peace and quiet? I seek your help. Can you cast a spell for me so that I will be happily disrupted and agitated? Will you predict my sorry state of stillness to be ended soon? Arvind Agnimuka, Taurus from Darjeeling.” Dear Arvind: Funny you should ask. According to my analysis, members of the Taurus tribe are about to be roused out of their plodding rhythm by a bolt of cosmic mojo. Get ready to rumble -- and I mean that in the best sense of the word. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Readers of Reddit.com were asked to describe their lives in just six words. It would be a good time for you to try this exercise. You’ve reached a juncture in your unfolding destiny when you could benefit from a review that pithily sums up where you’ve been up until now, and where you’ve got to go next. To inspire your work, here are some of the most interesting from Reddit: 1. Early opportunities wasted, now attempting redemption. 2. Searching tirelessly for that one thing. 3. Living my dream requires modifying dream. 4. Must not turn into my mom. 5. Insane ambition meets debilitating self-doubt. 6. Do you want to have sex? 7. Slowly getting the hang of it. 8. These pretzels are making me thirsty. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I found this unusual classified ad in a small California newspaper. “Wanted: Someone to travel backwards in time with me. This is not a joke. You must be unafraid to see the person you used to be, and you’ve got to keep a wide-open mind about the past -- I mean more wide-open than you have ever been able to. I have made this trip twice before, and I don’t expect any danger, but there may be a bit of a mess. Please bring your own ‘cleaning implements,’ if you know what I mean.” As crazy as it sounds, Gemini, I’m thinking you’d be the right person for this gig. The astrological omens suggest you’ll be doing something similar to it anyway. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Go where the drama is, Sagittarius, but not where the melodrama is. Place yourself in the path of the most interesting power, but don’t get distracted by displays of power that are dehumanizing or narcissistic. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when you have a mandate to intensify your excitement with life and increase your ability to be deeply engaged with what attracts you. I urge you to be as brave as you once were when you conquered a big fear and to be as curious as you were when you discovered a big secret about who you are. For extra credit, be highly demonstrative in your expression of what you care about. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Of your five senses, which is the most underdeveloped? If you’re a typical Westerner, it’s your sense of smell. You just don’t use it with the same level of acuity and interest you have when you’re seeing, hearing, tasting, and touching. You may speak excitedly about an image you saw or song you heard or food you ate or massage you experienced -- what they were like, how they made you feel -- but you rarely do that with odors. You easily tolerate an ugly building or loud traffic noise or mediocre food or itchy fabric, and yet you feel a deep aversion to an unappealing smell. Having said that, I want you to know it’s an excellent time to upgrade your olfactory involvement with the world. You’d benefit greatly from the emotional enrichment that would come from cultivating a more conscious relationship with aromas. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In his older years, after steadfastly cultivating his vices with the care of a connoisseur, the agnostic actor W. C. Fields was caught reading the Bible by an old friend. Questioned at this departure from his usual behavior, Fields said he was “looking for loopholes.” I suspect a comparable shift may be in the offing for you, Capricorn. In your case, you may be drawn to a source you’ve perpetually ignored or dismissed, or suddenly interested in a subject you’ve long considered to be irrelevant. I say, good for you. It’s an excellent time to practice opening your mind in any number of ways. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Enlightenment is simply this,” said the Zen master. “When I walk, I walk. When I eat, I eat. When I sleep, I sleep.” If that’s true, Leo, you now have an excellent chance to achieve at least temporary enlightenment. The universe is virtually conspiring to maneuver you into situations where you can be utterly united with whatever you are doing in the present moment. You’ll be less tempted than usual to let your mind wander away from the experience at hand, but will instead relish the opportunity to commit yourself completely to the scene that’s right in front of you. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In August 2009, 120 scientists and their helpers staged a BioBlitz in Yellowstone National Park. Their goal was to find as many new species as they could in one day. To their surprise and delight, they located more than 1,200, including beetles, worms, lichens, and fungi that had never before been identified. An equally fertile phase of discovery could very well be imminent for you, Virgo. All you have to do is make that your intention, then become super extra double-wildly receptive. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Two dangers threaten the universe: order and disorder,” said poet Paul Valery. I think that’s espe- sep11 hipfishmonthly.com 26 AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I watched a Youtube video that showed eight people competing in a weird marathon. They ran two miles, ate 12 doughnuts, then ran another two miles. I hope you don’t try anything remotely similar to that, Aquarius. If you’re in the mood for outlandish feats and exotic adventures (which I suspect you might be), I suggest you try something more life-enhancing, like making love for an hour, eating an organic gourmet feast, then making love for another hour. It’s a good time for you to be wild, maybe even extreme, about getting the healing you need. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the out-of-print book *In Portugal,* A.F.G. Bell defines the Portuguese word *saudade* as follows: “a vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist, for something other than the present, a turning towards the past or towards the future; not an active discontent or poignant sadness, but an indolent dreaming wistfulness.” In my astrological opinion, Pisces, it is imperative that you banish as much *saudade* from your system as you can. If you want, you can bring it back again later, but for now, you need to clarify and refine your desires for things that are actually possible. And that requires you to purge the delusional ones. Homework: What’s the part of you that you trust the least? Think up a test whereby that part of you will be challenged to express maximum integrity. Testify at Freewillastrology.com Featuring biking quips, quibbles, and some damn good advice from Margaret Hammitt-McDonald. A Bicycle Goes On Vacation Hello, I’m Columella, a workhorse commuting bicycle who contends stoically with the worst wind, rain, hail, junk in the road, and ugly pavement the North Coast can throw at me. When my rider told me we were going on a weekend trip to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, I spun at the opportunity! Vacation riding required some adaptations from a workaholic like me, though, so I had to prepare both mentally and physically. First there was the weight issue. I’m a chunky folding cycle who’s used to carrying my rider and her lunch, work clothes, and water. This trip was the first time I wore panniers, which caused me to gain a few pounds and wrought havoc with my balance. That’s why you and your rider should practice with a load (whether it’s in panniers, a trailer, a big backpack, or some combination of these) before starting on your trip. Not only will this help you both to adapt to a different balance point, but you can also adjust the panniers, rack, and other things in case your rider gets whacked in the leg while pedaling or your fenders rub against your tires. If you have a two-sided packing system such as panniers, be sure your rider puts items of roughly equal weight on each side so you don’t list to port or starboard and send the rider overboard. Cruising under a load also alters your braking and hill-riding experiences. Because you’re now Atlas shouldering the weight of the world, your rider will need more time to stop (and with the extra bulginess, it’s also easier for him or her to fall over if you come to a quick halt). You’ll also speed down hills and need to use lower gears to crawl uphill. A long trip with lots of ups and downs ideally calls for a cycle suited to such terrain. Luckily, none of the hills we traversed were especially steep, for I don’t come equipped with many gears. Once I got used to the idea of recreation, I enjoyed my vacation. Vancouver Island is beautiful, and the city of Victoria is bicycle heaven: you can ride in the street and motorists don’t crowd you, and the dedicated walking-riding Galloping Goose Trail provides a nice connecting route throughout the city and its environs. I got to cruise past magnificent scenery on highways where cycles are permitted on the wide shoulders, and signs aimed at us direct us on and off the highway and onto local bikeways. I had one phobic moment crossing a metal bridge, but a sign reassured me and my rider of our right to stay in the center lane and not get passed by motor vehicles. Amazingly, we never collected the honks, rude gestures, and yelling we’ve gotten all too familiar with on our daily rounds while sharing the road with other vehicles. The ferry from Port Angeles, Washington to Vancouver Island was also cycle-friendly. After twiddling my chain on a customs line, I was rewarded with a front-row seat from a bike rack on the bow of the ferry to smell the salt air (extra lube helped my sensitive components to avoid the bike equivalent of a sunburn), watch a humpback whale spout, spy-hop, and dive, bask in the admiration of other passengers who’d never seen folding bikes, and flirt with a sleek touring bike who shared the rack with me. Next year, I hope to take a longer jaunt. Until then, I’ll roll alongside the RVs and log trucks while dreaming of new pavement beneath my wheels. network. WORKSHOPS/CLASSEs COURAGE TO HEAL. There is a free workshop coming up in Tillamook County called, “Courage to Heal.” It is a free workshop for women survivors of child sexual abuse. This workshop runs annually during the summer months, and generally lasts about ten weeks. The group meets once a week.One in three girls will be sexually abused by the age of 16, yet many survivors feel alone and ashamed. This workshop is healing, empowering, and supportive. The local facilitator of this group is Rhonda Bolow, and she can be reached at 503-801-5064. Once Rhonda has spoken with participants, days/times of meetings will be set, based on what is most convenient for the group. You can also contact the Women’s Resource Center at 503-842-9486 for more info. Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested. DOES FOOD RUN YOUR LIFE? Come to Overeaters Anonymous every Wednesday from 7-8pm in the Seaside Public Library, Board Room B. No dues, fees or weigh-ins. Everyone welcome! (if you have questions call 503-505-1721). FREE COMPUTER CLASSES AT TILLAMOOK COUNTY LIBRARIES. Tillamook County Libraries will be offering free basic computer classes this fall. Sign up for a free one-onone session where you can ask questions and learn at your own pace. Classes will be held on Saturdays at the Tillamook County Library September 11th, 18th and 25th and October 2nd and 9th. Additional sessions will be held at library branches in October and November. Registration is limited, so contact your local library soon and reserve your space. SPIRITUAL WRITING FOR MEN AND WOMEN. Instructor Gail Balden is a writer, educator and workshop presenter with over 30 years of teaching experience. Her work has been published in anthologies, literary journals and national magazines. She teaches one-day writing workshops and writes a monthly column on the joys of small town life for the North Coast Citizen. Visit her web site at www.creativejourneys.net. French Conversation Group Re-Start. The group is devoted to speaking French only. It is NOT a class, so please do not show up expecting to learn French from scratch. Once you step through the door of the Riverbend Room, it is French only. It will be on Saturdays, from 1-3pm at NCRD in the Riverbend Room. There is a nominal charge of $1/ person/time. For more information email Jane or call her 503-368-3901 or, call Paul Miller at 503-368-5715. Library2Go Basics. Second Saturday of each month 9:00am-10:00am. Over 5000 audio books and videos can be downloaded to computers and digital devices through the Library2Go database accessible through the Astoria Public Library web site. All downloads are free to access with your library card. Learn the how to make the most of this extraordinary resource. Free, at the Astoria Public Library. Computer Basics. Third Saturday of each month 9:00am-10:00am. If you’re new to PC computers or just needing to update basic skills, this class is for you. Each class is tailored to meet the needs of participants. Free, at the Astoria Public Library. The Lower Columbia Classics Car Club. Invitation to all who are interested in Collector Cars to attend one of our monthly meetings. The meetings are held at Steve Jordan’s Shop Building, located at 35232 Helligso Lane in rural Astoria - meet on the 3rd Thursday of each month. If you are interested and need the directions to get there, you may call Steve Jordan at 503-325-1807 Open Art Night. 5:30 to 7 PM –1st & 3rd Weds. Bay City Arts Center, Bay City. Life Drawing. 6 to 9 PM. Every 2nd & 4th Weds. Bay City Arts Center, Bay City. Toddler Arts Group. Every Monday, 10:30 to 11:30 –Get your toddler started in the arts! Activities are geared towards ages 1–3, but age birth–5 are welcome. All children must be accompanied by a caregiver. Bay City Arts Center, Bay City. t CELEBRATE RECOVERY • Nazarene Church, 2611 3rd St, Tillamook. Adult & teen 12 step program. Child care provided. Call 503-812-3522 for more information. Tuesdays, 7-9, Dinner at 6 by donation. OPEN ART NIGHT WITH PHAEDRA. Bay City Arts Center, 5680 A St, 5-7pm on Wednesdays. BODY WORK•YOGA•FITNESS YOGA NAMASTE. The Summer 2011 Yoga schedule at Yoga Namasté starts June 20 and ends August 31, 2011. During the 10 week term you can enjoy GENTLE YOGA-LEVEL 1 at 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Wednesdays. LEVEL 1-2 (Beginner and Intermediate) Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays at 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Level 2-3 (Intermediate and Advanced) Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays at 6:15 to 8:45 a.m. LEVEL 1-2 Yoga flow at 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. on Saturdays. For more information: www.yoganam.com or call: 503 440 9761. Yoga/Private Instruction. Private Individual Therapeutic and Restorative Yoga instruction with certified, Yoga Alliance registered yoga teacher SarahFawn Wilson, MA, RYT-500. Private group classes also available. For more information and for public class schedule, please call 503-440-6738 or email serraphon@msn.com. ECSTATIC DANCE. Ecstatic, trance, yogic, spirit filled), playful, improvisational, freestyle - We’re Dancing! Wed. at 6:30 at Pine Grove Community House, 225 Laneda Ave. in Manzanita. No experience necessary. You are welcome to bring Instruments of any sort to play along with what we’ve got going. Cost is a sliding scale from $5 - $7, or free if you really need to just be there. LOTUS YOGA. 1230 Marine Drive, Downtown Astoria. Ongoing classes on a month to month basis. Evening Classes Monday thru Thursday 6:00 PM: Monday Level 1 Yoga for Relaxation. Tuesday Level 2 Strengthening. Wednesday Level 1 Beginning Flow. Thursday Level 2 Advanced Flow. Morning class Friday 9:00AM All Level THERAPEUTIC Yoga. Dedicated to making Yoga an accessible part of everyday living. Call (503)298-3874, Email lotusyoga@live.com, website www. lotusyogaonline.com for more information. YOGA SMA EXPLORATION. Yoga instructor Linda Sanderlin LMT, introduces SMA yoga, a practice evolved from Feldenkrais and Alexander technique, found to be very effective for people with a limited range of motion. Tues and Sat. classes at Parinamah in Manzanita. Community Listings $5 p/class. FMI: Call Linda (503)867-3943; or via e-mail: 4lsanderlin@gmail.com. YOGA NCRD. Monday, Yoga Of The Heart, 8:15 am - 9:45 am Instructor: Lorraine Ortiz (no drop ins). Monday, Level II, 5:45 pm - 7:15 pm Instructor: Nicole Hamic Wednesday, Yoga Stretch, 8:15 am - 9:45 am Instructor: Lucy Brook Thursday, Level I, 5:45 pm - 7:15 pm Instructor: Charlene Gernert Friday, Very Gentle Yoga, 8:15 am - 9:45 am Instructor: Lucy Brook Saturday, Mixed Levels, 8:00 am - 9:30 am Instructor: Lorraine Ortiz YOGA • Manzanita. The Center for the Contemplative Arts, Manzanita: Tuesday evenings 5 - 5:45pm. $35 for 5 classes. Call 368-6227 for more info. Yoga in Gearhart. Gearhart Workout. For more information log on to www.gearhartworkout.com 3470 Hwy. 101 N. Suite 104 in Gearhart YOGA • Nehalem. Ongoing yoga classes at NCRD are as follows: Monday, Level II, 5:156:45 pm, Nicole Hamic; Wednesday, Morning Yoga Stretch, 8-9:30 am, Lucy Brook; Thursday, Yoga for Parents & Kids, 3:45-4:45 pm, Charlene Gernert; Thursday, Level I, 5:45 - 7:15 pm, Charlene Gernet; Friday, Very Gentle Yoga, 8-9:30 am, Lucy Brook. T’AI CHI. The Center for the Contemplative Arts, Manzanita: Wednesday Mornings 10-11:30. $30/month. Call 368-6227 for more info. Chinese Kung Fu. Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 5:30 to 7:00 at the Astoria Arts and Movement Center (11th and Harrison). The focus is on two styles; Ving Tsun Kyun and Tai Xu Quan. While both are suitable for self defense Ving Tsun is direct and linear in it’s approach and Tai Xu is circlular. Both are of ancient orgin (Buddhist and Taoist respectivly) and have been developed by nuns and monks, and by lay deciples as well. Matthew Crim vingtsunmc@hotmail.com LEARN SELF DEFENSE IN ILWACO. Kenpo Karate for Adults. River City School, 127 SE Lake St, Tuesdays @ 7:00pm - 8:45pm, $45/mo Inquire /sign up: jbgroove1@juno. com phone: 360-665-0860. 7:00pm 8:45pm, KENPOKarate for Kids -River City School, 127 Lake Street SE, Ilwaco, Every Thursday @ 4:00pm - 5:00pm, $45/mo. HIKING ADVENTURES. Astoria Parks and Rec. Join us as we explore several popular hiking destinations this summer! Hikes will be led by an experienced guide and will include several popular destinations such as Saddle Mountain. Meeting location and time will be provided at registration. For ages 14 and up! To register call 325-7275. Dates: Saturday July 9, July 23 & Aug. 6 ANGORA HIKING CLUB. Saturday, Sept. 17, Angora Hiking club will be taking a bike hike. The meeting place is at the West mooring basin, next to Kentucky fried Chicken on Marine Drive in Astoria at 9:30 AM. promptly. Car pooling will be arranged and then drive to WESTPORT, Or on Hwy 30 to depart on the 10:15 ferry. This Wahkiakum County ferry is the last operating toll passenger ferry on the lower Columbia River and upriver link to the Columbia-Pacific Scenic Drive Loop. It operates 7 days/week and departs from Westport 15 minutes past the hour. Bikers are $2.00. foot traffic $1.00 and cars $5.00, each way. There are restrooms on the ferry to PUGET ISLAND and restrooms and a picnic area at the Puget Island ferry landing. It takes about 15 minutes to cross and the ferry departs from Puget Island on the hour, from 5 AM to 10 PM daily. It is not necessary to be a member of the club to participate, for more information about the club check out www.angorahikingclub.org. Dues are only $7.00 a year. Bikers are required to provide their own bike, helmet, car carrier, water and a lunch. There are no food stores on the island. Estimated return time is about 2:00 PM. It is a very gentle, level scenic ride around the island. If you have questions please call Jim or Kathleen Hudson 503 8612802, or khhudson@q.com. submitted by Kathleen Hudson 503 861-2802 SPIRITUALITY TIBETAN BUDDHIST DHARMA GROUP. Dharma River, meets Mondays 7:30 - 9 pm, 1230 Marine Dr., Suite 304 in Lotus Yoga’s studio. Meditation, sadhana practice, teachings & discussion. Dharma River is a satellite of the Portland Sakya Center. Contact Dharma teacher, Rosetta Hurley, 338-9704 for more info. Center For Spiritual Living of the North Coast. CSLNC is for those who want to grow spiritually, all faiths and paths welcome. Sunday Celebration and Children’s Church 10:30 a.m, 66 4th St., Warrenton. www. centerforspiritualliving.org and 503-7912192. A SILENT MEDITATION • with Lola Sacks. St. Catherine’s Center for the Contemplative Arts, Manzanita: Monday Nights 5 - 5:45 Call 368-6227 for more info. LECTIO DIVINA • Meditation with Holy Scripture. The Center for the Contemplative Arts, Manzanita: Tuesday Mornings 1011:30. Call 368-6227 for more info. LABYRINTH WALK • Grace Episcopal Church, 1545 Franklin St, Astoria, 3-6. Every 1st Sunday. VOLUNTEER SHARE YOUR MUSICAL TALENT. If you have musical or performance talents to share, we need you at Nehalem Valley Care Center in Wheeler, Oregon. We are a skilled care center and our residents enjoy, and benefit from, music therapies and entertainment. Professionals and amateurs welcome – all ages!! CONTACT:Katherine Mace, Activity Director, Nehalem Valley Care Center kmace@ nehalemtel.net 503-368-5171 Weekly Alder Creek Farm Community Garden. Work Parties - Tuesdays, 10 am – Noon. Help out the Coastal Food Ecology Center, community garden, permaculture garden and harvesting for the Wheeler Food PEACE ROCKS! To celebrate The International Day of Peace, the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum will offer the opportunity to paint “Peace Rocks!” at the museum on Saturday, September 17. Participants will be given the opportunity to select a rock, decorate it with peace-related words and/or symbols and take it with them. The rocks can then be given to friends, family members or neighbors on September 21st , which is the International Day of Peace. Paints and rocks will be supplied, but those wishing to paint a special rock of their own are invited to bring their personal rocks to the museum to decorate as well. The painting workshop is free and will be on a drop-in basis from 10 AM to 2 PM, and will be supervised by museumvolunteers. Children and adults of all ages are welcome to participate. For more information, call 503-842-4553. Bank. Tasks may include: greenhouse and garden weeding, planting, and watering. one way or $2 all day.) Questions: Aletha Westerberg, 503-325-4315 Meetings School Days is the theme for the ENCORE Lunch Bunch to be held on Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 12:30 PM at the Rogue Nation, Hanthorn Cannery Pier, 100 39th Street, Astoria OR. All members and guests are invited to this no-host event. (You could catch the trolley at noon (sharp!) at the West End Mooring Basin stop just for fun and arrive at 39th in time for lunch. (Trolley fare is $1 one way or $2 all day.) Questions: Aletha Westerberg, 503-325-4315 ENCORE Retirement Learning Community. Is an association of retirement-age people who share a love of learning. Established in 2001 by a Steering Committee of retired adults, ENCORE is sponsored by Clatsop Community College. We meet for lunch the first Tuesday of every month. We try to alternate between North and South County, so look for these Community Notes in your local Newspaper to see the place of choice. Our Lunch Bunch get-togethers are a wonderful venue for meeting classmates over lunch, as well as new friends. Remember all guests that might be interested in ENCORE, or just want to know what we’re all about, are welcome. Aletha Westerbeerg, 503-325-4325. Encore Happy Hour. The happy hour will be from 4 to 6 PM. on Sunday, September 18 (third Sunday of the month). The Lightship Restaurant, accessible by elevator in the Adrift Hotel, is located at 409 Sid Snyder Drive, Long Beach, WA, 360 642-3252. We will gather in a separate bar area with an ocean view for our ENCORE Happy Hour. We will be able to order from either the lunch or pub grub menu. It is not necessary to have alcohol as a beverage. The Humphreys’ puppets will introduce “20 Questions,” with a Shakespearian theme, at 5 PM. A copy of Rex Ziak’s great book, “In Full View” will be the winner’s prize. If you have any questions, please contact Maureen Humphreys at 360 642-1301School Days is the theme for the ENCORE Lunch Bunch to be held on Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 12:30 PM at the Rogue Nation, Hanthorn Cannery Pier, 100 39th Street, Astoria OR. All members and guests are invited to this no-host event. (You could catch the trolley at noon (sharp!) at the West End Mooring Basin stop just for fun and arrive at 39th in time for lunch. (Trolley fare is $1 ENCORE (Experience New Concepts of Retirement Education) is an organization that provides its members with interesting classes, field trips, and social events for people 50 years old or older. It is sponsored by Clatsop Community College in conjunction with its Education for Life section. Members decide what they want to learn, how they want to learn it, put on their own classes, have guest speakers, and keep their minds active. For further information about ENCORE, please contact Paula Duncan, College Liason, 503-338-2408 or email pduncan@clatsopcc.edu BREASTFEEDING INFORMATION & SUPPORT. La Leche League’s monthly support group meetings provide an opportunity for both new and experienced mothers to share their questions or concerns, and to talk with each other about the special joys and challenges of parenting. We especially encourage expectant and new mothers to join us. Healthy babies and toddlers are always welcome at La Leche League meetings. We look forward to seeing you soon. Second Monday of the month at 10am- Astoria FOR FURTHER INFO, PLEASE CONTACT JANET 27 sep11 hipfishmonthly.com health & wellness. bodiesinbalance By Tracy Erfling, N.D. Healthy Aging As we approach fall and the bounty of summer begins to wilt and wither it makes me think of the aging process normal and natural to all living things. It is not a phase of life many of us enjoy exploring but being prepared for the course of aging can benefit our quality and quantity of life. Understanding that there are too many specific health challenges to cover in this article, I hope I can touch on some basics, which I expect will apply to most. Digestion…I will repeat what I’ve said before…this is the cornerstone of health. As we age so does this valuable system. The release of stomach acid decreases and with it the cues to pancreatic and gall bladder function begin to weaken as well. Individuals may have a lessening appetite, eat fewer and smaller meals, clearly this varies but is not uncommon. As digestion starts to deteriorate a VERY common symptom that arises is heartburn, for which acid-reducing medication is regularly prescribed. Sadly this quick fix is not a healthy long-term solution as the acid is required for essential vitamin and mineral absorption as well as overall digestive flow. Instead I would suggest a strong lemon or lime and water mix, or apple cider vinegar before or with your meals. This naturally acidic solution will instead strengthen the innate digestive function creating better health. Inflammation…This is the root of disease, it’s really that simple. So logically if we can support the inflammatory pathways in a healthy and beneficial manner we can reduce the progression of diseases that deteriorate our health. The theory is simple it’s the practice that is a challenge, and again as individual lifestyles, genetics, etc vary there is no one simple way to assist this. One no brainer is to reduce your stress or at least learn techniques to manage it. Stress is pro-inflammatory, but when managed can lessen its impact on your overall health. I think as our world has become more stressful we see more activities like Yoga, Tai Chi and meditation gaining popularity because they offer natural stress reduction. Really any kind of exercise will count here, but if you are a go-go-go, anxious, or putting others before yourself type personality then a high impact workout would not necessarily be as nourishing as a slow-down, self-reflective one. Food choices are another must in this category. Quality fresh foods will be less inflammatory than highly processed foods…seems obvious. Another must for almost anyone is a good quality fish oil. A 500mg dose is ideal for healthy individuals…for those already suffering from inflammatory conditions a higher dose may be indicated, but check with a knowledgeable Dr. Tracy Erfling is a naturopath physician in the Lower Columbia Region. Questions? erflingnd@hotmail.com professional if you are uncertain what is safe for you. Cognition…For many memory, thinking and speaking clearly are extremely important indicators of the aging process. Without touching on any one condition I think there are some terrific everyday tools, and nutrients that can support good cognition. Variety is not only important but also more fun. New foods, books, games, puzzles, routes to work, exercises, all increase the pathways in the brain. Doing some activity in your life where you are moving with your eyes closed is also great for the brain and your balance too. Learning in any way, like a language, artistic skill, craft or hobby can improve both the quality of your life and your brain function. One nutrient essential to brain function is B-12, remember to compliment any one B vitamin with a B complex to assure you are not creating deficiency elsewhere. I know you’ve likely all heard about Gingko, wonderful for helping to open and access those small blood vessels and capillaries throughout the body, especially prevalent in the brain. Ginger is another circulatory tonic that I would combine Tracy Erfling n.d. naturopathic physician primary care using natural therapeutics Vicki McAfee Clinical Herbalist Certified Nutritionist Call for an appointment! 503.440.6927 2935 Marine Dr. • Astoria email: erfling@hotmail.com sep11 hipfishmonthly.com for brain function, along with Gotu Kola an herb full of antioxidants to assist in blood vessel damage and repair. A basic multivitamin would cover many of the nutrients discussed here, in addition a sublingual B-12; the herbs can be added if this is an area of special concern. Appearance…the way we look creates much apprehension for many aging adults. This is not only our skin, and hair, but the way we move and carry ourselves. For both men and women it is extremely valuable to build muscle mass before our 50’s; this means performing weight bearing exercise in addition to cardiovascular or the more stress alleviating exercises discussed above. After menopause women have a more profound shift in their physiology which includes a muscle and bone loss. This occurs in men too, just not a dramatically. Keeping our musculoskeletal systems well nourished and flexible helps with ease of movement and long-lasting strength. Our skin is not so unlike this system as it is made of many of the same basic building blocks, namely collagen and muscles. Since the skin is such a rapidly growing organ, it shows the signs of aging more readily. The skin as a whole benefits greatly from the use of antioxidants…vitamins C,D,E, bioflavonoids like rutin, quercitin, resveratrol, and foods like blueberries, acai berries, pomegranate, dark leafy greens and green tea. These antioxidants are a valuable toolbox which enhance the health of our aging bodies. I am not in the anti-aging camp, as with all things naturopathic I believe in supporting the natural processes of the body…of which aging is part. I certainly support any efforts to age in a healthy and vital way and hope these simple reminders can help you to achieve a bounty of health throughout your life. DO something you love, BE with someone you love, EAT your vegetables, DRINK clean water, BREATHE deeply and MOVE your body EVERYDAY! 28 A Gypsy’s Whimsy herbal apothecary 1139 Commercial St. ~ Astoria word and wisdom Up and Down and All Around... (yes, our emotions) Imagine three scenarios. First is a client who’s depressed because a boyfriend has left her. The next person is excited about her new job. She’s just started and its full of potential. Her happiness today seems unending. And the last scenario is a friend who has a crush on a single dad who comes into her business world frequently. She tells me she almost wants to reach out and touch him. Just touch him. She has an emotional crush on him. What’s the similarity here? All are in the throes of emotion. They exist, but yes, the emotions will pass. They will either wither away as time goes on or be replaced as new events occur. Emotions come and go, rise and fall. They are transitory. They are temporary visitors, so to speak. But in the midst of them, be it depression or happiness or attraction, it can feel all-consuming. It can feel like one will or could die from the pain of loss or from the all wonderfulness of happiness. It’s a feeling. Repeat: A feeling. I could say, Just a feeling. To some extent, people learn to handle feelings. From the time we are children, we are encouraged to modulate our feelings. Feeling angry, frustrated? Yes, a temper tantrum might be the immediate response of a toddler but we are taught to handle that emotion better. We are rewarded for not kicking out heels and wailing. It gets even trickier. In some families, members are discouraged from acknowledging sadness or grief. We all learn certain behaviors that allow us to mix well with our immediate society. But sure enough, no one emotion rules day in, day out. Happiness dulls. Sadness lightens. And every other kind of emotion does the same... Some people have a hard time with emotions. Three year olds, for example. They are just learning the power of anger and frustration. A certain personality disorder exists that also By Tobi Nason makes emotional control difficult. Those with the disorder run with every emotion as it presents itself. Excluding those two groups, the rest of the population, depressed, happy or on a flirtatious high, need to practice modulation as opportunites occur. Okay. How’s that going to happen?? Well, it takes practice. Sort of mind over matter. Recognizing how one wants to “behave.” Realizing that the emotion of today may not be the emotion of tomorrow. Life offers surprises that shift things around. Learning that most emotions don’t reguire any special action. Depressed? It may be temporary and pass. It may even morph into anger. In any case, counseling is always an option. Happy to the max? Yes, but... a few weeks later you will be happy but with some reality thrown in. . Feeling love for someone? Time will tell if its reciprocated. If anything, its a nice way to find out more about oneself... what type of person is attractive to you, for example. People don’t like feeling sad or angry. Even an extra dose of happiness can be almost uncomfortable. But it would be a dismal place, indeed, if we didn’t feel things. Our gut reactions to things were once part of our survival systems. Instincts, in other words. A person’s emotions give us information about our world and ourselves. Its important, maybe not for survival anymore, but for well being, to take note of our emotions. Fear and disgust are immediate warning signals. Sadness and anxiety are like the yellow traffic light... slow down and look around.... you may need to stop doing something. Anger may need reasonable and well thought out actions. And love feelings just need to be analyzed as a reflection of oneself. Tobi Nason is a counselor from Manzanita. She often feels content, which is sort of short of sheer happiness, but certainly okay with her. “Our ancestors used the herbs that grew all around them. Let me share with you what they knew that kept them in health. Today more than ever we need herbs and nutrition for obtaining and maintaining optimum health. Allow me to guide you.” Available for private consultation sliding scale fee 503-338-4871 For information call: 503.325.6580 Silverleaf Farm New Farmer: Cesily Stewart Breaks Ground in Naselle Photo: Cathy Nist A ccording to Census data, the average age of farmers in the US is above 50 and continues to rise. At the same time, the percentage of farmers under 35 has been on the decline. The ageing of the farm population has led to concerns about the long-term health of family farms as an American institution. Fortunately, an emerging group of people in their 20s and 30s are interested in farming as a career. Many of these young farmers are attracted to small-scale, lessmechanized, organic methods of farming and tend to gravitate to the farm-to-fork culture popular in the Pacific Northwest. Cesily Stewart, the sixth of eight children is in her late 20s and is the force behind Silverleaf Farm of Naselle, Washington. This year, she is selling her farm products for the first time at the River People Farmers Market in Astoria. She vends produce and flowers that she grows as well as value added products of her own creation such as herbal teas and sweet treats. She often shares a booth with Fred Johnson of Fred’s Homegrown, also of Naselle. Silverleaf Farm encompasses 14 acres of bottomland enclosed within a horseshoe bend of the Naselle River. The Stewart family, who has lived onsite off and on since 1984, owns the farm. Roughly half of the acreage is open field, the remainder is ancient overgrown apple orchard and forest with some old growth spruce remaining near the river. The main house and outbuildings dot the edge of the field. A pet horse roams freely except for the fenced-in garden areas. It’s a pretty spot if one edits out the new clearcut across the road to the south of the farm. By Cathy Nist plenty of room for expansion in the future, For Cesily Stewart, the journey to and she plans to start a CSA, but feels becoming a farmer was inevitable. “For a that she doesn’t yet have the experience long period of my life, I felt disconnected needed for such a project. from the culture I was trying to participate During Stewart’s childhood, her family in” she said. “After a series of soul-sucking always had a big garden. In making the jobs, I came to the point where living susleap to production-scale farming she has tainably by farming seemed like the only experienced a huge learning curve, while thing to do.” She had been traveling for a having to invest more money and effort time and had contemplated finding land than she had initially estimated. Last year for a farm. Near the start of the current when the production garden was first tilled recession, she was about to start a farm and planted; she had to learn how much internship on the island of Maui when she acreage she could realistically take on. made what she thought would be a quick “My big lesson this year has been trying to detour home for a family visit. learn soil nutrition,” she says. During that visit she learned that her One of the obstacles for new farmers parents felt they might lose their property. who wish to avoid petroleum-based agriBecause of this, Cesily decided to remain cultural methods is a lack of knowledge. in Naselle. Over several months of discusYoung farmers used to learn from their sion, Stewart, her parents, and her sister elders, but the shift to large-scale factory and brother-in law hammered out a plan farms in the 20th Century has left a knowlthat would allow them all to live on the family land and contribute to the mortgage edge gap of a generation or more. It is together, with five of them sharing the pay- difficult for new farmers like Stewart to find mentors in an area like the Naselle Valley ments instead of just two. where, other than remnants of cow/calf Cesily’s part of the project was to start up and run a small-scale commercial farm production, agriculture has fallen out of fashion. She is able to consult with Fred on the property. “ I just felt like that was Johnson to some extent as he has been my opportunity, she said. “I don’t really farming in the area since 2003 and is a have all the skills I was hoping I could amass before starting such a project, but I felt that if I didn’t act then, the land that I love might no longer be available to me.” Stewart now grows greens, squash, lettuce, broccoli, tomatoes, cucumbers and other vegetables along with medicinal herbs and flowers for bouquets on a ½ acre plot which is about the most as she can We have a great selection of everything currently handle. There is you need for indoor gardening! few years farther along the often-daunting learning process. Stewart realizes that at some point she is probably going to have to “bite the bullet” and attend a farm school. She is interested in Greenbank Farm on Whidby Island, Washington, which offers a 7-month sustainable agriculture program that teaches the technical and business skills needed to run a farm. She is also interested in studying herbal medicine, permaculture, and sustainable building, and acquiring primitive skills such as bow hunting. Ultimately, the Stewart family plans to operate Silverleaf Farm as a collective farm and sustainable living and learning center, offering workshops and hands-on experience in raising food and low-impact construction. Young farmers like Cesily Stewart are important. Big Ag as we know it is heading for inevitable changes away from the current heavy dependence on petroleum. We need a corps of innovative young farmers who will help transition the face of agriculture into a post-petroleum future. Kudos to Stewart for all of the hard work she has done and will continue to do! Northwest Authors Second Saturday Series Thanks to the Cannon Beach Book Company we hear from an author the second Saturday of each month at 2pm. Coming this Fall! ❖ Brian Doyle, novelist and award-winning essayist opens this year’s series, September 10th. ❖ Emily Chenowith ❖ Scott Sparling The Cannon Beach Library • 131 N. Hemlock • 503-436-1391 PREMI U ASSIST M POWER BIC emoto YCLES ev.com We have a great selection of ALL you need for indoor gardening! • indoor organic soil gardening • soilless medium gardening • hydroponics • nutrients, horticultural spectrum lighting, pest control, fertilizers & more! www.astoriaindoor.com 13th and Exchange in Astoria • 503.468.0606 • Open Every Day 10am – 6pm 11th and Marine Drive in Astoria 503.325.2961 • www.bikesandbeyond.com Summer Hours are: 10am ‘til 6pm Mondays through Fridays 9am ‘til 6pm Saturdays • 11am ‘til 4pm Sundays 29 sep11 hipfishmonthly.com NEWS on the food line. Hondo’s Brew & Cork First annual home brewer’s competition Hondo’s Brew & Cork first annual home brewer’s competition is currently underway. Contestants may register for the competition at Ft .George Brewery, 1483 Duane Street, orHondo’s Brew & Cork, 2703 Marine Drive. The deadline for registration is September 8, 2011. Brew samples should be submitted to Hondo’s Brew & Cork no later than Thursday, September 23before 8 p.m. Competition judging will take place between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. at Hondo’s Brew &Cork on September 24. Brew samples should contain no less than 10 oz and be stored indark brown glass beer bottles. Three categories will be judged: pale ales, stout/porter and wheat brews. Rosettes for 1st, 2nd and3rd places will be awarded. The best of show wins a $25 gift certificate for home brew supplies at Hondo’s Brew & Cork and winner may have their recipe brewed by a local brewery and put on tap locally for bragging rights. Winners of the competition will be announced at Northwest Brew Cup Saturday, September 24 at evening’s end. Hondo’s Brew & Cork provides home brew equipment and supplies, brew instruction and bottle microbrew beer serving and tasting on premises. We have an extensive catalog featuring everything for the home brewer, as well as twelve handle draft Pub brews, selected from popular brew pubs in the Northwest and across the US. Make Charcuterie – that would be sausage. Making Charcuterie with Locally Raised Meats. Monday, September 26. A day-long workshop on making delicious, safe, and legal charcuterie (cured meats). Talks in the morning will cover relevant regulations and best practices for controlling pathogens during meat curing. In the afternoon, expert salumists will demonstrate techniques and best practices. $25, includes lunch. 8am – 4pm at EVOO Cooking School in Cannon Beach. Fro reservations call Kristen Frost Albrecht 503-325-8575 FoodCorps: A School Food Army begins in Tillamook County. Tillamook welcomes new FoodCorps Service member, Emily Ritchie as she begins her year of service working at Food Roots. Ritchie is one of four FoodCorps members serving in Oregon, under Oregon Department of Agriculture’s Farm to School Program. Food Roots, in Tillamook County, is the only rural site in Oregon to be selected for as FoodCorps service site this year. FoodCorps is a brand new national nonprofit partnering with AmeriCorps. This year, 50 young people will be serving in the FoodCorps pilot project in ten states nationally. Their work seeks to combat childhood obesity and diet-related disease while training the next generation of farmers and public health leaders. Ritchie will be spending a year in Tillamook, conducting nutrition education, building and tending school gardens and connecting students and their teachers with our regional food system. She will be working with Tillamook Options Program School (TOPS). Ritchie grew up in Portland, OR but most recently has moved to Tillamook County from Los Angeles where she attended Occidental College. Parade Magazine’s Dash highlighted the program: “By leveraging federal funds and the revitalized public service program of AmeriCorps, FoodCorps aims to provide the people-power necessary to change the school food environment in communities that need it most.” wrote FoodCorps co-organizer Cecily Upton. “This is more than just another food pyramid poster on the cafeteria wall, FoodCorps is a school food army, putting boots on the ground in service for healthier kids.” FMI: Food Roots programs, please contact Food Roots at 5030842-3154 X2 or e-mail at farm2school@foodrootsnw.org or info@foodrootsnw. org Organically Grown in Oregon Week In recognition of the importance of organic farmers, processors and distributors to the state, Oregon Governor John A. Kitzhaber renewed sep11 hipfishmonthly.com 30 a proclamation declaring September 12-18, 2011, Organically Grown in Oregon Week. This week-long celebration of the organic agricultural industry, including its certifiers, farmer’s markets and consumers, will include farm tours, grassroots events, wine tastings, and the presentation of the 2011 Oregon Organic Coalition’s Awards in Excellence on September 13, at the Ecotrust Building in Portland. This year’s luncheon will be keynoted by Jim Weaver, local politician, author and environmental activist. FMI and schedule of events, go to: oregonorganiccoalition. org/organicweek.html Food Hub Connecting with Local Farms Improvements in FoodHub. Ecotrust recently released an expanded suite of features and improved functionality on FoodHub, the online directory and marketplace that makes it easy and efficient for wholesale food buyers and sellers in the Western US to find each other, connect and do business. The extensive site upgrades make using FoodHub faster and easier for busy chefs, grocers and foodservice professionals to communicate with and source from local farmers and food producers who are often far afield. food-hub.org/ Grants for Micro-Entrepeneurs Grant Equivalent: Farm & Food System Individual Development Accounts with Food Roots. Food Roots may still have openings for food system-related business owners or start-ups (low to moderate-income level) in need of financial support. IDAs are a state of Oregon initiative to help support micro-entrepreneurs (funded through tax deductible donations made to the state program). Individuals accepted into the program open savings accounts at participating financial institutions, agree to terms of the program; work with Food Roots and community partners to learn financial planning and business plan development skills; and use their savings and matched funds to purchase business assets that will propel them into successful local business owners (and in this case, food system-related businesses in Tillamook and Clatsop counties).Those interested in applying for a farm or food system Individual Development Account through Food Roots Microenterprise programming, or for more information about eligibility for IDAs, please contact Lauren Karl at (503) 842-3154 x 5 or email microbiz@foodrootsnw.org and visit our webpage at www.foodrootsnw. org/ida. Double your SNAP at River People’s Farmer’s Market North Coast Food Web is working a new angle to get healthy food on the table. River People Farmers Market, the flagship program of the Food Web has accepted Oregon Trails Cards from SNAP, (the program formally known as food stamps), WIC and Senior Nutrition vouchers since they opened in June, and now Starting August 11 River People shoppers will find their money going farther with the SNAP Match program. Using funds from a small matching grant put forth by the Astoria Cooperative, SNAP shoppers will be able to spend up to $10 more per week, per Oregon Trails card, on food. Thanks to the grant 10 SNAP dollars will now translate into 20 River People Dollars. Just how far will that money go? Here’s an example of what $20 can buy at the River People Farmers Market: a dozen free-range nutrient-dense eggs, a loaf of whole grain bread, 3 big bunches of dark leafy greens, and some beautiful vitamin C rich berries. And That can create 2-3 fabulous breakfasts for a family of four. The positive impact continues when the vendors spend the money they receive locally, increasing prosperity for our entire community. One small step for community food security. Adds up to a giant leap for the local economy. OSU Extension and the CCA Regional Food Bank will at the River People Market to promote the SNAP program. Application will be available on site. You can even sign up on line at: www.oregonsafenet.org Or look to www.oregonhelps.org for info on SNAP, housing, health insurance, tax credits and cash assistance for families with children. Farmer’s Markets Food, flowers, and plants. Columbia-Pacific Farmer’s Market. Fridays, 3 – 7pm, May Through September. In downtown Long Beach, WA River People’s Farmer’s Market. Thursdays, 3 – 7pm, June 23 through September, possible into October. At the parking lot in front of Astoria Indoor Garden Supply on 13th St in Astoria. The market accepts EBT, and WIC and Senior Nutrition coupons. Seaside Farmer’s Market. Saturdays, July 2 – September 24 (excluding August 27), 1 – 4pm at the TLC Credit Union Parking Lot. Cannon Beach Farmer’s Market. Tuesdays, June 14 – September 27, 2 – 5pm. Located in the Midtown area of Cannon Beach. EBT, Visa, and Mastercard accepted. Tillamook Farmer’s Market. Saturdays, June 11 – September 24, 9am – 2pm. At Laurel & 2nd St in Tillamook. Open Air Markets Food, plus handicrafts, art and more. Cowlitz Community Farmers Market. Saturdays, through October, 9am – 2pm. At the Cowlitz Expo Center in Longview, WA. Kelso Bridge Market. Sundays, May – September, 10am – 3pm. At Rotary Spray Park, on the lawn of Catlin Hall in Kelso, WA. Two Islands Farm Market. Fridays, 3 – 6:30pm, May – October. 59 W. Birnie Slough Rd on Puget Island. Trolley shuttle available from the Elochoman Marina at 3, 4, & 5pm and stops at the Chamber of Commerce in Cathlamet, WA. Weekend Market. Fridays and Saturdays on the first and third weekends of the month, 10am – 4pm. At the Long Beach Grange on Sandridge Road in Long Beach, WA. Saturday Market at the Port. Saturdays, April – September, 10am – 4pm. Along the waterfront in Ilwaco, WA. Astoria Sunday Market. Sundays, May 8 – October 9, 10am – 3pm. On 12th St in downtown Astoria. Manzanita Farmer’s Market. Fridays, June 10 – September 23, 5 – 8pm (5 – 7pm after September 9). At the Windermere parking lot on Laneda in Manzanita. Yes . . . you can play with our action figures. 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