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CULTURAL CALENDAR the month day by day 14 - 22 - Thrown Under the Bus . . . Berk 8-9 - Occupy Astoria . . . Ham 10 - Occupy Your Holiday . . . Hadley 11 - Tortoise and Euro . . . Childress 12 - PROFILE: Michael Farrell . . . Giese 13 COLUMNS: - Spa at the CAnnery . . . Urell 29 COLUMNS Steve Berk . . . 6 Qfolk . . . 7 WEED WARS . . . Goldberg 10 Sonja Grace Future . . .24 FLASHCUTS ...... Kanekuni 23 Bike Madame . . . Hammitt-McDonald . . 26 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY . . . Brezny 26 Network Community Listings . . . 23 Bodies in Balance. . . . . Erfling ND 28 Word & Wisdom . . . Nason 28 FOODGROOVE . . . Cathy Nist 30

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3 dec11 hipfishmonthly.com Happy Holidays from HIPFiSH. Please celebrate with us at KALA, and visit our Cash & Carry Holiday Frolic! Functional Art! Funky Fun! Great Gift Ideas. Yummy Treats! Libations. Musical Surprises!

We have Donations to The Wishing Tree Program! your holiday wear Location #1: . . 1454 Commercial Saturday, Dec 10, noon to 9ish . . ASTORIA Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Heather performs! and Friday thru Sunday, Sunday, Dec 11, Noon to 5pm from noon to 6:00 p.m. Some of the Featured Artisans: Phone: 503.325.4272 Heather Christie: The North Coast’s beloved folk rock diva creates heatherADORNS, an original jewelry line inspired by tribal elements in a modern world. Gemstones, rocks, feath- Location #2: ers, metal. treasures collected over the years, find their way into your earrings. 411 Broadway Street Karen Bain: object d’ art sculpture and creative stocking stuffers from Astoria’s well known SEASIDE theater director. Hours: Thursday through JoAnn Berryman: Seaside artist with fine sterling silver jewelry and semi-precious stones. Monday, from noon to 6:00 p.m. Brandy Coulthard: Famed tattooist and Owner of Hold Fast Tattoo in Seaside. New prints of forest friendly critters with holiday cheer. Phone: 503.738.SEAG Sally Lackaff: Fabulous Astoria artist and illustrious illustrator of children’s books. Haley Espuland-Rogers: Seaside artist and owner of Ocean Forest Pottery. She crafts a www.garbosvintage.com Jane Herrold Desert Motifs wide range of pottery with local themes. Jane Herrold: Astoria’s craft fairy, and host of Café Vaquera, with new desert paintings and her favorite bags & cowboy shirts. Anne Greenwood: A Hipfish Portland favorite mixed media artist, (she created our famed The Pagan Call for Spring, IMBOLC:MBOLC: giant blue creature at KAKA opening), new textiles and prints. MBOLC:MBOLCthe Ritual: TheWarming Pagan of the Call Earth for Spring, for the I the Ritual WarmingPlanting of the of Earth Our Seeds for the Darcy Wiegardt: Simple yet elegant adornments for the throat chakra – semi precious gems Planting of Our Seeds on leather illuminate your essence. KMUN 91.9 FM Jennifer Goodenberger: Astoria pianist/composer, offers rich prints, textiles, cards, and KMUN 91.9 FM her music CDs. Nikki McClure: New calendars and gift tags from one of the NW’s most original paper cut artists featuring strong images of everyday life. Margriet Seinen: teacher and artist who paints on silk with images of both fantasy and Pagan Pancakes reality that she calls “landscapes of the heart”. Pieces are published in The Best of Silk Paint- Pagan Pancakes ing by Jonas & Tuckman. Ray Prestegard & Randy Weese Shweeash Farm: Real Country Living - featuring functional hand crafted art with a unique Ray Prestegard & Randy Weese twist by Agnes Field, Dawn Weaver (knitted happy socks) and Iris Moon Weav-erbell and Vanessa Getchell (youngsters with razor clam angels and glittered silverdol-lar oraments) ANiTiZE and a few others others.... ANiTiZE featuring The Maidens of Imbolc Brandy Coulthard Two-in-the-Bush! featuring The withMaidens the Dance for of the Imbolc Calling of Spring with the Dance for the Calling of Spring JOYFUL TIDINGS FROM HIPFISH! hank you to all of our readers and advertisers Saturday January 28 Tfor supporting our mission to provide alternative SaturdayASOC Playhouse, January 7pm - midnight 28 journalism to the Columbia Pacific Region. ASOC$ 7 Playhouse, 7pm129 W. -Bond midnight St, Astoria We celebrate the voice of the coastal spirit, the spirit or 2$ for7 $10 a benefit for late night129 musicW. Bond St, Astoria that abides within and nurtures the health and welfare and vitality of on orKMUN 2 for $10 91.9FMa benefit Astoria for lateand KTCBnight music 89.5FM Tillamook the land, the waters, the animals and the people. on KMUN 91.9FM Astoria and KTCB 89.5FM Tillamook We will be back with you in 2012. Hipfish will publish next, the second Friday in January, as we take a joyous break for the holidays. PEACE TO ALL! From all of us here at HIPFiSHmonthly. dec11 hipfishmonthly.com 4 Sneak Preview of the New Documentary Happy Holidays from HIPFiSH. Ocean Frontiers: the Dawn of a New Era Please celebrate with us at KALA, and visit our in Ocean Stewardship Ocean Frontiers is a new documentary How to live along side these from Green Fire Productions that explores the Cash & Carry Holiday Frolic! massive wild animals challenges facing our ocean and chronicles suc- Functional Art! Funky Fun! Great Gift Ideas. “ELK-STRAVAGANZA” cessful strategies being implemented across the With WILDLIFE EXPERT Bryan country to address them. Yummy Treats! Libations. Musical Surprises! Mary Wahl, a fourth generation rancher from Swearingen And LOCAL PANEL the southern Oregon coast featured in Ocean Donations to The Wishing Tree Program! of Elk Enthusiasts Frontiers says, “We needed to bury that tired, old idea, that loggers and fishing people, ranch- ers and environmentalists were on different sides. Those days are sort of over. It’s clear that Saturday, Dec 10, noon to 9ish . . . . people from all these different arenas can come Nehalem - Everyone has their stories far north as the Columbia River, as far the patterns and habits of our local together and make good things happen, and west at the North Oregon coast and as about living with the local elk herds— herds. Attendees are encouraged to that’s what’s going on here.” Sunday, Dec 11, Noon to 5pm from photographers who can’t get far south as Neskowin. bring stories to share and questions to Ocean Frontiers takes us on an inspiring enough of this impressive subject, to His wealth of knowledge includes have answered. voyage to seaports and watersheds across the gardeners who talk about decimated his tenure as the Oregon Department country—from the busy shipping lanes of Boston Admission is $5 for general public shrubs to hunters who follow their mi- of Fish and Wildlife’s Columbia Region Harbor to an obscure little fishing community in gratory patterns. On Friday, Decem- Wildlife Habitat biologist from 1989- and free for LNCT members. Annual the Pacific Northwest; from America’s coral reef ber 9, 7pm, in the Riverbend Room 1997, working with the Green Forage membership in the Lower Nehalem playground in the Florida Keys to the nation’s Ocean Frontiers is a must-see film, says Billy at NCRD, come and learn to separate Program, which helps minimize elk Community Trust supports local land premier seafood nursery in the Mississippi Delta. Causey, Southeast Regional Director, National Here we meet an intermingling of unlikely allies, biology from mythology when it comes damage in residential areas by improv- conservation and nature education Marine Sanctuary System. “Ocean Frontiers tells of industrial shippers and whale biologists, pig to these majestic wild animals. ing the forage quality for elk on private a powerful story about stakeholder involvement for children and adults. Benefits of farmers and wetland ecologists, sport fishers Join the Lower Nehalem Communi- and public lands. In 1998, Bryan and the concept of multiple uses and the need membership include free or reduced and reef snorkelers and many more, all of them ty Trust as it presents Bryan Swearin- accepted the manager position at the to balance conservation and protection with admission at Trust events, workshops embarking on a new course of cooperation, in gen, manager of the Jewell Meadows Jewell Meadows Wildlife Area where sustainable use. Everyone who makes a living defense of the seas that sustain us. Wildlife Area in an informative evening he now works to provide habitat for and speakers, monthly e- bulletin, off the ocean and cares about the ocean needs focusing on the habits, habitat and up to 200 elk during the winter and semi-annual newsletter, decal and to see this film.” movement of elk herds. Bryan will spring months. He will be giving an more. For more information about Filmed in HD, 80 minutes. Ocean Frontiers be discussing the life cycle of the elk overview of this preserve and sharing this event or to become a member is a documentary and outreach campaign to and will provide insights on living along about the challenges and successes inspire and mobilize audiences to better care for of the Lower Nehalem Community side these massive mammals. Bryan at Jewell Meadows. the ocean, for the good of all. Trust, call 503-368-3203. LNCT is brings 22 years of experience with Bryan will be joined at the “Elk- A new way of thinking, a new way of living, in the Roosevelt Elk population in areas Stravaganza” by local elk enthusiasts a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization concert with the sea, in consideration of those reaching as far east as Mt. Hood, as who have a deep understanding of founded in 2002. yet to come. Now is your opportunity to get involved. Conversation Project Oregon’s Ocean Fisheries: A Conservation Story Free Statewide Community Discussions This Winter The uplifting story of how West Coast fisheries became Conversation Project pro- 2012, are listed below by county. by Sarah E. Dougher (1/14/12 sustainable. It’s a story, that, until now, has NOT been told. grams cover topics such as racial For more information about each at 1 p.m. at Tillamook County diversity in Oregon, land use, and program and to view the full events Pioneer Museum, 2106 2nd St., Go out to sea with the fishermen to see how perspective on Oregon’s Ocean. (Produced by decision making in a democracy. calendar, please visit oregonhuman- Tillamook) they harvest seafood. You will see and hear, Onno Husing). Communities around the state ities.org. first hand, from fishermen and scientists, how Go to www.oregon.gov/LCD/OPAC for agendas have year-round access to free dis- Oregon Humanities connects they partnered to make big-effective changes and more information on the Territorial Sea Plan cussions through the Conversa- Clatsop County Oregonians to ideas that change to the fisheries. The take-away message of the Working Group and OPAC meetings. tion Project, a program of Or- • White Out?: The Future of Racial lives and transform communi- film is CONSERVATION WORKS when informed Go to www.oczma.org/themove.php for more egon Humanities that connects Diversity in Oregon, by Emily ties. More information about our people collaborate to achieve common objec- information on “Oregon’s Ocean Fisheries,” and programs and publications—which Oregonians with public scholars and Drew (1/19/12 at 7 p.m. at the tives. People who have seen the film report www.ocean-frontiers.org for more on “Ocean provocative ideas. Judge Guy Boyington Building, include the Conversation Project, the documentary gave them an entirely new Frontiers.” The 2011–12 Conversation 857 Commercial St., Astoria) Think & Drink, Humanity in Perspec- Project lineup features 26 programs • From Print to Pixels: The Act of tive, Happy Camp, Public Program that span diverse topics, including Reading in the Digital Age, by Grants, Responsive Program Grants, Clatsop County is sponsoring a FREE OPAC is a 24-member advisory panel to the the use of natural resources, the Mark Allen Cunningham (1/21/12 and Oregon Humanities magazine— screening of two movies at the Fort George Governor representing fishing and conserva- history of Black people in Oregon, at 2 p.m. at the Astoria Public can be found at oregonhumanities. Brewery Lovell Tap Room, on December 15, tion interests, local governments, tribes and gender in pop music, censorship, Library, 450 10th St., Astoria) org. Oregon Humanities is an from 6:00 until 9:00 PM. The movie event state agencies with stakes in management of the Civil War, decision making in independent, nonprofit affiliate of coincides with the Dec. 15-16 meeting of the Oregon’s marine environment. The council is a democracy, and volunteerism in Tillamook the National Endowment for the Oregon Ocean Policy Advisory Council (OPAC) currently updating the management plan for America. Programs are scheduled • S/he-bop: Making Sense of Humanities and a partner of the and Territorial Sea Plan Working Group in Oregon’s Territorial Sea, which extends three thp 31, 2011, to February 27, Gender in American Pop Music, Oregon Cultural Trust. Astoria. nautical miles from shore.

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Lots of "New" Old Books Ann Baldwin Memorial December 11, 2011 3 - 7 PM PO Box 1096 The Loft at the Red Building 244 North Spruce Ann F. “Annie” Baldwin 20 BAsin Street, AStoria Cannon Beach, OR 97110 Massage Therapist/Teacher, 63 (503) 436-0549 Beloved Community Member PROPRIETORS Ann Farber Baldwin of Chinook, Washing- In 1980 she began her life’s professional Jennifer & Watt Childress ton, died Tues. Nov. 22 at home. work as a Licensed Massage Therapist as co- APPRENTICES She was born Ann Helen Farber on Decem- owner of the Evergreen Massage Clinic in S.W. Roan & Willa Childress ber 18, 1947 in New York City, the first child Portland where she practiced for 5 years. of Arthur and Ruth (Jaffe) Farber. On November 29, 1985 she married the E-mail: [email protected] She spent her childhood years in Queens, love of her life, Ron Baldwin of Clatskanie, Web: www.jupiterbooks.com New York, before moving to Seattle, Washing- Oregon. Their son, Alex, was born the following ton at the age of 8. She graduated from Sam- year. In 1987 the couple purchased their first mamish High School in Bellevue, Washington home in Astoria, Oregon where Ann established in 1965. a private massage practice. In 1993 the family In the fall of 1965 she entered Reed College moved to Chinook, Washington where she in Portland, Oregon, which she attended until resided for the rest of her life. The couple oper- 1968 when she moved to London, England. ated Lido Caffé Espresso in Astoria for 10 years always be remembered for her intelligence, There she attended the London School of Eco- and Aunt Clara’s Greenhouse, a retail nursery warmth and kindness and for this, she will be nomics from the fall of 1968 until the spring in Chinook for 6 years. She taught “Massage missed by many. of 1969. After traveling throughout Europe for For Relaxation” for 20 years at Clatsop Com- Mrs. Baldwin is survived by her husband, some months, she returned to Reed College in munity College in Astoria. Ron Baldwin at home in Chinook; their son, the fall of 1969 where she graduated with the She had many and varied interests, among Alexander Baldwin and fiancé Heather Coy, class of 1970, earning a degree in philosophy. them literature, philosophy, music and the of Seattle, Washington; her brother and During her time in Portland she became outdoors. An accomplished pianist and banjo/ sister-in-law, Daniel and Jean Farber of Mt. familiar with and eventually joined a close-knit guitar player, she was a member of many mu- Vernon, Washington; her sister and brother- community known as Mist Mountain Farm sical groups and performed in several theatrical in-law, Laurie and Robie Pruden of Edgewood, The Lower Columbia Clinic near Clatskanie, Oregon. There she taught in productions. The old piano danced under her Washington; a sister-in-law, Susan Baldwin of the Mayger School Head Start program until fingers at many Netul Grange country dances. Nogales, Arizona; nieces, Jenny Chapman of Thomas S. Duncan, M.D. • Susan L Skinner, CNM, CFNP 1974 when she was promoted to Head Start She was surrounded by a large circle of San Francisco, California and Debbie Parker of administrator for the northern Willamette Valley friends, as she could form connections with Dallas, Texas; and nephews Zachary Farber of 595 18th, Astoria • 503-325-9131 and returned to Portland. ease. But her most important role in life was Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Darryl Johnson of that of a beloved wife and mother. She will Nogales, Arizona. - submitted A MESSAGE FROM ROLF… Left to right: Jim Fink, Stephanie Stein, Joseph Stevenson, An- nie Baldwin in rehearsal for the first Tribute to Woody Guthrie, “Hey... here written and directed by Joseph Stevenson, circa ‘74. Look out! at the Shelter It’s Rolf we’ve got dogs Annie was a friend for over 35 years and was probably still living again! in a commune on Mist Mountain when this photo was taken. and we’ve got She was a calm and friendly anchor to many a creative flurry of mine, on stage in “A Tribute to Woody Guthrie”, “Chautauqua”, cats. So, what and “The Oregon Trail”; and as piano player for the Green Coun- are you waiting try Dance Band which started the monthly country dances at Oh noooo Netel Grange in 1979. To the end she walked through everything not Rolf! for? with grace and good humor, and will be sorely missed for her fine musicianship, her healing hands, and her big heart. - Joseph Stevenson Don’t make me come over and lick your face for an hour or two (or more!).

Adopt from Community Candlelight Walk the Shelter All are welcome to join in a candlelight walk Together we can PLEASE!” through downtown Astoria to recognize our connectedness. build a stronger, Saturday, December 10th safer community Walk begins at 5 pm for everyone. Corner of 12th & Commercial Streets, Astoria, OR dec11 hipfishmonthly.com 6 Oregon Banks Local A website scores “localness” of Oregon LGBTQ news and culture banks” and Clatsop Community Bank for the lower columbia pacific NOW OPEN gets the points! f The North Coast’s stock ownership; zero points for newest state of the art NASDAQ/NYSE traded institutions with private owners outside the animal hospital region) branch distribution (two Veterinarian Dr. Melanie Haase points for 66 percent or more brings 16 years experience to the new Safe Harbor Animal Hospital branches located in Oregon; one Folk Digital X-Ray • Major and Minor Surgery • Full in-house lab point for 66 percent or more Latest Dental Equipment • Member of the Emergency Rotation Team branches located in the region, Q-JAZZQ at the Bridgewater Bistro Handicap accessible • Competitive Prices zero points otherwise)percentage Third Thursdays HOLIDAY PARTY!!!!!!!! “Oregon Banks Local” was 250 36th • Astoria, Oregon 503.325.8920 • safeharboranimalhospital.net of assets held in small business Please Bring a non-perishable for the Clatsop launched to help Oregonians County FoodBAnk! Open Mon-Fri 8am to 5:30pm, Sat 8am to noon loans (two points for 20 percent House calls welcome Thursday 1pm to 5pm • Walk-ins welcome every Wed who want to bank with local in- or more, one point for greater Q-Jazz invites the LGBTQ community, and look forward stitutions to understand how the than 10 but less than 20 per- Community and friends the third to the event growing as a various institutions compare to cent, zero points otherwise) one another. The organizations Thursday of each month to enjoy permanent monthly mixer for the airs behind the website (including Clatsop Community Bank the Basin St. Northwest Jazz Q-Community. THIS WAY OUT Oregon Working Families Party, earned seven of the maximum Trio, complimentary apps, and As the we wind into winter, Jobs with Justice and the Rural eight points. This represents the piano bar hosted by friends and folks are encouraged to come on KMUN Coast Community Organizing Project) created Or- highest score of banks and credit performance associates Dinah early for dinner. The December egon Banks Local to help people Radio, Wednesdays at 10:30pm. unions in the survey’s “North/ Urell and Walt Trumbull. event will celebrate the Holiday determine just “how local a Central Coast” region. Only four Arrive at 8pm for compli- Season - collect donations for marks over 20 ,years bank or credit union truly is” and institutions in the state earned mentary appetizers and catch a This Way Out the CC Foodbank and a small ). wanted the public to be able to a perfect score of eight – all of sampling of Basin St. NW piano donation for families in need evaluate institutions on measur- them were cooperatively owned. trio led by Chuck Wilder, featur- able criteria, rather than relying “We have seen a spike in new through the Foodbank. Our first program was distributed on April 1, 1988 (no foolin ing guitarist Dave Drury, and on the air! on marketing that suggests a account activity, as have many Third Thursdays. 8pm- bassist Todd Pederson. Urell and bank is “local” – a label that community banks and credit 10pm. The Bridgewater is the award-winning internationally distributed weekly GLBT Trumbull dip into the American This Way Out can be applied and interpreted unions,” said Executive Vice- Bistro is located at the Port president Joe Schulte. songbook, in solo and duo, radio program, currently airing on over 150 local commmunity radio stations broadly. of Astoria, 20 Basin St., The site, oregonbankslocal. “People are realizing when and open the mic for folks who 503.325.6777 around the world. org, scores all banks and credit they shop locally and bank would like to sing, in the vein of unions operating in the state of locally, they are keeping their American standards, jazz and leads off each week with NewsWrap, a summary of some of the dollars in the community,” said blues. Expertise not required. Old This Way Out Oregon on the criteria below, Third Thursday awarding zero, one or two points President and CEO Steve Ferber. school piano bar culture, with a major news events in or affecting the lesbian/gay community, compiled from a as follows: “That’s critical to our collective jazz twist – the soulful progres- PFLAG Meeting Holiday Potluck! future.” sions of pianist Chuck Wilder as variety of publications and broadcasts around the world. If you have a local news The next regular PFLAG , location of headquarters (two Clatsop Community Bank your back-up is a treat. d like us to report, please let us know! points for Oregon headquarters; meeting will be on the story you opened in the spring of 2008, The event, now underway, one point for Washington, Idaho and has two branches – one in third Thursday December is proving to be a spacious and 15, 6:30 pm at the First is sponsored in part or Northern California headquar- Astoria and one in Seaside. For This Way Out welcoming social gathering. Lutheran Church, 725 ters; zero points for headquar- the past two years it has been Owners of the Bridgewater, Ann 33rd Street, in Astoria.. Qfolk/Hipfish. ters elsewhere) ownership (two ranked among Oregon’s 100 by points for cooperative ownership; Best Companies to Work For by and Tony Kitchner welcome the one point for private or limited Oregon Business magazine. Clatsop County Marriage Equality Project FROM the Oregon Banks Local Website: In lieu of the decsion an- CCMEP Board Chair Katie Investing in Oregon, not Wall Street nounced by Basic Rights Oregon Rathmell said that while a lot of Currently, 66% of private deposits here in Oregon to not go forward with a marriage work and enthusiasm was spent are held by just five Wall Street banks. If we want equality measure in the 2012 to assist in gauging voter opinion to gain control of our economy away from Wall election year, but to continue an Street we will have to do better than that! As we education campaign regarding over the last year and half, that affordable become less reliant on big banks, our local com- same-sex marriage rights, the the group will be creative in its website design & optimization munity banks and credit unions will thrive. Oregon Clatsop County Marriage Equality efforts to support the mission. Project will continue its partner- Banks Local is about building a truly local and CCMEP will announce in January, ship with BAsic RightsOregon, sustainable economy that keeps our money here in an LGBT film fest series, that will Oregon to rebuild our main streets and rural com- the Rural Organizing Project, and its mission to bring awareness to entertain as well as educate on michellerothdesign.com munities. this pending civil right. various issues. 503.298.1928 astoria

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Check out our Pirate Loot! Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun Friday & Saturdays This month’s extended column by Stephen Berk addresses through Dec 30 Tickets $18 & $23 the recent personnel cuts at Clatsop Community College. By Stephen Berk Sponsored by The Clark Family I write this piece as a concerned citizen who has spent most of Kathryn Clair & Games and his life connected with higher education, now as board member at Hanz Araki puzzles for kids Clatsop College. In that capacity, I have gotten a close look at the w/Friends of all ages! conditions that have now forced severe retrenchment on our lo- Celtic Conspiracy cal college just after we rebuilt our campus, celebrated our fiftieth a celtic music and 503-368-4873 anniversary and looked forward to an expansive future. As a board perfomance member I need to say that the argument and opinion I put forth experience 457 Laneda Ave. Saturday Dec 18 Manzanita, OR here speaks only for me and not the Clatsop Community College 7:30pm Board as a whole. Tickets $14, Stud $8 On Wednesday, November 2, I awoke to a But Clatsop College works at constant have seen much greater percentage increases 108 N. Hemlock phone call from a friend who teaches at the disadvantage and has frequently had to do due to their much greater populations. The Cannon Beach, OR Box Office: 503.436.1242 College calling my attention to an email stating without or dismiss important areas of study “equalization” formula says you give the lion’s www.coastertheatre.com that fifteen full-time instructors would be laid and the faculty representing them because of share of the state’s rapidly shrinking commu- off and listing who they were to be. Clatsop two main issues. One is an odd, rather techni- nity college budget to the bigger schools that College is a tiny school compared to the cal arrangement which goes by an Orwellian are growing at a faster pace. That wouldn’t be community colleges in the I-5 corridor, where name called the “equalization formula.” Dur- so bad if our appropriation at Clatsop College most of the state’s population resides. Like ing times of economic downturn, such as the remained the same. But in effect the money all the state’s rural community colleges, it is current Great Recession, community college given the urban schools is subtracted from the in a relatively isolated environment marked by student populations have traditionally grown, rural ones. small population. Clatsop is in many respects because out-of-work or underemployed people Clatsop College’s high point of full-time Enjoy the serenity of our But man is a part of a unique school, having, for example, at its tend to return to school to learn new skills that faculty since I taught Western Civilization gardens, wooded paths, nature, and his sauna, yurt and bhuddas . . . MERTS campus, one of the few maritime may be in greater demand. This indeed has there in 2006-07 has been thirty-eight. By war against nature is inevitably academies in the country. We are also well happened at Clatsop College, whose student anyone’s standards, in a college that supports . . . in Nahcotta, Washington a war known for our outstanding nursing school and population has grown by more than ten per a substantial variety of vocational training on Sandridge Road, against himself. high quality art department reflective of the cent since the recession began. Despite programs and a general education curriculum just south of Bay Avenue overlooking willapa bay – Rachel Carson large number of accomplished artists who this impressive growth, it does not compare sufficient for one to earn an associate of arts have migrated to this picturesque corner of to that of the more urban areas in the state suitable for transfer to a university, this is a www.mobydickhotel.com 360-665-4543 or 1-800-673-6145 Oregon. such as Portland and Eugene, where colleges barely adequate sized faculty. However, Clat- dec11 hipfishmonthly.com 8 sop has been able to thrive partly This is part of a long time conserva- because of the very excellence “For the past thirty years, our statewide and national politics have been tive movement to shrink taxes with of that faculty. As one who spent dominated by an anti-tax fervor. Along with this trend we have seen a mania particular attention to the ones that my career at a large university, I for incarceration, characterized by “mandatory minimums” often passed are used to help the lesser privi- have grown to have deep respect leged gain greater equality of oppor- for the breadth of subject matter in voters’ initiatives. The result has been augmented state expenditures on tunity. The movement to privatize and availability to students that imprisonment and shrinking ones for education. education and compel people to our hard working community col- pay dearly for services governments lege instructors provide. They are Reflexive imprisonment throughout the country mostly for nonviolent drug have previously provided free or at required to be master generalists, related crimes largely among society’s lower orders has now led to over two very low cost for the public at large mentors, and counselors to a and a half million Americans being imprisoned. This is a higher percentage has been sponsored by billionaire much greater extent than the more funded propaganda mills with specialized and research oriented than in any other country in the world, including authoritarian China and euphemistic names like Americans university professors need to be. brutal dictatorships like the one in Myanmar (Burma).” for Tax Justice, Americans for Pros- Yet, even with the tremendous perity, and the Club for Growth. In demand on them to be on campus their fixation with punishment, and and available to students and with national power projection in to do five class preparations per relentless militarism, these wealthy ten week term, a sizable number of instructors at Clatsop College conservatives have gradually closed manage to fit research and writing off opportunity to the masses by into their crowded schedule and drying up support for education, the have published scholarly books basis of social enlightenment. and articles and read papers at In Oregon, a powerful anti-tax academic conferences. lobby now keeps emergency fund- Last year, the first when we ing from being proposed for higher were hit with the dire effects of the education. We have a lopsided tax recession, mostly staff and admin- structure in this state that relies on istration absorbed the cuts, with county property taxes and timber one key administrative position, antiquated facilities with modern ones was demanded localities do, with very beneficial effects, supporting revenue to finance public education. the dean of learning eliminated. But we also lost a of the College in the previous accreditation report. public schooling pays off by producing an educated, In 2000, the “kicker,” which rebates surplus revenues talented young instructor in social science. This year The second reason why we have just been deci- resourceful public, who can adapt better to rapidly above budget to voters, became part of the Oregon we are slated to lose fifteen instructors, forty per cent mated lies in larger political priorities in Salem, as in changing needs in a smaller world beset with ever Constitution. Governors Kitzhaber and Kulongoski of our full-time positions. This almost indescribable other state capitals, and in Washington. For the past larger problems such as climate change, pollution, have tried to no avail to get the kicker transformed hit reduces social science to one full-time instruc- thirty years, our statewide and national politics have overpopulation, mass poverty and disease. And there into an emergency fund to be used in recessions. But tor, a psychologist. We will lose, among others, an been dominated by an anti-tax fervor. Along with this are much cheaper, more effective ways of dealing with conservatives would have none of it. Instead, we now accomplished historian, a creative young chemist, the trend we have seen a mania for incarceration, charac- offenders than costly imprisonment. We can spend get the state holding back three and a half per cent only automotive instructor, a renowned ceramicist, our terized by “mandatory minimums” often passed in vot- public money on rehabilitative programs for drug of- of this year’s operative budget to apply to next year’s full-time business instructors, a popular, gifted Span- ers’ initiatives. The result has been augmented state fenders, and we can require varieties of community expected shortfall. This is what put Clatsop College ish instructor and our sole criminal justice instructor. expenditures on imprisonment and shrinking ones service – building, planting, and restoring infrastruc- from minimal to maximal layoff mode. The state now Last year our head librarian was laid off, and this year for education. Reflexive imprisonment throughout ture – whereby offenders can learn useful occupa- assists our community colleges at the level of sixteen we will now subtract the remaining professional librar- the country mostly for nonviolent drug related crimes tional and people relating skills. Organizations like the per cent, down from thirty-three. Resistance to ian. The only way we will continue to have a librarian largely among society’s lower orders has now led to Western Prison Project have been researching, writing tapping new sources of revenue prevents consider- associated with the College is if we make the highly over two and a half million Americans being impris- and agitating on this issue for many years. Supervised ation of measures such as a temporary limited sales unusual move of merging with the Astoria City Library. oned. This is a higher percentage than in any other outside programs for offenders, carefully monitored tax, renewable yearly, and earmarked for the public Why has this extreme situation been forced upon country in the world, including authoritarian China and by highly sophisticated tracking technology, are a education institutions most affected by the recession. us just as we were starting to fill out much needed brutal dictatorships like the one in Myanmar (Burma). lot cheaper and more constructive than creating gang The lack of any sales tax has long deprived Oregon positions and after we had rebuilt our campus so that These two overriding policies, cutting taxes and locking ridden prisons mostly composed of people from poorer from reaping tax benefits from its burgeoning tourist students had become proud to say they came here? up offenders, have worked together to vastly decrease backgrounds, many of them African American and La- industry. The problem does not come, as some in the com- opportunity for a majority of Americans and to turn us tino. Rich criminals, like the bankers who bought the munity think, from campus mismanagement, or from into a society domestically devoted to punishment and politicians who deregulated banking and legalized the I believe Clatsop College will eventually find the spending too much on our physical renovations. Our diminishment of opportunity. theft and usury that characterized the subprime lend- means to recover. In the mean time we have some books are open to the public and have been regularly If we simply consider costs, without even thinking ing debacle, don’t do time for their crimes, because well seasoned professionals who can stand in the gap audited by impartial accounting firms. We also passed about the quality of life we seek to create, our state they paid to make what they do legal. Yet, they did a as part timers. But this bloodletting did not need to a rigorous accreditation procedure conducted last and national policies are cockeyed. It costs anywhere great deal more damage than the street criminal who happen. The larger truth is that a generation which year by distinguished representatives of the Northwest between thirty and fifty thousand public dollars to gets twenty-five to life. refuses to invest in its young, instead burdening them Regional Accreditation Association. The rebuilding of incarcerate a person for a year, while it generally costs The anti-tax fervor that has accompanied massive with debt, low wage jobs, and irreparable war injury is a our campus to meet seismic standards, to make it between two and five thousand to educate one. Even spending on incarceration has squeezed all public generation that has lost its vision. And as the biblical accessible for people with disabilities, and to replace if you spend thousands more per student, as some education, from grade school through universities. proverb states, “Without a vision the people perish.”

9 dec11 hipfishmonthly.com OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS Occupy Astoria Treads On by William Ham Occupy Astoria is, as of this writing, only a little tive opinionating ahead. Keep your hands inside the surface-level implications are obvious; these folks are over two months old, and again, I’m a tiny bit disap- vehicle at all times.) nothing more than irresponsible troublemakers bent pointed: we have yet to see the kind of mayhem This is a critical moment for the Occupy movement on destroying more than they’ve built up. Which is a Better Killing by bob that makes for good copy. Seriously, folks, what’s it as a whole – certain conservative commentators have narrative that may sound somewhat familiar to those goldberg going to take? Are we gonna have to import cases been smugly sneering that the uprising has failed, the with memories stretching back four decades or so; Through Chemistry of pepper spray (American pepper spray, of course; latest round of evictions has succeeded in damag- hey, it may be an old tune, but it’s a good beatdown must keep those domestic debilitant manufacturers ing the center of gravity that even a self-described and you can dance on their shallow, preemptively dug On my way into town the other are meant to kill. Unfortunately, solvent) and pay local law enforcement to spray it in “horizontal” movement like this one needs to survive, graves to it. day, I spotted someone spraying they tend to not only kill the our faces at carefully-staged photo ops? Goad them and the actions of an unfortunate few have resulted In saying all that, I am neither looking to absolve the sidewalk. No, not hosing species that they are meant to, into engaging us in an unfriendly game of taser tag? in damage to property matched only by the resulting the larger movement’s members of their ultimate re- down the sidewalk – spraying it but often take others as well What will it take to get your attention? damage to our credibility. The major problem, as I see sponsibilities, nor am I leveling a finger at our smaller, with pesticide. It appeared the (sort of like by-catch in the fish- Ah, but maybe I’m preaching to the choir here – it, is clear – the forces pushing against the Occupy homegrown grassroots subset. Occupy Astoria has, in person was trying to kill the grass ing industry). Residues on foods chances are, if you’re reading Hipfish in the first place, movement are aligned, allied, and on point; one thing its short lifespan to date, distinguished itself by its un- and other “weeds” that were that we and other animals eat failingly respectful relations with local authorities and you’re plugged in to the local sociopolitical current and the far-right has always been adept at is coming up popping through the cracks in can be harmful, especially to the the care with which it has used (and not abused) the don’t need to be reminded of our small but stalwart with a narrative and hammering it repeatedly home the pavement. I thought about frail and young. But we keep on subset of the greater movement to redress social until it resembles a persistent commercial jingle or public spaces where our gatherings have been held. going over and asking why they spraying. injustice and establish economic parity in this little an insidious pop hook. Irritating, annoying, insistent, But there are hazards afoot. Some have already civics project we call the USA. But then again, there’s but you can’t get the damn thing out of your head. It parted from the movement or rescinded their support would be spraying in this season, Even if you believe that the a chance you only picked this up to check the date of takes a mighty effort not to sing along. Occupy has due to internecine squabbles over relatively minor or at all, but just kept going. “weeds” (plants you don’t like) the forthcoming Bluegrass Tribute to Prime Numbers, managed to get into the national consciousness by concerns regarding procedure. Too much energy has This was not an isolated on your property are deserv- so allow me to get you up to speed. appropriating that technique to its own ends – “We already been expended in the simple act of holding incident. I remember a few years ing of death, there are more In the month since we set up camp for our first, Are the 99%” is a flat-out brilliant slogan, as clear, Occupy Astoria together. Let us not lose sight of the ago when my son was a student environmentally safe ways of greater picture; that way lies disillusionment, dissolu- 24-hour public gathering, OA has kept on keeping succinct and memorable as anything cooked up in the at Lewis & Clark Elementary doing the dirty deed. The website on, via weekly Tuesday-night meetings and regularly gray-flannel meth-labs of Madison Avenue – but our tion, and ultimately, apathy. We are not finished, not by a long shot, but we have a long way to go and it School, I noticed someone spray- (http://www.pesticide.org/) of the scheduled rallies in various locations about town. major strength as individuals, the awareness of and ing the area around home plate Northwest Center for Alterna- willingness to grapple with the complexities underlying will take much strength and cooperation to get there, December promises more of the same: there will be on the adjacent baseball fields tives to Pesticides (NCAP) lists a SUPPORT OUR LOCAL MERCHANTS MARCH on De- that brilliant hook, threatens now to undermine and, if lest we fall into the trap that’s been set for us – just a (to eliminate small patches of several alternatives to pesticide cember 3, plans are afoot to involve ourselves in the we’re not careful, capsize our efforts. small group of crackpots barely worth slowing down to West Coast Port Shutdown scheduled for December We need look no further than a hundred miles read their handwritten signs as you drive past them. grass). I mentioned this to some use in your garden, including 12th, and further gatherings and events are sure to down the road to see where this has gotten us. Three The motivations behind this movement affect all of people at the school, and they flame weeding, goats, mowing, us, and it will take all of us to effect real and lasting follow thereafter. Updates and information are avail- weeks after the eviction from the former site of Oc- just said I was now in a rural area barriers, and even vinegar. A change. As the saying goes, “the people united will able at the official website, www.occupyastoriaoregon. cupy Portland, reports are coming back of a general (having moved from Seattle a paper published in the Journal never be defeated.” (I always thought it should be org. Speaking as a supporter and member of Occupy splintering, of unification drifting apart into factions, a few months before), where things of Pesticide Reform (NCAP “divided” instead of “defeated,” seeing as it rhymes Astoria, I’d like to use this space, first to shout out a deconsolidation of energies that allows the standard and all, but nobody consulted me.) like pesticide spraying were part publication, no longer in print) in word of praise to the facilitators and organizers behind devisers of the media narrative to re-assume com- of the mix. I said I was worried 1998 drew some general conclu- the movement for their tireless efforts to hold it to- mand of the storyline. As of this writing, a Google OCCUPY ASTORIA meets on Tuesdays, about the kids “eating the dirt” sions from experience with leafy gether and push it forward, and then, perhaps, to prod News search for “Occupy Portland” reveals little 5:30pm at the First United Methodist Church, as they slid into home, and spurge and yellow starthistle, two those both within and without OA (including myself) to about the marches and demonstrations that continue 1076 Franklin Ave, Astoria - in the downstairs strengthen our collective resolve. (Warning: subjec- there on a daily basis, and much more on the tab social hall - enter through the door on 11th st. ingesting some of the pesticides. noxious weeds found throughout for the cleanup of the now-fenced-off parks. The FMI: http://www.occupyastoriaoregon.org No problem, they said. the Pacific Northwest. These While other cities have banned included: not panicking, identify- pesticide use in and around ing and eliminating the causes Occupy Movements in Oregon An Update from the Rural Organizing Project schools, parks and other public of weed problems, encouraging Occupy Klamath in “neighborhood assemblies” throughout the country that the Occupy SIlverton places, we go on applying here. desirable vegetation and using November 17, Occupy Klamath Falls held a teach-in, a progressive movement will find its legs. True democracy can be Occupy Silverton held a great event attended by over 80 on march on downtown of over 100 people, and a general as- resuscitated in earnest gatherings where neighbors meet neigh- November 5 that included music, speakers, and a march! Check And a good portion of pesticide site-appropriate techniques. sembly to discuss next steps. During their march they swept bors to strategize and manifest the power of the people. out the pictures! Occupy Silverton holds weekly vigils and will use is to kill “noxious weeds”, The paper concluded, “Noxious and cleaned up downtown! They posted this flyer on closed Occupy Halfway participate in Silverton’s Peace Parade this year, in addition to another definition of invasive weed control does not have to businesses to highlight the economic downturn in their town their has teach-in plans for January. and educate on the occupy movement. Tellers at US Bank even With less than 400 residents, Halfway, OR is giving Mosier a species. mean widespread use of toxic came outside during their lunch breaks and took pictures with run for its money! “Our first event a few weeks ago was a well- Occupy Albany According to Sunny Jones, for- chemicals. Alternative techniques protestors (reminding us who potential allies really can be)! attended silent vigil solemnly taking stock and contemplating the Occupy Albany holds weekly vigils in front of the Courthouse. Death of the American Dream. Our second event on 11.11.11 Their first vigil had over 70 people--more people than Albany has mer coordinator of the Pesticide can successfully reduce weed Occupy the Gorge was a talk-and-walk around town, welcome to all. At the end of seen in the streets since the 80s! Use Reporting System (PURS) populations and encourage After Occupy Mosier’s week-long encampment that included the walk we put down our signs and joined the local VFW chap- music, food, teach-ins, Move Your Money actions, and protests ter to commemorate and honor our service men and women.” Occupy Port Orford at the Oregon Department of vegetation whose presence against a WalMart expansion in Hood River, Occupy the Gorge is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqoL-897UP4 Occupy Port Orford held two rallies outside the Driftwood El- Agriculture, pesticide use num- is desirable, thus reducing or gearing up to move their camp to Hood River! ementary School Playground on October 15th and 22nd. We’re Occupy Newport Occupy Corvallis bers in Oregon are too inaccu- eliminating the need for repeated looking forward to seeing more from them in the future! Occupy Newport is hard at work with their community In addition to their November 17th Funeral for the American rate to quote. We do know that treatment. Implementing non- outreach! They will be volunteering at the American Legion’s Dream, Occupy Corvallis has protested Bank of America several Occupy Bend metam-sodium and glyphosate chemical strategies and reducing Thanksgiving Dinner to engage new community members. On times. Occupy Corvallis holds General Assemblies every Monday After a multi-week camp and many demonstrations and are the top two active ingredients the herbicide dependence of November 17, Occupy Newport held a demonstration in Depoe and pick up litter everyday at 10AM while passing out flyers to actions, residents of Bend continue planning occupy activities at Bay. They were joined by folks who saw it advertised on MoveOn local residents talking about Occupy Corvallis. their General Assemblies Wednesday nights. in these pesticides. Funding to noxious weed programs provides and many who were driving by pulled over and joined them! resume tracking pesticide use in long-term and cost-effective Residents of Newport gather every Saturday to protest at the Occupy Oregon State University (Corvallis) Occupy Grants Pass local Bank of America from 11:00AM-1:00PM. Their General Occupy OSU kicked off with a teach-in held by the Peace Occupy Grants Pass holds weekly vigils on Tuesdays which Oregon is probably not forthcom- weed management.” Studies Department and a walkout on Halloween that ended Assembly is held every Wednesday evening at 6:00PM in Don are regularly attended by 20-40 people! Occupy Grants Pass ing, according to Jones. This past summer, I weeded with a people’s assembly in the quad. Occupy OSU jointly orga- Davis Park. and Veterans for Peace have jointly organized film showings. nized the Funeral for the American Dream with Occupy Corvallis. Being Halloween as I write the path and the adjacent soil Occupy Roseburg They hold a weekly General Assembly on Wednesday nights. Occupy Ashland this, it’s appropriate to talk about next to my house, and planted a On November 17, Occupy Roseburg assembled to show From their encampment to Move Your Money work, Occupy Occupy Seaside pesticides – they’re really scary. nice little garden. How did I get solidarity for the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. Ashland has been busy! With a plethora of events focused on Occupy Roseburg hosts an encampment on BLM land every On November 17, Occupy Seaside convened at the Seaside educating Ashland, Occupy Ashland spent November 17 demon- Rachel Carson gave the public the grass out of the cracks? On weekend. Occupy Roseburg and their Feed the ‘Burg Community City Council meeting to bring a voice to the issues they care strating and sharing their stories with an open mic. For Occupy at large the first accounting of my hands and knees, using only Potluck coming up this Saturday at Eagles Park starting at noon! about. Several people occupied Seaside’s City Hall in protest of Ashland events, calls to action, and information, check out www. Their first Feed the ‘Burg potluck was held last week! Astoria’s Illegal Lodging Ordinance and in solidarity with Occupy the dangers of pesticides in her my gloved fingers and a hori-hori. Wall Street. occupyashlandoregon.org! 1962 book Silent Spring. The Occupy Prineville It took several days of 2-3 hour Occupy Prinevilled held a Move Your Money action downtown Occupy Coos Bay Occupy Medford evidence of the down side of sessions, but it worked fine, and and distributed this brochure about local banking institutions. On November 17, Occupy Coos Bay occupied the Coos Bay People in Medford will be standing together to protest pesticides has been mounting I got some exercise and sun in They have several next steps already planned and are using Boardwalk to sand in solidarity with the Occupy Movement. foreclosure auctions (many of which are illegal) at the Medford their monthly Potluck Politics as a “neighborhood assembly” for These steadfast protesters have been holding rallies to bring at- courthouse steps every Tuesday morning. You can also catch ever since. This shouldn’t really the process. And the weeding Occupy organizing. From Human Dignity Advocates leadership: tention to the issues they care about for over a month, including fellow Occupiers at Alba Park for protest, discussion, and Med- come as a surprise – pesticides part didn’t cost me a dime. While Liberty Square is the home and heart, I believe it will be a teach-in at the beginning of November. ford’s General Assembly every Saturday! dec11 hipfishmonthly.com 10 Occupy Your Holiday: In this Economy, Give the Gift of Time By Lynn Hadley This holiday season give the gift of the name of our savings(money, not time). has been made. (Do you know where your past year are a sincere gesture time; not a fine time piece, give a piece Spend your money and your time with “Zoo-Zoo” pet is?) that mean more than flowers of your deliberate, hard-to-come-by time. great purpose, this season. Take back the holiday from the greedy or a fruit basket to a bereaved Often, it is simpler to make up for insuf- As pods of the 99% take over parks corporate money mongers! Refuse to family. Take time to see children ficient time in the day by throwing material across America, we find ourselves smack run-up a god-awful debt that leaves you in holiday performances, or friends’ goods at the problem. “Sorry I can’t make dab in the middle of the biggest corporate financially whimpering long into the next art in galleries, play productions, it to your wedding. Here’s an extravagant event of the year for the 1% . Months of year. Walk past the big box stores in favor and chorale performances, but, most kitchen gadget.” “Can’t make it to your marketing and mounds of money have of handmade gifts, home-baked holiday importantly, share things you and your soccer game, but I’ll pick up a new video gone into convincing the general public treats, or frame that special photograph friends and family enjoy, together. Decem- game for you on my way home.” “Working that we must have e-toys and e-trinkets for that special someone. Not only are ber 9th is the National Day of Sharing; late, won’t be able to go out with you, but of all shapes, screens, and sizes. Some of handmade gifts more personal and afford- make it last the whole month. Instead holi- will send some flowers.” These thought- these devices are even thinly disguised as able, but they offer an opportunity to be of stacks of presents, opt for items that day traffic and strive to serve ful gestures help cover the hole of one’s tools to facilitate more on-line shopping. expressive or create something meaningful can be shared or played together. Board their customers up a more festive and absence, but the cost really adds up, both ”Occupy” and “Move Your Money” move- with friends, family, or neighbors. Spend- or card games offer a fun opportunity to enjoyable holiday experience. Community in the wallet and in the relationships. The ments are focused on boycotting these ing the time together in the kitchen or share time together versus on-line games bazaars, art fairs, and craft shows offer holiday season has become one huge same big banks in favor of community making holiday cards and gifts can be the shared with a screen in solitude. Even many gift options and showcase regional materialistic bandage of consumerism to banks and credit unions, but who benefits most treasured gift of all. shopping downtown with a friend is more talents. Local merchants work hard to make-up for our lack of time to celebrate by the mega-debt we go into this time of Give your time meaningfully to charita- fun than solo cyber-consumption. supply customers with unique and interest- and to spend quality time together with year in charging all these gift purchases? ble organizations as a volunteer. Consider Shopping on-line may appear to be ing selections of outside-the-box fashion, our friends and family. Consumerism has Big banks! Huge corporate banks make volunteering at a community food bank or a time-saver, but do you really ever get toys, accessories, gifts, and art that reflect come to be indistinguishable from the millions off merchants’ backs in credit soup kitchen with a friend. Sometimes the right size if you can not try it on first? where we live. This holiday season, when celebration of the Christmas holiday. card processing fees and, no doubt, more the nicest thing we can do for ourselves Shopping locally, supporting local artisans, considering where to spend your precious We purchase box upon box of material from the interest on the accrued debit is to do for others; it only costs some and keeping your cash in the community time and money, bring it home for the goods to spread the joy of the season, just amounts that take the entirety of the new time, and can really warm up that holiday gives your hard-earned money to the 99% holidays! to strike names off a list. Waiting hours year to pay off. All in the name of holiday spirit. Giving to your preferred charities or pool. It’s easy to appreciate the concept to shop at the crack of dawn, we scoop cheer, we go whistling to the brink of fiscal not-for-profit organizations in the name of of “shopping locally”, but it is far greater to Lynn Hadley is a writer/creative living in up deals at the Post-Thanksgiving sales disaster to buy frivolous fad items and friends or family members spreads love by follow, especially when it means contribut- Astoria, who contributes to HIPFiSH and without regard of the impact on employees must-have techno-tchotchkees that break, alternative gifting; donations in memory ing to the economic health of your neigh- runs and owns Garbo’s Vintage Wear in who lost holiday time with their families, in or are out-dated before the final payment of those that have passed away in the borhood. Local businesses appreciate the Downtown Astoria.

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6.95W x 5H 11 dec11 hipfishmonthly.com The Tortoise and Euro By Watt Childress Near the center of Athens you can walk ideas, good advice, and more than a little Acropolis who informed me that some of through large tracts of public land covered good humor. world’s first coins — known as “mna” — were in rocks, ruins, wooded areas, and dry-land I’ve heard jokes are going around about minted in her country around the late seventh vegetation. Go in one direction and you’ll find Greek generosity, linking it with laziness or century B.C. They were stamped with the the Hill of the Muses. It’s a cool place to take inefficiency. Such tales always reflect on the images of turtles, creatures apparently held in a break from news of global economic decay. tellers. I saw no evidence of those other traits high esteem. My family wandered there one afternoon while visiting Greece. The businesses were “Our ancestors made the first coins heavy,” during a recent trip to Europe. On the hillside well-organized; the restrooms were clean; the she said. “That way, one person could only facing the Parthenon we could hear the roar trains ran on time. carry as much as they needed. We had real of 100,000 citizens outside the parliament It was noteworthy that our being there philosophers back then.” building, protesting cuts in worker pensions, coincided with Greece’s Independence Day, She asked me what the first money reductions in the minimum wage, increases an occasion that marks the country’s resis- looked like in America. I told her shell beads Santa Paws is Coming to Town in taxes, and other bloodletting demanded by tance to fascist occupation during World War were used by the original inhabitants of my eurozone financiers. II. Greece paid dearly in blood and resources homeland, which some natives called “Turtle Has your pet been naughty of foods and plants toxic to pets, visit the Oregon The other side was quieter, facing the for that decision. Fascists invaded, killed, Island.” But as I understood it, they didn’t Veterinary Medical Association website. or nice? On Saturday, December 17th from 2pm to and plundered; but it took them much longer The toys! Many people give their pets toys. Mediterranean. There I scanned the ground think of them in the same way Europeans 4pm they will have a chance to whisper in Santa’s Be careful dogs don’t rip theirs asunder and eat requesting some sign to mark our presence, a to occupy Greece than elsewhere. In part thought of money. ear for that special toy or treat they have been the innards, which could necessitate surgery to eagerly hoping to get. practice I acquired as a boy while hunting for because of Greek resistance, Hitler missed his “Shells were exchanged to memorialize remove them. A Kong stuffed with treats is a good timeline for invading Russia and thus fell prey Have a picture taken with your pet and Santa! substitute. Cats love ribbony things, but string flint arrowheads. What was the significance a collective bond or obligation,” I said. “But They make great holiday cards. A $10 donation is confetti can end up in a cat’s stomach and spell of our being there at a time when world news to winter. the economy of the first people was based suggested. You will be emailed a set of photos. All trouble. (The cat won’t mind if the catnip-stuffed outlets were focused on Greece? The world owes Greece our gratitude for proceeds support United Paws. toy isn’t wrapped in bows.) on giving rather than profit-taking. A person’s Don’t miss out on Santa Paws -- Saturday, That’s when I found the baby turtle - a that historic sacrifice, which was never fully social position was judged by their ability to The fashion! While some pets enjoy being December 17th from 2 to 4 pm at Four Paws in modern Greek. repaid. It appears that old debt never factored dressed up, many don’t. Be sure any outfit for a χελώνα, or “chelōna” distribute wealth, not hoard it for themselves.” on the Beach, 144 Laneda Avenue, Manzanita. pet doesn’t overheat the animal; cause difficulty into the accounting of financiers who drive Call (503) 368-3436 for more details. The woman’s eyes lit up when I breathing, moving, or drinking water; and that any bows around the neck don’t get caught between described an American Indian potlatch the teeth if the pet tries to remove the fashion — the traditional giveaway ceremony Your Sweet statement. that anchored the economy of many The guests! Before guests arrive, make sure native people. dogs have had a long walk so they don’t have “We have a special word in Greece Pussy Pups’ an overabundance of energy and get excited, especially if children are present. If dogs aren’t that cannot be fully translated into comfortable around people, confine them with their any other language,” she said. “It is Holly Jolly Roan Childress Photo: beds, water, and toys to a comfortable part of the house where guests won’t go. Most cats, too, ‘filotimo.’” Season! are probably better off celebrating alone in a cozy She wrote it out in Greek and back bedroom with their beds, water, toys, and English along with the words “friend of quiet. This is especially true around New Year’s Just a few reminders from United Eve because noisy poppers can terrify pets. Make your honor,” an approximate meaning. Paws of Tillamook to ensure you don’t end up sure all pets are wearing IDs on their collars in case As she handed me the slip of paper, at the veterinarian’s this holiday season, or worse, all the hullaballoo scares them enough that they I gave her a coin that will some day because your dog or cat knocked a candle over or bolt out of the house. Better yet, as well as I.D. on chewed the Christmas tree lights electric cord. the collar, make sure all pets are microchipped and be as widely used as mna is now (the their contact information up-to-date. (A microchip The tree! Bored or young dogs and cats could be destiny of all such trinkets in human would make a great present to give your pet.) tempted by cords, chew them, and get electrocuted history). or start a fire. Unplug fairy lights if you’re not The presents! Please don’t give pets as pres- “This will be for good luck,” she around. ents unless you know the recipient is committed to Perhaps a pen around the tree might be an idea that pet for the duration of the animal’s life, which smiled, putting the euro aside. if you have boxes underneath. Imagine what fun could be as long as 16 years for a dog and more The little exchange was a beautiful for a puppy to rip open a box and find a pristine than 18 for a cat, and includes being able to afford blend of philosophy, faith, goodwill, and pair of slippers inside! veterinary care and food, a commitment to have Make sure the tree is in a secure holder so pets the pet spayed or neutered, and to enroll puppies wit, like many I experienced in Greece. can’t tip it over. Cats climb trees; imagine you’re a in training classes. Animal shelters fill up after It made me feel good about the hard- kitten and see baubles to bat if you leap onto that Christmas with discarded puppies who have had a Smaller than my palm, the creature was so current economic deals. The so-called “hair- tempting tree! whoopsy on the rug and the kitten who isn’t as cute tucked into the rocks that she could have cut” agreed to by European lenders hinges earned cash I spent there. Better than I do Don’t let pets don’t drink tree water, which as when only a few weeks old. easily gone unnoticed. on radical policy changes that will transfer about most of the transactions that define the could contain fertilizers or be stagnant. Adding habitat of today’s global commerce. sugar or aspirin to tree water isn’t a good idea in Safety first! Candles or anything with an open Since our first day in Europe I’d been Greece’s public assets into the hands of case pets drink it. flame can obviously be dangerous. A wagging tail, thinking of my family as turtles. Living out of private speculators (like selling off public land Perhaps a word for this feeling still rocks It isn’t cruel to confine cats and dogs for a few a curious pat with a paw, and you could be calling in the cradle of western civilization. If so, the Fire Department. You’re distracted during this our backpacks brought to mind the claim that to real estate developers, for example). hours to a different room from the tree room when “filotimo” points to an ancient wisdom that’s you can’t supervise them or when guests arrive season, but please always stop and take time to turtles carry their homes wherever they go. Returning from our walk, it made some and the festivities begin; this is especially true of check the safety of the house before rushing out Like all creatures, of course, a turtle’s home Athenians smile to hear how much an been ignored in pursuit of quick growth, yet is the door to get that last ingredient before the shops kittens and puppies or any animals who haven’t yet is her natural habitat. Regardless of how American family loved their native turtles. essential to civic trust and our shared obliga- experienced our end-of-year bash. close. Extinguish all flames, unplug all electrical cords. Better late or missing that ingredient than self-contained we feel, all of us depend on This was a welcome shift from the topic of tion to steward resources. The food! Don’t let pets eat any treats or drink the alternative. Moneylenders who think they hold Greece any alcohol and ask guests not to sneak them any. United Paws is Tillamook County’s only 501(c)(3) the sharing of resources and the hospitality of global money problems, which some would Sweet and salty foods, caffeine, and alcohol are all nonprofit dedicated to alleviating and preventing the suffer- strangers. have us think stem from generosity rather in the palms of their hands might benefit from ing of cats and dogs as a result of homelessness through bad, so are holly, mistletoe, lilies, and poinsettias. Greek folks are as generous as any people than greed. Pay no attention to those who’ve a walk to the Hill of the Muses. If they go qui- (In fact, most houseplants contain some level of spay/neuter/foster. The group offers financial assistance to those in need for both pet cat and dog and feral cat spay I’ve met. You appreciate this when you’re made killings off individuals and governments, etly, they may encounter something there that toxicity to pets.) Even plastic or silk plants can and neuter. To check out animals in United Paws’ foster tempt pets to take a nibble and cause them to program awaiting adoption into loving “forever” homes, traveling on a fixed budget with a family for encouraging both to borrow and consume reminds them how humans with a long-view need surgery to remove an obstruction. Don’t give check out the website at www.unitedpaws.org. United Paws five weeks. Hoteliers gave us discounts. beyond our means. of community behave. pets any spicy or fatty leftovers, and no bones. relies on donations, fundraisers, bequests, and grants. Fruitcake contains all sorts of ingredients that could Send donations to United Paws, POB 159, Tillamook, Restaurateurs brought us complimentary Hailed as the earth’s oldest democracy, Maybe one or two would even have a make pets very ill or worse. For a complete list Oregon 97141. starters or desserts. Retailers added bonuses Greece also has a primal place in the his- change of heart, look around them and see to our purchases. People gave us information, tory of money. I met a shop-owner near the more than real estate. dec11 hipfishmonthly.com 12 “Let There Be Beauty!” By Kate Giese How Michael Ferrell, a NEW Seasider, finds joy in COMMUNITY! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!! Our annual HOLIDAY FOOD DRIVE is on! When hairdresser Michael Ferrell lacks inspiration as he’s about to cut a client’s hair at 2 Non-perishables = 1 entry ticket Beach Blondes, his salon in Seaside, he places • Grand Prize - $200 Gift Certificate both hands on her head and intones, “let there be • 2nd Prize - $50 Gift Certificate beauty!” This invocation to a goddess of beauty hints at the mix of industry and business savvy Drawing held December 23rd. with a restless spirituality that’s such big part of All food donated to the local food bank! this guy’s make up. SEASIDE CANNON BEACH After buying property at the north coast, Ferrell 60 N. Roosevelt (Hwy 101) cleanlinesurf.com 171 Sunset Blvd has demonstrated, in the short time he’s lived 503.738.7888 503.436.9726 here, a willingness to get involved in the com- munity and put his energy and creativity to work for good causes. He views doing hair as a calling, his business acumen continually tempered by a long-standing need to find meaning in this life and help others through his chosen vocation. “I can make someone pretty and help give her the confidence to go to that job interview or make that life change,” Ferrell explains. That said, www.reflexology-works.com he’s done things like free makeovers and beauty consulting for women referred by the Women’s Resource Center. His customers are generally always women, and Ferrell’s wonderfully adept at awaiting application on the salon’s interior walls Rabia Ana Perez Christi, a professor who teaches endearing himself to his “girls.” In no time at all, are 10 gallons of Ralph Lauren Regent Metallic World Religion studies at Berkeley. Eventually, he’s not just their beauty consultant but a good Colors paint. he’ll be a full-fledged Cherag Minister, able to buddy and confidante. Does he cut men’s hair? Already Ferrell is a member of the Seaside marry and bury people. He says, “I don’t know “There’s only two haircuts men want, Ferrell quips, Downtown Development Association, in the throes what’s exactly going on with my life path. It could “short and shorter.” of preparing for the town’s annual Festival of Trees be hair or it could be something else.” His new shop/digs on Seaside’s First Street, at the Convention Center. He’s entered floats in That something else is most likely his dream located at 1004 Marine Dr. #7 in Astoria’s historic underground just south of Holladay, was a serendipitous the town’s Fourth of July Parade for two consecu- of a Cherag Ministry under an umbrella of ser- find, as he tells it. “We were playing ‘wouldn’t it tive years. (On one float sat 15 females wearing vices that include hospice care. With its seven be lovely if…’ while idly looking at commercial platinum blonde wigs, black false eyelashes and bedrooms, Ferrell’s house in Portland would be properties in the area and ended up making a silly white gloves, including his 80 year old mum. an ideal location for this, he thinks. At one point, (low) offer,” he recalls. The ladies threw 80 his former teacher, Ken Storrer, who was dying The seller grabbed at it. lbs. of saltwater taffy to of Aids, ended his days there. Storrer was an Apparently, the house, spectators.) Working with activist, one of the leaders of San Francisco’s zoned commercial/ Seaside’s Beautification Shanti Project which helped people who were HIV residential, had blighted Committee, he’s also positive or had other life-threatening diseases. Re- Seaside’s landscape for making plans in that busy members Ferrell, “Ken would rescue people who years; the local police brain of his to implement were dying of Aids and were completely alone.” were a constant pres- a flower box program for Another piece may involve his grandmother’s ence. “When my neigh- area businesses. “Flow- ranch in the Wallowa Mountains… turning it into bor to the back found out ers give people a sense a retreat where those facing institutionalized care we’d bought the place, of God and slow you or death can transition with dignity, be comforted she wept tears of joy,” down,” he declares. and, perhaps, find peace. Says Ferrell, “It needs says Ferrell smiling. Ferrell admits to a lot of work, but there’s an artesian spring on Now, he, his partner having experimented site and the most wonderful silence… a silence Marvin Hampton, and with many different in which you can actually hear the voice of god Milo, their black and belief systems over time, with nature’s help or through your inner spiritual white Chihuahua mix, including EST, Lifespring, being.” divide their time between the Church of Scientol- Right now, his focus is on hair, on bringing out the north coast and ogy, Catholicism and your “outer fabulosity” as he might term it. Only Portland where Ferrell even a Pentecostal cult. time will tell how Michael Ferrell’s life will play has a house and owns “I was trying to fill a God- out, though, given his myriad interests, boundless and operates another sized hole in my heart,” energy and big, big heart. hair salon called Zen-Do. he says. Six years ago, The couple quickly trans- PHOTO: DON FRANK he became attracted to formed their newly-acquired, decidedly dilapidated Sufism. “It teaches that we’re each of us on a house, inhabited mainly by druggies in its past path…that all gods reach the same place. The Beach Blonde Salon life. These days, the place simply oozes curb ap- emphasis is on bridging the differences that divide 720 First Ave. peal, with the salon at the front and living quarters us and seeking out commonalities.” His Sufi Seaside, OR 97138 in the back and on the upper floor. The new name is Khaliq which means creator. Phone: 503-717-5255 owners have worked wonders with the place which Every month, Ferrell goes to San Francisco Website: beachblondesalon.com remains a bit of a work in progress. Currently for a World Spirituality Class taught by Mersheda

13 dec11 hipfishmonthly.com The Wishing Tree Program Wishing Tree Project has been providing for children in need since 1982. The Program works like this: applications are Take a bell and return the wish to the same Each year we receive donations if you receive taken from families that might need gift and/ location by the 15th of December. Gifts are any for our program please direct them to me. or food help for the current season. The family, taken out to the Clatsop County Fairgrounds. This money is used to purchase gifts and /or listing children’s name(s), age, sizes and special Volunteers will pick up gifts daily. We ask them gift certificates for any child whose bell was not Discover Astoria needs fill out the applications. (applications can to let you know that they are picking up gifts chosen from the tree by the return bell deadline. be picked up at the desk in the lobby across either verbally or by displaying a paddle stating Shop Local with a Treasure Hunt Passport! (Which this year will be on the 15th). Trees will from the county employment office entrance). pick –up on the paddle. We then organize the not be removed from the location until after the These lists and needs are then transferred gifts by number to ensure each child’s privacy. holiday. We will leave the tree with bells at Fred “Discover Astoria” is a to a paper bell (autonomously) and hung on a The names are placed on the gifts, family Meyers until 24th of Dec. If gifts come in late Shop Local This fun treasure hunt in Downtown Wishing Tree. Trees are located in all banks and packed and placed with the food baskets if one Holiday Season Astoria. Locals are encourages credit unions in Astoria and Warrenton. In addi- is requested. please call or direct them to place the gift at FM to explore downtown shops and tion to Fred Meyer, Video Horizon, McDonald’s, The gifts and food are either picked up by or take to fairgrounds. discover the unique offerings and Link’s Outdoor Store. Folks in the com- family at the fairgrounds on December 19th or For more information or to volunteer for the found in town. Passports can be munity then choose a bell and fulfill the wish are delivered by the National Guard and Astoria Wishing Tree, Call Barb Roberts at 503 325- picked up at any of the participat- on the tree that gives gift information about the Rotary Club on December 20th to those in 7277 cell 503-791-8773 Astoria, Ore or ing stores (listed on the ADHDA child recipient. Knappa and Astoria who don’t have transporta- email [email protected] Facebook page). Once you have tion. your passport in hand, explore downtown and find the cool item Gifts That Make A Difference! that goes with the cool store. On December 10 every stop of your journey you get Give meaningful gifts that support people in our community! another chance to win fabulous The message is definitely getting out there area with local farmers offering gift certificates from Three Cups and Astoria Coffee House. If prizes! If you fill up the “Discover this year as Americans approach this holiday for local produce next season as well as CSA meaning and magic and treats are insufficient Astoria” passport by visiting all season with a new determination to avoid mind- memberships. enticement, shoppers have a chance to win a local participating merchants, you numbing malls and gifts made thousands of Clatsop Community College Foundation is complimentary stay at the Cannery Pier Hotel. will have the opportunity to win miles from home. One of the places this trend joining the fair this year. Your donations will *According to market studies, we all spend the grand prize. The grand prize began six years ago here in the Lower Columbia directly benefit the College through scholarships between $500 and $1000 on holiday giving. region is at Gifts That Make a Difference. and direct funding of programs. Education is a includes an overnight stay at the And then return a good portion of it the day Saturday, December 10th from 11am to priceless, lifelong gift that benefits everyone. Cannery Pier Hotel, lunch for two after Christmas. Why not spend at least some 5pm Gifts That Make a Difference invites you What better way to support the College? Do you of that money where it will make a lasting at the Baked Alaska, and dinner to the Liberty Theater for a shopping experience need to get five gifts in the $20 range? Do the difference, and where returns will come in the for two at T. Paul’s Supper Club. truly in keeping with the holiday spirit. There math! If you and 199 other people make those form of local community benefits all year long? Passports must be completed by Antiques & Collectibles, Erickson you will find local non-profits who bring educa- gifts donations to the CCC Foundation, that’s Because helping others never comes in the December 24th. Completed pass- Floral Co., Fernhill Glass, Finn tion, entertainment, arts, culture, awareness, $20,000, a happy holiday for all of us. wrong size. ports can be turned into any of the Ware, Foxgloves, Fulio’s Deli, radio, emergency preparedness, advocacy, Did we mention entertainment and food? participating merchants. social justice, and environmental preservation to Sponsors of this year’s Gifts That Make Garbos Vintage Clothing, Gimre’s Larkin Stentz will kick off the day sharing If you have any questions our entire region and those who visit us. a Difference include Bank of Astoria, Shoes, Holly McHone Jewelers, his flute and dulcimer talents at 11:00 am, please contact Downtown Groups offer a wide variety of choices from Blue Scorcher Bakery Café, Dr. Stephen Lola’s Consignments, Loop- followed by Astoria High School talent Tevan concert tickets to classes to locally made items. Houghtaling, Tiffany and Brett Estes, Coordinator Blaire Buergler at Goldberg on violin around noon. New local art- Jacobsen Jewelers, Lucy’s Books, You can also donate money, volunteered hours, Englund Marine, HIPFiSHmonthly, Klyde 503.791.7940 or blaire@astori- ists Acustica will perform two sets beginning at Lunar Boy Gallery, Mise en Place or needed items to any group to honor a friend, Thompson of Dell’s OK Tire, and of course adowntown.com. 1:00 with World Music in Romance languages. Kitchenware, Nepal Exchange, Old co-worker or relative with the gift of Making a the Liberty Theater and founding non-profit, Participating businesses include Vocalist Dinah Urell will weave holiday magic at Town Framing Co., Purple Cow Difference in their name. (Donating to a non- Titanic Lifeboat Academy. Amazing Stories, Astoria Coffee- 3:00 with guitarist Dave Drury. And, closing the profit in someone else’s honor has the added house & Bistro, Astoria Column, Toys, Rusty Cup, T. Paul’s Supper day will be the Maddox Dancers with a taste of benefit of being not just local and meaningful, For more information, contact Caren Black at Astoria Downtown Market, Astoria Club, T. Paul’s Urban Café, The Nutcracker magic. but also tax-deductible!) [email protected], check out the fair website Curious Caterpillar, Totally Trixie Public Library, Baked Alaska, This year the Gifts fair is expanding to include Columbia River Coffee Roasters – the “Cof- at www.GiftsFair.TitanicLifeboatAcademy.org or Betty Lou Jean Co., Bloomin Crazy Boutique, Vintage Hardware, and fresh local food. The North Coast Food Web fee that floats the arts” – will keep body and visit the Gifts That Make a Difference page on Floral, Cargo, Commercial Street What-Nots & Whimsy. and River People Farmer’s Market will share an soul warm and happy, along with tasty treats Facebook and tell your friends.

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We’ll Save You Money! 11th and Marine Drive in Astoria 503.325.2961 • www.bikesandbeyond.com Reliable Economic Repair WE DO We take the STING out of your repair cost! Summer Hours are: 10am ‘til 6pm Mondays through Fridays IT ALL! Full Service Auto Repair And Transmission Service Owner: Curt Dean 9am ‘til 6pm Saturdays • 11am ‘til 4pm Sundays dec11 hipfishmonthly.com 14 One of a Kind Celtic Concert Series Comes to Pacific Northwest Author Jan Bono: Life Time Learner & Life Teacher Acclaimed Irish Musicians Join Together for a Unique and Memorable Show At KALA Dec 8 By Lynn Hadley At seven years old Jan Bono Teaching is a calling for Bono Kathryn Clair & Hanz Araki knew she would grow-up to be and she gleans much of her mate- an astronaut, the president of rial from her school days, having in with a host of Celtic friends comes to the Coaster Theater the United States, a writer, or a November 2009 published “Just and an Intimate Solstice eve at KALA. teacher. Recent cutbacks to the Joshin’, A Year in the Life of a NASA Space Shuttle Program may Not-so-ordinary 4th Grade Kid,” a dampen her astro-aspirations, but 63-story collection of humorous with thirty plus years of teaching classroom anecdotes. Her frequent experience, and numerous years contributions to the “Chicken Soup writing newspaper columns, short for the Soul” series highlight her stories, plays, and blogs, running nostalgic and heart-warming tale for the U.S. presidency may be her telling talents, which she has com- next undertaking. Her ability to find piled into short story collections. humor in the human experience “I find humor everywhere. That’s defines her writing, from the magic what I do, (write) short, humor- of being a fourth grader to the joys ous stories. There’s something to of the holiday season. laugh at every single day.” For over an Ilwaco coffee shop, and also Bono retired from public school 10 years, she wrote a bi-weekly runs an editing business, TMLG Ed- teaching in June of 2006. Not one personal experience column for the iting and Critique. She is currently to sit and wait for things to come Chinook Observer, which became, in search of an agent to publish her way, she threw herself into play Through My Looking Glass, a col- her cozy mystery novel. With writing when she discovered a local lection of those columns. many more writing projects on the community theater was holding “I write snippets of life and hope a one-act play writing contest. people find it entertaining.” “Rec- horizon, Jan Bono is not content to Having never written a play or per- ognizing the humorous experience rest on her past accomplishments. formed in a play, she took on the and knowing that it’s universal, “What I like to do best is write research of play writing with great that’s why I write.” Having once nice stories that are PG-rated, that gusto. Bono describes herself as, found inspiration in a conversation have redeeming value and the es- “one of those people who jumps in overheard at a farmer’s market, sence of the human experience.” and paddles around.” No sooner she was caught paperless and Look for her in your neighborhood, Musicians Hanz Araki and Kathryn Claire are proud are $8 at the door. The new cd release WINTER SOL- had she dived in than she came called her home phone to leave promoting her new book, It’s out with first and second place in to present a series of unprecedented concerts. These STICE CELEBRATION will be available. For a preview the idea on her voice mail. Though Christmas!, detailing humorous the contest with her newly written two diverse musicians lend their individual expertise track go to www.hipfishmonthly.com. rarely found without pen and memories from her favorite time plays to be produced on the stage. paper, she commonly makes note and lyrical knowledge to four theme- based concerts In the late winter, “As I Roved Out” welcomes better of year! that present some of the strongest and most beautiful weather and represents the traditional Maying celebra- “I got bitten bad! When I won, I of family quirks and humorous elements of the Celtic tradition. This December, they tions of the British Isles and beyond, while the plight said ‘You mean I did it right?’” That situations; she is currently putting are celebrating the release of the second of four ac- of the emigrant and laborer is presented in a collection was the start of her play writing together a collection of phone It’s Christmas! is a companying albums, A Winter Solstice Celebration. of songs and tunes in the late summer entitled “The career which, to date, includes conversations with her mother, a 226-page collection of 48 nine one-act plays and a dinner Ancient carols and foot-stomping jigs and reels Emigrant Song.” Some of the darker and more ma- ‘Jan Linkletter’s’ Moms Say the personal experience stories theater mystery play. “A Christmas share the spotlight with poetry, dance, and even cabre themes found in Celtic love songs are explored Darnedest Things sort of thing. and three one-act holiday Trilogy: Three Holiday One-Acts” a short Mummer’s play from songwriter Matthew in “Songs of Love and Murder,” and completing the Jan has written an every-odd- plays. The three holiday one- from her newly released short story Hayward-Macdonald. series is the Winter Solstice Celebration; celebrate numbered-day blog for nearly 3 act plays will be performed collection, It’s Christmas!, will be This year’s concert features -- in addition to Claire the darkest night of the year with the light of music, years, with over 525 entries. The at the River City Playhouse, performed in December by the and Araki -- Cary Novotny on guitar, All-Ireland harp storytelling and wonder. topics are wide-ranging, mostly 127 Lake Street in Ilwaco Peninsula Players in Ilwaco. inspirational with a Norman Rock- from December 2-4, 9-11 champion Anna Lee Foster, Welsh-born bodhran (Irish Billed as “The next generation of trad’ music,” Irish well-ian quality to her homespun, with Friday and Saturday frame-drum) player Matty Einion Sears, and vocalist flute player and singer Hanz Araki is the quintessential humorous posts, which all aim to performances at 7 pm, Jody Katopothis. world music musician. He has toured internation- be a little thought-provoking. Bono and Sunday matinees at 2 “Each of us bring to the table a varied collection ally with Juno award-winning The Paperboys and The would love to make writing her full- pm. Books will be available of songs and stories that reflect the same themes of Casey Neill Trio; also The Bridies, Portland’s all-star time occupation, and fancies the for purchase at all perfor- longing, love, loss, beauty, and celebration. These Pogues cover band KMRIA among others, and is idea of her books someday sharing mances, and may also be concerts give us the freedom to explore some of these featured on over a dozen recordings and soundtracks, the shelves with Dave Barry, Tom found for purchase on-line at experiences thoroughly through the music that has along with his own acclaimed CD’s. www.hanzaraki. Bodett, and Erma Bombeck. janbonobooks.com. arisen from the last several hundred years of human com Always the teacher, Bono still finds Join Jan on December existence.” Kathryn Claire has asserted herself in a new gen- herself teaching adult writing work- 8, Thursday at 7 pm for a Sunday, December 18th at the Coaster Theatre eration of traditionally-inspired musicians. Her violin- shops and incorporates life coach- reading and book signing of in Cannon Beach, OR. Show starts at 7:30pm. Tickets playing exhibits a technical grace which is matched ing into her busy schedule to help It’s Christmas! at KALA, the are $14 for adults and $8 for students. only by her truly captivating voice and she possesses other adults live their best life and Hipfish Community Events Tuesday, December 20 at KALA in Astoria. Claire the rare ability to move seamlessly across genres. Her polish their writing for publication. Center on 1017 Marine Drive and Araki perform an intimate candlelit eve perfor- deep love and respect for traditional music has long She has facilitated a local writer’s in Astoria. Happy Holidays- mance. Doors Open at 7pm. Performance at 7:30pm. been a driving influence and those roots can be heard group for the past 5 years, emcees Shop Locally, Read Festively! Come early, for a seat and enjoy a beverage. Tickets in her own original music. a monthly “Authors’ Showcase” at

15 dec11 hipfishmonthly.com Concert for a Winter’s Night: Music for Chanukkah, Solstice and Christmas” December 22

Saints in Word and Image Karin Temple and Christi Payne North Coast poet, Karin Temple’s fifth book her connection to saints who have accompa- of poetry will be presented during a reading nied her on her peregrinations. and reception at Grace Episcopal Church, Both Christi Payne and Greg Darms, the Astoria, on Sunday, December 4th at 2pm. publisher of Radiolarian Press, will speak Her second book about saints, So Great a about the project at the reading. During the Cloud of Witnesses: A Personal Calendar reception in the Parish Hall afterwards, all of of Saints, was produced in collaboration with Temple’s books as well as cards and artwork artist Christi Payne, who created the elaborate by Payne will be available for signing and Flutist Shelley Loring and pianist ish cantor. She has toured the arrangements of folk and Celtic illuminated letters. The volume is printed in full sales. Jennifer Goodenberger perform on Western States with the Communi- music. Her recordings are often color, designed to feel like a medieval Book of Thursday, December 22 at 7pm ty Concerts Association in addition Grace Episcopal Church is located at 1545 used in the healing arts, and as Hours. The poems are sequenced by the Feast at Grace Episcopal Church. The to playing with many regional and Franklin, Astoria. film soundtracks. Go to jennifer- Days of the individual saints and each saint is concert will include Jewish, Celtic, local music organizations. Most shown in an ancient image. Carols, holiday music, and original recently she returned to perform- goodenberger.com for a complete So Great a Cloud of Witnesses will also Although a Protestant, Temple has been compositions to celebrate the ing her life-time passion - jazz and audio and art listing of her works. be presented at RiverSea Gallery during the attracted to saints all her life - in childhood Season. These long-term friends, improvisation. December 10th Artwalk, and a second reading Thursday, December 22, 7pm, encounters and later in literature, film, art and who have until now been purs- Goodenberger, was the producer takes place Wednesday, December 14th at at Grace Episcopal Church. 1545 lastly on her two pilgrimages to Santiago de ing separate musical careers, are for the legendary “Winter Solstice 7pm in the Shelburne Inn, Seaview, WA. For Franklin Avenue, Astoria. There is Compostela in northern Spain. Her first collec- information call 503-325-6580. thrilled to create music together Concerts” of the late 1990’s. She tion, In the Company of Saints she traces for this concert. is currently active as a recording a $10 suggested donation at the Loring’s early years were spent artist and solo pianist, perform- door. For more information, call performing with her father, a Jew- ing her original compositions and 503-325-5310. Enjoy a relaxing afternoon with a PLUM PUDDING cup of tea and traditional holiday plum pudding in the festively decorated Flavel House Museum. This year’s “Tea and Plum Pud- ding” will be held daily from 1-4 PM, December 17th to the 23rd, and December 26th to the 30th, 2011. Cost per person is $10.00 soloist Genevieve Butenshon and adult. Tickets are available at the The North Coast Chorale and includes fresh, warm plum an orchestra comprised of local PAC box office, the Warrenton pudding, a cup of hot tea and self- Holiday Concert instrumentalists. The second half Astoria Chamber of Commerce and guided tour of the beautiful Flavel Dec 10-11 of the concert will witness a visit from Chorale members. from Santa as the Chorale sings House Museum. Reservations are The North Coast Chorale 21st The North Coast Chorale thanks the very popular “T’WAS THE NIGHT recommended for groups of eight annual winter concert will be held the entire North Coast community BEFORE CHRISTMAS” assisted by or more. on December 10th at 7:00 p.m. for 20 years of support, and hopes the Astor Street Opry Players. Be For more information about this and December 11th at 2:00 p.m, sure to bring the children along to that, as we begin our 21st season event or other Clatsop County His- also at the CCC Performing Arts this event; there will be music for here, you will continue to support Center. This concert will feature everyone for the holiday season. efforts to bring you beautiful choral torical Society activities, please call JOHN RUTTER’S MAGNIFICAT”, the TICKETS - $10.00 and children music. 503-325-2203 or e-mail: cchs@ song of Mary featuring soprano 12 and under are free with an www.NcoastChorale.com cumtux.org dec11 hipfishmonthly.com 16 GoingsOn: Dec 11 in the columbia pacific

Office, 8th and Commercial. This will be a pro-small business/local business action. Bring appropriate signs. Game Day at Your Library. Relax and have fun with friends and family at the Astoria Public Library’s free monthly Game Day. Choose from a wide variety of games for all ages. Refreshments will be provided. Children 10 and under must be accom- panied by an adult. Free, 2 – 4pm at the Astoria Public Library. Lamplighting Ceremony. Light up the holidays with community Christmas carols. 4pm at Sandpiper Square in Cannon Beach. Gift Bazaar. Emphasizing locally produced food items and handicrafts. 9am – 5pm at the White Clover Grange, on Hwy 53, 2 mi east of 101, near Nehalem. Alternative Gift Market. Shoppers make a contribution to local nonprofits or worldwide projects. They then receive a beautiful gift card (one for each donation) to give friends and loved ones to let them know a gift was made in their name to a A Cappella Wizards cause that will benefit others. 10am – 4pm at the Pine Grove Community Center in The Coats: a Holiday Concert Manzanita. at The Liberty Theater Christmas Bazaar & Clam Chowder Lun- cheon. Handmade gifts & crafts, rummage The Coats vocal band started have been fortunate enough to sale, plants, baked goods & candy, plus a on the street corners of Seattle, share the stage with such talented special Kids Shopping Area. 1am – 4pm Washington’s famous Pike Place fellow entertainers as Ronnie Mil- at Nehalem Bay United Methodist Church in Nehalem. Market. Singing for tourists, locals, sap, Trisha Yearwood, Montgomery (and his six string electric violin) Christmas Bazaar. 9am – 4pm at St. fish vendors, and fellow buskers, Gentry, The Beach Boys, Tanya Alban’s in Tillamook. 503-842-6192 their humble ambitions of earning Tucker, Billy Dean, Crystal Gayle, and opening will be the Seaside High School Vocal Choir. Christmas Tree Lighting. 5:30 – 7pm in a few clams to fight off the tuition and Colin Ray, just to name a few, front of the Tillamook City Hall. Sunday, December 18, 3pm, bills quickly evolved into a full-time all while continuing their tradition Habitat for Humanity Holiday Auction. international performance career. of outreach performances and Tickets $25 - $15 (discounts At the TCCA visitor’s center in Tillamook. They’ve since won national vocal workshops supporting music in for families and groups). 503-842-7472 competitions, sang for the Presi- schools throughout the northwest. At the Liberty Theater. Call Winter Gift & Craft Sale. 10am – 4pm at dent of the United States, and With Guests - Goeffrey Castle 503.325.5922 the Connie Hansen Garden in Lincoln City. Angels Ball. Evening includes dinner, Artist Reception. For the Annual Holiday Open House. “Come Home For dancing, & auction. $60, 5:30pm at Chi- Saturday 3 Volunteer Show. 6 – 8pm at the Cannon The Holiday” features seasonal music by nook Winds in Lincoln City. 888-CHINOOK Beach Gallery. local artists, book signings and delicious MUSIC LITERARY homemade goodies as well as lovely Local Authors Book Fair. Showcasing Chuck Wilder. Jazz piano. No cover, 6 – FOOD & DRINK handmade gifts. Noon – 4pm at Redmen 9pm at the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Wine Tasting. Elk Cove. 1 – 4pm at the local and regional authors discussing and Hall in Skamokawa, WA signing their latest creations. 1 – 4pm at Cellar on 10th in Astoria Niall. No cover, 6 – 8pm at the Wet Dog Holiday Open House. 9am – 5pm at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum in Café in Astoria. Gingerbread Tea. $5 for adults, $3 for Artistic Bouquets in Seaview, WA Ilwaco, WA children 2 – 4pm at Butterfield Cottage Halie Loren Trio. Jazz. $10 - $20, 7pm Christmas Bazaar. 10am – 3pm at Author Appearance. Children’s book in Seaside. at the Lincoln City Cultural Center. Pacific Bible Church in Ilwaco, WA author Marbeth Stevens who wrote the Victorian Holiday Tea. Tea, cider, & book “Theodore the Tree.” Book signing The Tommy Hogan Band. Blues/Rock. Saturday Christmas Market. 16 ven- cookies will be served. Free, 2 – 5pm at from noon – 2pm at the Cannon Beach No cover, 9pm at Roadhouse 101 in dors delight the senses and help you find the Cannon Beach Library. Book Company. Also 3 – 5pm at Beach Lincoln City. the perfect holiday gifts. 10am – 4pm in Karla’s Open House. Karla Steinhauser the Time Enough Books building at the Books in Seaside. The Water Brothers. 9pm at Snug will share seafood processing techniques, Port of Ilwaco, WA THEATER Harbor Bar && Grill in Lincoln City. including filleting finny food and shaking Lighted Boat Parade and More. Crab Auditions. For the thriller “Wait Until ART all the meat out of the crab. Auto- Pot Christmas Tree and World’s Shortest Dark”. Roles include a young married Starving Artist Faire. Hand made gifts, graphed copies of her book, “I Am Karla’s Fireworks Display. Starts at 5pm at the couple, three men with variable ages, live music, and munchies. Admission $2 Smokehouse, Vol. II,” will be available for Port of Ilwaco, WA a teenage girl and two policemen, plus suggested donation. 10am – 6pm at the purchase. 1:30 – 3pm at Karla’s Smoke- Community Day at the Museum. Take backstage crew. 2pm at the Oregon Coast Star of the Sea Auditorium in Astoria. house in Rockaway Beach. part in family activities and see demon- Dance Center in Tillamook. The Nutcracker Ballet. With dancers Astoria Visual Artists Holiday Art Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad Dinner strations, visit the exhibits and get a tem- porary maritime tattoo. Donations of cash from the Little Ballet Theatre and Ballet Fair. Enjoy live music and refreshments Train. Departs from Garibaldi at 4pm. or food for the food bank encouraged and San Jose, danced to a live orchestra. while browsing the many artworks in all 503-842-7972 for ticket prices. most welcome. Free admission, 11am Tickets are $12 adults, $6 children general Wine Maker’s Dinner. Elk Cove. Res- mediums on sale for the holidays. 11am – 3pm at the Columbia River Maritime admission, $20 to $50 reserved seating. – 4pm at the Astoria Arts & Movement ervations required, 6pm at the Cellar on Museum in Astoria. 2pm & 7:30pm at the Astoria High School Center. 10th in Astoria. 503-325-6600 Occupy Astoria Action. a “Support Auditorium. First Saturday Art Walk. 5 – 8pm at HAPPENING Our Local Merchants / Thank you, Local The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. A galleries and businesses in Seaside & Hope for the Holidays Bazaar. 9:30am Merchants” walk through downtown Christmas Comedy. $5 and $6, 3pm at Gearhart. - 2pm at the High School in Raymond, WA Astoria. Gather at noon at the Astoria Post the Knappa High School Little Theater.

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Jean White is Annie Oakley Dennis Howard next to Jean White (Annie), is Frank Butler Annie Get Your Gun Coaster Theatre Auditions At the Coaster Nov 18 – Dec 30 Coaster Theatre Auditions for Alan Acykbourn’s How the Other Half Loves will be held at the theatre on Ohio (and elsewhere), 1878 through boot! . . . Ready . . . Aim . . . Sing! Irving Monday & Tuesday, December 12 & 13, from 6:30 - 1885 . . . a gal with a gun . . . a man with Berlin’s Classic musical is an American 8:30. This time and space bending raucous comedy a gun . . . another man with a Wild West treasure presented for the first time on the has roles for 3 men and 3 women, ages 20s - 60s. Show . . . Chief Sitting Bull . . . plenty of Coaster stage! Fridays and Saturdays Portland actor Scott Parker directs. If you have a sharpshootin’ . . . tuneful and vibrant . . . 8pm, Sunday Matinees 3pm, Tickets: conflict but are interested in auditioning, call 503-436- and “No Business Like Show Business” to $18 - $23. Coastertheater.com 0609.

ASOC New Works Winners Chosen ASOC announces the winners of the ASOC 3rd An- nual contest for One Act and Monologs which ran from July to November 2011 had over 30 entries from coast to coast. Winners were chosen by a selected panel of local and regional theatrical experts. Each was judged for writing skills, perceptiveness and entertaining qualities that are suitable for family audiences. Entries included comedy, drama or anything in between. The panel chose three pieces to be produced by ASOC in February 2012 for their 3rd Annual NEW WORKS FESTIVAL, sponsored by the Astoria Coop- erative. They include for two for best one-act play, a fairytale comedy LOBSTER MAN By Jonathan Cook of Georgia and IN RE: RADDING VS. GLAZER by Steve Karp of New York. The winning monologs a poignant tragedy THE ECHO OF HIS FACE by Dan Morra from The 5th Annual SCROOGED IN ASTORIA Pennsylvania and by Seaside author Keyaho Rohlfs the Dec 2 – 18 comedy CAPTIVE. The pieces will be performed the first three weeks SCROOGED IN ASTORIA written by Ju- “Big” Krooke, “Present” Miss Macie and in February 2012 with rehearsals beginning at the first dith Niland with original songs by Philip the “Future” Saint Lucia, to learn the of the year. Morrill, is an ASOC melodramatic adap- errors of his ways! Auditions for this show will be held Mon. Dec tation of the beloved timeless classic by A fun way to celebrate the season 12th and Tues. Dec. 13th at 7:00pm at the ASOC Charles Dickens, “A Christmas Carol,” with co-workers, family and friends. combined with sentimental Christmas Playhouse 129 West Bond Street Uniontown Astoria. Thurs-Sat at 7:30pm, doors open songs and Scandinavian traditions. Parts are need for 4 females ages 25 and up, 2 males 7pm, Sunday Matinees, Dec 11-12 And in our original story we find our ages 25 to 40 along with 2 female and 4 male non at 2pm, doors open 1:30pm. Tickets penny-pinching, miserly, Max Krooke speaking roles. No experience is necessary. For more $15 to $8. Group rates too. ASOC Jr., the not so beloved character from information please call Anne at 503-338-3826. SHANGHAIED IN ASTORIA, being guided Playhouse, 129 West Bond. Call by the Ghosts of Christmas; “Past” the 503.325.6104 dec11 hipfishmonthly.com 18 ••• music • visual arts • literarylecture • outdoor • theater••• music.

A Christmas Trilogy. Three holiday one- MuchMore Country. 9pm at Chinook HAPPENING acts. 7pm at the River City Playhouse in Tuesday 6 Winds in Lincoln City. 888-CHINOOK Holiday Home Tours. Participating Bed & Ilwaco, WA MUSIC Smile Brigade. Big Beat/Psychedelic/ Breakfasts offer tours. A donation of a non- Scrooged in Astoria. $6 - $15, 7:30pm Open Jam. Hosted by Steve Sloan. Showtunes. No cover, 9m at Hazel’s Tavern perishable food item is requested to be left at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. 8:30pm at Snug Harbor Bar & Grill in in Astoria. with each Bed & Breakfast visited. 1 – 4pm Lincoln City. on the Long Beach Peninsula, WA Annie Get Your Gun. Musical. $8 - $23, FOOD & DRINK 8pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in Saturday Christmas Market. 16 vendors Wine Tasting. At Taste of Tuscany in Cannon Beach. delight the senses and help you find the Wednesday 7 Seaside. 503-738-5377 A Moon for the Misbegotten. Drama. perfect holiday gifts. At the Port of Ilwaco, At the Barn Community Playhouse in Til- HAPPENING HAPPENING WA lamook. 503-842-7940 Potluck & Trunk Show. Join with other Christmas Bazaar. 10am – 4pm at the Holiday Open House. “Come Home For peninsula women in business for an early NW Trail riders Association in Long Beach, The Holiday” features seasonal music by evening networking opportunity of good WA local artists, book signings and delicious fun, good food and a chance to show off Sunday 4 homemade goodies as well as lovely hand- our products and skills. The annual Penin- Festival of Trees Gala Event & Silent MUSIC made gifts. Noon – 4pm at Redmen Hall in sula Women in Business Holiday Potluck Auction. $20, 6 – 8pm at the Tillamook Tom Trudell jazz piano. No cover, Skamokawa, WA and Trunk Show will take place tonight at County Pioneer Museum. 503-842-4553 11:30am – 2pm at the Bridgewater Bistro The Artisan, 114 S.W. Main, Ilwaco, WA. Breakfast With Santa. Spend a morning in Astoria. LECTURE Please plan to bring a potluck dish. If you Elk-Stravaganza Program. Featuring filled with fun, food, games and crafts! Visit Bayside Singers Christmas Concert. The Dimes wish to reserve a vendor space please Bryan Swearingen, Manager of the Jewell Santa in his sleigh, and have your picture Free, 3 – 4pm at United Methodist Church contact Jan Bono at (360)642-4932. Meadows Wildlife Area. $5, 7pm in the taken with him. Children must be accom- Fok pop collective in Ocean Park, WA panied with paying adult. Children under Pearl Harbor Day Ceremony. To com- Riverbend Room at NCRD in Nehalem. A Portland folk-pop collective that has achieved notoriety for their John Doan Christmas Concert. Victorian memorate the 70th anniversary of the 2 years of age are free. $7, 8:30 – 11am lyric, flowing melodies, sophisticated vocal harmonies and tales attrib- THEATER at Port of Play in Astoria. 503-325-8669 style Christmas Music. Adults $15, children attack on Pearl Harbor there will be a uted to scenerios gleaned from circa 1900’s newspaper clippings. $5. 7pm at Lewis & Clark Bible Church A Christmas Trilogy. Three holiday one- to register. ceremony at the Pearl Harbor Memorial Their most recent full length “The King Can Drink the Harbour south of Astoria. Bridge, next to the Seaside Convention acts. 7pm at the River City Playhouse in Community Candlelight Walk. Walk The Tummybuckles. Folk/Acoustic Rock/ Center. Includes a Coast Guard flyover. Ilwaco, WA through downtown Astoria to recognize our Dry” was released in 2010 to strong critical acclaim from Spin, NPR, Classical. No cover. 8pm at Fort George Cake and coffee will be available. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. A connectedness as community members. Allmusic and a host of online publications. Brewery & Public House in Astoria. Holiday Potluck & Music. The public is in- Christmas Comedy. $5 and $6, 7pm at The walk will begin at the corner of 12th Live, the group has grown to a 7-piece and has shared the stage Sloan & Rosso. 8:30pm at Snug Harbor vited to a potluck & music program. Starts the Knappa High School Little Theater. and Commercial Street in Astoria at 5 pm with the likes of Liam Finn, Kathryn Calder (New Pornographers), The Bar & Grill in Lincoln City. at 12:30pm at the Cannon Beach Library. Scrooged in Astoria. $6 - $15, 7:30pm on December 10, 2011. Candles will be Head and the Heart, The Mother Hips and Todd Rundgren, amongst available or you are welcome to bring your ART Baga’s Front Room. Join other music at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. others. lovers every first Wednesday for song and own. All ages welcomed. Starving Artist Faire. Hand made gifts, Annie Get Your Gun. Musical. $8 - $23, conversation and maybe to sip a little wine Celebrate a December day with The Dimes. Friday, Dec 9, live music, and munchies. Admission $2 8pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in Lower Columbia Pug Socializing Club. or other beverage. Food available too. 7pm Pugs and their people meet monthly for fun 7pm, The Sandtrap in Gearhart. No Cover. suggested donation. 11am – 4pm at the Cannon Beach. at Lush Wine Bar in Cannon Beach. & socialization. Free, 11am at Carruthers Star of the Sea Auditorium in Astoria. A Moon for the Misbegotten. Drama. Snowflake fashion Shows Sparkling Park in Warrenton. At the Barn Community Playhouse in Til- HAPPENING Spectacular. $25, 6pm at the Lincoln City Alternative Gift Fair. With live World Holiday Open House. “Come Home For lamook. 503-842-7940 Cultural Center. 541-994-2518 Music by Acustica. 11am – 5pm at the The Holiday” features seasonal music by McTavish Room of the Liberty Theater in local artists, book signings and delicious Astoria. homemade goodies as well as lovely hand- Thursday 8 Saturday 10 Tree Viewing and Open House. With made gifts. Noon – 4pm at Redmen Hall in HAPPENING MUSIC Skamokawa, WA Santa. Free, 10am – 2pm at the Seaside The Harlem Ambassadors. Presenting Bill Hayes. No cover, 6 – 8pm at the Wet Left Convention Center. LITERARY a professional show basketball game. $9 Dog Café in Astoria. Author Appearance. Irene Martin will adults, $6 s&s, free for kids 4 and under. Tom Trudell. Jazz piano. No cover, 6 – Festival of Trees Gala. Featuring pianist Coast sign copies of her new book, “Flight of 7pm at the Nestucca High School in 9pm at the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Tom Grant. $100 at the Seaside Conven- Country Cloverdale. tion Center. the Bumble Bee,” about the history of the Tuba Christmas. Holiday music. Free, Hazel’s Bumble Bee Seafoods company, as well LITERARY 2pm at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad Candy as her previous books. Free admission, Reading & Book Signing. Local author Museum in Ilwaco, WA Cane Express. Departs from Garibaldi Tavern 1:30pm at the Columbia River Maritime Jan Bono will read from her book “It’s at 11am, 1pm, and 3pm. FMI 503-842- Left Coast Country: five easy the edge of the left coast. Plain Museum in Astoria. North Coast Chorale Winter Concert. 7972 Christmas!” 7pm at KALA in Astoria. Featuring “Magnificat” the song of Mary “Calendar of Saints” Presentation. Karin pieces from P-Town at Hazel’s and simple. Author Appearance. Julian Smith will 11th Hour Santa Crafts Fair. Free, 10am Temple’s new book, “So Great a Cloud of and “The Night Before Christmas.” $10, T. How is that not fun? Not Saturday, December 17, speak about his book, “Crossing the Heart – 4pm at the Lincoln City Cultural Center. Witnesses: A Personal Calendar of Saints,” 7pm at the PAC in Astoria. of Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Adven- … yes, no . . . come on! High Hazels Tavern in Astoria, No will be presented. Illustrator Christi Payne MuchMore Country. 9pm at Chinook LITERARY ture,” about crossing Africa on foot. Free, octane bluegrass rocks here on Cover. and publisher Greg Darms will speak about Winds in Lincoln City. 888-CHINOOK Local Author Book Signing. author Lydia 7pm at the Seaside Library. the project and there will be a reception One way Out. 9pm at Snug Harbor Bar & Saccomanno in celebrating the publishing following. 2pm at Grace Episcopal Church THEATER Grill in Lincoln City. of her first book, “God Answered Lydia’s Parish Hall in Astoria. Scrooged in Astoria. $6 - $15, 7:30pm Prayer.” Noon – 2pm at Long Beach Coffee Holiday Friends at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. ART Roasters in Long Beach, WA THEATER New Year’s Eve at Fort George in Astoria Last Minute Local Artist Trunk Show. Auditions. For the thriller “Wait Until A Moon for the Misbegotten. Drama. Northwest Authors Second Saturday 9am – 4pm at Long Beach Coffee Roasters Dark”. Roles include a young married At the Barn Community Playhouse in Til- Series. Author Jennie Shortridge will speak It only makes sense couple, three men with variable ages, lamook. 503-842-7940 in Long Beach, WA at the Canon Beach Library at 2pm. Her to spend the last and a teenage girl and two policemen, plus Second Saturday Art Walk. 5 – 9pm most recent novel is “When She Flew.” first holiday of the year backstage crew. 2pm at the Oregon Coast at galleries and businesses in downtown with Idaho supplants and Dance Center in Tillamook. Friday 9 Astoria. THEATER The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. A indie pop players Holiday The Nutcracker Ballet. With dancers from MUSIC David Drury. Jazz guitar. No cover, 6 – CINEMA Christmas Comedy. $5 and $6, 3pm at Friends. Opened for Blind the Little Ballet Theatre and Ballet San A Christmas Wish. $2, 11am at the Bijou the Knappa High School Little Theater. Jose, danced to a live orchestra. Tickets 9pm at the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Pilot: The Free Show (BTY Theater in Lincoln City. A Christmas Trilogy. Three holiday one- are $12 adults, $6 children general admis- Nick Mostly. No cover, 6 – 8pm at the a beautiful experience) sion, $20 to $50 reserved seating. 2pm at Wet Dog Café in Astoria. FOOD & DRINK acts. 7pm at the River City Playhouse in Ilwaco, WA and as Astoria is their new the Astoria High School Auditorium. The Cannon Beach Chorus. Holiday Pancake Breakfast. $5, 8 – 11am at A Christmas Trilogy. Three holiday one- concert. $10, 7pm at the Seaside Conven- the Peninsula Senior & Activity Center in Scrooged in Astoria. $6 - $15, 7:30pm home ground and keeping acts. 2pm at the River City Playhouse in tion Center. Klipsan Beach. at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. a musical profile, will . . . . Holiday Friends are well – Ilwaco, WA The Dimes. Americana/Folk/Indie. No Wine Tasting. Wines for Holiday Celebra- Annie Get Your Gun. Musical. $8 - $23, continue to perform in Astoria. Scrooged in Astoria. $6 - $15, 2pm at cover, 7pm at McMenamins Sand Trap in tions. 1 – 4pm at the Cellar on 10th in 8pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in And how ‘bout that – New Year’s equipped to tele-music-port you Astoria the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Gearhart. Cannon Beach. Eve falls on a Saturday – there’s to a higher ground. Annie Get Your Gun. Musical. $8 - $23, The Flextones. Blues/Classic Rock/Rock. Gingerbread Tea. $5 for adults, $3 for A Moon for the Misbegotten. Drama. something really wrong with that. Saturday, Dec 31, 9pm, Fort 3pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in No cover, 9pm at Roadhouse 101 in children 2 – 4pm at Butterfield Cottage in At the Barn Community Playhouse in Til- Cannon Beach. Lincoln City. Seaside. lamook. 503-842-7940 But, with raw pop guile cum 60s’ George in Astoria, NO Cover.

19 dec11 hipfishmonthly.com artv happens. Mysterium: Curiosities of Wonder and Delight Monoprints by Miki’ala Souza At RiverSea Gallery RiverSea Gallery presents Mysterium: Curiosities At Clementes of Wonder and Delight, a compendium of oddities from the far reaches of the imagination that connect us to Miki’ala Souza is a Native our dreams, return us to a childlike sense of discovery, Hawaiian artist, residing in Astoria. and encourage us to open our minds to unexplained Deeply aware of the way in which mysteries. There will be an artist’s reception and pre- place impacts identity, Souza feels view party held Saturday, December 3rd 6:00 – 8:00 responsibility for the culture and pm followed by a reception during Astoria Artwalk De- heritage of the spaces occupied cember 10th 5:00 - 8:00 pm. The work will remain by her life. This collection of on display through January 3rd, 2012. monoprints, made in Astoria, is her This invitational exhibition will include the work of latest exploration of the individual’s 6 artists who all work sculpturally. Each artist takes relationship to place. great inspiration from the past and merges that history The spaces created during the into fantastical and original art pieces, some working with reclaimed or found objects. Kristy Charroin will monoprint process of layering ink, include her altered photographs as well as illuminated build elusive landscapes full of sculpture, Joe Diemer brings his architectural wirework symbolism, depth and color. She sculpture as well as including his fantasy birdcages builds environments that combine which will be added to the exhibition for the December an aesthetic influenced by designs 10th Artwalk. Tabor Porter and Gregory Carrigan will from her indigenous background both be exhibiting their uniquely whimsical sculpture. with her cultural experience in Also included in the show will be the figurative sculpture mainstream America. These created from organic materials by Lisa Kaser as well as imaginary landscapes show the tip steampunk metal sculpture from Christopher Truax. of a tree or a group of colors that RiverSea Gallery is open daily at 1160 Commercial remind us of places we live or have Street, 503-325-1270, or visit the website at www. visited. Rather than representing RiverSeaGallery.com Kristy Charroin, illuminated sculpture. specific places, these prints con- tain elements of familiarity derived Up and Coming at Cannon Beach Gallery from environmental experience Double D Trouble common to artist and audience. A Show of new works The Cannon Beach relatives home. She by Dulcye Taylor and Gallery announces began mailing the cards Souza states the essence of her Deborah Starr work: “Our identities are influenced two juried shows ap- to artists all over the At Lunar Boy Gallery proaching, the Green by the spaces they occupy. Places world in a collaborative, Show in January linger in our memories and create Gallant gallery gals, Dulcye mixed media venture and Playing Cards in Taylor and Deborah Starr, own- which has resulted in a powerful impressions essential to Mini Blissings February, 2012. ers of Old Town Frame Co. and collection of over 1,000 our existence. They contribute to The Green Show Lunar Boy Gallery respectively, playing cards. our character and the multiplicity diverse planet with each other and Saturday, December 10, 5-8 pm will be juried by North break out new work in a double Artists interested of unique communities in which carry its many special landscapes at Clementes, 1198 Commercial Coast artist, Susan show – a third annual in a in participating in this we participate. We share this within us.” Opening Reception: Street in Astoria C. Walsh, a painter series. event should create by profession and the Opening Reception: Saturday, a piece using some organizer of Cart’Ms manner of playing card December 10 5-8 pm. In annual Trash Bash conjunction with 2nd Saturday as the basis (ap- Exhibition; a menag- proximately 3.5”x2.5”) Art Walk. Lunar Boy Gallery 240 erie of art created and may want to visit 11th Street Downtown Astoria. from all manner of Cohn’s website to get a The Photography 503.325.1566 recycled goods. The better idea of what the of Skye McKey submission date for project looks like, www. the Green Show is At Old Town Frame lizcohnartstudio.com Thursday, January 5 Contact the Cannon Skye McKey loves the beach. She goes almost between 10am-4pm. The theme may be Beach Arts Association every day, rain, shine, wind, snow and sun. With at(503) 436-0744, or interpreted by the art- Liz Cohn Card Collage her dog, Noble she explores the tides, the sand, the Email: cannonbeacha- mysterious stuff on the beach. And sometimes she ist in terms of either the color palette used or by utiliz- [email protected] ,Web: www.can- takes her camera. ing green materials (i.e. natural nonbeacharts.org. A 30 year resident, McKey shares a perspec- materials or recycled goods). As a non-profit arts organiza- tive of a devoted and passionate beach inhabit- The next juried show will ac- tion, the CBAA does encourage ant, through her lens and through black and white company Liz Cohn’s “Playing with artists and art patrons to consider photography. a Full Deck,” exhibit and will be becoming a member of the as- Opening Reception, Sat. Dec 10, Astoria Second curated by Cohn. A Portland sociation. Memberships begin at Saturday Art Walk, 5-9pm, Old Town Frame, 1287 based artist, Cohn began this $35 for an individual; members Commercial St, 503.325.5221 collaborative project two years ago receive all of the Gallery’s monthly when she discovered over 100 mailings and the CBAA’s bi-annual Dulcye Taylor Snake decks of playing cards in an aging newsletter. Skye McKey Sky Water dec11 hipfishmonthly.com 20 v extra. ••• music • visual arts • literarylecture • outdoor • theater•••

HAPPENING FOOD & DRINK A Procraftinators Delight Thursday 22 Dinner, Auction and a Movie. Premier Wine Tasting. New Year’s Eve Surprise. 1 Tuesday 10 Last-minute Holiday Craft Sale MUSIC showing of “Remembering Tillamook – 4pm at the Cellar on 10th in Astoria. HAPPENING County” followed by a fundraising dinner Suppor the future of CCC’s full time faculty by donating hoilday gift Concert for a Winter’s Night. Music for HAPPENING Tree Lighting Ceremony. 6pm in down- and a silent auction. At the Bay City Arts items to an upcoming Holiday Arts & Craft Sale. Sponsoerd by the Chanukkah, Solstice, & Christmas. With Fireworks at Midnight. 10 minutes of fire- town Cloverdale. Center. 503-377-9620 CCC Art Club, Phi Theta Kappa and members of the Faculty Associa- Shelley Loring & Jennifer Goodenberger. works at midnight over the Pacific Ocean in $10 suggested donation., 7pm at Grace LITERARY front of the boardwalk in Long Beach, WA Wednesday 11 tion, the sale willtake place on campurDecember 7, with additional Episcopal Church in Astoria. Local Author Showcase. Writers and THEATER HAPPENING itmes offered to thepublic during December 10 Second Saturday Art friends are invited to come share and listen Walk. Deliver donated goods to the CCC Library thruy Dec. 6 FOOD & DRINK The Psychic. A Murder Mystery/Comedy. College Bridge Program. AHS Seniors Tea & Plum Pudding. $10 includes to original works being read by local au- $8 - $12, 8pm at Theater West in Lincoln take advantage of this year’s Career Panel museum admission. 1 – 4pm at the Flavel thors. Free, 6 – 8pm at Olde Towne Trading City. at Astoria High School! Interact with local Long Beach Coffee Roasters House Museum in Astoria. Post in Ilwaco, WA professionals, learn about a variety of Last Minute Local Artist Trunk Show HAPPENING Sunday 1 careers and what it takes to get there. 8am Thursday 29 – 3pm at Astoria High School. Long Beach Coffee Roasters will be hosting a Last Minute Local LGBT Q-Mixer. QJazz features vocal hosts MUSIC Artist Trunk Show December 10&11 from 9am-4pm. Meet local Dinah Urell and Walt Trumbull and pianist FOOD & DRINK Tom Trudell. Jazz Piano. No cover, 11:30 Thursday 12 Chuck Wilder. Live standards, compli- Tea & Plum Pudding. $10 includes – 2pm at the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Peninsula artists and check off your holiday shopping lists! Featuring mentary aps and social mixer from 8pm museum admission. 1 – 4pm at the Flavel Irie Sons. No cover. 8pm at Fort George THEATER jewelry, handbags, paintings, pottery, and more! In house specials to close. Bring a standard and sing with House Museum in Astoria. The Psychic. A Murder Mystery/Comedy. pianist Chuck Wilder. Every 3rd Thursday Brewery & Public House in Astoria. and coupons offered throughout the weekend, so come on down, THEATER $8 - $12, 8pm at Theater West in Lincoln of the month at the Bridgewater Bistro in City. enjoy some delicious coffees, and do some holiday shopping of local Astoria. Annie Get Your Gun. Musical. $8 - $23, Thursday 5 products! Contact Mandy at 360-642-2334 for further details. 8pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in Cannon Beach. HAPPENING Friday 13 Friday 23 First Thursday Trivia at the Library. The Psychic. A Murder Mystery/Comedy. Teams of 1 – 5 compete. Free, 5:30pm at THEATER Seaside First Saturday Art Walk • Dec 3 MUSIC $8 - $12, 8pm at Theater West in Lincoln The Psychic. A Murder Mystery/Comedy. Chuck Wilder. Jazz piano. No cover, 6 – the Astoria Public Library. Art venues feature these artists throughout the month. City. $8 - $12, 8pm at Theater West in Lincoln 9pm at the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. LECTURE City. Doug Rupe. No cover, 6 – 8pm at the Wet Friday 30 The World of Haystack Rock Lecture Dog Café in Astoria. Series. “Conservation Connections: The Saturday 14 North Coast Land Conservancy Celebrates Country Music Jam. Free, 7 – 9pm at the MUSIC 25 Years on the Oregon Coast.” With Katie ART Wickiup Senior Center in Svensen. David Drury. Jazz guitar. No cover, 6 – 9pm at the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Voelke. 7pm at the Cannon Beach Library. Artistry in Wood. A Wood Carving Show Peter Rodocker. No cover, 7 – 9pm at featuring carvings and tools for sale, free McMenamins Sand Trap in Gearhart. Jason Lambert. No cover, 6 – 8pm at the THEATER wood carving classes for kids and adults. Wet Dog Café in Astoria. The Psychic. A Murder Mystery/Comedy. Free admission, begins at 10am at Chi- Rock N Roll Cowboys. Blues/Classic Rock/ Kris Deelane. Pop/Punk/Post Punk. No $8 - $12, 8pm at Theater West in Lincoln nook Winds in Lincoln City. Country. No cover, 9pm at Roadhouse 101 City. in Lincoln City. cover, 7 – 9pm at McMenamins Sand Trap FOOD & DRINK in Gearhart. Crab Feed. Crab dinner (if crab is avail- FOOD & DRINK Friday 6 Hip Deep Soul Revue. Soul. No cover, able) Dinner includes cole slaw & garlic Tea & Plum Pudding. $10 includes 9pm at Roadhouse 101 in Lincoln City. bread. Hot dogs available for children. museum admission. 1 – 4pm at the Flavel MUSIC (Seasonal Pricing.) Noon – 8pm at 110 House Museum in Astoria. Kathryn Claire. Celtic. 7:30pm at the FOOD & DRINK Hoffman Center in Manzanita. Pacific Ave N in Long Beach, WA Tea & Plum Pudding. $10 includes Saturday 24 museum admission. 1 – 4pm at the Flavel FOOD & DRINK HAPPENING House Museum in Astoria. Wine Tasting. At Taste of Tuscany in Windless Kite Festival. This kite flying MUSIC Seaside. 503-738-5377 ‘recital’ involves indoor kite flying with David Drury. Jazz Guitar. No cover, 6 – THEATER no fans to move the air. Prior flyers and 9pm at the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Annie Get Your Gun. Musical. $8 - $23, HAPPENING Conner Doran from ‘America’s Got Talent’ Dan Golden & Larry Alred. Worldbeat. 6 – 8pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in Pacific City – Nestucca Valley Chamber fame will participate. There are solos, duets 9pm at McKeown’s Restaurant in Seaside. Cannon Beach. of Commerce Awards Banquet & Silent and group performances of two and four Auction. Call 503-392-4340 for tickets. Art Walk by Sheila Brown The Psychic. A Murder Mystery/Comedy. line kites choreographed to music. ‘Hot FOOD & DRINK 7:30 – 10pm at the Pelican Pub & Brewery $8 - $12, 8pm at Theater West in Lincoln Trick Shoot Out’ matches pairs of flyers for Beach Books / 37 N Edgewood / 738-3500 Hosting children’s author, Wine Tasting. Christmas Eve Surprise. 1 – in Pacific City. comic capers and tricky maneuvers. 11am Maribeth Stevens, who wrote the book “Theodore the Tree”. We’ll be having 4pm at the Cellar on 10th in Astoria. City. THEATER – 12:30pm and 2 – 3:30pm at the World gingerbread trees, coloring and a book signing on December 3 from 3-5. Kite Museum in Long beach, WA Sunday 25 Saturday 31 The Psychic. A Murder Mystery/Comedy. Hold Fast Tattoo Co. / 611 Broadway / 738-4055 Featuring Clayton Hol- $8 - $12, 8pm at Theater West in Lincoln Lower Pug Socializing Club. Pugs and lifield, a printmaker, specializing in intaglio etchings and woodcuts. Eclectic MUSIC MUSIC City. their people meet monthly for fun and Troll Radio Revue. Americana. $2 for socialization. 11am at Caruthers Park in works by Sandy Peraza, an artist from Portland. Just in time for the holidays Sloan & Rosso. 8:30pm at Snug Harbor adults, free for children. 11am – noon at Warrenton. we will have commitment boxes and mosaic tiles from Mary Barron. Bar & Grill in Lincoln City. Saturday 7 the PAC in Astoria. Coastal Brawl 2: LEGACY. This all ages ART Gilbert Dist Gallery / 613 Broadway / 738-4222 A group show by co-op Monday 26 Niall. No cover, 6 – 8pm at the Wet Dog show features the best local and NW Seaside Art Walk. 5- 8pm at galleries members Dave Bartholet, Thomas McNeill, Rosslyn Freer, Larry McKee, Mike Café in Astoria. MMA amateurs stepping into the cage CINEMA and businesses in Seaside and Gearhart. for your entertainment. At Clatsop County Sage and Carol Thompson. Refreshments including NW wines also offered. Acustica. World Music. No cover, 9pm Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory THEATER Fairgrounds near Astoria. (1971). $2, 11am at the Bijou Theater in – midnight at McKeown’s Restaurant in Isabell Ross / 821 Broadway/ 738-8004 Featuring Shelia Brown from The Psychic. A Murder Mystery/Comedy. Lincoln City. Seaside. LECTURE Astoria. Brown has worked as a potter, graphic designer, illustrator and fine $8 - $12, 8pm at Theater West in Lincoln The Holiday Friends. No cover. 9pm at Conversation Project Presentation. artist. Her current work is in lino-block print making and she will begin teach- FOOD & DRINK City. Fort George Brewery & Public House in “S/he-bop: Making Sense of Gender in Tea & Plum Pudding. $10 includes ing classes in the medium this January. Stop in and meet this local artist! Astoria. American Pop Music.” Presented by Sarah museum admission. 1 – 4pm at the Flavel Sunday 8 E Dougher. 1pm at the Tillamook County Yummy Wine Bar & Bistro/ 831 Broadway / 738-3100 Featuring “Costume House Museum in Astoria. New Year’s Eve Party. With Richard T and Pioneer Museum in Tillamook. Art” a collection of new work by Seaside native, Jorjett Strumme. Strumme the Swing Cats. At the Bridgewater Bistro MUSIC Colleen Raney. Celtic. No cover. 8pm has created a blend of Hollywood nostalgia and a love of classic movies, Tuesday 27 in Astoria. THEATER at Fort George Brewery & Public House in Annie Get Your Gun. Musical. $15-$25, presented a unique collection of original art showcasing her talent in the form FOOD & DRINK The Ocean. At a New Yaer’s eve Celebra- Astoria. 7:30pm at the Liberty Theater in Astoria. of masks, tiaras, and playful hats, all of which are created to be displayed as tion at Snug Harbor bar & Grill in Lincoln Tea & Plum Pudding. $10 includes Kaplan-Weiss Dou. Classical chamber The Psychic. A Murder Mystery/Comedy. art or worn like the costumes she created in Hollywood. “It’s a way for adults City. museum admission. 1 – 4pm at the Flavel music. $25, 3pm at the chapel at Camp $8 - $12, 8pm at Theater West in Lincoln to play ‘dress-up,’ which was my favorite thing to do as a child” House Museum in Astoria. Thumptown. Funk/R&B/Soul. No cover, Winema, north of Neskowin. 503-965- City. 9pm at McMenamins Sand Trap in Gear- 6499 Trails End Art Assoc. / 656 A St. Gearhart/ 717-9458 Hours 2-5 pm Wednesday 28 hart. Special Event for the public! Join us for refreshments and let us introduce HAPPENING Sunday 15 our special holiday art offerings. Most art will be on sale for under $100, with FOOD & DRINK CINEMA Family YMCA Open House. Stop in to MUSIC many cards and prints at a very reasonable price. Susan Bish will be demon- Tea & Plum Pudding. $10 includes Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory tour the facility see demonstrations and The Distractions. No cover. 8pm at Fort museum admission. 1 – 4pm at the Flavel (1971). $2, 11am at the Bijou Theater in enjoy some refreshments. 1 – 3pm at the strating . Please visit www.trailsendart.org for more information. George Brewery & Public House in Astoria. House Museum in Astoria. Lincoln City. YMCA in Tillamook.

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Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved FOOD & DRINK Cannon Beach American Legion Break- Sunday 11 America.” Free and open to the public, Tea & Plum Pudding. $10 includes fast. $7 adults, $3 children under 6. 9 Friday – 11:30am at the American Legion Hall in MUSIC 7pm at the Cannon Beach Library. museum admission. 1 – 4pm at the Flavel Cannon Beach. MUSIC Tuba Christmas Concert. Christmas mu- House Museum in Astoria. Bill Hayes. Rock/Folk/Bluegrass. No cover, 5 – 8pm at the Cannon Beach Cookie sic played by the Astoria Tuba Quartet. Free Thursday 15 Wine Tasting. Wines for Christmas. 1 – Tea & Plum Pudding. $10 includes museum admission. 1 – 4pm at the Flavel Company. at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum FOOD & DRINK 4pm at the Cellar on 10th in Astoria in Ilwaco, WA House Museum in Astoria. Tom Trudell. Jazz piano. No cover, 6– 9pm at the Shelburne Restaurant & Pub in Fundraising Dinner. $7 for adults and $5 Gingerbread Tea. $5 for adults, $3 for Seaview, WA. Chuck Wilder. Jazz Piano. No cover, for children includes. 5 - 6:30pm at the children 2 – 4pm at Butterfield Cottage in HAPPENING 11:30am – 2pm at the Bridgewater Bistro Peninsula Senior Activity Center in Klipsan Seaside. Holiday Open House. “Come Home For Asleep at the Switch. Blues, Country, 40’s, & 50’s. Free (donations accepted), 6 – in Astoria. The Holiday” features seasonal music by Beach, WA HAPPENING 8pm at the City Hall in Garibaldi. North Coast Chorale Winter Concert. local artists, book signings and delicious Holiday Open House. “Come Home For Featuring “Magnificat” the song of Mary HAPPENING homemade goodies as well as lovely hand- Thomasian Trio & Maggie Kitson. Blues/Classic Rock. No cover, 6pm at Sweet The Holiday” features seasonal music by and “The Night Before Christmas.” $10, LGBT Q-Mixer. QJazz features vocal hosts made gifts. Noon – 4pm at Redmen Hall in Basil’s Café in Cannon Beach. local artists, book signings and delicious 2pm at the PAC in Astoria. Dinah Urell and Walt Trumbull and pianist Skamokawa, WA Chuck Wilder. Live standards, compli- homemade goodies as well as lovely hand- The Druthers. Acoustic/Folk/Musical. Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad Candy Saturday mentary apps and social mixer from 8pm made gifts. Noon – 4pm at Redmen Hall in No cover. 8pm at Fort George Brewery & Cane Express. Departs from Garibaldi to close. Bring a standard and sing with Skamokawa, WA MUSIC Public House in Astoria. at 11am, 1pm, and 3pm. FMI 503-842- pianist Chuck Wilder. Every 3rd Thursday Musician’s Jam. Free, 2 – 4pm at the Tillamook Library. Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad Candy 7972 ART of the month at the Bridgewater Bistro in Cane Express. Departs from Garibaldi Jennifer Goodenberger. Classical/Improvisational/Contemporary piano music. No Last Minute Local Artist Trunk Show. Astoria. at 11am, 1pm, and 3pm. FMI 503-842- THEATER cover, 6pm at the Shelburne Restaurant in Seaview, WA 9am – 4pm at Long Beach Coffee Roasters 7972 Scrooged in Astoria. $6 - $15, 2pm at in Long Beach, WA THEATER the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. The Honky Tonk Cowboys. Country. No cover, 7 – 10p at the Astoria Moose Lodge. Scrooged in Astoria. $6 - $15, 7:30pm Comedy at the Coast. Featuring Milt Abel, Annie Get Your Gun. Musical. $8 - $23, HAPPENING at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Ronnie Schell, and Ty Boeh. $15, 8pm at FOOD & DRINK Holiday Open House. “Come Home For Chinook Winds in Lincoln City. 3pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in Wine Tasting Special. $9 for 4 2-oz pours + complimentary appetizers. 4 – 6pm at The Holiday” features seasonal music by Annie Get Your Gun. Musical. $8 - $23, Cannon Beach. the Wine Bar at Sweet Basil’s Café in Cannon Beach. local artists, book signings and delicious 7:30pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse THEATER homemade goodies as well as lovely hand- in Cannon Beach. Scrooged in Astoria. $6 - $15, 7:30pm Monday 19 made gifts. Noon – 4pm at Redmen Hall in at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Sunday FOOD & DRINK Skamokawa, WA Friday 16 Annie Get Your Gun. Musical. $8 - $23, Tea & Plum Pudding. $10 includes MUSIC 8pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in Holiday Home Tours. Participating Bed & MUSIC museum admission. 1 – 4pm at the Flavel All That Jazz. Jazz. No cover (donations accepted). 2pm at the Wet Dog Café in Cannon Beach. Breakfasts offer tours. A donation of a non- Chuck Wilder. Jazz Piano. No cover, 6 – House Museum in Astoria. Astoria. perishable food item is requested to be left 9pm at the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Ice Cream Social. The public is invited for Honky Tonk Cowboys. No cover, 3 – 6pm at the Astoria Moose Lodge. with each Bed & Breakfast visited. 1 – 4pm Sunday 18 on the Long Beach Peninsula, WA Jason Lambert. No cover, 6 – 8pm at the cake & ice cream + birthday celebration. Brian Johnstone, Flamenco/Jazz/Blues. 5 – 7pm at the Wine Bar at Sweet Basil’s Wet Dog Café in Astoria. MUSIC $1 suggested donation, free if it’s your Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad Candy Dan Golden. World Music. 10am – 1pm at birthday month. 2pm at the Peninsula Café in Cannon Beach. The Sonny Hess Trio. Blues. No cover, Cane Express. Departs from Garibaldi McKeown’s Restaurant in Seaside. Senior Activity Center in Klipsan Beach, WA at 11am, 1pm, and 3pm. FMI 503-842- 7 – 9pm at McMenamins Sand Trap in Tuesday 7972 Gearhart. David Drury. Jazz guitar. No cover, 11:30am – 2pm at the Bridgewater Bistro Tuesday 20 MUSIC 11th Hour Santa Crafts Fair. Free, 10am Rodney Carrington. Country Music and in Astoria. MUSIC Richard T. Blues. No cover, 5:30 – 8:30pm at T Paul’s Supper Club in Astoria. – 4pm at the Lincoln City Cultural Center. Stand-up Comedy. $22 - $52, 8pm at Chi- Gift of Music Concert. Featuring Concert Live Jam. Hosted by Steve Sloan. 8:30pm Help Portrait Oregon. Free family portraits nook Winds in Lincoln City. 888-CHINOOK Brian O’Connor. Jazz guitar. No cover, 6pm at the Shelburne Inn in Seaview, WA at Snug Harbor Bar & Grill in Lincoln City. donated by local Help Portrait photogra- Rock Violinist Aaron Meyer. Canned, pack- Kevin Selfe & The Tornadoes. No cover, aged goods or cash donation are required Salty Dogs. Folk/Blues/Classic Rock. No cover, 6:30pm at the U Street Pub in Sea- phers. Sit for the portrait and receive a free 9pm at Roadhouse 101 in Lincoln City. FOOD & DRINK side. 5 x 7 or 8 x 10 photo immediately. 11am for admission. 2 – 4pm at Salishan Resort. 800-452-2300 Tea & Plum Pudding. $10 includes – 5pm in the Conference Room of the Lin- FOOD & DRINK museum admission. 1 – 4pm at the Flavel Wednesday coln City Cultural Center. 541-994-9994 Gingerbread Tea. $5 for adults, $3 for The Coats. Performing a’Capella family House Museum in Astoria. children 2 – 4pm at Butterfield Cottage in THEATER favorites. $15-$25, 3pm at the Liberty MUSIC Seaside. Theater in Astoria. A Christmas Trilogy. Three holiday one- Wednesday 21 Salty Dogs. Folk/Blues/Classic Rock. No cover, 6pm at the Rio Café in Astoria, acts. 2pm at the River City Playhouse in Hanz Araki & Cathryn Claire. Celtic. $8 HAPPENING MUSIC Dan Golden. World Music. 7:30 – 10:30pm at McKeown’s Restaurant & Bar in Ilwaco, WA and $14, 7:30pm at the Coaster Theater Comedy at the Coast. Featuring Milt Abel, Open Mic Night. All acts welcome. 5 – in Cannon Beach. Seaside. Scrooged in Astoria. $6 - $15, 2pm at Ronnie Schell, and Ty Boeh. $15, 8pm at 7pm at the Three Cups Coffeehouse in Suzanne Knutzen. Piano. No cover, 7 – 8pm at the Shelburne Restaurant & Pub in the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Chinook Winds in Lincoln City. Buffalo Death Beam. Concrete/Folk Rock/ Astoria. Shoegaze. No cover. 8pm at Fort George Seaview, WA Annie Get Your Gun. Musical. $8 - $23, THEATER Open Mic Night. Hosted by Ann Tierney. Brewery & Public House in Astoria. 3pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in All levels welcome. 5 – 7pm at Wheelhouse HAPPENING Scrooged in Astoria. $6 - $15, 7:30pm Cannon Beach. at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Cannon & Sloan. 8:30pm at Snug Harbor Coffee Company in Astoria. Ecstatic Dance. Spirit-filled, freestyle, yogic trance dance. $5 - $7, 6:30 – 7:45pm, at Bar & Grill in Lincoln City. A Moon for the Misbegotten. Drama. Annie Get Your Gun. Musical. $8 - $23, Pine Grove Community House in Manzanita At the Barn Community Playhouse in Til- FOOD & DRINK 8pm at the Coaster Theater Playhouse in CINEMA lamook. 503-842-7940 Tea & Plum Pudding. $10 includes Open Mic Night. 7 – 9pm at Lush Wine Bar in Cannon Beach. (every Wednesday Cannon Beach. Santa’s Cool Holiday Film Festival. $2, museum admission. 1 – 4pm at the Flavel except 1st of the month) 11am at the Bijou Theater in Lincoln City. Wednesday 14 Saturday 17 House Museum in Astoria. Thursday FOOD & DRINK HAPPENING HAPPENING Pancake Breakfast. All-you-can-eat Open Mic. All Acts are welcome. No cover, Ring in a New Career. A career explora- MUSIC for $5, 8am – noon at the Bay City Arts 5 – 7pm at the Three Cups Coffeehouse MUSIC tion event. This event will provide you with Dan Golden & Jeffrey Reynolds. Celtic/ Center. in Astoria. Live Music. No cover, 6pm at U Street Pub in Seaside. an opportunity to identify career paths that Gypsy Jazz/Latin. 6 – 9pm at McKeown’s Basin Street NW. Jazz. No cover, 6:30pm at the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. make the most of your skills and interests, Restaurant in Seaside. inform you about what’s hot on the career Niall. No cover, 6 – 8pm at the Wet Dog Randy Weese. Bluegrass/Country. 6:30 – 9pm at the Wine Bar at Sweet Basil’s Café front regionally, and introduce you to CCC Café in Astoria. Sonny Hess in Cannon Beach. students and graduates. Participants will Rodney Carrington. Country Muisc and Santrap, Fri. Dec 16 Jam Session. No cover, 7pm at the Triangle Tavern in Astoria. learn about CCC’s admissions process and how they can earn 6 free credits at Stand-up Comedy. $22 - $52, 8pm at Chi- Northwest blues Jim Wilkins. 7pm at the Voodoo Room in Astoria. CCC while building skills through the Col- nook Winds in Lincoln City. 888-CHINOOK Salty Dogs. Folk/Blues/Classic Rock. No cover, 9pm at Sam’s Seaside Café in Seaside. lege’s Lives in Transitions program. Free, Blues Train. 9pm at Snug Harbor Bar & legend renowned for reservations required. 4 – 7pm at Clatsop Grill in Lincoln City. her guitar playing ART Community College in Astoria. Sign up Knitting/Spinning Group. 3 – 5pm at the Astoria Fiber Arts Academy. at clatsopcc.edu/community/upcoming- Left Coast Country. Bluegrass/Country. and revered for her events/ring-new-career No cover, 9pm at Hazel’s Tavern in Astoria. HAPPENING unflagging support Team Trivia tournament. Free, 6pm at Norman Sylvester. Blues. No cover, 9pm Poet & Songwriters Circle. If you are interested in writing poetry/songs, please drop in the Seaside Library. at Roadhouse 101 in Lincoln City. of other artists in and join the group. 7pm at the Bay City Arts Center. the local rhythm and LITERARY CINEMA Poetry Open Mike. No cover, 8:30pm at the Wine Bar at Sweet Basil’s Café in Can- Cannon Beach Reads. A book discussion Santa’s Cool Holiday Film Festival. $2, blues community. non Beach. group. This month’s book is “The Big Burn: 11am at the Bijou Theater in Lincoln City. dec11 hipfishmonthly.com 22 film. Flash Cuts Movies & Musings by Les Kanekuni 2011 goes out with a bang with the release schedule crammed with Academy Awards hopefuls. Not one, but two new Steven Spielberg films including his first animated film, David Fincher’s latest billed as the “feel-bad film of Christmas,” Cameron Crowe’s first movie in six years and the latest installments of the Sherlock Holmes and Mission: Impossible franchises.

ters around the relationship between Swedish journalist Mikael Blomkvist The Cold War spy movie makes Everyone’s favorite Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy (Dec. (9) Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Dec. 16) (Daniel Craig) and goth computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara). 19th century sleuth returns as Robert Downey, Jr. stars as the quick-witted a comeback with Swedish director Tomas Alfreson’s version of the John Le Blomkvist is summoned by corporate head Henrik Vanger (Christopher Carre’s espionage thriller. master of deduction. In Game of Shadows, the criminal mastermind Profes- Plummer) to investigate the disappearance of his niece Harriet 40 years Set in the early ‘70s, story sor Moriarty, who was hinted at in the first movie finally is revealed as earlier who Vanger believes was murdered by a member of his own family. deals with a Russian spy Holmes’ nemesis and perhaps superior as he is equally brilliant and more To that end, Blomkvist enlists the help of the bisexual Salander, whose dark deep within British Intel- ruthless by far. After rumors floated of Brad Pitt playing the part, charac- personal life includes rape and sexual torture by her legal guardian. Blom- lignece. After a botched ter actor Jared Harris ended up as the evil mastermind. After the Crown kvist discovers a list of names kept by Harriet. Salander finds that the names mission in Prague where Prince of Austria is murdered, Homes and Watson (Jude Law) quip their are Jewish women, nearly all murdered. When they discover that Vanger’s way through Europe, aided by the gypsy fortune teller Sim (Noomi Rapace) an agent is captured by brothers were members of the Swedish Nazi Party, they believe they’re on while Moriarty sews a path of destruction toward some nefarious world- the Russians, the head of the trail of a Nazi serial killer. Movie has been advertised as the “feel bad” changing end. Rachel McAdams makes a brief cameo. Mi6, Control (John Hurt), movie of Christmas, with the typical Fincher dark, stylish atmosphere. and his deputy George The Adventures of Tin Tin (Dec. 21) Steven Spielberg directs his first ani- We Bought A Zoo (Dec. 23) After a six year absence, director Cameron Smiley (Gary Oldman) mated movie with this film based on the comic book series by Belgian artist Crowe (Jerry Maguire) returns with the true life story of Benjamin Mee (Matt are forced into retire- Hergé. Although little known in the States, the series, enormously popular Damon), a single father who ment. On assignment in in Europe, follows the adventures of young Tintin, a reporter, and his dog uses his life savings to resurrect a Istanbul Mi6 agent Ricky Snowy in a globe-spanning nonstop action/adventure which has been rundown zoo. After losing his wife Tarr (Tom Hardy) learns described as Pirates of the Caribbean meets Indiana Jones. Spielberg filmed to cancer, emotionally devastated that Russian spymaster live actors, whereupon the footage was transformed into 3D animation by Benjamin struggles to rebuild his Karla has an a mole deep Peter Jackson’s effects company. The result is photorealistic animation that life with his two children, teenage within Mi6. After the is also true to the style of the original comic books. With Jamie Bell, Andy Dylan and six-year-old Rosie. Istanbul station head is Serkis and Daniel Craig. Against the advice of his practical killed, Tarr goes on the brother Duncan (Thomas Haden Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Dec. 21) Maybe the most anticipated Church), he buys a decrepit zoo run and Smiley is brought movie this season is David Fincher’s remake of the 2009 Swedish film based on a whim. With no zookeeping back to track down the on the first book of Stieg Larsson’s bestselling Millenium series. Story cen- experience whatsoever, he must mole. Plot is a labyrinth with double and triple-crossings and constant win over the skeptical staff, led suspense of not knowing who is a friend or foe. Strong cast includes Colin by head zookeeper Kelly (Scarlett Firth, Mark Strong, Ciarán Hinds and Toby Jones. Johansson), stave off imminent bankruptcy which would mean Young Adult (Dec. 16) Diablo Cody burst onto the scene in 2007 with the destruction of 200 animals her Academy Award-winning script for Juno. Now she returns with a more and avoid being shut down by a mature, darker pic about a teen literature writer who can’t let go of the past. hostile USDA inspector. Along the Mavis Gary (Charlize way to healing himself and the zoo, Benjamin must face a zookeeper’s worst Theron) is a mid-30s, nightmare. Although Crowe’s films are known for their humorous, sunny divorced writer of young outlook no matter how dark the situation, he and Damon went to lengths adult books living in to avoid making a hokey “Disney-fied” movie. Cast includes Patrick Fugit, Minneapolis. A former Elle Fanning and Peter Riegert. queen of the scene in War Horse (Dec. 25) Although he’s made six films set in World War II, high school, Mavis hates Steven Spielberg was “never interested” in World War I until he read Michael her life. When former Morpurgo’s 1982 children’s novel about Joey, one of millions of horses used high school flame Buddy by the military for cavalry and draught horses – pulling weapons, vehicles Slade (Patrick Wilson) and dead/wounded. Along accidentally sends her with the slaughter of men, an email of his new millions of horses perished baby, Mavis goes into an in the war. After seeing emotional tailspin and the British play in 2010, returns to her hometown Spielberg decided to make to try to win Buddy War Horse his next project. back. After humiliating In the rural village of Devon, young Albert’s family buys setbacks where Buddy a magnificent horse. Albert makes it clear he is not names it Joey and bonds interested, Mavis bumps with the horse. But as World War I dawns, the family is forced to sell Joey to into overweight nerd the British Army. Story follows Joey as he first serves as an officer’s mount. Matt and they strike up After a horrific battle, Joey ends up on the German side, serving as a work an unlikely friendship. Theron has her work cut out for her – one reviewer horse. As the war goes on, Joey passes through many hands, all the while called Mavis the “most likeable unlikeable protagonist since Lester Burnham trying to get back to his owner, Albert. An old-fashioned Hollywood film, in American Beauty.” both anti-war and a love story between a man and his horse. 23 dec11 hipfishmonthly.com Transform your Life with Surfing! in April or along the breathtakingly beautiful Pa- cific NW Coast in July. Or invite your other half to escape with you for their Couples & Part- ner’s Surf Weekender Getaway in the delightful beach town of Cannon Beach in August. These extended surfing opportunities will nurture your surfing to a whole new place! 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NWWSC’s will couples in 2012. up painful memory of years past. season with the awareness October in NW Women’s Surf Camp Events, share with you their knowledge, skills, passion You can contact Director Lexie Hallahan at The timing of the Universe that our loved ones are near us Getaways and Retreats, or on the exotic garden and enthusiasm for surfing. [email protected]. Become a Fan and our loved ones passing is leaving signs like a penny on the isle of Kauai in April with NWWSC’s Bali Hai You may choose to experience a full week on their Facebook at NW Women’s Surf Camps of amazing immersion into surfing and its fun & Retreats. Or visit their website at www.NW- not set by the calendar of events floor or a flickering light. Let’s Surfing and Cultural Immersion Retreat. Both locales will nurture this unique experience for filled lifestyle during one of their two Week WOMENSSURFCAMPS.com for all event dates, we hold here on Earth. We can change the course of death and you. Retreats; on the exotic Garden Island of Kauai details and Active.com online registration. heal from this loss by shifting our dying to a celebration of return- awareness a couple degrees to ing to the source. Find your RAIN Magazine Submissions better understand how to cope peace inside this holiday season RAIN Magazine, Clatsop Community Col- to print color is limited, so artists submitting with the passing of a loved one. with the knowledge that your lege’s (CCC) literary publication, is accepting color images should indicate if the image When we cross over into the loved ones are all around you. submissions now through January 10, 2012 may appear in B&W. Include name, address, spirit realm we are amerced in It is up to us to love at the deep- for its Spring 2012 edition. phone number, e-mail, title and medium, and divine love as that is our natural est level of our beings and bring Proud of its 4O plus years publishing the a brief, 2-3 line bio with all entries. No SASE state of being. Our deceased that divine love into our daily art & literature of our talented coastal com- necessary; manuscripts will be recycled. munity, RAIN welcomes submissions from the Online submissions are welcome and loved ones have the responsibil- lives. Let your grief transform general public as well as CCC students. There encouraged if submitted as a WORD or ity to the family pod we were into a higher consciousness and is no theme for the 2012 edition, but we do JPEG attachment (email to rainmagazine@ born into to look after those that realization that we are mere visi- appreciate work that celebrates the unique clatsopcc.edu). Submissions, online or other- remain here on Earth. We do tors here on Earth. landscape and lifestyle of the Columbia wise, without proper contact information may not incarnate again until our job Author of Angels in the 21st Pacific region. Please submit no more than not be considered. as guardian angel to a grandchild Century, Sonja Grace is a mystic 5000 words of prose, three poems, three Mail submissions to: RAIN Magazine, digital photos, or three high quality digital Clatsop Community College, 1653 Jerome or family member is complete. healer and spiritual intuitive who reproductions of original artwork. Our ability Avenue, Astoria, OR 97103. Often there will be two or three provides guidance to people all generations on the other side over the world. She works with Photography: Kaitlin Emmerling before we start to incarnate her clients over the phone pro- at Seaside Public Library again. Reincarnation is the viding immediate stability, clarity The Seaside Public Library is showing the works of from Oregon State University in 2009. She estab- soul’s experience of being born and guidance through her read- professional photographer and Seaside High School lished her photography business in Portland soon into physical form and having ings, counseling and processing graduate Kaitlin Emmerling from December 13, 2011 after graduating and specializes in up-and-coming the opportunity to address and work. Sonja Grace sees and to December 29, 2012. The photographs will be clothing design companies, portraits, model portfo- clear karmic events from other receives messages from loved on display in the Community Room and foyer. The lios, and weddings. lifetimes. Karma is the past ones who have crossed over and show will be a retrospective look at Kaitlin’s European Seaside Public Library is located at 1131 Broad- travels and will offer viewers a glimpse of warm Medi- way, across from the Youth Center and Swimming experiences that went unresolved offers a venue for healing in this terranean life in the midst of our gray Oregon winter. Pool. For more information call (503)738-6742 or and are often the situations that world and the spirit world. www. Kaitlin Emmerling graduated from Seaside High visit us at www.seasidelibrary.org and www.facebook. never had closure. We repeat sonjagrace.com School in 2005, and received a BFA in Photography com/seasidepubliclibrary dec11 hipfishmonthly.com 24 word. JULIAN SMITH AUTHOR OF Local Writer and Artist “CROSSING THE HEART OF AFRICA” Becky Hart offers AT SEASIDE PUBLIC LIBRARY The Artist’s Way and Memoir On Thursday, December 8, at 7:00 p.m. The Friends of the Sea- Through CCC in Seaside and Astoria side Library welcome author and adventurer Julian Smith, speaking to Mar. 13. This class reading, also some bio-pic viewing. All levels on his book “Crossing the Heart of will use another of J. & stages welcome. Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Ad- Cameron’s books on PER013509 Writing Memoirs, Josie Peper venture”. The event will take place creativity culturing, Center, 1-3:00 Wednesday, $65; Jan. 11 to in the Community Room and there TBD. Mar. 14. Call 503-338-2408 for info. will be book sales and signings From Angela presented by Beach Books. Reynolds, goldsmith, Becky Hart, MFA, has been a North Coast In 1898, the dashing young of Astoria: “I’ve done resident for most of the past 40 years. An British explorer Ewart Grogan the course on my own article Hart published in The Nation, “Ten was in love. In order to prove his many times but never Things to Do to Start A Community Garden” mettle to his beloved, and her aris- made it all the way (September 2009), will be re-issued by tocratic stepfather, he set out on through....with the en- “Pathways to Wellness,” in their Decem- a quest to become the first person couragement and input ber 2011 issue. (PathWays is a 4-color to walk across Africa. In 2007, American journal- I broke through and quarterly, published in collaboration with the ist Julian Smith faced a similar discovered creativity Holistic Pediatric Association and Families problem with his girlfriend of six In Seaside on Monday night Hart offers waiting to be erupt... for Conscious Living. http://pathwaystofami- years…and decided to address it National Geographic, and New Science The Artist’s Way, a program designed by Julia I’m now taking up a musical lywellness.org ) She in the same way Grogan had 100 years magazines. He lives in Portland, Or- instrument~ first time in 28 is a former columnist Cameron for blocked creatives. Using the earlier. Julian retraced the 4,500-mile egon with his wife and daughter. years!” for HipFish and the workbook, exercises, and in-class sharing, journey for love and glory through lakes, Seaside Public Library is located at Writing Memoirs and Life Daily Astorian. She students reconnect with their personal well- volcanoes, savannas, and crowded 1131 Broadway, across from the Youth Stories - A continuation of writes personal essays spring of creativity. Open to all artistic and African cities. Center and Swimming Pool. For more work begun Fall term. Explore and short stories she creative genres. Bring a copy of The Artist’s Julian Smith is an award-winning information call (503)738-6742 or visit more of the craft aspect of calls dragnet fiction, Way to the first class & plan to work hard! writer whose articles and photographs us at www.seasidelibrary.org and www. memoir writing. Learn how based on tales where have appeared in Smithsonian, Outside, facebook.com/seasidepubliclibrary Expect to come away with amazing insights writers get at ‘their truth.’ “the names have been and new ideas - possibly a new life path! Plan to read, write, revise, changed to protect PER 000143 / E2, in Seaside, at 4. Author Lydia Saccomono and study hard to compre- the innocent.” She is At Long Beach Coffee Roasters SCCC, 6-8 pm Monday, $65, Jan. 9 to Mar. hend the craft of personal life working on a collection 12.Tuesday in Astoria, another section of stories. of essays about place Artist’s Way: Sign up, get your stories and staying put, and Join local author Lydia PER 000143 / E1 … in Astoria, at Josie polished, aired and shared. a screenplay about Saccomanno in celebrating Peper Center, 6-8 Tuesday, $65; Jan. 10 In-class writing, plus outside Stepford Bankers. the publishing of her first book, “God Answered Lydia’s Prayer.” In this powerful and joyous Author Jennie Shortridge At Cannon Beach Library true story, follow Lydia on her journey through her blessed Author Jennie Shortridge, who has written four life and discover how God novels, speaks at the Cannon Beach Library as part of Answered Lydia’s Prayer. Lydia the Northwest Authors Second Saturday Series. Her will be at Long Beach Coffee most recent book is “When She Flew.” Roasters in Long Beach, WA to This is the fictionalization of true events, and after sell and sign books. much research, she let her imagination run wild to Saturday, Dec 10, 12noon – create this evocative story of an Iraq war vet raising his daughter in the wild and the single mom/policewoman 2pm. 811 Pacific Ave S in Long who breaks all the rules when ordered to separate Beach FMI: Contact Mandy at them, risking everything to help them escape. This 360-642-2334 story explores the issues of raising children in today’s world, living within the system as opposed to rejecting it, the toll of war on families, and introduces a young heroine raised in the forest who thrives through the CANNON BEACH READS! worst of circumstances. Cannon Beach Reads!, the reading the national parks program. (The group “Examining people willing to sidestep the rules group sponsored by the Cannon Beach usually meets on the third Wednesday in pursuit of a greater good, shrtridges fourth novel Library, discusses “The Big Burn: Teddy of the month but rescheduled this recalls Barbara Kingsolver’s Pigs in Heaven . . . – The Publisher’s Weekly Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved month to avoid the holiday rush.) Saturday, Dec. 10, 2pm at CB Library, located at America ” an account of the three mil- Wednesday, Dec. 14, 7pm at CB 131 Hemlock. lion-acre forest fire of 1910 that led to Library, 131 N. Hemlock

25 dec11 hipfishmonthly.com Featuring biking quips, quibbles, and some damn good advice from Margaret Hammitt-McDonald.

DecemberFREE WILL ASTR© CopyrightOL 2010O RobG BrezsnyY By Margaret Hammitt-McDonald ARIES (March 21-April 19): This would be an excellent time to you’re now in a “brain-building” phase of your astrological cycle, head down to Pucón, Chile and hire a daredevil to fly you in a I urge you to get more than your minimum requirements of these helicopter into the caldera of the active Villarrica volcano, where- basics. If I may be permitted to resurrect a now-out-of-fashion Be Seen And Heard upon you would bungee-jump out of the copter down to within slang term, I suggest that you also expose yourself to a lot of 700 feet of the molten lava. If that’s too extreme or expensive for extraordinarily phat sources of intellectual stimulation. Standing out your tastes, I urge you to come up a milder adventure that will SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The mawashi is the loincloth that may not be still bring you a close encounter with primal heat and light -- and Japanese sumo wrestlers wear while competing. It’s rare for the everyone’s favorite maybe even some divine fire. garment to come off, even in the heat of a match, but it did hap- thing, but it’s TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As a mouse looks for food or shelter, pen once in 2000, when a wrestler named Asanokiri suddenly essential when it is flexible enough to fit through a hole as small as a quarter found himself standing naked during his bout with Chiyohakuho. you’re a cyclist on of an inch. You would really benefit from having a talent like In conformity with sumo’s rules, Asanokiri was immediately dis- roads designed for that right now, Taurus. Of course, even if you are as slippery qualified. I don’t think you’re at risk for being rendered literally and occupied by unclothed in the heat of a showdown or a plot twist, Scorpio. But and pliable as you’ll need to be, you will also have to be on high larger, higher-speed alert for the inviting possibilities, some of which may be brief I do advise you to take extra precautions to prevent a metaphori- vehicles. This truth or subtle. For example, let’s say you spy an interesting-looking cal version of that occurrence. Get your act very together, and person with whom you’d love to chat. The window of opportunity keep it very together. finds its most tragic illustration in cycle- may be open for less than ten seconds. Seize that moment! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Dear Mr. Brezsny: My name auto accidents Refuse to get hung up in shyness. Don’t convince yourself that is Sonny McGee and I own a website that caters to people who another chance will come along later. are addicted to playing poker. I’m a big fan of your horoscopes, where a motorist protests, “But I GEMINI (May 21-June 20): One of my Gemini acquaintances, and I’m wondering if you would like to advertise your work to our Tara, has been playing a slow-moving game of tag with three audience. Gamblers love astrology! Get in touch. - Sagittarian didn’t see the bicy- friends since they were all in second grade together. They’re 27 Wheeler Dealer.” Dear Wheeler Dealer: Thanks for your interest, cle!” Being pilloried on the back of a jacket.) Clever accessories years old now, and still live in the same city. Currently, Tara is but I’ll pass. I don’t like to encourage anyone to focus their by second-grade classmates for wearing such as reflective or battery-powered flash- gambling urges on trivial matters like card games, sports events, “It,” and has been so for quite some time. But she confided in that beer-can-and-crochet vest sure wasn’t ing ankle bracelets keep baggy pants at bay me that she plans to make a move very soon. She says she’ll and lotteries. I prefer they direct that mojo to high-minded stuff fun, but you want to shine forth on the and get you noticed. sneak up on one of the other players during his lunch break at like daring themselves to excel, pursuing exciting and idealistic road. Even if you don’t ride a double-height adventures, and doing brave things to help save the world. By Auditory recognition aids are most helpful work, tag him, and run away before he can tag her back. I told mutant bike, you need to be brightly lit and her she’s likely to meet with success, since this is an excellent the way, it’s prime time for you Sagittarians to ratchet up your for alerting pedestrians and other cyclists to sonically equipped. time for you Geminis to gain an advantage in pretty much any commitment to those kinds of gambles. your presence. Although I still ring my bike Bike lights come in two basic types: the kind of game you’re playing. bell at unaware motorists emerging from CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I hope you’re not so perversely ones that enable others to see you and parking lots, the combination of road noise, CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Far more crucial than what we attached to your demons that you’re inclined to keep provid- the ones that allow you to see the road ing them with a comfortable home. Why? Because the coming being enclosed, and the radio can conspire know or do not know is what we do not want to know,” wrote under the cover of darkness. If you ride philosopher Eric Hoffer. This is a good idea for you to contem- weeks will be an excellent time for you to permanently banish to mute that tinny sound. Some cyclists re- on well-lit streets, you need only the first plate right now. I realize it may be a challenge for you to figure them from the premises. Yes, I know it may seem lonely at first sort to loud horns, with the ultimate in sonic kind. If you ride on rural roads with minimal out what you would rather not know and are afraid to know and without their nagging, disruptive voices chattering away in your blasts being an air horn-like device fueled head. But I really do encourage you to bid them adieu. By the illumination, you need both. I ride with a might even be allergic to knowing. Still, I hope you’ll make the ef- by a bike pump. (It might end up startling fort. Maybe you could enlist a smart ally who’d be skillful in help- way, as you plan your exorcism, you might want to include a 250 lumen front light (about as bright as you more than the motorist, though.) Elders ing you uncover the taboo truth. And maybe you could formulate humorous touch or two. They’re allergic to satire and mockery, a headlight), which reveals gravel and grit are more accustomed to bike bells than an intention to be as objective as you’ve ever been. you know. ahead as if it were daylight. someone shouting “Oh your left!” However, LEO AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Beauvais Cathedral in north- By law, cyclists riding at night need a (July 23-Aug. 22): Biologists say there are 680 species of some have high-frequency hearing loss, trees and shrubs in the U.S. and Canada. By comparison, Lambir ern France has been called “the most daring achievement of white front light and a red rear light, both hence the attractiveness of a bell with a Hills National Park on the island of Borneo is the home of 1,175 Gothic architecture.” Its soaring facades, carved wooden doors, of which can be seen from at least 500 species on its 128 acres. I suspect you will feel right at home in stained glass windows, and astronomical clock demonstrate feet away. I prefer multiple rear lights, each deeper tone. I’ve heard everything from places like Lambir Hills in the coming days, Leo. Your own cre- high artistry. There’s a problem with the place, however -- it has with its own position (near your seat, on cowbells to retro “oogah” horns. The one ative urges will be running hotter than usual, and are most likely never been completed. Work began in the year 1225, and ex- your rear rack, etc.) and flashing pattern. thing you don’t want is to rely on your perts are still talking about how to solve certain ongoing difficul- to thrive in contexts that are themselves teeming with lush fertil- Check your batteries before hopping on; squeaky chain or other untended compo- ity and rich diversity. Please surround yourself with inspirational ties with its construction. I don’t know when this happy ending lights can fade out mid-ride and you won’t nents to notify others of your imminent influences, thereby giving yourself the best possible chance to will occur, Aquarius, but I do expect that in 2012 you will be able arrival. express yourself with vivid imagination. to put the finishing touches on your own personal version of the realize you’ve suddenly become the Invisible Being seen and heard extends beyond Beauvais Cathedral. And now would be a good time to formulate Cyclist. Some lights fasten to your axles so VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “People travel to faraway places to definite plans to do so. they flash every time the wheels turn (no the road itself. Whenever community watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home,” batteries required), but they can get loose meetings touch upon road design and wrote philosopher Dagobert D. Runes. Your assignment, Virgo, PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In my prayers, I’ve been nego- and rattle around, making you sound like an maintenance, a cycling contingent needs to should you choose to accept it, is to refute that assertion. In tiating with the Goddess to grant you the power to change make its presence felt to ensure that new other words, I’m inviting you to travel to all of your usual haunts the course of rivers, at least in a metaphorical way. I’ve also oncoming train (tighten before leaving your and treat everything that happens there with the attitude of a beseeched her to show you how to overthrow the Puppet Master station). Be sure your lights aren’t blocked or expanded transportation corridors take first-time visitor. Just assume that the familiar people and places and convert overwrought hawks into savvy doves. The Goddess by bags on racks and other obstacles. the non-motorized population into account. in your life have stimulating gifts to give and lessons to impart. seems to be seriously considering these appeals, and has even Bright, reflective clothing is crucial for I’ve found community planners to be open Remember, though, they can’t do that to the fullest unless you hinted she might offer you instructions on how to shape a new rain, fog, and darkness. Water-resistant to pedestrian and cycling concerns, and a expect them to. Adam out of one of Eve’s ribs, mythically speaking. In return, she clothing designed for bicycling usually has positive attitude and focus on safety can does have one request: that you do what you can to make sure LIBRA reflective components in the right spots, but win over avowed non-cyclists. That SUV- (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The human brain is composed of 30 the sun rises on schedule for the next ten days. percent protein and 70 percent fat. So it wouldn’t be incorrect consider whether items like a backpack will driving politician might even dust off the to refer to you as a fathead. In order to nourish your brain cells, Homework: Imagine what your life would be like if you licked cover them. (Recumbent riders, be aware 1960s clunker and roll up behind you… you’ve got to eat foods that provide two essential fatty acids your your worst fear. Describe this new world to me. Go to RealAstrol- that these items are designed for upright with a flashlight and a doorbell tied onto the body doesn’t manufacture: omega-3 ALA and omega-6 LA. Since ogy.com and click on “Email Rob.” bikes; your seat may hide the reflective tape handlebars. dec11 hipfishmonthly.com 26 network. Community Listings contact your local library soon and reserve dents access to 24 classes. The Intermediate - 9:45 am Instructor: Lucy Brook Saturday, WORKSHOPS/CLASSES your space. (Level II/III) class meets Monday, Wednesday, Mixed Levels, 8:00 am - 9:30 am Instructor: Friday at 6:15 a.m. This is a challenging class Lorraine Ortiz Create a Winter Holiday Centerpiece. for already physically fit individuals (great for SPIRITUAL WRITING FOR MEN AND Create a holiday arrangement. Bring a wa- people in the Coast Guard) not necessarily WOMEN. Instructor Gail Balden is a writer, YOGA • Manzanita. The Center for the terproof bowl, up to eight inches across, no experienced yogis, but people who welcome educator and workshop presenter with over Contemplative Arts, Manzanita: Tuesday larger, as well as any ornaments or candles a CONSISTENT, DEMANDING, TRANSFORM- 30 years of teaching experience. Her work ING practice guided by innovative, quality evenings 5 - 5:45pm. $35 for 5 classes. you would like in your arrangement. The has been published in anthologies, literary instruction. People must have an open mind, Call 368-6227 for more info. program takes place after the library closes journals and national magazines. She be ready to go upside down and inside out and no other library services will be available. teaches one-day writing workshops and writes and have fun doing it. At the other end of the Registration required. Free, 3 – 5pm at the a monthly column on the joys of small town Yoga in Gearhart. Gearhart Workout. For spectrum we offer Gentle Yoga (Level I) on Timberland Library in South Bend, WA (360) life for the North Coast Citizen. Visit her web more information log on to www.gearhart- Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. This is a wonder- 875-5532 site at www.creativejourneys.net. workout.com 3470 Hwy. 101 N. Suite 104 ful introduction to simple, easy yoga poses in Gearhart that can be performed by people who are Coaster Theater Winter Break Camp. French Conversation Group Re-Start. The dealing with limited flexibility and who seek a December 19 – 23. For children ages 8 and group is devoted to speaking French only. It more slow and relaxed approach to exercise. YOGA • Nehalem. Ongoing yoga classes at older. This camp will focus on three common is NOT a class, so please do not show up Our most popular class, Beginner Yoga (Level NCRD are as follows: Monday, Level II, 5:15- aspects of performance art: acting, singing expecting to learn French from scratch. Once I/II) meets Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 6:45 pm, Nicole Hamic; Wednesday, Morning and dancing. In addition to improving confi- you step through the door of the Riverbend 8:30 a.m. This class is great for people who Yoga Stretch, 8-9:30 am, Lucy Brook; dence and creativity, campers will be exposed Room, it is French only. It will be on Satur- are avid walkers or who have been keeping Thursday, Yoga for Parents & Kids, 3:45-4:45 to teamwork, respect and unlimited imagina- days, from 1-3pm at NCRD in the Riverbend physically fit in their daily lives. Yoga provides pm, Charlene Gernert; Thursday, Level I, 5:45 tion. The last day of the session students will Room. There is a nominal charge of $1/ an opportunity to keep flexible, maintain - 7:15 pm, Charlene Gernet; Friday, Very present the show that they have created for person/time. For more information email Jane core strength and exposes them to a fun, Gentle Yoga, 8-9:30 am, Lucy Brook. family and friends. $100. 10am – 4pm at or call her 503-368-3901 or, call Paul Miller challenging yet relaxing experience they the Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. (503) at 503-368-5715. otherwise would not get. Flow Yoga (focus is Children’s Holiday Ceramic Workshop. Saturday, December 17. 436-1242 on the breath and the cardiovascular system) T’AI CHI. The Center for the Contempla- meets Saturday at 9:30 a.m. This is when tive Arts, Manzanita: Wednesday Mornings The class is intended for ages 5 and up and parents of children under Library2Go Basics. Second Saturday of yoga meets Rock’n Roll. One hour and a half 10-11:30. $30/month. Call 368-6227 for the age of 7 are asked to participate with their kids. This fun and Native American Beading. Monday Decem- each month 9:00am-10:00am. Over 5000 of continuous movement. Be ready to sweat. more info. ber 5, Wednesday December 7. The OSU audio books and videos can be downloaded creative workshop will allow kids to decorate handmade clay ornaments, ALL classes incorporate the Five Tibentan Extension Service is offering Native American to computers and digital devices through the Rites, a series of exercises with mystical, and small clay picture frames, with a variety of underglaze colors that Beading Classes at the OSU Extension Office Library2Go database accessible through the Chinese Kung Fu. Tuesday and Thursday age-reversing properties. Also, A ONE HOUR will then be fired to 2000 degrees in a ceramic kiln. The class will also in Tillamook for youth in grades 6 and above. Astoria Public Library web site. All downloads evenings from 5:30 to 7:00 at the Astoria FREE ClASS is offered on Tuesday December Tillamook students can ride the bus from are free to access with your library card. Arts and Movement Center (11th and Har- make a custom handmade gift box to put their creations in for a tantaliz- 13 and on Thursday, December 15 both at 6 school. To register contact (503)842-3433. Learn the how to make the most of this rison). The focus is on two styles; Ving Tsun p.m. HAPPY HOLIDAYS! For more information ing ensemble that will be the hit of any holiday get-together. Free, all extraordinary resource. Free, at the Astoria about class details go to: www.yoganam. Kyun and Tai Xu Quan. While both are suit- materials included. 1 – 3pm at the Seaside Library. Call 503-738-6742 Public Library. able for self defense Ving Tsun is direct and Energy Trust of Oregon Home Energy com or call: 503 440 9761. or stop by the Library to register. IQ Workshop. Tuesday, December 6. A linear in it’s approach and Tai Xu is circlular. Home Energy IQ workshop gives you a better Both are of ancient orgin (Buddhist and Tao- Computer Basics. Third Saturday of each LOTUS YOGA. 1230 Marine Drive, Downtown understanding of how energy use impacts month 9:00am-10:00am. If you’re new to ist respectivly) and have been developed by Astoria. Ongoing classes on a month to Community College. We meet for lunch the health, comfort and safety of your home. PC computers or just needing to update nuns and monks, and by lay deciples as well. centerforspiritualliving.org and 503-791- month basis. Evening Classes Monday thru the first Tuesday of every month. We try to You’ll learn to: save energy by making small basic skills, this class is for you. Each class Matthew Crim [email protected] 2192. Thursday 6:00 PM: Monday Level 1 Yoga for alternate between North and South County, changes around your house, identify the big- is tailored to meet the needs of participants. Relaxation. Tuesday Level 2 Strengthening. so look for these Community Notes in your gest energy users in your home and how en- Free, at the Astoria Public Library. A SILENT MEDITATION • with Lola Sacks. Wednesday Level 1 Beginning Flow. Thurs- LEARN SELF DEFENSE IN LONG BEACH. local Newspaper to see the place of choice. ergy use changes over time, offset the cost of St. Catherine’s Center for the Contemplative day Level 2 Advanced Flow. Morning class Kenpo Karate for Adults, Tuesdays @ Our Lunch Bunch get-togethers are a wonder- qualifying improvements with cash incentives Arts, Manzanita: Monday Nights 5 - 5:45 Call The Lower Columbia Classics Car Club. Friday 9:00AM All Level THERAPEUTIC Yoga. 7:00pm - 9:00pm. Long Beach Grange, ful venue for meeting classmates over lunch, and tax credits. Qualifying homeowners will 368-6227 for more info. Invitation to all who are interested in Collector Dedicated to making Yoga an accessible part 5715 Sandridge Rd, Long Beach WA.Also at as well as new friends. Remember all guests receive two complementary gifts, a copy of Cars to attend one of our monthly meetings. of everyday living. Call (503)298-3874, the Grange, KENPO Karate for Kids, Mondays that might be interested in ENCORE, or just “Cut Your Energy Bills Now”, by Bruce Harley The meetings are held at Steve Jordan’s Email [email protected], website www. @ 4:00pm - 5:00pm, and free KENPO Open LECTIO DIVINA • Meditation with Holy want to know what we’re all about, are wel- and an Energy Saver Kit which will help you Shop Building, located at 35232 Helligso lotusyogaonline.com for more information. practice, every Saturday, 2:00pm - 4:00pm. Scripture. The Center for the Contemplative come. Aletha Westerbeerg, 503-325-4325. start saving money immediately. 5 – 7pm at Lane in rural Astoria - meet on the 3rd Thurs- Arts, Manzanita: Tuesday Mornings 10- the Astoria Public Library. day of each month. If you are interested and 11:30. Call 368-6227 for more info. Yoga/Private Instruction. Private Individual Class tuition is $40.00/mo. Inquire for a ENCORE LUNCH BRUNCH. The December need the directions to get there, you may call Therapeutic and Restorative Yoga instruction free introductory class / sign up: jbgroove2@ 6, 2011, ENCORE Lunch Bunch will find us Introduction to Family History. Held on 4 Steve Jordan at 503-325-1807 with certified, Yoga Alliance registered yoga crescomm.net Phone: 360-665-0860. LABYRINTH WALK • Grace Episcopal meeting at Bigfoot’s Steakhouse, 2427 Roo- consecutive Tuesdays, starting January 10. teacher SarahFawn Wilson, MA, RYT-500. Church, 1545 Franklin St, Astoria, 3-6. sevelt Dr (Hwy 101), Seaside OR. The theme Family History can be many things, from Open Art Night. 5:30 to 7 PM –1st & 3rd Private group classes also available. For more Every 1st Sunday. for this gathering is Childhood Christmas “I just want to put a scrapbook together of Weds. Bay City Arts Center, Bay City. information and for public class schedule, See us on video at: www.YouTube.com/ Memories.....So come with your favorite one. these old photos” to a scholarly text with please call 503-440-6738 or email ser- JonBelcherKenpo footnotes and charts, to a novelized version [email protected]. VOLUNTEER of an ancestor’s life story. Classes will Life Drawing. 6 to 9 PM. Every 2nd & 4th ENCORE (Experiene New Concepts of HIKING ADVENTURES. Astoria Parks and include: Discussions on how to begin; how Weds. Bay City Arts Center, Bay City. Retirement Education). is a membership ECSTATIC DANCE. Ecstatic, trance, yogic, Rec. Join us as we explore several popular SHARE YOUR MUSICAL TALENT. If you have organization - your participation is welcome to organize files and protect documents; spirit filled), playful, improvisational, freestyle hiking destinations this summer! Hikes musical or performance talents to share, at all levels - as a student in the wide variety research ideas on vital records, courthouse Toddler Arts Group. Every Monday, 10:30 to - We’re Dancing! Wed. at 6:30 at Pine Grove will be led by an experienced guide and will we need you at Nehalem Valley Care Center if interesting classes, on committees, and trips and online resources; how to keep track 11:30 –Get your toddler started in the arts! Community House, 225 Laneda Ave. in include several popular destinations such as in Wheeler, Oregon. We are a skilled care as an instructor, sharing your expertise or of your family and research either by hand or Activities are geared towards ages 1–3, but center and our residents enjoy, and benefit Manzanita. No experience necessary. You are Saddle Mountain. Meeting location and time areas of interest with others.Involvement has computer. $40, 2 – 3:30pm on January 10, age birth–5 are welcome. All children must from, music therapies and entertainment. welcome to bring Instruments of any sort to will be provided at registration. For ages 14 many benefits, a couple of which are learning 17, 24, and 31. At the Hoffman Center in be accompanied by a caregiver. Bay City Arts play along with what we’ve got going. Cost Professionals and amateurs welcome – all and up! To register call 325-7275. Dates: new things and making new friends. No Manzanita. Center, Bay City. t is a sliding scale from $5 - $7, or free if you ages!! CONTACT:Katherine Mace, Activity Di- Saturday July 9, July 23 & Aug. 6 tests, no homework - but quite an interesting really need to just be there. rector, Nehalem Valley Care Center kmace@ experience. For further information, please DOES FOOD RUN YOUR LIFE? Come to CELEBRATE RECOVERY • Nazarene nehalemtel.net 503-368-5171 call Paula Duncan, College Liason/Member Overeaters Anonymous every Wednesday Church, 2611 3rd St, Tillamook. Adult & YOGA SMA EXPLORATION. Yoga instructor SPIRITUALITY Information, 503-338-2408. from 7-8pm in the Seaside Public Library, teen 12 step program. Child care provided. Linda Sanderlin LMT, introduces SMA yoga, a Weekly Alder Creek Farm Community Board Room B. No dues, fees or weigh-ins. Call 503-812-3522 for more information. Garden. Work Parties - Tuesdays, 10 am – practice evolved from Feldenkrais and Alexan- TIBETAN BUDDHIST DHARMA GROUP. BREASTFEEDING INFORMATION & SUP- Everyone welcome! (if you have questions Tuesdays, 7-9, Dinner at 6 by donation. der technique, found to be very effective for Noon. Help out the Coastal Food Ecology Dharma River, meets Mondays 7:30 - 9 pm, PORT. La Leche League’s monthly support call 503-505-1721). people with a limited range of motion. Tues Center, community garden, permaculture 1230 Marine Dr., Suite 304 in Lotus Yoga’s group meetings provide an opportunity and Sat. classes at Parinamah in Manzanita. garden and harvesting for the Wheeler Food for both new and experienced mothers to OPEN ART NIGHT WITH PHAEDRA. Bay studio. Meditation, sadhana practice, teach- $5 p/class. FMI: Call Linda (503)867-3943; Bank. Tasks may include: greenhouse and share their questions or concerns, and to FREE COMPUTER CLASSES AT TILLAMOOK City Arts Center, 5680 A St, 5-7pm on ings & discussion. Dharma River is a satellite Wednesdays. or via e-mail: [email protected]. garden weeding, planting, and watering. talk with each other about the special joys COUNTY LIBRARIES. Tillamook County of the Portland Sakya Center. Contact Libraries will be offering free basic computer and challenges of parenting. We especially Dharma teacher, Rosetta Hurley, 338-9704 classes this fall. Sign up for a free one-on- encourage expectant and new mothers to join YOGA NCRD. Monday, Yoga Of The Heart, for more info. Meetings one session where you can ask questions BODY WORK•YOGA•FITNESS 8:15 am - 9:45 am Instructor: Lorraine us. Healthy babies and toddlers are always and learn at your own pace. Classes will be Ortiz (no drop ins). Monday, Level II, 5:45 welcome at La Leche League meetings. We held on Saturdays at the Tillamook County YOGA NAMASTE NEWS: Yoga Namasté pm - 7:15 pm Instructor: Nicole Hamic Center For Spiritual Living of the North ENCORE Retirement Learning Community. look forward to seeing you soon. Second Library September 11th, 18th and 25th and offers HOLIDAY YOGA this year! The Wednesday, Yoga Stretch, 8:15 am - 9:45 Coast. CSLNC is for those who want to grow Is an association of retirement-age people Monday of the month at 10am- Astoria FOR October 2nd and 9th. Additional sessions 3-week unlimited term will start December 4 am Instructor: Lucy Brook Thursday, Level spiritually, all faiths and paths welcome. who share a love of learning. Established FURTHER INFO, PLEASE CONTACT JANET will be held at library branches in October and go right up to Christmas Eve, December I, 5:45 pm - 7:15 pm Instructor: Charlene Sunday Celebration and Children’s Church in 2001 by a Steering Committee of retired WEIDMAN @ 503-325-1306 OR LIZ PIETILA and November. Registration is limited, so 24, 2011. The cost is $75 and gives stu- Gernert Friday, Very Gentle Yoga, 8:15 am 10:30 a.m, 66 4th St., Warrenton. www. adults, ENCORE is sponsored by Clatsop @ 503-861-2050.

27 dec11 hipfishmonthly.com health & wellness. word and wisdom bodiesinbalance Last Thoughts of the Year By Tobi Nason Understanding THE American Disease, Diabetes By Tracy Erfling, N.D. As I sit here in Overboard Games & Puzzles, waiting for cus- Diabetes is a disease that affects close to 19 read the needs and assess the balance between blood vessels supplying the heart, liver, and skin tomers to show up, I’m eyeballing the shoes I’m wearing, the million people (2010) in the United States alone. what’s available from our food in the gut and what begin to suffer, we begin to see skin ulcerations, ones I had to buy to accomodate the ankle brace. They were This is an increase of approximately 4 million is needed in the blood…no small job! Once insu- and heart and liver disease. And secondary to fairly spendy and I balked at spending the money for them, cases since I first wrote this article in 2006. But lin is released it binds to cells throughout the body poor blood health and damaged vasculature the but they are so comfortable and if I were going to walk, I signaling them to store away the digestive break- body is slow to heal, which clearly just compounds the 19 million only account for those who have needed shoes. I’m wearing a pair of blue socks that I knitted, down products (glucose, lipids and amino acids). these problems. seen a doctor and been diagnosed, it is estimated a pattern of my own design, a simple sircular rib. A friend is If insulin is working correctly those digestive bi- So wondering why the body stops producing that another 7 million remain undiagnosed. coming soon and we will chat over the coffee he brings me. Diabetes continues to be a leading cause of death products will be stored away and blood sugars will insulin or receiving its message in the first place? In the world of simple pleasures, I think I’ve mastered this by disease and remains a growing health care return to pre-consumption levels within 2 hours. Good question! For those who have Type I, stud- area. epidemic across this country. Understanding this ies find that 75% of these people have Life is not terrible, in other words. That doesn’t sound very disease, its long-term consequences, risk factors, antibodies to the cells that produce diagnosis and treatment is no small endeavor. the insulin, i.e. their own immune optimistic, but maybe “not terrible” is also “pretty good.” I’m system is attacking the pancreas. not sure. It could be just semantics, and whether one sees Therefore I have chosen to dedicate the next three Dr. Tracy Erfling is a Bodies in Balance articles to this topic. Genetics may also play a role in Type the glass half full or half empty. In these leaner times, I have This disease is known by a more formal name, naturopath physician in the I, but that role is even more profound to search for a reason to feel gratitude. Hence, just sitting in Type II. Theories about insulin Diabetes Mellitus, and by definition is a metabolic Lower Columbia Region. and observing - the comfort of my shoes. Handmade socks. disease in which blood levels of glucose are ab- resistance in Type II abound; again the A cup of coffee with a friend. And I’ll add this- the opportunity normally high because the body does not release, Questions? immune system may play a role in that to write for others is a privilege. That’s what they must mean antibodies to foods, virus’, bacteria, use or respond to insulin adequately. There are about “stop and smell the roses.” [email protected] etc. may be obscuring or damaging the two distinct types; Type I is characterized by an Its hard to take advantage of the slow times in our lives. receptor sites where insulin should be absence of insulin production. Type II is different My broken ankle forced me to slow down. I had to prioritize When there is insulin resistance (i.e. the cells are binding. But more noteworthy is the link between in that there may still be insulin production but not responding to insulin‘s message) blood sugars Type II diabetes and western lifestyle, in my opin- and feel okay with the circumstances. There was nothing the body becomes resistant to its message. Type remain high, which over time can begin to cause ion this connection is paramount. Obesity is found for me to do except make the best of an irksome situation. I accounts for approximately 10% of all diabetics damage throughout the body. in 90% of those with Type II making it the greatest I’m not sure- if someone had said, “Tobi, you seem to have and its onset is commonly before age 30. Type The long-term consequences of diabetes is risk factor for the development of diabetes. Type much discontent. Why don’t you take 6 weeks out of your life II therefore accounts for the other 90% and is what makes it such a concerning disease. Over II diabetics often have poor quality diets with little for some reflection? That’s right, hunker down on that couch more common in those older than 20, BUT sadly time the continuously heightened blood sugars fiber, excessive simple carbohydrates, and little to and see how it feels to have limited mobility. Imagine never numbers in young people are currently rising are especially hard on the blood vessels caus- no activity or exercise. But as with all disease it is walking again....” dramatically. Here is an update on the numbers ing inflammation, micro tears, thinning of vessel a complicated multifactorial process. Pleased to say, I am walking again. Am I happy? I suppose affecting young people. 1.9 million new cases walls, weakness, and leaking. Throughout this To summarize what we’ve covered here, there so. Could life be better? Always. Am I working on it? Yes, were diagnosed in people aged 20 and older in process the body attempts to heal the damage are two types of diabetes, the second of which is daily. Having my somewhat boring routine back is comfort- 2010, with a total of 11.3% of this population by laying down a protective layer, otherwise know far more common and an ever growing health cri- ing. No bombs go off in my neighborhood. No threats to my affected. For those under 20 it affects 1 in every as athreosclerotic plaques. Think of high blood sis. Our overworked pancreas’ are trying as hard safety. No disruptive drama. Just a slow meditative life. One 400 or 0.26% and rising! sugars like rust in the pipes of your house; at first as they can to keep up with our over-processed where I can knit my own socks or write what I please or walk Lets talk about the pancreas. This is a digestive the thin, most delicate rusted pipes will give out, carbohydrate rich diets but for those affected to work. Those are the gifts in my life. A quiet life, waiting for organ lying across the width of the abdomen just although over time all pipes will likely suffer dam- the message is not being heard. This is causing me to appreciate it. below the ribs. To simplify, this organ does two age. Likewise, blood vessel damage is the key to damage throughout the body as the blood vessels jobs; it releases enzymes into the small intestine consequences throughout the body. It starts with are the primary target. In the next episode we Counselor advice: Whatever your life looks like, figure out which digest food and it releases insulin into the the smallest vessels in places like the eyes, kid- will explore risk factors, signs and symptoms and the parts that work for you. Chaotic life? Enjoy the busy-ness. blood to regulate blood sugars. The release of neys, and nerves. Early damage can result in poor what tests to talk to your doctor about regarding Quiet life? Enjoy the peace. Things change .Expect change. insulin is triggered via the nervous system (seeing eyesight, increased urination, and poor sensation diabetes…so stay tuned… Work with what is.... and Merry Christmas and Happy New and smelling food) as well as the digestive system in the feet. Eventually if left untreated problems DO something you love, BE with someone you Year! (digestive enzymes) and blood sugar levels. The can exacerbate to blindness, kidney failure and love, EAT your vegetables, DRINK clean water, Tobi Nason is a counselor in Manzanita. She enjoys knit- pancreas is busy monitoring all these stimuli to numbness or weakness of the limbs. When larger BREATHE deeply and MOVE your body EVERYDAY! ting, writing and ... walking.

The Circle of “Our ancestors used the the Labyrinth herbs that grew all around them. Let me share with Tracy Erfling n.d. you what they knew that naturopathic physician Marie Meiffren, BA., LMT kept them in health. the nurturing flow of Vicki Today more than swedish massage ever we need herbs and with a deep therapeutic touch nutrition for obtaining Give the gift of Massage McAfee and maintaining primary care using Buy a package of 4 massage therapy optimum health. sessions and receive 15% off! 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Learn about our local Hentur rerate et et ea et medicinal plants through tasting and elenimus andipicae volore oc- listening. Participants will try a tinc- cuptatur moloresto quist velis et, ture hand-made from Oregon plants as eiumetus. and then will have the opportunity to Lecti dem saeperibusam re meditate for 30-45 minutes. Medita- volorumquati ut harchil in prae tion will be followed by a discussion cone dolupta velit aspitem quibus. of the medicinal properties of the At intem eossuntia simusan plant. $5 per session (free for mem- debitis aria conempo riorum bers of the Love warrior Medicine exercium idenis sit ut alibus apitiae CSH). Tuesday evenings, 7:30pm at Lotus Yoga Studio in solori omnis aut faccuptibus endi Astoria. FMI contact Brooke Duling at 503-791-4624 dit alit aut et enis sam dolores mo- lupta prepudam sam numquaesti Love Warrior Medicine Offers Community Supported aut aciis repel molume planimet Herbalism quatioris que corumquo molupta- Love Warrior Medicine offers subscriptions for the second tum in re eatque sitempor simusae 8-week session of their Winter Health CSH. Members will be parcil ex et expere, optae liquo supplied with herbal tinctures, teas, vinegars, honey syrups, magnis coribus natum nos qui of- and topical applications that will help to heal and support ficimagnam fugia aspe commodis through the dark months. Members will receive $25 worth del ipsandeliqui apel elenima of medicine each week, one free herbal consultation/heal- gnatum nonsed quia net aut ing session per month, and free attendance to weekly plant expeles denditi idundus moluptam meditation circles. Medication will be available for pick up at harumqu amusam ratibus, om- the Tuesday night meditation circle in Astoria, though other nihit, quos dolupta epernatur, ea arrangements are available. Cost for the 8 week session is istio core, corrum cum voluptam $200 and the session runs January 10 – February 28. Con- fugitaturiam ipsam, nist, nonese tact Brook Duling at 503-791-4624 FMI or to register. voluptat qui is arumquis et ut re AROMATHERAPY: FREE Holiday Gift CLASS volupis exped mi, ipitasp ernatur, esequidia ducillessi reperrum accum aut earchic te etur, ut esserfe resequo magnat endicid que vita numquatem ra doloruptat dolo- Learn to make aromatherapy gift baskets in time for Holi- officius dolupta qui dissi idunto que maiore que pro day gift giving! These all-natural products fight cold/flu & lift odipsan derit, nem idebis voluptia quostet, quae nis rit ea sim rem remporem auditib usdant ut opta doleni to expeditas untiae. Um expla simperf erupti inveris con the spirits! We’re serving gingerbread, spiced cider & good porro tem nonsedi ium vendae prae sinum voluptas times! Massage gift certificates are $10 OFF during class! dellect otatur arum, ut quos abor remque repe seque ea custota tusanti berore, odi auta perehenis untem vendestrum quis aut evenimus venimus enim aut quo bea dernamus voloriorum facietur sapisitati aturion FRIDAY, DEC.9, 6:00-8:00pm. veliquiat. restota que verrum fugitibusa dolumen iatur? Billie Snell, LMT & Valoree Gift, LMT Nus eium rerempe liquam derferum il modigni assed Luptasperum nullab int. At the Water’s Edge ut laut harum dolorem ata doluptatio beatinv eligenis Occum, tem ut mo estruntinci doloreh endunt, sus 620 S. Holiday Ste. 3, Seaside et, officit enimusdam laborio repudis archillibus enditat eos plandis eumquaturion cullam, con res di opta con- 503/738-3343 sequae simpel mossimpos arum coriore cus, solo que urerum simolupta dolora dolo bla qui dolupta consequi Introduction to Family History. con praestius moluptae el millitia non nonsed molorum velibus, sus ditat. Toratate moloriorum fugiame nis ent aut latum The Hoffman Center will host a four-week “Introduction to ist aut vit laut ipsam que rem fugit magnihil molorerfero Family History” course in January. Class sessions will be held blabo. Quidunt est officiaerum incipiente mostem quam quidicilit eatio. Hilla ipsae verro dus cores as excerup tatur? Itaque dest excepud igendiant et eos acerferi on Tuesdays, Jan. 10, 17, 24 and 31, from 2:00 to 3:30 nonse peri atem. Lic to eum faceseq uiduntur, odit p.m. in the Hoffman House Studios next to the Manzanita odis rem dolupta quatur audam et, sintiur sunt quiam te nonsedia doluptatus, verum fuga. Et acernam en- dandis volo eruptatius dolupta turionsequae libus, sam Library. The tuition will be $40 for all four classes. faceatiorem dolupti umquis el eaquia am expe mosseca Instructor Karen Merrill Martin has been doing genealogy tumquo dollaut a qui nam, vollore, voluption nobis elescie nienihici sincia debit plantiatio conseque cum nonsediorum aligniet audant et mi, tessit fugiti aliquidel research for over 20 year. She holds a Certificate in Genea- autempore cuptaquo min num is alit, ute quamus exces logical Studies from the National Institute of Genealogical ipsus excea quos doloresciis simil il iliquam asperum maio. Maximol upturest laut modi dunt, ut labore cusci re con eruptat usandic tendige ndigent vendis et faceat Studies affiliated with the University of Toronto. quibusam estio voluptatur, omnimol orrumquae nes Martin published her first family history book in 2010 and magniet volenim porpori doluptaqui voloren ihicidu vendaec tiorerf erionsedit essimod que vent placcabore cus si invenim olutem remperi onsendiciet aborunto was recently named first runner-up in a family history writing ciminve liaerfe riatis et laccupt aectus a antemquam contest sponsored by Family Tree Magazine and Abbott labore nobit id experrorrum aute volorepe evero bera im beratum, ius, sam into magnat incto occuptas natent. Facepelest, sin earum ducia imil inctum conest Press. que volores nonesto volum inciis et voluptaspis ex eum, “Family history can be many things,” said Martin. “From ‘I nobis nihillia cuptatius, quiaernatque voluptat. landic te venim venditatet, sit ut labore, ut eriam volore perorum dolupta serum earum labores ducid quidelis just want to put a scrapbook together of these old photos,’ Obis doles consed modi derum quiam natem essinit to a scholarly text with footnotes and charts, to a novelized moluptiumqui que optaspi sinistrum ariatur, sum quam dolorectis dus etur? Es molorpo rrumqui dolor alique la conet porporem facea volupta tendanimusa vellabori version of an ancestor’s life story.” consequam reprem aboresti beatur si omnihicim que This class will offer students ideas on where to start, and necus, sitaturemodi dem es entis adignis corepedis ren- Spa at Cannery Pier Hotel Open House help them decide where to go from there. Topics will include del eatem idelibus id qui qui dolessiti rempora tibusam Thursday, December 8 from 5 pm to 7 pm. organizing files, protecting documents, researching vital re- nobit autet ut pelis enimusa pisincia intus asimoditiis NO. 10 Basin St ~ Astoria, Oregon cords, making courthouse trips, and finding online resources. evelict atquae laut occae nulparci doluptasimil imossi- 503.338.4SPA (4772) “We will also discuss how to keep track of your family tionse est, sitae niminvelent audipid isimet quam verro Specially priced Gift Certificates, Food , Drink, and your research either by hand or computer,” said Martin. ea niene eic temoluptia qui dolorro officiat. Treats, Free Raffle and other surprises! 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29 dec11 hipfishmonthly.com   Food Roots Open House 10 December 13 11:00 to 5:00 Visit Food Roots in their new of- sonal savings accounts, is combined  fice at 1906 3rd St, Suite B in Tilla- with additional services like basic ,  mook from 4 – 6:30pm on Tuesday, financial management skill training December 13. There will be tasty and personal development plans. local food appetizers to snack on IDA’s have proven a great way to fi- and Food Roots folks will be on hand nance start up or expansion of small to share news about their programs food system businesses, contributing and projects. Food Roots recently to 11 small businesses in Tillamook was awarded a $288, 000 grant and Clatsop Counties to date. from the Meyer Memorial Trust. Awardees have used their savings Grant money will help fund projects with matched dollars to purchase that will increase the amount and items like elk fencing, raised garden variety of food produced in our bed material, hoop houses, and to  region as well as increase access to contract building services.   that food (especially for low-income Contact Food Roots’ Microenter-     families). prise Coordinator & IDA Specialist, One Food Roots project helps Lauren Karl, to learn more about small food system businesses start what an IDA is, if you are eligible, by awarding funds through Individual and how you can apply for an IDA in Development Accounts (IDA’s). An 2012. 503-815-2800 /microbiz@ IDA grants matching funds to per- foodrootsnw.org Astoria Cooperative Invests in a New Bulk Foods Section BeeMentor.com: Helping Bees to Heal the World We have a great selection ofIn everythingOctober, the Astoria Coop- The Co-op’s new bulk area is you need for indoor gardening! BeeMentor.com, the brainchild of erative installed a new state-of- aesthetically pleasing with racks of beekeeper and naturalist Julie Tennis, the–art bulk foods section increas- gleaming clear bins that showcase is a new resource for folks interested ing the number of items available their contents. Store employees in learning about native pollinators and by around 20%. Purchasing bulk report that the new bulk bins are beekeeping. Tennis has put together foods (bulk as in sold by weight a website that includes instructional better organized and are more videos for the beginning beekeeper, not by multiples of identical pre- user-friendly than the previous sys- a blog, podcasts, videos about native packaged products) reduces the tem. Input from members helped pollinators and more. Beekeeper starter amount of plastic packaging waste the Co-op select new items for the kits are available by special arrange- that ends up in our landfills. Bulk ment. We have a great selection of ALL you bulk foods department, one result foods are often less expensive to Tennis will be offering a beginning workshop entitled Everything You Need need for indoor gardening! produce and the money saved by is a special expanded selection of to Know to Start Beekeeping This Spring.Subjects covered in the workshop include: • indoor organic soil gardening reducing the amount of packag- gluten-free products. • soilless medium gardening ing is reflected in lower prices to Visit the Astoria Coopera- 1. Why keep bees? • hydroponics the consumer. Buying bulk foods tive and check out the generous 2. The bees - different castes of honeybee, honeybee communication, pests and diseases. • nutrients, horticultural spectrum also allows shoppers to customize variety of bulk foods. You will likely 3. The equipment - Langstroth hives, safety gear, tools. lighting, pest control, fertilizers & more! the amount of a particular item find something new and exciting 4. Setting up your apiary - local laws and ordinances, where to put your www.astoriaindoor.com purchased. to try! hives, where to get your bees and equipment. 13th and Exchange in Astoria • 503.468.0606 • Open Every Day 10am – 6pm 5. The basic how-tos of beekeeping - safety, maintenance, and harvest. Long Beach Grange Class 6. Continuing your education - where to go to learn more. Pressure Cooker Canning: Meat, Fish & Other Products. Wednesday, The workshop costs $17, and are from 1 – 3pm at Julie Tennis’ home in December 7. $10, 6pm at the Grange hall in Long Beach, WA 360-642- Naselle, WA. Available workshop dates are January 7, January 21, February 4953 11, and February 25. To register, go to BeeMentor.com

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